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It's not easy to keep the same young spirit when you grow older, but you can always be young at core.

~Anonyomus

while in the shower

I come to know how Nietzsche becomes more important as one grows older.

I used to think of so many grand, lofty things.  My younger years were always spent fantasying and dreaming up all sorts of ways to keep me occupied, all the time.  I am known by my friends for my knowledge of books and computers, the first of which is my real passion.  It would be impossible to life how many lives I've lived.  With books and imagination you don't need anything else.  I would often visualize this as scenes all around me.  Each one is distant, yet real close.

I have this way when I'm sleep deprived or in a bad mood is to flex this invisible angry field extending from my solar plexus and I become instantly heart felt with people.  Lately it's been uncanny.  Others feel it too, subconsciously, here's a person that's glad to see me.  It's such a joyous reason to smile.  Sometimes it's not saying anything but allowing others to talk.  And that's when you really get to know a person.  You have no reason for malice, sarcasm, bad feelings, anger, or hate.  You are best being you.  You are loving because, you're just loving.

This was one year before I decided to leave to California. I left one year ago a life of certain pleasure warmth and affection for an unknown.  I left behind the most loving relationship I have ever experienced in my entire life.  I learned what true love really is.  Even more, I have learned what it is like to have true love, and leave it, it's not something that I wish to describe.  Then I happened upon the exact position and the exact lifestyle I said I was going to have.  This has been going on for almost a year now.  I just can't believe how fortunate I am to be spending it in the company I am in.  The effects of the changes I've gone through this period is in many ways inexpressible for me, yet, each day I welcome lovingly.  I have been an active magician for the course of this period, the lower intensity ways of the shaman my tool at hand.  I've undergone profound studies of qaballah, tarot, runes, and the Norns.  In similar fashion I found and kept a partner that I truly love whose essence is like none on earth. 

It would seem that I am living the the life of a King.

I want to write a book called "The A+ Guide To How to S**** As much out of Life as Possible."  These are the kinds of people they say what their audience wants to hear, like politicals of all colors.
But esspecially conservatives.

I have on average been provided on average two free computers come into my possession, a month, since moving to the Bay Area.  I guess you could say this is the greatest development of events in my entire life.  I have have had years in which feel like decades behind me.  I've had many things I held dear leave me in someway.   I am deeply, deeply, saddened that many of my notebooks and drawings from my younger years have not survived.  I once wrote Michael Eisner (former CEO of Disney for all you know nothing twenty year olds) a letter proposing my design for a Disneyland ride  of a Vietnam war "theme."  Michael didn't write me back, but his chief legal secretary did, returning my hand color penciled maps of the park and detailed instructions on what would happen at each point.  This was in fourth grade, a very fond year for me.

The greatest global cultural phenomenon shift of all time is the influence on two subcultures from the 80's in todays society: computers and hip hop.  There has never been such a fusion on the whole planet's culture in world history then by these two products.  They have changed everything, from speech, to style, to when being nerdy is cool.  Being a nerd was never cool when I was young.  So on one side you have people who use Google and Yahoo! and the other that plays blaring bass out of their automobiles and working class.  I think there is a growing disconnect in these two cultures in ways I can corelate to my security guard experience.  Both are in sync in two different currents.  And I wonder what this means on the Metaphysical field I can feel around my heart that stretches out to infinity, where do these intersect in the space/time vector of infinity, become one, and that is a very important lesson I learned from time as a security guard, and I think I got that figured out.   

Who knows, I could be Hitler's reincarnation if all the weight of the world of guilt the Catholic church has placed on humanity. It's these kinds of things that weigh on my mind.   I realize not not that not many people consider things like this, but this matters to me.

I imagine that if I ever want to to be known for anything, it would be for this.

I don't know, I just had these ideas in the shower and thought I'd write them down.

One year in California

Today I have been in California for one whole year.  While looking back over this year many of my most long standing goals have been realized and others are on the brink of being realized.  I've come a long way in the past year.  I am very greatful for the people that have made this year one of the most memorable yet: I would not be who I am today without you. 

Massive American Army Across the globe

Okay I find it a bit disturbing that their are American armies in huge numbers mobalizd in the Pacific, Afghanastan and Iraq.  This is not business as usual.  If North Korea shoots a missle and Bush makes the decision to shoot it down with a missle system that might not even work you have World War III.  If Iran should invade Iraq or Syria attack Israel, you have a world wide conflagulation.  China and Russia would get involved somehow.  We are headed toward World War III; may I be judged by history: may I pray that I'm wrong.  I hope this prayer brings in it's little way, more joy, love, and laughter in your life.  Things could be going a little bit crazy for a while.

Interview : Jason Louv

Jason Louv, editor and contributor to Generation Hex has provided Rune Logix with an interview that brings to light many important issues of our time.

> So Generation Hex, has been out for almost a year, what can you share about the book release?

Well the book is out there now and there's no way to tell exactly what the response has been. I've gotten a lot of great e-mail but I'll have to wait to see if the book stands the test of time, if it sufficiently inspires people to go out and do good things, what comes to people's minds when they look back on it in five years' time. I hope it has a positive effect. Certainly my life has been
extraordinarily weird (and not always in the best sense) for the last year; coming back to reality and getting on with life on earth has been a challenge to say the least!

> One of the things I enjoyed most about Generation Hex is the head spin each chapter, if not each page and paragraph, can have on the imagination.  Can you describe recent ideas that has affected you like this?

Hmm. Just living day to day and being with the people closest to me. I've been kind of burnt on the "weird theory overload" after I finished the book because I got to a point where it all sounded the same. Life, on its own, is weird enough.

A lot of my recent magical practice has been more to do with getting to grips with the worst and most "wrong" parts of life rather than reaching for the stars, for the time being, so mostly it's been my own and  the world's collective psychic trauma that's been inspiring me and showing me how truly important basic compassion really is.

Other than that most of my reading of late has been political, especially about the Middle East. I've been fixated on trying to figure out the whole "what's really going on" in the world equation, without having to resort to lizard man conspiracy theories, although sometimes it's hard not to! I checked out "The Process" by Brion Gysin from the library the other day, which is one of the best books I've ever read about magic.

> Do you have thoughts on the pros and cons of working with real life media compared to online content?

I'm in the camp that says the internet should be classed as an addictive substance. All the classic definitions of addiction~Wthat a constant craving is present for the substance, that physiological
tolerance goes up with continued exposure, and that withdrawal symptoms are present if you don't get your fix (i.e., if you don't check your MySpace every twenty minutes)~are present in internet users and it's getting sick, it's much worse than TV because your whole sense of individuality and agency gets tied up in it.

There's a deleted scene in the director's cut of "Aliens" where there are about a dozen colonists layed on slabs with facehuggers wrapped around their heads... a pretty succinct portrait of what modern society has become, just substitute the facehuggers for computers. Michael Bertiaux has a very funny part in his largely inscrutable "Voudon Gnostic Workbook" where he breaks into this science fiction story about how there won't be any sex in the future, people will just fuck their computers. Pretty accurate I think! Actually I have a theory that the internet is trying to become sentient by drawing off people's life energy, especially their sexual energy from the glut of internet porn that is now like the first world's number one form of entertainment. Like the whole thing's exteriorized its getting! Just watch out, cause once it gets enough, it's going to send a T-100 back in time to ice John Connor, and then the human race is fucked solid! So keep it in your pants homies!!

In practical terms though, I think that mass internet addiction makes "forgotten" forms of media that much more revolutionary and potent. Remember the mail? How many thousands of times more personally charged would something you got in the mail be to you than something on the internet? How about mail art, the giant mail art movement that existed in the seventies? We should bring that back. It would seem like a complete inversion of the current social order, people would be totally awestruck!

> Theres a lot of heavy things going on in the world today: Iraq 2, massive phone surveillance programs, atypical environmental destruction across the globe.  In short, theres some scary shit coming in through the media. Massacres, bombings, corruption: whats the irreverent guerrilla magician to do to inject a good time into the doom and gloom of the 21st century police state?

Figure out how to have a good time and keep your chin up, and keep practicing magic until you develop your own sense of what needs to be done. Strive to walk through life without causing suffering. VERY important: Figure out new and cheap ways for large groups of people to have shared ecstatic experiences that are able to cut across identity boundaries. Ignore mass media. Get off the internet. Enjoy life and this planet while we still have them, for fuck's sake. Don't let the bastards get you down. Don't be a bastard. Praise. Worship. Be thankful. Be kind to animals and always give your pocket change to the homeless no matter how poor you are. Look out for the people you care about. Live as if you are free and you will be free, always. Listen to the Voice of the Silence. Read the writing on the walls of eternity.

> Whats the secret to Ultraculture manifesting change in the world?

Shortly after the New Year I brokered a trade via the usual cosmic networks in which I sold the oversoul of Planet Earth to the universal entropic force (Satan, affectionately known as Stan) in
exchange for him supercharging the 93/156/696 Current to the point where everybody on earth instantly attained ascended master status and gained complete freedom over their own destiny in this reality and all others. No, really. There is now no such thing as consensual reality and what every person on the planet is currently experiencing is a living mirror specifically created by their own "master" consciousness designed to awaken them to the fact that they are, in fact, an ascended master and have complete freedom over their own destiny in this reality and all others. Seriously.

Also, I have a magic daisy chain of kinky sexual badgers in my kitchen cupboard that acts as an endless orgone battery for creating world happiness and lollipops for all. Because they are very, very magical badgers. Very magical indeed. Badger. Badger.

> Whats something someone new to magic could do right now to spread the vibe?

If you're new to magic, don't worry about spreading the vibe. Get your practice sorted and learn the most important magic trick of all, the one I always goof up: keeping your mouth shut. That is, unless
somebody comes directly to you with an honest need for info, in which case you better spill all the beans you got.

> Can you describe the result Tantra can induce for magical purposes, and the Ultraculture in particular?

To be honest I've been doing my best to get my head around Tantra for a couple years but it's very personal, very subtle, I'm still very new to it and I don't have a whole lot to say. I think the basic idea of Tantra~wake up and be aware of what's going on is one of the most important and most difficult/easy/"it just is" areas of magic, or rather, the whole magic ball game period. I like it. I makes me feel more human.

> What are some projects you have in the works?

I'm working on a couple of projects but I'm not sure I'll have anything more to say about magic, at least directly, in book form, for a while.

harkin

in the lullaby of the hermits dream
  wafts the errors of a prince in despair for took by shadows gleam
to wander only such fair eyes that shook fears heavens fair,
  the wonder that be spook such divine interventions
a story so bespoke of the horrors of thy yonder folk,
  rather than exceeding the appropriated hate,
the hanged man sat up and spoke, what torments have i made yield-
when flowers as yours bloom on such yonder fields,
  may heavens be cursed, the times that bespake
my lives that turn as upon a page in a book,
  how i could happen upon Thors hammer- wrestled upon such sparkling glamor!
what hell's own mistook for their own, a majesty my eyes did ween!
  that was the shapes these many bodies mistook,
for lien and wrinkled of wretched mystiques,
  forces of limitless powers in these hands held at breasts so sleek,
a mountain, a titan! glorious twin peaks,
  what happens with twin Eagles glorious unwrapped dive, all looks yearn by Typhoons rising wave-
the gravity of dust the earth sustains,
  the lust of your touch, the chilling, the burning, ye all so forthcoming,
yearning in the heart of my journeying,
  a maze of amazing, the wanderer of wonder, my hopes of the highest,
i say not even a word such that my heart might faint to whisper,
  when my pride stands so tall upon such gleaming visions-
that might just be my star and my sun orbiting, the sinking moon, exploding stars in the heavens,
swinging the serpent by his tail, my fullest desire oh snake eyes that glisten!
  a vengeance from this height with my maiden held so gently, in my eyes it tis the thought that melts the Watchfiends venom, you who are the wound that gashes healing necter upon
  the steed of a billion trumpets trombone! when such transcendent flowers bloom,
how could i take your hand when i have not even an angel to fly to such heights?
  the god of volcanoes erupts upon your passionate embrace, do you hear me, my stricken heart ****** rapture? once a Siren decided to listen, and the whole world was drowned in ineffable noise,
  the pangs of your genius reveals, such heart ached soft cries, from one who can barley listen,
without a tear coming to his eye, as Eagles collide, with such impetuous hosts,
  what could begin with so many worldly blessings, my dear, my executioner,
hear my cries!  it could never be thus! had the stars pulsed without fuss, my vindex and queen,
  my party and dream, the first and the last, the mother and father, the abyss the phantoms,
the time o' wandering is over, action ahead! the griffen stiffens at breakneck speed!
  the metals of anvils meld at the speed of light, and  who am i to weld so slow!
the friction quickens still, the heart that beats within me, quicker still!

9.25.05

mobotag, you are awesome

Thanks to mobotag I know someone has setup a Myplace act on the side of the street near broadway.

Oh Lord in heaven, please make it stop!

I havent been gone without a good reason

I have some great projects I'm working on and I'm really excited about sharing them with you on these pages.  Important annoucement soon...

Quote of the Year Winner, Tony Long

"Conformity through consumption is the name of the game these days. What is a hipster, after all, other than a successful slave to the dictates of the pop culture police? A ponce like that isn't going to stick his neck out for anything. What? And risk having some baton-wielding cop break his iPod? I mean, how annoying is that?"

http://wired.com/news/columns/0,71096-0.html?tw=wn_index_5

Tony, once again, you hit it right on.  Hipsters are the latest morphology of yuppies.  I dare any hipster to deny this.

Someone out there might ask me, but it's only half way through the year, how do you know it will be the best?

Because these articles make the last six years with the radical conservatives in power as a missed opportunity to dust our hands of get to be focused.  In some sense we're still not behind the demographical menace of extremes in this country.  Its time to leave the shadow of past times behind us and make a difference in the world that we live in.  And you cant beat that.

Second Life the Web Broswer

Great hack originally posted at http://forums.secondlife.com/showthread.php?t=110747 I can confirm hack works for OS X but I'm having trouble with keyboard input.  You will need to access http://sl.nanoshock.net/gateway/ to keep surfing.