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Please check out the Journal of Thelemic Studies, they offer both print versions of their work and free .pdfs, Their current issue includes:

Introduction by the Editor
The Ethics of Thelema by Erwin Hessle
“Temptress” by Gerald del Campo
Transformations of Inspiration by J. Ash Bowie
Thelema & Buddhism by IAO 131
*Introduction
*Part 1: A Brief History of the Dhammapada
*Part 2: A Brief History of Liber AL vel Legis & the Tradition of Thelema
*Part 3: The Influence of Buddhism on Aleister Crowley
*Part 4: Liber AL’s View of Buddhism
“Death Rides the Camel of Initiation” by Layla
Sermon on the Nepios by T Polyphilus
Ethics in Love by Gerald del Campo

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Wes Unruh, editor of Alterati and 1/2 of Phillip k. Nixon and mastermind behind Unquiet mind, joined us on this month’s podcast. He discusses his upcoming book “The Art of memetics” and some of his recent and past musical experiments. In Both these areas he attempts to tie Magick into the scheme. His cut-up, waveform editing technique to music hints at many underlying notions of building evolving feedbacks loops to culture, art, and technology and hyper-sigilization.

In his book on memetics with co-author Edward Wilson and illustrator Ray Carney, the ideas of social mechanics and replication of ideas are explored from a range of perspective dealing with things like marketing, masterminding, magick, cybernetic theory, and even a bit of hermeticism. Wes Unruh also discusses some of his upcoming DIY media coverage that will be up at alterati, including video game homebrew (Part 1 & Part 2), public access, and DIY merchandising. We also wax poetically about technology a bit. Wes also gives us some inside scoop on his 2nd book, a work of fiction which seems to be a rather profilic sci-fi, first person view of a life ranging from the year 2000 to 2040. All the music aside from the Intro is Philip k. Nixon – Check it out. Also def. take the time to check out his closing address at Esozone where he elaborates on some similar but great ideas.

Everyone you look now people take the acceleration of evolution on a macrocosmic level to be a sign of the end times. This is a flawed notion and one which stems from our pre-exsisting metaprogramming. This is generally obvious in both religious and alternative philosophical systems of belief. It generally is an issuse of belief, often times taking it’s hue from ‘ancient prophecy’ in one form or another. This is bullshit.

A)Do you have an accurate record from these people?

B)How the hell could they be up on current events enough to tell you what’s going?

I shouldn’t need to make a response to ‘A’ but suffice it to say you aren’t discussing the Mayan Calendar with it’s creators about it’s purpose or means of operation, and you certainly shouldn’t trust a book who’s editor list in his creditedential ‘Aristocrat – King’ because when the hell have those who oversee our affairs ever had our best interest at heart? ‘B’ however raises some interesting question if considered further. It deals with timelines and fatalism. If there is any message to be taken from Intelligence^2 or the acceleration of soicietal growth it’s that an endless amount of variables play into the chaotic field in which we manifest reality. To accept any fatalistic system (this applies to divination in any form, not just ancient prophect achieved through some unspecified gnosis) is to surrender your freewill to passive acceptance of a negative outcome. You will manifest your own downfall, and this doesn’t even get into the reality shaping mechanism present in this universe – which is a collective mental construct that is sensistive to any input. Don’t buy into the hype and manifest a collective downfall.

So then why is built into our paradigm? Obviously someone else has an agenda for macrocosmic reality programming and they’re hoping you’ll manifest some purely Malkuth-ian rapture in the material plane (Project Bluebeam anyone?) – it’s an excuse to marginalize you and consequently take you out. I’m not trying to be pessimistic but that’s the game plan for some and whether they’ve been working for centuries or longer trying to push this agenda is beside the point – it’s being pushed on us all on a daily basis – Remember the numerous attempts to reshape your paradigm in ’90s through fatalistic media. Man, the earth died in everyway in these unmanifest realities that played out on screen to influence the observers notions concerning the directions of things to come. There’s an obvious agenda here and when the media is involved it’s easy to finger the behind the scenes controllers who exert their influence there as our culprits in apocalyptic programming. Don’t feed me shit that you can map novelty – show me how that is measured scientifically. Don’t feed me lies about misinterpretations of pre-exsisting system perpetuated in modern times. Thinkinstead about what you can do in the moment to work towards the reality you want to build – and don’t take this in an egoist sense either – therein lies the trap. It’s not about going for self – will your legacy be ‘he got laid and had some cash, ate some drugs and chilled’ because if that’s your ideal situation – fuck you, your life will have been wasted even if you have realized the call to actualize yourself in the moment of now (seize the day so to speak)

There’s alot to be said for selfless aid of the collective, but there’s even more merit if you can grasp the complexity of the modern living structure and manifest something worthwhile from it. You have freewill, I’m not seeing the apocalypse go down at the moment, quit mentally masturbating your shadow self and get out there and make a change. We’ve already won the fight against negative outcomes – it’s obvious when you see the growing number of concious folks on a daily basis – it’s time to build something beautiful in place of these BS fatalistic paradigms shoved down our throats in the hopes we will fail ourselves….