The Lie We Live

Hieronymous Bosch' Garden of Earthly Delights by Virtual Reality

This opens up 2D paintings for me in a way that is worth going back to the National Gallery for.

#Multiples #TBMC #Multiple #Alters

Even if you study this subject for a few years it can still take longer to understand it. Let me repeat that. You may learn the information about trauma based mind control, alters, multiples and multiple (George W Bush is a multiple) but when you understand the information that's a completely different issue. It is much like DMT. It changes the world you experienced before and that's what I call the information drug. It happens so rarely that I look forward to any feedback from others.

Anthony Peake at Awakened State

Everything from Quantum Realities to Entheogenic experiences and the Anthropic Cosmological Principal. Probably one of Anthony Peake's best presentations to date (or so he says on his Facebook timeline).

How Do We Know When The State is Lying? - Butler Shaffer | Mises Institute

Superb reflections on reality or the question, 'how do we know what we know?'

I'm impressed if the Mises Institute are giving space to this kind of intelligent analysis because if you're paying attention, Professor Butler Shaffer is saying a few things that aren't said in the mainstream academic narrative.

The man obviously knows how to use a search engine. 

I salute a real thinker.

Update: I don't subscribe to Mises Institute on Austrian Economics. It's genocidal in today's context (food stamp America) and we have a population issues before we tackle wealth creation for a much-needed mutually-agreed population decline/management strategy based on fairness and ecology.

The Pervert's Guide To Ideology - Slavoj Žižek on "They Live"

We often say you can't wake up someone who is pretending to sleep, and those asleep don't appreciate being woken up. The sunglasses scene above summarises this beautifully.

It refers to the underlying ideologies that drive our the pseudo reality most inhabit; fake money, fake food, fake relationships, fake egos, fake incorporated bodies pretending to be humans (corporations), fake brands, fake advertising, fake media, fake wars, fake journalism and so on and so forth. Who want's to really see that?

Some of us have no choice.

Slavoj Žižek does a nice explanation of this in the clip above using a cult movie I've blogged about called They Live by John Carpenter. I've also commented on its similarities with the Banksy Movie

Freedom Hurts, and nobody knows this more than the seasoned corruption and conspiracy researchers. The only people in my experience apart from the powerful who understand a little of what is going on. An unusual match I think you'll agree.

The Buffoonery Of Materialist & Reductionist Science

Via Aangirfan

Tom Campbell - The Wider Reality

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Essential listening. Tom can be a little slow and iterative in his talks but he does say some rather explosive things in this interview.

Reality Is Not Objective - Thomas Campbell (Theory Of Everything)

Just in case you're not persuaded that we're in an holographic universe (virtual reality) these Thomas Campbell lectures get stuck into the quantum mechanics, the metaphysics and the big picture. This taps into my recent comment at Wired on quantum entanglement.

I hadn't seen these lectures before (only this interview) I wrote the Wired comment but it's very reassuring that some great people are explaining what I've pieced together in much better ways, much more comprehensively and with a bit of authority because I only got stuck into quantum mechanics in the last 18 months or so and, you know, I've made up the bits that I wanted to stitch it all together. 

Fortunately I wasn't too far off.

Early Adopters Read Shit That Doesn't Fit Their Reality

This is a really important talk on how reality is being shape by Google and Facebook algorithms. I'm very uneasy that my Facebook Stream is only loaded with people who agree with me (and there's not many of them either) but there was a time when I got exposure to new ideas and counter opinions. Not any more and I wonder if that means the internet is becoming a pajama party so much so that real life becomes a disorienting experience when people disagree with our views. This is actually a long an fascinating topic on how reality is painted and I suspect there's a glimmer of the good is being facilitated more than the bad, but not in a way that allows the good to deal with the bad when it is encountered.

The Nature of Reality, Consciousness & Evolution with Tom Campbell

I've had a lousy day and even though so far I haven't heard anything I didn't know in this talk I'm enjoying listening to people and ideas that are just more real than a lot of what passes as the charade of reality currently being pimped by the for profit corporate media. Youtube is the new libary of Alexandria. If this grand experiment fails someone will burn it down and reduce us to scratching around the ruins for centuries. Tom Campbell is the scientist who wrote My Big TOE (Theory of everything) and his website is here.

Neil Kramer - Cognitive Dissonance & Mapping Negative Polarity

James Gilliland interviews Neil Kramer. It's grown up stuff ranging from spirituality to the fragility of introducing dangerous information to comfort zone minds. Nobody thanks your for rewiring their reality to something that is more faithful. It's a fresh upload for those who follow his work.

Twisted - Art, Schizophrenia & Drugs

This is a portrayal of schizophrenic degradation over a period of years by a patient drawing cats; I think in the late 1920's. I don't want to get into the why a lot of mental disease is exacerbated by 20th century problem/pill solutions but I think it's a useful benchmark for codifying drifting reality.

I quite like the fire god pussy at the end. Frankly it looks splendid and if that's what cats look like, then I want some of that. Well, rather that, than the cheeky catwalk turn and that exposed-in-my face feline arsehole they serve up currently.

And so I also want to introduce to you something I came across from my subscription to dope nation the other day that I've been holding back for you while I get over  Wittgenstein's mesmerizing come down. Truly he is the peak.

In a way it's good coincidence, as I specifically want to talk about the effects of morphine because when I've been screaming so loud at an entire hospital complex, to put me out my pain that they've jacked me up on 200mg of Pethadine AND 200 mg of morphine (eight times the hourly dose they prefer to administer) that it's only when I saw this picture that I realised what went on through the blinding pain. 

That actually, even though it's the most cathartic transfer of schmerz to no pain in my life, I previously had no idea that beneath the sea of doped up tranquility, that what was really going on in the hospital bed festooned with pipes and wires and drips and gastric pipes up my nose was a lotta lotta sedated neurological activity.

OF COURSE NOW I SEE. The mind was merely being deceived. And I think you can see that in these pictures below which frankly are the most dangerous artistic and neurological experiment I have come across to date that the morphine tricked me into thinking the pain had gone away. Here is a portrait that portrays otherwise.

And so I claim that the Psilocybin (magic mushroom) below, is ostensibly cheekier, funnier, more dramatic and a little bit bucking bizarre. But as I've done both I'm allowed to shoot my mouth off about that. 

There's a lot more of the artist Bryan Lewis Saunders doing drugs for us all; that is him, you and I over here. 

Update: I can't find the exact post but Clif High talked about using snow to diminish burnt toes and the pain duration lasting infinitely longer than just dealing with it sans snow.

Reality Check

Augment Your Amygdala

Augmented (hyper)Reality: Domestic Robocop from Keiichi Matsuda on Vimeo.

Well not unless you really have to. I can see some clever uses for augmented reality with some simple caveats. As little as possible and with the least amount of distraction. Unless you're one of those people who really needs another screen between you and reality. 

Oh you can't hear me? 

Well why not take that bluetooth earpiece out and I'll repeat it for you.

Via Ed.

2007

Its drawing towards the end of the year now and what a year its been - I'll never forget 2007 AD because it came fully loaded with really good people, terrific connections, quality conversation and deeply interesting times - I can't say that about every year. There have been a few turkeys.

All the people I went out of my way to meet this year were both digitally-literate and networked to the hilt. I've been pondering recently that in theory I could go missing, and still feel confident that it wouldn't take me more than a few days to get back up to speed; what's new, where to look, what's interesting, where its developing. I'd probably never ditch Twitter though even if I do try a spell as a Benedictine monk. There's nothing in their rules on a vow of silence preventing an SMS of what I'm doing! 

What am I trying to say? I think this augmented extension of the self through the internet, can provide an ability to repair foolishly untended relationships quite quickly. That I think this nascent network in 2007 is invaluable in terms of digitally experiential relationships, and probably seminal in terms of human relationships. There's nothing quite like meeting the characters behind the keyboard. It doesn't matter about the country or the culture. I think this new social pattern is a different process than say being disconnected from your mates, since you left school and then the internet kicking off and finding Classmates.com or Friendsreunited.com rudely interrupting the illusion we hold of ourselves. The one that we have built in the absence of continuous partial attention reminding us of who we all actually are. I think this says bundles about the difference between the digital natives and the digital immigrants. I find it fascinating that in the future there will be no people like some of us immigrants who have the benefit of both hindsight and I hope a little digital foresight...... But I'm not planning on going anywhere. There's just way too much interesting stuff going on. 

You could do no better than look at Johnnie Moore's recent post about David Snowdon which reaffirms what I think is a profound change for 21st century communications. There is the notion that we are rewiring our brains to do what they always did best anyway; absorb lots of loosely connected information and build a picture from that which equates to a much closer representation of reality than the one that 20th century hierarchically driven monologue and the militantly linear and didactic process that the scientific method dispensed us. Oh shit, that sounds like an intellectually conceited mouthful doesn't it? I do go off on one occasionally. Sorry about that. 

An easier way to understand all this might be to highlight that humans are designed for chit chat. We absorb stuff much better that way. Anyway I didn't know I was going to go down this path when I set out on this post because I find blogging about communication theory a little bit like complaining about the food not being salty enough when the salt mill is to hand. But I am very grateful that some people have been paying attention because I'm (it should be we, but I don't want to sound like I'm aping Wallpaper), are just a little bit chuffed that Punk Planning made it into Campaign's top ten blogs. We're also deeply indebted to people like Rob Campbell from Musings of an Opinionated Sod for showing the rules and conventions that can be broken, while still being able to spot the corporate/agency stench of bullshit from leagues and furlongs away. Opinionated Sod! We salute you :)