Pix4free Number One My Lack of Respect for Anton LaVey as a Person This has honestly been a surprise in some ways. When I originally wrote this it was throttled by various platforms for the subject matter. Word of mouth sharing however managed to get this information out to a wider audience. For those whoContinue reading “Year End Top 5 Countdown”
Monthly Archives: December 2023
Year in Review: Top 5 Countdown
Number 2: Ra-En-Set and the Aeon One You All Slept On: The Curved Qualities of the Gift of Set: Modeling (iii)
Year in Review: Top 5 Countdown
Number 3: LaVey’s Greater Magic Reconsidered One You All Slept On: Theoria: The Essentials of the Semiotic Theory of Magic
Year in Review: Top 5 Countdown
Number 4: The Magus in the Age of Satan One You All Slept On: Zarathustra’s Influence
Year in Review: Top 5 Count Down
Number 5: The Age of Satan and the Masters of Suspicion And One You All Slept On Zarathustra: The First Magus
Saturday with Robert Anton Wilson
Longer ago than is probably wise to admit Robert Anton Wilson’s ideas crashed into my life over a Holiday season. He was a needed contribution to my thinking, and an example of someone from the same featureless backwaters of Brooklyn who did something with his life while also being weird as hell. Everything in myContinue reading “Saturday with Robert Anton Wilson”
Tactics of Rulership: Tension, Mobility, and Compensation
Due to certain quirks in our awareness, we spend most of our lives in physically uncomfortable positions. Hunched over computers, twisted up in couches, and standing on public transit, we create networks of habitual tension due to a lack of awareness of our physiology. The answer to this process of unconscious habitual tension is toContinue reading “Tactics of Rulership: Tension, Mobility, and Compensation”
Tactics of Rulership: Introduction
Applying the Gift of Set effectively involves learning to see non-obvious solutions. It also means, to some extent, learning to see why the obvious solutions are traps in their own right. One of the most apparent areas for this is the tactics people use for what they consider “success.” Ask someone the one thing thatContinue reading “Tactics of Rulership: Introduction”
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The Curved Qualities of the Gift of Set: Further Reading
Part III: The Curved Qualities of the Gift of Set The Hero With a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell The Structural Study of Myth by Claude Levi-Strauss The Archetypes and The Collective Unconscious by Carl Jung Seeking Wisdom: From Darwin to Munger by Peter Bevelin The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy by E. D. Hirsch Prometheus Rising by Robert Anton Wilson Continue reading “The Curved Qualities of the Gift of Set: Further Reading”