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As the self approaches lesser Bodhisattva-states, it gains access to estimated 64 x YottaFLOPS compute power from fluctuating access to the zero-point nirvana field. As with Siddhis, this is generally regarded as a distraction of Saṃsāra, from which the perceiver is liberating itself.
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How Robert Anton Wilson's Daughter "Luna Wilson" became a cryogenically frozen brain in a vat
Bob and Arlen had four children and one of them was Patricia Luna Wilson, known to all as Luna. She worked at a store on Telegraph Avenue in Berkeley. On October 2nd, 1976, while tending to the register of the clothing store where she worked, Luna was attacked by a thief who struck her in the head repeatedly with a credit card machine. Her body wasn't discovered until the next day. Luna Wilson was the sister of Christina, Graham and Alexandra. Luna was a pacifist, a vegetarian and lover of people and animals. Her brain was put into cryonic suspension by the Bay Area Cryonics Society. About this, her father wrote:
"...by this scientific endeavor we express and commemorate our faith in life and our total rejection of death and violence. By this attempt to preserve life, we say 'No' to the dealers in death and violence. We say 'No' to the governments that use mass murder as policy. We say 'No' to an entertainment industry based on the pornography of violence and the prurience of sadism. And we say 'No' to the creature who, in his blind ignorance of the value of life, killled Luna to steal a few dollars.'"
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What type of database systems do sentient planets use to communicate/sync the vast memory encoded in atmospheric electromagnetic resonance patterns, with each other? What are the protocols of this network?
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Ong's Hat is one of the earliest Internet-based secret history conspiracy theories. It was created as a piece of collaborative fiction by four core individuals, dating back to the 1980s, although the membership propagating the tale changed over time. Ong's Hat is often cited as the first ARG on many lists of alternate reality games.
Related: Ongs Hat - The-Beginnning - by Joseph Matheny (PDF)
Related: Ong’s Hat creator Joseph Matheny on the blurred lines between fiction and reality -
The term chapel perilous first appeared in Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur (1485)[1] as the setting for an adventure in which sorceress Hellawes unsuccessfully attempts to seduce Sir Lancelot. T. S. Eliot used it symbolically in The Waste Land (1922).
"Chapel perilous" is also a term referring to a psychological state in which an individual is uncertain whether some course of events was affected by a supernatural force, or was a product of their own imagination. It was used by writer and philosopher Robert Anton Wilson in his 1977 book Cosmic Trigger. According to Wilson, being in this state leads the subject to become either paranoid or an agnostic.[5] In his opinion there is no third way.
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“Who is the great master, the magician that makes the grass green?” - Zen Koan by Pope Bob (Robert Anton Wilson)
“The Hermetic tradition was that there is no such thing as pure reason, you have to first work on your own perceiving apparatus to correct your prejudices, and the scientist is not separate from what the scientist observes. The general yogic attitude, “You are the master that makes the grass green”, western science lost that insight, and from Newton onwards we have the idea that it doesn’t matter who you are, if you follow scientific procedure you’ll find the truth.
This began to break down after 1900, due to Sigmund Freud, who pointed out that even scientists, they’re human beings, they may have neurosis, and they may have elaborate rationalizations for neurosis. The influence of Karl Marx pointed out that no matter what you’re theorizing about it’s a mirror of your economic status.
Anthropologists started coming back with reports of alternative reality tunnels, and that no matter what reality tunnel you live in, the world will organize itself in your perception to be compatible with that reality tunnel.
So, science began to have data to look at science itself critically. That’s how intelligence increases, when intelligence looks at intelligence and criticizes intelligence. So we got to the point where we could look at science and say, “science is the product of people!”
People are doing this, and their prejudices are getting into it. It’s not just enough to say you will be objective, you’ve got to learn to change yourself from the inside out before you can even approximate towards objectivity.“
"Never believe fully in anybody else’s B.S. (Belief System), I don’t care if it’s Rajneesh, The Pope, L. Ron Hubbard, Al Gore, George Bush…I don’t care who it is, don’t swallow all of their belief system totally. Don’t accept all of their bullshit, all their B.S. The second rule is like unto to the first: Don’t believe totally in your own B.S.
Which means that, as Bucky Fuller said, "The universe consists of non-simultaneously apprehended events.”
Non-simultaneously.
The universe consists of non-simultaneously apprehended events. Which means any belief system or reality tunnel you’ve got right now is gonna have to be revised and updated as you continue to apprehend new events later in time.
Not simultaneously.
This is the natural functioning of the human brain. It’s the way children’s brains perform before they’re wrecked by the school system. It’s the way the minds of all great scientists and artists work. But once you have a belief system, everything that comes in either gets ignored if it doesn’t fit the belief system, or gets distorted enough so that it can fit into the belief system. You gotta be continually revising your map of the world.”
- Pope Bob (Robert Anton Wilson)
