Sunday, October 01, 2006
BLAST Your Way to Megabuck$ with My SECRET Sex-power Formula - And Other Reflections Upon the Spiritual Path
An Interview with Ramsey Dukes
from Head magazine
Did you ever get the girl next door?
You ask did I get the girl next door, an obvious reference to the article ‘Blast Your Way to Megabuck$’. The trouble with successes in magic is that you can look back and describe some things that happened and they are so amazing when that when you tell them to people they think you must be the world’s greatest Magician if you could do things like that. But you know that actually they didn’t happen in the way magic ought to - ‘I just want this to happen and I make it happen’. Very little have I managed to achieve in that way, life has a habit of springing surprises however hard you try to direct it. Some of those surprises are uncannily close to what you asked for, and yet they have a way of occurring which is not what you expected. I am very much aware of what is happening to me and it’s a sort of theme which occurs in fairy stories; the wish is granted but it doesn’t work out the way it was meant to. I think it must be a cosmic law that that should happen.
Synopsis
This is about the nature and power of belief, human mental evolution, artificial intelligence modelling, chaos magic, the Abramelin operation, the dichotomy between science and magic (which is not just a rehash of the beautiful argument that appears in SSOTBME), and investigates some thorny little paradoxes; like why do all occult leaders seem to be, at least in part, or on occasions, charlatans? Hint- many religions insist that the world is illusory, so might you not find out more about the nature of an illusion by following those who deal with illusions?
Similarly, why is it that weird stuff always happens just after the video cameras are switched off, or the expert scientific witness has gone to the toilet? - ÒThe most striking modern psychic phenomena seem to occur at odd moments when there are few witnesses i.e. fewer sceptical mindsÉ the ancient world was less 'worked out'- for example human consciousness had not yet crystallised the laws of physics- and so there was more room for miracles in the correspondingly looser structure
from Head magazine
Did you ever get the girl next door?
You ask did I get the girl next door, an obvious reference to the article ‘Blast Your Way to Megabuck$’. The trouble with successes in magic is that you can look back and describe some things that happened and they are so amazing when that when you tell them to people they think you must be the world’s greatest Magician if you could do things like that. But you know that actually they didn’t happen in the way magic ought to - ‘I just want this to happen and I make it happen’. Very little have I managed to achieve in that way, life has a habit of springing surprises however hard you try to direct it. Some of those surprises are uncannily close to what you asked for, and yet they have a way of occurring which is not what you expected. I am very much aware of what is happening to me and it’s a sort of theme which occurs in fairy stories; the wish is granted but it doesn’t work out the way it was meant to. I think it must be a cosmic law that that should happen.
Synopsis
This is about the nature and power of belief, human mental evolution, artificial intelligence modelling, chaos magic, the Abramelin operation, the dichotomy between science and magic (which is not just a rehash of the beautiful argument that appears in SSOTBME), and investigates some thorny little paradoxes; like why do all occult leaders seem to be, at least in part, or on occasions, charlatans? Hint- many religions insist that the world is illusory, so might you not find out more about the nature of an illusion by following those who deal with illusions?
Similarly, why is it that weird stuff always happens just after the video cameras are switched off, or the expert scientific witness has gone to the toilet? - ÒThe most striking modern psychic phenomena seem to occur at odd moments when there are few witnesses i.e. fewer sceptical mindsÉ the ancient world was less 'worked out'- for example human consciousness had not yet crystallised the laws of physics- and so there was more room for miracles in the correspondingly looser structure
// posted by Chris Titan @ 10:35 AM 
