Below are the 11 most recent journal entries recorded in emergent species' LiveJournal:

Tuesday, July 31st, 2007
11:36 pm [effrenata]	Alternative Reincarnation Communities. Here are a couple of reincarnation-focused groups that a friend and I are running, which are open to alternative viewpoints: alt_pastlives: The purpose of alt_pastlives is to foster brotherhood between people who believe in reincarnation and hold an interest in past lives. The twist, though, is that views and past life memories which are unsavoury to talk about on other places and which may not be commonly accepted are welcome here. We accept posts on anything related to the topic of Past Life, including PL memories, metaphysical discussion, etc. (Borderline OT posts are permitted.) Reincarnation FreeForum: http://reincarnation.freeforums.org/index.php This forum is for the discussion of all topics related to reincarnation, multiple lives, and alternate selves, including topics sometimes regarded as "taboo" or controversial. We aim to provide room for expression of the full range of views, and an environment for personal growth, spiritual development and intellectual exploration. (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Saturday, July 14th, 2007
3:44 am [bloodandsalsa]	Adventures in eumenmics? Today in the development of ideas: Why do you think there is a significant subculture re-developing around Hermetic ideas, including Wicca, Thelema, and what not?   What does it indicate?  What determines the interest? Why do idea like "As above, so below" re-circulate even though it has to be made increasing metaphorical to be meaningful since cosmology and astrophysics don't align as much as one would like. Also, why are we trying to reinvent traditions of which we have almost no real evidence of what the ancient traditions were before they were Christianized. (This is not so much true for those based on Greek and Roman religion, but definitely in case in Saxon, Celtic, and North European religions. This is why so much work going back to the Vedas is used in reconstructing ancient Indo-European beliefs). This is not an attack on these belief systems, I just want ideas on why they are resurging now? (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Sunday, January 30th, 2005
1:09 am [00001_of_100000]	A new type of meme & a new species Please join us, become more powerful, help spread meme(s), & do one or more of the following: 1) Repost this post on your LJ &/or on other communities &/or email it out to those not on LJ, &/or 2) Join the LJ community "Community of 100k" (LJ User: 000_com_of_100k), &/or 3) Create a new LJ in the following manner: - A: "User" is to be #####_of_100000 where "#####" is a number between 00002 & 99999. - B: LJ "Name" can be the same as the "User" name (i.e. 00023_of_100000 ) or other as you wish. - C: List one of your "Interests" as ओ which is coded as " &# 23 23 ;" WITH-OUT the quotes or blank spaces, the easiest way to do this is to go to the LJ of 00001_of_100000 & use the [Modify yours] button at the end of their "Interests" list. This is IMPORTANT as this will be the easiest way for us to create a list of all the new LJs; & will make the above step "A" easier because we will be able to quickly see which #s have been used & which are still available. To quickly see which of our #s have been used and which are still available go to the LJ interests search page here: http://www.livejournal.com/interests.bml and enter ओ into the [ ] field (box) after the "Find people & communities interested in:" then click on the [Find] button.... or from any LJ User Info page, enter ओ into the Search: [ ] field (box) & enter "Interest" into the Category: [ ] field (box) then click on the [Search] button. - D: Join the LJ community "Community of 100k" (LJ User: 000_com_of_100k) There is power in numbers! - Become one of the new LJers before all the good LJ "User" #####_of_100000 are gone! Current Mood: devious (6 Comments |Comment on this)
Sunday, January 16th, 2005
12:28 am [wire_mother]	recently (which is to say, within the last few years), i've run into the concept of consciousness existing at a very low level of reality - perhaps as low as the so-called "zero-point field". do any of you have any good resources discussing this idea? books? websites? (4 Comments |Comment on this)
Sunday, August 1st, 2004
9:54 am [wire_mother]	in what ways do you prefer, or have found most useful, to improve the impact of memes that you present? by this, i mean to include anything, from selling things to teaching to political arguing and so on. what are your favorite/most effective techniques? (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Wednesday, December 3rd, 2003
5:29 pm [aquariansong]	Just a quick hello having just joined. Looking forward to great discussions... peace -J (Comment on this)
Saturday, August 9th, 2003
11:06 am [arisbe]	A Warm LJ Welcome To Professor apprenti, philosopher, esoterist, Hellenist, Slavophile, and maven of the alternative music scene, who, on a visit to New York, introduced me to Genesis P-Orridge. In return I should like to introduce him to you, and let you know that, if you are so inclined, you should drop by and say Hi. (Comment on this)
Tuesday, July 1st, 2003
11:19 am [brianberge]	Self-Intro' I'd like to introduce myself to the community. (I'm intro'ing myself on many, so please excuse the redundancy if you're on any of the other groups I am.) I'm a 29-year-old Scorpio in Southern California, real into art, guitar, music, the O.T.O., poetry, Thelema and Qabalah. I'm especially interested in the Abramelin Operation, and would love to hear from anyone that's completed it, or otherwise attained K. & C. of the H.G.A. And to anyone with a Palm handheld that's studying Qabalah, I can offer some Palm software I developed to help you out. Take care! (Comment on this)
Monday, February 10th, 2003
12:53 am [wire_mother]	An Incomplete Eumemic Bibliography here is an initial bibliography. as ideas come along, i will try to keep it updated: Agrippa, Henry Cornelius - Three Books of Occult Philosophy Bandler, Richard & John Grinder - The Structure of Magic (I & II) Blackmore, Susan - The Meme Machine Bruno, Giordano - Cause, Principle and Unity and Essays on Magic Couliano, Ioan - Eros and Magic in the Renaissance Dawkins, Richard - The Selfish Gene DeMeo, James - The Orgone Accumulator Handbook Flowers, Stephen Edred - Black Runa Greene, Robert - The Art of Seduction Greene, Robert - The 48 Laws of Power Harpur, Patrick - Daimonic Reality Heller, Steven & Terry Steele - Monsters and Magical Sticks Hine, Phil - Condensed Chaos Hine, Phil - Prime Chaos Keel, John A. - Disneyland of the Gods Keel, John A. - The Mothman Prophecies Keel, John A. - Operation Trojan Horse LaVey, Anton Szandor - The Satanic Witch Lieberman, David J. - Get Anyone to Do Anything Linden, Anne & Kathrin Perutz - Mindworks Machiavelli, Nicolo - The Prince McMoneagle, Joseph - Mind Trek Prigogine, Ilya - The End of Certainty Reich, Wilhelm - The Cancer Biopathy Reich, Wilhelm - Character Analysis Reich, Wilhelm - The Function of the Orgasm Rolfe, Randy - The Four Temperaments Sargant, William - Battle for the Mind Sheldrake, Rupert - A New Science of Life Sheldrake, Rupert - Seven Experiments That Could Change the World Skelton, Robin - Spellcraft Stewart, R.J. - Earth Light Stewart, R.J. - Robert Kirk: Walker Between Worlds Stine, G. Harry - Amazing and Wonderful Mind Machines You Can Build Sun Tzu - The Art of War Valee, Jacques - Passage to Magonia Walker, D.P. - Spiritual & Demonic Magic: from Ficino to Campanella Wier, Dennis R. - Trance: from magic to technology Wilson, Colin - The Philosopher's Stone Wilson, Robert A. - Everything is Under Control Wilson, Robert A. - Masks of the Illuminati Wilson, Robert A. - Quantum Psychology Wynn, Denise - The Manipulated Mind (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Sunday, February 9th, 2003
11:45 pm [wire_mother]	Strengthening ideas i've noted that there are several techniques (paradigms, systems, what have you) which propose to increase the force with which a meme impacts upon a given mental landscape. the ones which come immediately to mind include nlp, magick, propaganda, advertising techniques, and conditioning (aka "brainwashing"). most seem to operate by introducing disorientation to the processes which censor incoming information content, though each technique (in general) makes use of a different specific method to create that disorientation (eg propaganda attempts to link the new meme to sacrosanct prexisting memes such as "patriotism"; advertising typically relies on linking the meme to reproductive urges or other reptile-brain processes; conditioning uses an array of techniques from physical exhaustion to exploiting the social instinct). if a memeplex is structured around these "backdoor" techniques, and is also structured to incline the new mental landscape to attempt to retransmit the memeplex, this is a viral idea, a language virus. imagine, for instance, if Coca-Cola could include in its sloganeering the idea that, not only should one think that "Coke adds life", but that one should also convince others of that fact. founding a religion is a good job, if you can stomach it. good hours, and the pay is great. however, it is a little bit difficult now, due to protective memes (for instance, the concept of "killer cults") which have arisen in the general population, restricting religions to those which either 1) pre-exist, or 2) can be tied to pre-existing religions. witness, for instance, all the hassles that the raelians are getting. motivational speakers, though, are unaffected by religious xenophobia, but share many of the same characteristics discussed above (such as: those who are "motivated" by the speaker will also typically transmit invitations to friends and acquaintances to listen to the motivational speaker's message). i think memetics, as a science, also needs to look at biophysical influences of memetic transmission. when a given mental landscape is affected by fatigue or chemical imbalance, the ability of a given meme to have an impact, even a lasting impact, is much greater. if accompanied by repetitive drumbeats, a given memetic packet tends to lodge more easily in a typical mental landscape (see William Sargant Battle for the Mind, among others). just some random notes passing through my own mental landscape... (7 Comments |Comment on this)
Sunday, January 5th, 2003
11:10 pm [wire_mother]	Issues of Control and Rights an interesting question, one which i have been struggling with, is whether a person has rights, and if a person does, whose rights are more important when they come into conflict? my recent brush with this comes from Couliano's Eros and Magic in the Renaissance, where he notes that Giordano Bruno's De vinculis in genere presupposes no rights for the thing or person manipulated, reserving all rights to the manipulator. this is also, obviously, the case in Machiavelli. now, i normally don't question this, since i don't believe in "rights" in the first place (i think that they are a tool of manipulation, which can be useful at times, but are usually simply annoying). however, the supposition comes often enough that i am left questioning if Couliano's analysis might be a better formulation: that is, in any situation wherein a person might legitimately assert a "right", and that "right" comes into conflict with another person's "right", then whoever is best able to assert the "right" is the one who has the "right". as in, person A feels that they have the right to self-determination, but salesman B feels that they have the right to free expression. salesman B is justified in using hypnotic/magical and other manipulative sales techniques on person A, as person A is theoretically able to resist the techniques and assert his right, while salesman B is theoretically able to overcome person A's resistance and so assert his right. whoever succeeds wins, as it were. this may, however, lead to social structure distortions. Bruno also notes that religion exists for the purpose of normalizing the behavior of populations, increasing the stability of those populations and increasing their susceptibility to manipulation (prefiguring Marx and Engels, though without the moral opposition). if a large proportion of the population then becomes capable of making the above distinction of the relative value of rights, it follows that the dominant religion would be undermined. now, this is obviously an elitist point of view, which i have no problem with in general, but i'm left looking for a way to justify this system to people who maintain a knee-jerk opposition to elitism. why justify it? maybe it's the populist in me, i don't know. (6 Comments |Comment on this)