THE "MIND" INDESTRUCTIBLE

bc comic made for Robert Anton Wilson's Tale of the Tribe MLA course (2005)

The funny chap w/ the wicked stash strut is supposed to be Ezra Pound, who wrote:

"4 times was the city rebuilded, Hooo Fasa

            Gassir, Hooo Fasa   dell' Italia tradita

now in the mind indestructible, Gassir, Hooo Fasa

with four giants at the four corners

and four gates mid wall Hooo Fasa

and a terrace the colour of stars"

-Canto 74 

RAW explains:

"Hooo mean somthing like hooray or hallelujah

Fasa = the tribe or the king

From an African "tale of the tribe"

collected by Frobenius

Wagadu = a divine, or magick, city

which existed four times 

and each time got lost again

first thru vanity

second thru lying

third thru greed

fourth thru feuding

Wagadu still exists in some sense

"in the mind indestructible"

and will appear again

when all people transcend

vanity, lies, greed and vendettta

Hooo Fasa

Hooo Fasa

gets repeated 10 times at the end of the song

Hooo Fasa "

and a George Kearns quote by way of Eric Wagner:

"...the unnamed African seekers of a city of the mind, Wagadu (both divinity and city), whom we come to recognize by their cry, "Hooo Fasa." They can metamorphose into each other, as they do in Frazer, to become Isis-Kuanon, Isis-Luna, Circe-Titania, or Adonis-Tamuz."

I take the "mind" Indestructible as the non-local class of all minds, which after all is No Mind!

RAW comments:

"You captured the essence of Pound's use of the Sudanese legend -- 

even though rain and industrial waste are hardly equal conditions 

in the death camp where a rapist and murderer was hanged every day.

Hooo Fasa"

Fair Enough!

See also: Agnosis! Ep. 12 "A Sun Play of the Ages"

bc

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G.I. GURDJIEFF

UFOS ON THE LAM!

An Ongoing Media Virus by Bobby Campbell

Soundtrack: Little UFO
by The Chocolate Biscuit Conspiracy w/ Robert Anton WIlson

"THE IMPOSSIBLE OFTEN HAS A KIND OF INTEGRITY WHICH THE MERELY IMPROBABLE LACKS."
- Douglas Adams



During the winter of 1918, in New York City, Aleister Crowley &
Scarlet Woman Roddie Minor conducted the Amalantrah Working.
This sexual & ceremonial ritual was intended to open a "magickal portal"
through which invoked interdimensional intelligences could come to physical manifestation. (!?!)

An egg headed character called LAM is supposed to have been the resultant visitor from this most peculiar experiment. Crowley claimed his artistic rendering of LAM (pictured left) was a portrait he drew from real life! The image was published in 1919 within a book of Crowley's commentary on Blavatsky's "The Voice of the Silence." The image was titled "The Way" and included the following inscription:

"LAM is the Tibetan word for Way or Path, and LAMA is He who Goeth, the specific title of the Gods of Egypt, the Treader of the Path, in Buddhistic phraseology. Its numerical value is 71, the number of this book."

Much has been made of LAM's prescient resemblance to The Greys, those world famous pro bono proctologists from the stars, who starred in a great many alien contactee claims of Reagan Era USA, and are now pop culture icons.

"Lam is a Great Old One whose archetype is recognizable in accounts of UFO occupants." Says Kenneth Grant, whom Crowley gave his portrait of LAM to in 1945.

Michael Bertiaux, who is said to have replicated the Amalantrah Working in the 1960's, described the phenomena as the "subterranean burgeoning of Lucifer-Gnosis."
Such psychological interpretations of the extraterrestrial visitations actually seem to amplify the mystery! It was no less a luminary of the mind than Carl Jung, in his book "Flying Saucers: A Modern Myth of Things Seen in the Sky", who deduced that belief in UFOs better suited general opinion, which very much wanted them to be real. Jung then set himself to answer his famous question: "Why should it be more desirable for Saucers to exist than not?"

This curiosity was very recently exemplified by the Blossom Goodchild media virus, wherein Ms. Goodchild announced that she channeled a message from "The Federation of Light" that alien spaceships were due to appear on October 14, 2008. Incredibly, this flimsy premise was suitable to create a global media buzz! There was nothing even resembling "proof" offered, only a message, which a great many decided to believe, but why?

Because flying saucers are symbols from an ancient dream language, Jung would suppose, the circular shape of a self perfected and projected into the abode of the Gods. An ideal savior and/or nemesis of technologically alienated modern humanity, unidentified flying objects have been interjected into history, disrupting the normal proceedings of the world for better and/or worse. 

The mass hysteria induced by Orson Wells' radio broadcast of The War of the Worlds on October 30th, 1938, perhaps one of the most effective media viruses ever propagated, is a perfect example of both how readily the public will accept news of an alien invasion, and how the aliens need not necessarily actually exist in order to dramatically effect the reality of the psyche.

“The saucer, no matter how alien it appears, no matter how advanced its demonstrations of power, is not a vehicle from some other star system, it is the oversoul of humanity up to its oldest trick.” Says Terrence Mckenna, who frequently hallucinated contact with alien intelligences under the influence of entheogens, especially DMT, the hypothesized “Spirit Molecule.” (A psychedelic neurotransmittor found naturally occurring within the human nervous system.)

Beyond even the psychological interpretation, I am most interested in the neurochemical interpretation, as advocated by Dr. Rick Strassman.


The general premise is that within certain extreme situations the pineal gland is capable of synthesizing psychedelic quantities of endogenous DMT, thus providing a neurochemical medium for visionary experiences of any and all kinds.

DMT has also been proposed as playing an active role within the brain chemistry of the dream state, so of course yes, I do here propose the alien contact experience may be a case of neurologically DREAMING while AWAKE. Though just to slight the non-believers as much as the believers, DMT is not thought to supply the content of hallucination, but rather just to change the ways and means of information processing in the brain.

Meanwhile in 1918 New York City, Aleister Crowley is told "It's all in the egg." When he questions this statement he is answered "Thou art to go this way."

TOYNBEE TILES

A Media Virus by Bobby Campbell
(New strains every Thor's day

"SUBSTANCE IS INVERSELY PROPORTIONAL TO PONDERABILITY"
-Franklin Merrell Wolff

The Toynbee Tile media virus is a wonderful curiosity that I am
happy to propagate onward, upward, and spiraling out of control!



The virility of this cryptic memetic aggregate, interestingly enough, does
not spring from digital age machinations, this is no internet phenomena.
These messages have been intractably embedded in the concrete and asphalt hardware of cities all around the Americas for over 25 years.

My home city of Philadelphia, PA, USA is a focal point in the mystery, as there are such a great many of these plaques in our streets, and evidence suggests that the original creator was likely a native resident.

Do please allow this audio/visual presentation by The Vivian Girls Experience to shed some light on the situation:



I first learned of this very peculiar rigamarole via Justin Duer, a highly notable Philadelphia artist/musician. We were sharing display space at the Philly Zine Fest, when he was interviewed about the long awaited documentary on the matter, Resurrect Dead.

Here is Justin and Co. providing further exposition on a Philadelphia local news segment:





It wasn't until a couple years after overhearing Justin Duer's interview that I would actually become fascinated by the mystery myself.

In late November of 2007, upon catching a news story on the radio about the tiles, I began to poke around a bit on the internet for to enjoy further information on the subject. I had satisfied my curiosity w/ only just a few brief blurbs, when I inadvertently knocked over my copy of Joseph Campbell's "The Hero With A Thousand Faces." I picked up the book and but of course it had opened to a page wherein the word "Toynbee" shone out like some kinda clownish beacon.

"The hero has died as a modern man; but as eternal man - perfected, unspecific, universal man - he has been reborn. His second solemn task and deed therefore (as Toynbee declares and as all the mythologies of mankind indicate) is to return then to us, transfigured, and teach the lesson he has learned of life renewed."

"Well, sure, okay, fine!" I thought, I'll dig a little deeper then, and in so doing I turned up this video of a St. Louis local news segment, which features a man with a blue beard discussing Toynbee Tiles. And well, it just so happens that I know a fella w/ a blue beard, as do many of ye esteemed MLA alumni...



I promptly fired off an E-mail to our friend The Capt., who confirmed indeed and of course that it was he in the video.

2 days later I would find my first real life Toynbee Tile.



Several months later, en route to my first day of work at a Philadelphia media company, I would walk over a Toynbee Tile while transferring from train to bus.

Having eagerly reported for duty an hour early, I then went to enjoy a coffee at the Penrose Diner, and while reading my well worn edition of Marshall McLuhan's "Understanding Media", happened upon the following passages:

"In his Study of History, Toynbee notes a great many reversals of form and dynamic..."

"In the ancient world the intuitive awareness of break boundaries as points of reversal and of no return was embodied in the Greek idea of hubris, which Toynbee presents in his Study of History, under the head of "The Nemesis of Creativity" and "The Reversal of Roles."

And so it goes, the miscellaneous and disheveled happenstance of experience, where nothing happens for a reason, but everything can get put to a purpose.

"YOU MUST MAKE AND GLUE TILES! YOU!"

JOHN TITOR

An Ongoing Media Virus by Bobby Campbell

"IT IS THE BUSINESS OF THE FUTURE TO BE DANGEROUS."
- Marshall McLuhan, The Medium is the Massage


In the autumn of 2000 an avatar called "TimeTravel_0" began to communicate through the world wide web, claiming to be a visitor from the year 2036! Though that someone should make an outrageous claim via the internet is hardly noteworthy, except but when so very many people actually come to believe it. (and also when those that disbelieve it engage with such vigorous opposition.)

John Titor, as the character would eventually be known, entertained netizens for nearly 5 months, offering creative speculations on the physics of time travel, and prophesying a great many catastrophes for the immediate future. Upon the Spring Equinox of 2001 he bid farwell, for to return to the year 2036, and has not been heard from since.

Though the avatar itself has long since dissapeared, the John Titor media virus carries on even 8 years later. There was a notable outbreak just this past September on account of a meme he left behind:

"John Titor: ... the major breakthrough happens at CERN ...The creation of microsigularities...its a black hole about the size of an electron... "

Most of the Titor predictions have come and gone, with perhaps some generalized correlation to some actual events, though really, without actually having come true.

That there is not a civil war raging in the United States right now, as predicted by John Titor, should invalidate his claim to having come from the future, right?

Not quite!

Within the sticky shell of the preposterous time travel story, there are sub plots which necessitate contemplating actual and incredible postulates of the science of our day.

"The Everett-Wheeler-Graham or multiple world theory is correct. All possible quantum states, events, possibilities, and outcomes are real, eventual, and occurring. The chances of everything happening someplace at sometime in the superverse is 100%."

So as to craft an enduring and vital media virus, John Titor did not claim to be from THE future, but rather A future.

Thence the saga continues!

DREAMING @WAKE!

An Ongoing Media Virus by Bobby Campbell


Soundtrack: The Complicated History of the Concept of the Soul
by The Mr. T Experience

"ALL YE SUCKERS WHO ARE GONNA GET TRIMMED, STEP THIS WAY FOR THE BIG SWINDLE!"

- Groucho Marx as Mr. Hammer in "The Cocoanuts"



Over these last few years the 2012 media virus has proven to be very formidable indeed, the millenarist plot has taken on a great many twists and turns, for the most part abandoned and dismissed by it's early adopters, it has evolved into a kind of fundamentalist, new age, lowest common denominator, main-stream of complete and utter bullshit! Not to say that it wasn't always bullshit, but now it's bullshit that's rapidly becoming a household name!

A media virus consists of a protective & sticky outer shell, which contains within it a memetic code. The adhesive shell becomes attached to a host medium and thence it's memetic programming gets injected therein.

"The virus code mixes and competes for control with the cell's own genes, and, if victorious, it permanently alters the way the cell functions and reproduces. A particularly virulent strain will transform the host cell into a factory that replicates the virus."

Douglas Rushkoff, Media Virus

The outer shell of a media virus is the "surface issue" or "face value" of the news event, idea, or whatever form the Trojan horse happens to take. The programming within the shell is the implication of the resultant dialectic, the worms in the can, to mix a metaphor!

It seems apparent that "The Eschaton" makes for an exceptionally sticky outer shell, but what manner of programming dwells within?



Who's kidding who here!?

As some of ye brave and bold readers may yet recall;

Joseph Campbell and/or Henry Morton Robinson
report of Finnegans Wake Book III,
Chapter 4: HCE & ALP- Their Bed of Trial. (Starting on pg 555)

The characters have woken from the dream &
“It is the morning after the night of the winter solstice”

I can still find no indication of this in the text myself, but it provides an impetus to imaginate...

More interesting though is this excerpt from the audio book version of Terence Mckenna's "True Hallucinations", which ellucidates the McKenna Brothers' experiences in the Amazon Jungle at La Chorrera, the inspiration for novelty theory, timewave zero, and by extension much of the 2012 media virus. (the entire audio book is freely available for your listening pleasure, here.)