Yeah, sorry... I tend to think in bulletpoint. It seems to me that some of us are responding to a new trend, one that's less based less on individual understanding and more on collective response. The New Barbelith Kaballah/Tarot/Runes by cusm, the SourceryForge by Elseware, and the overall response addressed by "Are our magickal systems outdated?"
We tend to use the argument that most magick is individualized and perceptual, but the fact exists that most magick is perceptual because it has collective aims. Magick is meant to assist in the relationship between You and The World. Some semiotician might see that statement as analogous to knowledge is meant to assist in the relationship between Ego and The Other. Well, another one of the trends I've noticed is that everybody is becoming some level of semioticians and can swim adequately in science, psychology, folklore, technology, physics, tradition, and see the bridges and blends that occurr between them.
This book I want to experiment in assembling is going to try to address and outline the rules that exist thus far in the growing trend of integrating magickal systems with physics, history, communication, archetypical psychology, and engaging personal relationships.
Now you might say that some of the PopCulture selections I've chosen (Wizard of Oz, Mega Man, Futurama) are based on personal opinion, but I think most of them have a certain sense of tradition involved... everybody's heard of Wizard of Oz, Mega Man presents an paradigm of Nintendo gameplay, and Futurama is probably the weakest of the selections, but it IS the bastard cousin of The Simpsons...
The book starts by saying it's a virus. All communication spreads through understanding and thus does thought become viral... introducing memes and seeing the world "culture" differently.
Then you examine the actual structure of virus anatomy, and the nature of DNA as a code. Thoughts are also broken down into code, and analogized with the characterizations of the Wizard of Oz. As the purpose of DNA is protein synthesis, the development story of Dorothy is analogized as the purpose of thought. "We" identify with Dorothy as manifestation, and "We" step in for her to become the Quintessence of the story.
Examination of each suit/nucleotide as a finely honed weapon, Force = King, Form = Queen, Utilization = Knight, Outcome = Page.
The development of The Four over time, watching as memetic growth is mirrored in the developemnt and evolution of the World. The Telos of the Universe responds to ten abstracts, the Kabballah.
The Kaballah as a map of the Self interfaced with God and The World. The Telos of The Universe relies on The Self. |
I hope this isn't another dreary excursion into the apocolayptic zeitgeist that certain threads on this forum have indulged in in the past.