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Define your current reality tunnel

19:16 / 06.02.04

So, how would you define your current reality tunnel? Mine seems to be endlessly fixed on 23 and all its implications.. On a side note; are we entering 32 land, and is this evidence of the "system breakdown" set forth by WSB in "Electronic Revoultion"? Oh, my tunnel is pink bytheway, yours?

bob the almighty

20:17 / 06.02.04

I dont think 23 has played it's part in our lives to the fullest yet, though.. But I think that 32 certaintly is worth our attention.. It has been revealing itself in many weird and suspicious places lately.. right? And often it has a mystical connection with 23.. It might be a trick, to lead us on to another path. To me it symbolizes a radical change.. or... they're just fucking with our heads...

20:47 / 06.02.04

Reality tunnel? Can you expand on that i'm a bit thick at the present moment. If you mean reality tunnel as in whats on your mind, i'm pretty obsessed with Daath and Yesod at the moment........

21:48 / 06.02.04

Kinda like paradigm..the way in which you perceive the world based on your current beliefs, ideas etc. Based on the current flow of information in/out really..For example, Christianity is a static reality tunnel(or Chaos magick, one might argue), a paradigm..Ok, theres a relatively big chance that im talking out of my ass, so read up on Robert Anton Wilson or any of his "brothers in thought" to get a better explanation..you might also find Memetics and the essay "The electronic revolution" by William S. Burroughs interesting..just type it into Google..

22:09 / 06.02.04

My reality tunnel has been closed for repairs. I've been using the alternate route around the hill in the mean time.

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22:13 / 06.02.04

I'm a moody post-goth fatalist with Byronic overtones caught up in a BPM 3 fixation. Coincidentally I'm also 23 and so far it's pretty much been the worst year of my life. Still, I think depression is just a prelude to change.

22:18 / 06.02.04

cusm- I suggest using the underwater tunnel, there are rumors that the way around the hill is flooded with what appears to be purple orcs of somekind.

22:56 / 06.02.04

Hai, thanks for the tip. Looks like its under the hill for me one way or the other then. Damned orcs. Clearly my tax monies have been going to waste with that mess still left about.

23:00 / 06.02.04

Thanks Cottonmouth, you directed me to reality tunnels and i found fUsion Anomaly, i owe you dude.

My reality tunnel, i dunno it's a bit dark at the moment i'll have to get back to you on that.

00:04 / 07.02.04

i have left my body behind and am now in a world
of no meaning.

06:42 / 07.02.04

I know cusm, its a drag..but the latest news tells my it will be fixed by monday. Apparently "they" have hired a group of "lethal discordians" normaly residing down by the green lake, they are led by a grandmaster of somesort, he resembles a purple bunny in a way that is just sick..I think that will do it for the orcs, if not, bring your rifle next time.

09:13 / 07.02.04

Ow my head.

I was on the fUSION anomaly site by Robert Anton Wilson early this morning for about two and a half hours and i still have a headache in the right side of my brain..............my reality tunnel..........im in my Buddha sphere and there is no ground around around me, just space. Fending off astral rays whilst Shiva stands on Orcs and a feiry dragon watches intently at my side incase things go haywire.

Shiva will deal with the Orcs if you call and believe don't worry.

Unconditional Love

10:53 / 07.02.04

eventually you come out of the tunnel and the train keeps moving, then it will come off the tracks and you wont need the train anymore......

11:21 / 07.02.04

But can i keep the traindrivers outfit?

16:09 / 07.02.04

A chronic pessimist is who I've become. Most data appears stupid and unintelligable. I no longer consciously do magick for fear of causing harm. I am disinterested to know that this reality tunnel is false--it is simply the easiest way for me to cope. I know one day this world will crack open and I'll feel that love jive again. Untill then, survival is all that matters.

22:34 / 08.02.04

I haven't got a reality tunnel at the moment i don't think. I'm just not seeing anything else except whats here. Is this bad?

I see reality tunnels as very Yesodic and am trying to get past that sphere right now and on to Hod, erm..........tell me what you think about this?

04:30 / 09.02.04

*Obsolete tie-guy from beneath the hill* enters:

So...you havent got a reality tunnel..eh? Youre definitive in luck! I am willing to sell you one right now..its green with a little toad on top, only 9.55$. Interested?(Side Note: it also requires you to take on the belief that the world is flat and that you will have to "Kill the Buddah".

18:43 / 09.02.04

Great post, cottonmouth. I cut my teeth on RAW and lsd. I heartily recommend that everyone read up on RAW, especially wrt "Reality Tunnels". Eon, you're on the right track: A reality tunnel is not a truth, it is an assumed belief system. Some get stuck in their tunnels, others evolve from one to the next, and some of us adopt different ones on a whim just to get some perspective. There are no truths and no lies.

My current Reality Tunnel: Moving between magick as a belief or metaprogram, and magick as a fundamental fact of Reality(tm). Currently I'm drifting towards the latter. Trying to be more devotional but also more disciplined in martial arts. Warrior Priest. Morality does not exist but kindness and compassion are critical. Trying to co-opt the wonderful media of information to subversive means. And trying to do all this while holding down a somewhat cushy corporate job. Assumption: It is possible to remain an individual, alternative, politically dissident, anarchic chaote, while working for The Man. Let him pay for me to blog and post and invoke.

20:45 / 09.02.04

LVX23-thanks. Well, I try to keep to marijuana myself though(no complains on the effect of watching Maybe Logic when youre high as a pie, thats for sure). And yes, I to am drifting to the later of your paradigms, although I havent practiced magick since early summer. I did a ritual revolving around the wish that "something should happen" and..well..I met the love of my life, things have been kinda turbulent and Im not picking up the wand until things have calmed down, which I feel is the wise thing to do in situations like this.

I have only recently been looking at media/information as means of subversion, individually as well as public, reading up on things as "The Electronic Revolution" by WSB. On a side note; what is your take on the theories presented in this essay? Could this virus be seen as the "force" behind all magick, have you looked into this paradigm?

21:38 / 09.02.04

Note: it also requires you to take on the belief that the world is flat and that you will have to "Kill the Buddah".

WTF???

Whatwhatwhaaaat???

01:13 / 10.02.04

I seem to be floating in the seas of Netzach. My dreams have all been filled with images of water. Rivers, lakes and last night a tsunami. Emotion is what my current reality tunnel is about. Learning the language of emotion. I have thought my way through the real for too long, its now time to feel.

PS. As I type this post the clouds have opened and its raining quite heavily...

09:51 / 10.02.04

been on heavy curmudgeon mode for a year or so i guess. 9-2-5ing and keeping the house in order. dealing with unwanted external pressures as if i personally asked for them from jimmy saville. socially, mixing with technocratic right-wingers twice my age. developing an affinity for dogs, or a couple of particular dogs, and normally i'm the total cat-man. keeping the things i hold precious in one piece. treating alien responsibility and difficulty like a sick adventure. default vegetarian, though be it theosophy or cthulhu, i still love a bit of HP sauce.

as weird and apparently not-me as this tunnel is, I like it here, and I feel it's making me strong. anything unpredictable has to be good.

15:52 / 11.02.04

Wolverine-San "mixing with technocratic right-wingers twice my age." wow..care to elaborate on that one?

19:21 / 09.03.04

Scott Summers, Jack Frost and my own fictional characters are sharing space with some type of Chaos, Taoist monk reality tunnel. Chuang Tzu keeps coming to mind and i've hardly ever read his stuff. It's sort of like a Chaos Monk from China focusing on the void, but the void has neon colours, sort of chaotic, neon shapes in it. However the neon chaos void type sphere is real relaxing. I'm sort of like accepting chaos in a new way i never thought of before.

03:49 / 10.03.04

I'm in the process of deconstructing the reality that was pressed upon me by this society, and constructing one based on the observations and correlations that I have made. I've finally launched SpikeVision as my wedge into consensus reality. I've opened my mind a great deal in the last 2 years, and I've learned a great deal in the process.

I'm with you, LVX23. I found inspiration in Richard Metzger's opening address on the Disinfocon DVD, and stopped feeling guilty about being a corporate wage slave, and started turning it to my advantage.

04:14 / 10.03.04

My current reality tunnel is that all possibilities exist at the quantum level. I like ,that for now because it seems to give me more room to create. It also keeps me out of the "occult truth" reality tunnel. Since all possibilities coexist simultaneously, I can play in any sandbox that I want to.

15:02 / 11.03.04

While on the subject, any thoughts on the reality tunnel worn by society at large and why?

21:26 / 11.03.04

I believe that the reality tunnel experienced by society at large is based on greed, addiction, and the obfuscation of facts. It is a terminal path that has been engineered to produce complacency and the narrowing of perceptions. Much like the parable of the Cave though, the masses will resist any attempts to interrupt their mass delusion.

Vargr

Shanghai Quasar

00:15 / 12.03.04

What the Mass is experiencing? It's not experiencing anything. It's just floating around in a tank, waiting to get it together and start thinking clearly. Imagine a couple billion brain cells, all yelling as loud as they can about how they're all unique and individual and different from the others.

Now try to get it to explain what sort of reality tunnel it is experiencing.

Points of similarity spread all over, views overlap and mix together in the murk, but none of them are particularly unified in the sense of a Mass Reality Tunnel.

Overlaps may generally be said to include a desire for good and well-being, within the Self and within the Community. Life seeking to survive and prosper.

That felt oddly disjointed, didn't it?

04:27 / 12.03.04

Currently in Late Summer Blues. Experiencing an odd reality feedback. A certain time from my past is being overlayed over the current timespace. Lots of strange dreams.

13:55 / 12.03.04

Very strange dreams over here also. No wonder considering that my whole reality tunnel is undergoing a tremendous change

06:07 / 20.03.04

It seems that a lot of people I have run across lately are having insomnia, anxiety, and strange dreams. One even had a lucid dream in chich she was able to perceive multiple dimensions, but then fast-forwarded to the destruction of all of them into a vacuum.

beelzebub jones

07:36 / 20.03.04

ten metres tall, aluminum, opening on to nothing but blue sky and clouds.

12:44 / 20.03.04

Strange times indeed vargr..