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Avoiding Lust for Result in Sigils

21:58 / 18.11.04

I've been having a lot of trouble separating myself from the intent of a sigil, so I developed this method, which is originalish as far as I know, though please correct me if I'm wrong.

Basically, write out the intent, shorten it using whatever method you like. Now, convert this message into the corresponding ASCII sequence. (Here is a link explaining it if you have no idea what I'm talking about) I'd suggest keeping it in all caps to keep the numbers smaller, but well, do as thou wilt or whatever. Now convert that ASCII to binary. (Yes I know its perfectly simple to jump straight from text to binary, but I think it's worthwhile to go through the steps and do all conversion by hand; it gives it a certain energy I think.)

Now here's where my brain exploded all over the room and I got twelve different ideas all at once. The original idea I had was to animate it in Flash, which I have done here. (The message in this one was 'This sigil works' in case you're worried about looking at a strange sigil

) Now stare and gnosis away. Other fun activities: chant the string of ones and zeroes, type the string over and over with the numpad, or stack the letters to make a grid like this.

For me, no matter what I did for creating sigils before, I would always recognize what the sigil was for, and I would get distracted by it. With this method, I don't think a can recognize a string a 1's and 0's, and I can pretty easily make a folder with a bunch of these in it and just grab one out at random.

So, I'm posting this for two reasons, 1) Sharing it for anyone that likes it, 2) Wondering what everyone else thinks. Is this a good idea or does it totally miss the point? Any feedback would be much appreciated.

For the comp sci fans, I just realized that if this method works, than the sigil will get charged and it will achieve its purpose of working. I just made a recursive sigil.

22:53 / 18.11.04

hahahaha you geek :P

Thats actually pretty cool. I would never have thought of that. Breaking everything down into numbers means you could do just about anything with it. Generate a sound, throw it into a fractal algorithm, create a sigil generator that accepts numbers... good work.

My latest method is to create an intents and break it down into groups of letters of generally no more than 10. (ie. remove all the vowels, pick every third letter, whatever) I then keep making these letter combo's till I have 23. Then every time I wanna hurl one into the cosmos I create a sigil based on a random selection of one of the broken down intents and do my thing. Then I create another little intent to replace the old one so there's always 23 in my little container.

Its kinda like an ongoing change experiment. The good thing about this is that the intent is pretty much lost immediately because I put so little time into creating the letter combination that after a few days I'm lucky if I can remember the starting letter, let alone the whole thing. And when I turn it into a sigil, it can be different every time...

23:16 / 18.11.04

Thanks for the feedback, and yes, I am proud to be a geek.

I'm having alot of fun toying around with this. Right now I'm focusing on replacing the 1's and 0's with other things, i.e. sound a and sound b, a flash movie that blinks between white (on) and black (off), doing the grid method with filled and empty boxes.

I really like your idea with keeping your sigil pool at the same level at all times. Perhaps the ones that shouldn't get charged for whatever reason can make sure they don't get charged that way.

02:49 / 21.11.04

Brilliant. I can see how other flash animation effects could be used to actually generate gnosis, such as rapidly alternating colors. The sigil could be incorperated into a flash animation as well, so that it's not even directly visible to the conscious mind. This is quite slick....

05:15 / 21.11.04

Whoops! Seems like I should have read your last post, looks like you are already into that. It seems to be one of the most flexible methods that I've seen. As was mentioned above, you can do almost anything with it. Some of Larry Carlson's work comes to mind, it can be found here. Some interesting stuff, and applicable to these kinds of uses.

06:26 / 21.11.04

I've created flash animations before as meditation tools. It's a very effective medium. I like the binary idea.
I too am a geek.

12:01 / 21.11.04

I've experimented with strobe frequencies a bit in Flash, and sent one avatar-ized sigil for public use into the web with reasonable success - hopefully you'll see it soon - but... argh, maybe I should start learning Flash after all.

(as a webdesigner who really enjoys mucking around in HTML and CSS, I've become rather turned off by Flash - it's way too over-used by the clueless, although it has great potential.)

I'm a bit of a fence-sitter concerning the use of subliminals and hidden sigils in my digital creations though, as I'm still a bit uncomfortable about such practices... I've done it, but mostly innocent experimental stuff so far, all in good fun.

The fire&forget approach has never really been my cup of tea, I prefer a more talismanic (or "servitorial", if you prefer) approach and use... but still, good suggestions - worth a try. Thanks.

I'm not yet a geek, but am once more tempted to become one... at least part-time

10:32 / 22.11.04

Woo- so, how many meditational tricks could you work into Flash? Subliminals, strobing on the same frequencies as a Dream Machine, sigils, visualisation aids, a mesmerising sequence with post-hypnotic commands, you could work in a meditation soundtrack, audio subliminals... is there a way to hit the "buddha button" with strobes and commands?
Reminds me of that old game "Endorfun", with the subliminal messages and hypno-soundtrack...

XXII:X:II = XXX

04:30 / 23.11.04

Dude, I've GOT that game. It's frighteningly addictive.

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XXII:X:II = XXX

06:34 / 24.11.04

Speaking of which, I just discovered The Journey to Wild Divine, a completely biofeedback-controlled PC game created in cooperation with Deepak Chopra. It relies upon your ability to consciously provoke certain states in yourself in order to get the results needed to win assorted puzzles and whatnot. I've a big chubby to try this thing now. (I wonder if the chubby is a desired biofeedback for solving a certain puzzle.)

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