greetings mobius! it's been a while since metaprogramming, but i've been thinking about and experiencing synchronicity more and more.... lastest example: i've been working through philip k. dick's collection, and just finished 'do androids dream...' last night as well as been browsing the site Brainsturbator during all the time i've NOT been in law school  : )  ...  when i decided to randomly log-in to the ol' wiki and lo and behold! links to http://electricsheep.org/!  just returned from post-grad eurotrippin- nothing like the combination of psychadelics and travel to change your perspective on things! been tapping into the noosphere to learn more about fractals and ways to fight facism daily ever since.

 

hope all is well,

lana

 

p.s.-  this made me think of the psyops manual and the attention-sink.

 

 

Shucks......sigh*, that is all I can say.

 

stillness even in gratitude,

DING!

 

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Mobius, have ye read "The Watchmen"?

- Ceridwen

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Ceridwen!

 

Been waiting on the Angels of Avalon, waiting for the Eastern Glow! And you are!

 

And here it is! Yes, mobius has come across nThe Watchmen but not properly sufficiently reverently ecstatically grokked in intertwingularity, so thankee ever so much! Mobius linkee in his collective noospheric dream word salad on his wiki 4 August 2008. Should there be a local wiki gathering of like minded fleshbots witnessing the miracle? I met with the Silver Circle and they are both silver and circular and link us to the Silver Cord connecting us, all2gether now...

 

 

you've probably run across this, if not: http://electricsheep.org/

yes, i used to run it night and day on my office machine. now I just google it!

 

here's a nice image frm it:

 

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Hoping Mobius had a great vaycay. Would love to have a darshan soon via Skype. I will be on vacation all next week, but back July 14th.

 

Peace and love,

Ding!

 

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Mobius,

working on my dissertation proposal (tentatively titled "Meditating Scientists: Experience, Symbol, and Politics in the Transformation of the Sciences of Mind")

 

and if you have any time at all, I'd really benefit from a consultation. I had a pretty big breakthrough last night and it seems that technology is going to be an important theme for me--have you read this guy Don Ihde and his technoscientific postphenomenology? If you have a moment--here's a very short statement about my research question, method & interests. Meditating Scientists.doc

(BTW this is Amanda de la 'Burgh aka Mme Pompadour)

 

 

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Yo Mobius,

 

Greetings from Roma. I still haven't been able to see that Bernini statue that you were talking about - the one with the gold spires shooting down. The museums around here are open at the wierdest hours. Just read that thing on turn on, tune in, drop out. Va Biene. Last weekend I went to Florenece and Sienna and saw Michealangelo's David. And in the next coming weeks, after a project on the Tiber River, I will be heading to Santorini, Greece for some Rand R. How is the sabbatical?

 

-GoNZo

 

'Zo!

 

Thanks for sending wyrd of your doings and undoings. Sabbatical allows me to concentrate my attention in even greater freedom. I have had some minor health issues that have "slowed me down", but they also keep me focused on the mitigation of unnecessary suffering so evident everywhere on this planet. Re: Bernini: Yes, funny how these things are kept from our sight....The Empire Never Ended, and Neither Did We!

 

Thinking of yins daily,

 

mobius

 

Mobius,

 

Do you have time to get together this week sometime before Thursday? I have to give a talk on LSD and I would like to pick your brain. And you'd be proud, I was able to convince a few Luddites that technology is nothing to be feared, that shoes and houses and chairs and books were also technology. How far I've come!

 

Echan

 

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Rich Mon, I'll be in da valley 2night! Bringing:

tape

tapes

scissors

Wyrd 'em up!

ShareRiff CommonsPreacha

 

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ey Mobius,

 

Hope you had a nice winter break and are enjoying the sabbatical. Wanted to see when you would be around for discussions, readings, ...

 

Realityor

 

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Got some mobius synchronicity for you to add to your collection of mobius synchronicity stories! Today I was re-watching the youtube video I linked to on the wiki way back on 9/17 when I noticed that the person who posted the video on youtube was named mobius32. I didn't even realize it at the time. Also, I have my ENGL 15 students wiki'ing this semester, so I will keep you posted on how it goes (so far so good).

 

-thepanamaslider

 

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Mobius,

suggestions added. Letter will be overnighted snail-mail style on Saturday after final readover/edits.

 

-CM

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Ok I decided to start at the top. Thanks so much for turning me onto the wiki. Showed it to my class today and infected a colleague as well. This is going to be fabulous....I'm sorry we didn't get to meet up during the break....love, Mme. Pompadour de Pittsburgh (I now have really big hair like Morrissey in the 80s)

 

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Heading out to Rome tomorrow. Miss ya Mobius. - GoNZo

 

"ZO!

 

Been thinking of you as I read Cosmic Trigger Volume 2: Everytime I read the phrase "Gonzo Ontology", I think of landscape architecture, the police state, and power lifting instead of Hunter S. Thompson.[ You've tagged the noosphere with the force of your being! Continue to welcome and honor all these learning experiences, and the mutation shall continue. Safe Journey!

 

Thus Spake mobius

 

P.S Do visit an Internet Cafe and drop some sketches on us, please. I formally request one of The Ecstasy of St. Theresa by Gianlorenzo Bernini (1652). Left transept of Santa Maria della Vittoria (17th century) in Rome. post it here, and we can stand bidding!

 

 

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do we here admit ourselves at top or bottom? so, here is my question, sage of the rotunda, echoing detroitwide:

 

I have a bunch of perplexities lately surrounding what I guess one might call category distinctions within the field of writing instruction. Let's for the moment define writing instruction as: teaching students to string together symbol sets/images/sounds in order to communicate. Let's for the moment define communication as: conveying "essential" information to another being. Let's define "essential" as: that which is necessary to preserve another being's life (at one pole) and, at the other, that which is necessary to support another being's happiness. Weirdly, the two may be the same, at a most basic level (hunger). Is the baby's cry open source?

 

How do we define definition? Do we defer to others? Or write our own? In the American Heritage Dictionary one of my published sentences is, bizarrely, quoted under the verb "to profess." Isn't it the case that [[language is the ultimate "open source"]]--particularly languages that do not have official governing bodies ( e.g., l'Académie Française)?

 

The gesture of the dancer is the dance. The gestures we now perform in order to write--consulting memory of the neurobiological sort, memory of the digital sort, and engaging whatever peculiar haptic knowledge we have, stored in gut or inner ear or ???--how should we go about teaching them?

 

well, yr. friend gig.

 

you know, the thing about wiki is it is all toward the one. i dunno. how do we be, but connect? i have had the most hard time connecting lately, but today vowed only to demand of myself that i breathe--and, weirdly, it is easier, as a result, to not be so guilty/fraught/problematized about connecting.

 

laterz,

gig

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hello, Mobius. Would it be ok if I posted my final a little later this week, either wednesday or thursday? Though I have been thinking about it a lot, it has been difficult to actually sit down and type it up. With all of my finals crammed into a few days, I wouldn't be able to put my full effort into it if it were due tomorrow. Anyway, please let me know if it would be acceptable. Thanks. -Proteus

 

Proteus: Thursday is fine. Take your exams, then get writing! This problem is what pushed me toward continual writing, a process for writing everyday ( e.g. wiki). Then, when it comes time to put together a project, you can compose what you have already written and imaged into a more polished and coherent form. This tends to make your daily writing more modular, shareable, & remixable as well. SO: look first to thine own wiki! `mobius

 

 

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Hola Mobiused. I was wondering three things... 1) did you get a chance to experience the pink or orange CD yet? 2) how goes the novel and when can it be read by Ceridwen? 3) the Naked Lunch project fascinates me...when is it going to be in Websters?

(1) Not yet!; (2)novel to be revised in o8, to be shared in 08. (3) NL volume will be out summer 09, with Paris event to announce etc - mobius

- Ceridwen

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Hi Mobius. Thursday you said you'd respond to my final project proposal. I know you've got a lot on your plate so it may have been buried behind a thousand other tasks, so I thought I'd remind you briefly. Thanks! -Unfinished

 

I'll check it out - mobius

 

Unfinished

as long as your remix has a dub refrain that makes clear its Rastafarian allegiances in honor of "versionists" and the orgins of DJ culture in Jamaica, then yes aye! I love the project, which have pasted into a box below. Please keep us posted with lists of texts to remixed etc. ANd please do explain why you choose the texts that you do, and why and how you remix them the way you do.

 

I am around all break if you want to play music. I have a synth, amp, electric guitar, a Djembe, flute, and of course a computer :) My delay pedal is, er, delayed: I lent it to a student last year....mobius

 

 

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Mobius,

 

I did see your post about my final project, and I actually have a copy of Swann's Way that I started to read, plus Bergson's Matter and Memory. I may actually read the latter first. As for floating, I would have to talk to you about it when I come back. I'd like to, but I have a few concerns. -Proteus

 

 

 

 

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Mobius,

 

Tomorrow's bad for me, I don't know what I was thinking when I told you I could come to office hours in the morning. That's when I get all of my work done for class. Totally not happening. What about Friday? I'm free after 11, we could go get coffee or lunch or something. Oh, and I'm reading Diary of a Drug Fiend but I started it before I realized it was on your "texts mentioned in class" page.

 

Yours in syncronicity,

 

e-chan

e-chan:

 

Friday@ 11 works, I have an 11:45 mission downtown. Cheese shop 11:00 am?

 

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Mobius,

 

What was the website you told me to look up today in class? I wrote down zapcan or zapcar, but I must have been mistaken.

It was [http://www.zapworld.com/electric-vehicles/electric-cars/xebra-sedanZapworld] - I was mistaken! That tricky Zebra

 

AZ

 

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Ah Mobius, how I miss thee.

VALIS is on my lap and I am awaiting Tuesday. I had an idea about the day I'm speaking about Crowley - do you think I can focus entirely on the first three pages, comparing them to other "genesis" writings, rather than deal with the whole text? I feel like it's too dense to do the entire book any justice, but an examination of the first few pages would be interesting for the whole class.

-Ceridwen

 

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Mobius:

 

A frightening notion was conjured during therapy session today. Could prescribed doses of mental fog, growingly perfected by pharmaceutical companies, inhibit one's ability to have sufficient emotional holdings in order to truly have empathy for a cause? What kind of amnesia would one suffer upon a titration of the prescribed mental fog? Concerns for one's ability to detach further, given eventual rise in emotional holdings, are extremely crucial to the decision of whether or not to move forward with a heavily monitored withdrawal. Is this moving backwards in the art of Zen; detachment?

 

-AZ

 

AZ-

 

Not in my experience. In my own case, depression blocked the very existence of all other emotional modalities, and it was only after I decided to be healthy that I learned about all these other emotional states besides anger, depression and ecstasy. Anti-Depressants seem to have helped me feel other states besides these, and with therapy I evolved a way of feeling them and talking about them without getting too freaked out. At first I couldn't believe how weird a mixed emotion like tragic/comic felt under my old way of feeling, but I have learned to love the mixtures and not insist on feeling any particular way. And I have left meds far behind. Then, with Diamond Mind as my practice I see just a little bit more of reality and experience life in its strange fullness only by seeing, with Avalokiteshvara, the emptiness ( aka impermanence) of all things. You should consult your prescribing physician about how to avoid Serotonin Withdrawl Syndrome, and take it gently!- mobius

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I want to float but I'm ignorant as to how to get into a time slot. Help! Also, I read this and thought of you. -Ceridwen

Ceridwen:

email chronictronic@gmail.com for floatation navigation! - mobius

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the "transitions to mobius" page seems to be all me.

I'm paying attention from afar, though I realize how incredibly inadequate that is. The trouble comes from this thing I can't get away from...

Tuesday, though, I'll be sufficiently awake, aware, and awe-ful in class to make up for some of the neglect I've been heaping upon the sacred. -Ceridwen

 

Ceridwen! Some Doggerl for you:

 

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Yo, mobius! if you get the chance, check out the snippet of Ginsberg's Wichita Vortex Sutra on my poetry page. I love what he's saying here about language, and the uses of language. I trust that you've read this poem because it totally sounds like everything we've been talking about this semester and last with White Magic language to counteract the Black Magic. Have you read this?! Yours in syncronicity-Echan

 

 

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Oh yes Echan, though I had not read it for years, (maybe ever},

yes Ginsberg's icaro drops White Magic Science. I have used it to brew some language medicine for Ceridwen, which means that I listened to the sound of Icaros influencing Ginsberg and vice versa, as well as the rhythms I brought back from Peru myself, did some blending toward some mending. Perhaps we should add the Vortex to the syllabus? - mobius

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Herr Doktor, I saw this and thought "Mobius would understand".

- Ceridwen

 

 

 

 

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