from Sri Srikrishna.
On the mesh networking wiki, they provide a link for a do it yourself guide to building a rural network.
This is where my interest really ties in. A mesh network could provide a wide array of educational data and of course provide communication relay. The possibilities exceed my current imagination.
Sri mentions the situation in Syria where communication was interupted by the government. Check out 19:33 on the video.
Smart phones and Ios really hold some of the keys but perhaps pressure will force them to "open" up. Allowing the communication to be consolidated to government and corporate manipulation is irresponsible.
An OLPC
with...
...the Hand Crank Charger...
...Some Solar Mesh Nodes...
And Viking music.
This "viking music" was randomly found and entertained me the other day. During my listen I found myself considering the viking-norse mythology and of course I had just finished reading
By Ragnar Redbeard...
...which has elements of Aryan superiority and other eugenically convenient concepts. This made me consider how Yule was a very disjointed cultural celebration for me and my family. It occured to me how odd that might appear to others. Seeing as how we aren't very Norse at all. Then...
Viking Raggae.
A fitting moment for the man considering cultural alienation.
I am currently reading an excerpt from Men Among the Ruins by Julius Evola. Strangely, I find the material very familiar to the concept of Memes as coined by Richard Dawkins. I am referring to Chapter Thirteen: Weapons of the Occult War. I find it strange because of a sort of validation that has occurred for me. Men Among the Ruins was first published in 1953 and the word Meme is later coined by Dawkins in 1972 in his work titled The Selfish Gene.
A philospher/esotericist and an atheist/evolutionary biologist describing similar phenomenon.
Another similar situation occurred with Aleister Crowley and Carl Jung. After reading The Eye in the Triangle by Israel Regardie. I felt immediately that this man's spiritual journey was indeed a fair portrait of attempted individuation. This was obvious to Regardie who later in his career became a psychoanalyst, and he in all due credit was the first to attempt to illustrate this in a biography of Crowley. However, it was Jung's Red Book that provided further insight into the occult symbolism and it's relationship with Jungian concepts.
Liber Novus
by C.G. Jung
The Red Book was held hostage until it was finally published in 2009. This book is essentially what an occultist might call a magical diary or record. I quote from the Wiki:
A magical record is a journal or other source of documentation containing magical events, experiences, ideas, and any other information that the magician may see fit to add. There can be many purposes for such a record, such as recording evidence to verify the effectiveness of specific procedures (per the scientific method that Aleister Crowley claimed should be applied to the practice of magick) or to ensure that data may propagate beyond the lifetime of the magician. Benefits of this process vary, but usually include future analysis and further education by the individual and/or associates with whom the magician feels comfortable in revealing such intrinsically private information.
Crowley was highly insistent upon the importance of this practice. As he writes in Liber E, "It is absolutely necessary that all experiments should be recorded in detail during, or immediately after, their performance (...) The more scientific the record is, the better. Yet the emotions should be noted, as being some of the conditions. Let then the record be written with sincerity and care; thus with practice it will be found more and more to approximate to the ideal."[18] Other items he suggests for inclusion include the physical and mental condition of the experimenter, the time and place, and environmental conditions, including the weather.
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With The Red Book we could finally have a glimpse of just how Jung interacted with his own psychic material.
Another Quote shows the likeness of the two men:
"The years… when I pursued the inner images, were the most important time of my life. Everything else is to be derived from this. It began at that time, and the later details hardly matter anymore. My entire life consisted in elaborating what had burst forth from the unconscious and flooded me like an enigmatic stream and threatened to break me. That was the stuff and material for more than only one life. Everything later was merely the outer classification, scientific elaboration, and the integration into life. But the numinous beginning, which contained everything, was then."
Crowley was favorable to ritual much like the modern work of Antero Alli:
Some of the Red Book really reminds me of Austin O Spare.
The validation I speak of is of a corresponding pattern in the inner workings of spiritual/mystic endeavors and analytical psychology. These coalescing worlds utilize the being as an apparatus. An instrument measuring an environment with the eyes shut.
