Surpass imagination's greatest paragons

Imitation is man's nature and if he but wills it, so shall he surpass even imagination's greatest paragons.

 All-Star Superman by Grant Morrison

HitRecord on TV: The Number One

http://www.hitrecord.org/

In its image

Slow your roll there tumblr

Ok we're scrapping the treehouse idea

Boom!

Where can I witness this beauty?!

Christian hospitality

Two Chaos Magic Practices by Jonathan Zap

Unfortunately, "vibrations," like  "inner child" (a potent archetype and subpersonality), has, for many, taken on the cheesy, Celestine taint of New Age cliché. But looking at the world in terms of vibration is as valid as looking at it from the point of view of mathematical relationships, systems analysis, and energetic transaction. Physics tells us that there are no solid objects, that everything is vibratory. Einstein said that solid matter is just a special case of energy.
Everything we think is solid is actually patterned energy, the stuff that dreams are made of.  Even black holes don't sit still and can spin at 84% of the speed of light.

Everything seems to be vibratory, and obviously there are vibrations of varying frequencies.  I vibrate, therefore I am, says the cosmos.

 Read it all at Reality Sandwich

This!

If time is money, I'm the richest guy in the world.

Terence McKenna - The Challenge

Life + Significance = Magick

Grant Morrison - Talking with Gods


I was thinking if I had any heroes that are still alive and at first I couldn't come up with any, but then like a bolt of lightning flashed Grant Morrison into my consciousness. This documentary/interview is must see!

"To me it comes down to a very simple equation: Life + Significance = Magick."

Synrise by Goose & Jef Neve

Some more musical creativity and Belgian again.



Original Synth version



Piano version

Beardyman

The king of sound and ruler of beats


Talent Show


Elevator (no beard!)


1997 Time Travel Top 10 feat. Tony Blairdyman & Ginger Spicyman


Edinburgh Comedy Festival 2009 (with instruments)


Full set Reading Festival 2010 (no extra instruments)

Big plans

I (finally) have big plans (that I'll actually act on to realize)
what about you? :)

Namkhai Norbu - Dream Yoga and the Practice of Natural Light (teaser)

Dreams have also inspired important scientific advances. Perhaps the most celebrated of these is the discovery of the molecular structure of benzene by Kekule. His account: "My mind was elsewhere... I turned the chair to the fireplace, and fell half asleep. Again the atoms gamboled in front of my eyes. Smaller groups this time kept mostly in the background. My mind’s eye, trained by repeated visions of the same sort, now distinguished larger formations of various shapes. Long chains... everything in movement, twisting and turning like snakes. And look what was that? One snake grabbed its own tail, and mockingly the shape whirled before my eyes. I awoke as if struck by lightning; this time again I spent the rest of the night working out its consequences."

The Russian chemist Mendelev discovered the periodic table method of classifying elements according to atomic weight while dreaming. Elias Howe completed his invention of the sewing machine while dreaming. Albert Einstein’s theory of relativity came to him partly in a dream.

Other dream-inspired creations include literary masterpieces such as Dante’s Divine Comedy, Voltaire’s Candide, “The Raven” by Poe and Ulysses by James Joyce. Robert Louis Stevenson was able to formulate stories while dreaming, which he later wrote down and published. Even some popular music compositions by Billy Joel and Paul McCartney have come in dreams.

Such unusual dreams notwithstanding, our society as a whole has lost touch with the art of dreaming. Recently, however, a widespread interest in the creative power of dreams has surfaced, emerging from several divergent disciplines, including science, western depth psychology, the increasing awareness of native cultures, and religion.

from the preface by Michael Katz

'Namkhai Norbu - Dream Yoga and the Practice of Natural Light' is a 65 page book edited and introduced by Michael Katz.

Symphony of Science: Ode to the Brain!

Jill Bolte Taylor:

Information in the form of energy

Streams in simultaneously

Through all of our sensory systems

In the form of energy

And then it explodes into this enormous collage

Of what this present moment looks like

What it feels like

And what it sounds like

And then it explodes into this enormous collage

And in this moment we are perfect

We are whole and we are beautiful

Thanks EROCx1!

Zen Wallpapers from Michael Skaggs

Check these out! Thanks to Michael Skaggs at Hidden Agendas

Leif Johnnson audio 2: Burroughs & Stanhope

Prefuse 73 & William S. Burroughs: Cut Up technique


Doug Stanhope: Free Country

First post here

What Goes Around Comes Around

More here.

Collaborative Music/Spoken Word Project

play these together, some or all, start them at any time, in any order.

I love it! Click the link.

"Information will breathe in and out of us, permeate our skin... You see our work here is to learn so much, to be so full of knowing, that all there is left to do is unlearn. Humanity must get to a point where we let go, we leave the useless ideas and the spent idealogies in the recycling bin..."

Terence Mckenna on AI

Rudolf Steiner: True and False paths in Spiritual Investigation

...We see that a natural creative imagination is at work in dreams; external events are reflected in dreams. But we need not insist upon this. The dream can, so to speak, come to life and take on its own inner meaning and essential reality. We may dream of something that cannot be related to anything in the external world. When that point is reached in gradual stages, we say that a totally different world is portrayed in our dreams; we encounter quite other beings, demoniacal or beatiful and elf-like. It is not only the phenomenal world that appears in dream pictures, but a wholly different world invades us. Human beings can dream of the supersensible world in the form of images perceptible by the senses.
Thus the consciousness of man today has a dream life alongside his ordinary waking life. Indeed, a disposition to dreaming makes us poets. People who are unable to dream will always be inferior poets. For in order to be a poet or artist, one must be able to translate the natural stuff of dreams into the imaginative fantasy of waking life.
Anyone, for example, whose dreams draw their symbolism from external objects, as in the dream where sunshine pouring into a room symbolized a neighbour's house on fire, will feel next day an urge to compose. He is a potential musician. He who experiences the palpitation of the heart as an overheated stove will feel impelled next day to turn to modelling or architectural design. He is the potential architect, sculptor or painter.
There is a connection between these things, in ordinary consciousness they are associated in the way I have described. But we can go further. This ordinary consciousness can be developed by undertaking spiritual exercises. So that by concentrating on certain precise concepts and linguistic relationships, our whole inner life of thinking, feeling and willing is given added life and vigour. Though these exercises thoughts become virtually tangible realities and feelings living entities.
Then begins the first stage of modern initiation - we carry over our dreams into waking life.

Read on at Google books

Tell-Lie Vision

Tell-Lie Vision part 1

and the other parts here.

Six Word Stories: Sci-Fi

Six Word Stories: Sci-Fi

“We went solar; sun went nova.”
—Ken MacLeod

“Hello Son,” it said, tentacles waving.
—G. Sulea

“The Earth? We ate it yesterday.”
—Yann Martel

“From torched skyscrapers, men grew wings.”
—Gregory Maguire