1 | The Scenic Route and the Numbers Station » |
The interior of the cab is done up in walnut paneling and leather with a raised paisley imprint. Thin threads of smoke drift from the silver incense cone mounted on the dash . . . |
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2 | Architect » |
The presence of "architect" is a modern archetypal association; in previous times, this role was given over to the blacksmiths, the industrial machinists, the alchemists, and the navigators . . . |
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3 | Cage » |
"Black Iron Prison" is the term you'll hear used by the modern Gnosis seeker. It's a reference to the Archonic Construction of the Universe, a theory that multi-dimensional intelligences are preventing us . . . |
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4 | Emergency » |
Entries taken from the Oneironaut's Survival Guide, a mimeographed chapbook purported to have been written in 1977 by Jerry McElholn . . . |
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5 | Fabric » |
I use the word when talking about the Oneiroi with my patients because it is an easier concept for them to wrap their heads around than some of the more historically referential terminology that we employ . . . |
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6 | The Fool » |
A white dog capers at his feet, equally unaware of the cliff edge. The youth, cloaked in ribbons and scarves, dances along the bleak edge, his face turned toward the burnblack sun . . . |
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7 | Fowl » |
Commonly, in dream dictionaries, the chicken is said to represent fertility (the whole "chicken and egg" argument notwithstanding). In Chinese dream interpretation, the chicken is symbolic of pride . . . |
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8 | Incense » |
Most dreams are like old serial movies. There may be auditory components— speech or the occasional sound effect—but mostly they are just grainy images. The dreamer is the only one in the theater, and the old projector clacks along at twenty-three frames a second, running through that single reel of film . . . |
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9 | Radio » |
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10 | Snow » |
Of all the seasons, I always loved winter the most as a kid . . . |
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11 | Tongue » |
I should talk about language, talk about how the Oneiroi subverts and informs language . . . |
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12 | Bleak Zero » |
FROM: psychonaut23@... SUB: RE: bleak zero . . . |
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13 | Graffiti » |
There will always be a way to symbolize the existence of free will: by scrawling on the walls of bathroom stalls, by tagging subway cars and the billboards, by scraping the paint off phone booths and bus stands, or by plastering telephone poles with handbills . . . |
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14 | Intent » |
Our cells hum with intent. Our DNA is informed by intent. It is not ours. No, it was there before we became conscious . . . |
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15 | Psychonaut » |
The psychonaut, as distinguished from the oneironaut, is a traveler who experiments on himself, rather than acting as a healer to others. The psychonaut seeks to map his own ego . . . |
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16 | Schizophrenia » |
The literature calls it a "splitting of the ego," a "division of sense," and a "psychosis of identity" . . . |
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17 | Spiritual Armor » |
"Why the hat, Harry? Are we role-playing?" . . . |
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18 | Radio » |
"Good evening, you are listening to Last Hour. We are counting down to Bleak Zero . . . |
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19 | Offering » |
The rooster shrieks at me, a surprisingly human sound, and tries to claw my hands as I hold it down . . . [art] |
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