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I was really chuffed to see Amazon has made Liber Malorum the “perfect partner” to the Illuminatus Trilogy by Robert Anton Wilson and Robert Shea. Wow! The Illuminatus Trilogy is my all-time favourite book!

Snoopy Dance!

Someone at Amazon must have read Liber Malorum and really got into it. I just wish they’d got around to stocking it! Any day now…

My blog entry on James North’s excellent talk on English Hermeticism at Treadwell’s ‘the Spear of Destiny’ is now online here

http://network.kiamagic.com/kao/weblog/40.html

My co-author, Wes Unruh, and I were interviewed by Joseph Matheny about our book The Art of Memetics on Alterati’s Podcast G-Spot #30 The Art of Memetics.
We discuss how our book came to have a pirate edition and many other issues AROUND the book.

Direct download link for: The Art of Memetics Podcast
Purchase the Book: The [...]

The review and summary of Stephen Alexander’s series of talks at Treadwell’s is now complete.

See my KIA Blog for the text.

I may have presented this on KIA a few years ago, but our membership has changed somewhat since then. I think it would be interesting to compare where we all fit on the The Political Compass. The first step is to take the test.

Then you can either take a screen shot of your chart and upload it somewhere (such as in your ‘files’ section on the sub menu), and post it here in your reply, or if you can’t do that, just copy and paste the text part of your scores.

Let the fun begin!

I’ve noticed some discussions on irreality.net about sharing culture, which usually revolved around justifications for music piracy and stuff.  Now I’ve got nothing against music piracy.  Many a band I own on vinyl and cd, and have attended concerts of, I first listened to on pirate tapes made for me by friends.  Sometimes I didn’t [...]

I recently signed up to irreality.net at the suggestion of a comment left in my blog. It seems they are doing something similar, but not the same, as what we are doing here. They seem to have a stronger leaning towards chaos magic than we do. They a lot of sparkly features that we lack. And they also have a lot bigger membership. And a lot of sub communities or meta-realities as they call them, compared to our one.

And yet we also have features they lack, like our ever expanding wiki, the ability to embed YouTube video’s in our blogs and forum posts, the ability to write your profile information without the page refreshing, wiping out everything you were writing and breaking the back button of the browser for the sake of updating a ‘latest post’ line that should have been updated using AJAX. So I’m not saying let’s all abandon KIA and hang out of there, but it is a site some of you may find of interest if you aren’t already there.

One of the sparkly features is the ability to add ‘Path’ icons to your profile via a module. The icons are from a preselected set arranged in a few collections. One of the collections is for Orders. One of the Orders is KIA! w00t! Recognition.

Sorry if this is old news to some of you…

Just getting some ideas down that occurred to me over the weekend (before I forget them).
For some reason these thoughts relate to a sorcerer and a chaos magician I overheard having an argument about being comfortable so years ago. Basically the chaos magician said that their ultimate aim with magic was to be comfortable. The [...]

So the Tibetans force themselves into the limelight again (such humble Buddhists) while the Chinese totalitarians lie through their teeth.

So what are the facts of the matter?

1 China invaded Tibet, as it has continually throughout history.

2 Tibet exports Buddhism into China.

3 China is an oppressive totalitarian regime (despite giving up on State Communism they retain its worse features).

4 Tibet was a theocratic feudal regime (despite DLs appeasing democratic verbiage Tibet has never been free, democratic or egalitarian).

5 The Tibetan culture and people are oppressed by China.

6 The majority of Tibetans have a higher standard of living under Chinese rule.

7 Current Chinese culture is narrow minded, materialistic and oppressive.

8 Current Tibetan culture is backward, mystical and oppressive.

9 Chinese Communism (or what remains of it) was an elitist cult of plebian origin, appealing to the resentful worldwide.

10 Tibetan Buddhism (in most of its forms) is an elitist cult of aristocratic origin, appealing to the bourgeisie
 worldwide.  

11 The Chinese Communists were former supporters of Stalin.

12 The Tibetan Buddhists (or at least some) were former supporters of Hitler.

13 The Chinese have commited atrocities worldwide and suppressed rival cultures.

14 The Tibetan Buddhists massacred many Bon Po Religionists and suppressed their religion.

15 Some accounts of Tibetan injustice are Chinese propaganda, backed by the State Intelligence service and its agents in Pro-Chinese Leftist groups.

16 The Tibetan resistance also misrepresents China, and are backed by the CIA.

17 The Chinese have Geopolitical interests in Tibet.

18 The Americans have Geopolitical interests in Tibet.

19 The Tibetans have a right to self determination and freedom.

20 The Tibetans have a big Karmic debt for their past actions.

Personally I detect little reason for supporting either side, but support the freedom of every individual to act in an egalitarian society.