Streams of Consciousness

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“Commonplace books (or commonplaces) were a way to compile knowledge, usually by writing information into books. They became significant in Early Modern Europe.

“Such books were essentially scrapbooks filled with items of every kind: medical recipes, quotes, letters, poems, tables of weights and measures, proverbs, prayers, legal formulas. Commonplaces were used by readers, writers, students, and scholars as an aid for remembering useful concepts or facts they had learned. Each commonplace book was unique to its creator’s particular interests.”

Below are assorted scraps, notes-to-self, mullings-overs, and things-comma-various. Sometimes, there might be a full article from somewhere. Mostly things that have caught my interest at some point or another. Some have been used as raw materials for other writings. If I’ve posted something that you own the copyright to, or excerpted a little too heavily for your comfort, shoot me an e-mail, and I’ll happily take down the offending piece.  This selection of links isn’t about infringing your copyright, merely about keeping things that have interested me all in one place.

• Abandoned To-Do List – 2001
• Reading Strassman’s DMT: The Spirit Molecule (Part 1) – 2001
• Reading Strassman’s DMT: The Spirit Molecule (Part 2) – 2001
• Reading Gaiman’s American Gods (Part 1) – 2001
• Reading Gaiman’s American Gods (Part 2) – 2001
• Reading DuQuette’s Chicken Qabalah (Part 1) – 2001
• Reading DuQuette’s Chicken Qabalah (Part 2) – 2001
• Psalm 69 – 2001
• Shibumi quote – 2001
• The Gospel of Mary – 2001
• Reading the Seth Material (Part 1) – 2001
• Yerba Mate – 2001
• Reading the Seth Material (Part 2) – 2001
• Speed of Light – 2001
• Overheard – 2001
• Visitations from the Dead – 2001
• Secrets – 2001
• Matter – 2001
• Left-Hand Path – 2001
• The Occult Genetic Code – 2001
• Crowley on Matter – 2001
• Reading Liber AL vel Legis (Part 1) – 2001
• Austin Osman Spare Quotes – 2001
• Information Download – 2001
• Reading Aczel’s Mystery of the Aleph (Part 1) – 2001
• Reading Aczel’s Mystery of the Aleph (Part 2) – 2001
• Reading LaVey’s Satanic Bible – 2001
• From The Ritual Romanum – 2001
• Reading the Seth Material (Part 3) – 2001
• Reading the Seth Material (Part 4) – 2001
• Reading P-Orridge’s Thee Grey Book – 2001
• Magecraft Recruitment – 2001
• Reading The Confessions of Aleister Crowley – 2001
• Simon Dwyer on “Power” – 2001
• Reading Gysin’s The Process – 2001
• Sex with Sun Ra – 2001
• “Dairyland” – 2001
• Reading DuQuette’s Magick of Thelema – 2002
• Reading Carroll’s PsyberMagick – 2002
• Feynman on Science and Sex – 2002
• Reading the Seth Material (Part 5) – 2002
• Reading the Seth Material (Part 6) – 2002
• In Defense of a Chaotic Approach – 2002
• Reading the Seth Material (Part 7) – 2002
• Reading the Seth Material (Part 8) – 2002
• Reading the Seth Material (Part 9) – 2002
• Cold War of Thelema – 2002
• Welll, shit… – 2002
• Universe Reborn Endlessly in New Model of the Cosmos – 2002
• Reading Watkins’ Conversations with Seth (Part 1) – 2002
• Midnight Fire – 2002
• Crossing Under, with John Edward – 2002
• Reading Liber LXV Liber Cordis Cincti Serpente – 2002
• Conjuring Up Philip – 2002
• Beginnings (Part 1) – 2002
• Reading Liber AL vel Legis (Part 2) – 2002
• Reading DuQuette’s My Life with the Spirits (Part 1) – 2002
• Reading DuQuette’s My Life with the Spirits (Part 2) – 2002
• Adventures on the Seth Lists – 2002
• Science Experiment Picks Up Telepathic ‘Signals’ – 2002
• Reading the Seth Material (Part 10) – 2002
• Dear Prospective Chaos Mage… – 2002
• Reading Stokoe’s Cows – 2002
• Ignorance vs. Intelligence – 2002
• Dear Chaos Mage… – 2002
• Varela – 2002
• A Farwell to Arms – 2002
• Reading The Invisibles – 2002
• Reading the Seth Material (Part 11) – 2002
• Levogyre – 2002
• Bad Movie Night – 2002
• Reading the Seth Material (Part 12) – 2003
• Grad School (Part 1) – 2003
• Lenny Bruce – 2003
• Magick/Liber Aba and Mysterium Coniunctionis – 2003
• Grad School (Part 2) – 2003
• Grad School (Part 3) – 2003
• Grad School (Part 4) – 2003
• Grad School (Part 5) – 2003
• Grad School (Part 6) – 2003
• Reading Wilber’s Spectrum of Consciousness – 2003
• Ganesha – 2003
• Grad School (Part 7) – 2003
• Reading Eddison’s The Worm Ouroboros (Part 1) – 2003
• Reading Eddison’s The Worm Ouroboros (Part 2) – 2003
• Grad School (Part 8) – 2003
• Grad School (Part 9) – 2003
• Grad School (Part 10) – 2003
• Zen and the Art of – 2003
• Reading Crowley’s Translation of The Tao Te Ching – 2003
• Holographic Reality and Bose-Einstein Condensate – 2003
• The Tao I’m Speaking of, is not the Real Tao, by Default – 2003
• Buck Rogers by Way of Gilgamesh – 2003
• Grad School (Part 11) – 2003
• International Necronautical Society – 2003
• The Messiah – 2003
• Adventures in Christianity – 2003
• Reading Crowley’s 777 – 2003
• Bananecdotes – 2003
• Grad School (Part 12) – 2003
• Grad School (Part 13) – 2003
• Grad School (Part 14) – 2003
• Grad School (Part 15) – 2003
• Grad School (Part 16) – 2003
• On Book Signings – 2003
• Reading Matt’s The Essential Kabbalah (Part 1) – 2003
• Physics Weirdness – 2003
• Reading Greene’s The Elegant Universe – 2003
• Reading Hyatt & DuQuette’s Sex Magic, Tantra & Tarot: The Way of the Secret Lover – 2003
• Reading Matt’s The Essential Kabbalah (Part 2) – 2003
• Saying “No” to Ken Wilber – 2003
• On The Esoteric – 2003
• Reading Sri Ramana Maharshi – 2003
• Grad School (Part 17) – 2003
• Reading Dement’s The Promise of Sleep – 2003
• Assorted Readings – 2003
• Reading Wolf’s The Dreaming Universe – 2003
• Reading Berendt’s The World is Sound: Nada Brahma – Music and the Landscape of Consciousness (Part 1) – 2003
• Reading Berendt’s The World is Sound: Nada Brahma – Music and the Landscape of Consciousness (Part 2) – 2003
• Reading Berendt’s The World is Sound: Nada Brahma – Music and the Landscape of Consciousness (Part 3) – 2004
• Reading Narby’s The Cosmic Serpent: DNA and the Origins of Knowledge – 2004
• Reading Sri Aurobindo – 2004
• Grant Morrison on Maya Deren – 2004
• Vedanta Anecdote via Ken Wilber – 2004
• Reading Levine’s Harmful to Minors – 2004
• Rumi on Separation – 2004
• Reading Wilson’s Shower of Stars: The Initiatic Dream in Sufism and Taoism – 2004
• (Re-)Reading Cerebus – 2004
• iFeminists – 2004
• Jeff Foxworthy on Ice Fishing – 2004
• Reading Corbin’s Swedenborg and Esoteric Islam – 2004
• Osama bin Laden – 2004
• Grad School (Part 18) – 2004
• Reading Ouspensky’s New Model of the Universe (Part 1) – 2004
• Reading Ouspensky’s New Model of the Universe (Part 2) – 2004
• Reading Ouspensky’s New Model of the Universe (Part 3) – 2004
• First Contact – 2004
• The Legend of the “Shamir” – 2004
• Spam – 2004
• Disagreements over Satan – 2004
• Nanotech Angels – 2004
• Sufism in Shakespeare – 2004
• Reading Swami Vivekananda – 2004
• The Kalama Sutra – 2004
• Reading Lanzetta’s The Other Side of Nothingness – 2004
• Mullah Nasruddin – 2005
• Grad School (Part 19) – 2005
• Problems with Panpsychism – 2005
• Reading Rumi – 2005
• Autistic Savant in the News – 2005
• Spam Narrative – 2005
• Spam Wisdom – 2005
• Reading Gustafson’s Dancing Between Two Worlds: Jung & the Native American Soul – 2005
• Grad School (Part 20) – 2005
• Grad School (Part 21) – 2005
• Brains Wide Shut – 2005
• Holistic Backlash – 2005
• The Stopping Problem – 2005
• An’ al-Haqq – 2005
• Stop Exploring the Hidden Powers of your Dreams – 2005
• Problems with Dream Studies – 2005
• Chaos Magick as Cultural Imperialism: Some Thoughts – 2005
• The Self-Defeating Politics of Setting Fire to Elephants – 2005
• Reading Braude’s Immortal Remains – 2005
• Partial Ingredients for DNA and Protein Found around Star – 2006
• Reading Lawlor’s Voices of the First Day – 2006
• Reading Bache’s Dark Night, Early Dawn – 2006
• Alchemical Chicken – 2006
• Grad School (Part 22) – 2006
• Notes on Sol Niger – 2006
• Grad School (Part 23) – 2006
• Various Nudities – 2007
• Reading Ellis’s The World of Dreams – 2007
• Interview – 2007
• Konstantin Melnikov – 2007
• The Hostile New Age Takeover of Yoga – 2007
• Rhymes with “Sewage” – 2007
• Reading Achebe’s Things Fall Apart – 2007
• Reading Shah’s Tales of the Dervishes – 2007
• Still Rhymes with “Sewage” (and smells like it too) – 2007
• Batwings – 2007
• Phoning Home – 2007
• Reading Swanton’s Some Anthropological Misconceptions – 2007
• Spam Poem – 2007
• G.K. Chesterton on Dreams of the Dead – 2007
• Destroying the Village in Order to Save It – 2007
• Notes on Kaczynski’s Critiques of The Left – 2013
• The Failure of the Human Potential Movement (Geoffrey Hill) – 2014
• The Goodguy Badge (Anton Szandor LaVey) – 2015
• Cavalorn’s analysis of Easter/Eostre/Ostara – 2016

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