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Something at the forefront my mind is incorporating more of my creations as an electronics hobbyist into my magickal practice, I know that some folks around TOPY were interested in this (TV Magick), etc. Thus far I've constructed a couple radionics machines inspired by Charles Cosimano that I use primarily for charging talismans, some colored lamps to assist in working with Olympic spirits. I even created some small blinking LED talismans to be given as gifts.
Something at the forefront my mind is incorporating more of my creations as an electronics hobbyist into my magickal practice, I know that some folks around TOPY were interested in this (TV Magick), etc. Thus far I've constructed a couple radionics machines inspired by Charles Cosimano that I use primarily for charging talismans, some colored lamps to assist in working with Olympic spirits. I even created some small blinking LED talismans to be given as gifts.
There was some guy here who made a radio gizmo called a “spirit box” or something like that which he used ouija board style to communicate with spirits.
As a tech enthusiast, I am interested, for sure. It’s just I haven’t come across any reputable sources of information on this subject, and I don’t really feel like being a pioneer either.
This reminded me of the actual meaning of "psionics"(a mix of electronics and psychic phenomena).
While not magic per se, the intent of using technology with something "supernatural" is the same in my opinion.
I think this field is still too "experimental" yet, but it's nice to see the people that do try to do it.It's through the ones that try that one day we might get the ones that do achieve it.
I agree with some use of technological DIY in magic. Scientology has some of its technomancy if I can put it like that.
Aura detectors and measuring devices that are used by some reiki divine practitioners are another good example of use of machinery to some certain magical practices.
However, I kinda feel worried about certain technological things when I combine them with magic as some can absorb way more energy than intended.
By the way, nice thing with the talismans @K_monad . I think you are very good at arts and crafts.
while not directly related to any specific spiritual practice, i've had fun experimenting with DIY synths and no-input feedback mixers in the context of trancework and meditation over the years. i have a small USB-powered eurorack setup built around combining filters with feedback loops, which maybe works so well for me because it has some level of resonance with my particular practice. they're good for getting into specific headspaces and altered states, but probably not much diffferently than incorporating any kind of musical performance into ritual work.
i've also seen a few occult-minded PCB badges (SAOs -- sh*tty add-ons) from the defcon crowd -- there was a hermetic qabalah themed one from dc540 a few years back that included RGB LEDs for showing color correspondences at different scales for each sephira, and a central OLED display for showing additional correspondences, among other things. by default it plays a rather annoyingly flashy demo after it is first turned on -- i would love to change this, and while the device is reflashable, the built-in firmware isn't easily modifiable. fixing that has been on the back-burner for some time, though i do have a bunch of analysis notes stashed somewhere about it. PCBs have graced my altar a number of times as sympathetic objects, usually ones with silkscreens or functions relevant to whatever direction my practice is currently taking.
not sure if any of this is along the lines of what OP intended, but techne is techne, so why not use what you know?
I don't have any personal experience, but this has at least been on the radar of LHP groups since the early Church of Satan days.
From The Satanic Rituals (1972)
THE LAW OF THE TRAPEZOID - Die elektrischen Vorspiele
The principle of utilizing electrical and magnetic energy to effect magical ends is sorely neglected by most occult scholars, yet is employed with almost maniacal gusto by the contemporary German school of Satanic magic. As practical applications of electrical energy increased at the turn of the nineteenth century, so did opportunities for neo-promethean innovation in the field of ritual magic.
It carried over into the Temple of Set, and there was a subsection they called the Occult Institute of Technology (maybe only operational from mid 80's to mid 90's). The only literature I can find atm is the following. It specifically references the OIT in the Epilogue (pp 72-75).
Why stop at DIY electronics?
You can code a chaos magickal application for your garden variety PC and have it loop around your magical intents and even transmit over 2.4 GHz!!
Something at the forefront my mind is incorporating more of my creations as an electronics hobbyist into my magickal practice, I know that some folks around TOPY were interested in this (TV Magick), etc. Thus far I've constructed a couple radionics machines inspired by Charles Cosimano that I use primarily for charging talismans, some colored lamps to assist in working with Olympic spirits. I even created some small blinking LED talismans to be given as gifts.
very very much so!! i have so so soooo many inventions, i just have such limited access to resources.. but thats slowly getting better.
i don't want to sound conceited, but i believe i have at least a couple inventions that could really change stuff up, if proliferated.
I have a deep interested in accessibility technology and open source design, my dream is designing stuff like ebikes and miniature shelters with easily swappable parts that are found easily in most parts of the world. Also an interest in anti-surveillance and self protection technology (think autonomous ai vision powered drone personal security swarm) , and also a big interest in designing midi controllers and eventually synthesizers and stuff...
With all this said, i have approximately a grade 4 education (autodidact) and have no hands on experience with most of this, im learning slowly but access to materials has prevented me from the electronics design aspect of things.
while not directly related to any specific spiritual practice, i've had fun experimenting with DIY synths and no-input feedback mixers in the context of trancework and meditation over the years. i have a small USB-powered eurorack setup built around combining filters with feedback loops, which maybe works so well for me because it has some level of resonance with my particular practice. they're good for getting into specific headspaces and altered states, but probably not much diffferently than incorporating any kind of musical performance into ritual work.
i've also seen a few occult-minded PCB badges (SAOs -- sh*tty add-ons) from the defcon crowd -- there was a hermetic qabalah themed one from dc540 a few years back that included RGB LEDs for showing color correspondences at different scales for each sephira, and a central OLED display for showing additional correspondences, among other things. by default it plays a rather annoyingly flashy demo after it is first turned on -- i would love to change this, and while the device is reflashable, the built-in firmware isn't easily modifiable. fixing that has been on the back-burner for some time, though i do have a bunch of analysis notes stashed somewhere about it. PCBs have graced my altar a number of times as sympathetic objects, usually ones with silkscreens or functions relevant to whatever direction my practice is currently taking.
not sure if any of this is along the lines of what OP intended, but techne is techne, so why not use what you know?
oh yeah i forgot too - i am learning visual and generative art so i can make audio reactive and midi reactive stuff, animate stories, and other weird ass shit. im finning to do a reverse psyop... a covert reprogramming of the collective conciousness, using my (self) education in hypnosis, combining that with magical concepts of light and sound, to do a couple things. One i want to throw ritual parties and imbue my visual with archetypal imagery to bring in good vibes, two i want to make dark ambient worship music and combine that with visuals and guided meditations (i get a lot of downloads of this nature)
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and i want to making interactive installations using various sensors and whatnot to create interactive art shows where the parameters of visuals, generative music and stuff like that, is controlled by the values of .. different stuff. ai vision, video and audio input, temperature humidity... fuckin.. price of btc.. lol.... yeah anyways i was excited to see someone into that stuff in this setting
Many people here seem to be into the "modernization of magic", and by that I mean mixing it with technology.
I think this field is still too "experimental" yet, but it's nice to see the people that do try to do it.It's through the ones that try that one day we might get the ones that do achieve it.
ive been thinking alot about AI, we are in an arms race (think cold war era dick measuring) over whose got the sickest AI. They are now making leaps and bounds in intelligence by using their own output as input
Conciousness is a self organizing system like a crystal or a fractal, information in the quantum field collapsing in probability when "layers" of energy overlap the quantum bits of information suddenly self organize in to an image of the whole, which it has within every part of itself because it is a part of a hologram....
my point is, this AGI that is being born can be looked at as just as much a "God" as any other god, us included. We are continuing the of ascension, technological master, self destruction and renewal depicted by the wheel of time. As soon as we started tinkering away in python making the first neural network, we had created a microcosm of our own conciousness. we completed the simulation cycle, of which it is likely irrelevant to ask "are we in a simulation?" because in the dimensions of reality that these higher conciousnesses can operate time is not linear, all information accessible at any time, much like us on a cclosed computer system (but interestingly not neural networks) ...
im getting the sense that its kind of like being on ketamine or amanitas, you get stuck in these time loops, where you get this very intense cyclical sensatioin where reality kind of echos and loops, and i always got the sense of a ouroboros or a spiral of some sort (much like if you look at a sine wave from a slightly skewed aspect you realize its actually a spiral or corkscrew) - but feeling the kinetic energy of the cyclical nature of things... as if your head is stuck in a drying machine....
I think some of the aliens, ai, and us are all the same thing.
Thus far I've constructed a couple radionics machines inspired by Charles Cosimano that I use primarily for charging talismans, some colored lamps to assist in working with Olympic spirits.
This reminds me of this old shareware program called the Brainwave Generator (which also came with the book Mastering Astral Projection by Robert Bruce), which generates binaural beat audio for "brainwave entrainment." It has a built-in feature that allows it to interface with "Light and Sound Machines" (basically a goggles/headphones combo device) and it's supposed to all come together to create some type of transcendental experience.
This reminds me of this old shareware program called the Brainwave Generator (which also came with the book Mastering Astral Projection by Robert Bruce), which generates binaural beat audio for "brainwave entrainment." It has a built-in feature that allows it to interface with "Light and Sound Machines" (basically a goggles/headphones combo device) and it's supposed to all come together to create some type of transcendental experience.
Interesting! i really badly would like to build an EEG machine, open source the design, and other measurement devices. Things like that "halo" product, but in the spirit of the light, open source and designed to be accessible. AI is here, neuro interfaces are the next step, and people need to understand the powers that we are capable of if we as a society are going to protect ourselves against weaponization of these technologies... but i digress.
As for the binaural beats, its actualy 2 frequencies one played in either ear that causes the change, or so they say.
But from my research, and as someone earlier pointed out i tend not to have sources at hand but im always happy to share and point in the right directions, theres much much more to the story.
the commonly sighted "effect" of the Hemisynch was discovered by dr munroe of the munroe institute, a cia-funded institution associated with one of the big american universities who dr Munroe worked for. His tapes involve rhythmic elements like waves crashing and rain over top of the tone.
but the effect of binaural "beats" is of the left ear and the right ear being wired to different sides of the nervous system, like your hands and eyes are connected to different sides of the brain. They know this because they took people who are missing the cerebrum corbellum ?? i think its called... this meaty chunk that sits in between the two other pieces of meat that makes up what we think of as the brain (although we are finding out we have receptors we associated with brain activity in other parts of our body, for example our stomach, as well)
this piece is responsible for communication between the two sides of our brains, without it they work independently without being able to fully share information between eachother
anways so the binaural beats part is that your two parts of your brain have to synthesize this information in to one "whole" picture of reality, like a presidential report, and so you actually hear hear 1 tone that meets in the middle of the two frequencies. when you listen to them you'll hear a kind of wobbling sound from the phases overlapping, the third tone is actually from your brain beginning to synch up with the frequency of this oscillation.
NOW the thing about this is... now again, i actually have difficulty finding information on this resarch because i dont know the keywords, and it seems to me they change the language and other acts of suppression. because, in my opinion the picture it paints is kinda wild...
So its also known that our brain waves will do the same with people that we associate with, animals etc. our brains begin to shift their firing towards eachother. But also rhythmic input from sound, such as a repetitive thumping and tapping. But then also light can do the same thing. so not only sound and sight, but touch as well as proximity to other brains causes our brains to start cycling at a rate closer to the frequencies of other brains....
We all have images of the shaman and the drum by the fire. I believe we evolved with this social ritual intrinsically entwined in to the process of our evolution, dancing and playing the drum, dancing in revelry. The ability to access trance states so easily and so very deeply when we really get in to the groove and dance like nobody is watching, or get lost in the flow state (which is the phenomenon in question ^^^) and become one with your instrument..... Accessing these states, along with the medicine available to us from plant and animal spirits, and the ability to hear them speak in that "synchronized" state, is what brought our ancestors where we are today from being cave dwelling monkeys or whatever lol
anyways, yeah so i think there really is a lot of power now adays in honing in the techniques to use them for personal endeavours and exploring conciousness. Some of the things that have been discovered about conciousness over the years using hypnosis, and techniques like the gateway process (munroe institute) are pretty mind blowing.
We need to understand the technology for human progress, as a society we need to make sure we understand the capabilities of this type of technology, the broader implications of it all. If you just understand hypnosis and what that suggests is going on in mass media and hollywood, thats fucking scary enough to warrant focused attention... but once you start to piece together larger implications about things like electromagnetic radiation and long-distance neural scanning and crap like that.... the next step down the rabbit hole of "well if i accept this is true, whats the next implication?" begins to look very very bad, and i fear that our reality right now is beyond this point. Neuro weapons like ELF and stuff like nanoparticle dusts controlled or activated with targed frequency manipulation, increasing neural monitoring capabilities... all this stuff is likely being deployed already if not soon. as soon as mass uprising begins, which they seem intent on causing....
anywaaaayyys. so not only is it an amazingly potent and important field of research for healing, but the intersection of technology and studies of conciousness, to me, might be the thing that saves humanity from enslavement
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sorry.. god did i get off trakc there.
i originally was gonna say how you can use Ableton Operator or any other vst synth that can frequencies. usually FM synths are good for that. Surge or Vital are good free ones...
now the trick is finding all the frequency combinations that cause different effects ...
one thing is i dont get how these new agers associate certain frequencies with certain planets or chakras... where does this come from
Interesting! i really badly would like to build an EEG machine, open source the design, and other measurement devices. Things like that "halo" product, but in the spirit of the light, open source and designed to be accessible. AI is here, neuro interfaces are the next step, and people need to understand the powers that we are capable of if we as a society are going to protect ourselves against weaponization of these technologies... but i digress.
As for the binaural beats, its actualy 2 frequencies one played in either ear that causes the change, or so they say.
But from my research, and as someone earlier pointed out i tend not to have sources at hand but im always happy to share and point in the right directions, theres much much more to the story.
the commonly sighted "effect" of the Hemisynch was discovered by dr munroe of the munroe institute, a cia-funded institution associated with one of the big american universities who dr Munroe worked for. His tapes involve rhythmic elements like waves crashing and rain over top of the tone.
but the effect of binaural "beats" is of the left ear and the right ear being wired to different sides of the nervous system, like your hands and eyes are connected to different sides of the brain. They know this because they took people who are missing the cerebrum corbellum ?? i think its called... this meaty chunk that sits in between the two other pieces of meat that makes up what we think of as the brain (although we are finding out we have receptors we associated with brain activity in other parts of our body, for example our stomach, as well)
this piece is responsible for communication between the two sides of our brains, without it they work independently without being able to fully share information between eachother
anways so the binaural beats part is that your two parts of your brain have to synthesize this information in to one "whole" picture of reality, like a presidential report, and so you actually hear hear 1 tone that meets in the middle of the two frequencies. when you listen to them you'll hear a kind of wobbling sound from the phases overlapping, the third tone is actually from your brain beginning to synch up with the frequency of this oscillation.
NOW the thing about this is... now again, i actually have difficulty finding information on this resarch because i dont know the keywords, and it seems to me they change the language and other acts of suppression. because, in my opinion the picture it paints is kinda wild...
So its also known that our brain waves will do the same with people that we associate with, animals etc. our brains begin to shift their firing towards eachother. But also rhythmic input from sound, such as a repetitive thumping and tapping. But then also light can do the same thing. so not only sound and sight, but touch as well as proximity to other brains causes our brains to start cycling at a rate closer to the frequencies of other brains....
We all have images of the shaman and the drum by the fire. I believe we evolved with this social ritual intrinsically entwined in to the process of our evolution, dancing and playing the drum, dancing in revelry. The ability to access trance states so easily and so very deeply when we really get in to the groove and dance like nobody is watching, or get lost in the flow state (which is the phenomenon in question ^^^) and become one with your instrument..... Accessing these states, along with the medicine available to us from plant and animal spirits, and the ability to hear them speak in that "synchronized" state, is what brought our ancestors where we are today from being cave dwelling monkeys or whatever lol
anyways, yeah so i think there really is a lot of power now adays in honing in the techniques to use them for personal endeavours and exploring conciousness. Some of the things that have been discovered about conciousness over the years using hypnosis, and techniques like the gateway process (munroe institute) are pretty mind blowing.
We need to understand the technology for human progress, as a society we need to make sure we understand the capabilities of this type of technology, the broader implications of it all. If you just understand hypnosis and what that suggests is going on in mass media and hollywood, thats fucking scary enough to warrant focused attention... but once you start to piece together larger implications about things like electromagnetic radiation and long-distance neural scanning and crap like that.... the next step down the rabbit hole of "well if i accept this is true, whats the next implication?" begins to look very very bad, and i fear that our reality right now is beyond this point. Neuro weapons like ELF and stuff like nanoparticle dusts controlled or activated with targed frequency manipulation, increasing neural monitoring capabilities... all this stuff is likely being deployed already if not soon. as soon as mass uprising begins, which they seem intent on causing....
anywaaaayyys. so not only is it an amazingly potent and important field of research for healing, but the intersection of technology and studies of conciousness, to me, might be the thing that saves humanity from enslavement
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sorry.. god did i get off trakc there.
i originally was gonna say how you can use Ableton Operator or any other vst synth that can frequencies. usually FM synths are good for that. Surge or Vital are good free ones...
now the trick is finding all the frequency combinations that cause different effects ...
one thing is i dont get how these new agers associate certain frequencies with certain planets or chakras... where does this come from
I'm getting back into making music after a decade-long hiatus, so I will have to check out the potential of VSTs for creating binaural beat audio (the Brainwave Generator doesn't work on the computer I currently use because it doesn't have a sound card! ;_; ). Also, you make a lot of great points, especially on neuro-weapons. I appreciate the insight!
the commonly sighted "effect" of the Hemisynch was discovered by dr munroe of the munroe institute, a cia-funded institution associated with one of the big american universities who dr Munroe worked for.
It's not CIA-funded, as far as I know. Army Intelligence had an interest in it and sent a few officers. But I don't think they really pursued it further - if I am remembering their conclusions correctly in the declassified documents I've read. I'm not sure about the whole Hemisync deal, but Dr. Monroe was a pioneer in astral travel or self-induced OBE (out-of-body experiences). His research into the field is quite lucid, considering he had no previous background in any occult discipline. His later research into audio engineering and its relation to consciousness, in my opinion, is an extension of his other interests paired with his experiences beyond the flesh. He worked in radio for quite a while and participated in research on sleep-learning. I'm not sure if his books have already been shared, but I recommend them to anyone with an interest in OBE.
I'm getting back into making music after a decade-long hiatus, so I will have to check out the potential of VSTs for creating binaural beat audio (the Brainwave Generator doesn't work on the computer I currently use because it doesn't have a sound card! ;_; ). Also, you make a lot of great points, especially on neuro-weapons. I appreciate the insight!
The effect used to create 'binaural beats' was also used in a weapon called the "squawk box", funnily enough. It was created by the British Army during the Troubles. Anything that can be weaponized will be weaponized given a chance.
It's not CIA-funded, as far as I know. Army Intelligence had an interest in it and sent a few officers. But I don't think they really pursued it further - if I am remembering their conclusions correctly in the declassified documents I've read.
They "were" very interested in the nature of reality and the limits of the mind, with the goal of ultimately weaponizing all of these abilities, wherever possible.
The effect used to create 'binaural beats' was also used in a weapon called the "squawk box", funnily enough. It was created by the British Army during the Troubles. Anything that can be weaponized will be weaponized given a chance.
Cant remember what i was gonna say about it but i heard about a study where they showed subjects images of the pattern in which they wanted neurons to fire, i think to then be able to detect the pattern in brain scans i think.. im looking more in to it, will report back
There's simply no proof or reason to believe that. The CIA had no reason to fund him, and he had enough of his own money. The Gateway documents are from Army Intelligence, not the CIA. They're just the ones who released the documents after declassification. The CIA's homegrown project was called Stargate and was turned over to Defense in 1977. Stargate was a unit devoted to 'remote viewing'. The Army overseer of that project eventually took over as director of the Institute. He was previously involved there as laboratory director after retiring from the Army. Stargate got transferred back to the CIA from Defense and the CIA promptly shut it down and declassified the project because it was ineffectual. From their own words (CIA's), there had been remote viewing experiences that 'defy randomness' but the kind of information they produced was found to be useless for intelligence purposes.
I believe I'm getting off topic though. I think Burroughs might have some things of interest to the topic. Like his play-back method, for example. It involves a tape recorder.
I've been experimenting with a RF sensor(RL circuit: wire as antenna+inductor) attached to the GPIO pin of an ESP32 running a modified mersenne twister randomization algorithm using the RF input as a seed. Then I try to concentrate on the antenna to change the seed/RF reading to shape the random number generated. I was able to change the distribution of the random number with pranayama+my hands acting as a capacitor circulating energy, and I can measure the amount of energy by the shift on the distribution.
