MG: Both Leary and Wilson felt that the bottom circuits imprinted at acute, random moments in early childhood and adolescence, but I do not see the biological basis for such small windows of imprinting. Certainly birth is the primary C1 imprinting process and a universal human event, but I suspect it only accounts for roughly 30 to 80% of the C1 imprint depending on the individual and the circumstances of birth. It seems that C1 imprinting starts in the womb and continues well into the first several months of life. I suspect that C4 imprinting occurs over a period as long as several years and I find it hard to agree with Wilson’s assertion that the entire C4 imprint is taken on at the moment of first orgasm. How do you feel about these early childhood imprints?
AA: My experiences parallel Wilson’s and Leary’s here regarding the early childhood imprints of the first four circuits. Once imprinted, however, there are years and decades of affirmative conditioning that fortify and maintain those imprints, habits that can run throughout the rest of our lives and can run or rule the rest of our lives. Though C-1 imprinting does start with the infant dependency event with the mother, or surrogate mother, I think circuits two through four (especially C-4) can remain “un-imprinted” for years to come differing, of course, with each person and their circumstances.
As for the entire circuit four imprint occurring with the first orgasm, this sounds ridiculous to me. If only it were that simple and easy yet circuit four has proven to be anything but easy and simple. It’s not just me; look at the world, look at our human history of warfare, genocide and social tragedy. Other equally complex imprints such as religious upbringing, courtship rituals, woman and manhood rites of passage, pregnancy, and parenting also inhabit the web of fourth circuit realities.
This weekend only there will be a special “early bird” ticket price of $40 for the whole weekend. Tickets will go on sale at 6:00 am on Friday April 12th 11th and will remain $40 dollars until the stroke of Midnight on Sunday the 13th. After the 13th, the presale price will be $50.
So here’s the drill. We’ve got a good core of workshops going, and a lot of interest. I will say to the HiVE collectively what I say to anyone that inquires about doing a workshop at esoZone. Give me a write up of how you will spend an hour of everyone’s time.
That said, I’m very open about what form workshops can take. So far as I’m concerned the larger number of presenters the better. However there are some rough guidelines I’d like to lay out to give people a bit of focus:
It seems besides the point to say that we expect the same level of quality from all participants as regards use of workshop time. Simply put, the time at the event is precious and it’s a major letdown for all parties involved when that time is wasted. I wish we had footage of last year’s workshops because they were super fucking cool.
* All workshops should somehow be linked to the esoZone: The Other Tomorrow idea however you understand that. Build it together, people.
* Interactivity is a major plus. One directional lectures are not what this event is about.
What I’m going to need in the way of submissions is some kind of proof that you have planned how you are going to spend an hour of time at esoZone.
I’m really looking forward to seeing what people put together. Some of the best stuff from last year was in the workshops. Your prize, in addition to street cred is getting in for free. Which really ain’t bad if you’re planning on coming anyway.
BE THIS YEAR’S JOHN HARRIGAN AND STEAL THE BLOODY SHOW WITH YOUR WORKSHOP ZOMG!
Srsly, guys…
Send me some stuff. Good thoughts. Think of the absolute worst MegaPaganCon thing that you have ever seen and then do the exact opposite. What would you want to see?
As It Is, So Be It,
Nick Pell
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OSOTO-3 raises new and troubling questions
OSOTO, Issue 3 - Featuring an account of Freeman’s UFO encounter on the drive to Esozone 2007, excerpts from the FBI’s Marmaduke file, and a two-page homage to Mark Lombardi involving electronic camouflage of pinball machines in some dilapidated barracks at an abandoned military base on the city’s outskirts. Print edition is out now. E-mail us for more information. Special thanks to our sponsor, Martinez Double-Weight Cinder Blocks. POSTED 22 FEB 08
Platoons of the latest replicas of Banksy roam the landscape, led by General Clone Banksy, a talentless nobody who once found a sample of Banksy DNA on an empty spray can. A rowdy gang of Tracey Ermin’s wrestle half a dozen dazed Andy Warhol’s to the ground. It is the future and all forms of art are free, perfect replicas exist of every masterpiece ever created, copyright and ownership are meaningless, ideas are cheap and replicated ad infinitum. Artists have realised that their own identity is the only thing they can own or control, so fans become clones of artists in order to spread their art/identity. One final piece of uncorrupted art remains, yet to be copied: a living story told by Neonate Muses.
This is the record of the AAAZ, the Antarctic Astral Autonomous Zone, that occurred on the night of August 31st - September 1st, 1987.
Hakim Bey is the author of Temporary Autonomous Zone. It’s a cultural milestone for a wide variety of subversives from anarchists, occultists, vandal artists, and freaky festival people. The main idea of TAZ was to create exactly what it sounds like TAZ is about: creating places that serve as alternative realities to the prevailing system of control. Specific times and spaces designated to let chaos free, and allow psychological and social mechanisms to self regulate and mutate beyond the confines of so-called consensus reality.
The focus is on having individuals find and establish meaning on their own terms. Creating a TAZ requires face to face interaction and dialog, in a sense, creating an art form which is impossible to ever fully record or understand. In the void where stagnancy and boredom once ruled, wild fantasies called real life take root. The elusive genuine article, with no possible televised reenactments.
Before TAZ’s thought virus would reach the anti-capitalists and the rave scene as it did in the 90’s, many of the people who recognized the value of Bey’s work were few and far apart. Mail order culture was the primary mode of communication with the underground for many people in the 80’s. The postal world seen within the pages of High Weirdness by Mail by Ivan Stang has now mostly migrated to cyberspace, where many of these fringe cultures have exploded into bonafide phenomenas. In the meantime, the mutants who were plugged into the paper trail of fresh ideas were yearning for an opportunity to encounter a TAZ. This meant finding a ‘Zone’ which was totally unexpected.
It was decided to meet astrally or in dreams, at a specific sacred space in Antarctica. Bey sent invites out to his network, and arranged for everyone who participated to send him their experiences, which he would then compile and send back out. What you end up with is an compilation of rare works by an all-star cast of individuals who comprised the occulture before there was a word for it. In this instance, the media created here facilitated a syncing up of communal experiences, and was an essential component of the AAAZ, yet not the AAAZ in itself.
The objective reality of astral projection is inconsequential to the AAAZ. What is of importance is the narrative, lives encouraged to be lived mythically, drawing those lives together in the process. Then again, for those who do entertain astral experiences as accepted facets of reality, the AAAZ was most likely one of the earliest documented records of shared lucid dreams and consciousness. It is historically important for occultists, and personally fulfilling for those who got to participate in it.
The AAAZ is a window into the past, where long distance communications were laced with art and magic, and the viability of a tangible occult community was seemingly infinitesimal. This book provided my endeavors with a deeper sense of purpose to what I have been developing with esoZone, and PDXocculture, an open group in Portland, OR for individuals with esoteric interests. It was as if my magic was supplemented by ancient spells spoke at the AAAZ, spells that were finally close to reaching total fruition. “Find the Others”, Leary’s famous phrase, has become irrelevant. More people are networked than ever before, and they are well on their way to having an alternative reality subsume the toxic aeon preceding it.
This is a rare work that has only been previously released to the original participants. It is provided in its first reprinting to the participants of esoZone as a bonus gift, and as a memetic primer. Be sure to look out for works by Coil, Shirley Maclaine, James Koehnline, Ivan Stang, Feral Faun (aka Apio), Reverand Crowbar (aka Susan Poe), Trevor Blake, and of course Hakim Bey. All notables to be sure, but I can think of someone more important.
This is where you come in.
The coincidences you are experiencing as part of esoZone ARE REAL.
All the doorways of the venue have been transmuted into portals.
They lead twenty years into the past from Portland [Land of Portals] to the Antarctican AAAZ.
As you navigate the space of esoZone, you may notice dimensional leakage.
It is no accident and a very special effect. Have fun with it.
Interact with entities and your awareness of the past and present places, slipstreaming into the future.
Tell your friends.
If you are up for it, during the exact 20 year anniversary of the AAAZ, on the night of Aug. 31st, take an astral voyage. Bring your memory back to esoZone, and the experiences you had within it, and use the doorway Portals to the AAAZ of 87. The rest of this book should prep you for the journey.
This time, there will be no zine compiling the experiences. Take advantage of our Aeon. Post about your adventures online wherever you normally post, and if you do not have a space for that, start an account on Irreality.net. Your words will find their proper destination, and be part of a grand chain of events that leads to something currently inconceivable, twenty more years down the line.
Danny Chaoflux
New Alamut, Portal Palace
July 2007
However, as much was taking place off the stage as on it, as people met and mingled words, energies, and god-knows-what-else in the shadows. This was an event marked most by the quality rather than quantity of participants, and the venue (Backspace and Someday Lounge), were either intentionally or merely serendipitously well matched to the intention of some hard-core hanging out. The fact that organic coffee, vegan food, and a fully stocked bar were present the entire duration of the event was, to me at least, no small bonus.
More esoZone stuff… you’ll have to bear with me for a bit as most of what I’ll be posting for a bit will be esoZone material (haven’t had much time to think about much else lately). Here is Wes’s closing address. I don’t quite recall what I said in my intro to Wes before he came on, but during his speech Wes said he wasn’t quite sure why he was picked. I just found the e-mail I sent to some of the organizers making the case for Wes:
I’d like the conference to end on a positive note that makes people excited. [Wes has a good] relationship to the occult community [because] Wes is actively working on interesting magical approaches and sharing his work with the community. In other words, Wes doesn’t go around telling people what to do or not to do, but goes around telling people what he is doing.
I’m home from the Someday Lounge. ESOZONE is over. Gonna catch a nap before I’m back to serious business in the morning (lots of loose ends). I’ll post more sometime later when I’m better rested and have had some time to process things.
Sat thru Wed, August 18-22, 2K7, the week after esoZone in Portland, you should come to the Mystic Mountain Magick Meadow Retreat. After all of the workshops and events in esoZone, wouldn’t you like to spend more Quality time with all of these people you met and networked with in PDX? Wouldn’t you like to continue to meet even more like-minded people along the I-5 corridor? Aren’t you tired of always hearing a bunch of Talk about networking with other Magi, but very little Action? Haven’t you been meaning to get away for at least a few days with like-minded folk in the Mountains, working Magick?
Here’s the simple solution:
As I mentioned a few days ago, I am inviting other Experienced Magi to join me in my yearly Retreat in a location that is absolutely perfect for what will eventually host a yearly gathering of up to several hundred Magickal Practitioners. Not everyone will be able to stay all the way through Wed, but coming for a few days is better than not coming at all! We will be setting up a Temporary Autonomous Zone on Sat, with Closing ceremonies done on Wed.
There have been a few questions as far as what this event will be about, what to bring and expect, etc.:
The T.A.Z. will basically be a “Free Play Zone”.
It will be very Magickally Active–I do some of my most intensive Magick during my Retreats.
There will be plenty of opportunities for both Alone & Social Time.
One Intent I have for this year’s Gathering is to discuss all of these Networking projects that have been gathering Momentum, e.g. the I-5 Occulte’ Empyre, the Willamette Valley Magick Network, etc.
Some of the things that I like to do include Relaxing, Resting, Reflecting, Recuperating, ReCreating, ReJuvenating, Reading, Meditating, Trancing, Journeying, Magicking, Sharing, Teaching, Learning, Exploring, Hiking, Playing, Nothing, Slacking, Just Be-ing, etc…
The few Expectations I have for the Mystic Mountain Magick Meadow Retreat would include:
…no noisy machines, electronics, motors, music, etc. (although natural noises are encouraged!)
…encouraging Physical Safety
…self-reliance/bring what you will need–Sharing is encouraged, but not mandatory
…shedding Identities and truly Retreating for a time in the Mountains
…Respect others’ Space
…being a “Drama Free Zone”
…to Play Nice
To join us for the 2nd Annual Mystic Mountain Magick Meadow Retreat, please respond here or email me at
xi_o_teaz AT chaosmatrix DOT org
In a couple of weeks, we will be setting up a meeting place so that we can all drive to the Retreat together on Saturday afternoon (and then you may leave whenever you wish, should you need to leave early, etc).
We’re looking for some contributions to the esoZone Incandescent Mass. First, we still need someone to play the role of the Black Queen in the mass. Second, we’re looking for suggestions of media clips and images to accompany the mass. If you can’t come to esoZone but want to participate, this is your chance. Details and text of the mass are available here.
