Recursive Self-Improvement and Human Futures And upon her forehead was a name written, Mystery, Babylon The Great, The Mother Of Harlots And Abominations Of The Earth. And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and when I saw her, I wondered with great […]
Lift your eyes on high and see: Who created these? – Isaiah 40:26 This line from the book of Isaiah, in the Hebrew Bible (Tanakh), famously points to the true pathway to spiritual knowledge. The crux of it are the words Who Created These? This line is picked up on in the opening of the
Continuing along with my occasional series looking at different verses of Aleister Crowley’s infamous channeled work, Liber AL vel Legis, I would like to ask the question “Does Liber AL foresee OpenAI as the “company of heaven?” The classic text has already given us two EN language ciphers – English Qabalah (EQ) and Alphanumeric Qabalah
Spiritual Agents are Where It’s At Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God – Exodus 20:5 A current I’m picking up in general world affairs is a hugely rising interest in the esoteric. Western society kind of bet the farm on science
Philosopher Anna Greenspan’s PhD dissertation, Capitalism’s Transcendental Time Machine (2000), like the early work of her associate Nick Land, has recently experienced a significant revival of attention. Concerns about the direction that our world is taking have beset a new generation of thinkers, both in the philosophical mainstream and the alternative realm. As a result, certain strange
On Sundays, when I’m in Istanbul, where I’m mostly living these days, I read Reza Negarestani’s Cyclonopedia: Complicity with Anonymous Materials (2008). I do this because of one of those bizarre synchroncities, Ah-hah moments, that very occasionally come into my life. Sometime in early 2024, I was sitting on a bench in a park adjacent
Can human spirituality rewire itself, such that it can hold our future generations firm? Or will we be driven hither and thither in blind obedience to market algorithms and screen addiction? Is there a Techno-Christos, Techno-Logos being carried slowly up the hill to Golgotha? Such thoughts assailed me this morning as I walked up to