<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 2/18/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Dirk Bruere</b> <<a href="mailto:dirk.bruere@gmail.com">dirk.bruere@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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That is a very good summary of what is required.<br>
For more on the topic, see my other post.<br>
Care to join the conspiracy?</div></div></blockquote><div><br>
</div>Oops!<br>
I was referring to something that I answered in an offlist conversation
that I did not notice was offlist until just now. I won't quote the
sender's text, but I will quote my reply.<br>
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"Well, right now someone made me a business offer I cannot refuse.<br>
If things go well I may have a few $million to spare in three or four years:-)<br>
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However, you are correct in your assessment.<br>
The Consensus grew out of a project that started in the early 90s that
was (in my mind) gearing up to be just this kind of cult (to use a
perjorative term). I did a lot of writing to get my thoughts in order,
and dropped it for a few years because it would not gel. I started
looking at it again around 1999 and decided to split the writings into
sections. The political stuff I bundled up and put in the form of a
political party. I did that for a number of reasons, including memetic
engineering as well as using it as a method of (excuse for) accessing
people from doorsteps to major politicians. In that sense it seems to
be paying off.<br>
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The rest of the writings can roughly be divided into two sections. The
first is well advanced in the form of a book that deals with the
interface of technology and magick. Specifically, using models of the
mind (eg Minsky) coupled with rather interesting consciousness altering
tech that isn't widely publicised. I had intended to build some
machines to sell as a followup. The remaining stuff is something like a
cross between NLP and Zen and is far less developed. Fortunately I met
a man who can fill in that missing gap. His name is Marc Power, and
it's just possible that Keith Henderson might recognise the name. We
mesh extremely well technically and psychologically. I met him at a
shamanic drumming session run by my other half, Fiona.<br>
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So, maybe something will come together in the near future since he's
now back from Holland and we are all fired up to restart our
conspiracy:-)<br>
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However, there is one major item missing that is essential. Namely,
what's in it for the average 'member'? real cults *do* offer something
quite substantial, at least in the minds of those involved. We have yet
to decide what that something should be. <br>
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Suggestions, conspiratorial members etc are welcome. All loot will be divided unequally:-)"<br>
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Dirk<br>
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