Go Out in a Blaze of Glory
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We're honored to have been featured on Eli Ro's podcast:
I have a book on Astragalomancy that I really like, Astragalomancy: A Loaded Guide: Intriguing Readings of 21 Discrete Dice Throws by Craig Conley and it’s a whole lot of history and some filler, to be honest, but it’s well-written and easy to follow and it is a straightforward guide to dice reading or bone reading. But there’s a bit in there that gives a really good overview ...
There is perhaps no better way to conjure up the spirit of great antiquity than to roll dice. The very ancient game of throwing knucklebones dates back to the Trojan War, if we are to take Sophocles’ word. The original knucklebone was technically a bone in a sheep’s ankle, the astragalus, hence divination by astragalomancy. The great Greek philosopher Plato traced dice even farther back, to the ibis-headed Egyptian god Thoth, inventor of magic and writing and science, divine arbitrator, judge of the dead, and maintainer of the universe. Plato himself played dice not only with cubes but also tetrahedrons, octahedrons, dodecahedrons, and icosahedrons-the famous “Platonic solids” of geometry.
Plato said, “God geometrizes,” and that’s a key to why dice have always been associated with divination--the geometric solids, as building blocks of the universe, embody truths on higher planes. Over the centuries, several rules have been associated with throwing dice for divination. However, it is entirely a matter of personal choice whether these are followed or ignored. Many of these rules are arbitrary and were probably developed to add mystery and significance to divination by dice. Do not be afraid to develop your own guidelines, nor to be completely spontaneous, using the dice in different ways according to your instincts at the time. Trusting your instincts is the best way to get a good reading.
In other words, we can go through some common interpretations for certain dice throws and formations, but the more we do it, the more we can and should begin to interpret things using our own intuition and experiences. And that’s the truth for absolutely every kind of divination that we will ever do. The guidelines are just that; they’re guides. They are not the law. Our own sixth sense is always the authority, we should always trust our instincts when it conflicts with the so-called rules.
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Carlo Catalano wrote: "You have the wildest & most uniquely funny shows on YOU TUBE, I've tried to share your work but my shares were pulled off Fb as fake news. Esoteric humour will do that. Joyce thought Finnegans Wake was funny because it made Beckett laugh so much. Beckett was hard of hearing & hallucinated many of the jokes he wrote in as amanuensis."
Thank you, Carlo, for this amazing comment and incredible insight in your last two sentences. As I fled FB years ago, I didn't know they had labeled me fake news, but I did know from my channel stats that my content is actively being suppressed. What a world!
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We're honored that our definition of a Buddhist mantra in Magic Words: A Dictionary is cited in "The Calming Effect of Imee Ooi’s Buddhist Music: from Mantra to Music and Meditation" by Loo Fung Ying, Loo Fung Chiat, and Tee Xiao Hao in the Journal of Basic and Applied Scientific Research.
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Thanks to Elephant Bitterhead for saying, "I LOVE these lists. They are poetic, profound, funny, sad, everything at once. They remind of tarot or the I Ching. Whatever you need, it's in there somewhere."
The only solution is to:
- sprout a pair of wings
- phase out the signal
- make the bucket bigger
- turn the machine off and leave it alone
- sedate them
- involve the community
- be disconnected and re-dial
- destroy the system and start all over again
- lighten the load
- make your home appear to be untenanted
- replace the damaged piece
- overthrow it and then poof...that's it
- abandon the dogmatic idea
- re-write the subroutine with higher precision
- grin and bear it
- prove them wrong
- drop the notion of total divine inspiration
- invent something different
- make the best of the material at hand
- limit the amount of information available
- accept the defeat and wait quietly for the positive forces to lead you
- reboot the system
- stop talking altogether and uses sign language
- do a backup for yourself
- travel off somewhere away from everyone
[Tidbits gathered through the course of our research. See the remarkable collection, entitled Bullet Lists.]
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We're honored that Gordon Meyer, of Smart Home Hacks fame, reviewed our book Bullet Lists:
This book is:
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- Unique
- Clever
- Succinct
- Astonishing
At first glance, this book is just what the title says — a collection of unordered lists. (Or, as regular people say, “bulleted lists.”) But, what exactly are these lists?
When you ask yourself that question, and pay close attention to the contents of this book, the breadth, and depth of research put into this publication takes your breath away.
Let’s back up. Google has an “autocomplete” feature that (often, hilariously) attempts to finish your query for you. It’s the Google AI guessing what you’re going to type next, based on what previous searchers have looked for. (And, thus, providing a disturbing glimpse into the soul of mankind.)
Bullet Lists is sort of like that, except that the author, Professor Oddfellow, has collected, compiled, and collated these lists based on primary sources. The result is not what your idiot neighbors have wanted to know, it’s what your fellow writers have put into print. (To be fair, they might also be idiots.) But this is a big and important distinction, and much more interesting. (Sorry, Google.)
At the very least, you have to appreciate the organizational prowess and persistence it took to compile this book. However, if you give it a chance to sink in, there’s a lot to savor. Get your copy at the Amazon.
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trigger-warning-is-the-fear-of-being-offensive-killing-free-speech-1We're honored that our Magic Words: A Dictionary is referenced in the "Mind Your Ps, Qs, Ns and Ys" chapter of Trigger Warning by Mick Hume.
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