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Hey, saw your name everywhere when poking around to see if dkmu had a subreddit! Glad to see someone pullin' some hard work out there. May jump in at some point there myself, but will continue to browse for sure. Always glad to have new oistars in the net!

Welcome aboard matey! Not sure if I've seen you around or am confusing your nick with another Faust I know/knew. Either way, Ya ho!

I know there are a few of us scattered about here and there, but have not yet as far as I've known been able to make any sort of official meetup, at least not with any intended purpose. I've met with a few on an individual basis, but nothing ritual oriented either. Just want to throw the possibility out there, although my transportation is limited, perhaps it's something to keep in mind for the future.

I'll share a quick story I can give regarding contact. As it went, I was trying to contact the archangel after my middle-namesake, Michael. After meditation, and strong vibration of the name for perhaps a few minutes...I was *startled* to hear a coarse reply, "WHAT?!"...as if I had been going around shouting his name and he was fairly pissed off enough by then to address me.

At that point I freaked...I wasn't expecting that type of direct communication, let alone something that would seem to come from quite outside my head (I figured I was named after him...we're supposed to be buddies or some shit apparently)...but it was enough to startle me from my state of mind and I backpedaled after that.

I think the type of fickle dialogue you're describing is possibly delusional in some sense...yet in another from my Christian days, communication with (what I perceived to be the Divine) was regular and consistent enough to convince me that there was communication happening, one could feel it inside themselves and in the air about them. I knew what needed to be said, who needed what prayed over them, what words to set people free from whatever their minds were wrestling from.

Now, was that big-G God, my higher self, intuition, or reading body language and microexpressions? I don't know for certain, but I think with enough work, relationships can be established and cultivated, but one has to keep in mind where the deities, thoghtforms, and egregores are coming from in their own way. I don't expect something out of an Eastern deity that I might get from a Norse one...if they are beings (or just mental projections), it seems that cultural differences can take place, but there could also be a lot of mask-swapping that goes on as well. Consider Michael the archangel as he would appear to American Indians. I once read an account of someone who had Michael show up in his bear-fur garb coming from a visitation to a native tribe with the "Oops, forgot to change ;)" sort of line.

I've also heard stories about interactions with quite OLD entities, djinn from the middle east say, who are very powerful, and do not fuck around. This is more the type of interaction I would expect with the genuine article. That's not to say that intermediaries don't work as go-betweens...but otherwise it would seem as though the magician is more communicating with a construct they've formulated of an entity, rather than the real deal, save for the elusive full-blown conjuring.

Not sure if necro-ing a thread is a big deal here at this stage in the game, but hoping to reinvigorate ideas others may have regarding possibilities.

The information model, and computer simulation models of reality I find to be extremely useful in helping organize possible break-points for taking this a step further, magical coding, hacking, data transmission, etc.

I hold the loose viewpoint that perhaps what we are working with when working with "reality" is a holographic projection, rendered by those conscious beings throughout the cosmos (perhaps consciousness taking on a more pantheistic station, where it permeates it). Overall, however, we render according to what our hardware will translate for us...light, sound, taste, texture, etc. Meanwhile, the number-crunching goes on in the background, at a much lower-functioning level. To me, what ritual seems to do, is basically be accomplishing magical workings with a few different avenues of execution:

1) We ask a super-user or admin for help/assistance to accomplish a task...the IT guy near your cube cuts you some slack if you bring him a box of donuts...the sysadmin puts a ticket through to install new software on your machine, etc.

2) We are the super-user...but maybe don't know it...forgotten password, whathaveyou...attaining higher levels of power as we progress through super-user, admin, god-tier authorities.

3) We "hack" the system in one of two ways: Software and hardware. Software/hardware can be by addressing tabboos, shadow-work, killing psychic/karmic zombie processes...and ritual magick...aka buffer-overflow.

Standard ritual magic seems to employ one of these three methods, often times in combination. Chaos magic seems to focus on the third, imo (although entities may be involved etc.). At its base, magical regalia, ephemera, etc. all seem to set the stage for overloading the senses, allowing the will to be driven down into the subconscious (processor level) where our extraneous code is run (the visualized and energized sigil after the attainment of gnosis).

I only carry on about it because I feel there's a great deal of crossover in theory that could be applied to both sides of technology and magickal technology which seems to benefit both. Using a computer-information model in magic could help construct more clearly defined spells, more akin to magickal programs, that when run will perform a certain set of actions.

Going over to the technological side of things, I've had thoughts on the creation of magical sigils which act as logic gates, chips, data-transmisison (wired, wireless, psychic, whathave you), into the possibilities of a similar vein as what Homer was discussing. Magical circuit boards.

Another way of looking at it could be the way Terence McKenna discusses the Alchemists view of their work, as an externalization of internal processes which when modified, also modify the user. Wearable sigils with joule-thiefs and/or small caps charging batteries, solar powered, etc.

Yet another attempt could be a way to harness the magical power of classical domains (elements, planets, etc) via a specialized code or library for whatever language an individual chooses....literally an m-code. Really it wouldn't be much more than data points...alignments/positions of planets, temperatures, fluctuations in seasons, etc. all easily sourceable from various places online from satellites, geometric and weather patterns, observatories, etc.

Especially considering we already have a magical network, and various workings and nodes throughout, we already have an informational model that seems to work well as-is. Many of use, even the most remote of connected to the network (not just the fleshcrafted) have experienced info transmission via Ellis direction or gotten hints, dreams, summons, or other information about goings on away from our physical locales, but not unlike any internet messaging system (whether it's IRC, phpBB, VoIP, etc.).

I would love to see what other ideas we could come up with. Throw in some orgone generators/devices? Create standardized protocols for encrypted communications? Intelligent energy distribution? Add an end-user magician at the terminal and there's no real limit immediately apparent.

For me, it began as a departing from Christianity, starting around age 19. From there was a series of doubtings and explorations of alternative faiths...shopping the spiritual super-market.

Eventually I found something as seemingly as benign as sacred geometry. It seemed the most apparent manifestation of some sort of 'order' to the universe I found myself in. That led into looking into the Golden Dawn, but not being content being spoon-fed bits and pieces without understanding but just because that's how "things were done", I never delved deeper. Eventually winding up on ye olde Occult Forums, and then later on the merged forums for DK/MU.

For me...I guess it's partly about an "unknowing". I wasn't around, as far as I know currently, before I was born. I didn't bear witness to anything that was alleged to have happened before my lifetime...and I came to the eventual conclusion that I could not actually "know" anything for certain. With a questioning of all reality, it collapses. But then, to be able to collapse it in a way that works for you? That's interesting. I could directly observe the probability waveform manifesting before my eyes every day, my biological hardware rendering before me the data that could be nothing more than swirling bits of probabilities or numbers being crunched in the background of the universe.

It was about control, yes, but the ability to determine one's one path, observe actions and their reactions, and creating something new.

With a few interesting events centered around phantom to physical contact, in remote-viewing, "fluffy" things like psi-wheels (psipog forums) and astral constructs, I concluded that there just is more to it than what appears on the surface. The exact machinations of this generally unobserved realm unknown, yet I was convinced there was more to it than what I could readily observe on the surface.

Overall, I maintained a relatively armchair sort of slack about it, aside from a relevant major working and the results of minor experiments, I mostly read...put a few pieces together when I could, but it didn't start coalescing until the past few years or so  when it started to click.

Now I'm going through and starting from square 0. Reading again, but with the intent of application, experimentation, and hopefully progress can be measured.

Old tophat here, some will remember my shiny glass toof. Active around 2k8, things went through a self kill, been hearing the call of the seas again... xaos never died. Neither am I, though I once was. Looking to get into the thick of it this time, no longer wishing to live out the rest of this in the cobwebbed armchair much longer.

At any rate, I thought I'd provide a formal introduction, I see some people are still keeping the vigil...and while there's lots of names I am unfamiliar with, I'd rather submit myself as a newcomer once again, for I claim to know nothing.

Going through the requisite reading again, hopefully with plethora of fresh eyes on this and other material, but also to practice and build upon it.

Dreams in the recent weeks have shaken things up on my end, hoping to reconnect with you all.

The points you make are spot on. I hadn't mentioned them because I hadn't come to any conclusions myself. It's mainly why I posted the concept.

If one simply wants to set up a node on the network, linking it to a webpage that serves a sigil image does seem to serve the purpose, yet takes little to do on any modern machine (though if we're following that sort of thinking, rendering on the oldest machine possible could take more "work" expelled in heat etc. than a new-fangled rig).

Perhaps there are more efficient ways of going about it, but I was considering the actual work/energy put into the charging itself. Maybe gnosis > computing power, which may make the energy required by the machines a drop in the bucket; as you state the power-issue isn't really existent.

I think your assessment of  the mining and/or currency aspects add an unneeded layer of complexity, which really just leaves us with another sort of yo-dawg web...which...is it even necessary? Or would it be better suited to a separate experiment isolated from the LS network?

The idea is in its conceptual stages at this point, some of the finer points go beyond my technical knowledge outside of basic familiarity.

It combines equal portions folding@home, Bitcoin/blockchain technology, p2p networking, and magick. The idea is to take current technology and create a digital representation of the Ellis web.

Sigils would be empowered via donated CPU/GPU cycles, a la folding@home or bitcoin mining's proof-of-work models. Distribution and verification could also take place in this fashion, and/or on top of a decentralized file-sharing system such as a central magnet link/torrent.

The torrent itself, along with a central tracker/server would be easy enough to implement, however creating or even piggybacking on bitcoin/blockchain technology is beyond my scope of expertise. Brand new technology need not be created from scratch, existing cryptocurrencies could be co-opted or a new one could be forked from existing.

Some preliminary research seems to indicate perhaps creating a new cryptocurrency may not be as difficult as initially imagined, but I will continue to do some research and see how this can be approached. If anyone cares to lend any insight or expertise, feel free.