See Chapter 13. To make the lesser (yet still significant) jump between innovators and early adopters you are going to need to involve Mavens among your innovators, and these Mavens will need to be interconnected. Return to Page
See the Trend Growth figure in Chapter 1. The long tail, as an ecological space for memes, is broken up into four categories: Late Majority, Early Majority, Early Adopters, and Innovators. Return to Page
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Hermes, or Thoth, was not simply the god of magicians in Egyptian and Greek mythology. He was also god of writing, science, and judge of the dead. His counterpart, the goddess Ma’at, seems to have created Mathematics, but mathematics falls under the rulership of Thoth as well. Together, they both are anthropomorphized embodiments of the [...]
Autopoiesis literally means “auto (self)-creation” (from the Greek: auto – αυτό for self- and poiesis – ποίησις for creation or production), and expresses a fundamental dialectic between structure and function. Return to Page
The intelligence-increasing techniques of Dr. Wenger outlined in his book The Einstein Factor rely on the mechanism of balancing input and output by outliers, individuals who find fringes to weave together. Return to Page
Edward de Bono‘s flowscaping is ideal for analyzing an institutional body and diagramming the internal organs of an egregore.. Return to Page
One such software is the open source program Freemind, available on Sourceforge and there are a number of other not-so-free options out there as well. We prefer doing all of this by hand, however, and usually use pencils and graph paper. Return to Page
A term coined by Saint John of the Cross in his poem “Dark Night of the Soul” from the 16th century. Return to Page
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One author spent a year avoiding advertisements as much as possible, while consciously removing or marking out any corporate logo present in his daily environment. This experiment led to a kind of hyper-awareness of logomancy and its otherwise subliminal effects, and led to a development of a personal theory about psychological space which went on [...]
We continue to promote collage work throughout this book because collage, by arranging pieces made of pre-existing media with a variety of materials into a new cohesive whole, is the same process of trimming, selecting, and arranging from various available sources that the brain naturally utilizes to make sense of its environment as it develops. [...]
Retroactive enchantment is one approach to achieving this goal, while specific forms of soul-retrieval can also be adapted to this kind of internal work. Friends have also adapted Dianetic auditing from scientology combined with self-hypnosis toward similar results. Return to Page
As Fenwick Rysen put it: SIGIL –> SERVITOR –> EGREGORE –> GODFORM Mark Defrates essay, along with related material, is available at Chaos Matrix’s library. Return to Page