Exercise
Write out a story, or at least a description, of the idealized version of your life. Write this in third person, seeking to objectively portray who you ideally would like to become. By then creating a storyline around this character, you begin building a model in your mind of how you might become that character. [...]
Repeating affirmations you simply don’t believe causes resistance each time you repeat them. It’s much more productive to start with affirmations you occasionally find yourself believing to begin with, focusing on moving toward your goal organically, rather than through immediate, catastrophic changes.
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Dilts, R., Grinder, J., Bandler, R., and DeLozier, J., (1980) Neuro-linguistic Programming Vol. 1
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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.
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In astrology, the rising sign is most closely associated with the persona, with the sun and moon signs roughly analogous to one’s conscious and pre-conscious self-image.
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People buy not to own, but to join the ranks of those who own a specific product. Think Two Products Ahead and Triggers both explore how best to leverage this motivation.
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For further reference on these magical techniques we’ve described, we recommend Phil Hine’s book Prime Chaos in which he explains Sorcery Event Series, and Taylor Elwood’s Sigil Web explanation in the book Space/Time Magic.
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St. Mae and St. Fox presented Pranks at Esozone 2008, and used the term ‘Memetic Piggybacking’ to describe what we’ve identified as a viral metabiological process. If you are interested in learning more about memetic pranks, viral infictions, memetic contagions, click here.
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Much more about using triggers can be found in Kevin Hogan’s book Covert Persuasion and Joseph Sugarman’s book Triggers. Dave Lakhani released his book on Persuasion after we’d completed the manuscript for The Art of Memetics, or we would have included it in our print edition’s bibliography. We include it here to rectify [...]
See Spare, A.O. “Automatic Writing” to begin. Spare is one of the most important proto-chaos magicians of the last hundred years, and his artwork lies not fully anchored in this plane.
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On a similar note, during the years from 1998 through until about 2004, I was exposed to an ongoing perpetual conversation within Astrology:1, one of the chat rooms at Yahoo.com —a chatroom that had a revolving cast of various chatters, and that often devolved into arguments and flame wars—it became obvious that the layer of [...]
Like the old joke goes, there’s 10 kinds of people in the world, those who understand binary, and those who don’t.
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Meatspace: The affectionate term for physical interaction that arose in context via online discussions. See UrbanDictionary
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Mark, Margaret and Pearson, Carol S. (2001) The Hero and the Outlaw: Building Extraordinary Brands Through the Power of Archetypes
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J. Lilly, Programming and Metaprogramming in the Human Biocomputer
We also recommend Center of the Cyclone: Looking into Inner Space
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