From: Theta 8008 (ubergoo@hotmail.com)
Date: Thu Jun 10 1999 - 23:47:54 MDT
8008
> > Carl Sagan observed that astronomy emerged out of astrology.
I think of Carl Sagan as more of a pimp than a scientist.
>This is one of my interests, how science evolves from nonscience.
I have a friend that started his career in physics (but then became a
lawyer). I have been a practitioner of various forms of "sorcery" for more
than 20 years. My friend believes in astrology. I do not.
I do not know if there is any "hard" science left to be extracted out
of old school occultism; although I have read some interesting material by
modern alchemists regarding monoatomic gold and other m-state precious
metals as medicines.
Nowadays, magick seems to borrow more from science than the other way
around. The names Bell and Bohm are now heard almost as frequently as the
names Crowley and Spare.
On the other tentacle, sociologist William Sims Bainbridge has called
magick "radical psychology". Even if it is only that, the techniques
employed in the areas of INVOCATION and ILLUMINATION in Chaos Magick would
be of great utility to any Extropian.
Zero
Telesis Foundation for Applied Memetics
http://telesis.veindance.com
CHAOSMOS: The Product is The Process
http://www.angelfire.com/biz2/ubergoo/chaosmos.html
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