"The flesh cannot pray." - Joseph Sadony, 1948

"I don't worship the Devil, but I am intrigued by Magick." - Jimmy Page

M.I.N.O.T.A.U.R. = Multi Integrated Neureal Operated Time Augmentation Utilizing Resonance - Cyclopean Orm

Welcome to the sixth column of Cyclopean Orm. You are number six. I am number six. And six is the number of man.

I've been watching the old British TV series, "The Prisoner." I won't go on a rampage about how good it is. I won't tell you how it is a virtual blueprint of how to overthrow society or how to free your mind. I won't even tell you what a Rover is, but by God, I will tell you that you need to see the series. The series is no longer available in stores, but it has just been digitally remastered and re-released for subscription through Columbia House Home Video (1-800-457-0866). If you watch this series, you will never be the same. You will have effectively embraced the serpent. That's MY phrase by the way. I made it up. When you see some hot shot in Hollywood using that phrase, harken back to the time when you read column six by the Cyclopean Orm and heard this rare coin minted straight from the serpent's mouth.

Sometimes, it benefits a person to EMBRACE THE SERPENT, to study "the other side." Righteous, good, or cautious people generally avoid the flip side of things. Often, these individuals are so afraid of doing "wrong," that they actually commit a wrongful act. Reminds me of a joke:

What's worse than following the left-hand path?

Answer: Following it unknowingly.

Everything casts a shadow. Duality prevails, and Polarity is a meeting of Two Extremes. Without death, life would truly be meaningless. You know what I mean.

Consider talking boards. We've all hard the rumors, and whether we believe these stories or not, at some level we think that Ouija boards are at best diagnostic tools for the insane, or at their worse, trap doors to Hell. Somewhere in the middle, we think it's merely a game.

I would like to suggest another possibility. While acknowledging otherwhere entities, subconscious tactile manipulation, or pranksters at an acid party, I think it is JUST POSSIBLE that when you use a talking board, you might be tapping into a multi- dimensional fabric that oversees and permeates three dimensional time. In theory, 3-D time encompasses past, present, & future, all at once. An observer (God or Fabric) outside or "above" the space time continuum can look at any stage of 3-D time, with all of its various arrays.

A talking board may in fact be some type of time machine or trap door leading to such. Perhaps all it takes is the willingness to EMBRACE THE SERPENT. The dark side we are warned about may be but a cardboard division between ignorance and enlightenment. (i.e., Sin in order that you may obtain forgiveness - - Gregori Rasputin) in this context, calling a talking board "just a game" may be totally correct. Our very existence has been rumored to be a turbo-charged crap-shoot on a quantum-green card table. Step right up.

Place your bets.

(BETS = BETTER EMBRACE THE SERPENT)

Changing our perception of the difference between things we consider "real" versus things we believe to be "fake" may be the very key to activating a powerful astral engine that allows access to 3-D time. If this all sounds like so many dinkey- darts, then perhaps you should re-examine YOUR belief system.

I'm not asking you to become a Satanist. (God knows THAT'S a hard row to hoe.) I don't want you to chunk your carefully aligned and fossilized moral stratifications - - and here I quote Alfred Hitchcock - - "Into A Madman's Sadistic And Torturous Archonic Nightmare." (If you imagine hearing him say that, it sounds pretty malevolent.)

I just want you to THINK.

Are you hesitant to play with a talking board? Do you feel a tightening in your stomach if someone talks to you about alternative ethics or codes? Do you wish you knew (not believed) that there is a higher existence than that taught to us in churches and public schools?

EMBRACE THE SERPENT. EMBRACE THE SERPENT. EMBRACE THE SERPENT.

"But how do I EMBRACE THE SERPENT?"

Well, I'm not really going to tell you, but I'll give you a classical formula for success in life which seems to parallel the way to EMBRACE THE SERPENT.

HOW TO BE A SUCCESS:

1.) Dream BIG
2.) Start Small
3.) Continue Your Education
4.) Take Risks
5.) Make Sacrifices

Now, I am going to intertwine "aspects" of EMBRACING THE SERPENT with HOW TO BE A SUCCESS, thus giving us the ever popular double helix.

Maybe your goal is about getting off of this Mortal Coil or Wheel of Life and into the good and static state of Buddha-white-noise-humming-existence or Heaven. (DREAMING BIG)

Well, START SMALL. The next time you absently go to kill an insect or smash a spider, analyze what you are doing. Do you consider them pests? Or are you acting in reflex due to early imprinting? If you kill a black widow, or a Neptunian Jeptor Moth, you might be saving your life. Why do you WANT to save your life? If you think this is a silly exercise, then analyze WHY you think this is a silly exercise.

EMBRACE THE SERPENT

CONTINUE YOUR EDUCATION. Read as much as you can to find out what spiritual truths are applicable to your goal. Question authority. Wear out your library card. Every once in a while, surf the web with the sole intention of learning something you didn't know before about (pick one): soul transmigration, quantum theory, negative space, non-space, folding space, mind control, ancient religions, new religions, growing your own food, parasitic organisms (like yourself), Nikola Tesla, Phillip K. Dick, Robert Anton Wilson, secret societies, nudism, survivalism, fossils, Harry Houdini, Raymond Smullyan, Aleister Crowley, astronomy, Bishop James Pike, the Dead Sea Scrolls, Talking Boards, & Wilhelm Reich. Even Christopher Reeve.

Now, THERE is someone who has HUGGED THE SNAKE. You can't tell me that Reeve has not taken a situation of solid lead and positioned it along a path toward pure gold. I can almost see those spinal-cord-gray rubber wheels of his wheelchair changing into golden parallel halo-disks as he glides along the curves.

If you see him in an interview, you will see the lesson of dreaming big, starting small, continuing your education, taking risks, and making sacrifices.

I get this funny feeling when I think about him. I feel like a witness to a high level magus who is changing reality before our eyes. The latest research in using Stem Cells seems to point toward a cure for spinal damage, or at the very least, toward making harvestable specialized tissues. Leaps in biogenetic technology occur every day. I picture Christopher Reeve "making a special announcement" within the next few years.

If you don't believe me, then consider the term, "tensegrity." It's the name of an architectural system in which structures stabilize themselves by balancing the counteracting forces of compression and tension. To build an organ, many scientist at the moment think that an ARTIFICIAL "scaffolding" is needed. Perhaps so. But I believe that nature does it in a different way, namely, by the natural fitting of the geometrical properties of molecules, cells, and tissues. The scaffolding for a liver is pretty much IMPOSSIBLE for us to make. We have to figure out how nature does it. We will. (But I don't think it will be quite like that fake ear they made in the movie Face Off. It looked like they had cannibalized a CD player and aimed it at a dish full of alcohol, thus, I assume, building the ear in a matrix. Hollywood can't seem to think of anything but LASERs, poor chaps. And most LASER effects are lame. If you want to see some cool laser effects, check out Phantasm III.)

I think the construction and/or repair of specialized tissues and organs will be accomplished through a combination of tensegrity, stem cells, suspension gels, and perhaps even zero-G (micro- gravity) application in laboratories in orbit. Hey, send me down a pancreas for God's sweet sake. (I just read PKD's The Penultimate Truth, so I've got specialized tissues/organs on the brain.)

Repairing a spinal cord is a big dream, but Reeve is a very focused individual. I think Christ said something like: If you have faith but the size of a mustard seed, you can move a mountain.

I'm not trying to be preachy, and I'm obviously not in the Traditional Christian Camp. But neither was Bishop Pike. Neither was Christ. Heh. And this is a good example of myself looking at other belief systems on my own and learning bits and pieces that help me. By the way, have any of you ever heard that the REAL message of Christianity is that Jesus was in fact a Dark Magician and that John the Baptist was the Good Magician? Jesus was upsetting the belief system of the time and pissed off everybody. Then, after he was rescued from his comatose state in the tomb, he went on and lived out his life in India before being buried in Kashmir. (Oh, THAT'S what LED ZEPPELIN was hinting at on that track of Physical Graffiti . . .)

I won't even go into what happened to John the Baptist, though there is something strangely symbolick going on with that whole head in a silver platter thing. I'm trying to mess with the general reality tunnel (can you tell I'm in the Bible Belt?) There is a grave in India believed by many to be Jesus' final resting spot. I'm not really trying to negate anyone's christian view. I merely wish to be a catalyst, and if I can ignite even a small flame of curiosity then my job has been done.

I myself was raised never to ask questions about Jesus being a magician. If those Texas baptist soldiers had but injected some mysticism in their teachings, maybe I wouldn't have gone AWOL. Hell, I might have been a rich televangelist by now.

As far as taking risks to attain Nirvana, I'll leave that to your imagination. But I'll give you a hint. You can take risks even when you are playing checkers on an old set of Buffalo Nickel brand checkers. (Do you remember those checkers? They were like big plastic buffalo nickels. One side had the Indian head and one side had the buffalo. Hmmmm. Seeing two sides of a coin. Kind of a risky way to perceive things.)

Sacrificing often involves giving up time when the success formula is applied to, for example, the seeking of satisfaction in the financial realm. To achieve your BIG DREAM, you might have to sacrifice your old beliefs, in whole or in part. This could include Beliefs about Time. You will notice sacrificing and risk taking will blur into one step. Not always, but sometimes.

Okay, time to lighten up.

Now when I used a talking board lately, I asked a couple of questions:

A) What is the Blue Rubber Rabbit?

B.) Is time travel possible?

Here are the corresponding answers:

1) AZURE VULCANIZED HARE

2.) SUM TIMEZ

I think time travel is possible. In fact, ten years ago in an altered state achieved by sleep deprivation, I penned my own formula for it and even drew a small sketch of the machine. It looked like something H. R. Giger would have drawn on a cocktail napkin, but I really love it because it was a "stream of consciousness" kind of thing to do. Later, I drew the exterior of the "ship" known as the M.I.N.O.T.A.U.R. What does this formula mean? You people can figure it out,and let me know. In fact if it works, go back in time and convince my parents they are giving birth to an Avatar (Sanskrit for "Down He Crosses".)

You can act all weird and messenger-like:

"AND you will give birth to a new breed of man. His stare shall judge the nations, both corporate and criminal. He shall tame The Blue Rubber Rabbit. His likeness shall be as unto a giant sea serpent with a single eye that looks in many directions at once. His true name shall be NRUTIGLIQUA, which is to say, 'He that is born in a transplutonian river and raised under the stone hands of the Bendagrom.' But you shall call him Orm."

In regards to time travel, I had a very cool dream about Nikola Tesla. It was extremely strange in that it was a dream in which I "woke up" in my own bed with the ambient lighting identical with to what I would have seen had I really been awake. The fan was running like it always does.

The settings of my dreams usually occur elsewhere, so seeing Nikola Tesla sitting by the fan in a wash of blue light was very bizarre. I wasn't sure what he was there for, but I got the feeling he was trying to talk to me. Like he wanted something. I came to believe he wanted to see my time travel formula. He was stuck and couldn't return back to his own time. It remains one of my favorite dreams I've ever had. And to this day, I sometimes wonder if it was a dream. I mean, it seemed so goddamned real. And the AC motor in the fan might have been serving as some sort of conduit of communication or as beacon.

And if Nikola Tesla WAS looking for the formula, I'm sure he will find it now, God bless him.

If you want to learn about Nikola Tesla, start here:

http://www.yurope.com/org/tesla/uvode.htm

It is the only place I have ever found where you can download the sound of a brass egg spinning on a metal plate as it is acting as the free moving rotor of an induction motor. Tesla had this machine on display in Chicago in the late 1800's. It is in room 5 of the virtual museum, by the way. Room 3 contains the gold ball that contains the ashes of Nikola Tesla. Is it some kind of coincidence that this golden urn looks like something straight out of Phantasm II, III, & IV?

There are many ouija boards out there. The one you probably know about is the one in the game section at your local HAVITALLNBULK store.

Let me give you three alternatives.

The first, is to scour garage sales until you find a board with "disturbances" emanating from it. You might even locate one that is an off brand with unusual art work on it.

The second is to buy one from a specialty dealer who puts thought and emotion into the board's creation.

The third and perhaps the most overlooked way to get a board is to MAKE YOUR OWN. I designed mine in an unusual way, but I wanted to go for something I had never seen before. I wasn't TRYING to be pornographic. I swear. You can make your board using any type of paper or art work. Don't limit your imagination. As far as a pointer, use something light, maybe put some felt spacers on the bottom so it can move easily.

Personally, my ultimate dream board would be one designed by H. R. Giger. I think it would sell like mad. I may have to drop Les Barony a line and tell him just that. Les is Giger's agent and he was of immense help obtaining for me the much sought after Giger Baphomet Tarot Of The Underworld deck. But having a Giger talking board would be very intense, it would be the crown jewel of specialty boards.

Mr. Wikit is an example of an intense specialty board. This is not your typical talking board. You might sense just a bit of malevolence in that melting moon or frowning sun. Seth is the artist/designer of Mr. Wikit. He will go out of his way to make sure you are satisfied when you buy one of his boards. I have one myself and it has a very unusual property when you hold it up to a strong source of light in an otherwise darkened room. I also believe that this may be the only board out there that comes complete with a "shroud." I know, it sounds a little foreboding, but EMBRACE THE SERPENT. Damn it:

http://www.cyberport.com/~thurston/ouijamai.htm

To study the history of witchboards, visit this excellent site:

http://members.tripod.com/~Ouija_/index.html

And just for the hell of it, here are a couple of books that are cool, but they may be hard to find:

"Prometheus Rising" by Robert Anton Wilson, 1983

"Gates of the Mind" by Joseph Sadony, 1964

I have a very weird story about the Wilson book. I got it in my head to buy some non\fiction work by him; at the time, I only owned some of his fiction. I went to the used bookstore and marched straight back to the paranormal area where they had his books. I saw Prometheus Rising and picked it up. Without knowing why, I opened it up to the Title page and saw where he had signed it. No big deal. Maybe not, but he SIGNED IT TO SOMEONE WITH MY NAME. ("SCOTT" is my legal first name, though I generally go by my middle name of "Madison" nowadays. Like you really care.) I verified that this was his signature through a guy at work. His wife used to work at KNON radio and had interviewed Wilson. I asked him to bring me his books which were signed by Wilson. I compared the signatures and that funky little swirl in the capital "A" convinced me.

It convinced me of a lot of things.

For information on The Prisoner:

http://www.netreach.net/~sixofone/index.htm

I know there are those who wonder why I haven't mentioned the following sites so far. But I had to wait until the column of the Beast. There was no other way.

http://www.giger.com

http://www.hrgiger.com

Tell them all that Cyclopean Orm sent you.

And The Blue Rubber Rabbit says: "Phase six complete. Enochian chamber is registering possible time-wave deformations due to disclosure of formula for M.I.N.O.T.A.U.R. Entire population at risk of extinction."

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