The Survivalist grows medicinal herbs, stockpiles emergency rations, and stores guns and ammunition in a secret underground bunker. He is vigilant and hyper-prepared in response to the fear and scarcity narratives that dominate our culture.
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THE LONER
The Loner may be a hero in self-imposed exile or a traveling stranger who rejects the superficiality of society. Was he forced into isolation, or does he prefer his solitude? Regardless, there is a certain romanticism about the unique life he leads.
THE NOIR CITY
The Noir City is a mysterious labyrinth of smoky bars, lounges and nightclubs, blind alleys, abandoned factories, shadowy train platforms, fog-filled parks, austere detective agencies and darkened gambling dens. An ominous urban maze where it's always night and it always rains.
THE LOYAL FRIEND
The Loyal Friend remembers promises and protects secrets in silent solidarity. Ever faithful, never feckless.
THE MYSTIC
The mystic may experience the death of illusory ego. Is ego death related to the attainment of enlightenment? Or does this state transcend the notion that one possesses an "ego" with which to experience "death" in the first place? Surely ego death is a form of awakening.
THE INSURGENT
The Insurgent asks, "Why abdicate our freedom into the hands of a few individuals? Why empower them to arrogate the power of all to themselves? Are they so exceptionally gifted? —so infallible? —so incorruptible?"
THE SAVANT
The Savant may have no apparent abnormalities other than his unique abilities. This does not mean that his brilliance wasn't triggered by a brain dysfunction of some sort, but it does temper the theory that all savants are disabled and that some sort of trade-off is required.
THE INITIATE
The Initiate seeks that moment of miraculous clarity when imagination and creative action are as mirror images. The real reflects, then becomes, the ideal. As above, so below.
THE CREATIVE
The Creative disregards standard circadian rhythms, preferring to self-select light/dark [L/D] cycles which coincide with variable activity/rest [A/R]. Working in isolation and deprived of external time cues, he favors extended periods of extreme productivity, punctuated by intervals of despair.
THE HELPER
After accepting the overture of destiny, the hero may encounter a Helper with unique insight. The helper's purpose is to provide the hero with supernatural aid, esoteric knowledge, tools or talismans. The helper most often appears in archetypal form as an angelic spirit, crone, wise man, wizard, mentor or teacher.
DO YOU WRESTLE WITH DREAMS?
Do you wrestle with dreams?
Do you contend with shadows?
Do you move in a kind of sleep?
Time has slipped away.
Your life is stolen.
You tarried with trifles,
Victim of your folly.
—William Gibson
Do you contend with shadows?
Do you move in a kind of sleep?
Time has slipped away.
Your life is stolen.
You tarried with trifles,
Victim of your folly.
—William Gibson
BEAUTIFUL & BRILLIANT
Happy birthday November 9th to actress/inventor HEDY LAMARR. In 1942, at the height of her Hollywood career, Lamarr and her composer friend George Antheil invented and patented an early technique of spread spectrum communications called "frequency hopping" that was decades ahead of its time. Originally conceived for the purpose of torpedo guidance, frequency hopping technology has been necessary to wireless communication from the pre-computer age to the present day.
DM-2045 Recommends: I AM THE VERY MODEL OF A SINGULARITARIAN by Charlie Kam
SHAPE OF MY HEART ~ Sting
BOHEMIAN ROOT
AS ABOVE, SO BELOW
"That which is Below corresponds to that which is Above,
and that which is Above corresponds to that which is Below,
to accomplish the miracle of the One Thing."
~The Emerald Tablet of Hermes Trismegistus
and that which is Above corresponds to that which is Below,
to accomplish the miracle of the One Thing."
~The Emerald Tablet of Hermes Trismegistus