Eightpoint: The Mental and Physical

Mind and Body

Taking non-dualism into account in Chaosophy, we are left with an incontrovertible truth – there is no true division between mind, body, or spirit.

Or should we say – they are not separate, not together, but both separate and together.

Those that fancy that the mind is somehow separate from the body, a Draconian would ask thus: how do you account for mind altering drugs? The pleasant feeling one gets from imbibing a fine alcoholic beverage? The changes in spirituality and personality of those who undergo damage to the nervous system? Famously, Phineas Gage took a railroad spike to his brain and changed from a well-respected man to a fighting drunkard.

To those that fancy that the mind is fully integrated with the body – how do you account for those who suffer from massive brain damage and yet have no change in personality or spirituality? There are those who are born without entire sections of the brain, and by all accounts of modern medicine should not be able to function, yet they do so just fine.

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Ninepoint: Chaos

There are no known limits to the size of our universe.

Let that phrase sink into your mind for just a moment.

Consider it as you drive to work today, as you feed your children or tend your front lawn. As we look out farther and farther into the cosmos, we see only more stars, more galaxies, more superclusters of stars and galaxies spinning wildly in the void of space. There does not seem to be any limit, any final wall of our universe – just more luminous wonder greeting both our retinas and lenses.

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Zeropoint – Introduction

As with any new burgeoning philosophy, time needs to be taken in order to ensure no misunderstandings – intentional or unintentional – come to light. Thus, we will take the next few pages and lay down key concepts, definitions, and the core beliefs of the Path of Chaos.

First, one who walks the Path of Chaos is known as a Draconian. The name given is not in order to frighten, mislead, or draw attention to oneself. Rather, one belief of the Path is that one should continually strive to overcome their human weaknesses. This in turn leads to a stronger individual, one who is not human in the traditional sense.

We see human history as one full of suffering, willful ignorance, and dogmatic persecutions. There is little to be proud of in our past. True, there have been a few charitable individuals, but one or two Mother Teresa’s cannot excuse our violent past. Thus we seek to transcend our humanity, through perfecting control of our bodies. We see a human as a slovenly, weak individual, while a Draconian seeks to better themselves through meditation, study, and exercise.

Second: Chaos is defined in terms that a typical westerner would find painfully ambiguous. This, again, is not done to allow Draconians or others to read into the text what they want, or to avoid what the dogmatic scientist would call ‘hard questions’ – rather, the ambiguity is part of the Path.

We see Chaos as the sum total of all existence. Chaos is not ‘god’ – though god is part of Chaos. Chaos is not the universe – though, again, the universe is part of Chaos. Chaos that can be spoken of, fully defined, is not true Chaos. That is, a human can never hope to understand everything, so instead of cowering in the thought that there is still uncharted waters in life, we embrace the concept. We will never have a perfect science, nor a perfect religion. But the Path of Chaos attempts to reconcile the two by acknowledging the limitations of both, seeing the complimentary aspects of both, and taking them together to create a new, united whole.

One final word on Chaos. Although we visualize Chaos as a dragon, this is done to give our meditations an anchor point, not to say that we have a grasp on the whole.

Third: non-belief. This is possibly the hardest aspect of the Path for an outsider to understand. Here I will quote Buddha:

Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.

Allow me to elaborate. All to often people take extremes in an argument – the scientist will take the materialistic stance, the mystic the magical stance. The politician will take the liberal stance, while the other will take the conservative stance. The Draconian holds no side to be fully correct, for reason itself is a gray-shaded science. Anything can be proven true to anyone, given the right information and reality-tunnels of the receiver.

Thus, any religion can be proven to be the one true religion. Any science can be proven to be fully correct. Any philosophy, mode of thought – anything! – can be proven true, given enough time, energy and resources. Thus the Draconian does not hunt for folly-ridden concepts like Truth, but instead hunts for perspective. What does the arguer want? What agenda does he or she have? How were they raised? What religions have they been exposed to?

Critics have said we embrace falsehood taking the ‘unbelief’ stance. This is not so. Instead we embrace reason, study its ins and outs, but attempt, instead of winning an argument, instead of trying to find truth – as if such a thing has ever existed – we attempt to compromise, to enlighten, to broaden our perspectives. Thus it is, a Draconian never tries to win an argument, but instead attempts to broaden hir perspective, and to broaden hir opponents perspective. This in itself tends to lead to a peaceful end to an argument.

Fourth: non-dualism. While this ties into non-belief, it still bears some elaboration. Let’s say we are discussing good and evil. For a Christian the concepts are far and away separate – God is good, Satan is evil, and the two sides are in eternal conflict. They can never be reconciled or dealt with.

But a Draconian sees good and evil in a different light. He sees them neither separated, nor united, but both separated and united. This further does not mean that they have ‘aspects’ or ‘sides’ that they share, but they are both fully united and fully separated.

Some may roll their eyes at this definition, chuckled mirthlessly and move on. But in truth non-dualism is an important part of not only the Path of the Dragon, but life as well. A human being would never do charitable work if they were severely punished for it. And no one would steal or lie if there was no reward, either. You cannot separate the two.

If you are still confused, this is discussed in length further on in the book.

Finally, we come to non-attachment. This term has been misunderstood since it has lived its life in the various religions of the world and when it lived in the philosophies of Greek Stoicism.

Draconians define it thus. We believe in living within the present moment, not pining for the past nor hoping for the future. We simply live, immersing ourselves fully in each and every task, in each moment. Non-attachment means we do not long for the past moments that have slipped away, nor do we hope for future moments. We exist here, now – if we lost a material item in the past, so what? We live in the now. A true Draconian does not grieve for the past.

Some say that this definition must be taken to extremes, making the Draconian forgo all attachment to people, places, and things. But that is not quite right. There is nothing inherently wrong in enjoying material things, nor is there anything wrong in forming attachments to people. It is when this is taken to unhealthy extremes – as is often done in our modern society – that the Draconian would look in frustration and ask, “Is this suffering worth it?”

As was said earlier, this is merely the introduction, to give the reader a taste of the material within. There is still much more to discuss. I invite you, reader, to challenge your assumptions, your beliefs, and read on. Only by questioning yourself will you find any sort of enlightenment forthcoming.

Memento Mori,

Lord Chaos

…is going to rule the world!

Yes, you crazy sons of bitches, we are back. And again, by “we,” I mean the thirteen voices in my head and I.

Chaos Seeds was a project we thought up in order to explore our various interests. However, as with most people, interests change, and I soon grew bored with the site and it’s direction. It’s sure fun to write words and see them in teh intarwebs, but the magic wears off pretty quickly.

So the purpose of the site is going to change. The articles will change. But the Chaos, the madness, and the insanity will stay the same – and in the end, isn’t that why you come here in the first place?

So to get the engine revving, we’re going to post here what is by far the coolest video ever to hit teh intarwebs:

If you don’t get aroused from this, you need to get your limbic system checked out. (Bet you missed the neurology jokes, didn’t ya?)

We here at Chaos Seeds stand behind Anonymous. Because they speak for those who, like us, are sick of the system, sick of mainstream media lying to us, sick of corporations lying to us, and are sick up politicians lying to us.

We’re tired of having our tax money fund wars that are instigated for profit, tired of our tax money going to bailouts which end up in CEO’s pockets, and tired of our tax money paying for politicians six figure incomes and health care while the rest of us suffer.

Mostly, though, we’re sick of suffering.

Through this website I will, soon, publish a manual called the Sulcus Draco. Consider it an element of Chaos for the fans of Anonymous. It is a manual, a guidebook, of Chaos, and of living the Chaos lifestyle. If that sounds cool to you, hang tight. If it doesn’t….well, can’t really help you there.

We are anonymous.
We are legion.
We are no one and everyone.
We. Are. Chaos.

Memento Mori,
Lord Chaos

…scary!

More than 100 drivers in Austin, Texas found their cars disabled or the horns honking out of control, after an intruder ran amok in a web-based vehicle-immobilization system normally used to get the attention of consumers delinquent in their auto payments.

Police with Austin’s High Tech Crime Unit on Wednesday arrested 20-year-old Omar Ramos-Lopez, a former Texas Auto Center employee who was laid off last month, and allegedly sought revenge by bricking the cars sold from the dealership’s four Austin-area lots.

“We initially dismissed it as mechanical failure,” says Texas Auto Center manager Martin Garcia. “We started having a rash of up to a hundred customers at one time complaining. Some customers complained of the horns going off in the middle of the night. The only option they had was to remove the battery.”

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…I’m all for it.

Chamberland joined NASA as a bioengineer in the mid ‘80s, just as the manned space program was starting to thunder forward. But rather than looking up to the stars, he began looking down – deep down. As a developer of the agency’s Advanced Space Life Support Systems, which monitors the safety for all off-planet habitation pursuits, Chamberland soon became a lead proponent of research on an idea being floated by NASA at the time: using the sea as a testbed for space exploration. Before long, this homegrown explorer would become one of the country’s leading proponents of undersea habitation, and an advocate for what he calls the “space-ocean analog.”

An aquanaut and Mission Commander on seven NASA underwater missions, Chamberland has also pursued landmark research in bioengineering and become a prolific writer ofscience books and sci-fi novels. But it was his work for NASA that resulted in his harvesting of the first agricultural crop in a manned habitat on the sea floor, and led to his designing and construction of the Scott Carpenter Space Analog Station, a two man undersea habitat off Key Largo. The little permanent submarine has been visited by a range of curious futurist explorers, including James Cameron and TV producer Rod Roddenberry, Jr.

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…are addicting, just like everything else. What do we do, live in the woods with a sharp stick sticking fish and deer?

http://www.cracked.com/article_18461_5-creepy-ways-video-games-are-trying-to-get-you-addicted_p1.html

…is dead. The brick-and-mortar schools, that is, are all dying from cost. It will try to survive, but it’s going to have to change radically.

http://globalguerrillas.typepad.com/globalguerrillas/2010/03/journal-education-and-media-in-a-resilient-society.html

…comes in all ways.

Oh yes, she’s on the hate list, but I won’t look for or post the video they’re talking about.

The short video made its way around China’s Web in early 2006, passed on through file sharing and recommended in chat rooms. It opens with a middle-aged Asian woman dressed in a leopard-print blouse, knee-length black skirt, stockings and silver stilettos standing next to a riverbank. She smiles, holding a small brown and white kitten in her hands. She gently places the cat on the tiled pavement and proceeds to stomp it to death with the sharp point of her high heel.

“This is not a human,” wrote BrokenGlasses, a user on Mop, a Chinese online forum. “I have no interest in spreading this video nor can I remain silent. I just hope justice can be done.” That first post elicited thousands of responses. “Find her and kick her to death like she did to the kitten,” one user wrote. Then the inquiries started to become more practical: “Is there a front-facing photo so we can see her more clearly?” The human-flesh search had begun.

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…turning it back to farmland has a quiet humor to it.

Detroit, the very symbol of American industrial might for most of the 20th century, is drawing up a radical renewal plan that calls for turning large swaths of this now-blighted, rusted-out city back into the fields and farmland that existed before the automobile.

Operating on a scale never before attempted in this country, the city would demolish houses in some of the most desolate sections of Detroit and move residents into stronger neighborhoods. Roughly a quarter of the 139-square-mile city could go from urban to semi-rural.

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…what our government is doing to us, without our knowledge…

In 1951, a quiet, picturesque village in southern France was suddenly and mysteriously struck down with mass insanity and hallucinations. At least five people died, dozens were interned in asylums and hundreds afflicted.

For decades it was assumed that the local bread had been unwittingly poisoned with a psychedelic mould. Now, however, an American investigative journalist has uncovered evidence suggesting the CIA peppered local food with the hallucinogenic drug LSD as part of a mind control experiment at the height of the Cold War.

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…before we can plug our brains into computers. Or put computers INTO OUR BRAINS!!

The world’s first patient-ready and commercially available brain computer interface just arrived atCeBIT 2010. The Intendix from Guger Technologies (g*tec) is a system that uses an EEG cap to measure brain activity in order to let you type with your thoughts. Meant to work with those with locked-in syndrome, or other disabilities, Intendix is simple enough to use after just 10 minutes of training.

The rest is here.

…is proven. The mind is the brain, the brain can shift and change, we can control our minds.

Nobody connected those accidents to the difficulties he had in school as he acted out, stopped talking for three months and cried daily for two years. As an adult, he seemed to be a thriving, successful stockbroker, until traumaticbrain injury from a 1999 soccer accident led to seizures and sidelined his ability to talk to people and stay on task, it seemed, for good.

Two realizations have turned his life around at 42. First, he realized that braininjuries were behind the troubles he had had all his life. And second, he read about brain plasticity — the concept that the brain can heal and learn at all ages.

“It was a relief,” says Hayner, who credits his 2008 training at the University of Texas at Dallas’ Center for BrainHealth for helping to restore abilities that he thought were long gone. “It helped me regain my self-esteem and self-confidence. It gave me hope.”

Neuroplasticity, or the brain’s ability to adapt and change through life, is gaining increased traction in medical circles.

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…is being threatened for no reason?

The biggest threat to the open internet is not Chinese government hackers or greedy anti-net-neutrality ISPs, it’s Michael McConnell, the former director of national intelligence.

McConnell’s not dangerous because he knows anything about SQL injection hacks, but because he knows about social engineering. He’s the nice-seeming guy who’s willing and able to use fear-mongering to manipulate the federal bureaucracy for his own ends, while coming off like a straight shooter to those who are not in the know.

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