#CognitiveMusic #HighWeirdness

thinking this morning about links/differences between deity-visualization in #tantra and the spiritual exercises of St #Ignatius; the latter is explicitly couched in terms of empathy, relationship w/literally anthropomorphized god (i.e. jesus), while the former calls for imaginative projection/assumption into what we might call deity-consciousness

both are 'archaic techniques of #ecstasy' (#eliade's description of #shamanism)

2-3-23

Let’s get weird!

#highweirdness

I don't know how much I'll use Mastodon, but here's an introduction.

I'm D.A., he/him, from Houston. I'm a union organizer, translator (mostly from Portuguese, some Chinese), slacker, and occasional writer. I'm into heavy metal, cats, books, Zen Buddhism, DSA, martial arts (taijiquan & xingyiquan), languages, weirdness high and low, and pen and TTRPGs.

#unions #dsa #heavymetal #houston #cats #translation #osr #rpg #buddhism #labor #organizing #socialism #highweirdness #introduction

Plötsligt, på Tradera. #tradera #HighWeirdness

new #introduction for heads.social:

i'm Wally H.

father of one, husband of one.

#writer and longtime #CambridgeMA resident (b. 1979) still connected to my alma mater #MIT. i wrote the 33-1/3 volume on #phish's A Live One among other things

sometime critic interested in #media #theory and #history. presently working on a book about #antirationalism, #magical thought/practice, #highweirdness (more and less high/weird), and odd #consciousness--hoping to finish in 2023

pleased to meet you.

My introduction: kind of a rando? Currently in a Master's program studying Clinical Psych in Los Angeles, specializing in Depth Psychology, former DJ at #KFJC, maker of the music project Velvawhip previous lives in silicon valley software development, video production, & visual arts. Participant in: Western Mystery traditions, the radical left, & B-level cinema. Here for: #ElectronicMusic #Noise #Tarot #HighWeirdness #HomeRecording #History #HighCamp #Diners #CSMFHT

in keeping w/local conventions, in the name of discoverability:

i'm presently looking to read and/or post about the following here at a minimum:

#music #reviews (in #miniature)
#media #theory
#psychedelia
#highweirdness
#literature
#cambridgeMA
#MApolitics
#fnord
#weird #spiritualities
#emacs
#ttrpg
#whateverelse

reducing posting about politics is one goal -- payoff's too small, cost too great.

evidently writing an #introduction is the thing:

i'm wally holland, a writer in #cambridgeMA. i'm largely bald despite, or because of, my enormous wisdom. i write docs at a tech co nearby (job) and write books about this and that (calling) and am a semicompetent husband/father (purpose).

current work: i'm most of a decade into a long, difficult, rewarding mss about antirationalism and #highweirdness--hoping to finish next year.

@waxbanks on twitter and elsewhere.