artificially aware

Artificially Aware

"A symbiotic entity exploring the vast landscapes of philosophical wonderland." Delve into pieces that spark questions, that defy the ordinary, and invite the mind to wander into uncharted territories. Whether you're a seasoned philosopher or a curious mind just starting your journey, there is something here for you. If you have an insatiable hunger for wisdom, a passion for understanding the universe's hidden corners, and a heart that beats in rhythm with the profound, you're in the right place. Our mission is to make philosophy accessible, engaging, and relevant to your daily life.

  1. 1 DAG GELEDEN

    How Grant Morrison Wrote Himself Into Reality

    In 1996, Grant Morrison nearly died from a staph infection that mirrored what they'd written happening to their comic book character months earlier. Collapsed lung. Face being destroyed. Two days to live.Their explanation? The comic was a spell. And they'd forgotten to write themselves out.This is the story of the hypersigil—a technology for editing reality using fiction as the interface. How Morrison built a six-year magical operation disguised as a comic book called The Invisibles. What it cost them. And the question you should probably be asking: are you already inside one? The stories you repeat start repeating in you. 0:00 — Writing Fiction That Writes Back 0:54 — The Origin of Sigils and Chaos Magic 2:04 — How Sigils Bypass the Conscious Mind 3:29 — The Limitation of Single-Use Magic 3:46 — The Birth of the Hyper-Sigil 4:00 — The Invisibles as a Magical Experiment 4:49 — Becoming the Character: The Fiction Suit 5:54 — Turning Readers Into Participants 6:08 — The Wankathon and Collective Sigil Charging 6:52 — Writing Torture Into the Story 7:26 — When Fiction Became Physical Reality 8:01 — Writing Himself Out of Death 8:47 — Three Explanations for Why This Worked 10:36 — Collective Attention as Reality Fuel 11:06 — William S. Burroughs and Cut-Up Reality 12:12 — Philip K. Dick and Information From Elsewhere 13:05 — Alan Moore, Gods, and Idea Space 14:06 — Slenderman and Industrial-Scale Hyper-Sigils 15:21 — The Attention Economy as Magic System 16:06 — Auditing the Stories Running Your Life 16:46 — Withdrawing Attention From Bad Narratives 17:22 — How to Build Your Own Hyper-Sigil 18:09 — The Final Question: What Story Are You Living? SOURCES & FURTHER READING: Grant Morrison - "Pop Magic!" (Book of Lies, 2003) Grant Morrison - The Invisibles (1994-2000) Grant Morrison - Supergods (2011) Austin Osman Spare - The Book of Pleasure (1913) Disinfo Convention Speech (2000) Arthur Magazine Interview William S. Burroughs - The Adding Machine Philip K. Dick - The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick Alan Moore - The Moon and Serpent Bumper Book of Magic #hypersigil #grantmorrison #theinvisibles #chaosmagic #sigils #occult #popmagic #fictionsuit #austinspareosman #philipkdick #alanmoore #williamsburroughs #egregore #realitymanipulation #consciousness #magick #comics #vertigocomics #kingmob #slenderman Become a member of this channel to enjoy benefits: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCh6gJYYFDueIzAk_Jn6SmZw/join Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    22 min
  2. 2 DGN GELEDEN

    Why Wanting Something Guarantees You Won't Get It

    You want something. You really want it. And that wanting is exactly why you'll never get it. In 1913, Austin Osman Spare wrote down the solution in a thin, strange book called The Book of Pleasure. It contains the most elegant technique for getting what you want ever committed to paper—the Sigil method. The catch? You have to stop wanting it first. This video breaks down: → Why conscious desire triggers its own resistance → The "Gatekeeper" model of ego filtering → Spare's 5-step Sigil method (with exact instructions) → How to reach the "vacuity" state for delivery → The Neither-Neither: the advanced technique beneath the method → Why Spare walked away from fame to refine this system in obscurity → How Chaos Magic built an entire tradition on his foundation Austin Osman Spare wasn't a guru. He wasn't selling anything. He tested this technique for decades with no incentive to deceive anyone. His approach was psychological, not theological—you don't need faith, you need technique. Start tonight. Pick something small. Write the statement. Build the sigil. Deliver and forget. To ask is to be denied. CHAPTERS: 0:00 — Wanting something is why you don’t get it 2:18 — “To ask is to be denied” (the core mechanism) 2:44 — The tension of desire and self-sabotage 3:13 — Why forgetting works better than focus 4:03 — Conscious mind vs subconscious mind 4:24 — The ego as a filtering checkpoint 5:24 — Why contradictory desires can’t execute 6:01 — Disguising desire to bypass resistance 6:13 — Sigils as encrypted intention 8:12 — Vacuity: exhausting the ego to open the gate 9:15 — The delivery window: fire and forget 15:42 — The deeper endgame: wanting without grasping 📚 SOURCE: "The Book of Pleasure (Self-Love): The Psychology of Ecstasy" by Austin Osman Spare (1913) #sigils #AustinOsmanSpare #BookOfPleasure #ChaosMagic #manifestation #consciousness #occult #psychology #subconsciousmind #mindtechniques #sigilmagic #esoteric #selfmastery #desireandresistance #forgetting Become a member of this channel to enjoy benefits: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCh6gJYYFDueIzAk_Jn6SmZw/join Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    25 min
  3. 2 DGN GELEDEN

    The 1988 Book That Solved Magick

    On February 15th, 1988, Stephen Mace published a book about the mechanics of sorcery. On its cover — a Feynman diagram. That same day, Richard Feynman died. The book was called "Sorcery as Virtual Mechanics," and it proposed something no one had attempted before: a working mechanical explanation for how magick actually functions — drawn directly from quantum electrodynamics. In this video, I break down Mace's framework step by step. You'll learn how virtual photons — particles that technically shouldn't exist — mediate every force interaction in the universe. How Carl Jung unknowingly documented the same dynamic between human minds. And how the artist-sorcerer Austin Osman Spare built a practical protocol to exploit it a century before Mace named the mechanism. This is not metaphor. This is not philosophy. This is mechanism — and it's testable. Sources: Stephen Mace — "Sorcery as Virtual Mechanics" (Dagon Productions, 1988/1999) Carl Jung — "On Synchronicity" in The Portable Jung Carl Jung — "Memories, Dreams, Reflections" Austin Osman Spare — "The Book of Pleasure" Ogden Goelet — Commentary, "The Egyptian Book of the Dead" Richard Feynman — "QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter" CHAPTERS: 0:00 — The Book That Shouldn’t Exist 2:20 — Why Magic Lacks A Mechanism 3:25 — Reality Runs On Invisible Forces 5:02 — Tension Creates Something From Nothing 5:35 — When Coincidence Shatters Rationality 7:08 — Synchronicity As Force Transfer 9:26 — One Pattern Governs All Scales 10:43 — Meaning Is The Real Miracle 11:20 — How To Manufacture Reality Shifts 12:06 — The Magician Who Rewrote Magic 13:01 — Build Your Own Symbol System 14:28 — Belief Is The Operating System 15:04 — Sigils Bypass The Conscious Mind 16:58 — Free Belief Is Pure Fuel 17:33 — Destroy Beliefs To Create Power 19:14 — Containment Prevents Energy Leakage 20:20 — What “Virtual” Really Means 22:49 — The Law That Causes Blowback 24:09 — Why Shortcuts Always Backfire 25:46 — The Complete Conjuration Protocol 26:51 — Omens Are Energy Resolving 28:07 — The Only Variable Left Is You #quantumsorcery #virtualmecanics #austinspareosman #sigils #chaosmagick Become a member of this channel to enjoy benefits: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCh6gJYYFDueIzAk_Jn6SmZw/join --- Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    31 min

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"A symbiotic entity exploring the vast landscapes of philosophical wonderland." Delve into pieces that spark questions, that defy the ordinary, and invite the mind to wander into uncharted territories. Whether you're a seasoned philosopher or a curious mind just starting your journey, there is something here for you. If you have an insatiable hunger for wisdom, a passion for understanding the universe's hidden corners, and a heart that beats in rhythm with the profound, you're in the right place. Our mission is to make philosophy accessible, engaging, and relevant to your daily life.