absolute body control, abstract thinking, agnosticism, AI, Aleister Crowley, ancient egypt, ancient wisdom, animal rights, artificial intelligence, atheism, autonomatrix, baduk, belief systems, body modification, books, boxes, burning man, catholicism, chaos, chaos magic(k), Chicago, cmt, coil, community, comparative religion, computers, creativity, critical thinking, daoism, dark energy, dark matter, databases, Dead Can Dance, Diamanda Galas, Die Warzau, divination, Dune, dzogchen, egyptology, Einsturzende Neubauten, engineering, esoteric knowledge, existentialism, Fight Club, gnosis, gnosticism, gnostism, go/wei-chi, guns, hieroglyphics, history of magick, history of religions, H. P. Lovecraft, human behavior, illumination, industrial music, intellectual conversations, intelligence, IOT, Jan Fries, joy, Ken Wilber, kenjitsu, keys, kill your television, kissing, language, libertarian, life, literature, love, lucid dreaming, lust, magick, martial arts, Mary Magdalene, memetics, merkaba cabala, militant-chaosorcery, mind expansion, monogamy, motorcycles and motorcycling, mythology, necronomicon, Nikola Tesla, nonduality, occult, paradigm shifting, peace, Peter Carroll, Peter Murphy, Philip K. Dick, philosophy, physics, pigface, polyamory, polygamy, quantum physics, quantum theory, reading, religion, Robert Anton Wilson, rock climbing, rockclimbing, ruins, San Francisco, science fiction, scrying, sex, skydiving, sorcery, Stanley Kubrick, Star Wars, swords, symbolism, Taipei, Taiwan, talismans, taoism, tattoos, terry pratchett, thai food, the moon, the tao, thelema, Thich Nhat Hanh, Thrill Kill Kult, TOS, touching, walking, wing-tsun, z(cluster), z-cluster, zen, zygotes.
Music
I enjoy music quite a bit. A few of my favorite bands are (in alpha order) the Beatles, Dead Can Dance, Diamanda Galas, Die Warzau, Einsturzende Neubauten, Front242, Klaatu, This Mortal Coil, and Thrill Kill Kult... but I have many many more.
Movies
Favorite Cyber/tech Movies: Matrix, 13th Floor, BladeRunner. The 1st/original "Star Wars" is one of my "all time" favorite movies. Other favorite movies: "Dances with Wolves" and "The Cube". I liked "Run Lola Run", Memento & "Pulp Fiction" a lot, partly because of the "time twists" in each of them. "Donnie Darko" (which also had some time-twist stuff) gave me some stuff to ponder (which means I liked it too). "The Usual Suspects" had a good lesson to teach, so I recommend it to those who are interested in strategy. I laughed a lot during "Time Bandits" and I enjoyed "a beautiful mind" quite a bit.
Television
Discover Chanel
Books
Stranger in a Strange Land, Godel Escher Bach, The Age of Spiritual Machines, Dune, The GOD Delusion, The Meaning of the 21st Century, A Brief History of Everything, Liber Null & Psychonaut.
Heroes
Peter Carroll, Henry Rollins, and my dad. Many of my friends are pretty heroic too. & Ken Wilber (who I never met IRL) is... somebody who I admire}.
Columbia College Chicago
Chicago, ILLINOIS
Graduated: 1995
Student status: Alumni
Degree: Bachelor's Degree
Major: Audio Engineering
Clubs: Wei-chi club
1991 to 1995
Illinois State University
Normal, ILLINOIS
Graduated: 1991
Student status: Alumni
Degree: Bachelor's Degree
Major: Computer Aided Design
I am interested in many things (see list) but Zen and the "powers"/abilities of the human mind, AI, Quantum physics, geometry, the game of go (aka baduk or wei-chi), cutting edge tech, computers & cybernetics are some of my favorite interests. ---
Some of my favorite things to do are: ride my motorcycle on the LA free-ways as fast as I can go and not get in trouble, rock-climbing, having dinner with friends, and when we can't hang IRL then email with them to help stay "in touch" while I am away. ---
I try to be a balanced realist: that is I try to see the glass as "half full" *and* "half empty" (I try to see beyond our dualistic world). One of my mottos is: "Moderation in all things, including moderation." Moderation in moderation means that sometimes it pays off to work hard & life is more fun if you "party hard" once in a while (but not too often). ---
My social-political "standing"/veiw-point is very similar to the Dali-Lama's.
For more info on this, see my LJ post here:
http://www.livejournal.com/users/sighris/40746.html
Who I'd like to meet: Anyone who will let me join them on their adventure through life... or will give me lots of money or sex. Also anybody who will help me transform our Earth into a more healthy place!
This is live footage from the OEDIPUS TYRANNOS production in Melbourne March 09, of the Pythoness or Delphic Oracle's prophetic glosssolalia to Oedipus, as 'translated' by the Priest of Apollo:
The performer, Medea Luminea is one of the 3 Australian members of Metamorphic Ritual Theatre Co. (the others are Orryelle as Oedipus and Giselle Sibyl as the SphinX) who -together with local ritual dancer Aradia Sunseri- are performing OEDIPUS TYRANNOS in Oakland, California next Thurs May 21st:
The first ever full Metamorphic Ritual Theatre Production in the USA (Oakland California):
OEDIPUS TYRANNOS, featuring 3 Australian members of Metamorphic Ritual Theatre company -Orryelle as Oedipus, Giselle Sibyl as the SphinX (above) and Medea as the Delphic Oracle -together with local SF performer Aradia as Hecate-Moerae- explore the co-weaving of Fate and Will in a new multimedia spectacle of classical and contemporary verse, ancient ritual drama and modern Butoh and Tribal Fusion Dance.
One Show Only: Thurs 21 May 2009, 8 PM
@ The Humanist Hall 390 27th St Oakland, California 94612
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