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These three gadgets are some of the most potent occult technology for altering consciousness ever created. Check out what we’ve got for you…
Since the dawn of history, human beings have been trying to alter their consciousnesses, with every conceivable means, from fasting to sleeplessness to psychedelic drugs and many, many more ways. It’s like sex: If there’s any conceivable way to do it, somebody’s tried it. In the 20th and 21st centuries, however, we’ve gotten some incredible new occult technology for pushing our minds out of their usual ruts and into unexplored territories:
1. The Dream Machine
The Dream Machine, created by Brion Gysin, Ian Sommerville and William S. Burroughs, is an occult technology that creates flicker patterns behind the closed eyelids of a person staring at it. These flicker patterns subtly alter the viewer’s brainwaves, creating waking hallucinations that can be incredibly, shockingly vivid. It’s made from three things: a cardboard cylinder with slats in it to generate the right flicker pattern, a 78 rpm turntable upon which the cardboard tube sits, and a single lightbulb dangling from a cord into the turntable. The turntable spins the tube, creating the hallucinatory flicker pattern.
Gysin, the device’s primary inventor, was a gay surrealist painter and author who fled the bitchy, backbiting Paris surrealism scene to seek the frontiers of Extreme Experience in Morocco, delving headlong into the occult and the libertine atmosphere of Tangiers; Burroughs would later join him, and the two would embark on a legendary magical partnership, exploring the outer ranges of operative sorcery and sanity itself.
Burroughs wrote about Dream Machines extensively in his novels, where he depicted them as a weapon for the freedom of consciousness in the eternal war against Control. The author spoke highly of his friend’s invention, saying: “Subjects report dazzling lights of unearthly brilliance and color… Elaborate geometric constructions of incredible intricacy build up from multidimensional mosaic into living fireballs like the mandalas of Eastern mysticism or resolve momentarily into apparently individual images and powerfully dramatic scenes like brightly colored dreams.”
The machine was officially unveiled in 1962, at the Louvre’s Museé des Arts Decoratifs, to a fascinated public and press—but Gysin, unsatisfied with a small art audience, dreamed of mass production. He turned first to business magnate Helena Rubinstein, who was taken with the device and exhibited it in her shop windows, but then refused to pay for it. Next Gysin tried the Philips Corporation—a representative of the company, while visiting Gysin at the Beat Hotel, slipped on dogshit in the hall; the deal was cancelled. Later, Colombia Records wanted to market the Dream Machine as a lamp. Meeting with Colombia executives in 1965, Gysin (ever the magician) told them that vinyl records would soon be obsolete, replaced with optical discs that were read with a ray of light. He was not well received.
Gysin died in 1986, the cause of the Dream Machine having been taken up by his protégé Genesis P-Orridge and the loose occult and media subversion network the Temple ov Psychick Youth. TOPY both propagandized the Dream Machine and distributed information on how to make your own, using Gysin’s original plans.
Commercial Dream Machines are expensive—but luckily, you can build your own.
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Below, check out an incredible, mind-blowing documentary on Gysin and the Dream Machine, “Flicker,” which you can buy here.
2. The Sensory Deprivation Tank
Invented by the psychonaut John C. Lilly, the sensory deprivation tank is designed to do one thing: Completely shut off your senses, so that your mind can be totally free to roam or astrally project. The tank is full of epsom salt-saturated water which is heated to exactly 93º F, with exactly the right salt condensation to keep you floating weightlessly without your eyes and mouth submerging. It’s also sound proof and totally dark. That means that, after getting situated and comfortable, you now get to experience what it’s like to be weightless, with no sensory input.
Having used sensory deprivation tanks regularly, I can attest that, though they can be tricky to get used to (the salt burns your eyes if you don’t cover them with petroleum jelly first, for instance, and getting the right posture can take some experimentation), once mastered, they are literally one of the most consciousness-altering examples of true occult technology in existence. Once you get used to them, you realize just how much your body’s constant minor aches and pains get in the way of experiencing the mind on its own terms—and when you full enter the mental space, there is little that’s not possible, including profoundly psychedelic and erotic experiences.
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Getting access to a floatation tank can be tricky. If you live near a major city (or a smaller one with enough hippies) you can probably find a center that offers sessions in floatation tanks. They can be pricey. The next step, of course, is to buy your own—even pricier, as tanks, even used ones, can run you thousands of dollars and require regular maintenance, tricky for the average person. However, this startup is working on making tanks affordable—their floatation tent, which runs a still pricey $1,700 (but as opposed to the $9K+ of the older tanks), ships in March.
Below, check out a great documentary on the tank from VICE’s Hamilton Morris.
3. Orgone Accumulators
Wilhelm Reich, the embattled psychoanalyst I also wrote about at length for VICE’s Motherboard, here, was one of the most controversial men of the 20th century. He waged a one-man war against all entrenched forms of authoritarianism, from fascism to communism, was thrown out of more countries than Crowley, and was eventually killed by the United States government, who threw him in jail after burning all of his books and destroying all of his scientific equipment. Reich was dangerous not so much for ideological reasons, but that he saw ideology itself as a disease, taking mankind away from the innate freedom of the human body, as expressed in the orgasm. So far did Reich go in is quest to unlock the liberatory potential of orgasm that he even began to theorize that orgasm itself was a concentrated burst of a life-force behind the movements of the cosmos—”orgone,” as he called it, which he went on to measure and even build devices to accumulate, much to the chagrin of the scientific establishment.
Reich’s orgone accumulators were an occult technology that purported to condense and harness orgone energy, which Reich claimed could not only cure neurosis and sexual repression, but also a wide range of physical ailments including cancer, and even control and change the weather. One experiment, in which a piece of radioactive isotope was placed inside an orgone accumulator, disturbed the weather for miles.
While Reich’s legacy has waned since his death at the hands of the FDA (what Robert Anton Wilson called “the New Inquisition”), you can still get his books and even cheaply build your own orgone accumulator devices to test his occult technology for yourself. (They personally make me feel incredibly calm and relaxed—post-orgasmic, as it were.)
RELATED: How to Make and Orgone Accumulator Blanket… and Harnass Orgasmic Energy!
Below, watch the 2012 Wilhelm Reich biopic, “The Strange Case of Wilhelm Reich.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEilU4jRaTo
Source: https://ultraculture.org/blog/2015/02/17/occult-technology/#.WRm6YWRhkQ9
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HA! “We must storm the citadels of enlightenment, the means are at hand”. That’s a typical statement by a person who lives with an altered consciousness due to artificial inducement of sensory stimulation, a spell of the sensuous. There’s no smell of liberation or regeneration present here, as I perceive it.
To me it’s show and theatre, staged performances, an addiction to effects, for they’re oh so short-lived.
There’s a presence in astral levels with a fluid reality and easily reached exaltation, due to feelings under the magnifying glass as it were. Beautiful imagery and words to describe them. It’s all pump and circumstance to me, suitable for chilling out in the same realm where the experience takes place: the astral world, depending on the personality of the user, in the lower or the higher levels of the astral world. Having fun, being able to talk eloquently, keeping the listener spell-bound. Even a sublimation of a painful core issue in one’s life?
It’s one of the most delusional statements ever made, “We must storm the citadels of enlightenment, the means are at hand”, from my point of view. I’m not suggesting that trying out all kind of experiences, with consciousness altering substances and devices, is wrong. It’s in the interpretation of the experiences, where discernment and common sense easily gets lost, if not lost already during the experience itself.
Isn’t it true that each of us human beings has a unique interpretation of one’s reality and lives by it?
Why than, I wonder, use a substance or device that has done that for us already? Storming our mind?
I agree with this: “It’s like sex: If there’s any conceivable way to do it, somebody’s tried it”.
After all, sex is a consciousness altering affair too, at least when it sends one into heaven, into bliss.
For as long as it lasts… “Love is a warm gun” that’s a blunt statement by John Lennon.
Hence our craving for sex, our instinctual longing to reach orgasm and “shake hands with God”.
Isn’t the high in a heroin-flash based on the same longing for that handshake?
And this brings me directly to the key of my argument against the validity of experiences with these “3 Magick Gadgets That Will Blow Your Mind”. The means to reach enlightenment… storm the citadels…
is an artificial method, an effect from outside our energy-system that indeed storms the citadels of our mind. Mind-blows followed by a creation of one’s own world based on these strange experiences, although entering the world of archetypes, mythical figures and memories of past lives seem part of it.
It’s my opinion, that none of those methods is truly helpful in the development of our consciousness.
For the effect of an outside force, a power that affects our consciousness, isn’t in sync with one’s observation following this process from point A to B and ultimately Z. It is a storm indeed, causing more chaos than order in one’s mind on the long run. Or for a better choice of word: a scattered mind.
Another, to me very important aspect of dwelling in astral realms, is the high risk of attracting entities and energy-attachments, that are ignored often, but which can have desastrous consequences, taking over a person’s will pretending to mean well by serving that person’s instinctual desires. Ancestors and grandfathers or grandmothers, on the other side, can take part in it as well. It’s not always “alien”.
I assume some of you are more or less familiar with this. Mind-control isn’t only designed by human beings, although there possibly a mix of earth – and lower astral realms involved in it.
I’ve never in my life met and witnessed a person who used consciousness altering substances or devices, using the experience for the better of one’s own spiritual growth or for the spiritual growth of humanity. I’ve experienced a mescalin trip once in my life, that was the most consciousness altering experience and a good one. I was deeply in touch with the natural world.
It’s my opinion, that inner work in whatever form or way, has one great value that outside forces miss and that’s that with our inner work we observe and witness the process step by step, thinking, sensing and feeling included. For whatever purpose that inner work is chosen, it’s experienced in full and in all phases of the journey, so that whatever it is that shows up, in trial and error, can be fully embodied, in essence.
With these “3 magick gadgets” there’s hardly any embodiment. Creation energy is used up on floating imagery, in the desire to storm the citadels of enlightenment, like an Icarus, flying to the Sun, falling to planet Earth, due to the melting wax on his wings. What remains is often a highly eccentric, weird personality, out of touch with the practicalities of life and most of all….. out of touch with its creative powers, seeking ever more extreme stimulation resulting in sometimes cruel practices in the surrealist circles in Paris. But oh… how they talk… how they CAN talk! To me, one’s talk isn’t worth a dime when one’s walk isn’t in sync with it.
Peace be with you and with planet Earth. Blessed be, Marian Baghor.