I Just Heard the Universe Sigh, Shana Tugbert, 1976
The Internet adores this second-person voice. There it is, at every cyber–street corner: Recommended for You, Suggestions for You, Here Is Something You Might Like. Behind each of these You’s, an algorithm sits at an easel, squinting, trying to catch Your likeness. But these algorithms are true Renaissance practitioners. Not only portraitists, they’re also psychologists, data-crunchers, and private detectives, extrapolating personality from the evidence of our past actions: from our online histories and, increasingly, from what they can eavesdrop, without any meaningful warrant, in the physical world. From all those toothsome bytes of behavior, they create an image of You.
Laurence Scott, "Hell is Ourselves"
Place: the Harmonic Palace, a Bardic College research facility
A stone marker at a holy site dedicated to the dual lunar cult of Tanit and Astarte; Phoenician night goddesses worshipped from the Bronze Age through classical antiquity, alongside their horned consort Ba'al Hammon, “Lord of Braziers”, classically associated with Saturn.
"Burning Rhapsody"
Vampire Night (Namco/Sega/WOW Entertainment - PS2 - 2001)
Dialectics: Being-Nothing-Becoming
When we think Being it immediately is Nothing, and Nothing is immediately Being. The very thinking of them is their vanishing, and thinking is what a thought truly is. It is no logical nonsense to say the truth we have experienced: Being is Being vanishing to Nothing, and vice versa.
Since the Torus is being simultaneously generated by matter in all the various phases of “time”, it reflects the development of the universe in the past, present and future. By reflecting on this model, it becomes possible to “see” how human consciousness brought to a sufficiently altered state could obtain information concerning the past, present and future since they all exist in the universal hologram simultaneously (in the case of the future because all of the consequences of the past and present can be seen coming together in the hologram such that the future can be predicted or “seen” with total accuracy).
Moreover, it is possible to see how the implosion of energy patterns would cross and recross to create an incredibly complex four dimensional hologram or Torus, in spiral shape in movements of the energies which comprise the universe leave their mark and and hence tell their story throughout time.
—Declassified CIA document Gateway Process