Taxonomies Of Misdirection Overview

David Allen Hulse, The Eastern Mysteries—An Encyclopedic Guide to the Sacred Languages & Magickal Systems of the World

Tessel M. Bauduin, Surrealism and the Occult

Hegel’s Dialectics

Dialectics drives to the “Absolute”,… which is the last, final, and completely all-encompassing or unconditioned concept or form in the relevant subject matter under discussion (logic, phenomenology, ethics/politics and so on). The “Absolute” concept or form is unconditioned because its definition or determination contains all the other concepts or forms that were developed earlier in the dialectical process for that subject matter…We can picture the Absolute Idea, for instance—which is the “Absolute” for logic—as an oval that is filled up with and surrounds numerous, embedded rings of smaller ovals and circles, which represent all of the earlier and less universal determinations from the logical development. [Fig. 1].

Since the “Absolute” concepts for each subject matter lead into one another, when they are taken together, they constitute Hegel’s entire philosophical system, which, as Hegel says, “presents itself therefore as a circle of circles”. We can picture the entire system like this [Fig. 2].

Athanasius Kircher’s Sephirothic Tree illustration from Oedipus Aegyptiacus (1652–54) 

The Atomic Ladder of Life, from solid to liquid to gaseous to etheric to spirit.  From The Gate Beautiful by John Ward Stimson, 1903.

Jack R. Strange, "A Search for the Sources of the Stream of Consciousness", The Stream of Consciousness: Scientific Investigations into the Flow of Human Experience

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"

— Ursula K. Le Guin, from “A Rant About ‘Technology’”

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.