In the beginning was the Tao.
All things issue from it;
all things return to it.

To find the origin,
trace back the manifestations.
When you recognize the children
and find the mother,
you will be free of sorrow.

If you close your mind in judgments
and traffic with desires,
your heart will be troubled.

If you keep your mind from judging
and aren’t led by the senses,
your heart will find peace.

Seeing into darkness is clarity.
Knowing how to yield is strength.
Use your own light
and return to the source of light.
This is called practicing eternity.

ACCEPT YOUR ELITE SELF-HOOD, BECOME THE GOD SHIVA, THE TITAN TETHYS, THE PLEASURE CONSUMER AND EXPERIENCE LIFE LIKE A SELF-CONFIDENT, ENRAPTURED OWNER OF YOUR OWN BODY.

• get high, get high, get high

• create-fabricate a stimulus for turning-on each of your sense organs: eyes, nose, skin, muscles, mouth, membranes
• then, combine them in a poly-sensual symphonic compositions
• imagine living a life of total self-indulgence
• define yourself as LIFE-ARTIST, arranging your surrounding to continually enrapture your sense organs
• consider all moral-political taboos against sensory self-reward; show why civilization as we know it, would collapse if body-consumerism takes over
• go to PLAYBOY and calculate the percentage of ads for sensory self-indulgence
• then calculate the percentage of ads for family-domestic items
• now go to READERS DIGEST and calculate the percentage of ads for self-indulgent versus home-owner-parental ads.
• get high, get high, get high

• calculate the percentage of your daily life spent in boring activities and then initiate an all out campaign to decrease your BOREDOM INDEX

- excerpt from The Game of Life by Timothy Leary, PhD. p. 171

A new coating for cars, iPods, and furniture can magically “heal” scratches under the light of the sun, says National Geographic News. This new type of clear polyurethane, University of Southern Mississippi researchers say, heals itself when exposed to any source of ultraviolet light, so a car’s scratches would melt away simply by sitting in your driveway for about a half-hour.  The coating combines ring-shaped molecules called oxetane with chitosan, a natural material that makes up the hardened skin of bugs and crustaceans.  When a scratch breaks the ring molecules open, the chitosan is activated by UV energy and binds to the molecule fragments, closing the void and healing the scratch.  “There are an immense number of opportunities for this,” says researcher Marek Urban.  He and his team are now talking to chemical companies about developing the coating for sale.

Apparently Jolene Blalock is not going to be in this reboot of the Star Trek franchise.  I think that’s a big mistake.  As you can see from this picture, “appropriated” from Maxim magazine, Ms. Blalock has exactly what a new beginning of Star Trek needs: more sex appeal.  Let’s be honest, if nerds were thinking more about sex and less about technology and blowing things up, schools would not have to become prison camps where every student is shaken down by security on a daily basis.  Unfortunately J.J. Abrams has taken the Michael Bay, more explosions more quickly approach to filmmaking, rather than the Zalman “Red Shoe Diaries” King direction.

Ah, the Enterprise, now with 110% more aerostyling (yeah, I don’t even know if that’s a word, but you know what I mean).  This is an Enterprise designed by the people who brought you 10 dozen different car models, all indistinguishable due to their aerodynamic styling, apparently to increase gas mileage to a whopping 30mpg.  Gone are the days off retro-future-past, where everything had fins and extraneous gadgets stuck to hull.  Now the Enterprise is ready to go swimming in the oceans of Ganymede, or some actual planet that has gaseous oceans large enough for a galaxy-class starship.  Bottom line: you’re going to love the new Enterprise, because it is so fucking sleek!

There is no way, yet, to reverse the ravages time has taken on William Shatner, the only man to make running a starship look as fun as a weekend in Vegas with a fistful of benjamins and a pocketful of Viagra.  Our heroes grow old and join law firms, but thanks to the wonders of Hollywood, what was old is now young again.  I don’t even really know the name of this kid filling Shatner’s shoes, I am not going to bother looking it up, if he can overact, and… talk… like… this! then I am sure he has a new career ahead of him: going to nerd conventions and answering inane questions about the nuances of a script that he barely remembers until he is arrested for beating up a hooker dressed like Lt. Uhura.

Great choice, selecting a Scot to play Scotty.  No wonder those casting agencies make the big bucks!  This new Mr. Scott will bring the audience an additional joy of wondering every moment he is onscreen if zombies will begin to attack the crew!  Is it now?  Now?  Now, are the zombies going to attack?  Because as you now, as good as this movie could possibly be, there is now fucking way that it could possibly compare to the movie in the mind of every Shaun of the Dead fan – “What if Zombies attacked the Enterprise?”  Sure it would be a lot like the Borg, but Shaun of the Dead!  On the Enterprise!  Why didn’t they just make that movie?

Horselover_Fat (Philip K. Dick) The main character in VALIS is Horselover Fat, an author surrogate. “Horselover” is English for the Greek word philippos (Φίλιππος), meaning “lover of horses” (from philo “brotherly or comradely love” and hippos “horse”); the German word “dick” is “fat” in English.

Cartman_ Eric Theodore Cartman is one of the four main fictional characters on the animated television series South Park, along with fellow protagonists Stan Marsh, Kyle Broflovski, and Kenny McCormick, though he is often portrayed as the series’ main antagonist in opposition of his friends. Cartman is an obese, foul-mouthed, mean-spirited, selfish, and ill-tempered fourth-grader living with his hermaphroditic de facto mother in the fictional town of South Park, Colorado.

_TylerDurden_ (Jack Palahniuk) This is what he says about himself, which in turn says it all…  “All the ways you wish you could be, that’s me. I look like you wanna look, I fuck like you wanna fuck, I am smart, capable, and most importantly, I am free in all the ways that you are not. “  I am Jack’s alter ego. I get bored, I kill Jack…  Mayhem. Chaos. Soap. The title line sums it up what he leaves out about himself.He is upset with the world the way it is and will not be satisfied until the world is back in primative times… Without hitting rock bottom there can be no evolution, no resurrection.

R_A_W Robert Anton Wilson served as an editor for Playboy magazine, as a co-founder of the Institute for the Study of the Human Future, and as Director of the Prometheus Society. Long revered as an eminent metaprogrammer and Trickster figure, he is perhaps best known for his writings, including the Illuminatus! trilogy (co-authored with Robert Shea) and for his work as a visionary, occultist, libertarian, and Futurist. Until the late 1990s, he frequently lectured on TV, radio and in person in the United States and Canada. Arlen, his beloved wife and co-conspirator, passed away in 1999.

J.R. “Bob” Dobbs is the figurehead of the Church of the SubGenius. His image is derived from a piece of 1950s pop-art. According to SubGenius dogma, “Bob” was a drilling equipment salesman who, in 1953, saw a vision of God (JHVH-1 according to Church scriptures) on a television set he had built himself. The vision inspired him to write the “PreScriptures” (as described in the Book of the SubGenius) and found the Church. The “theology” holds that “Bob” is the greatest salesman who ever lived, and has cheated death a number of times. He is also revered for his great follies and believed to be a savior of “slack“. He was assassinated in San Francisco in 1984, though the Church states that he has come back from the dead several times since then.

Timothy_Leary (October 22, 1920 – May 31, 1996) was an American writer, psychologist, futurist, and advocate of psychedelic drug research and one of the first people whose remains have been sent into space. An icon of 1960s counterculture, Leary is most famous as a proponent of the therapeutic and spiritual benefits of LSD. He coined and popularized the catch phrase “Turn on, tune in, drop out.”

Dr_Manhattan Jon Osterman was the son of a watchmaker who pushed him into studying atomic physics instead of following in the family business. Osterman started Princeton in 1948 and finished his Ph.D. in atomic physics in 1958. In May 1959, he was involved in research at the Gila Flats under the direction of Professor Milton Glass. During this time, he had a love affair with colleague, Janey Slater. While retrieving the watch he fixed for her in August 1959, he accidentally became trapped in an intrinsic field separator. His atoms were smashed, but, eventually, methodically, he reconstructed himself and emerged as Dr. Manhattan, a blue-skinned superhuman who can do anything because he has a quantum consciousness that reveals time, space, and matter as they truly are–in atomic detail.

“An ultraminiturized factory complete with built-in blueprint for its finished product.  The device is so small that you can fit millions of them on a flyspeck and so inexpensive that a penny will buy you more than you can count.  These little wonders have another advantage.  You can scatter them at random.  They take care of the rest.  There’s no more need to spend billions digging metals out of the earth or cracking chemicals from oil and turning them into plastics.  The automated minifactories find what they need without help, sensing the presence of unprocessed industrial materials in a pile of garbage, a whiff of air, or a lump of dirt.  If they run across the necessary substances, they immediately go to work assembling the finished goods.  If they don’t discover what they need, the mechanisms will simply fail to activate.  A deactivated minifactory is no great loss.  After all, millions of the microconstruction units can be turned out for the price of a stick of gum.”  Howard Bloom The Lucifer Principle p. 42