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Sighris

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About Me

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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

My Interests

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.

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!

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}.

My Blog

Classes on Occult topics (magick, martial arts, etc.)

Hi everyone!I have been thinking about teaching some more classes... and I am wondering: what interests you???In the past I have taught "meditation", "kaos magic", kenjitsu, Wei-Chi (my current favori...
Posted by Sighris on Sat, 27 Sep 2008 12:07:00 PST

2008 COTSEN GO TOURNAMENT (open to ALL, but now over)

Sponsored By Lloyd Eric Cotsen with The American Go AssociationOver $5,000 in prizes!!! All games will be AGA rated, and will be run under the ING Go Rules. WHEN: Saturday and Sunday, Se...
Posted by Sighris on Mon, 18 Aug 2008 06:56:00 PST

Stop the killing of dolphines (please read)

From: Animal RightsDate: May 21, 2008 7:59 PMDolphin SlaughterYesterday we posted a bulletin which focused on the cruel slaughter of innocent dolphins and whales in Japan. We had meant to post this bu...
Posted by Sighris on Thu, 22 May 2008 10:13:00 PST

Thailand & Japan here I come!!!

Soon I will be going to Japan, Thailand and Cebu.I also plan to go to BurningMan when I get back.What are your travel plans for the next 6 months?
Posted by Sighris on Fri, 16 May 2008 01:18:00 PST

My post for today...

is here:http://www.myspace.com/oldmoldybooks - in the blog/post: "Pedagogies of Death/Afterlife" If you go there and leave a comment, tell her "Sighris sent me". ;)Namaste,Sighris...
Posted by Sighris on Sun, 04 May 2008 01:17:00 PST

What is REALly important

Check this out:James Martin tells us that we are living in a turning point in human history. "We are traveling at breakneck speed into an era of extremes extremes of wealth and poverty, extremes in t...
Posted by Sighris on Sun, 27 Apr 2008 06:20:00 PST

Short hello/update

It is always nice to get a friendly message from a friend you have known a long time.
Posted by Sighris on Sun, 13 Apr 2008 03:01:00 PST

Power and Money - and the future of Humans on Earth

If you want to more fully understand some things going on in the worldtoday I suggest you read this:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peak_oilWe live in interesting times... that will probably get moreinte...
Posted by Sighris on Sun, 03 Feb 2008 09:25:00 PST

Swords for Sale

Swords for Sale Bowen > has increased my interest in swords... and I have been developing several relationships with some people who work for companies which sell swords {FuruBushidoo, Musashi, Masah...
Posted by Sighris on Tue, 29 Jan 2008 10:08:00 PST

Martin Luther King Jr.

Knowledge gives strength. "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."  - Quote of MLK Jr. What did Martin Luther King, Jr. really know about the origins of Christianity? In fact he w...
Posted by Sighris on Mon, 21 Jan 2008 11:05:00 PST