Working Notes On Ghayat al-Hakim (The Picatrix) and Possible Intersections Between Web3 and Mystical Islam

Because I need to head out to dig the last of my garden beds before frost sets in, I am making a rather fragmented placeholder post to hold links I recently shared with online colleagues. I’m going to use this as a reference for my future self, but perhaps others will also find it to be of interest.

The notes that follow focus on two videos. The first is about math, symbolic representation, octopi, and chaos magic. The second presentation features mystical Islam and astral manipulation, which I sense may be related to Michael Levin and Richard A. Watson’s work linking ancient spirituality with electrical blueprints embedded in, or emerging from, the morphic field.

I am currently in alignment with Joseph Gonzalez’s analysis that posits consciousness as the base layer of quantum realism. His investigations have much to do with resonance, coherence, wave-making (and collapse) that take different forms. You can read his work here. I find Joseph’s assessment to be congruent with my ideas about John Wheeler’s participatory universe.

The cymatics he discusses below overlap with my recent interest in Sufism. I am currently reading “The Mysticism of Sound and Music: The Sufi Teaching of Hazrat Inyat Khan,” an Indian mystic whose teachings were quite important to the development of jazz.

From my place on the elephant, these two talks, which are relatively short (clocking in at about a half-hour each), share interrelated themes. These themes intersect with my “reality tunnel,” which has been consistently focused on Web3 spatial computing, blockchain governance, soul alchemy, social impact game mechanics through token engineering, and the Human Potential Movement.

The first video I found, because I regularly scan the updates on the Active Inference Institute’s youtube channel. The second, on the Ghayat-al-Haim, was sychronously inboxed to me by someone whose email address I don’t recognize as I was watching the first video. The two relate to my latest video about abductive thinking. That discussion was catalyzed by a friend sharing a David Snowden paper about navigating complex futures.

Today, Stephers emailed me a fascinating PDF of a book on “intuition pumps” that seems very much related to what I touched on in my video (yes, it’s that rhizomatic thinking again). I haven’t had the chance to do more than scan it, but the fact that Dennett has been based out of Tufts (where Levin is working) for forty years, combined with a jaw-dropping table of contents has bumped it to the top of my “to-do list.”

Below is the first video.

I got caught flat-footed when the presenter said he was a “voluntarily defrocked math professor,” who now identifies as an octopus and chaos magician. Of note – John Clippinger based out of the MIT Media Lab and co-founder with Sandy Pentland of the Open Mustard Seed digital ID protocol, is the first listed board member of the Active Inference Institute.

The second video features compelling analysis by professor of esoteric Islam Liana Saif. I invite you to consider its content in relation to the many maps I’ve made over the past few years. My brief notes on the video follow. You can explore each map further using the embedded links.

Vitalik Buterin and Radical XChange’s Soulbound Tokens (Link)

Nicholas Berggruen’s “Transformation of the Human” in California Linked to Early Modern Magic Via Brian Copenhaver (Link)

James Hillman, Alchemical Soul Work in Dallas (Link)

Rehabilitation of Complex Social Systems Through Fractal Mathematics (Link)

Robert Bosnak (Protege of Hillman and Corbin) on VR Group Asclepian “Healing Caves”  With Quantum Superposition Dream States Linked To Embodied Imagination Via Henry Corbin and The White City (Link)

Regulation of Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors For Learning Integration and Dream State Management (Link)

Jacob Boehme and Johannes Kelpius Regarding the Power of the Heart and the Alchemy of the Soul (Link)

Toroidal Geometry and the Heart As A 4D Information Processer (Link)

Julian Gresser’s Big Heart Intelligence and Blockchain Community Wellness Platform – GAIAopolis (Link)

Note 1: In relation to the first video – Could entertainment infrastructures like Netflix serve as a conceptual linguistic apparatus for orchestrating collective memetic interventions?

Note 2: First video, continued – The origin of the word “flick” (as in movies) comes from flicker – relating to the lamps used in early movie projectors. Perhaps “Net” “Flix” is referencing a brief glimpse of Maya, Indra’s Net, quantum potential we each hold, and it is a matter of piecing together these flickers into a coherent “story” (Boik’s CogNarr).

Note 3: The presenter describes himself as a chaos magician and references Ramsey Dukes (Link1, Link 2).

Note 4: In second video – this academic paper by Saif on the science of intuition is of interest to me (Link)

Note 5: Reference (click here) to rival Islamic legal systems associated with different religious schools of thought. I picture how this could relate to spatial computing and smart contracts and values embedded in smart environments ala Pask. Could competing religious texts become autopoetic regulators by managing social systems in a hidden manner? See the concept of Hadith.

Note 6: Reference (click here) to astral magic reminds me of Joseph’s work on quantum realism and consciousness.

Note 7: Saif mentions Charles Burnett’s work on magic. That featured podcast also did an interview (click here) with Brian Copenhaver, mentor in magic to Nicholas “Transformations of the Human” Berggruen. See map above.

Note 8: This part (click here) is about the “soul work” of the sage and reminds me of Soul Bound Tokens and James Hillman’s Alchemy of the Soul of the City (Dallas). See maps above.

Note 9: Saif mentions the Islamic idea of Hikmah, the actualization of the soul. Think “moral economy” in a faith-based, programmed, outside-in robotic environment “optimizing” some pre-determined human potential metrics in a “wellness” economy. The “good deeds” part would be in alignment with LDS focus on good works and social impact, Sharia law, Tikkun Olam, and P3 megachurch “charity” work ala Peter Drucker. Note Drucker worked closely with Texas (blockchain) cable TV (programming) mogul Bob BUFORD to launch the Protestant Megachurch movement in the 1980s. Note for later – Buford is the first name of the sheriff (seven-pointed star badge) in Smokey and the Bandit II impersonated by John Titus in a recent chat with CAF.

Note 10 – Regarding Snowden taking a pilgrimage on the road to Compostela in Portugal and Henry Corbin’s idea of the pilgrim, soul work, and the “emblematic city.”

Note 11: Could there be a connection between astrology and the morphic field?  Per Saif (click here). My observation: I am starting to see astrology as being a story we tell to comprehend dynamic morphic fields / blueprints that may emerge from quantum consciousness and the “rays” mentioned as routes of entanglement between multidimensional information spaces.

Note 12: Discussion of Hermetic magical objects including reference (click here) to “vapors,” which has resonance here in Hot Springs. See the historic Vapors night club. In the past people who came to seek healing at the hot springs were said to be taking the vapors.

Note 13: Mentions that Aby Warburg had association with the book of magic (click here). See my post on Nam Shubs (mind viruses / memetics) including references to Bettina Warburg of the same family connected to “vending machine” blockchain governance.

Note 14: Ok, so there are different reality tunnels. Some might center “Bitcoin Billionaires.” Others might center “Intuition Pumps” and “Biofilm  Quorum Sensing.” Pause for a second. Get yourself situated on your Hegelian “problem-reaction-solution” anchor point. Are you there? Are you comfortable? Ok. Now, imagine what different “solutions” might await you depending on the tunnel you step into. Maybe you are on team CAF.  She offers a story that is certainly familiar and appealing to her devoted subscribers. In that story, you can be the aggrieved victim of “the cabal.” Perhaps you have been carefully groomed for that role of angry Plebeian investor. Alternatively, you could step into the field as an active participant, take a shot at managing your own consciousness, and try to figure out what is going on “under the the hood” in the field of quantum realism. Remember, YOU get to CHOOSE. I encourage you to choose wisely. Though, if you make a misstep, you can always choose again. I’m not here to tell you that one future is preferable over another. Maybe they are all happening at once? Maybe there really is no single, verifiable “reality.”

But ask yourself how is it that these folks plan to fight the “control grid” but never speak of digital community currency, the noosphere, gamified token engineering, Charles Eistenstein’s buddy Sep Kamvar and their Celo project? Why does John Titus break into a “Smokey” (see Nicotinic Aceytlecholine Receptors) and the Bandit II act here pretending to be Sheriff (pretty close to Benartzi’s Shareitt) Buford (see Drucker sidekick above) to “meditate” (non-local consciousness access) because of a heart (coherent torus field for quantum manifestation) condition? Might it have something to do with Charles’s friend Galila and her past work on Bancor and Lev (heart tokens)? Wouldn’t it make sense for CAF to have some position on ReFi and what’s underway in Great Barrington with the E.F. Schumacher Center? She’s no dummy. She’s carved out a place on the game board where she can keep lots of people very occupied in her “reality tunnel.” Of course the same could be said for me, but my crowd is ever so much smaller and in that way I suppose any potential damage I could do would be relatively inconsequential in the long run. Such a puzzle, and so many pieces to play with. By the way, can anyone tell me what Sheriff Buford’s “Hema Gauge” is? This was the sequel, so II (twin) with CAF sporting a magenta orchid (human flourishing, anyone?) behind her, and John with those paired (Cleve Backster primary perception h/t perhaps?) houseplants before a tripartite (soul trinity) window. Blessings and gratitude to all for this fascinating ride!