the timboucher experience

I’m trying to gather my thoughts, and possibly do it in some kind of systematic way which will help me close the gaps and map out the territories in greater detail. Towards that end I’m compiling a list of all the ideas, and fragments of ideas that I consider “fundamental” to my way of thinking and the areas of research that I have done and want to be doing. From here, maybe this will get turned into some kind of complicated color-coded diagram. That would be fun.

Without further ado…

1. Archetypes: internal and external; constellated
2. Autonomous complexes, possession
3. Polytheistic psychology, dissociative identity disorder & schizophrenia
4. Ego, hero, monotheism & demiurge
5. Ego complex, sun among the stars
6. Story codecs; codec info vs. media player
7. Mystery religions; inner & outer mysteries
8. Public & private keys
9. Crypto-anarchism as a mystery religion
10. Open source religion
11. Stories as mental software
12. The ecology of stories
13. Religion as narrative/narrative as religion
14. Religious fundamentalism & fundamentalism in stories
15. Brand identity in a religion
16. Religious syncretism
17. The Phantom Edit, fan-fiction
18. Game mods, hacks, add-ons, skins
19. Clearview & media/reality filtration systems
20. Folklorist as someone who understands how information is encoded in cultural artifacts
21. Definition of information architect
22. New Media & the Reformation
23. Hollywood as the modern day Rome
24. Julian Jaynes & the bicameral mind
25. Introverted/Extraverted religions
26. Hacking into story-systems
27. Canon & Apocrypha
28. Religious propaganda, aka Jack Chick tracts
29. Sacraments of stories
30. Cultural immune system
31. The role of evil in religion
32. Evil as the center of expansion
33. Revealed religions: meta-data, content, promise
34. The greatest story ever told
35. Stories as the fundamental unit of thought (structural units)
36. How people clothe their lives in stories
37. Stories as complex systems
38. Story-based operating system of the mind
39. Story-systems entrain archetypes into common symbolic language
40. Participation mystique, suspension of disbelief & faith
41. Story-systems as being like languages, where there’s no right or wrong language
42. File-sharing, cd-burning, etc as threat to centralized story-distribution
43. Copyright, intellectual property
44. Dreams as a way for your mind to play pictionary with you
45. Dream events as nodal points drawing in multiple layers of reference (folded moments, shorthand recollections)
46. Dreaming mind still functions while you’re awake
47. Entertainment vs. art vs. information & the cultural immune system
48. Monsters captured by stories
49. Evaluating real events as though they were occurring in a dream or story
50. Brain as reducing valve
51. Stories which function as protective control systems, and how some people need them and some don’t
52. Advertising, archetypes & triggers
53. Dams and channels within the mind, based on stories and how energy flow is set up according to them
54. The hero’s journey as being a model for how the mind integrates new components into a story-system (syncretic fusion)
55. Art history: change from common cultural style to individual one
56. Break-down of consensus reality
57. Rituals and games as a way to interact with and act out a story system
58. Ads presenting exegetical information on tv shows
59. “Consensus reality is anything which is broadcast on a public frequency”
60. Reality-enforcers; Anti-psychiatry movement
61. Ideologies & story-systems operating similarly to spam filters
62. Evil as the junk mail folder
63. RA Wilson, reality tunnels

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