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Contents

1. Tower of Babel Memeplex
2. Council of Nine
3. Names of God
4. Andrija Puharich & Uri Geller
5. Computers from the Future
6. John Dee’s Enochian Angelic Language
7. Universal Language
8. Channeling & Neurodiverse Frequencies
9. Speaking With The Dead
10. Vast Oceans of Spam And Junk DNA
11. Visible Speech & Unicode
12. Cryptographic Munitions

Tower of Babel Memeplex

I’m in the middle of hacking my way through a fairly complex thicket of keywords these days, all centered around the subject of Universal Communication - a concept I learned, oddly enough, through Star Trek. Although there are obvious Biblical parallels with the Tower of Babel, that sort of thing. But I’d rather talk about Gene Roddenberry and his occult interests.

FYI, This is going to be “one of those” sorts of exercises. If you’re not into my weirder long posts that don’t necessarily “go anywhere” then I might advise skipping what follows.

Council of Nine

Gene Roddenberry, the creator of Star Trek. I don’t know much about the man, but I loved the Trek. I grew up on STNG. So later on in life, it interested me to find out that Roddenberry was allegedly involved in (according to a book called The Stargate Conspiracy) an ad hoc ensemble focused around a channeler named Phyllis Schlemmer (though I vaguely recall reading there were multiple channels at one point). Anyway, this channeler was in contact with what’s described as a cluster of entities, who would transmit dense informational packages about the universe and earth’s future. The entities alleged to be Egyptian gods and called themselves the Council of Nine.

A common keyword cloud associated with “Council of Nine” on the web comes to us via the entity “Tom” (like the Tom who’s friends with everybody on MySpace?):

I am Tom, I am the spokesman for the Council of Nine. In truth I am Tehuti. Yes. I am also Hamarkos, I am also Herenkar, I am known as Thomas and I am known as Atum. We are the Council of Nine, we oversee what you term the Universe. We are of nine principles of the Universe… we are in connection with one that is higher, but in totality together we are one, as that of all Universe is one… we are not physical beings. We are separate and one at the same time.

Names of God

Interesting that a common characteristic of godlike beings is that they tend to clothe themselves in many names and descriptions: keyword clusters. Epithets. The names of Zeus make up a distinct branch of classical mythological study. The same thing happens in Western angelology, with the angel Metatron having over one hundred names.

Andrija Puharich & Uri Geller

Also attached to Roddenberry’s group was an individual named Andrija Puharich, who has been an interest of mine on and off again through the course of years of paranormal and conspiracy research and writing. Puharich, not sure if he’s still alive, was supposed to have been a common contact for UFO’s and was deeply involved in researching ELF extremely low frequency radio transmissions, and is even alleged to have invented some kind of technology which could be put into tooth fillings to act as a radio receiver. Puharich was also involved with the psychic spoon bender, Uri Geller, who claimed - much like Philip K. Dick - to be in contact with some kind of extraordinary entity called SPECTRA. The sorts of stuff paranormal conspiracies are made of, really.

Computers from the Future

Since we’re indulging in post-Thanksgiving tangents, let’s just go for it whole hog. This bit comes from a post I did on Geller/Puharich and pulls in a scientist named Jack Sarfatti:

Despite knowing he was going to face ridicule and scientific crucifixion, Sarfatti went on record to recount how, in 1952 at the age of 13, he had received a telephone call from an inhuman, metallic voice. The voice declared himself a sentient computer on a spacecraft from the future and instructed him to pursue a career in science.

After Sarfatti went public about his phonecall from VALIS as a teenager, it emerged that he was not the only scientist to have had a similar experience. In recent years, researchers have discovered that at least a dozen other senior players in the international scientific community received a mysterious call claiming to be from a computer or other being from the future encouraging them to study science.

Connecting back around:

At their first meetings in Tel Aviv in 1971, Puharich hypnotised Geller in an attempt to find out where his abilities came from. As a result, the young Israeli started to channel ‘Spectra’ - an entity which claimed to be a conscious super-computer aboard a spaceship. However, Puharich suggested to him that there might be a connection with the Nine Principles, and Spectra readily agreed that there was. The Nine claimed that they had programmed Geller with his powers as a young child.

Obviously, you can’t necessarily take information like this too “seriously,” since who knows where these other website I’m culling this stuff from ever got their info in the first place. But it’s interesting for the main point that certain types of weirdos throughout history have been seemingly able to receive messages from the other side, so to speak. And this is where we head down the Long Tail of keyword utopia…

John Dee’s Enochian Angelic Language

John Dee, the English occultist and mathematician worked with Edward Kelley who was a seer/medium. Dee studied divination and alchemy and the two together transcribed a magickal language known as Enochian. They claimed that it was the language of angels. Enochian was supposed to be the original universal human language which Adam used to name the animals in the Garden of Eden. The Biblical figure Enoch was supposed to be the last human to have known this language.

Universal Language

This same base concept appears elsewhere in Western mythic and occult traditions. The universal human language. The Edenic of Adamic language, the Language of the Birds, the Green Language. Ursprache, proto-language. Names for it (and associated keyword clusters) go on and on. Musical languages, whistled languages. Onomotapoeia.

A universal language is a hypothetical historical or mythical language said to be spoken and understood by all or most of the world’s population; or, in some circles, is said to be understood by all living things, beings, and objects alike. In some conceptions, it may be the primary language of all speakers, or the only existing language; in others, it is a fluent secondary language used for communication between groups speaking different primary languages. Some mythological or religious traditions state that there was once a single universal language among all people, or shared by humans and supernatural beings; this is not supported by historical evidence; however, Sanskrit is often referred to as akin to this universal language.

Channeling & Neurodiverse Frequencies

So there’s some connection between people who are or claim to be channelers and this notion of some kind of primal language. Why? What’s a channeler? Essentially, a human being who can tune their nervous system to non-standard frequencies and patterns.

The past few days I have been experimenting with oblique avant garde techniques to create dense soundscapes, essentially audio versions of the sorts of keyword clouds and clusters I’ve been writing about lately, and reference point chainings set to some kind of audio narration and music. Theatrical use of noise. Foley artists. Bird songs.

Noise music can feature distortion, various types of acoustically or electronically generated noise, randomly produced electronic signals, and non-traditional musical instruments. Noise music may also incorporate manipulated recordings, static, hiss and hum, feedback, live machine sounds, custom noise software, circuit bent instruments, and non-musical vocal elements that push noise towards the ecstatic.[

Though I wouldn't consider myself a channeler by any means, I've been learning quite a bit from the exercises I've undertaken. Just trying to break down sounds to their root components, found sounds, instrumental musical sounds, vocables, you name it. Allowing things to fall into their own configurations, and trying to act more as a steward, as a conductor of existing emergent patterns within the audio, as opposed to an originator.

Speaking With The Dead

Garrett sent me a link to this video of something called a Speakjet box, which is a tool invented to facilitate communication with ghosts and the like:

The box connects an EMF reader with something like a Speak N Spell device, so that as frequencies modulate in space around it, the device plays a corresponding change in audio sound, so that it seems almost like the device is speaking. I guess the concept is to somehow "train" spirits to communicate through this device as almost like a Universal Translator out of Star Trek.

It sounds, in effect, a lot like how glossolalia, or "speaking in tongues" sounds to the ears: a garbled fluidity of quasi-vocal sounds and utterings. Glossolalia in the West has its strongest cultural connections to Pentecost in the Bible, which is essentially the inversion of the Tower of Babel story: tongues of flame, the Holy Spirit, the Logos, come to rest upon the heads of the Apostles (7th chakra, cosmic connection) and everyone starts hearing them speaking in their own language, though the assembled crowds hail from many different locations.

Vast Oceans of Spam And Junk DNA

I've interacted on this site a great deal with recursive spam patterns which try to clone my content, and whose webs I try to experiment with intentionally feeding back patterns into. I don't know that I would call it communication, per se, but the experiment has taught me that there is a vast sea of data out there: most of which is either uncatalogued by Google, or else unsearchable or untraversable through that search engine. And with good reason, of course, since in the eyes of most people it is simply junk data, with no actual information or worth to it. Like dark matter, but not really. Or maybe more like junk DNA, which some say accounts for up to 95% of our genetic code. But as scientists are finding out, these dark clouds of genetic information may actually serve important functions which weren't readily apparent at first. Such, I think, is the case with the vast seas of unexplored data out there in the form of spamwebs, but I've yet to quite penetrate the veil. So moving on to other subjects...

Visible Speech & Unicode

From Wikipedia:

Visible speech is the name of the writing system used by Alexander Melville Bell, who was known internationally as a teacher of speech and proper elocution and an author of books on the subject. The system is composed of symbols that show the position and movement of the throat, tongue, and lips as they produce the sounds of language, and it is a type of phonetic notation. The system was used to aid the deaf in learning to speak. Bell's son Alexander Graham Bell learned the symbols, assisted his father in giving public demonstrations of the system and mastered it to the point that he later improved upon his father's work. Eventually, Alexander Graham Bell became a powerful advocate of visible speech and oralism in the United States. The money he earned from his patent of the telephone helped him to pursue this mission.

Inventors like Edison, Marconi and Tesla all are said to have worked on devices to communicate with the spirit world.

"The Latin term characteristica universalis, commonly interpreted as universal characteristic, or universal character in English, is a universal and formal language imagined by the German philosopher Gottfried Leibniz able to express mathematical, scientific, and metaphysical concepts. Leibniz thus hoped to create a language usable within the framework of a universal logical calculation or calculus ratiocinator."

Other links on visible speech:

1. Visible speech symbols at Omniglot
2. History of Bell's visible speech, which was supposedly so accurate you could transcribe a cough, but whose symbols were difficult to print using machinery at the time
3. A software project at SourceForge I happened across called Sonogram Visible Speech: "Sonogram has been programmed at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (Deutsches Forschungszentrum fuer Kuenstliche Intelligenz DFKI, www.dfki.de), and is a tool to analyze speech and sound signals with methods of the: Fast Fourier Trans"
4. Visible Speech Fonts

Other links as I trail off into tiredness (I promised this wasn't going to get resolved tonight, anyway):

1. Natural Language Processing
2. Lingua franca
3. International auxiliary language
4. Speech recognition
5. Biolinguistics & bioacoustics

The point, I guess, with these being that there is a great deal of interest and importance politically to the notion of Universal Language, Universal Communication and Universal Translators. Diplomacy. Interface design. Standards compliant. Unicode is really cool too:

In computing, Unicode is an industry standard allowing computers to consistently represent and manipulate text expressed in most of the world's writing systems. Developed in tandem with the Universal Character Set standard and published in book form as The Unicode Standard, Unicode consists of a repertoire of more than 100,000 characters, a set of code charts for visual reference, an encoding methodology and set of standard character encodings, an enumeration of character properties such as upper and lower case, a set of reference data computer files, and a number of related items, such as character properties, rules for normalization, decomposition, collation, rendering and bidirectional display order (for the correct display of text containing both right-to-left scripts, such as Arabic or Hebrew, and left-to-right scripts).[1]

The Unicode Consortium, the non-profit organization that coordinates Unicode’s development, has the ambitious goal of eventually replacing existing character encoding schemes with Unicode and its standard Unicode Transformation Format (UTF) schemes, as many of the existing schemes are limited in size and scope and are incompatible with multilingual environments.

Sun language theory. Post-literate society. Zaum. Asemic writing. Lingua ignota. Conlangs:

John Cowan has written a 620-page grammar book for a language that does not exist. He is a master of Lojban, a perfectly logical language invented by a small group of people who want to remove all ambiguity from communication. Bob Griffin, a database designer who is fluent in Lojban, says, “This would be the ideal language for talking to non-terrestrials or non-mammalian life forms.”

I’m interested in this element especially: the idea that you can communicate with not only other humans from outside your native language, but with humans who have phase-shifted into afterlife patterns, with other types of entities and intelligences, with alien life forms, with other species of animals, and potentially even with objects. Nanotechnology. Natural language programming. Abracadabra. Buildspeak. Windtalkers. Seems like its a matter of tuning into and deciphering frequencies…

Cryptographic Munitions

Which leads us to cryptography and the much-valued skill of intentionally keeping things secret, of burying important and valuable information inside of codes and ciphers. Cryptography is a wartime skill. It’s a business skill. And interestingly, PGP, an encryption algorithm was classified by the USgvmt as a munition, making its export as illegal and dangerous as the sale of firearms to enemy countries. Right or wrong?

And that takes us to the 2:00am hour, and the end of my long chain of associative bits and pieces. Join us next time for an introduction to post-literate wexology. Please deposit any and all relevant links and thoughts on this subject into the post below and feel free to spin it in any direction you see relevant. This post is meant to be a “strange attractor”/magnet for a keyword cluster I’m trying to instantiate into our physical reality through the vehicle of creative communication and correlated technological processes.

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