the timboucher experience

An example of my “creative process” which nicely illustrates certain aspects of associative search, depth psychology mediated by the internet, and just how tightly bound together now my thought processes are with cycles and frequencies of the past. I don’t see what follows below as “proving anything”, so much as I offer it as a completely ‘other’ paradigm for interacting with complex sets of information on the internet.

1. I used a variant of “automatic writing,” closing my eyes, and randomly entering characters on the keyboard followed periodically by spaces.
2. Upon opening my eyes, I found I’d typed the string (no quotes), “xy iymbl jug”
3. ((POINT Sub.#A)) For a divination of this nature, it’s pretty potent that I actually typed one out of three character clusters as being an actual word. So I figure that’s significant…
4. ((POINT Sub.#B)) Interesting that x’s figured significantly in the reading. I’ve been using them spontaneously to cut up fragment words within my writing, typically inserting them around “s” or “sc” phonemes in words, so things like “scxios” (or ‘conscxiousness,’) etc, which is a sort of linguistic wingding, you could call it, that I made up, but which has certain feeling tones and other associations for me personally.
5. ((POINT Sub.#C)) So the “x”, clustered at this moment in time in our divination might be able to be read alternately as an “s” or “sh” or “sch” sound right now. “y iy” could also be collapsed together (as letter/sound repetitions or reinforcements), leading us the transformation-translation (with a little bit of creative imagination) of “xy iymbl” to (more properly) “symbol”.
6. That word makes sense, given that the language of divination is within the realm of symbols. So it’s almost like we’re being told in this reading: “[symbol]:jug.”
7. In order to find out what that reading “means”, we have to amplify it using the collective voice of the internet.
8. For variation (re-introducing random elements which break the initial paradigm of your reading), I went back to Google and did a query for “xy symbol jug”, since the character cluster “xy” has a set of associated meanings within English language on the web.
9. On the second page of results, I saw a link with a phrase which caught my eye, this comes from the title of the 11th result and its supporting text - which I’ve separated in the quotation with a double dash - and reads: “Empty subject terms in late Buddhist logic — pear in the present discussion contain the following improper symbols, … Consider now a typical atomic sentence such as ‘The jug is blue’. (Sanskrit: ….”
10. Given that the context of the evening;s searches, queries and background writing and investigation has had a decidedly Eastern slant (I Ching, “no mind,” etc), it seemed only natural to make this a node in a new branch of the investigation.
11. Did a CTRL + F on the phrase “the jug” to jump directly to quote in context of HTML page Google result is pointing to. Search failed. Text locked in optical scan of what appears to be academic material with apparently no free text equivalent. A quick visual scan of the scanned text reveals no such usage. However, text “All real existents are momentary,” and discusses “the legitimacy of describing any attribute whatever to a phenomenally unreal subject.”
12. Switching modalities to uncover pages with instances of the phrase (with quotes this time) “the jug is blue.” Search returns further results from “Empty subject” link mentioned above. Actual clicked link reveals same text above, no reference to “the jug…” quotation. But the actual link summary on the Google results page itself reveals more text, an a Sanskrit term in parantheses “ghato nilah”
13. A separate search for that term reveales the sentence, “In the cognition, ‘the pot is blue;, (ghaTo nIlaH), the blue color of the pot is cognized as the qualifier, visheshhaNa of the pot which is the qualificand, visheshhya.” Suitably vague for the purposes of Online Creative Divination (O.C.D.).
14. Returning to “the jug…” string in quotes though, we scroll a little further down the results page and discover something which should be astonishing, but which I’m not surprised by: a link back to TimBoucher.com with the phrase “the jug is blue” in it.

The title of the post is “Now See Me On TV” and is from my “spambot” period, as Zac from Alchemical Braindamage out in Vancouver, BC called it.

15. Stichomancy is the allied divination technique in which you open up to a random book, and a random paragraph and use it as a “response” to your original intention or question. In the case of the post I wrote during a very heavily “subconscious data collection” period of my life, the original paragraph reads: “The cockatoo is tarnished. Is foliage metallic? The flower is painful. Is the imp red? The glass is keen. Is the dancer obvious? The ceremony is jagged. Is the artist smug? The brain is silver. The jug is blue. Is the snob necessary? The doctor is mechanical. The ceremony is jittery. The egg is little. The therapist is soft. The human is stunted. The truth is great. Is the debutante shallow? The enthusiasm is low. But it builds, just like the carpenter builds homes for many families, but none more cherished and cared for than his own. “
16. I remember at the time writing that paragraph using a variation on the cut-up technique, except it was some small web-based script which basically would churn out little sentence fragments like that. Roughly the first half of it was verbatim from what I “received” via that transmission. The rest of it is elaboration, some of it has had after-the-fact interjections and interpolations. However, I remember distinctly that the phrase “the jug is blue” is one which came up randomly through this script (something similar to what this list is probably being used to generate)

So what do we have? Depending on who you ask, perhaps nothing. But to the augurer and urban shaman, you have a noteworthy instance of two distinct events in time correlating in what could be described at least as a mysterious way. Both events were synchronistic non-linear approaches to deriving meaning out of web searches, and each were “channeled” using completely different methods, techniques and paradigms.

And yet we have a very clear repeating #SEO phrase fragment: “the jug is blue”, along with a loose cluster of quasi-related imagery. The whole thing immediately calls to mind the title of a friend’s art print from years ago, which I also captured on this site as the title of a post over 4 years ago during my early “occult investigator” phase of writing: “we are just vessels made of the stuff meant to fill us”.

Additionally, I encountered a small stream of related images which I saved the ones which were the most visually interesting or which had tangential references to other things I’ve been writing, posting, reading and thinking about.

[See also: The Woman With The Alabaster Jar]

Key thing to remember in this type of investigation: you’re always running the risk of getting stuck in your own web. Usually, when you go out and look for something, you’re MOST LIKELY to find evidence of the simple observable fact that YOU ARE LOOKING.

What you want to do at that point is start making meta-structures to collect and concentrate the vibrational resonances which you want to invoke, and also build into those structures devices to ward off energies you want to filter out of your worldsoul download stream. Like so.

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