Angel, the baby albino dolphin currently caught by the Japanese MONKEY “fishermen”, is about to be slaughtered alongside her mother in Taiji Bay, Japan.
ALL SLAUGHTER AND NO REVENGE MAKES JACK THE DEVIL.
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To read the uncanny tale of how AM47 came to be, clickALTER MaN underwAy
Or jump right in to explore the 4 Points around the globe and click FIRE, WATER,AIR, EARTH, and alsoAETHYR
Project ALTER MAN 47 is the visionary voyage of an alt-fueled ship on a unique mission to circulate *alt-tech+culture* around the world; Borne of a dream & guided by astonishing Synchronicity to include an ancient Alchemical process within humankind’s emerging potential to truly change. The AM47 crew aim to further generate Synchronicity and help alter earth’s destiny by circumnavigating the globe to exalt *The AM47 Pentaform : A psycho-cosmic pyramid crowning Gaia*.
[ AM47 was conceived in early 2007 and has been evolving ever since. There’s a lot to take in here and much of it needs editorial polish. I’d recommend scroll-scanning through some pages after this one (esp. the 5 destination pages) to get a better sense of the content and the scope. There is metaphysical content ahead. Please don’t dismiss this out of hand. The core project is perfectly tangible and relevant to this real world. The occult angle is for those who recognize it: No *Belief* Required. This is a true story. ]
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The Alchemical Great Work has remained an elusive spiritual mystery. It is the core of an evolutionary metaphysical experiment developing right now. Central to the Great Work are the 4 Classical Elements and the 7 Inner Planets. Four locations in perfect formation around the globe are naturally and profoundly manifesting characteristics of each of the 4 Elements. (This Elemental pattern is found no where else on the planet and is in the correct ordering of Alchemical transformation.) A voyage is being organized to circumnavigate the globe and link these locations in order to generate, observe, dedicate and send these magical forces into Awareness by completing *The AM47 Pentaform: A psycho-cosmic pyramid crowning Gaia*. The cycle of project AM47 annually begins again on 02 Sep 2013 (& 01 Sep 2014, etc.).
[ The video is a very rough draft of a 47 second vid encapsulating the Alchemical mission of AM47. Another vid is being made that details the more tangible elements of the project like the ship, the crew, the course, the ports, the alt-fuel, the alt-culture, the alt-tech, the Maker Faired build, the Burning Manly design and content of the interior/exterior, the sister projects, the sponsors, the crowdfunding, budget, etc., etc. music & vox: Paul Fix, logos: Justin Guenther, imagery: Zack Covell, words & image-flow: Jack Foolman ]
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The Magus, standing triumphant atop the chaotic dragon, which is supported by the Earth. Within the Earth is the alchemical formulae for squaring the circle. The circle represents God, the original unity, from which arises the trinity or triangle and then the square, God’s manifestation in the material universe.
“What you are about to read is the groundwork for an evolution in broadcast and feature infotainment. Alter Man is the working title for a visionary media project so original and evocative it could be described as The Amazing Race meets Nova and Myth Busters. In fact, an apt subtitle for the “Reality” segment of Alter Man would be MYTH HUNTERS. As intriguing as this concept is, the projects “pseudo-documentary” & multi-medium elements are even more innovative. Utilizing free-role-play of open scripted scenarios inspired by a true life voyage of discovery, Alter Man promises to produce episodic metafiction with an X-Files meets Jacques Cousteau explosive potential.”
~ Eli Paintswithfire, Producer. 2008
~ Jack Fool, Producer. 2008
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ALTER MaN underwAy
Wolf and Eagle by Da Vinci
Antithetical Spark And Dream
It was mid-late 2006 when I was struggling to understand what my next creative move should be. I was considering Burning Man, yet how I would probably never venture out to it’s dusty desert location due to my chronic bronchitis. This project actually grew out of my desire to bring the culture and spectacle of Burning Man into places where I could enjoy it as well.
Project ALTER MAN 47 is the visionary voyage of an alt-fueled ship on a unique mission to circulate *alt-tech+culture* around the world; Borne of a dream & guided by astonishing Synchronicity to include an ancient Alchemical process within humankind’s emerging potential to truly change. The AM47 crew aim to further generate Synchronicity and help alter earth’s destiny by circumnavigating the globe to exalt *The AM47 Pentaform : A psycho-cosmic pyramid crowning Gaia*.
[ AM47 was conceived in early 2007 and has been evolving ever since. There’s a lot to take in here and much of it needs editorial polish. I’d recommend scroll-scanning through some pages after this one (esp. the 5 destination pages) to get a better sense of the content and the scope. There is metaphysical content ahead. Please don’t dismiss this out of hand. The core project is perfectly tangible and relevant to this real world. The occult angle is for those who recognize it: No *Belief* Required. This is a true story. ]
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Sperm whales at a dream-in in the Azores Archipelago.
In mid-late May 2007, two injured female humpback whales, a mother and calf that became known as Delta & Dawn got “lost” in the San Francisco Bay. They spent 2 weeks roaming the bay in distress. Right about the time that they finally and inexplicably decided to swim back down river toward the sea and vanish (the date of this event would also prove to be highly significant, see below* ), I had this ultra-vivid Visionary Dream that I now suspect was somehow influenced or even induced by these whales. The dream felt more like what I imagine a “vision” would, as opposed to what I understand a lucid dream to be. Astonishingly, key elements of this dream surface in my ongoing research and development of producing the future voyage: ALTER MaN 4 7.
Divvying up the earth was fairly straightforward, but you can’t divide a single point.
It’s shaping up as yet another case of Alter or Oblivion. The pristine crystal crown of Gaia is melting fast, and the greedy humans can’t wait to perform a global trepanation and suck the black matter. All of a sudden, everyone is claiming the Arctic as their own. Divvying up the earth was fairly straightforward, but as the North Pole is just a point, it’s divide by zero. The circle emanates from the spiraling point. Will we draw a giant pentagram on top of the world and divide by 5? We may see some magic spring from this chaos yet, even if under the pretext of conflict.
Project ALTER MAN 47 has been using the North Pole as the AM47 Point of Alchemical AETHYR since July 2007. It is the tip of a *psycho-cosmic pyramid crowning Gaia*. The pyramid or pentaform has 4 base corners around the planet at 37’47” N that astonishingly correspond perfectly with the 4 Classical Elements of Alchemy: FIRE = San Francisco, CA, WATER = The Japan Trench, AIR = Turkmenistan, EARTH = Azores. The plan was to alter an ex-military vessel to run on alt-fuel and fill it with a gang of counterculturalists to spread alt-culture, fuel, sustainable living, do-it-yourself inventions and whatever other utopian madness we could inflict. The voyage would take a year to circumnavigate the globe, hitting each of the 4 points, one every three months, and numerous ports along the way. Upon returning to San Francisco and closing the circle, the AM47 ship was to embark again up through the Bering Strait to Alert, Nunavut, Canada: the northernmost port on the planet and then on to the North Pole to celebrate in the AETHYR. Unfortunately, seemingly endless obstacles have effectively beached the dream that was too good to come true.
After all the hard work and uncanny Synchronicity, can this really be how it all ends? Really?? According to ancient Babylo-Egyptian sidereal astrology, the true Age of Aquarius is still another 366 years off. That’s a long wait for Utopia. But magic is real, faint in this world, but present nonetheless. It could be that this northern focus up to the Solar Apex and out into the future will trigger a surprise.
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Prometheus, Lucifer, Loki – the FIRE-bringer stealing Fire and descending into the zodiacal ring to light the darkness of the world… and Burn it too.
(14 OCT 2013) The FIRE-bringer didn’t just bring it to cast light into the darkness, he also brought it to Burn. From the end, we all had our parts to play… Evil motivated Good, and in that powerful movement was life. The windows of opportunity to truly change the world are razor-framed. They open and close to a greater accord and are glimpsed by the gifted and the damned.razor-framed
The global Alchemy of AM47.
It’s only 3 days until the AM47 Point of Alchemical AETHYR on 17 OCT 2013, which also happens to be the deadline for the USA to avoid defaulting on it’s debts, which would probably trigger a global economic catastrophe. 17 OCT 2013 is the latest possible date this year that we could have launched the AM47 ship on it’s Alchemical Voyage around the world from San Francisco. 17 OCT 2013 will mark the 7th failed attempt to launch AM47 in as many years, due to a failure of elucidation of the project, grassroots sharing and hence funding. I don’t know that anyone who has ever lived can really understand what it feels like to truly have the world slip through your fingers… I almost had it all, but now.?.
It Was Always Too Late.
Is it even worth spending the energy on an 8th attempt to launch AM47 on 17 OCT 2014? First off, the world probably isn’t ready and doesn’t even seem interested, so fuck ’em. And then, the Point of WATER at the Japan Trench is irradiated and ruined by Fukushima. The Point of AIR in Northern Persia is the focus of western aggression and likely flashpoint of WW3 and the Suez Canal we must sail through is highly unstable. The Point of EARTH in the Azores remains an easily accessible destination of wonderment, but the once and future capitol of counterculture & Point of FIRE in San Francisco is infested with Banal Techie Doucholes entirely ignorant of anything mystically progressive anymore.
The polar bears say screw you and I guess I do too.
Yet the Arctic Ice continues to rapidly melt at the North Pole/Point of AETHYR which will actually make it possible to sail the AM47 ship to the True North Pole as originally planned 7 years ago!; something that would have been impossible without global warming… which is a bad thing, right?. Project AM47 is definitely conflicted, just like the rest of the world, and it’s characteristic of the Age of Sidereal Pisces that we’ll continue to inhabit for the next @ 363 years at the dawning of the true Age of Sidereal Aquarius.
Yep. Another good 300+ years to go…. yeesh.
The latest prediction by top climate scientists has determined that 2047 is the Point of No Return for life on earth, the new end of the world as we know and want it. That gives us 33 years to drastically ALTER everything about how this entire planet operates before extinction becomes inevitable (not to mention the 500+ nuclear catastrophes waiting to happen at any minute). I love the cool weather of fall and winter, and the stormy skies. The humans of this planet are deliberately shitting on what I love, right now. This is 100% intolerable.
I’ve offered Project ALTERMAN47 to this world and it’s been ignored. And now it’s probably too late. I’ve been doing the “math” and it is achingly clear that the utopian society of the Age of Sidereal Aquarius in @ 350 years time can NOT possibly arise from a human population of 8+billion. There is simply too much discord in a population that large in this deluded age. That means a mass extinction of humans between now and then is inevitable. Whether or not this will come about deliberately or as a matter of natural course remains to be seen. But make no mistake, there WILL be a purge on this human race, one way or another. And that’s probably No Bad Thing, depending on who survives of course.
Screen shot from the forthcoming ALTERMAN47 2.0 interactive website.
From what I’ve seen, this human race is simply unwilling to make the necessary Alterations toward a utopian society. Humans (primates) main defense is their offensive odor and awful flavor. They’re so polluted that they don’t even make decent fertilizer! This planet must be under invasion because they have certainly stunk the place up so that no one else would touch it with a 10 ft. pole. I’m by NO means a religious man, but this portion of Revelations does illustrate the mystery of “47” quite beautifully, which of course is a recurring theme throughout project AM47. Not only is it wonderful because of 47, but also because of the supernatural/Alchemical imagery that so potently transcends the human form and materialism:
The 4 Living Creatures. The 4 Royal Signs. The 4 Alchemical Elements.
“4:5 From the throne came flashes of lightning, rumblings and peals of thunder. Before the throne, seven lamps were blazing. These are the seven spirits of God. 4:6 Also before the throne there was what looked like a sea of glass, clear as crystal. In the center, around the throne, were four living creatures, and they were covered with eyes, in front and in back. 4:7 The first living creature was like a lion, the second was like an ox, the third had a face like a man, the fourth was like a flying eagle. 4:8 Each of the four living creatures had six wings and was covered with eyes all around, even under his wings. Day and night they never stop saying: “HOLY, HOLY, HOLY IS THE Lord GOD ALMIGHTY, WHO WAS, AND IS, AND IS TO COME.””
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I’ve been producing a modern day interpretation of The Alchemical Great Work (loosely, the idealization of matter into spirit & the great unifying mystical tradition) for the past 7 years with astonishing results. You can find out all about this great voyage and film here at Project ALTER MAN 47.
As you can see from this North Pole perspective, the 4 Alchemical Points of AM47 are perfectly aligned around the crown of Gaia.
In short, there are 4 cornerstones of an ancient sacred alchemical geometry perfectly spaced around the world at the exact same latitude in:
1. San Francisco (too many FIRE associations to list here; 1906 Great Fire, birthplace of Burning Man, and now the Rim Fire) is FIRE
2. The Japan Trench (Fukushima & the largest volcano in the entire solar system) is WATER
3. Turkmenistan (Gonur Depe – the birthplace of Zoroastrianism – heart of ALL monotheism, and center of the middle east) is AIR
4. The Azores (highest mountain tops in the Atlantic Ocean, and home to a newly discovered ancient occupation with tombs and pyramids) is EARTH
5. And The North Pole, the capstone on this ‘Psycho-Cosmic Pyramid Crowning Gaia’ is AETHYR
Note that the Fire is on the exact latitude of San Francisco (the AM47 Point of FIRE) and on the exact date that the Sun entered the ancient Babylo-Egyptian sidereal sign of Leo (FIRE).
And so the Great Yosemite Rim Fire (3rd biggest Fire in California history) ignited on 17 AUG 2013. As I and ancient history have revealed, the sign of Leo (FIRE) is currently from 17 AUG – 16 SEP, and this shifts slowly over a 26,000 year cycle of precession. The Rim Fire ignited on 17 AUG 2013, the exact time that the Sun went into sidereal Leo, on the exact latitude of the Point of FIRE: San Francisco… yet another blatant portent signifying the relevance & dire nature of Project ALTER MAN 47 that humankind continues to DENY. Gaia and I have no patience left, and if you look into your deepest heart, neither do you.
Here’s a little Spooky something from last years Point of FIRE… enjoy!!
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(08 June 2013) Today was the New Moon in Sidereal Taurus and the first organizational meeting of the San FranciscoHoly Grail Society: a social club organized around the exploration and practice of occult mysteries including Rosicrucian, Wicca, hermetic sciences, Qabalah, Tantra, Gnosticism, & Shamanism.
We explored the notion of how Sacrifice for the future is necessary right Now. Sacrifice in it’s extreme form is physical death. We would rather see sacrifice as Change. Unless this change is identified and rapidly embraced, the necessity of physical death as fertilization is inevitable and welcome.
We must sacrifice our old self. We must break down our old selves and assemble someone new. We have the wrong diet, the wrong currency, the wrong governance, the wrong calendar, the wrong zodiac, the wrong energy, the wrong beliefs. Virtually Everything in so-called modern civilization is completely backwards leading us to have a wrong identity that must be sacrificed. We need a radical departure from the habitual waste of everyday existence. But just changing ourselves isn’t enough. We must quickly find new ways to gradually layer this process of sacrifice to make it appeal to others as well.
The past strangles the future. Society must adopt a vegetarian diet, a Bitcoin/Silver/barter based economy, 3rd party governance, a lunar calendar, the sidereal zodiac, a culture based around what alternative energy can provide instead of a runaway culture fueled by petrol, and direct spiritual experience instead of traditional belief. If 23% of the passionate population took to the streets and demanded these Alterations, we’d be living in an Alternate reality by 2014.
Folks need fresh, living myths in order to become more willing to change. They need evidenced stories of the power to manifest dreams and demonstrations of the work it takes to do it. They need stories of proof of non-localized consciousness and the value of seeking out such things. They need Destiny Journalism, Metafiction, & Speculative Fantasy. And they need ritual, ceremony, counseling, education, and initiation rites to inspire personal & cultural revelation.
There is evidence in literature and archeology of a Golden Age in earth’s past. After The Flood, coastal civilization would have been all but wiped out (which makes us largely the descendents of hill-billys). What were they doing differently in the Golden Age that we no longer do? One thing we know is that much of the remaining architecture is focused around the live observation of the heavens. Very few people take this seriously today and through all the smog and light pollution, there’s little desire to do so.
12,000 years ago atGobekli Tepe, Turkey, civilization was founded on an agreement of the stars in the heavens, and the future of civilization is no exception. Sacrifice is needed Now if humankind is ever to see The Age of Sidereal Aquarius, still some 363 years in the future.
The SF Bay Areais the once and future capitol of counterculture. Here are just a few of the currently active occult organizations in and aroundSan Francisco that wemight like to explore bridgingto build continuity and the alignment of disparate intent:
The Temple Of Set is an institution designed to encourage the cultivation of self-Awareness in life transcending death. “The Temple of Set seeks above all to honor and enshrine consciousness. We wish to apprehend what makes us each individually unique and use this gift to make ourselves stronger in all facets of our being. To do this we preserve and improve the tradition of spiritual distinction from the cultural universe.”
The Holy Grail Society is a social club “organized around the exploration and practice of occult mysteries – Rosicrucian, Wicca, hermetic sciences, Qabalah, Tantra, Gnosticism, Shamanism. The Holy Grail Society is devoted to liberating the individual from the bondage of external morality, cleansing the doors of perception, revealing the true will of the divine Self.”
The San Francisco Astrological Society “serves as an educational, professional and social networking resource to the Bay Area (Tropical) Astrological community, providing an *affordable* monthly forum for people interested in astrology to gather and explore this *ancient language*.” Though the SFAS are still Tropical and not yet Sidereal astrologers, they do have a large participatory base primed for Alteration.
The Burning Man Project “is establishing an Urban Cultural Center in San Francisco that will provide collaborative gathering and gallery spaces, classrooms, workshops, a library, archives, sites for ritual and ceremony and shared office space for multiple community-based non-profit organizations.”
The Mission Astrology Group was founded in San Francisco and is the longest running gathering of Western Sidereal Astrologers in the world, currently active in various occult groups in SF.
Project ALTER MAN 47 is essentially a Synchronicity Generator and an experimental quest to help reset and raise Global Awareness. One tangible goal of AM47 is to provide an extreme example of creating culture around what sustainable, alternative energy can support as opposed to mindlessly fueling a runaway culture of excess.
All these and more to be added soon, so stay tuned!
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(14 June 2013) Just 6 days after I posted this, a brilliant interview aired on one of my favorite news shows (no, Not the Daily Show) with Dr. Rushkoff about Time and so much else. There are many fascinating parallels between my article “Bridging the Occult Societies of San Francisco” and this one on Thom Hartmann’s excellent show: The Big Picture. The interview: “Conversations with Great Minds: Dr. Rushkoff – When Everything Happens Now” is included here in 2 parts. Take a look at it and tell me what You think!!
I worked with the Speakers at the O’Reilly Fluent Javascript conference the other day in SF and a group of the speakers began talking about their love of ships and meeting up later at the SF Maritime Museum. The conversation quickly turned into how they’re all just really moonlighting coders but sci-fi writers at heart. So I jumped on the opportunity to chime-in and share my Alchemical Project AM47 and hand out my card. AM47 is of course all @ ‘sci-fi’ (or more appropriately, Speculative Fantasy / Metafiction) and, well… Ships! I’ve probably flat-blasted the poor bastards. Ah well.
Max sportin’ the Google Glass that he let me wear.
As a caveat, @ 47 minutes later, a speaker wearing prototype Augmented Reality glasses from Google asks me if I want to try them on. As soon as I put them on and swipe my finger at the temple control, the time [ 4:47 ] pops-up!! This type of Synchronicity is common for me, and increasing all the time, but it’s nice to have actual witnesses, not to mention potential new contacts. It’s a sad state of affairs when you can’t simply come out and say things like “Sidereal Astrology“, “Alchemy”, “Synchronicity”, “Vision Dreaming”, and the like without being ridiculed or disregarded out-of-hand. But I’m learning to take every chance that comes, damn the consequences… By Any Means Necessary!
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AM47 is an experimental work of Speculative Fantasy / Metafiction: Dreaming-up wild yet tangible and evidenced ideas, and following the Synchronicity that flows from them. It is metaphysically blending dreams with currently developing reality to alter the course of Destiny.
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Jack F. is a hippie samurai Zoroastrian swimming to Atlantis.
His story really began in 2006 when he had a Vision Dream involving a voyage around the globe by sea. Since then, most of his free creative time (aka. Real Life) goes into producing the story of this dream and cultivating the astonishing Synchronicity bourne of it.
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