EXPERIMENT WITH ACRYLIC RUNE CARDS. SAMPLE

Today, I used my acrylic cards in the Northumbrian system for the first time. I always make a test run before introducing a method to the public. The book is still in process because wanted to make sure the content remains true to the Anglo-Saxon tonality and culture of Northumbria. What I learned from the ‘reading’ will be told later in this newsletter.

The three top gold-colored runes represent the three card reading that I did. There is now a set of 91 cards for the Hyperborean Erulian system. Other than the three gold runes on top, the others are there for demonstration purpose only.

24 cards in Elder Futhark = red color.

18 cards in Armanen system = green color

16 cards in Younger Futhark = blue color

33 cards in Northumbrian Futhorc = gold color

The numbers penned at the bottom of the cards show their Futhark order and facilitate looking them up in the guidebooks

Completion of the Northumbrian Futhorc ebook is closer now. I've decided that my lengthy "Guidebook to Runestaves" should be included for a more complete overview of runes.The Elder Futhark is Proto-Germanic in ancient language but most of our scholarly interpretation is based upon Proto-Germanic language with the inclusion of the Old English Rune Poem. Thus, the expansion of Angle-Seax or Anglo-Frisian runic history/lore into the eventual 33 staves.

Keeping my Northumbrian tonality in the text means an abbreviated definition of runes. The experiential element is still there but not as explicit as the Primordial anecdotes as those shared in the Armanen system. All four Futharks of my Hyperborean presentation of 'levels' will accomplish the intention. I'll make a bargain offer for all four levels when completed.

Northumbrian reading accessed information not available with other Futharks. Often a set of runes in sequence or position has a unique meaning for you, The cultural or unique message is up to you to decide. We engage with our ancient heritage and future prospect as an exercise in authentic sovereignty. My interpretation of the three Northumbrian runes at the top of this display image is unique and personal to me. The normal interpretation would be that the God voice and communication creativity are either rock solid or blocked as indicated by STAN rune. The TIR rune is a confirmation of a strong person who sacrifices to maintain a TRUE North orientation.

The meaning for myself is communication from the essential nature of my deceased father. We worked together as builders in stone as a financial boon that was also artistic. I have indeed sensed guidance from my father in how a man achieves worth and prosperity. We would often return from a mountain ‘fishing’ trip with a truck load of stones for use in the masonry business. We were a great team.

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The internet age means we can express what we feel is important quickly while allowing a process of growth to develop in text and time.

A prompt here toward Victorian Poetry and the quickness of cyber communication. I often quote "A man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for?" to explain my ambition toward interesting topics Latest invocation of this line is from reading much about Stewart Brand and the Whole Earth Catalog (which I remember) and R. Buckminster Fuller, Norbert Wiener, and Gregory Bateson ( who I only understood on the surface.) The cybernetic and AI creation of the internet from the Stewart Brand attended and sponsored conferences are beyond me. But then A man's reach.......

I just learned the context of my Robert Browning quote. It's from the poem, "Andre del Sarto" which is a sad story about aging, and a wife who poses for her husband the artist but who is about to step out with her lover. Not an entirely heart-breaking situation because he appreciates having had a wonderful wife when other artists did not. Aging is slowing him down on passion but he has perspective. But not exactly an inspiring state of affairs.

So I hereby retire my Robert Browning quote to replace it with Thomas Carlyle : “ A man lives by believing something; not by debating and arguing about many things. ”

Thomas Carlyle, On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and The Heroic in History (1841).

or “ No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men. ”

Thomas Carlyle, On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and The Heroic in History (1841).

There - - my fascination with great minds stands in good stead.

THE POWER OF PARADOX

What I'm learning about the early Stewart Brand is the Power of Paradox. Brand's anti-communist agenda meant he was a training leader in the ROTC until the conflict with authority and centralization meant he saw the military regime of bureaucracy as a fulfillment of centralized authority. How is it that a man who talked with the early beat generation and Ken Kesey Leary and Alpert Hoffman was active in ROTC?

As my hipster comrades gathered around the Whole Earth Catalog, I was correct in my assessment of the Whole Earth Catalog being an antidote to Maoist controls but I also recognized the anti-centrilization theme that continued to influence Brand’s version of a Libertarian future. Tools to build your world.

Early lessons learned in the Markoff biography :

1. Appreciate seeming contradictory social contacts as providing a grand resource for learning

2. Don't ever give up on your fascination with life.

https://cornermarketrf.blogspot.com/2023/02/lessons-from-markoff-biography-of_16.html

Agree or disagree with Stewart Brand’s ever shifting ecology politics, there are fascinating great minds at work in our trajectory. Stewart Brand has always used the I-Ching for big decisions. Probably the Baynes/Wilhelm translation with the introduction by C.G. Jung that was featured in Whole Earth Catalog. I also tend toward Divination in matters of consolidating reasoned decisions myself. I use runes which sometimes lead to a refinement funnel where I recently use the FOUR GAMES card system. You may very well find this oracle in your life at some point also.

COSMIC SPIRIT TECH

Significant divination events have shifted my focus back to expanding this particular ebook.

"Narrative rather than charts and data."

The immense biographer skill and intelligence of Markoff shifts my direction to areas more within my skill set.. Cosmic perspective from my eclectic familiarity with mediums of communication is a subset of my direction.

Of course things have changed. Yet directional stability of purpose while adapting to new information is the Way. They say that information from failure is more important than information from success. Not buying it totally. Depends on which aspect is on the ascension. Cybernetics is fully engaged with Cosmic Spirit Tech, since the powers of mind are cognizant of a 'self steering' mechanism evident in the manifestation dynamics of a whole system. Indeed, PsychoCybernetics by Maxwell Maltz is the textbook of practical application by those interested in mind science. This is why Gregory Bateson, Norbert Wiener, and Maxwell Maltz books could be found in the same book section of Whole Earth Catalog.

A note on Artificial Intelligence

The potentially dramatic influence of AI as it concerns the Singularity of when self-awareness causes the machine to take over is not my concern because I have no expertise or opinion in this regard.

In another regard, I have the same expertise as anyone who has used Google search etc. for a length of time. What I propose here is that the programmed bias of new AI like Chat GPT has already formed a trajectory that will be continued. If you have had your SEO drop from your original days of blogging or been banned or warned on social media, you know that algorithms are in place that have been engineered toward a standardized narrative.

AI algorithms are a continuation of previous trajectory rather than a new phenomenon. We have worked around this before and we will work around it again. That is another reason that Cosmic Spirit Tech is essential to keep the more vital aspects of human tradition and evolution in place.

My recent study has been in a magnificent biography about Stewart Brand by John Markoff. Whole Earth Catalog was a back to the land and esoteric ideas that before Brand was fully ensconced in technology. I find it valuable cosmic reading because I was there back in the days of Spirit Tech that Brand still uses like the I-Ching.

Praxis narrative of a multi-personal arena within a whole system:

This is narrative rather than charts and data. Whole systems evolve with complexity yet the decisive moment is the input that has the adaptable trajectory. There is little vocabulary for the emotional memory hits that have been a feature in my 70s. Cringe is a word that comes to mind but the consequences are beyond any trendy saying. Decisions made with considerate intentions result in situations that have not been in the best interests of the players. I was once a bit player in the dramas created by those I wanted and those I wanted to avoid. I thought my position was determined by their own bias against and misunderstanding of my relevance. "She done me wrong" was my operational mantra.

Time and evolution placed me in a different category. I now know that I had a causative momentum in my own decisions. Others were affected. My position was never meant to be a karmic decree of putting things right. The view from the higher perspective is that the love factor is the highest value. I always knew that. Painful loss is a stage of the journey that has no mitigating factor. Rejection and loss are not a polarity. A period of loss through rejection has arrived in the wake of a successful campaign of ambition.

Reuniting with a lost love played out toward a decision I had in the wholeness of destiny. Would lost love arrive in events? The choices were made and the greater love became an equal. Now I wonder about the well-being of the one I lost. In a different era such finalities would not be necessary. I worry about someone. She was worried about me.

Back to the topic of how this tech will reach and add value in the world among readers.

Since this is a Psychic approach to tech I must relate to the current narrative of experienced rejection as a re-focusing of my intent to stand independent in a wider field of more experienced people while adding my own contribution of value. That means to create my own work before sharing. Then sharing must be a market value signal.

Work for purpose in the Short Game.
Have a knowing faith and patience in the Long Game/

Epochs of cosmic media productions are factors in the creators whole system with evolution toward complexity functions that resolve toward practical tools. The faith of Fate magazine readers shifted toward more long view presentations like books by Ingo Swann.

There is a new arising of an equivalent to Fate Magazine that we saw back in the day. New Dawn features some old school spooky stuff with added articles by intelligentsia. I will feature an interview with Gwendolyn Taunten of Primordial Tradition. She has been instrumental in contributing to the continuation of Manticore Press.

Gwendolyn Taunton https://www.newdawnmagazine.com/author/gt

Gwendolyn is an author of Primordial Traditions as a journal series and several books that contrast the Primoridial with the perennial in myth, lore, and practice. I knew of her work when getting "Northern Traditions" for which she is editor as well as contributing author. The Northern Traditions book features work by Christopher Alan Smith, Juleigh Howard-Hobson, Troy Southgate, Wulf Ingasunnu, and others.

The push to have me diminish my library means I have to sell something (Good Will Corporate donations are out of the question) so I researched how much to sell this edition for. A month ago the out-of-print book listed at $600 but there must be more copies now because it now sells for about $50. We don't collect books for monetary investment but we do make a meaningful investment. Time will tell.

Gwendolyn used a literary award to rescue and promote several publishers of note. Manticore Press is one of these. My link is to her work for New Dawn magazine

Books in specific fields can create membership in specialized social media groups or familiarity with websites dedicated to the author's conceptualization and momentum. What one learns can create contact with related or further works in the field.

Interface between Ancient Ways to New Thought and Cosmic Spirit tech creates a dynamic between Tradition as preserving the Primordial and cybernetic innovation as a teleology.

There is a corrective narrative of re-writing history in personal matters.

This is a rough draft of ideas that will be shared when polished. Mostly, I wanted to see if I could post samples of my 91 card Hyperborean Erulian System.

Your friend on the trail,

Alan

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