Loki Listens

And so another week begins here at Loki Listens. I did basically nothing this week. New Years Day threw me at the wall. Got a few cool things to talk about though.

On my new phone I’ve been keeping track of where I’m going and such with GPSed.

Still have the Early Bird Edition of Loki Listens Volume 1: Developmental Theology. Download the PDF here.

Lots of cool stuff coming up this week, as I am back on my regular writing schedule.

Jack
I Listen

Monday Update
January 5, 2009

Tags: ebook, GPSed, monday, New Years Day, PDF, update

This is the eighth section of my novel. If you haven’t read the first six, you might want to start here.

Synchronicity Stream
——

Jane finished up her research and contacts within an hour or two, but turned up no real leads. Minus was sitting in the lotus position across the room. This looked pretty odd, because Minus was not a small man, by anyone’s standards. He wasn’t fat, but he was muscular and stood well over six feet. With short, almost buzzed black hair, and mutton chops, he certainly did not look like a metaphysical agent at all. She popped another reality pill, finished off a glass of wine, and sat down next to him. She began to meditate, trying to reach the Synchronicity Stream in hopes of catching Minus there. She had no idea how to enter the Alacrity Motion, so this was her only chance.

She found that she slipped easily into deep mediation and was over looking the synchronicity clock within only a few minutes. She saw the stream moving at great speed below. Minus felt her enter the stream, and moved in her direction. In a few short minutes they were side by side, watching the jet streams of time and the occasional perfect moment go by.

“Apparently the years we spent in the bar were part of the synchronicity subplot of both of our lives. Best I can tell. I cannot see a why, but we should hear from Doctor Mancini soon. Any leads from cyberspace?”

“Nothing concrete. There was tell of others feeling trapped in the same bar, but in ways that were no where close to what we experienced. The bar apparently sits on a metaphysical sink hole of sorts. Many people in our line visit the place regularly,” Jane answered.

“How did you get here? I thought it was hard for you to get into the stream?”

“It usually is,” answered Jane. “But I just sat down next to you and focused, and here I was. Perhaps we should try to learn a little from each other while we wait for that friend of yours to call.”

“Good idea. Wake up.”

—-

Jack
I Listen.

The Cost of Magic
Section #8
Synchronicity Stream

Tags: alacrity, fiction, focus, internet, Jane, magic, Mancini, meditation, Minus, novel, reality, synchronicity, wine

Well, here it is. 2008 is almost gone. It’s been a crazy ass year. New Year’s Day on the horizon, the dawn of 2009. Who thought they’d make it this far? Not me.

Haven’t really accomplished much this week at all with all of the crazy Christmas business. It’s time to get back in gear though. Gonna get back to daily posts again this week. Try to push the envelope even further with more pieces to The Cost of Magic and Basic Ideology 101. It’s going to be a good week. Trust me.

And, I do have a bit of a surprise for you tonight! It’s finally here! Loki Listens Volume 1: Developmental Theology eBook! This is an early edition. We’ll see a second version at the time of print release with an introduction and some additional thoughts by our old friend Scarab.

Download your copy now!

Jack
I Listen.

Monday Update
December 29, 2008

Tags: 2008, 2009, Christmas, crazy, dawn, ebook, fiction, ideology, magic, monday, new year, new year's eve, philosophy, Theology, update, xmas

Sometimes we worry about the things we might have missed, the opportunities we allowed to fade, for what ever reason. For the most part, this is merely existential anxiety.

We worry, because we are. “I think, therefore I am.” No. You are, long before you ever think. Any creature that recognizes this is sentient, as of that moment. We realize that we are, and this is our first thought. It is also our first, and most ingrained anxiety.

With this series of lessons, I have set my goal to make you think, and to help you understand why you think that. Perhaps this is folly. Or, is my worry, now, after the fact, purely part of my own existential anxiety?

Can you follow, chief? We still have a long way to go.

Jack
I Listen.

Basic Ideology 101

Lesson #14
The Battle of Being

Tags: anxiety, Basic Ideology, battle, being, cog, evolution, existential, existential anxiety, follow, growth, i am, i think therefore i am, ideas, ideology, jack, lessons, moment, now, OS, philosophy, rain, sentient, series, teaching, thought, time, US, why, worry

Are you ready to fight the next battle in your progress?

Today, I’m going to talk about the magic of conversation. Ideology, in itself, is worthless if we cannot communicate it. The hard part here is that lots of people like to think their ideology is the only ideology that works. As long as people think like that, it will be hard to affect change. Open minds are the only place where change will be made.

If you can open your mind to acceptance(we battled this one already, remember?), and speak amicably with each other about what you have learned, and what you have taught, we can start to make progress as a society.

Talk to people. Lots of people. Every chance you get, engage someone in conversation. We’ve become a civilization of isolation. Do you think these attitudes and behaviors would have succeeded in tribal times? No, of course not. But, that was before we forgot about magic.

Jack
I Listen.

Basic Ideology 101

Battle #13
The Battle of Conversation

Tags: acceptance, age, attitude, Basic Ideology, battle, change, civilization, communication, conversation, ideology, jack, magic, memory, mind, open mind, open minded, people, philosophy, progress, sharing, talk, talking, time, tribal, work, works

This is the seventh section of my novel. If you haven’t read the first six, you might want to start here.

Awaken Jane
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An hour or so later, Minus heard Jane stirring across the room. He switched some programs off, and walked over to the bed.

“How are you feeling?” Minus asked as Jane was rubbing her eyes.

“Like I haven’t slept in three years.”

“Well, that sounds about right. I’ve asked some friends who are understanding, to check into what happened to us at the bar.”

“Good.. That was… weird… It’s like I understand it, but at the same time, I don’t. I enjoyed our time there. But I am glad you finally saw through the glamor.”

“You knew it was a glamor?” asked Minus.

“Well, not until you broke it’s hold on me. Looking back it’s easy to see that the brown bags had magical implements in them to help hold the illusion.” Jane was more clear than she had ever been. This was an entirely new feeling to her.

“You understand much more than I realized. Can you affect glamor, or any other kind of magic?” Minus was perplexed and intrigued.

“Not much. Minor glamors to hide the way I look when I need to. The occasional premonition. Some times I’m lucky enough to hit the synchronicity stream, but that’s not often.”

“I missed the glamor. I should have seen through it sooner. But it was very powerful. Could you see the Mist outside when we left?”

“Yeah, there’s no way I could have missed it. It felt so wrong,” Jane looked very sad at this.

“My friends will be doing some research for us today. We’ve been advised to stay here. The mist is everywhere outside, I am told. But only those of us with a metaphysical awareness can see it. The rest of the world doesn’t know.

“There’s a phone and a computer over there in the corner, if there is anyone you need to contact. Let me know if the phone beeps though, I’m expecting a return call at some point. Do you know anyone who might be able to give us some insight into all of this?”

“Maybe. Let me go through some things and see what I can do,” Jane said as she walked towards the desk.

“There is a bottle of reality pills on the desk. Help yourself, but they can make you forgetful. They are the red liquigels. Help yourself to any food or drink we have down here. Please let me know if you find anything, or if a call comes in from a Doctor Mancini. Otherwise, I’m going to have a drink, and spend some time in meditation. I need to break into the Synchronicity Stream or the Alacrity Motion for this. I can’t get to the Akashic Library anymore. Mancini is working on that for us. We have to figure out why we were targeted and removed from time for so long.”

———

Jack
I Listen.

The Cost of Magic
Section #7
Awaken Jane

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Just wanted to take a minute to wish everyone a Happy Holiday season. No matter what you are celebrating this winter, let’s try to put some thought into brotherly love.

As always, I suggest that you volunteer at your local food bank, or Salvation Army. They always need the help this time of year. If you don’t have the time to spare, drop off some canned goods. What costs you a dollar might feed a family.

Jack
I Listen.
Happy Holidays!

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