Gateways -- Possession

[Murphy]

He eye fucks you with words, laughing

 

[Murphy]

Soul flight, Murdoch style

My catholic stratigraphy makes the idea of a squad of anti-possessors being employed by certain high status assets as inevitable, the same way all key information is valuable only the method varies

Not that this goes beyond childish speculation, more the tease, yet this is what safari offered up as a symbol instead of tease 😈 . Something is presencing itself. Time for a tincture drop and bed, then question it while asleep

 

[DLaurent]

Another mirror scene.



I have my own 'conspiracy' theories about so called mind control... it's just an extreme version of coercive behaviour, resulting in a split personality - hence the Monarch Butterfly.

 

[william kent]

In adult life, Hunkeler was a Nasa engineer whose work contributed to the Apollo space missions of the 1960s and who patented a technology that helped space shuttle panels withstand extreme heat.

One of his companions, a 29-year-old woman who asked not to be named, told the New York Post that Hunkeler was always on edge about his Nasa colleagues discovering that he was the inspiration for The Exorcist.

Boy whose case inspired The Exorcist is named by US magazine

The boy, previously known as Roland Doe, underwent exorcisms in Cottage City, Maryland, and St Louis, Missouri, in 1949

www.theguardian.com

 

[william kent]

@Corpsey

Did you see the trailer or just that tweet?

 

[IdleRich]

You get those extremists who end up undergoing radical conversion to another form of extremism after coming into contact with the literature, e.g. that bloke who was a neo-Nazi and ended up becoming a radical Islamist.

Some people are just like that. I read this fitness guy going on about how he used to have all these drug addictions but he'd left all that behind by rising at four am every day to run ten miles before spending six hours in the gym and then spending the evening doing aerobics etc I was thinking "I hate to break this to you mate but..."

 

[IdleRich]

this is another thing on the conspiracy sites. they talk about alcohol being an arabic word
meaning something like evacuates your soul so something else can move in. which
it certainly is

I always wonder why alcohol sounds like an Arabic word given that it's hardly a huge part of Arab culture - but I've never got round to looking up why that is though.

 

[sus]

Great thread concept

The Alien (1979) thing—fear of impregnation, fear of parasitism—is all about this. Gates and boundaries. Trespass. You let a meme work its way in, give it access to your memory read/write, pretty soon it's hollowed you out. Back in an online subculture I hang around circa 2016, they called people who had been taken over and possessed by memes "cordycepted," after the cordyceps parasitic "zombie" fungus. So zombies also part of this picture. Our fear of viruses and bacteria. Boundaries and penetration.

There are millions of species of parasitic wasp. By some metrics it's the most successful morphology on the planet. Get inside a host, hijack their brain, use their meat flaps to your own ends. Dan OBannon, who wrote the Alien script, was obsessed with parasitic wasps. A standard part of your average cricket's life cycle is getting infected by a hair worm, typically 5-20x longer than the cricket's body, which wraps and coils itself inside the cricket, eating it out from the inside and steering it toward water, causing the host to drown itself. Horrifying stuff.

 

[william kent]

A clip of a mantis infected with hair worm went viral on Twitter the other day.

 

[william kent]

The Alien (1979) thing—fear of impregnation, fear of parasitism—is all about this. Gates and boundaries. Trespass. You let a meme work its way in, give it access to your memory read/write, pretty soon it's hollowed you out. Back in an online subculture I hang around circa 2016, they called people who had been taken over and possessed by memes "cordycepted," after the cordyceps parasitic "zombie" fungus. So zombies also part of this picture. Our fear of viruses and bacteria. Boundaries and penetration.

Musk referring to the "woke mind virus".

 

[sus]

It takes a bit of imagination but xenophobia, immigration fears, miscegenation fears—all related phenomena. Houllebecq's Submission. Our fear of vampires, psychopaths, and the two-faced agent who might manipulate us. Cuckold fetish, which seems, psychologically, to ask, "What if I got off from the adrenaline rush of someone else coming in and possessing my partner and hijacking/endangering the relationship?" Sex and puberty and the way your hormones work on your from the inside out, transforming you against your will. Cult brainwashing. Hypnosis. The mass hypnosis of advertising/marketing inception, of propaganda and other weaponized memeplexes. Fear of losing control. Scorpius getting his neural chip in Crichton's head. Fear of witchcraft.

 

[sus]

Musk referring to the "woke mind virus".

Yeah the idea that ideas need to be contained is old as dirt, but new metaphors have been slowly emerging for describing why

 

[william kent]

I saw something earlier where someone claimed they'd tweeted about the importance of reading widely and a bunch of right wingers had responded with this fear of contamination by left wing texts.

 

[sus]

Ideological "contamination," safe search for the kiddies, anti-virus software, religions "inoculating" their members against atheistic arguments by giving them "ammunition"

 

[sus]

I saw something earlier where someone claimed they'd tweeted about the importance of reading widely and a bunch of right wingers had responded with this fear of contamination by left wing texts.

Yes exactly you even see Rupi Kaur (and many writers like her) admit in interviews that they don't read anyone for fear of contaminating their oh so pure "unique voice"

 

[sus]

A clip of a mantis infected with hair worm went viral on Twitter the other day.

Holy fucking shit

 

[william kent]

Yes exactly you even see Rupi Kaur (and many writers like her) admit in interviews that they don't read anyone for fear of contaminating their oh so pure "unique voice"

Clarice Lispector claimed she had no influences in that recently translated interview in The New Yorker. I don't buy it. It comes off as a disingenuous pose, like that irritating tic Rich and I discussed elsewhere of authors flippantly claiming they haven't read some canonical figure they probably have.

 

[IdleRich]

Speaking in tongues is nonsensical though. When the lwa posses someone in Vodou (say) they will have clear messages.

That's an interesting point actually "in tongues" seems to imply that someone somewhere can understand it but I've never ever seen an interpretation.

 

[sus]

Clarice Lispector claimed she had no influences in that recently translated interview in The New Yorker. I don't buy it. It comes off as a disingenuous pose, like that irritating tic Rich and I discussed elsewhere of authors flippantly claiming they haven't read some canonical figure they probably have.

"I have no influences. I invented this language for myself from scratch. Every expression and metaphor was derived from first principles. No linguistic utterance I've ever beheld has ever had any effect on the linguistic utterances I produce."

 

[sus]

That's an interesting point actually "in tongues" seems to imply that someone somewhere can understand it but I've never ever seen an interpretation.

glossolalia vs xenoglossy, my understanding is the interpretation of what people babble is pretty variable. Obviously (or maybe not so obviously) no one's actually producing consistent grammars & vocabularies. still, super interesting mimetic practice