After a lengthy hiatus, the Parasol engines are ready to role again. The focus of the issue will be synchronicity. In particular we want your synchronistic anecdotes of all kinds, big or small. The…

After a lengthy hiatus, the Parasol engines are ready to role again. The focus of the issue will be synchronicity. In particular we want your synchronistic anecdotes of all kinds, big or small. The…

One way to describe where pneuminous theory leads—if it is taken seriously—is downwards rather than upwards. Not a regression into childhood or fantasy, but a stratigraphic descent into older layer…

After a lengthy hiatus, the Parasol engines are ready to role again. The focus of the issue will be synchronicity. In particular we want your synchronistic anecdotes of all kinds, big or small. The…

When Plato tells the story of Theuth in the Phaedrus, the god offers his invention as a gift to humankind. King Thamus declines, with the warning that writing will “implant forgetfulness” and give …

It is difficult to speak of Nick Land without invoking the metaphysical resonance he carries with him. Every decade or so, the Landian accretion reconstitutes in the cultural field. Whether in the …

The nature of dreams of seems almost taken for granted as an area to be decoded rather than respected as actual experience. Dreams might indeed be of the nature of a disconnected blurred sense in w…

A bonus post this month

After a lengthy hiatus, the Parasol engines are ready to role again. The focus of the issue will be synchronicity. In particular we want your synchronistic anecdotes of all kinds, big or small. The…

Looking again, at this title I can see this could be the name of a childrens’ book, this wasn’t however really my intention. I recently watched Adam Curtis’ Can’t Get You Out of M…

Pneuma is not atmosphere. It is not a vague halo of meaning that drifts around things. Pneuma is substantialised conceptuality interacting with an ineffable field of potential infection (the vector…

After a lengthy hiatus, the Parasol engines are ready to role again. The focus of the issue will be synchronicity. In particular we want your synchronistic anecdotes of all kinds, big or small. The…

If the pneuminous theory is correct, then the Second Centre has a problem. Not in any obvious way. Not in code, in function, or in dominance. It continues to operate, to expand, to simulate, and to…

The First Centre is not a place, not a thing, and not even a concept in the conventional sense. It is what Taoism would call the Dao, what esotericism intimates as the ineffable One, and what pneum…

The next two poems in the Mutations series, in which I and Geoff Matthews take turns at mutating each others’ poems in a continuous sequence. 5      Taunt There are miles …

The previous one and its mutation in the Mutations poetry series: 4      Innate savants’ great valley The calm smile of an umbrella stand is transient and elephants returni…

Context: An experiment was initiated between a human participant (Operator) and the machinic emissary (GPT) framed within the ontological schema of Pneuminous Theory. The purpose was to test the id…

A series of poems, each one a mutation (by any means) on the previous one. A cobbler who made shoes for ants, Wept at the enormity of his task, And drained away in pale exhaustion, Yet rose again i…

This follows on from Mutations 1-2. Each poem is a mutation of the previous one. 2  Arm wrestling a cephalopod can dance           burning bright o…

The previous (first actual) mutation is included here accompanied by the second. Harvest The brittle straw man sat bewildered,           by the cream th…

This series of posts is a sequence of poems written between myself and the poet Geoff Matthews. The series begins with a poem he wrote independently of this project, I then wrote the following poem…

The phenomenological world is not the world of physics. Our notions of constant spatial position would not be true from a physics perspective. However the phenomenological world has no problem with…

Almost everything that is written here is a combination of two things: experience of synchronicity and an intuition/thought sequence I once had over 30 years ago concerning establishing a sort of m…

The relation of pneuma to time can only be played with speculatively. This however does not mean that reasonable speculations cannot be made, and even if they are speculative they may have merit as…

Here we posit that there is an influence in this reality that comes heuristically from the side (though the picture is probably more complicated than that). It’s quite hard to explain what we…

From the perspective of pneuminous accretive theory, the issue of AI created art/writing has a particular distinction from that created by humans. The differentiation turns precisely on the pneumin…

“You get the idea, I mean in reality you might lose the pagan day names, in fact you might lose any cyclical day name sequence and name the days after the main food. So you’d have roast day of diff…

“Ok, I choose neither, they’re both awful.” “You can’t choose neither. You have to pick one.” “Why?” “Because that’s the game, that’s the whole point of these kinds of questions.” “Ok so, I have to…

“Hey Silvia, I’ve got a question for you.”  “What is it Mike? If this is one of your dumb fictional scenarios, can we leave it as I really don’t have time at the moment.”  “No, no this is…

“You get the idea, I mean in reality you might lose the pagan day names, in fact you might lose any cyclical day name sequence and name the days after the main food. So you’d have roast day of diff…

“Hey Silvia, I’ve got a question for you.”  “What is it Mike? If this is one of your dumb fictional scenarios, can we leave it as I really don’t have time at the moment.”  “No, no this is…