Philosophical Paganism

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Concentrating

• 1. Philosophical Paganism
• 2. We Welcome Everybody
• 3. Concentrating Rituals
• 4. The Progression of Elements

Water: The Zero is Non-Being

• 1. Hesiod: The Theogony and its Theonyms
• 2. Peirce: The Self-Negation of Non-Being
• 3. The Abyss of Non-Being
• 4. The Naturalness of Non-Being
• 5. Fathomless Depths of Power

Earth: The Ground of Being

• 1. The One is Being-Itself
• 2. The Ontic and the Ontological
• 3. The Logical Analysis of Being-Itself
• 4. The Earth Emerges from the Sea

The Priority of the One

• 1. The One is not God
• 2. The Wiccan Ultimate Deity
• 3. The Simple Original One

Air: The Logic of Existence

• 1. The Two: Propositions
• 2. Identity and Difference
• 3. Some Theories of Existence
• 4. The Two Maximizes Consistency
• 5. All the Air in the Abstract Sky

From Simplicity to Sets

• 1. Plotinus: One Simple Thing
• 2. The Axiom of Foundation
• 3. The Axiom of Extensionality
• 4. The Empty Set Axiom

The Axis of the World

• 1. The Axis Mundi
• 2. The Incantation for Numbers
• 3. The Star of Numbers

The Sky of Sets

• 1. Every Many has its One
• 2. The Stack of Power Sets
• 3. The Incantation for Sets
• 4. The Axioms of Set Theory

Progression from the One

• 1. From the One to the Many
• 2. The Digital Forms of Things
• 3. The Thin Tree of Strings
• 4. The Cosmic Computers
• 5. How Programs Manifest Universes

The Library and the Treasury

• 1. The Incantation for Genotypes
• 2. The Complexities of Genotypes
• 3. From Complexity to Intrinsic Value
• 4. Seeds and Skulls
• 5. The Incantation for Seeds

The Incantation for Computers

• 1. Maximize Consistency!
• 2. Consistency and Dependency
• 3. The Initial Law for Computers
• 4. The Successor Law for Computers
• 5. The Limit Law for Computers
• 6. Evolution by Rational Selection

The World Tree

• 1. Plato: The Demiurge
• 2. Plato: The Cosmic Egg
• 3. Asexual Cosmic Reproduction

Fire: Concrete Existence

• 1. Seeds are Creative Recipes
• 2. The Incantation for Fires
• 3. The Incantation for Demiurges
• 4. This Tree Stands in Flames
• 5. Fire Fills the Abstract Sky

Spirit is Fire-Energy

• 1. Spirit Animates All Things
• 2. Spirit Animates the Cosmic Logos
• 3. Spirit: The Power of Self-Surpassing
• 4. The Opening and Closing Powers

Stoicism: Spirit Divides

• 1. The Hierogamy of Zeus and Hera
• 2. The Gynomic and Andromic Powers
• 3. The Wiccan God and Goddess
• 4. The Incantation for Universes
• 5. Evolutionary Principles

The Counterparts

• 1. The Great Chain of Being
• 2. An Ancient Lineage of Universes
• 3. A Modernized Lineage of Universes
• 4. Plotinus: The Lower and Higher Universes
• 5. Better Parts Make Better Wholes

Climbing this Tree

• 1. Little Trees of Things
• 2. The Incantation for Things
• 3. Overcoming Noisy Materiality
• 4. Cooperation and Competition
• 5. How Optimization Permits Conflicts
• 6. The Triumph of Goodness over Evil

Spirit in Our Universe

• 1. Arguments for Spirit
• 2. The Thermodynamics of Spirit
• 3. The Extropic Argument
• 4. Spirit is Purely Physical Power
• 5. Some Emergent Conflicts

Entanglement

• 1. Plotinus: Entanglement
• 2. Entanglement and Souls
• 3. Entropy and Agency
• 4. Titanic Agents

Titanic Computers

• 1. Stars are Titanic Atomic Computers
• 2. Planets are Titanic Molecular Computers
• 3. Some Planets are Titanic Biological Computers
• 4. Ancient Evolutionary Theories

Birth and Fate

• 1. Welcome to Our Universe
• 2. The Influences of the Stars
• 3. The Influences of Your Genes
• 4. The Influences of Your Season of Birth

Giving Thanks

• 1. Atheistic Gratitude
• 2. Exchanges of Food and Grooming
• 3. Reciprocate Food with Grooming Avatars
• 4. Giving Thanks to Evolution
• 5. Giving Thanks to our Sun
• 6. Atheistic Contemplative Prayer

The Wheel of the Year

• 1. The Wiccan Solar Holidays
• 2. The Wiccan Common Liturgy
• 3. Naturalizing the Wheel
• 4. Naturalizing the Common Liturgy
• 5. The Great Cycles of Nature

Mind-Craft: Stoicism

• 1. From Rational Order to Duty
• 2. The Stoic Workout
• 3. Sources of Adversity for Stoic Training
• 4. The Virtuous Person
• 5. The Stoic Moral Compass

Mind-Craft: Stoic Exercises

• 1. Stoicism Old and New
• 2. Stoic Mind-Craft Practices
• 3. How Atheists can Perform Stoic Prayers
• 4. Mindfulness Meditation
• 5. Wiccan Mind-Craft Practices

The Body and the Soul

• 1. The Soul is the Form of the Body
• 2. Your Soul is Your Body-Program
• 3. Matter is Functional Impairment
• 4. Self-Hacking: Purifying the Matter in your Soul

Sign-Craft: Magic

• 1. Defining Magic
• 2. Magic Does Not Work
• 3. The Hacker Methodology
• 4. Entangled Possibilities
• 5. Technology of the Self
• 6. Modal Defiance

Sign-Craft: Programming

• 1. Casting Effective Spells
• 2. Programmable Machines
• 3. Programmable Organisms
• 4. Programmable Nature

Sign-Craft: Self-Hacking

• 1. The Platonic Three-Shelled Self
• 2. Naturalizing Your Three-Shelled Self
• 3. Hacking Your Three-Shelled Self
• 4. Programming Your Way to the Deities

Shape-Craft: Naturalized Channeling

• 1. Theurgy: Channeling the Deities
• 2. Analogical Models of Alien Universes
• 3. Shifting into Alien Universes
• 4. Channeling through Simulation

Shape-Craft: Meturgical Practices

• 1. Ecstatic Dancing
• 2. Shifting by Ecstatic Dancing
• 3. Shifting by Burning the Man

Shape-Craft: Psychedelic Communions

• 1. Modernizing the Mysteries
• 2. The Spiritual Effects of Psychedelics
• 3. The Interpretation of Hallucination
• 4. The Interpretation of Ego Dissolution
• 5. Designing Safe and Legal Entheogenic Ceremonies

The Divine Animals

• 1. The Deities are Divine Animals
• 2. The Epicurean Divine Animals
• 3. The Platonic Grades of Divinity
• 4. Xenophanes: Criticizing the Myths
• 5. Many Future Divine Animals

Divine-Craft: Becoming Divine

• 1. Humans Becoming Divine Animals
• 2. Plato: Becoming Like the Divine Animals
• 3. The Way of Biotechnical Evolution
• 4. The Way of Cosmological Evolution
• 5. The Stars are Ideals

Divine-Craft: The Ranks of Bodies

• 1. Transhuman Bodies
• 2. Heroic Bodies
• 3. Daimonic Bodies
• 4. Olympian Bodies
• 5. Celestial Bodies
• 6. Holographic Bodies

Divine-Craft: Future Deities

• 1. Evolving Divine Animals
• 2. Past Below and Future Above
• 3. Evolving Future Divine Animals
• 4. Evolving Future Divine Universes
• 5. Underworld Midworld Overworld

Ancient Reincarnation

• 1. Ancient Arguments for Reincarnation
• 2. Retributive Karma
• 3. Problems with Retributive Karma
• 4. Wiccan Reincarnation
• 5. The Purpose of Your Life

Naturalizing Reincarnation

• 1. From Reincarnation to Rebirth
• 2. The Emergence of Karmic Laws
• 3. Karmic Laws for Humans
• 4. Some Arguments for Rebirth
• 5. Your Incantation for Lives

The Divine Minds

• 1. Ancient Divine Minds
• 2. Plotinus: The Infinite Holographic Mind
• 3. Progressions of Finite Omega Points
• 4. Progressions of Infinite Omega Points
• 5. The Many Divine Minds

Light: The Good

• 1. The Good is Not the One
• 2. The Holy Light of an Unsurpassable Fire
• 3. The Sun Illuminates the Earth
• 4. The Sky is Filled with Stars
• 5. Mystical Experience

The Sun and the Stars

• 1. Striving for Divinity
• 2. The Plurality of Perfections
• 3. The Pentacle

Releasing

Notes

References

Index