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`WWWVRML 1994: CyberSamhain Invitation
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`CyberSamhain Invitation
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`Mark Pesce (mpesce@netcom.com)
`Fri, 14 Oct 1994 12:55:00 0700 (PDT)
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`All over the world, for at least five thousand years (and probably very much
`longer), people have celebrated this time of year as the death of the Sun,
`of the Male Solar God; Apollo, Cerne, Pan, whatever the form this is the
`end of the year, the end of the wheel. The God exits the wheel of time and
`passes into into the Shadow Lands, the realm of the spirits, where souls
`await their rebirth.
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`In the brief span of premillenial time now left us, there is a growing
`understanding and respect for these archaic festivals, and an unconscious
`acknowledgement that our spooks, and how we celebrate them, tell us more
`about our selves than our gods. Unlike the rationalist, who would ignore
`the dark side of imagination, or the spiritualist, who accepts only the
`imaginary as real, we could find a middle path; one in which a consciousness
`of death is the consciousness of the mutability of our lives and selves, one
`in which we can remember our dead, and let them leave their gentle touch
`upon our spirits.
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`But the end of the twentieth century is not merely a recapitulation of the
`human past; we have planted our flag upon a new continent of collective
`imagination, which has been named for us; Cyberspace. A place where we can
`communicate through infinitely mutable forms, in an inconceivable galaxy of
`sensation, this place awes and terrifies us; whatever we want in Cyberspace,
`we will find.
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`Cyberspace is the Shadow Land of human technos; at the end of our striving
`we will find the perfect, still mirror in which we see only ourselves. This
`can be either good or ill; when a monkey looks into a mirror, no god looks
`out. But perhaps we would do well to acknowledge the divine within
`ourselves within Cyberspace; perhaps this will help us to understand the
`emanations which compose our reflection.
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`On 27 October 1994, at Life On The Water in San Francisco, California, we
`will perform a ritual of CyberSamhain, a ritual which acknowledges and
`welcomes the God into his realm on the other side, within Cyberspace. He
`must pass through the Goddess, who is everywhere present and need be
`welcomed nowhere; before cyberspace took form, she was its firmament.
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`The great advantage of a ritual within cyberspace is very clear; everyone
`who wishes can join with us, *wherever they may be in the world*, and
`participate in the ritual. We will be using two wonderful channels into
`cyberspace; Mosaic, which allows you to view hypermedia documents which span
`the Internet, and Labyrinth, a brandnew Internet visualization tool which
`creates a threedimensional "view" of a space on the Internet. Real
`cyberspace.
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`Using these tools, we will be casting a magick circle whose center will be
`everywhere and perimeter nowhere. The ritual will be available through
`Mosaic and the World Wide Web, as well as a Labyrinthbased view of the
`magick circle. Further, if anyone reading this feels compelled to
`participate, they may contribute text, graphics, or other media which will
`also be added to the site. Also, anyone who wants to contribute a totem (a
`threedimensional representation) to be placed *within* circle during ritual
`will likewise be able to do that.
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`If you are interested in participating or attending this event, please send
`mail ASAP to mpesce@hyperreal.com. We will get back to you with all
`details. Alternatively, check out the CyberSamhain home page on the World
`Wide Web at http://www.hyperreal.com/~mpesce/samhain.html.
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`Thank you.
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`IO EVOHE, and Blessed Be!
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`Mark Pesce
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