IONATOPIA 2009

***New Publication – “ANIMA MUNDI” by Iona Miller for Alchemy Journal (Vol. 10 No. 1)
ionamiller2009.iwarp.com/whats...7.html Global emphasis on urgent ecological awareness implies a reflowering of the Neo-Platonic and alchemical notion of ANIMA MUNDI the Soul of the World, an archetypal way of seeing through the world. Our narcissistic tendency is self-absorption, over-valuing individual subjectivity at the expense of the real problems of the world. The language of Anima Mundi includes beauty, aesthetics, depth, inner life and political activity -- psychological practices of larger groups. We are all engaged in making the world soul even as she shapes us. Also book review of ALCHEMICAL ESSAYS, see ionamiller2009.iwarp.com/whats...8.html

April 2009

***New Publishing - PARANOIA Magazine Anniversary Issue #50 on newstands now
“Is Earth Becoming a Dune Planet” by Iona Miller: Imperialism, Charismatic Leadership, Messianic Hunger, Corporate Feudalism, Neuro-Bio-Info-Cogno, Secret Societies, Culture Collapse, Drugs, Cults and Jihad

***New Article – BEING IN SOUL: http://ionamiller2009.iwarp.com/whats_new_38.html Post-postmodern Approach to Alchemical Art by Iona Miller. 2009 Art Manifesto. “Nothing is possible without love, not even the processes of alchemy, for love puts one in a mood to risk everything and not to withhold elements.” C.G. Jung. Alchemy explores the nature of matter-energy and consciousness. Jung spoke of soul as psyche, a heightened awareness of subjective realities. Image is a direct expression of soul. As modern alchemists we can build our lived understanding of alchemy with psychological insights as well as experimental work. Like the medieval artistae whose medium was the sacred art of alchemy, we pursue the philosophical gold to transform the ordinary into the extraordinary through service to the Living Light.

New Articles: Iona Miller’s SPIRITUAL ALCHEMY Series:

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“NOVUM LUMEN NATURAE”
As Homo Lumen we intentionally cultivate and realize the Body of Light, the diamond vehicle of consciousness. Alchemy is the sensuous science through which we love that natural light into being, even as Lumen Naturae kindles ourselves. The light is our connection to all that is wholly existant and our own immortality. In fact, there is nothing else but this light of grace and glory that complements the celestial light. Mending this division makes us whole.

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“CRYSTALLINE CHAOTIC SEA: Pre-existence, Chaos Theory & Soma Athanaton”
The unimaginably vast and the infinitesimal are simply connected at Zero Point. Nature is self-referential like fractals. Connection is as fundamental as structure. Alchemy is an accelerated path to enlightenment, a state or phase change to a higher order adaptation and function. Magic happens in the gaps between breaths. Realizing this moment neither begins nor ends, we realize deathlessness. That which is never born, never dies. To embody the Philosopher's Stone, we reiterate the whole process of creation.

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“CHAOS, SOLVENT & STONE”
The Stone is a psychic lodestone or vortex. It 'magnetically' orders the contents of our consciousness around it through reflexive feedback loops in chaotic yet meaningful fashion. Instinctual attraction toward processes that dissolve the ego and liquify consciousness leads to transpersonal experience via symbolic death/rebirth. We experience deep states of emotional turbulence in initiation ordeals and in the merger of subject (soror mystica) and object (frater). It implies a flowing state of consciousness, facilatating feedback with Source or the groundstate of consciousness via creative regression. Chaos Theory, as well as alchemy, provides a more than metaphorical language for describing the flowing dynamics of the chaotic process of psychological transformation.

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“CHAOS NATURAE: Chaos, Complexity & Alchemy”
We are agents of chaos. Alchemy and complexity bridge the gap between psychology, the arts and sciences. By applying contemporary perspectives of chaos theory, complexity theory and fractal geometry we can discard outworn conceptions of health based on ideals of regularity, set points and normative statistics in favour of models that emphasize unique moments, variability, and irregularity. We can explore philosophical and spiritual implications of contemporary science for life sciences at the interface between artistic, scientific and spiritual aspects of therapy, healing and personal development.

March 2009

***New Article - GEOMAGNETISM & YOU by Iona Miller ionamiller2009.iwarp.com/whats...2.html The brain is affected by geomagnetic fields. Fluctuating geomagnetic effects can lead to increased liminality and anomalous experiences by perturbing the human mindbody. Dissociative weakening of the threshold between our rational and irrational minds is relevant to paranormal experience." Field effects include "creative" and "toxic" hallucinations and temporal lobe microseizures [Krippner and Persinger]. Liminality is mediated by the temporal lobes and modulated by fields. These experiences may changes one's beliefs or worldview.

***New Article - ANCIENT METROLOGY by Iona Miller; Earth’s Measure is the Golden Key to Precession ionamiller2009.iwarp.com/custom3_7.html Measurement was a sacred system of knowledge established in prehistory, based on observations of cosmic cycles. Standards of measure were framed upon universal principles of number and the geophysical dimensions of the ever-turning Earth. There is no starting nor ending point. Celestial time is virtually inconceivable without the Great Cycle. Cosmology, horizon-based astronomy, astrology, architecture, navigation, geography, geometry, mathematics, timekeeping, writing, proportion in art, and musical notation were all related to numerical canon. The ancients encoded their knowledge of the world in their sacred monuments and texts as an esoteric code of numbers, formulas, and proportion.

January 2009

*** New Website - 2009 HOMEPAGE
Find Iona’s latest articles and musings here. Uber-Science, Science-Art, Arete, Alchemy, Metrology, Intelligenda, Geomagnetics, New Digital Art, High Weirdness, more. ionamiller2009.iwarp.com

***New Article – “ARETE: Raising the Bar” by Iona Miller. Arete is an ancient Greek concept for the 'spirit of virtue,' natural excellence without necessarily being heroic, a usually flawed archetype. It's time to reclaim the high-ground of our national honor for all Americans by redefining what that means. This spirit of arete was the basis of the Human Potential Movement, a non-miliant version of "be all you can be." In modern life, all acts are political acts, therefore, the arete of the citizen has a holistic effect. Our personal acts affect our whole lives and culture. ionamiller2009.iwarp.com/whats...4.html

***New Article “HOPE IS DOPE” by Iona Miller. Hope Is A Meme. Now that our airbag economy is collapsing like a loaf of wet Wonderbread we are suddenly breaking through our cultural denial to a new level that embodies Mystery as Hope. Cherished hopes and beliefs about ourselves and our futures have been crushed even as others have been raised. An avalanche of collapsing systems actively demonstrates that chaotic dynamics are in play. We live in chaos. It is the central issue in our lives, particularly when we feel out of control of our own destinies and security. Hope has a religious component and is learned in the sociological context. Hope is ‘trust’ or ‘belief’ that process will result in better times. Hope is a defense against fear and pain. Hope is touted as the antidote to depression and economic Depression. ionamiller2009.iwarp.com/whats...2.html

2008

October 2008

***New Publishing - Huntergatheress Journal huntergatheress.com/
“Manifest Destiny Manifesto” by Iona Miller. We can create an evolutionary politics to build a more creative future. Calculated cycles of commodification and scarcity, business and war have driven the military/industrial complex and the multinational corporate climate. Cover Ups and confusion have paralyzed us into apathy where nothing significant can be trusted, believed or known. But we can empower ourselves to resist status quo politics and shape ourselves a better destiny - a 21st century Manifest Destiny that fulfills our positive spiritual potential. If we don't want a dark future for humanity, we must reinvent ourselves and our culture from the foundation upwards, one inspired person at a time to large-scale societal transformation that heals personal and global socioeconomical scars.

***Radio Broadcast -
Iona Miller; Visionary, Performance Artist & Spywhisperer
joins Host Al Anderson on “The Ascending Way”
October 16, 2008 at 2:00 p.m. Eastern
Visionary Artist, Philosopher, Hypnotherapist, Author, Activist
will discuss Science-Art, Post-Traumatic Culture, and Creativity
Ridgewood, N.Y. --Sept. 25, 2008 --Iona Miller, brilliant Author and Transdisciplinary Commentator on diverse Technical and Spiritual subjects will appear on BlogTalkRadio?s show “The Ascending Way: blogtalkradio.com/Ascending-Way with host Al Anderson on Thursday Oct. 16, 2008, at 2:00 pm Eastern. The Exclusive Interview will discuss Iona?s work which is “an omnisensory fusion of sacred activism, intelligence, science-art, chaos theory, plenum physics, and emergent paradigm shift melding experiential psychotherapy, new physics, biophysics, philosophy, cosmology, healing, creativity, qabalah, magick, paranormal, "dirty tricks," media ecology, mind control, paramedia, metaphysics, and culture change.” ARCHIVED AT blogtalkradio.com/Ascending-Way .

***New Website - THOMAS LYTTLE MEMORIAL WEBSITTE - The Psychedelic Yogi tomlyttle.iwarp.com/
Tom published many of Iona Miller's articles, collected here for the first time.
A controversial writer, Tom Lyttle lived in the Bermuda Triangle and in a sort of Bermuda Triangle of the spotless mind. Lyttle was the publisher and editor of Psychedelic Monographs and Essays, a periodical 1985-1993. “Best of” compilation using selections from PM&E, titled Psychedelics: A Collection of the Most Exciting New Material on Psychedelic Drugs. Barricade Books Inc.,1994. Psychedelics Reimagined included Timothy Leary, Hakim Bey, Iona Miller. Lyttle sold autographed blottters of psychedelic celebrities like Albert Hofmann, Timothy Leary, Sasha Shulgin, Annie Sprinkle, Peter Fonda, Allen Ginsberg, Alex Grey, Laurence Gartel, HR Giger.

***New Web Site - CREATIVE PROCESS creativeprocess.iwarp.com
On creativity, creative process, types and creativity, experts on creativity, commentary.

***PRESS: HunterGatheress II: Manifest Destiny Manifesto, drops Oct. 15 huntergatheress.com

September 2008

***New Article – “MAKING OUT IN CHAPEL PERILOUS” ionamiller2008.iwarp.com/whats...4.html
Every Culture Has Its Proving Grounds. The legend of Chapel Perilous and the Holy Grail is the root of the meme also used as a milestone on the inner journey by Tim Leary and Robert Anton Wilson. Find out what it might mean for you.

August 2008

***New Article - ESP(iona)ge Series continues with "GERM WARFARE"
This Germ’s for You ionamiller2008.iwarp.com/whats...8.html
The trigger has already been pulled on the smoking gun of biowarfare and we were all in the crosshairs. In the 1950s-70s, pathogenic mycoplasma were covertly released in top-secret “mock” attacks. Dr Maurice Hilleman, chief virologist for the pharmaceutical company Merck Sharp & Dohme, stated that this disease agent is now carried by everybody in North America and possibly most people throughout the world. Is this what they mean by “better living through chemistry?” See this site.

***New Article - "ESOTERICS: THE NEW DOPE" ionamiller2008.iwarp.com/rich_text.html
Iona Miller brings a unique background to the overlapping arenas of parapsychology and intelligence work. Her close contact with experts in the field brings a level of comprehension beyond that of most conspiracy and freedom writers. In addition, her work in metaphysics and psychotherapeutics, as well as art and paramedia ecology, brings a depth and aesthetic mere reporters cannot duplicate. Ms. Miller works with the world's top physicists, transpersonal psychologists, intell officers from several agencies, and a host of "usual suspects." Take a walk on the wild side of ESP(iona)ge and see what that clandestine world has to offer and how it works. Ms. Miller specializes in Do It Yourself (DIY) Mind Control Countermeasures.

July 2008

***2008 Updates/Coming Attractions - ionamiller2008.iwarp.com
Iona Miller 2008: The Global Underground - Tim Leary, Shasha Shulgin and the Usual Suspects explored and explained in terms of Intelligence connections. "Tim Leary & the Pink Power Pills, " "Sasha's Ecstasy & the Agony of the Neo-CONtrollers," also part 2 of Shulgin. Shorter version appearing in print soon with Paranoia Magazine. Coming Soon, "No Fear & Loathing in Amsterdam" on its changing scene. The next issue of Paranoioa's annual HUNTERGATHERESS JOURNAL contains my "Manifest Destiny Manifesto" - an outrageous act of political performance art.
June 2008

***New Site: EMBEDDED HOLOGRAMS / QUANTUM TANTRA
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MAY 2008

***New Site - Disseminating Social & Scientific Innovations
SCIENCE-ARTIFICER GUILD Int’l
science-artificer.iwarp.com/ JOIN US: SAGI -- a Nonlocal Action Thinktank -- invites you to network, collaborate and collectively dream, design and build exemplar projects as new foundation memes to embody the future as an alternative to Apocalypse. Vision is rooted in the negentropic forces of life itself. Breakthroughs in lifestyle, political theory, health science, intelligence, macrohistory, women's studies, art history, economics, ethics, medical best practice, communications theory, and more. Today's research challenges require many minds to find viable solutions, new options for collective participatory wisdom. SAGI is one such option.

***New Site - HISTORY OF DIGITAL ART 101 – E-book Online
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