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YES – EsoZone Portland 2010 is Happening – October 8-10

It hasn’t been promoted much, but yes – EsoZone Portland 2010 is happening. And it’s happening next weekend. I haven’t been involved in it much this year but I will be there.

EsoZone Portland 2010. Mutant unconference. Psychopomp as the wrap party. Consider what you’re contributing, contact us, and stay tuned.

Friday – 9pm til close
Saturday 2pm til close
Sunday 2pm til close

Autonomy
316 Nw 4th Ave
Portland, OR

Sites:

Possible subject matter:

  • Outsider Art
  • Discordia
  • SubGenius
  • The Occult
  • Satanism
  • Conspiracy Analysis
  • Life Extension
  • Intelligence Enhancement
  • Space Migration
  • Psychedelic Futurism
  • Conciousness Expansion
  • R/evolutionary Living
  • Renegade Metaphysics
  • Radical Psychotherapy
  • Aliens
  • NeoShamanism
  • Temporary Autonomous Zones
  • Body Modification
  • Alternative Sexuality
  • Fringe Culture
  • Human-Dolphin Communication
  • DIY Media
  • Cybernetics and Systems Theory
  • Pranks
  • Atheism
  • Zen
  • Martial Arts
  • Recession Hacking
  • Facebook event page

    Facebook page (Seems to be the primary resource now)

    Esozone.com (not really the primary resource any more)

    Here’s a video from one of last years sessions:

    More stuff from last year here and here.

    Tell your EsoZone story

    What has EsoZone meant to you? Have you met a partner or collaborator at EsoZone? What sorts of art and/or projects have you completed as a result in your participation (or lack thereof) in EsoZone? Has it changed your life in any way?

    I’ll go first: […]

    Read more at esozone.com

    Announcing: EsoZone Protocol – host an EsoZone in your city!

    We have now released the “EsoZone Protocol” – the standards for hosting an EsoZone in your own city.

    Free. Sponsorships, voluntary donations, and tips are allowed, but tickets, fees, and mandatory donations are not. Selling merchandise, refreshments, etc. is ok.

    Open. We understand some Esozones will have limited space, but attendence should not be limited to a certain group people or be “invite only.” Example: If an Esozone: UT Austin were being planned, it could NOT be limited to only UT students. Pre-Registration limits, first come first served entry, etc. are allowed. This does not mean that people can’t be ejected if they cause disruptions.

    Unconference. Some pre-scheduled material may be incorporated, but Esozones will follow unconference principals and allow participants to set the agenda. Anyone can post a session.

    Read the full document

    Cyclone of Slack pictures and video

    ivan stang at the cyclone of slack in portland, or

    power circus

    The Cyclone of Slack has posted links to some media from the event. If you have more they’d love to know about it.

    Cyclone of Slack: we want your pictures (videos, audios, whatever)

    EsoZone PDX 2009 round-up

    EsoZone PDX 2009 is over, and I’m still recovering. Here’s some of the stuff people have posted so far:

    Jillian’s EsoZone round-up wherein she shares her own experiences at EsoZone 2009.

    She’s shared her outline from her “Radical Therapy for Radical Minds” workshop

    Garret Daun has shared a PDF of his “Create Deconstruction” workshop.

    Lion42’s pics from EsoZone

    Above: a short video from Soup Purse’s workshop on audio processing as invocation and divination.

    Pictures from Soup Purse’s workshop.

    EsoZone. Tonight. FREE.

    This is it! EsoZone is upon us again!

    If you want to volunteer, please show up around noon. Otherwise, doors open at 6pm.

    It’s free, so bring anyone who’s interested!

    And don’t forget the EsoZone Astral Temple if you can’t make it in person.

    A word about parking:

    Please park on or around Schiller, on the north side of the bridge, to avoid getting your car towed and/or getting our hosts in trouble.

    Can’t make it to EsoZone Portland? Astral project!

    Frater Zir will lead a group astral projection to an EsoZone astral temple this Saturday October 10th at EsoZone at 3pm PST. Those who can’t participate in the actual event are invited to join on the astral plane.

    For the purposes of this working, I have chosen to locate the EZOSONE Astral Temple (EZTRAL) inside of an orb of liquid metal, floating in the molten viscous fluid in the very center of the Earth.

    Within this orb, on the horizontal axis, circumscribing the perimiter are four sphinxes, marking the quarters, facing in toward the center of the temple. Above the center of the temple is an octagonal window, thru which the night sky can be seen. In the center of the floor is an octagonal pool of black fluid, upon which we will skry the vision.

    Floating above this pool is a seed pod, about the size of a basketball. Its composition is a hybrid of organic and cybernetic materials. This sentient seed could be viewed as a chaosphere, upon/into which we will be focusing our intentions and interpretations of what the ESOZONE phenomenon means, what it will foster, how it will evolve, why it exists.

    The first Esozone could be iconographically described as a key, which unlocked the gateway to a more practical and interpersonally direct understanding of our modern version of the esoteric community, which until then largely existed in the virtual realms. The second, a pyramid, which allowed us to climb to meet the sky, bringing us to the understanding that the stars of this EZ phenomenon are none other than ourselves.

    This year, the meaning is as much a mystery as the previous two, but the intent has evolved into a free assembly of modern esoterics connected on the virtual and organic levels, a hope for the phenomenon to spread to other locales, an uncertainty of what kind of information will be presented, by whom, and for what purposes. It is up to us, ours for the making and taking, right here and now, free of charge, open to all.

    Therefore, charge this cyber-ganic EZTRAL seed with your unique intentions for the future of this far-reaching community of free individuals, and contemplate in the pool below on the manifested information which the group’s effort transmits back to you. At the ritual’s peak, we will lift the seed to the sky, and focus our intent upon it with an intensity which will heighten to the point that it explodes, sending forth genetic copies of itself outward to the far reaches of this planet, in the hopes that these seeds will find fertility, and manifest in future ESOZONE festivals in other places, linking back to our efforts here at “Headquarters,” and blossom into a cornucopia of previously unseen communal fruit.

    And have a happy harvest season, while you’re at it.

    And feel free to project yourself forward or backwards in time if 3pm on Saturday doesn’t work for you.

    EsoZone t-shirts now available

    esozone t-shirts

    Better late than never! EsoZone t-shirts are now available. I just got a sample one, and Bob does it look sharp!

    Artwork by the incomparable Ian McEwan.

    Gspot: EsoZone

    Joe Matheny interviews Jillian and me for Gspot:

    After EsoZone Portland 2009, we will release the “EsoZone Protocol,” a set of guidelines similar to an open source software license that will enable organizers to host an EsoZone in their own city as long as they are free and follow the “unconference” model.

    Download it here

    Public apology

    In an incident here on this site I’d rather not revisit, but must, I lost my temper with Danny during an argument about various rights to EsoZone and hurled some personal insults at him that were unfair, hypocritical, had no place in a public conversation.

    The EsoZone rights questions were eventually resolved, and in fact Danny is once again doing design work for EsoZone (some volunteer, some paid), but I feel this apology is long overdue and necessary. I can’t take back the things that I said, but I can apologize for them.

    Danny – I’m sorry.

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