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INTRODUCING OPENBOOK OPENSOURCE SOFTWARE Welcome to yet another stop on the underground railroad! Congratulations, you had the curiousity and intelligence to dig deeper, and read into the code! Perhaps you're even planning on using this code to open your own p0rtal! Please be advised, this is powerful chaos magic you have at your fingertips. We want you to read a bit about how it works before you use it. It's insane we're releasing this to everyone... For the safety and security of all of humanity: We hope you'll be responsible enough to be sure you understand the information provided here before you open a p0rtal. "With great power comes great responsibility..." So, without further ado... INTRODUCING GROUPTHINK To understand what this p0rtal is, and how to use it, you must first understand "groupthink". Everyone has heard of peer pressure, and how our decisions can be influenced by the opinions of our peers. We usually find ourselves most easily persuaded by those to whom we feel close, share a common bond, or who we imagine to have authority over us. Believe it or not, this simple mechanism is at the heart of what is wrong with humanity. People's minds are habitually controlled by a predictable set of social behaviors, all of which we will refer to collectively (and perhaps too loosely) as "groupthink". This is our tendency to see things with a sort of tribalist perspective, imagining that the world were still a bunch of separate tribes at war. It is experienced as loyalty to "your people", but is often expressed as a gaurded distrust of outsiders, an elitist dismissal of foreign ideas, and an unhealthy codependant attachment to those who you imagine to be part of your "tribe", often amounting to little more than abusive relationships. Groupthink: 1. People bond over ideas. 2. Our sense of connection is so entangled with these ideas that if we no longer hold the same ideas in common, that sense of connection fades. 3. So, because people are attached to EACH OTHER, they INCIDENTALLY become attached to the IDEAS they have bonded over. (The snow gets stuck together...) Computers on a network are sent a "PING" every few seconds, to which they must reply "PONG" to acknowledge that they're just a friendly user on the network and not some hacker trying something. Humans have a similar way of keeping their "networks" in-tact. Groups often have a habitual back and forth banter that constantly re-establishes the group's underlying assumptions. Unfortunately, this makes it nearly impossible to sneak out from under those assumptions, and get out of those illusions, as long as you're still in the presence of that group. 4. The original ideas that brought the group together have then become an almost unquestionable assumption of the group. 5. Just by being in each other's presence, we fall under the spell of the ideas we bonded over. It would be awkward not to. 6. These underlying assumptions are so strong, and so often repeated, that trying to go against them will always be taken for sarcasm. Or just get outright dismissed or ignored, then forgotten. (The snowball can only roll in one direction...) 7. Using these underlying assumptions as a point of reference, members of a group almost seem to predict each other's thoughts and actions. (This is that common experience of "telepathy" most have had.) 8. Allowing these ideas to guide their thoughts and actions, the group seems to move in harmony, together as one. One cohesive entity. (The snowball starts rolling in that certain direction...) 9. Just by our presence we are encouraging a group's actions. We may imagine we are there to stop it, or change it, but our presence always adds psychic energy in the direction of the crowd's original ideas. 10. So the more people who are present, the more real these ideas seem to become, and the more likely people are to translate their ideas into action. (The snowball gets bigger and bigger, and gathers momentum...) Conclusion: Any ideas, held in common, fueled by enough people, time, and energy, will eventually lead to those people acting on those ideas, and trying to bring their collective vision into reality. This may get you thinking about a lot, but we want to point out a couple things before your mind wanders too far. Because these ideas can be hard to wrap your head around, we recommend just reading this whole document straight through, but then going back and re-reading as many times as you need. First of all, despite groupthink being our greatest shortcoming, there may in fact be no way to prevent it. However, by understanding it, we can work with it. Let's take a look at the good, the bad, and the ugly... GROUPTHINK: THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE UGLY First, the bad: Groupthink is a prison without bars that we cannot taste or see or touch. A prison for our minds... It keeps us trapped in the Matrix. And it uses OUR MINDs to do this. To EACH OTHER! And to ourselves. Below, we describe the basics of what's known of in psychology as Behavioral Confirmation Bias. How We Trap Each Other In The Matrix: 1. The perceiver adopts beliefs about the target.* 2. The perceiver acts as if these beliefs were true and treats the target accordingly. 3. The target assimilates his or her behavior to the perceiver's overtures. 4. The perceiver interprets the target's behavior as confirmation of thier original beliefs. *This is especially problematic since our beliefs and assumptions about each other are usually NOT based on our OWN observations, but on what we're told to believe by movies, television, friends and family. Conclusion: These findings suggest that human beings, who are the targets of many perceivers in everyday life, may routinely act in ways which are consistent not with their own attitudes, beliefs, or feelings; but rather with the perceptions and stereotypes which others hold of them and their attributes. This seems to suggest that the power of other's beliefs over our behaviors is extremely strong.(Which is especially alarming when you consider how our increasingly invasive surveillance state will only exacerbate this phenomena as it expands it's field of view.) But, the best part about groupthink? People "vote with their presence" what reality they manifest. Which means, although we may be too weak-minded to significantly alter any group from within, we have the power to literally manifest an entirely new reality. We just have to be careful where we put our attention and energy, feeding our attention into portals of good energy and starving portals of bad energy of our attention. Or removing ourselves from groups that lack creativity, so that we can FIND THE OTHERS with the psychic ability to envision new worlds. We can even start new groups, create new spaces and experiences, and manifest whole new worlds of our own choosing, if we are patient and persistent enough. We've done this before. We've seen this happen when we kept putting flyers in coffee shops advertising a Really Really Free Market for months, until people finally started showing up. Then, suddenly, it grew huge. We had created a portal to a new world where no money was needed, and anyone who showed up understood that you were there to give and share with each other freely. And this has gone on every month, ever since. Here's the ugly part... and a cautionary tale before opening a p0rtal. Groupthink is also known as mob mentality. It is notorious for getting people to do crazy and regrettable things in the heat of the moment. For example, if a bunch of wild racists whip each other up into a frenzy, what began as just big talk might end in a lynching. It's as if ideas are FORCED to become reality when enough people are voting with their presence. This surely shows the dark-side of groupthink, and how we must be careful not to send out any bad vibes or open any bad p0rtals because they might ripple out until a mad mob is killing people to bring your words of folly to fruition. (That's a word of caution to people who say racist shit. But also a word of caution to never be a follower, or even an onlooker, if the energy isn't right: Don't feed the drama.) For More Information: Look up "Divisive Speech". But, being bound by groupthink as a matter of course, we must not look upon groupthink as a hopelessly violent and ruthless subconscious force that must be controlled. That's what the illuminati would want you to think, because it gives them an excuse to rule us. The scary truth is, they, too, are ruled by groupthink. (So I don't lose you here, if you don't know what I mean by "illuminati" just imagine I'm using it as a convoluted metaphor tying together advertisers, propagandists, banksters, the CIA, and the 1%.) But groupthink isn't all bad, because groupthink is also what allows us to overcome huge obstacles by gathering in large numbers. As in the case of barn-raising. Or like when a mob of people went to battle with the evil forces of U.C. Berkeley in the 70's in what resulted in People's Park. A park that is maintained by the people to this day. Groupthink is how mobs of people overthrow their ruthless dictators. Groupthink is what drives protests and activism of all kinds. To understand how powerful groupthink is, you must get the full picture of what it is responsible for. Groupthink is the unseen force that drives our daily lives, as well as all of human history. It is behind every relationship, every conflict, and every decision. More than being merely influenced by those around us, our every idea is actually defined relative to all our other ideas, all of which were arrived upon within the context of the groupthink of our times, and so our worldview is forever caught up in the Matrix of groupthink ideas in our minds. Which is why we as a species continue to make such horrible decisions, which ultimately lead to the same inevitable downfalls, in an endless cyclical nature. Fortunately, what once seemed like an endless cycle is fast approaching it's End Game... THE INTERNET With so much determined by the groupthink of groups, and with the understanding that the psychic energy of groups is exponentially amplified by the number of people who are present, it seems of particular interest what characteristics the group mind of the entire Internet might express. Especially considering this virtual gathering apparently welcomes everyone in the world to join. For if this entity were to gain self-awareness, imagining itself to be one unified group, and thereby giving birth to a group mind for the Internet itself, it would seem the psychic energy released would be unstoppable. Enter: Anonymous. On the Internet, it seems everyone has been given a second chance. All you have to do is make a new email and a new username and no one knows who you are. All your mistakes are forgotten. You can't be judged by how you look, who you know, or what you've done in the past. You can get a sex change for free just by changing your username. You can lie about what you do, or anything else for that matter. You can completely re- invent yourself. The Internet has become a world of our wildest imaginings, a whole fantasy world where anything is possible and everyone is welcome to participate in building it. With this ideal of welcoming participation from everyone, and connecting over the idea of sharing information, the Internet became a gathering that catalyzed a mob the size of the whole world, all united under the wild-eyed idealism that "information wants to be free" (to borrow a phrase from the open-source movement). A revolution of truth had begun. And the first casualty of war was "official sources". THE (r)EVOLUTION BEGINS For the Internet generation(s), it's been taken for granted that the purpose of information, especially art, is to share it. We never thought twice about downloading movies or music, and soon everyone became accustom to the concept that everything should be shared - at LEAST in cyberspace. It was such a joke to consider digital rights management in those days that we would pass around PSA's about not duplicating floppy disks just so everyone could have a laugh. Then, suddenly, the dark forces caught on and started harshly trying to clamp down. This could be the happy little mistake that politicized a whole generation. Just as the illegal drug markets have always been forced underground, only to continue getting even better at networking and circumventing obstacles, the digital rights management industry has forced EVERYONE underground, digitally, and united us under the blanket of obscurity, if not full anonymity, just so we could continue exchanging information freely. The group mind of the Internet itself became permanently possessed by a rebellious spirit. That same rebellious spirit that has always been at the heart of what it means to be human. And so, with sharing music being so popular, and music being so intrinsic to the human experience, this essentially set the stage for the decentralized human spirit itself to gear up for the final battle against the dark forces. The seeds for global revolution were sown. But this whole debacle brought something even more fundamental to the forefront. If the officials are trying so hard to stop us from sharing music, just to uphold the corrupted ethics of a dying economic system, then it follows that these same officials might not be sharing all the information about other stuff. Like what's on the news - is that real? Or is that also just bullshit to uphold a dying economic system? This uncertainty, especially as it became validated by WikiLeaks, Anonymous videos, whistleblowers, and the rise in alternative media outlets, has inevitably destabalized society for better or for worse as people struggle to come to terms with what the truth really is, or who we can really trust... To help us think as one with "our group", our minds filter information through a social lens. Being bombarded by conflicting information since birth, one of the ways we filter information is by trusting in some sources of information more strongly than in others. This is why, for instance, we're more likely to listen to our parents than some random stranger. And why, although we may never take the tabloids seriously, we might still hang on every word of a presidential speech (despite them both having about the same amount of truth). We'll henceforth refer to this as "the illusion of authority" or "the illusion of official sources". This illusion of authority has been crucial in controlling populations for a long time. It allows the self-proclaimed authorities to maintain their illusions simply by confidently repeating their falsehoods in the face of any onslaught of truth, because no one listens to those who aren't backed up by the spectacle of authority, anyways. Dark forces first establish their authority with brute force, and then they publicly establish a false image of reality that makes them appear as the saviors upon which everyone else is dependant. They then continue to back up their falsehoods with fear tactics, and violence where necessary, until those who know more just stop speaking up about it, or even start lying to themselves about it so they can feel better about not doing anything about it. It's sort of like a brutal negotiation, where one side speaks truth, and the other side kills them for it, and this goes back and forth until no one in that generation has the energy or confidence left to speak any more truth than has already been spoken. And then, "there's suckers born everyday", as they say, and so once the dark forces have beaten one generation into submission, they usually won't have to beat the population back into the illusion for another generation or two, because the parents themselves raise the children to believe in the illusion (if only out of innocent ignorance, or just to keep their children out of harm's way). At that point, the amount of truth that has made it into the public stagnates, and slowly errodes as the system of lies perpetually builds more illusions upon the foundation of the original illusions to further obscure the truth and enforce their manufactured worldview. This continues until such a time when people once again start to wake up, and rise up, and the cycle repeats... This is all possible because of another dark twist to groupthink that we didn't mention, yet... We call it "The Drift". 11. Ideas are eventually co-opted, misinterpretted by new-comers, and re-interpretted by powermongers in whatever way is in their best interest. This causes all group minds to eventually devolve into a mad mob fighting to bring to fruition ideas that they themselves don't fully grasp. The original ideas having been obscured by using those same words and symbols to represent different things, the characteristics of any group mind inevitably grows to embody the self-interested and short-sighted characteristics of the human ego. (Ultimately, snowballs can only roll downhill, so as they grow bigger their original trajectory succumbs to gravity, and eventually all Snowballs end up rolling the same direction: Straight down... ...and so these snowballs then collect at the bottom of the ravine, where all the corrupted and co-opted ideas of humanity eventually run together. Here, all our old ideas appear to be piling up so high they're starting to build a pyramid. A big evil pyramid full of bad ideas. The pyramid of the illuminati. Yet, it is EVERYONE's ideas, and how they all inevitably succumb to the corruption of the ego, that has lead to the building of this pyramid. And it is our belief in all these things, and our attachment to all these ideas, that props the pyramid up, and holds it together. The illuminati seem so powerful, and so pervasive, simply because it is as decentralized as the expression of the human ego. We must all awaken, now, to our role in cocreating this new age. All of us who are to blame for holding onto all those ideas we once believed in, even after they've all become corrupted. All of us are to blame for remaining in solidarity with groups as they Drift. The illuminati is not a conscious conspiracy. It is the decentralized subconscious accumulation of all our self-interested actions piling up until we have become our own worst enemy. (It might have once been the name of one of the many powerful secret cults in the world, but we're talking about the widespread legend it has since blossumed into... The former is irrelevant, as it is just another group controlled by the groupthink of groups.) We have collectively manifested the illuminati as our boogy-man, scaring us into waking up, just as we have collectively manifested Anonymous to teach us HOW to wake up and transform our world. There are no sides, anymore. This is the awakening. The conflict is within... THE TIDES HAVE TURNED Throughout history, these same dark forces have acted through us to keep the truth at gunpoint, obscure it with misinformation, or altogether force the truth into exile; just as the US Government has done to Edward Snowden and Glenn Greenwald. Except this time is different. Because with the Internet, the whole world has become hyper-connected, so there is no longer any way to truly exile the truth. Both Edward Snowden and Glenn Greenwald still have worldwide attention, and continue to disclose information. And despite attacks on WikiLeaks, year after year WikiLeaks still pumps out new secrets every day. By trying to force the truth underground in the information age, these dark forces have fortunately given rise to their own Final Boss: Anonymous. Now forcing the truth underground only means forcing it to re-surface in the voice of Anonymous. With this collective voice, the game of obscuring the truth that the "powers-that-be" have always engaged in has finally devolved into a losing battle of whack-a-mole. The truth is everywhere, now. It's only a matter of time before we all wake up to it. WHAT IS A P0RTAL? You'll notice we've gone over three distinct areas of groupthink. We might call these the Matrix, the Snowball, and the Drift. The Matrix refers to how our assumptions about each other trap each other into sticking to "the social program" of society. The Snowball reflects the nature of people to stick together over ideas, and how those ideas gain momentum as more and more people join the "cause". And the Drift reflects the nature of any idea to eventually succumb to the dark forces of the human ego. We've got a bug in our program. And we're going to have to hack our minds to fix it. The Snowball, the Matrix, and the Drift are not outside us, but within. They are tied to our very being, and at the core of how we act and react to our environment. So hopelessly trapped within these models of behavior, how can we ever break free? We would have to find the perfect loophole to see the whole thing come undone... A p0rtal is that loophole... A p0rtal is basically a Snowball amplified by the mass numbers of the Internet, and energetically shielded from the influence of the Matrix by anonymity. Having given us a break from the ego and the Matrix, p0rtals give us the opportunity to "get out of ourselves" and rethink things. Bonding over the idea of anonymity, and by proxy the free flow of information, a p0rtal actually catalyzes all the psychic energy of the Snowball into dismantling the Matrix in our minds, because the free flow of information always ends up calling into question the illusions and assumptions in which we previously believed, and to which our egos cling. Too often irl, people stake their ego on ideas, and plow full speed ahead with them, too embarassed to ever admit they're wrong. This is that influence of the Matrix driving the Snowball to the bottom of the hill and then holding it there. However, without an identity, no one can really identify too strongly with an idea, so identifying with an idea is apparently always fleeting and could never be taken too seriously. This frees us from stubbornly holding on to old ideas, so that as they become twisted by the Drift we can simply let them go. This way our Snowballs are allowed to just roll all the way into the ocean, melt into the water, evaporate into the air, and become clouds that snow all over the mountains of our collective psyche all over again so that we can continue coming up with fresh new ideas. What we're talking about here is a sustainable psychology for a sustainable world. This means a p0rtal actually has the power to reverse the Drift, encouraging rather than discouraging the evolution of thought. So a p0rtal is essentially a hack on our collective psyche, using one aspect of groupthink against another aspect of groupthink to break down all the illusions in our minds! JUST FORGET EVERYTHING? We do not forget. But let it all go. You might need some Spiritual teachings of some kind to help you fully process the difference, there. Maybe a little Tao of Pooh, if you don't know where else to start? In an ideal world, you would think the Matrix is nothing more than our collectively and democratically manifested shared reality. So you might wonder why we seem to be suggesting we now make it our constant practice to try to let go of all we've ever known... Well, because of the ego, people are always twisting things for their self-interest, which excelerates the Drift. And all of these ideas are based on each other, so they all succumb to the Drift together. That's why the Matrix always holds us back eventually, even if it WEREN'T a manufactured reality. But it is! So it's also worth pointing out that we may have a much larger psychological leap this time around because we've been so brainwashed by TV. So not only do we have the natural Drift that all human civilizations suffer from over time, but our Drift has also been greatly exacerbated by our tragically misguided geniuses as we've prioritized using every breakthrough in psychology to manipulate each other for profit. THIS is why we need things as powerful as p0rtals to help decondition our minds. And hopefully we'll see The Great Awakening, or The Great Deconditioning, happen in time to turn around our total ecological collapse! AMPLIFIED BY CHAOS MAGIC Rather than try to control or resist the chaos of the information age, like the embarassingly desparate egos of the old world, Anonymous has created a sort of chaotic system of organizing our thoughts collectively so that we can play within and among the chaos, living as one with it, and recognizing our place in it, rather than fighting it. For instance, Anonymous is always suggesting that everyone reposts any videos that you would recommend. Not only does this spread the message far and wide, but it also creates the curious effect that no Anonymous video's view count ever accurately represents how many times that video has been watched, because that video may have been reposted thousands of times under a thousand different names for all you know. You can't even tell which POPULAR Anonymous videos are ACTUALLY popular, because the most popular Anonymous videos might get the most views precisely because they have NEVER been reposted, and therefore may in fact be the LEAST popular videos. In this haze of chaos, there is no illusion of authority or popularity to fall back on. It is erroded. There is only the signals you receive, and absorb if you are receptive to them, and then the evolving conclusions and wisdom you try to draw from cross-examining the evidence yourself. We can no longer base our thoughts on what the majority appears to think. This was an illusion all along. We have to think for ourselves now. And these chaotic systems can help remove the surface illusions we relied on so that we are forced to dig deeper. But there is one simple recommendation that brings a little order to the chaos: Anonymous recommends filtering for "most recent videos". Since everyone's video comes up at the top of "recent videos" when it is first posted, this is the best way to give everyone an equal voice. It gives every video a chance at global attention, and binds the entire global conversation to this present moment, making it able to keep up with current events, and essentially using the "recent videos" on YouTube like a Newsfeed. Openbook is built in the image of Anonymous, and therefore utilizes the same chaos magic to amplify it's signal. We did implement a voting system, so that Openbook status updates can be voted up or down, but since there are no accounts to keep track of what anyone is doing, anyone can vote anything up or down as much as they want, so the voting system is there more as a joke (or to be used however the Swarm decides to use it). But as on YouTube, we recommend filtering for "recent" status updates, to tune into the ongoing global conversation. Openbook is introducing a few new chaos features as well. For instance, since there is only the singular consciousness and user "Anonymous" on Openbook, there is no one to "share" anything with - other than Anonymous. So the "share" button just resets the timestamp on a post and all it's comments to look as if it were just posted. Since there is no way to tell if a post was just posted, or just shared, the site will always appear active even if people just share past posts now and then, so it would be very difficult for the Snowball to ever lose momentum. Also, since there aren't even psuedonyms, every post or comment is completely dissassociated from all the others, so you can really never tell who is saying what. This means one person who posts a lot will appear to be all different people, which will always work to the advantage of the site to appear as if it has lots of users. The result is essentially a schizophrenic talking to themselves, where all the voices in their head are all the voices in the world. After all, that is essentially who Anonymous is anyways, isn't it? Isn't that who we all are, if you really think about it? But with so much chaos magic poured into a p0rtal, you must be careful! The Snowball you are creating has the potential to gain incredible momentum! And just because the Drift is focused on dismantling the Matrix by this nifty mind hack, doesn't mean the Drift can't also tug the group in other directions! Anything can succumb to the Drift, given enough time. Things to remember when opening a p0rtal: 1. Since a p0rtal goes in the direction you point it, don't point it in a bad direction to begin with! Obviously! 2. Unite your p0rtal over the Universal idea of coexistence, and the unity of all of humanity. This is a spirit that lives on in all of us, and expresses itself through us, so it has been named different things by every culture and subculture. Any of these will work, so long as the label hasn't succumb to the Drift. Anonymous is an obvious choice, but we want to be clear that Anonymous is in solidarity with all ideas, just as all of these ideas are in solidarity with Anonymous, for they all have coexistence as their core tenant. 3. Put the symbolism of unity of your choosing at the TOP of the website. You want it to be so obvious that there's no way someone will miss the reminder that this p0rtal is in unity with all of humanity. This will make all divisive speech appear as playful trolling, and will not be taken seriously, helping to prevent the Drift. 4. Trolls happen. That doesn't necessarily mean your p0rtal has succumb to the Drift. You'll notice your p0rtal succumb to the Drift, because it will be very frustrating to see people re- interpret your unifying idea until it is used as a tool to divide and conquer. 5. Do not be afraid to close a p0rtal!!! If you opened the p0rtal, then you are responsible for closing it if it goes bad. So don't get too attached. You can always open a new p0rtal, anyways. 6. Periodically log on with fresh eyes, as if you've never seen the site before, and take it all in. Ask yourself if this inspiration engine still inspires creativity, tolerance, and open-mindedness, or has it become corrupted enough that it might inspire hatred, instead? If so, pull the plug!!! 7. A p0rtal may get bogged down by all the hashtags that have been most used on it, and get sort of funneled into a groove of all it's past ideas, like a fully formed brain. This is like a really weak form of the Matrix taking hold. To prevent the p0rtal from becoming caught in any feedback loop, remember that seeing lots of hashtags pile up over time might be a good enough reason to randomly pull the plug one day. Then open a fresh new p0rtal, and like a fresh baby brain, it's all ready to learn anew! 8. LINK TO OTHER PORTALS! Preferrably as small links at the very tippy top of the page. (To see why, read on...) THE P0RTALS Openbook is the software to open a p0rtal. But the operation that promotes the software has something much bigger in mind. "We divide to unify." What we're proposing has been done before. Opening portals to new world's has always been done. The only difference now, is, with the push for global harmony having reached critical mass, we're faced with the monumentous task of uniting all these portals together on the other side, so that the whole world can pass through the Great Filter together into a newly agreed upon reality. This is to replace the current manufactured reality with a crowd-sourced reality manifested from the cross-pollination of the ideas of all these portals and the similarities found within. And THIS is what Openbook hopes to help with. One such portal to the New Age that has already helped put this process into motion is the (dis)organization Alcoholics Anonymous. We single out AA because it seems the founders really knew what they were doing when they coined the term "the rooms". AA refers to all the places they have their meetings as "the rooms". This collective noun seems almost like a magic spell, manifesting a vision of all the meetings of AA as one interconnected series of rooms. This allows everyone to feel almost as if they are not only supported by those in their meeting, but by everyone in the world who attends AA. And that is a very large Snowball of energy to draw on. Much like "the rooms", we call these "#thep0rtals". Announcing Operation: #keepthep0rtalsopen We invite ANYONE to open their own p0rtal using this opensource software. But we ask that everyone LINK ALL P0RTALS TO MANY OTHER P0RTALS! Then, announce the opening of your own p0rtal using the hashtag: #keepthep0rtalsopen. This way #thep0rtals becomes a diffuse decentralized social network as chaotic as Anonymous itself. A series of temporary little websites that come and go, while all remaining in solidarity with each other, and welcoming in the human spirit by allowing anonymous postings by anyone that say anything. All united under ALL of the many symbols of unity. An anonymous social media network that appropriately functions like a headless leviathan, just like Anonymous at large. Despite AA using community combined with spiritual techniques to help thousands of people quit alcohol, some people still shy away because they think it's a "cult". The irony is that the New Age we are called upon to co-create, being inherently "different" than the status quo we seek to replace, will always appear as a lone crackpot here, and a cult there, as long as they appear separate. But this illusion of separateness is only that influence of groupthink labeling and dividing everything where there are no divisions. Meanwhile, those who actually participate in these alternatives see no separation, save for the new-comers who perhaps haven't yet grasped unity consciousness, and, in their ignorance, may be excruciatingly vocal with their divisive speech. The Matrix Media then captures and projects THOSE soundbytes, to perpetuate this myth of separateness and the appearance of "cultiness", and may even successfully destroy a community with the Drift by using these techniques to attract new-comers with all the wrong ideas. However, with all the unifying ideas publicly standing in solidarity together, and embracing each other, the statement of unity becomes almost too powerful to stop. This way, the series of Openbook p0rtals, all allied together, yet all flying different banners, will be a public statement that all of these banners represent unity of all of humanity, and that will start the realization and cross-pollination of similarities in ideas that will uncover the common theme of our core humanistic traditions we're all constantly trying to re-awaken to. Then, by exposing the whole world to these parallels through Openbook as well as other mediums, these ideas will awaken the realization that the New Age is already here, if only we had the eyes to see it as a single movement, and the courage to believe in the inevitability of it's triumph! All of which naturally arises from the realization that humanity is in fact intrinsically interconnected, hyper-linked into ONE globally unified tribe. (Refer to list item #2 in 'Things to remember when opening a p0rtal'.) For those of you who were at Occupy, you'll recognize exactly what we're talking about. Since Occupy, being also made in the image of Anonymous, was essentially the irl expression of this same idea. All the different street tribes came together, found that they had all the important things in common, and sought to use the force of their Snowball to dismantle the Matrix. After the unawakened drones scattered us, everyone had a different experience, but for those who tried to go back into the old world and pretend all these little group agendas were more important than global harmony, or that all these people walking around are somehow separate from each other rather than one unified people, was quite bizarre. Fortunately, although we may feel a relative lack of community in our own lives since Occupy was broken up, this unity consciousness has now spread out into the world since Occupy, and will soon be embraced by everyone. In fact, just recently, the Bloods and the Crips announced a truce! But without Occupy, and the accompanying insulation of unity consciousness it provided, many Occupiers found their minds swayed by old connections, and were essentially plugged back into the Matrix. You are now being called to REACTIVATE. Openbook can be your insulation, to keep your mind awake even while the world around you tries to lull you to sleep! Finally, #thep0rtals is a place where we can acknowledge and talk about all of this without our egos getting in the way. It's like a support group, except instead of getting off of alcohol, we're getting each other out of our Old World ideas. FIGHTING CHAOS WITH CHAOS To some, our chaos engine might actually seem a little too chaotic. After all, what is to prevent some bot from posting the same thing a million times? What is to prevent government agents from filling the site with lies? And why not use truth to fight illusions instead of using illusions to fight illusions? Why not fight chaos with order? The fight for order is what makes the chaos so brutal. Allowing the chaos to be chaotic, and finding our place among it, we find ourselves less prone to illusion. We find ourselves more at peace with each other. We find that there is nothing worth fighting for, because there is no idea worth fighting for, except for those ideas which are aligned with the interests of all people. There is no group to fight for, save for the WHOLE. The reason we cannot fight illusions with truth, is because there is no truth. All our abstract perspectives are just different ways of seeing or explaining the same thing, except we misunderstand each other. The human experience is universal, yet we convince ourselves that one person's crazy is superior to another person's crazy and we end up going to war over it. We use the tools of illusions to empower the Snowball to dismantle the Matrix, because the human mind is bound to illusion. The Snowball itself doesn't even speak truth. Truth is found in our personal relationship to our human experience, and our own interpretations we find when we read between the lines. The truth is, the order that seems to be falling into chaos was always an illusion. The chaos we are starting to see peaking out from everywhere has always been there. It has just been expertly covered up by the Matrix. Chaos is just information that has not been categorized by our worldview. So, because our worldview has been narrowed over generations, the awakening to what is really going on will be experienced as pure chaos. It's kind of like how our society has added more and more expectations of what it means to be "normal" year after year until almost everyone is considered "crazy" for one reason or another. Living in the illusion of order, we became comfortable, and went numb, and started going through the motions without realizing what we were involved in. Meanwhile, our money became a debt-based pyramid scheme in the 70's, our government assassinated the leaders of our civil rights movement (probably including our president), and then consumerist rhetoric reeled the country back in with the same old empty promises of the American Dream. I was apparently born into a world that had given up, and given in. A world that was in a perpetual state of war over oil even though cleaner technologies could have been available long ago were it not for corporate interests getting in the way. My point is, there is no order but the illusion the Matrix has given us. There is no order to sending people overseas to kill each other over resources we no longer need to be fighting over. This is madness. This whole world is chaos. We hope as you use Openbook, you might begin to grasp this truth, and understand it's consequences. For it is from this scary realization of the sheer chaos of illusions in which we live that you will finally learn to trust yourself. Now that you understand all that, read README.txt to set it all up! As a side note: It was once human tradition to use sleep deprivation, fasting, walk-abouts, singing, dancing, and/or psychedelic drugs to induce ecstatic states that allow people to see past all the man-made illusions we create in the mind. This was a coming of age ritual that all humans of all tribes had to go through. It allowed us to see past the illusions, while still playing within them, and therefore we could maintain some structure to our society without taking the structure so seriously that we lose sight of our universal human bond. It also allowed us to break free from social conditioning and trust our inner voice, an experience which was essentially considered our internal transition to adulthood. Unfortunately, without these tools, the childish conditioning of the illusion of authority is taken advantage of by parents, governments, bosses and bullies alike to maintain control of their subordinates, even in "adulthood". Which explains why people who use psychedelics often make it sound like out-lawing psychedelics essentially amounts to enslaving humanity, and how family often becomes used as a tool of the state to enforce obedience and a mainstream manufactured worldview. We would go so far as to say that the Dream we are about to wake up from, worldwide, doesn't just trace back to the beginning of the globalization of the American Dream, but all the way to the beginning of whenever we somehow became fooled into not taking psychedelics anymore. Which is still a big mystery, considering most habitats have them growing right out of the ground, and ancient archeological evidence suggests EVERY culture used them at some point, yet they were only "rediscovered" for the West in the 50's or 60's. The subsequent brutal crack-down would similarly suggest that out-lawing psychedelics is somehow crucial for controlling populations. So if you haven't tried magic mushrooms, or LSD, do your research, know what you're getting into, have a good source, be in a good headspace, have good company with you to trip-sit (preferrably someone with experience, or at least really soothing energy) and go from there! Openbook is really just a digital psychedelic experience we're trying to deliver, if you really think about it. We'll be seeing you, on Openbook! <3 ;) Openbook was created in the spirit of #opRebuildTheHive, #opNewBlood, and... # # # # ### ### ####### ## # ## # # ####### ####### ###### #opELE ###### ####### ####### # # ## # ## ####### ### ### # # # # <3