The Individuate Church
Welcome to the Individuate Church, featuring a front page system of initiation grounded in Jungian concepts, Timothy Leary's 8 Circuit Model consciousness expansion, and a study of Thelemic / Golden Dawn style ritualization. Seeking to defuse taking superstitious aspects of religion too seriously, a branch of Discordianism.
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The Individuate Church is a school of thought that all began as an ostrich cult founded after a visit to King's Dominion.
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The role playing section includes a fictional version of the Individuates.
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Note: the majority of these writings may now be found at individuatechurch.blogspot.com .
What Is An Individuate?
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I would prefer if every Individuate had at least a passing interest in the Jungian individuation process.
An Individuate can be someone inspired to take up the name by the Individuate Bible.
An Individuate is anyone whom takes on the name with an interest in consciousness expansion as grounded in the study of psychology and psychiatry.
Original Short Stories, Poetry, Music, Sketches
Short Stories
Poetry Section
"Beating on a window" from this collection to be featured in Pond 75 of Spank the Carp .
Sketches
Anarchist FreeForm Role Playing
Freeform role playing amounts to interactive writing. Character sheets are commonly based upon popular games such as Advanced Dungeons and Dragons and White Wolf's World of Darkness. They don't have to be.
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Role played characters may beat one another up in the tradition of Street Fighter or Mortal Combat, live life at your pace as normal people in a city environment, demonstrate experimental writing styles after the freewrite poets.
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This game is intended for Mature players, 18+.
Chrystal City
exists as an interactive environment in free form role playing designed to socially model anarchist permutation, plausible to impossibly absurd.
Free Form Role Playing Setting Material
The hells r Bogus, and represent things to be transcended.
Character Classes
CONTACT
If you are interested in using the original material on this website (any material not a link to another website or a quotation, or otherwise marked as belonging to a non Individuate), you may reproduce it as-is as often as you like so long as it is free, and the credit is provided KB Updike Jr and the Individuate Church.
If you are interested in astral networking with me and would like to try to contact me from the astral plane, don't come `round here. I have my own elitist clique and for now don't network outside of it.
Other Individuates are not as closed off.
Recommended Influences
James Joyce - the collected long and short fiction. For a boost in creativity.
William Burroughs - Naked Lunch, for a boost in creativity.
Jack Kerouac - at least a book or two published after On the Road or the Original Scroll version of On the Road, to get an uncensored look at the artist’s style. For creativity.
The collected works of Franz Kafka (creativity)
The collected fiction of Jorge Luis Borges (creativity)
At least some Shakespeare (plays)
Lord Dunsany’s short and long fantasy fiction (creativity)
Ray Bradbury’s short and long fiction (creativity)
The fiction of Neil Gaiman (creativity)
The graphic novels of Alan Moore (creativity): in particular, Promethea, the Watchmen, V For Vendetta (and whatever looks good)
Robert Anton Wilson - Shroedenger’s Cat Trilogy, Illuminatus! Trilogy, and Historical Illuminatus Chronicles . For consciousness expansion and creativity. Prometheus Rising, Quantum Psychology, and Cosmic Trigger Trilogy. For consciousness expansion.
Timothy Leary - Info-Psychology:... for consciousness expansion.
Antero Alli - Angel Tech: A Modern Shaman’s Guide to Reality Selection for consciousness expansion.
Aleister Crowley - Liber 4 - Liber ABA | Sacred Texts Archive for consciousness expansion.
Israel Regardie - the Tree of Life: An Illustrated Study in Magic for consciousness expansion.
* Buddhism
Mahayana Mahaparinirvana Sutra
The Gateless Gate Index | Sacred Texts Archive - (the initiations in the Essays section call for reading this text)
The Bodhisattva Path to Unsurpassed Enlightenment: A Complete Translation of the Bodhisattvabhumi by Arya Asanga, translated by Artemus B. Engle.
* Music
Captain Beefheart, Frank Zappa, John Zorn, John Cale (solo), the Velvet Underground, the P-Funk All Stars (bands circulating around George Clinton), the Residents, Tom Waits, Bastard Noise, Jimi Hendrix, the Minutemen, Fugazi - for creativity, from diversified influence
* Visual Art influences
Lots of Anime, and lots of Western comic books.
Artworks | National Gallery of Art
Movies: Dark City, the Matrix, Everything Everywhere All At Once, Poor Things, Donnie Darko, A Clockwork Orange, Being John Malkovich, Naked Lunch, Little Murders, and “the Mask” with Jim Carrey
* Martial Arts Books
Vital Point Strikes: the Art and Science of Vital Target Striking For Self-Defense & Combat Sports by Sang H. Kim
Complete Krav Maga (second edition) by Darren Levine and John Whitman
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The Marine Corps Martial Arts Program (available on amazon)
Jiu-Jitsu University by Saulo Ribeiro
The Sambo Encyclopedia by Steve Scott
Muay Thai Basics: Introductory Thai Boxing Techniques by Christoph Delph
Muay Thai Mastery by Jerry Laurita
Kodokan Judo: the Essential Guide to Judo by its Founder by Jigoro Kano
Systema: the Russian Martial System by Giuseppe Filotto. I consider Systema good at explaining the internal aspects of martial arts, but more effective if studied in conjunction with practical “external” martial arts wisdom.
And last but not least, a martial arts book that I haven’t read but that looks really interesting according to “the cover”: Hapkido: Traditions, Philosophy, Technique by Marc Tedeschi. This is considered the most thorough book ever written on just one martial arts style in popular modern English (and the longest). I can’t directly vouch for it, but it is the best way to learn “Hapkido” from just a book.