Welcome @ The Tim Maroney Web Collection

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Welcome. I am Tim Maroney, a software architect,user experience lead, spiritual practitioner, published writer, andbon vivant living in Berkeley, California.The Book of Dzyan is my first book. I am working on my secondbook, Scientific Meditations. An excerpt is available atDescent: A Meditation.This web site collects many of my writings from the last two decades.I am a spiritual skeptic.My spirituality and my skepticism enhance each other symbiotically.My studies in science and philosophy bring aunique perspective to my intimate treatment of mysticism and the occult.I withhold belief from astrology, reincarnation, God, the spirit world, psychic powers,magic spells, archetypes, and the afterlife, but I have long cultivateda speculative and operative interest in non-mainstream religionand other spiritual and imaginative traditions and practices.As well as reading, contemplating and writing about spiritual subjects,I practice yoga, meditation and rituals intended tostrengthen and balance my mind and spirit.My psychological approach to mystical experience is based on phenomenology,a paradigm that treats mental phenomena as real on theirown plane without concern for their external truth or falsehood.While I do not think that anything in the objective world is sacredin itself, I recognize and honor the mental process that attaches thehuman category of sacredness to phenomena. Beauty is in the eye ofthe beholder but it is there.For more about me, see About the Author.This work from the Summer of 2001 is a guided meditationthrough the realms of science, inspired by the works of Carl Sagan,Heinz Pagels, Richard Ely, Alan Moore, Phylis and Philip Morrison, and others.It is the closing of the presentation "Scientific Meditations,"and the kernel of my book in progress of that name. It was firstdelivered at NOTOCON III in Long Beach, and since then atPantheacon 2002 and Mons Abiegnus Oasis in Mill Valley, California.This meditation has appeared in The Scarlet Letter.The Book of DzyanI am appearing at readings and signings for my first book.I have updated the promotional materials for the book, which is available now at occult book shops.The variant on The Gnostic Massknown as The Tetragrammaton Masshas been made public to encourage discussion and performance. It is not an approvedOTO or EGC ritual, nor are any restrictions placed on its performance at this time. Recent Essay: The Freedom of Doubt An essay on the classical skepticism of Sextus Empiricus and how it relates to various forms of skepticism in religious and mystical traditions, including a critical look at Crowley's claims of skepticism. My Infamous USENET Messages Google Groups has a partial USENET archive going back to the early 1980's. After appearing in newspapers as a teenager, I turned my attention largely to the new form of computer networks, publishing only the occasional magazine article in print for over a decade. My participation was controversial to say the least, and it remains so today judging from current comments. I enjoy the archive and sometimes flip around in it on a lazy day. My main regret is that so many pieces did not survive, including a comic book parody entitled "Hill-of-Beans-Influence Lad," which survives only in fragments preserved by others, and a discussion on sf-lovers of the relationship between Star Trek's Ferengi and traditional anti-Semitic stereotypes. If you have or can find these (or other pieces or threads of interest), please let me know. Decide for yourself, but be warned, I wrote very differently twenty years ago than I do now. Both my interests and my attitudes toward people have changed quite a bit -- for the better, I hope. Nov 2002: This web site has been rebranded and integrated withmy LiveJournal. The changes are meant to make thesite simpler, clearer, and more focused. A LiveJournal is a "blog" or online diary with links.I have placed many new short piecesin my journal, as well as a few oldies but goodies. Many pieces have generated discussion, and you can join in.The word "Studies" has been removed from the title of the Introduction toCrowley (in Five Voices). Watch for the appearance of a new, corrected and expanded version with six voicesand two additional chapters in the nextdisinformation anthology, coming in 2003!The essay on Hekate and the Satanic School,formerly known as "Twilight Crossing," has been divorced from its organizationalcontext. It stands as a statement of principles for the informal school of thought known asthe Satanic school, and for my personal vision of Hekate and underworld spirituality.I long ago gave up my esoteric links collection, definitions andtaxonomy to theGoogle Web Directory's Esoteric and Occult Links,where it has been merged into a link repository maintained by a succession of volunteer editors.If a software package makes links easy for me to maintain, I may create and integrate a new link repository.The old "Villa of the Mysteries" theme and title are no longer used.Old bookmarks and links should still work. If you have online links with the Villa title,such as in a web directory you maintain, then I'd appreciate it if you could refreshthe titles.Redirection is used on this site to accomodate as many old URLs as possible.Some material has been obsoleted, such as old publishing and personal links.All technical content is now gone from this writings site. Watch in the futurefor a web site on my software and design interests. You may, if you wish,view my resume,or download it in Word form.

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