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“My Avatar betrays me. It is a mortal corporeal version 1.0 requiring constant, expensive upkeep. It carries me, like an arrow through linear time. It includes a brain that builds a simulacrum of this sensual world. I want to perfect my Avatar with mouse clicks, but it stubbornly adheres to source codes I cannot access.…

Don’t forget that there are good and evil spirits. There are unseen forces at work — some of them hinder us, manipulate us toward darker feelings and appetites so that we produce the sort of energy they can harvest. Other spirits watch over us, respecting our free will, embracing us with love if we allow…

Every new technology cuts both ways. Value the tools you need to use, but be careful about becoming obsessed with them. As Sophocles said, no great gift enters the human sphere without a curse. Use the technology, but be careful about it using you. Note: Although this card will focus mostly on technology, it also…

Exploring the unconscious, but perhaps with too much innocence. Nothing could be more crucial than Socrates’ great commandment: “Know thyself.” Those who don’t know themselves act out their unknown contents in the world, and often with disastrous results. Explore the unconscious with the courage to see the horror and beauty of the endless diversity of…

A portal opens in the mundane world. A portal opens for you every night when you enter the dreamtime, and death awaits as a magical doorway for the integrated spirit, but you may access portals in all sorts of other ways as well. Empowered imagination can open portals into other worlds. For example, both the…

Your inner child is peering through all the surface distractions of your life. How does he or she feel about what you have wrought in your adult life? The occurrence of this card indicates a need to locate your inner child. It’s become a bit of a New Age cliche to talk about your “inner…

The Babylon Matrix is set up to undervalue one of the greatest treasures you could possibly give or receive — compassionate, healing empathy. Empathy is a treasure that often enriches the giver even more than the one who receives it. The opposite of empathy is an exclusive focus on “internal considering”: — what you are…

Now is your eternal birthday. “Yesterday is ashes. Tomorrow wood; Only today the fire burns brightly.” — Native American saying What you have to work with in the present may seem weird, unexpected, incomplete, but those are just ego judgments. Your job is always to work with what is present in the moment, whatever it…

Choosing the lesser of two evils. The positive aspect is that this is a propitious time to reconsider the choices; there are probably more than two options.

Approaching the rabbit hole. How far down does it really go? Rabbit holes are portals. A portal opens for you every night when you enter the dreamtime, and death awaits as a magical doorway for the integrated spirit, but you may access portals in all sorts of other ways as well. Empowered imagination can open…