Schedule
Schedule is subject to change. Check back often.
FRIDAY
6:00 PM
Doors open
7:00 PM
Reception & music by misterinterrupt
7:45 PM
Opening address: Wes Unruh
8:00 PM
Pranks! with St. Mae and St. Fox
9:00 PM
2012: Forestructuring The New Aeon - Clyde Lewis (Square)
Alex Ansary: Outside the Box live (Bazaar)
10:00 PM
The Approximately Omnidirectional Ephemeralization of Richard Buckminster Fuller with Trevor Blake (Square)
Midnight
Music by:
Young Jungs
Critical Theatre
Hecate
SATURDAY
10:00 AM
EsoTech Panel (featuring: Rex Church, Paul Laffoley, Thirtyseven, Wes Unruh, Ikipr) (Square)
11:00 AM
Meet for walkabout/drift in Bazaar
Noon
Lunch and binaural beat experiments
1:00 PM
Antero Alli: 8 Circuit Brain (Square)
Taylor Ellwood: Identity and Magic (Bazaar)
3:00 PM
Rex Church: the Ragnarok Engine (Square)
Psychotronics with Bill Whitcomb (Laboratory)
4:00 PM
Joseph Thiebes: Systems Theory, Cybernetics, and Thelema (Bazaar)
5:00 PM
Dinner and binaural beat experiements
5:40 PM
Orryelle Defenestrate-Bascule: Conjunctio
6:00 PM
Freeman Perspective live (pt. 1) (Square)
Comics jam (Laboratory)
8:00 PM
Dennis McKenna (Square)
9:00 PM
Lupa: 21st Century Animism (Bazaar)
10:00 PM
Ikipr: Art Magick Through Creative Technology (Bazaar)
10:30
Raffle winners announced
11:00 PM
Music and ritual performance by:
Ogo
Zeph Yr
Midnight Magickal Mass: The Black Sun, Snakes & Stars
Orryelle Defenestrate-Bascule
SUNDAY
10:00 am
Freeman Perspective live (pt. 2)
Noon
Lunch and binaural beat experiments
1:00 pm
Paul Laffoley (Square)
Independent media open discussion (Bazaar)
2:00 pm
Metavirus 101 with deadletter b (Bazaar)
3:00 pm
Cutting-Up with Wes Unruh
4:00 pm
Ambidextrous Art with Nemo
5:00 pm
Memetics and the Free Zone with Edward Wilson
6:00 pm
How to Produce an Elephant with Ben Mack
7:00 pm
Dinner
8:00 pm
Scavenger hunt winners announced, then:
Which Tomorrow? (featuring: Antero Alli, Dennis McKenna, Nemo, Freeman) (Square)
Show and Tell (Bazaar)
10:00 pm
Closing address by Nick Pell
10:30 pm
Valhella (Square)
Open Mic (Bazaar)
11:00 pm
Music and ritual performance by:
Mirro Milk
Philip K. Nixon and Machine-Man-Drum
Cult of Zir
11:30
Sword Dueling 101 with Mu-Ryu
Friday
Opening Address by Wes Unruh
Alterati Editor Wes Unruh picks up where he left off with his closing speech last year discussing the possibilities and limited limitations of the meme culture.
Pranks! with St. Mae and St. Fox
Kalisticon gurus St. Mae and St. Fox share the secrets of Discordian pranksterism. Learn about the contemporary situationist street magick of pranks and their power in disrupting consensus reality.
2012: Forestructuring The New Aeon with Clyde Lewis
2012 is not the end of the world — but the beginning of a new Epoch. Clyde’s presentation deals with 9/11 as a ritual working in the tradition of Crowley and John Dee and the Large Hadron Collider as a Stargate opening a new dimension, both in preparation of 2012. This mind opening exploration is not to be missed.
Trevor Blake: The Approximately Omnidirectional Ephemeralization of Richard Buckminster Fuller
The basics of Bucky and beyond. The world’s foremost Buckminster Fuller expert, Trevor Blake of OVO fame shows how to do more with less. Essential for people interested in Bucky who don’t know where to start and seasoned vets looking for new perspectives.
Alex Ansary: Outside the Box live
Portland cable TV conspiracy analyst Alex Ansary schools Esozone on what you need to know about the North American Union, surveillance society and how to live off the global control grid.
Music:
Hecate
Saturday
Dennis McKenna: human / plant co-evolution and the exploitation, and criminalization of nature
Practically the co-inventor of the 2012 cultural phenomenon, Dennis McKenna is also a pioneer of natural products and medicine. Co-author (with his brother Terence McKenna) of The Invisible Landscape, and Psilocybin- Magic Mushroom Grower’s Guide, Dennis literally wrote the book on the DMT experience, neo-shamanism, and DIY mushroom cultivation. This year’s Keynote Speaker, Dennis will give two seminars on human / plant co-evolution and the commercialization, exploitation, and criminalization of nature that are not to be missed!
Panel: EsoTech
Panelists: Rex Church, Paul Laffoley, Thirtyseven, Wes Unruh, Ikipr
“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”
The line between magick and technology has always been blurred. No less a luminary than Sir Isaac Newton was an accomplished alchemist. Whether it be the far out biopsychology of Wilhelm Reich, the bad physics of the Chaos Magickians, or Nikolai Tesla’s secrets man was not meant to know, renegade science and magick seem to go hand in hand more than ever. As science pushes the boundaries of what man can accomplish, it also expands our notions of what is possible. Esozone’s panel of mad
scientists will discuss the possibilities of FutureTech- for better or for worse.Antero Alli: 8 Circuit Brain
“Antero Alli is a frontier scout for the species, out there on the rim where the past and future intersect.” — Dr. Timothy Leary
In addition to being a prolific film maker and Paratheatrical director, Alli has somehow managed to write some of the most influential books on esotericism since the 1960s. His works (published by New Falcon and Vertical Pool) deconstruct shamanism, astrology, and ritual theater, giving them increased accessibility and breathing new life into the oldest of esoteric practices. A welcome addition to Esozone, Antero Alli will hold a seminar on one of the most fascinating topics of post-Crowley occultism, the 8 Circuit Model of Human Consciousness.
Rex Church: the Ragnarok Engine
A seminar in Black Magickal Technology from the Church of Satan’s Magister Rex Diabolus Church. Come hear about the dark side of Tesla tech with the world’s foremost practitioner.
Freeman (part 1)
Go down the rabbit hole and off planet earth with Austin, TX’s Freeman. Secret blood lines, massive scale trauma-based mind control, and the ultimate aims of the Secret Brotherhood will be discussed with a close-knit, extended Q&A to follow.
Joseph Thiebes: Systems Theory, Cybernetics, and Thelema
Sekhet-Maat Lodge Master Joseph Thiebes explores his Hermetic insights bridging the boundaries between ritual magick and systems theory. A reality hacker’s must see!
Ikipr: Art Magick Through Creative Technology
Austin, TX’s circuit bending magus Ikipr brings the secrets of Liber Tek to the masses at Esozone from basic electronic alchemy to the Great Work for the 22nd century and beyond.
Bill Whitcomb: Psychotronics
Bill Whitcomb was born a typical child of the 20th century until contracting Semiotic fever, an imaginary disease characterized by oneirodynia, mythopoetic swelling, and hermeneutic convulsions, resulting in chronic obsession with symbols and language. Whitcomb is best known for his books on magical symbolism and practices, The Magician’s Companion and The Magician’s Reflection. A new edition of the The Magician’s Reflection and a new work, Selections From the Dream Manual, will be published by Immanion Press.
Lupa: 21st Century Animism
Urban areas are ecosystems unto themselves, with not just technological spirits and the genii of buildings, but the totems and other spirits of the altered wilderness who help retain a connection to all that is not manmade. In order to bring the tomorrow we want into reality, we need to work with the beings that share our space with us. How do we reconnect and reground in a world where we’re increasingly encouraged to be isolated and insular? How are we distracted by ever more abstract paradigms to the point of ignoring what is directly around us?
Orryelle talks about his new graphic grimoire Conjunctio
Music and ritual:
Orryelle Defenestrate
Australian magickian, Tarot artist, and musician Oryelle Defenestrate brings his ritual magick to Esozone. An inheritor of the memes of Austin Osman Spare with the explosive presence of Genesis P-Orridge.
Midnight Magickal Mass: The Black Sun, Snakes & Stars (by C-PAN)
Celebrate the Witching Hour in style at this year’s Esozone Mass, with an invocation of the Aeon. A C-PAN/PDXO+ production.
Ogo Eion
& More TBA
Sunday
Paul Laffoley: Director’s Cut
Paul Laffoley kept the Esozone audience rapt for several hours last year- giving a truncated version of his Keynote Speech. Come to Esozone: The Other Tomorrow to hear Paul Laffoley uncut on visionary art and counterculture from Elvis to the Raelians.
Freeman (part 2)
Panel: Which Tomorrow?
Panelists: Antero Alli, Dennis McKenna, Nemo, Freeman
Moderator: Nick Pell“When did the future go from being a promise to being a threat?”
Speculative fiction generally falls into one of two camps. First, there is the utopian, Star Trek-style vision of the future. People from disparate backgrounds working together towards common goals in a world largely devoid of the problems of the present. However, the dark twin of this literary trope- the dystopian fantasy- has largely eclipsed the former over the last thirty years. Visions of zombie apocalypse, last man on Earth death fantasies, and technology as oppressive monster have
largely replaced the Camelot-era visions of a future where humanity finds peace. What will tomorrow be like and how can we tell? More importantly, how does one influence the future on a macro scale? Don’t look for any easy or comforting answers from this panel!Taylor Ellwood: Identity and Magic
Experimental magickian Taylor Ellwood explores the possibilities of identity and consciousness in magickal practice.
Wes Unruh
Nemo
Edward Wilson: Memetics and the Free Zone
An unnamed corporate “church” claims to have the secrets to stopping time and human flight- for a dear price. Come hear Edward Wilson give the essential knowledge of “the Golden Age of Tech” in the Free Zone. L. Ron Hubbard fanboys and critics will have a field day.
Ben Mack: How to Produce an Elephant
Ben Mack will make an elephant appear on stage in this workshop on creating illusions from the man who brought back the yo-yo.
Show and Tell
Bring your own mad science and occult technology experiments to show off to fellow EsoTechnicians.
Closing speech
Nick Pell wraps up Esozone’s discussions and workshops with a summary comment on Esozone and what to do tomorrow.
Verbalizer
Philip K. Nixon and Ikipr
Valhella
Come see ladies and gentlemen duel with swords, battle with spears, and slash each other with knives in this middle-of-the-floor battle royalé tournament fightfest. Think Thunderdome, Soul Caliber and Fight Club performed to the live breakcore audio assault of the Psychetect.
Cult of Zir
& More TBA
Plus there will be participatory activities throughout the weekend, such as walkabouts, scavenger hunts, sword fighting, and a comics jam.
