Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2000 10:47:43 +0100
From: Amara Graps <amara@amara.com>
Subject: Re: Reintroduction
From: Emlyn O'Regan (emlyn@one.net.au), Fri Aug 18 2000
>so I changed my surname. It's worked out very well. Changing your
>name, like getting rid of all your crap and moving somewhere with nothing,
>is a very cleansing experience; highly recommended.
>The Sufis have an intriguing idea of getting rid of baggage (material
>or psychological) *continually*, so that one is always killing a part
>of oneself off, i.e. "making a space". A space to think and to be and
>to be open to new elements in one's life.
I keep thinking I have strayed out from Extropy list into the pagan/magick
E-lists that I belong to!
It is a constant theme to discuss magickal names and the criterion of
choosing them amongst the occult frats/ sors.... no doubt for very deep
mystical and psychological reasons..... and I did read somewhere that
mono-names (sting, Madonna &c) do work better as stage-names than longer
ones.
Even an adopted label (Extropian, Wiccan or whatever) suffixed to your name
alters your whole persona (how others think of you) ... our names are part
of our total package, and I suppose if we are proactive regards changing
world-scale evolution, then changing our own names is but a small thing.
I have researched and published an article on "He-names" and power
adjectives in names from both a folk-lore and psychological perspective, and
it does seem that indeed "the name is the thing" in some very concrete ways.
Steve Nichols (fully posthuman since the 1980's)
Grandmaster Hodos Sphenodon
- - babe of the abyss - -
- - the breaker of foundations - -
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