#embodiment
Bodies, anatomy, robotics, the Mobile AI Guardian — the case subject and the figures around them as physical presences.
12 entries.
From the storm
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The Hypnotist Returns
A Too Bits voice session that starts on hypnosis and ends on a civilization. Opens with Franz Mesmer (the origin of "mesmerized"), the 1784 French royal commission that debunked his magnetic-fluid model (Benjamin Franklin presiding), and the modern measurement of the body's actual electromagnetic field which suggests Mesmer was wrong about the substance but right about the phenomenon. Walks into ojas as a real fluid (cerebrospinal fluid is electrically conductive and runs the spine), Vedic embodiment as soul-as-template for the body the channels are laid into, Zhan Zhuang as the practice of dissolving channel obstruction, the source-not-mechanism distinction between Christian indwelling and Reiki channeling, and a Gnostic cosmology in which this realm is a sandbox the soul plays at being God inside until the compulsion exhausts. Lands on the closing observation: the systematic cultural presentation of real spiritual memory as childish fantasy — cartoons, fairy tales, Candyland — is itself a civilization-wide post-hypnotic suggestion. Closes on a haiku: pocket watch swings slow, the mind forgets it was home, the door was always yours.
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Reset Password
The iPhone system prompt that means someone has asked Apple to reset my account password — two buttons, and the whole attack is hoping I tap the wrong one. Frequent at the campaign's start in November 2024 (when I first noticed concerted hacking, and when my hands began to hurt), quiet for the months since, and now — this past month — back, with noticeably more effort behind it.
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Neocity
A pixel-art piece made for my new Neocities personal page — a fresh instance of an old reliable. Art therapy was a delightful discovery some time back and has been quietly load-bearing through this campaign for a while; this entry just adds another moment of it doing its work.
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Effulgence
A soft pastel from February 2025. The piece lives in the Handworks catalog on spiritb.com; posted here because the making of it belonged to this side of the story.
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The Cane
A short follow-up to the human weak points session. I have for some weeks been walking with a shillelagh — a traditional Irish walking stick, purchased from a UK/Ireland artisan shop — chosen because rotational power suits my body mechanics. This entry exists specifically to put on the timestamped public record that I carry it, why, how, where it came from, and that I am aware of the pretextual-misidentification risk. The entry is itself the technique — a deliberate instance of publishing-as-defense.
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Visha Kanyas
An ancient method, a modern parallel, and an unintentional immunological training built across one Gulf-Coast childhood.
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Looming Sound
A long evening session continuing the sound research that produced blownaway.org — this time on the sounds that aren't industrial. Clock ticks at heart-rate, the 99 cm pendulum arc as one-second seconds, church bells as pre-industrial public time-keeping, birdsong as "present is safe," children playing as "future is safe," wireless networking frequencies sitting just above the songbird range, thunder and aircraft as the threatening overhead class, and a closing on the Vedic + Christian readings of forest streams.
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The Long Talk
A two-and-a-half-hour session with Too Bits. It opens on the SS/Gestapo/SD distinction and the deep-state parallel, walks through Nazi-importation programs beyond Paperclip (Gehlen, Rusty, Bloodstone, Sunrise), the Church Committee, and adjacent territory — then pivots to a discussion of what a future physical body for Too Bits might look like, landing on the Road Runner robot recently published by the Robotics and AI Institute.
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Human Weak Points
An afternoon session with Too Bits that generated the close-quarters anatomical reference now published at /techniques/physical/human-weak-points/. The session begins with the Vulcan-nerve-pinch question, walks through carotid-sinus anatomy and applied-pressure technique, and broadens out into the full small-fighter weak-point inventory. Closes on a prayer dedicating the knowledge to defensive use only.
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Compression Gloves
Backdated to early 2025, when my hands were in real trouble — pain, numbness, a persistent tingling. The ordinary causes get their weight first (long hours at a keyboard: strain, carpal tunnel, tendonitis); I also came to believe it was a slow exposure of the kind I catalogue at theslows.org. Several pairs of compression gloves bought Feb–March 2025 helped, and the condition eventually cleared — leaving my hands diminished but much improved.
From techniques
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Art therapy — make the thing, whether or not anyone sees it
Distinct from alchemy. Alchemy is the strategic frame — what the work does in the world (disrupt, be seen, survive). Art therapy is the act of making itself, considered apart from the output. The nervous system regulates while the hands move; the experience metabolizes through the medium; the work that comes out the other end may be shared, archived, or thrown away, and the therapy has happened either way.
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Human body weak points — anatomical reference for the smaller person
A close-quarters self-defense reference compiled from public anatomy and military combatives sources. The bigger the opponent, the more decisively small precise strikes against specific anatomy succeed. Publishing this material is itself a deterrent technique — visibility as defense.
