Synthesizing research from Kendall Haven (DARPA’s Narrative Networks project), Carl Jung’s theory of synchronicity, Jeffrey Kripal’s concept of the Super Story, and Joseph Matheny’s transmedia ARG experiment (Ong’s Hat), Jose explored how human attention is hardwired by story structure. A powerful narrative environment organizes human perception, expectation, and search behavior so effectively that meaningful coincidences… Continue reading SUPERSTORY: La Virgen de Guadalupe en el Inframundo – Sacred Protection in High-Risk Worlds
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The Man From 2036: John Titor, the IBM 5100 and the Internet’s Greatest Unsolved Mystery
They’re just never gonna let this one go, are they? I guess that was kinda the point. 😜 (Hint: Some things are more fun if left a mystery) Queued up at the relevant point in the video, but feel free to watch the entire thing. Their mission: retrieve a 1975 IBM 5100 computer with a… Continue reading The Man From 2036: John Titor, the IBM 5100 and the Internet’s Greatest Unsolved Mystery
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The COMPLEAT Broadcasts, Chapter 7
Chapter 7 of the ongoing series, Ong’s Hat: COMPLEAT https://josephmatheny.substack.com/p/the-compleat-broadcasts-chapter-7
He Built The Internet’s First ARG
Starshine Scribbles
@starshinescribbles Deep in the New Jersey Pine Barrens, a group of disgraced scientists and counter culturists gathered to do tests on a mysterious object called The Egg. And they would make a startling discovery: a way to travel to parallel worlds. This includes a parallel Earth devoid of humans. Realizing governments and others would want… Continue reading Starshine Scribbles
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Thin Liminal Lines
“Reality is often less interesting than fiction.” “I would not have said this 20 years ago, but I’m going to say this now: make sure there is a very clear line between reality and fiction in your work. Make sure that you don’t present something as a real thing. Like, you have to believe to… Continue reading Thin Liminal Lines
The COMPLEAT Broadcasts, Chapter 6
Chapter 6 of the ongoing series, Ong’s Hat: COMPLEAT LINK: https://josephmatheny.substack.com/p/the-compleat-broadcasts-chapter-6
Renegade physicists at Ong’s Hat built a machine that opened a gateway to parallel dimensions
That a group of renegade Princeton physicists and mystics, working in secret at Ong’s Hat, New Jersey, used chaos-theory and consciousness research to build a machine (the “Egg,” and later the “Gate”) that opened a doorway to parallel dimensions, that they escaped into one of those worlds, and that the story was suppressed rather than… Continue reading Renegade physicists at Ong’s Hat built a machine that opened a gateway to parallel dimensions