Chapter 8 of the ongoing series, Ong’s Hat: COMPLEAT LINK: https://josephmatheny.substack.com/p/the-compleat-broadcasts-chapter-8
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SUPERSTORY: La Virgen de Guadalupe en el Inframundo – Sacred Protection in High-Risk Worlds
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
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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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
The COMPLEAT Broadcasts, Chapter 3
Chapter 3 of the ongoing series, Ong’s Hat: COMPLEAT This is a free podcast/post series of Ong’s Hat: COMPLEAT For reviews regarding this work, go here. You may subscribe to this series via RSS here. https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/232444.rss You can subscribe and/or download on other platforms here. The COMPLEAT Broadcasts Archive Chapter 0 Chapter 1 Chapter 2 LINK: https://josephmatheny.substack.com/p/the-compleat-broadcasts-chapter-3
When dark tourism goes para-terrestrial: Online legend-tripping and touring the void
Sophie James *, James Cronin A B S T R A C T Using ˇZiˇzek’s concept of ontological incompleteness, we theorise the touristic appeal of online legend-tripping as derived from the fantasy of traversing reality’s uncharted horizons. While online legends such as ‘the Backrooms’ invoke curiosity in suffering and the macabre, they deviate from the… Continue reading When dark tourism goes para-terrestrial: Online legend-tripping and touring the void