John Dee and the occult in California

So that&#x27;s the Dee from cstross&#x27;s quote:<p>&quot;<i>for iterator count from zero to number of entropy sinks within ground state, hear ye, hear ye, I open the gates of starry time for ye that you may feel the ground beneath your feet and the air upon your skin; I invoke the method of Dee and the constructor of Pthagn, forever exit and collect all the garbage, amen.</i>&quot;<p>(from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fuller_Memorandum" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;The_Fuller_Memorandum</a>)

&gt; Dimethyltryptamine [is] the reason people lick the backs of Mexican toads to get high.<p>Not correct, Colorado river toads have 5-MeO-DMT, not DMT. Confusing the two could easily be deadly.

I don&#x27;t particularly like the OTO because of the distortion of Enlightenment Era groups and Freemasonry. Crowley and some of the esoteric philosophies are interesting but there&#x27;s not many concrete ideas there.<p>John Fleming wrote a great book related to this called <i>The Dark Side of the Enlightenment: Wizards, Alchemists, and Spiritual Seekers in the Age of Reason</i>.<p>There&#x27;s a distinction between Freemasonry, philosophy, and DMT; and the speculative ideas of John Dee, the OTO and mystical reasoning. A lot of the most fascinating things are polluted with ridiculous claims and beliefs.

I hope this was horribly mangled by some chthonian sub-editor, because I hate to think that this rambling disconnected potpourri is considered acceptable output from a PhD candidate as the bio claims.

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What does this have to do with technology or &quot;hackers&quot; ? Real wizards code in Lisp.