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Barbarellany
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 		INFO: Back to the egg
I though we might want all egg info together.

A piece of info that I think is scattered about and may need to come together.

March 21 is the holiday of Ostara which is celebrated with eggs. There will be wiches decorating eggs with thier wishes. I don't know if this might involve our friend digitalis or if it may in someway connect to our friends in the woods. Just thought i'd throw that out there again and make a place for egg thoughts in general.

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Alexius
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 		Happy Ostara
Well, For One, I hope Everyone Had A Happy Ostara. I Know Mine Went well, And The Chocolate And The Eggs Were All Tastey.

Very Happy

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Barbarellany
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 		Egg Hunt
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Will we be searching for an egg on April 19th?

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luxandpoe
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Will we be searching for an egg on April 19th?



Dare I say it? An Easter Egg? Laughing

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Shelina
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 		In the Ong Hat book there is a paragraph talking about an Egg as a door between thw two worlds, or something like that.
I can't found the link right now, but you can find it clicking in the Ong Hat book in EOTW page

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villard
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 		That other site
Since you asked: http://www.deoxy.org/inc2.htm

As somebody correctly pointed out this is an old site and probably not in the game -but still interresting. Probably as background for the PM (or as inspiration for one big red herring).

The site has many pages (and some nice pictures of eggs) but this sums up the best parts:

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Where is Ong's Hat?
According to Piney legend, the village of Ong's Hat was founded sometime in the 19th century when a man named Ong threw his hat up in the air, landed it in a tree and was unable to retrieve it (we like to think it vanished into another world). By the 1920s all traces of settlement other than a few crumbling chimneys had faded away. But the name appealed so much to cartographers that some of them retained it--a dot representing nothing in the midst of the most isolated flat dark scrub-pines and sandy creeks in all the vast, empty and perhaps haunted Barrens. W.Fard's acreage lies in the invisible suburbs of this invisible town, of which we are the sole inhabitants. You can find it easily on old survey maps, even trace out the the old dirt road leading into the bogs where a little square represents the decrepit "Ong's Hat Rod & Gun Club," original residence. However, you might discover that finding the ICS itself is not so simple.

If you compare your old survey map with the very latest, you will note that our area lies perilously close to the region infamous in recent years, the South Jersey Nuclear Waste Dump near Fort Dix. The "accident" that occurred there has made the Barrens even more empty and unpopular, as any hard-core Pineys fled the pollution melting into the state's last untouched wilderness. The electrified fence shutting off the deadly zone runs less than a mile above our enclave.

The Accident occurred while we were in the first stages of developing the fourth-generation egg, the Gate. At the time we had no idea of its full potential. However all of us, except for the very youngest (who were evacuated), had by then been trained in elementary self-directed generation. A few tests proved that with care and effort we could resist at least the initial onslaught of radiation sickness. We decided to stick it out, at least until "the authorities" (rather than the dump) proved too hot to endure.

Once the Gate was discovered, we realized the situation had been saved. The opening and actual interdimensional travel, can only be effected by a fully trained "cognitive chaote;" so the first priority was to complete the course for all our members. A technique for "carrying" young children was developed (it seems not to work for adult "non-initiates"), and it was discovered that all inanimate matter within the egg is also carried across with the operator.

Little by little we carted our entire establishment (including most of the buildings) across the topological abyss. Unlike Baudelaire who pleaded, "Anywhere! - so long as out of this world!" we knew where we were going. Ong's Hat has indeed vanished from New Jersey, except for the hidden laboratory deep in the backwoods where the gate "exists."

On the other side of the Gate we found a Pine Barrens similar to ours but in a world which apparently never developed human life. Of course we have since visited a number of other worlds, but we decided to colonize this one, our first newfoundland. We still live in the same scattering of weather-gray shacks, Airstream trailers, recycled chicken coops, and mail-order yurts, only a bit more spread out--and considerably more relaxed. We're still dependent on your world for many things--from coffee to books to computers--and in fact we have no inclination of cutting ourselves off like anchorites and merely scampering into a dreamworld. We intend to spread the word.

The colonization of new worlds--even an infinity of them--can never act as a panacea for the ills of Consensus Reality--only as a palliative. We have always taken our diseases with us to each new frontier...everywhere we go we exterminate aborigines and battle with our weapons of law and order against the chaos of reality.

But this time, we believe, the affair will go differently--because this time the journey outward can only be made simultaneously with the journey inward--and because this bootstrap-trick can only be attained by a consciousness which, to a significant degree, has overcome itself, liberated itself from self-sickness--and "realized itself." Not that we think ourselves saints, or try to behave morally, or imagine ourselves a super-race, absolved from good and evil. Simply, we like to consider ourselves awake when we're awake, sleeping when we sleep. We enjoy good health. We have learned that desire demands the other just as it demands the self. We see no end to growth while life lasts, no cessation of unfolding, of continual outpouring of form from chaos. We're moving on, nomads or monads of the dimensions. Sometimes we feel almost satisfied...at other times, terrified.

Meanwhile our agents of chaos remain behind to set up ICS courses, distribute Moorish Orthodox literature (a major mask for our propaganda) to subvert and evade our enemies...We haven't spoken yet of our enemies. Indeed there remains much we have not said. This text, diguised as a sort of New Age vacation brochure, must fall silent at this point, satisfied that it has embedded within itself enough clues for its intended readers (who are already halfway to Ong's hat in any case) but not enough for those with little faith to follow.

CHAOS NEVER DIED!

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...the crowd goes wild.

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AnthraX101
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 		FYI: The accident they are referring too is the spill of an old Nike nuclear missile. It was a small accident, and isn't dangerous to humans now that the area has been cemented over. Smile (There actualy used to be quite a few interesting signs and plaques at the site, long since removed Wink )

AnthraX101

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Barbarellany
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 		There are too many references to this material to toss it away out of hand.
We have the Walli Fard collection at the library, Dobbs family and at least 2 directives to the book - The Bookcrossing email and at the EOTW site.
We were told that this game would access real world elements. How real the story of Ong's Hat experiments is not withstanding, it's part of the mythology of the story here along with the Jersey Devil.

How it fits in, we aren't sure of, other than the guides may be travelers from this group.

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terrasnow
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 		"But this time, we believe, the affair will go differently--because this time the journey outward can only be made simultaneously with the journey inward--"

Just thinking ...
Could the journey outward = a red-shift universe, and the journey inward = a blue-shift universe? Could the labyrinth, shown in one of the video clips on the CTW site, represent this journey?

I still think we have to draw a travel egg (incunabula) ... starting with an Egg of Life from the Tree of Life (can't remember where the Tree clue was given).

terrasnow

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Steffeny
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 		All our eggs are not in one basket
terrasnow wrote:

I still think we have to draw a travel egg (incunabula) ... starting with an Egg of Life from the Tree of Life (can't remember where the Tree clue was given).

terrasnow


We also have new info concerning an egg... the recent website from Turingprinciple include one to the legend of the Phoenix. It isncludes the Phoenix making an egg out of myrrh sap, hollowing out the center and placing the body of its "father" in it for burial.
So I think it does bring us back to the incunabula.
Random Speculation: part of the infomation on incunabula requires a great deal of emotional energy (such as created during certain practices listed in the information) - Dale has been in a high emotional state most of the time we have been involved with him, grief, fear, terror, things that have forced his adrennaline to be at elevated levels for a prolonged time... could it be that Dale is in a capsule making the journey to...

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