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Seeking liberation? you've found a home!
This is it, the one you may've heard about, the notorious, eccentric underground wide open guide showing how to unleash your spirit and your intellect, take control of your destiny and help others get there with all of us together fnord.
It's all ready for you to act, to reach the status of ABSApundit (more inside about that)! Some people in what we might call the “training for psychic liberation” domain say, “It’s our way or the highway.” We counter with, “It’s your way, not our way!”
Fluke, Absurd [Whitewash Mix]
Welcome to the launchpad where you train to become an ABSApundit—a.k.a. a master of blowing open minds* (yours included!) using a whole mess of tools that unlock the weirdness of the psyche, deep, yet incredibly accessible to everyone. ABSA? It’s short for “As Below, So Above”—yeah, we flipped the script. We're less about floating in the cosmic clouds and more about digging into the gritty realness down here. Think shadow work with sparkle. (and BTW, you're welcome fnord). 🥰
* "'Tis an ill wind that blows no minds." Syadasti, Principia Discordia
We're guessing you’ve probably heard the line “as above, so below”—it gets tossed around like cosmic glitter at a yoga retreat. But surprise: that’s only half the story. The OG Hermetic masters (check out the Kybalion, Principle #2) were very clear this wasn’t a one-way mirror. It’s a two-part deal, and you're missing the magic if you treat it like a slogan instead of a full-on spiritual equation.
The principle of correspondence (as below, so above, and vice versa) is one of seven principles described in the Kybalion, a hermetic text which forms the basis of a good portion of Western esoteric studies.
While everyone else is out here waxing poetic about “as above, so below,” we’re busy getting our hands dirty with the actual tools (yeah, that’s the “below” part) to decode the cosmic circus up top (aka the “above,” aka the multiverse, aka whatever-the-heck-is-going-on-out-there).
Want to know how we roll? Check out “dem's da Rulez”—our ten-point manifesto of mayhem, wisdom, and just the right amount of side-eye. It’s painfully accurate and unapologetically cheeky. 😁
OK, ABSApundit, fine...what's this "ABSAprime"?
This website is devoted to the work of Dr. Philly Jo, one alias of an incredibly inventive, courageous, and highly regarded college educator. See just a few of her biographical details here.
As the first ABSApundit (and of course to get all the mileage we can out of that very useful "ABSA-" prefix 😏) we named Dr. Philly Jo ABSAprime. By this, we classify her consciousness, in her role as a guide to this site, as pre-eminent, just as we trust you will eventually do for yourselves (and, to tell the truth, you have already done some of this, but more on that later).
Right, then, let’s be perfectly clear: this entire site—yes, this whole incredible digital celebration—exists solely to serve as a kind of coming out, a debut, to bring onstage twelve splendid domains of knowledge that have helped ABSAprime (that’s Dr. Philly Jo, if you please) rack up some rather enviable wins. We’re talking private triumphs and a little stint spanning forty-some-odd years as both a university professor and—wait for it—a kind of psychic engineer. (Yes, that’s a thing!)
Now, try to wrap your head around the twelve ABSAdomains (listed ever-so-helpfully below) as something akin to “the four winds” from that transcendent Grateful Dead track, Franklin’s Tower. Of course, there are significantly more than four winds—don’t be dense—but trust us, we’ll swirl our way through all that chaos eventually. Patience 😏.
[Above illustration of the grateful dead lyric [see below] done in the "underlord" mode (BTW, as a name for a software feature, "underlord" might be our favorite, ever) from the Descript application. Superb software: check it out!]
Grateful Dead, Franklin's Tower
what (and where) are these ABSAdomains?
We call these twelve areas ABSAdomains and we present them to our readers as activities that more-or-less guarantee one, or several, processes that lead to psychic liberation (or at least they did for ABSAprime and some others in her retinue, such as your humble author). [For the twelve domains, please see icon set and table below.] These can serve as tools to help you in creating your reality.
And, do keep in mind that using the techniques in these ABSAdomains do not lead to you initiating control over how you create your own reality, since that process is ongoing, indeed, never-ending, for one's entire life. So you can view the ABSAdomains, in essence, as tools you bring to the endlessly creative panorama that is as natural to you as breathing. Over the entire site you will see us making this point repeatedly: You create your own reality, no exceptions. Here are a few ways to do that...but please, feel free to add your own 😸
[Start at top (binaural Beats) and proceed clockwise.]
ABSAdomains
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02
12
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03
04
05
06
07
08
09
10
11
05
06
And More...
SuperDomains
ABSAgrams
Or, in table form, see the 12 ABSAdomains and their characteristics immediately below and also in the footer for each page on the site. If you want to know how important these were to the development of ABSAprime or her key assistants (which, remember, is the only qualification for being included in the ABSAdomains), check the column "role for ap [ABSAprime]." There's also (1) a note on how easy or difficult it is to know about the domain ("difficulty" column); (2) on linkages between one ABSAdomain and others ("ABSAlinks," these to be completed as the site membership grows and we develop new linkages among domains, original or introduced as "newbies"); and (3) the basic type of domain, either Esoteric (secret, known to only a few); Exoteric (conventional, open and known to many); or entertainment (both open and secret).
So we will explain to you the experiences of ABSAprime and some of her colleagues, and through interactions on the site, we will get to our ultimate goal, which is (and here it comes, for the first of many, many times!) the cross-fertilization between and among the various domains, both those we included in our "basic 12" and others as well.
Well, from here on in, it's up to you alone (though, claiming the words of Walt Whitman, you are vast, you contain multitudes), so if you want a fuller explanation, please go here.
But...if you're the kind of person who we think will grok our psychic liberation ethic, we suspect you'll already be champing at the bit to find about those mysterious domains rather than searching for more exposition...😃
if so, pick one from the table above (or icons below) and go get 'em (that fuller explanation we just mentioned [***link***] will clue you to the table's columns and rows). once you decide, use the icons above and at the bottom to go to that page :-)
[Here's the best hint, though: go to the one you're first drawn to, instinctively, without thinking about it. In other words, right from the jump, which of these "floats your boat"? That's responding to an impulse that we trust you'll learn to rely on more than once...] 🥰
"As Below, So Above"
[Graphics by Descript's Overlord and Microsoft's Powerpoint. Background videos by Wix.com].
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