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Jon will describe the revolution in medicine that has occurred over the past 30 years that has integrated the mind back into the body and developed a remarkable range of practices for integrating one's experience, reducing stress, healing the body, coping more effectively with emotions such as anxiety, anger, and depression, and cultivating greater well-being and happiness. His work has been instrumental in bringing Buddhist meditative practices, as he likes to say, "without the Buddhism" to full acceptance within the mainstream of medicine, psychology, and health care, and has shown them to be effective in people suffering from a wide range of medical...

It has been just less than a month since Anton wrote an article on how to customise your profile in the KIA network, but already we have some some examples of what can be done.  None of these examples really push the boundaries of what is possible, but all are innovative as far as what has been tried on the KIA network so far.

The first custom profile was Anton's: http://network.kiamagic.com/anton/

It doesn't change the default template by much, mainly it just added a background image, the dragon from the book cover of his Kaos Hieroglyphica: Alchemy for the New Aeon.  The only other thing of note is the addition of a last.fm widget in the side bar.  Zeitl0ch has also added such a widget.  A simple but effective customisation. 

Feather has done rather more: http://network.kiamagic.com/feather/ 

The main panel and side panel are both transparent, the better to show off her fox head tile graphic.  The text size is increased and the top right KIA graphic has been replaced with her own.  She has also changed some of the text colours.

She Demon Wolf has opted for a colour change also. http://network.kiamagic.com/shedemonwolf/

In addition to a new purple theme, she has  added partial transparency.  So far the only user to make use of this css property.  This allows the side and main panels to have their own colour, whilst also showing off the background image behind them.

And finally, we have the first community theme. http://network.kiamagic.com/graal/

Not surprisingly this is the theme for GRAAL, since this is currently the only community on KIA, other than KIA itself.  This is perhaps the simplist of the alterations made, since it is mostly just a simple colour change,  But worthy of note it has replaced the website title in the top left with a title of its own, and also the html title which causes 'GRAAL Regenerative Autonomous Alchemical Laboratory' to appear in the title bar.

I am sure this is just the start.  According to the database at least two other users have started to experiment with themes, although they haven't yet applied them.  Innovate!  Every so often I will highlight the most innovative and effective profiles.

I have been using this website http://www.mind42.com/ which reminds me to bring up the question, "has any of you ever used mind mapping in the creation of sigils?"

 That site allows mindmap collaborations that could possibly be used somehow by us all or in groups like Graal.

We could use them for magick or for what they are originally intended for. In Graal we could map Alchemy. They can also be published in various ways.

Check it out! 

A person has a personality.

What is a personality? If you truely begin to look into this question you soon find that it expands. It can be like asking, 'What is a person?'

 There is the personality that the person is aware of, the personality that others are aware of and then there is that which no one knows, at least not consciously. Which brings up the structures of personality, Conscious and Unconscious and all that.

Which brings up the idea of individual and collective. Is there a personal personality and a personality that exists as a part of a collective? What is the collective? Is it other humans, culture, society? Does it include other than humans and their societies? How has the Orb Weaver over my door affected my personality as an individual and as a memeber of something bigger?

Is your personality measurable and/or indicateable? Are you an introvert or extrovert? Are you a sensor or an intuitive? Are you ever just one of these, or a blend, or maybe niether/none?

Are we what we seem to be? What do we seem to be? Once you begin to look, the rabbit hole receeds quickly. Can we effectively tweek what most people consider to be the norm? Does it really work or is it all imaginal? Is there a difference, does it matter?

What is a personality? 

http://www.realitysandwich.com/chapter_1_simplicissimus

 Has anyone here read or heard about this book? Looks pretty good.

'tis an interesting site as well. 

An nuther project that I have been working on is various uses for online usernames and accounts.

I had the idea to share usernames and accounts on various sites to cause confusion to whom ever may be tracking activity on such sites, for what ever reasons they are so curious. These could be of varying degrees of public access, as the more that share it increase the chances of someone deleting the account, while the fewer who use the accounts will create less confusion.

An nuther application to a smaller shared list of user names can be to creat a pantheon of sorts that can be used in all manner of ways. They could even become ergregore like, growing beyond the original creators.

Different identities can be used dependent upon how one feels or what one wants to exppress, like charactures in a novel or play. 

 I think that this is enough to give a general picture of possibilities.

 Happy Haunting!

t23 

keeping fit in one of my dreamtime vocations.

I have been curious lately and have been pondering what it is that motivates people. What motivates a person to do even the most basic things?

What motivates you to do what you do everyday?

What draws you to like or/and decide to do what ever it is that you do?