The Book of Knots - Jags

Book of Knots - The Symposium
The Mind Expansion Guru
In an exclusive mansion in the Hollywood CA hills, the Mind Expansion
Guru holds court. The price for one of his three-day retreats is three hundred
thousand dollars. You sign a contract saying you cannot divulge anything
that goes on there. The grounds are surrounded by high walls and armed
guards: it is said they will open fi re if someone tries to get in … or tries
to get out. Before attending, the group is taken by limousine to the LAX
airport and the group are marched through the metal detectors and examined
by the security there. They are taken, as a group, into the enclave.
What happens inside is unclear: those who return, speak very rarely
(and very vaguely), talking of wonders and of communion with “greater
spirits.” The Guru himself is highly sought and, at the most exclusively
elite functions (which are the ones he attends), he says he is “opening
the doors of the mind” and taking the people down into the depths of the
“underworld” from which no traveler emerges unscathed or unchanged.
A freelance journalist (now missing) traced the MEG’s origins to a
grubby junior college campus where a very few people (all in institutions)
reported his arrival at the age of 21 as a depressive schizophrenic in need
of assistance and having horrifying visions. The story (never run for
legal reasons, but released on the Internet) found witnesses who said he
experimented with a variety of highly unusual hallucinogenic and tantric
magic while swimming through the culture of junkies, crazies, and hustlers
that made up San Francisco’s “rock bottom” street scene.
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The most audacious (and,
some say, nearly successful)
attempt at a full-scale Llamed
push occurred during the
sixties and early seventies.
The psychedelic movement
offered a new consciousness
and universal connection
through the use of intense
(transcendental) meditation,
hallucinogens (LSD being the
breakthrough development),
and trance music. It is
impossible to know how many
of the drop-out-disappearance
and narco-casualties of the
era were actually Wonderland
Infection, but it is believed
that the experiment was a
failure partially due to active
countermeasures by Pilgrim
acting through more wellknown
government programs
like MK-ULTRA and
COINTELPRO.
Lullaby
A popular children’s author who is also the member of a fraternal order
has developed a song that subtly (subconsciously) communicates the
basic existence and nature of Wonderland to young children who are still
willing to believe the impossible. While children in this stage cannot be
Infected by Wonderland, their experiences may be suffi cient to trigger
episodes when they reach maturity. Characters that had a strong reaction
to the books or lullaby’s as children will still be especially attuned and
vulnerable to the invisible world as adults, but the lullaby is not reliable
enough to be a fully successful strain of Llamed. Some adults may even
be triggered by hearing or re-reading the books as adults.
Audio Drone
A fraternal order of techno-pagans developed an audio signal (sounds
like static with distant voices babbling over each other) that can be
broadcast over AM, FM, and Shortwave frequencies. People who listen
to it at length will receive fl ashes of insight about Wonderland from their
Shadows (they will “hear” their Shadow’s voices in the signal). Over
time (as they begin to trust and believe this insight) they will begin to
develop a full-fl edged Infection.
The Drone can be broadcast independently or in the background of
a more normal broadcast. The techno-pagans mix it with popular
underground tunes that get played on pirate radio-stations. They also