Paradox Games: Rune-Gild Edition by Waldo Thompson is now available from Runa-Raven Press. The price is $15.95.

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From Paradox Games:

Playing paradox games is a balancing act. On the one hand, it requires extensive visualization and concentration, maintaining various images and concepts in mind effortlessly for periods of time. It requires substituting images and concepts consciously, and then allowing the results to have a life of their own. It’s a process of fixing a structure consciously and then allowing the unconscious free play with this structure. A lot of times it’s a matter of laying the groundwork and then waiting to see what happens. It requires discipline and letting go at the same time. Done properly paradox games are not mere abstractions; they’re corporeal. They affect you in the gut.

What they’re saying:

Would you like to play with the Paradox or have it play with you? That question rang loudly in my being as I studied this most distinctive of works.

-- Ian Read

Many of the seeds which the ancients planted are only now springing up. In this work they have borne fruit.

-- Edred

Waldo Thompson is that rare sort of human that sees both the insights of Rudy Rucker, Stephen Wolfram and Alex Ryan on the one hand and the Iinsights of Stephen Flowers, Guido von List and Mircea Eliade on the other. He understands how a Cosmos Needs to know through observational actors that are both of and beyond it. He understands why Seeking creates more to Find, and that the nature of the computatiable universe demands this on the deepest levels -- in fact demanded it even before consciousness emerged...

-- Don Webb

In many traditions, philosophies, occult schools, etc. there are many models and parables for ‘spiritual growth’ but there is not a lot of information on how to use those models and parables. Often there is an obfuscation that happens, sometimes due to various required levels of indoctrination (“Open your wallet and we’ll teach you the way WE THINK you should use these models.”). Other times this obfuscation is due to the fact that the ‘teachers’ don’t really have any answers, just a lot of slight of hand tricks (“Hey Rocky! Watch me pull spiritual enlightenment out of my hat!”).

-- Lothar Tuppan

In Paradox Games, Waldo Thompson offers exciting strategies for making mathematical and existential abstractions powerfully and playfully concrete. Here are riddles for reintegration, tensors that transform, and puzzles that will have you pulling some surprising and wonderful things out of your hat. Play on!

-- Ristandi

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