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1. Noo-Mo Omniism 

Noo-Mo Omniism (NMO) achieved coherence as a culture in the early 21^st century as a result of re-framing the conclusions of post-modern nihilism – that all claims and experiences are essentially arbitrary and therefore meaningless – in positive terms, where the existence of meaningfulness as an ontological condition is considered self-evident as a result of the undertaking of, and even the formulation of the desire to undertake, the initial inquiry into the possibility of meaning, despite or possibly due to the essential arbitrariness of all claims and experiences. 

New Modern as opposed to Post-Modern, asserting certainty opposed to uncertainty. Echoing the cyclical theory of cultural currents in which liberated and decadent post-modernism is followed by assertive and categorical modernism and so on. The po-mo flapper-jazz-opium 1920s are followed by the new-mo pre-war fascism followed by the post-war swing era followed by the domestic-industrial 50s to the hippies to the punks to the ravers – and fin de ciecle nihilism – and finally to the Matrix-Lord of the Rings-nu metal-War on Terror-superhero-good vs evil current – new modernism. 

Noo from the Greek noos, in recognition that thought, the process of perception, is integral to both the fluidity of meaning and its articulation. 

Omniism meaning everything is, all of it, every way, all ways and always true and welcomed and possible. 

Po-mo nihilism – nothing is true – is subverted, and relativism – everything may be true – is superseded by NMO’s dogma: everything is true. The only absolute condition necessary for something to happen is that it happens. Causality is secondary to actuality. NMO therefore represents the current evolution of epistemology from Aristotelean yes/no either/or binary thinking through quantum yes/no/maybe and/or thinking to absolute yes/and… 

Is/is-not to may-be to is.

 

2. Versions 

Plureality functions as a linguistic and conceptual antidote to the singularity of the noun ‘reality’ and the implicit complementary category of un-reality by adding the potential for variability while retaining the essentialism of a noun, rather than succumbing to the uncertainty and immeasurability of total process, or verb. 

Therefore everything is true in Noo-Mo Omniism, even different things. Things are not becoming true, or only appearing to be true, with the inherent diminishing of ontological status these formulations entail. 

Contradiction becomes understood as a failure to perceive (noo) multiple truths simultaneously rather than a limit to possibility. Limitations within plureality only exist as conditions to allow multiple things to be possible – instead of only one singular thing – rather than absolute demarcations between possible and impossible.

With the transcendence of real/unreal and true/untrue hierarchies, plureality becomes apprehended via the perceptual process of versioning, of discriminating versions of plureality based on arbitrary, contextual criteria. Versions are not understood as distinct realities, therefore plureality allows for totality and unity within variability, and feedback between versions rather than the separation implied by discrete multiple realities. 

Versioning is not merely a subjective process since it entails every conceivable possibility, from intra-subjectivity to environmental determinism to divine intervention, and so on, including the possibility of the absence of any and every one of these factors. While perception is key to the process of NMO, it is not the causal agent; plureality is apprehended and participated in, not generated or created as in relativistic and quantum models.

The Omniism of plureality does not result in ontological white noise because the existence of every possible version is what allows for the apprehension of any one distinct version, as per information theory. In an abstracted and theoretical version of NMO, plureality values situationalism, contextualism, and operationalism, whereas each other version contains its own values, from monotheism to logical positivism to greed to racism to understanding. 

Version DK2K values the possibilities inherent in NMO and as such supports behaviours and attitudes that both validate differing versions as well as encouraging apprehension of, or movement between, versions.

3. Omega Magic 

Plureality can be described as a non-hierarchical, non-progressive evolutionary process in which versions of possibilities compete for actualisation via the apprehension and participation of its inhabitants and environments, whether they are material, biological, psychic, ideological or imaginal. Active, intentional participation in this process, encouraging the selection of desired versions over non-desired versions, is the practice of Omega Magic. 

Omega designates the totality of techniques and methods available, the effectiveness of which is moderated only by the immediate versioning of plureality rather than any ontological limitations. Omniism allows for any version of magic to happen, even the versions that do not work. As Omega designates the maximum spectrum possible of magical behaviours, it follows that any action can be magical depending on its interaction with a particular version of plureality and the feedback between components acting and being acted upon. Magic may commonly be understood as supporting and reinforcing or altering and subverting a current version.

Version DK2K currently employs strategic selection and placement of Tarot cards as a symbolic interface with the perceptual and behavioural parameters of the current version. Changing the cards results in changes within those parameters while sustaining the overall characteristic of the version that dictates symbolic effects on consciousness and environments is a possibility. Similar techniques currently employed within Version DK2K include the purposeful design of journal content, including style of language and fonts. And since the environment, both material and cultural and metaphysical, all serve as participants in the versioning of plureality, Version DK2K currently recognizes external events as potential synchronicities and omens.