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there is revelation and theophany,
the waltzes with madness, and the Dionysian rapture with drug addiction. Yet it is inside his mind, just above the
bursting oil wells of the collective unconscious, that he has
experienced his
greatest adventures and greatest tragedies.
The expression of his illusionary
self that is more real than all the temptations of this world has come
in many
manifestations. In 1998, his book
‘The
Queen of Darkness’, a sci-fi/horror hybrid was released by Warner
Books. It is an Alchemical and Gnostic
tale underneath
the trappings of a unique vampire saga.
He was lauded by many, including Publisher’s Weekly, as
the new and great
voice in Speculative Fiction.
Although
personal cataclysm and
the betrayal of Archonic corporate agents
and his own
agent sent him into the domains of the rodent race, the thirst to live
an
authentic life of symbolism and mythology never truly departed. His short fiction has appeared in such small
publications as ‘The Stygian Vortex’, ‘The Cimmerian
Journal’, and ‘The
Vortex’. He has also written
non-fiction
articles for such publications as ‘The Houston Press’,
‘The Public News’ and
‘The Gnostic Magazine’.
He
currently has a literary agent
pursuing several fiction novels, including the sequel to ‘The
Queen of
Darkness’; as well as a high-fantasy novel about what a Gnostic
tyranny would
look like, all under the guise of a Greek tragedy seasoned with
Christian
themes, with the ultimate of femme fatales as the protagonist. Bardic Press is
set
to release his first non-fiction work in the spring of 2010.
But why you are here and why Miguel
writes of himself in the third person is because of Aeon Byte (formerly
Coffee,
Cigarettes & Gnosis). The program
came as call from the Pleroma in the Spring Equinox of 2006. A time Miguel was both in the cross-fires of
a magical battle at a Freemason Lodge and recently expelled from a
Gnostic
Church for being, ironically, a heretic.
Recently
discovering he was a
knower of the unknown, as the Gnostics have been called, isolated from
the
fiefdoms of dogmatic Esoterica, he decided to make available the secret
wisdom
of the ages to those in need for spiritual alternatives.
As Abraxas in one of the districts of the
Virtual Alexandria where Aeon Byte is given life each week, in the name
of
Hypatia of Alexandria and Simon Magus, he expresses his evolving views,
blasphemies and much drivel. Yet he
passionately
champions each of his astral guests, whether they be
lofty scholars, best-seller writers of the occult, or simply new
authors/artists
struggling to have their gnosis heard.
All
are welcomed at the Virtual
Alexandria, that state of mind where east meets west, even the Lords of
Orthodoxy if they will kindly share cigarette, or at least a cup of
mystic coffee
and freethinking conversation.
Aeon
Byte does not attempt to
make a better world. Aeon Byte attempts
to instill a better inner life for those cast aside by the Powers and
Principalities of a world that will never get better.
Aeon Byte is not the final authority on
anything, but hopes to be an endless possibility for everything.
Miguel Oliveira Conner lives in
Chicago with his two children and new bride. He
does like Piña Coladas and sometimes
getting caught in the rain. Between
pouring over Bears statistics and ancient manuscripts, he’s
basically a pain in
the ass Taurus. At the end of the day,
his greatest and only advice is the same one the Classic Gnostics had
almost
2000 years ago—Write your own Gospel and live your own Myth. Or as another great
Truthseeker put it in simpler and better terms:
Die for
your bliss.
Abraxas/Miguel
Oliveira
Conner/You
