Ompyrean · Summer 2026 · Volume I
Avataric Ambitions
Issue Guide
A page-by-page point of entry to the first issue of Avataric Ambitions, written by J. Wayne.
The guide follows the six divisions printed in the issue’s contents. Its page numbers refer to the numbers printed inside the magazine. The descriptions identify where to find a subject; the arguments, images, and complete text remain in the print edition.
Inside the issue
From the Editor
The infinitized soul
The opening addresses the tiger and its 3D glasses, metageometry, and the problem of a being’s access to higher-dimensional perception. Later pages turn to the soul and the relation between higher and lower mind.
Our Ideal
Supermanhood
The issue states its ideal in relation to the development of human powers and to the spiritual force that can enter and transform life. Its opening page places this ideal beside a passage attributed to Sri Aurobindo.
The Zeroeth Darkness
Initiatic preparation
A sequence on crisis, constriction, and the experience called the “zeroeth darkness.” It considers what may be shed or discovered under pressure, without presenting the passage through darkness as instant attainment.
Techniques
Existential memos
Short pieces on attention, language, habitual concepts, the present, and changes in one’s way of meeting experience. The section’s own heading calls these “existential memos or notes from the personal diaries of those who have stumbled or faceplanted upon them.”
Neo-Luddite Thought Control
Performative dissent
A critique of how devices and their interfaces can shape attention, expression, and what users come to take as their own desires.
Post-Colonial Cyberspace Empyrean
Imperialist neuromancy
The closing division moves from cyberspace to culture, the cinematic form of the magazine, the brahmin, and E:MP. The pages on culture and cinematic print discuss how mental development and images bear on spiritual transmission.
How to cite the issue
Use the title and printed page number for the passage you discuss. J. Wayne created the magazine’s original text; quoted passages remain credited to their sources. The issue is an Ompyrean publication.
J. Wayne, Avataric Ambitions, vol. I (Summer 2026), 16.
The number above is an example for page 16; replace it with the page you actually cite. Credit a named contributor separately if the passage itself carries a distinct byline.