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| Wednesday, February 20th, 2008 | | 2:25 pm |
| | Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008 | | 5:43 pm |
Every man and every woman is a whore
A very happy twenty-third of January to you all. Today we celebrate the "victory" of the U.S. in Vietnam (hyuk hyuk hyuk) and the only time in U.S. history when the testimony of a ghost helped decide a trial. I'm really not having much to do with Livejournal these days. A much better way to contact me is by e-mail or by phone. If you don't have my e-mail address and/or phone number, leave a comment on this post with a way to get ahold of you. Looking for a sufficiently epic way to spend my summer, I eventually decided on a four-month bike trip to Burning Man. I might be able to visit some of you Eye-mericans if you happen to live on the east coast or along the south coast (or, of course, in or near Nevada). You want to experience a really strange reality tunnel? Try reading R. Buckminster Fuller's Synergetics. Seriously, you will understand maybe ten per cent of this on your first attempt. I have yet to determine whether that percentage will increase with extended readings. | | Saturday, January 5th, 2008 | | 2:58 pm |
This city is coming alive. | | Monday, December 24th, 2007 | | 3:00 pm |
Alright folks
It's the new year (in certain systems of reckoning, at any rate). What are your resolutions? Mine: (1) ORGANIZE. (2) EXERCIZE. (3) COMMUNIZE. (4) PERSONALIZE. (5) PRIORITIZE. Let's do work, ladies and gentlemen! | | Wednesday, December 5th, 2007 | | 1:45 pm |
Movement and the Aeons
So I'm now in Toronto, living with ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif?v=92.2) morganxpage. Our dwelling-place is called The Nadir. I've been thinking about the Aeons recently, and I have an idea of why so many Thelemites are such jerks. Whether or not the Aeons of Isis, Osiris and Horus represent historical epochs (which is certainly up for debate) they can also be seen as periods of personal development. The Aeon of Isis is the infantile illusion of omnipotence, of union between the ego and the unconscious; it lasts until the first time the mother simply cannot or does not provide what the infant is demanding, and then the Aeon of Osiris begins. You have bratty kids, sulky teenagers and impulsive young adults; the death-and-rebirth cycle of Osiris is an apt metaphor for the continuous striving toward individuality alternating with deflation of the ego. Finally, having resolved their psychological issues regarding their childhood and established a conscious dialogue with the unconscious, these adults may enter into the personal Aeon of Horus (there may be more to it than this, but it's not immediately important to my argument). Now, in his various commentaries on The Book of the Law, Crowley proposes a formula of child-rearing designed to emphasize Horian individuation and early discovery of true Will. This is, in theory, an excellent method to ensure that the children of Horian parents remain Horian (it will remain theoretical until it is properly put into practice). But what if the parents are still Osirian? Then the child will have to pass through an Osirian period of development himself; and it is during this tumultuous phase that they will be most drawn to "alternative" religions like Thelema, as a method of rebellion. Since there are plenty of Osirians still around (indeed the majority of people alive today), we can statistically assume that many Thelemites are themselves Osirian. We are thus faced with an unfortunate situation: thousands of Osirians around the world believe themselves to be Horian, when in fact they have not gone through the necessary personal development to reach that point. Furthermore, they are likely to pass on much of their Osirian baggage to their children unless they can deal with it themselves before having any children. Long story short: we may have the new formulae, but the Aeon of Osiris is far from over. | | Saturday, September 29th, 2007 | | 2:58 pm |
More Burma stuff
Up to the minute information about the situation in Burma. Particularly note that there is an ultimatum to the Chinese government by the former protesters from the 8888 massacre, threatening to boycott the Beijing Olympics and Chinese and Russian products due to their refusal to act. Please show your support and spread the word! Write to your MP, Congressman, whatever. Make sure your representatives know that you support the Burmese protesters. | | Friday, September 28th, 2007 | | 11:21 pm |
| | Thursday, September 27th, 2007 | | 12:47 pm |
| | Wednesday, September 26th, 2007 | | 10:42 pm |
A dream
The following did I dream last night: I was hanging out with othicka_qadisha while on break at Trent Metals. We talked about maybe doing mescaline later in the day. Eventually I had to go back to work; but it was my last day and I didn't care much, so I soon found myself munching mescal instead (in the dream it was a long, grasslike stalk rather than a cactus). By the time I had come up, we had been joined by qoph_nia, Sean and Dorothy. Dorothy was complaining that she didn't know what she wanted to do with her life. I told her that if she focused on just relaxing everything - giving up all her false personae - things would likely fall into place. (But, I added, she should remember to give up the giving up, eventually - the last remaining tension in the personality.) othicka_qadisha chimed in that this was basically the Holy Guardian Angel, to which I agreed. Presently I found myself reading a book which said something very much like the following: The best secret society would be he saying (to whom he himself is often the greatest of initiates at unexpected times) "Take of my fruit and eateth it." And his aspirants offer up the most succulent fruits, begging, "Let these dried and rotten things be made sweat and pleasant." The gist being that the beauty they were seeking elsewhere was right in front of them, and they didn't notice. In my - shall we say - bemescaled state, I found this absolutely hilarious, and woke up laughing. | | Sunday, September 9th, 2007 | | 12:26 am |
| | Saturday, August 25th, 2007 | | 11:45 pm |
Aeonics, time cycles, and 2012
(I posted this in ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif?v=92.2) 2_0_1_2.) --- I've done a lot of snarking here (and man, I don't regret a single post) but I figured it was about time I contributed some real content. I wish to discuss the connection between the Aeon of Horus which - according to standard Thelemic doctrine - we entered in 1904, and the 2012 phenomenon. ( Read on, friends. )Please don't repost this elsewhere, as I may want to make some minor changes over the next few weeks, since it has not been in any way proofread and is therefore probably a total mess. You may however link to it, preferably in my own journal. ~Skatche | | Sunday, August 12th, 2007 | | 8:10 pm |
A parable
There was a world of robots, all of which carried on mechanically with their eyes downcast. They did little more than eat and sleep, but this made them happy, for the happiness of robots is in fulfilling their programming. And all was harmonious. One day an aberrant robot looked away from his work for one moment and gazed at the sky. Immediately he was dazzled, for he beheld the stars and planets and - most brilliant of all - the sun. He watched as they turned in their appointed harmony, and suddenly was no longer satisfied with his programming. Instead, he began to roam the world with his head held high, saying to everyone he met: "Look up! Look up!" Looking up was not as easy for every robot as it was for this one. And so many disbelieved him, and said there was no sky. Others began to quarrel over what was in the sky and what it meant. Still others said: "It is dangerous to see the sky. Here, I will look up so that you need not look yourselves." But a few did see the sun and stars, and did not argue, but simply carried forth the cry: "Look up!" And there was chaos and confusion, for the harmony of the sky conflicted with the harmony of the robot-world. And the monuments built by the upward-looking were torn apart by those with their eyes downcast, and lay in ruin. And there was battle and death and despair. But the cry went forth: "Look up!" And gradually it prevailed. And when the last robot turned his head to the sky, and saw for himself the celestial spheres, all was once again in harmony - not the instinctive harmony of the robots, but the conscious and exalted harmony of the stars. | | Friday, August 10th, 2007 | | 7:59 pm |
Hold on! We fucked up!
Let's just go back to the Aeon of Isis. Wouldn't everyone be happier with that? I 'unno about you, but I like me some mudbrick hut. | | Wednesday, July 25th, 2007 | | 9:26 pm |
| | Wednesday, July 11th, 2007 | | 11:16 pm |
| | Thursday, July 5th, 2007 | | 7:15 pm |
| | Tuesday, July 3rd, 2007 | | 6:17 pm |
| | Thursday, June 28th, 2007 | | 4:26 pm |
New icon
Coming soon eventually, gods willing, to a t-shirt near you. Free to use, as long as I'm credited. | | Wednesday, June 20th, 2007 | | 6:47 pm |
Imago
Perhaps you've been to the stars by now And you've got a little moonbase with lilacs in the backyard And your wife commutes to Mars. Or maybe you've gone feral: You huddle in the crumbling of New York and Vancouver And you worship the CN Tower And at night there's no light to blot out the stars. (There are a fire and a fire that will get you there.) And we, We just spent our lives in our cars, Rush hours upon rush hours, Wondering where the rush was, waiting For a change of pace. | | Wednesday, June 6th, 2007 | | 8:03 pm |
Two presidential candidates you may not have heard of...
 1. Dennis Kucinich. He's a Democratic candidate with an extremely impressive agenda: ( Nicked from Wikipedia )Yeah, so I'm pretty much wowed by everything there.  2. Ron Paul. This Republican candidate finds his way into my rather liberally-oriented LJ because he's a fiercely principled Libertarian. In something like 20 years, he has never voted in a way he felt was unconstitutional, even when it meant breaking the party line. In particular, he has consistently voted against the Iraq War, against the PATRIOT Act, and against any effort to raise taxes. Now, libertarianism is not really my cup of tea. But this guy is good enough that, if he were to get the Republican nomination, I would be able to support both candidates in the presidential election, for once. (Hell, for that matter, if someone like Hilary Clinton got the Democratic ticket, and Ron Paul got the Republican vote, I might find myself temporarily a Republican!) |
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