Who Else Wants to Develop a Society Based on Love?

It's such a cliche now in our culture to say that the man is keeping us down.
I don't even think anyone's actually considered that statement since the sixties.
What does it mean anymore?
Who's the man?
What's he doing?
Why's he doing it to us?

I realized something yesterday. I was walking with my girlfriend and I started thinking about everything I've ever had to do to get some help from "the man". Consider health-care subsidies, student loans, employment insurance, welfare, career counseling, aptitude tests, high school, grants, college, etc, etc.
There is a pattern with all of these.
Every single one of them has inlaid mechanisms designed to try to either get you to conform, make sure you are conforming, and/or classify your degree of conformity.
For instance try to get a student loan in Canada.
First you have to define your level of conformity and the conformity of your parents. You have to be classified, fitting certain criteria, and those criteria are obviously based on an arbitrary standard of conduct. I guess it's not entirely arbitrary, the criteria are obviously in place to make sure you're acting the same way others act.
Case in point: if you've been away from school for X number of months they expect you to contribute x number of dollars to your tuition. Otherwise they won't give you funding or won't give you full funding.
Counterintuitive I think. Doesn't really make sense to deny full funding to someone who has less just because he was able to sustain himself by other means than a typical job.
This one instance alone doesn't prove my point, and don't think I'm saying that there are "people at the top out to get the little guy". What I'm saying is that it's always like this. Society as a whole is risk averse, and it sees individuality and creativity as risky. Is this a conscious thing? Probably not, at least not for the most part.
I think it's just the fact that the average person, most of the people reading this I'm sure, refuse to actually question things.
Our culture is so obsessed with the status quo, consumption, appearances, and prestige that it's never stopped to look at what it's actually doing to a large part of the population.
The powers that be are effectively stomping on whatever they don't recognize. Anything that's actually new and inovative, especially in the artistic world, is ignored, or ostracized.
Try to get funding for an artistic endeavor in Canada. Try to explain to the welfare bureau that you've been absorbed in meditation for the last six months and that's why you weren't working. Try to tell a career counselor that you want to help and teach people but you don't want to be a teacher because there's too many restrictions and you can't be a priest because you're too honest. She'll tell you to take a journalism class.
We all need to start taking more chances on people, see them as individuals and not categories.
We need to educate ourselves, start seeing what's truly important, give up the things that we cling to cuz they're holding us all down.
Our progress as a race depends on our willingness to see past our own consumptive wants and lecherous greed and gain a perspective that takes into account the monumental benefits of art, religion, personal growth, and compassion.

Two Views on Emotional Control.

I've been thinking a lot lately about emotional control.
For a long time I thought that the best way to deal with my emotions was to try to a appreciate them for the energies that they are manifesting but recently I came to the realization that I can just let them go.

I've known about the Buddhist idea of non attachment for a long time, and I've also known about the Sedona method for a while as well, but until just a few days ago I viewed them as a type of repression. I saw them as a denial of the unity of existence and nothing more.
I still think that adopting this type of practice to deal with your emotions is in a sense a denial, but now I've also come to realize that they are just too darn practical (especially when you first start trying to control your emotions) to ignore.
Let go of emotions for now, then when your living in some sort of state of imperturbability move on the trance of wonder to gain that sense of unity.

I'll go into it a bit more later.

Eurpean Kids are so much More Creative...

than north american kids.

JimJams from glasgow

The Intellectual Aspect of Life.

Intellectual development isn't as complicated as most people seem to think (especially considering that most books you'll find are 80% garbage).
It get even simpler once you've developed the right skills.
Just get some concentration under your belt (that's the hard part), then work on your memory (I think the Qabalah offers one of the best mnemonic/peg systems), then work on your information processing abilities (ie. photoreading and image streaming). Once you've got all these things highly developed you'll be able to understand everything and be able to do it in a quarter of the time.
As for the topics to consider I think everything is good to learn. There are, however, a few that stand apart from the rest.
First you got the obvious ones Math, Classics, and Science. Just dive in and have at er. Don't stop until you're perfectly satisfied.
Other than that anything to do with language is really valuable, and psychology and philosophy can be a lot of fun.
The main point should always be to get an understanding of something not knowledge.
It's so much less important to be able to memorize a bunch a facts than it is to be able to understand the larger concepts. Thankfully Photoreading and the Qabalah help immensely with this.

Caravaggio

The lusciousness of Caravaggio is unrivaled, even today.
His expression was pure ecstasy, unadulterated living. He was a real artist, with eyes for reality, an internal light that comes through his work unimpeded by bias or rational interference.
He is a great representative of artists as merchants of messianic messages.

ART

I like this one Too.
makes me think of Greek Mythology

A fiery Horse

A horse in a fire is a dangerous thing. might get himself burned for a while, in the time it takes for him jump.
Don't matter, doesnt smell too bad anyway.
He'll get his leg broke anyway.
Then it'll all be better.
Keep in mind I love the little animals, even the ugly ones.
They're quieter than most,
smellier I think,
but kind,
small,
like the little dolls of God.
I'd like to be god one day, then I wouldn't have to watch this horse jump through fire if I didn't want to.
I'd be able to keep him in the mist, all raw and moist.
mmmmm... moist horse.
I'd like me a piece of raw horse right now, goes good with toast.
Tao toast would be better.
Or a bagel with lots of cream cheese.

My Right to Peace

Don't let cowardice impede you,
don't let fear control your life,
don't let feelings be your kilter,
don't let love control your strife.

Compassion is a virtue
but right action is as well.
Choose the measure for your meanness
based on where you find your hell.
It's not simple, wouldn't want it
if it was. I'd be a mess
If every time I felt uneasy
I turned it to distress.
But when I'm laughing
hard and easy
at the walls or nothing else
I know that if I wasn't
Something must be in repulse.
Keep me easy is my moto,
its by this that I find peace
but when easiness is wanting
I find easy in the crease
right between the pain of acting
and the pain of my release
on the border of compassion
There within my right to peace.

Odd to an Intimation of NonMortality.

Keep the measure of the madness so distinct to set me free
and the harlot of master is the one for you and me.
She's beatic and full measure, so delicious for the feign,
that she's come to be the master of the dickless and the cain.
It's immortal to be happy on the moors and in a heath,
as a kid came running to me, I think his name was Keith.
He was plump as yorkshir pudding, not delicious but he'll do
cuz I lost my means to make it sans a thousand pots of pooh.
He'll be meaner as I make him
dance a dance of fance and frill
He'll be kinder when I kill him,
but I think he'll catch a chill.
Don't berate me, I'm immortal
on the breezes of the south
and the south that came to chill you was the breathing of my mouth.
Ha, just kidding I can't breath you, I've got nothing in my mouth
But i thought I'd make a monkey of the poor delicious louts.
So I came to say you something:
So much faster than the south,
So much silkier without it,
when there's nothing else in doubt.
Keep it real,
for the master,
its the keel on the ship.
It's been waiting ever faster
on the heal of my tip.
its Subina on my rapture
it's Subina on my mouth
so I'll keep the mass to keep you
on the keel through the drouth.
sempiternal, all engulfing,
on the summer month of may
I've waiting Long to hate you
so come out dear and play.
We'll play dear on the roses like the Thelemites of old
and the cross shall come to bear us through the tempests of the cold.
It's alright dear it's the future here to comfort us in heat
and we'll lay us down upon her after summer months of meat.
Keep me with you I can't save me,
I've got too much fucking gold,
I'll be waiting warm upon you when the torrent tales are told,
I'll be bearded old and weary on the summer times to scold
all the children that can't worship
cuz their parents are too cold.
It's the tragic and forgetful that I've come to set them free,
It's their majesty of magic
that spells happiness for me.
I've been waiting in Subina,
on the shore of my release,
on the border, come to fill me
on the shore of Ingle Lees.
It's this Island,
I can't stand it,
I'm no longer one of them,
I can see the warmth upon them
and I Puke me at the stem.
I can't take it, I don't want to
I'd be happier in jail,
so I'll keep my sense to free you
just before you post my bail.

I shall have you
I shall see you
On the summer of my mouth,
through the flirting fog of winter
and the northness of the south.
My Gitana,
my saliya,
More delicious than my love
I have come to see the torments
on my god forsaken dove.

The Spiritual Side of Life. A Brief Note on Carryover.

The carryover effect.
The most profound and potent thing you can do for your life is dedicate as much time as possible to cultivating love, concentration, and awareness/sensitivity (i.e. sensitivity to the subtle energies around and in you).
This is spirituality.
Feel love for something external if you don't feel like you feel love for yourself yet. Focus on the universal creative force. Focus on the perfection of all that is. Find a quiet place and find yourself able to look at the simplest little thing without judgment, without labels, and try to see the stillness of it.
Appreciate everything that comes to you, and through you.
Feel whats most subtle in your body.
Feel every emotion as a controllable energy.
Introspect.
Notice your reactions.
Be vigilant.
Notice everything always.

You can't even imagine yet how profound this can be right now. You'll see it as soon as you start but you have to start.
Would you like some help?

Adonai

What else is left but the perfume to keep us on track?
I'd like to smell the flowers of heaven
but yours would be enough.

I think it's great,

I think the last thing I'll see will be your face.

I think there's nothing more surreal than feeling the faint
and liminal fancy of the feathery scent of You.

It's thrilled me a thousand times,
in heat and rapture while I danced about
in hopes that we'd combine.
I'd like to smell you once again
and be the dew upon the lamen,
I'm enchanted,
all together,
I'd be once again your mate.
I'm enchanted,
in the morning
after time has set me still
and I watch to see you whisper
in my ear so you can thrill
me through my body
till my spirit keeps the pace of what I feel.
You're my father,
my saliya,
my enchaunter from above.
I've been happy since you left me
but I'd like to feel your love.

Piracy is a Good Thing!

I'm in favor of Piracy!

I'm in favor of Piracy!

I'm in favor of Piracy!

I think it's a great thing.
I really have a hard time believing that the movie or music industry will ever seriously suffer from piracy, even if it became a widespread norm.
Do you think they'd stop making movies or music? Hell no! At least not the true artists anyway (and they're the only ones that count anyway).

Music: I predict that the increased exposure (via online communities) for artists will make it easier for starting artists to be heard. Once they're heard they'll become viral (if good) and to get money they'll either get a sponsor or go on tours.

Movies: I predict that the big production companies will get advertising deals (sponsors) which will take advantage of the already present multi-million person audience. This is great for advertisers. We're living in a post TV age where traditional marketing doesn't work anymore. The best marketing strategies for the new era is branding.
You see a brand in a few entertaining movies (discreetly placed so as to not interfere with the artistic integrity of the work of course;), and bob's your uncle. You'll see that brand as unique and therefore valuable.
Production companies might lose some money at first but that's ok. THey make too much as it is. I imagine that the first things to go would be the gratuitous special effects and the Pantagruelian salaries for the actors.
This would translate into movies with better story lines (no longer relying on the flashy effects), more down to earth actors (people just starting out perhaps), a more even opportunity for actors to get into the business, and hopefully a lot less celebrity worship.

Is Piracy "wrong" or "immoral"? No! Ethics is a dead line of thinking. We can no longer think in terms of right or wrong, but only in terms of "how can we progress further?". As soon as the film and music industry gives up they're dying pleas against piracy we'll all be much better off. The sooner they realize that no one's going to be bullied into a syrupy-slow pace of communication the sooner they'll be able to step into the new evolutions of art, marketing, humanism, ethics, communication, and global comradery.

Don't get left behind. Step into the new evolution yourself and start downloading.
Start spreading the message of tolerance and communication.

He's One God, and there is no other God than He.

Hua allahu alazi, la illaha illa hua.
Keeps the same pace,
day in, day out.
Keep the same pace,
day in, day out.
Hua allahu alazi, la illaha illa hua.
Keepin the same pace
day in, day out.
Keepin the same pace
day in, day out.
Hua allahu alazi, la illaha illa hua.
He's the same face
day in, day out.
Keepin the same face
day in, day out.
Hua allahu alazi, la illaha illa hua.
It's all the same pace
day in, day out.
Never the same face
day in, day out.
Hua allahu alazi, la illaha illa hua.
He's always the same face
day in, day out.
Never the same pace
day in, day out.
Hua allahu alazi, la illaha illa hua.
Always the same pace
day in, day out.
Always the same pace
day in, day out.
Hua allahu alazi, la illaha illa hua.
Hidden behind pace
day in, day out,
is always the same face,
day in, day out.

I didn't know marty knew slayer.

The Spiritual Side of Life. Part . The Exercises.

I'm not allowed to talk about most of the spiritual exercises that I've experimented with (*shhh*) but I don't have to talk about my own experiences to talk about the theory and benefits of certain practices.

Spirituality can be divided into two categories: the internal and the external.

The internal deals with concepts like the ego, concentration, emotional control, mental health, etc.

The external deals with situations like relationships, control of environment, right interaction based on proper perception of reality, and so on.

The former is generally labeled "Yoga", and the latter is generally labeled "Magick".

Let me take a moment here to address something that the weaker of the brethren might not have considered since they were children: Magick Is Real!
So are "miracles", super powers, demons, angels, gods, and fairies. They may not all be as real as we imagined when we were kids, or at least not in the same way, but there are forces in nature that the ancients labeled as demons, gods, angels, etc. which we can understand and interact with in a predictable way to effect change in ourselves and our environment.
Modern science is even beginning to support a lot of these things as being not only possible but essential aspects of the natural order.

Lotsa fun to be had all round.

So how do we go about causing these changes?

For environmental change we have to first make a connection between us and the thing we want to change. Most of the time this can be done with the scin laeca (the body of light. AKA the astral body). Sometimes things like talismans can make the connection or we can even employ certain beings to do what we need (this theory is based on the fact that humans are co-creators alongside gods and therefore we have divine authority to command and control every lesser being) . Such beings are usually demons or elementals, but can even be discarnate beings (dead people or animals) or created beings (egregors). I won't go into to much detail about these things, I really don't have enough experience with any of them to say much else without making an ass of myself. If you're curious (and you should be) check out Liber ABA and Transcendental Magic.

For internal change we have to develop concentration. I bet you can imagine what this entails. Lots of starring at blank walls, visualizing simple shapes, avoiding distracting noises etc. It's all good fun and the benefits are almost instantly apparent.
A couple things you might not have realized is the fact that your breath plays a very important role in facilitating concentration, and so does a very specific faculty of mind that has to be trained in a particular way.
The breath is your link between the automatic faculties of your mind and body, and the volitional faculties. Physiologically speaking your breath is the only function in your body that you can do both consciously and unconsciously. This gives you a great key to your unconscious processes, your control of the autonomic nervous system and consequently a whole host of lovely benefits.
(NB. Notice that during a flight or flight response your immune system shuts down as well as the parts of your brain responsible for rational decision making and creativity. Bummer for people under stress. They're sick and stupid.)

The particularly useful part of the mind is the inhibitory faculty. This aspect of mind is curiously useful. It's responsible for the inhibition of thoughts and actions. Now I know it doesn't seem like it's that important to be able to prevent yourself from thinking or acting in certain ways but I honestly couldn't recommend a more useful, simple and foolproof exercise than this: Liber Jugorum. If you were to spend a mere 6 months (a drop in the bucket and not unreasonable when you consider how long most personal trainers say it takes to "get in shape". Six months is nothing) doing the exercises as recommended (no fudging or wussing out on the cuts) you'd be a completely different person. A lot of your neuroses and fixations would naturally come to the surface so you could examine them (and therefore destroy them), you'd be able to think more clearly, more elaborately, you'd be able to follow longer and more complex trains of thought, your mental stamina would be outrageous, and you'd probably end up with a whole heap of really cool scars. You'd also most likely develop a moving grace that comes with perfect awareness.

Prizes all around.

Could Internet Piracy be a Good Thing?

It's been a weird and wonderful past few days.
I have been working on the 5 aspects of life series so don't get all worked up about it. I just wanted to do it right so I've been spending a lot more time on them, especially taking the time to review and edit them properly. So one day, Probably on the weekend, you'll get bombarded by a whole bunch of back dated posts.

I'd like to make a shout out to my best homie K-Dog. What up ya grimmey MF?

I was thinking of doing a little rant in favor of Piracy (internet, not Caribbean). What do ya'll think?

I'd like to discuss this with you.

I can support my side, can you support yours?

Yogic Rain

It rained here yesterday
and my mantra slowed down.
It slowed to the point where it matched
The speed of water,
maybe slower,
still repeating,
Hua Allahu alazi, la illaha illa hua.
Keeping me steady in pace.

And as the rain came down I wondered why the waters
and the vision of my voice were dancing.
I'd never seen the sense of beauty be so melodic,
it was hypnotizing me under the stream.
Each drop seemed slower every inch.
Every inch another tempest of the timelessness of sleep.
I saw a world that had no order
and a man that had no peace,
because the time on which they border
could do nothing else but cease.

The Spiritual Side of Life. Part 4. The Abyss.

Crowley claims that the primary function of the Holy Gardian Angel (HGA) is to guide the adept to the brink of the Abyss. The HGA cannot cross with the adept.

The name "crossing the abyss" comes from the structure of the Qabalistic Tree of Life. The tree is conveniently divided into three main sections, mirroring the sections I've been talking about.
The tree is set up so that if you could imagine walking from one sphere to another you'd be able to get from sphere 10 to sphere 4 without having to make any leaps. After sphere 4 however you're gonna have to jump to get to sphere 3. This jump is crossing the abyss.
This stage is out of all relation to anything that could be called "normal consciousness". I'm entirely unwilling to make any sort of claims about what it's like because my investigations of it have led me to conclude that this stage is intimately tied up with the development (or realization) of altogether new faculties of mind.
Crowley describes it as being the realization of the futility of logic and the transcendence of logic in favor of a mode of "thinking" that is so different from what we are normally used to that it's entirely unrecognizable.
This stage could be called "union with godhead", maybe "transcendence", "one with the Tao", or anything like that. I really don't know what else to say about it except that you can read about it in Crowley's confessions, in Liber 418, and you can actually get a fair appreciation for this side of the abyss through Kant's Critique of Pure Reason and Wittgenstein's Tractatus.

Have fun kids.

Once lost on the waters

I don't know how many people feel that something hurting
Can bring them closer to god's closest quarters,
but a light at the end of a horrible trial has broken onto me.
I've lost a lot of myself with this one, and I looked too far to get it back.
I sought out comfort in various places,
and ended up coming right back,
Empty handed,
Still a wreck.
I'd rather be a lost tormented soul on the waves of the waters
than face this greatest fear of mine again.
I've had to address this before,
but never again,
I've faced it and know what I have to do.
It's all in the wrist.
It's over and over again lost in the fight,
I'd kill it if I could,
but loving it is better.
I'd really like to keep this down
but it's exalted like the rest.
This is me,
body and mind,
this is me.
I'm him in the most intimate way,
I'm in love with him,
Myself, in a spiritual way
and I love me.
Does dissolution save,
or does the draught of discontent?
Does it pay to be sporadic
or does unconditional reign?
I'd like to be opratic
but I couldn't stand the feign.

The Spiritual Side of Life. Part 3. Adonai.

The second major stage of development is marked by what modern hermeticists call The Knowledge and Conversation of your Holy Guardian Angel.
This state is described by most, if not all, of the major religious traditions.
It is in effect a realization of some preternatural intelligence as a built in guide for one's life.
This intelligence is recognized by the experiencer as distinct from his own intelligence and it gives him access to abilities and knowledge usually acknowledged as "miraculous".
This intelligence has gone by many different names.
Socrates called it the Higher Genius,
Abramelin called it the Holy Guardian Angel,
The Hebrews called it Adonai, the personal god.
It's also been called the Daemon, the genius, Augoides, and a host of other names.
When the experience and methods of achievement are described the similarities far outweigh the differences.

This experience is essentially the high water mark of the first phase of the path of the wise. It is the first truly enlightening experience.
It requires all of the student's previous accomplishments to attain.
He must have mastered his mind (at least to a high degree), his emotions, his body of light (aka astral body) and his circumstances (though Crowley holds some contention over what mastery over circumstances really means).

I'm speaking from theory and not experience so I can only speculate what it would take to accomplish this but there are a few things that seem pretty necessary.
Yoga seems to be a must (vid Liber ABA and 8 Lectures). A steady Asana, balanced Prana, and calm Chittam seem absolutely necessary.
Also the control and development of the body of light (vid Liber ABA).
See for yourself in John st John, TOSK, The Sacred Magic of Abramelin the Mage, and more genrally throughout the Equinox and Liber ABA.