On the Path to the Palace of Abundance

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This is the second painting in the series.

A male nude with the head of a siberian tiger is following a prancing female nude with the head of a deer over three hills through three gates. A family of neanderathals watches on. There's a horse in the far background.

The sky is storming and there are three metalic knotted stars of David.

Id like to start at 250$ for this painting.

These paintings are medium size roughly 1.5 feet by 2.5 feet.

Chase the Chaser

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Originally uploaded by babajiwotan.

This and the next painting are for sale. This one is color rich. I had an abundance of high quality materials to work with. It's oil and collage.

A male figure is following a nude female with an elk's head over three hills, through three gates from a temple in the background.

Bob Marley with the head of a rare species of large cat from south america is playing a ballad in the foreground.

Overhead there are five celtic knot pentacles.

The decorative border is checkered red and metalic gold with tanric symbols.

This painting is for sale to the highest bidder. Id like to ask a very low starting price of 300$. If you know someone who might like this painting, Ill give you a 15% commision price for a successful deal.

Hapkido

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I taught my first Hapkido class today. It went really well. I had three participants. The class lasted an hour and we covered basic kicking, tumbling, self defense, and chi training.

Hopefully Ill teach the class twice a week.

Ghozt

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I have neither Guru nor initiation
I have no discipline and no duty to perform
Understand that Im the formless sky.
Im the self existent purity.

vedic astrology

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Hm. I studied vedic palmistry today. Apparently your inferior hand relates to your past three lives and your dominant hand relates to your current one. Interestingly I found that on my left hand my appolonic finger and my jupiter fingers are quite even whereas on my right hand the appolo finger is almost as long as my saturn finger! Astounded I brought this marvel to the attention to my instructor and she came over to investigate. Apparently in my past few lifetimes I had a lot of purpose and rational goals and leadership qualities whereas in this lifetime I have forgone them in favor of pure creativity and fun.

Hence I seem to have the nature and disposition of one who seeks power and leadership yet I always tend to use my sun-like powers for fun without ever gaining any real profit or merit for them.

And I like it that way.

However, taking my thumbs the instructor showed how flexible and gregarious I am. Open to new ideas and overlooking my own needs. Essentially selfless.

Simoultanously I have strong mars indicating stamina and physical strength and endurance which means I can give a lot without getting weak.

But in general her advice was to keep more to myself and stop giving so much!!

Meanwhile I got an incredible card reading that delved more into past lives. Connecting me to ancient Egyptian and Babylonian alchemists. The first three cards I drew were the fool, the hierophant and the magician. The next three were the ace, queen, and knight of wands. So apparently Ive got all these amazing pseudo magical abilities and knowledges that Ive carried over through these generations but in this life Im having difficulty, or unwillingness to use them much for my own gain.

The session concluded with the command that I must turn myself into the earth.

I take this to mean some sort of death ritual.

Merlin

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Merlin was the illegitimate son of a monastic Royal Princess. Merlin's father was really an incubus, an evil spirit that has intercourse with sleeping women. Merlin, fortunately, was baptized early on in his life, an event which is said to have negated the evil in his nature, but left his powers intact.

Others tell how having fallen deeply in love with the Lady of the Lake, he agreed to teach her all his mystical powers. She became so powerful that her magical skills outshone even Merlin's. Determined not to be enslaved by him, she imprisoned the old man in a glass tower, a cave or similarly suitable prison. Thus his absence from the Battle of Camlann was ultimately responsible for Arthur's demise.

Vortex Healing

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I just my vortex healed by a reborn pirate with a spinning wheel of bioelectricity in his heart. Needless to say I awoke with a start to a skull on the floor and my soul blown apart.

VortexHealing began with a man named Mehindra who lived about 5600 years ago. Although most human beings have long karmic histories in which they have struggled within the experience of separation, there are always a few beings on the earth that are born into humanness directly from Wholeness, directly from divine consciousness. Each such being brings a unique aspect of divine consciousness into manifestation. Mehindra was such a being. The aspect of the divine he manifests is magical transformation.

After his death, Mehindra brought 7 other beings like himself together to form a divine "healing realm" and used his own energy and consciousness to form a link between that healing realm and human consciousness, which is how VortexHealing got its name. In 753 B.C., a man living in what is now England, who was close to enlightenment, received the gift of VortexHealing and specific Vortex meditations as a divine revelation from a being who appeared in his consciousness while he was meditating. This being (who was Mehindra) called himself "Merlin." (The name Merlin was chosen because that name best represented, in English, the vibrational quality of transformation magic that he was manifesting.) Working with this divine gift, the man became enlightened and began to pass the gift on to other people by the process of direct consciousness transmission. Later in his life he passed on the ability to teach VortexHealing to selected students. He also started the tradition that if a teacher within the lineage reached a sufficient level of attunement to Merlin, he was given the name Merlin. Thus the name Merlin was both a title and a way to honor the divine being who still manifests and maintains this healing art. As the teachings of Merlin were passed by direct consciousness transmission from teacher to teacher through the generations, it became known as the Merlin "lineage." Historically, there were 28 teachers, 12 of which were Merlins. The Merlin associated with King Arthur was the fifth one. But the 12th Merlin did not find anyone he could empower to carry on the teachings after him.

jagermeister

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Originally uploaded by The Stranger.

Fascinating. Ive recognized an emergence of a new animal: the antlered one. Now I remember I was drawing pictures of myself with antlers since at least Korea where I saw the crowns of the ancient Silla kings that were always antlered. And then at folkfest I felt a lot like an elk or deer and Anita was wearing that necklace. And At the peak of it I felt a lot like an elk during the rut. Running around with a swollen neck and bloodshot eyes. Snorting with my head lowered.

And then Jose told me the story of St. Hubert:

Hubert sallied forth to the chase. As he was pursuing a magnificent stag, the animal turned and, as the pious legend narrates, he was astounded at perceiving a crucifix between its antlers, while he heard a voice saying: "Hubert, unless thou turnest to the Lord, and leadest an holy life, thou shalt quickly go down into hell". Hubert dismounted, prostrated himself and said, "Lord, what wouldst Thou have me do?" He received the answer, "Go and seek Lambert, and he will instruct you."


And here after studying with a celtic shaman I learned of Cernunnos:

Cernnunos, as The Horned God, Lord of the Animals is portrayed as human or half human with an antler crown. Though he wears a human face his energy and his concerns are non-human. He is protector of animals and it is Cernnunos who is the law-sayer of hunting and harvest. While He is recognized most often through his connection to animals and our own deeply buried, dimly recalled, instinctual animal natures, Cernnunos is also a tree, forest, and vegetation god in his foliate aspect of The Green Man, Guardian of the Green World. His branching antlers symbolize the spreading treetops of the forest as well as his animal nature. As Master of the Sacrificial Hunt, His is the life that is given in service of new life. His wisdom is that the old must pass away to make way for the new. In his Underworld aspect Cernnunos is The Dark Man, the god who dwells in the House Beneath the Hill, the Underworld. He is the one who comforts and sings the souls of the dead to their rest in the Summerlands of the Otherworld. Cernnunos, as Master of the Wild Hunt, who pursues the souls of evil doers, is not associated with a biblical or even modern morality, but with the protection and continuance of the Land and Nature and the spirits that dwell therein.

All this correlates further to the song Ive been singing:

Chase the Chaser through the valley of death.

This antlered god seems to be both the hunter and the prey.

Conjuror

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Originally uploaded by The Stranger.

According to some, one common element of shamanism and Buddhism is the attainment of spiritual realization, at times mediated by entheogenic (psychedelic) substances.

Shamanism is based on the premise that the visible world is pervaded by invisible forces or spirits that affect the lives of the living.

To become a shaman, a person had to "receive the call", to suffer a religious experience, and would then be initiated into the mysteries of the art. By symbolic death and resurrection, he acquired a new mode of being; his physical and mental frame underwent a thorough change. During this period of initiation, the novice would see the spirits of the universe and leave his body like a spirit, soaring through the heavens and underworld. There he would be introduced to the different spirits and taught which to address in future trances.

The episode often marks the beginning of a time-limited episode of confusion or disturbing behavior where the shamanic initiate might sing or dance in an unconventional fashion, or have an experience of being "disturbed by spirits".

Upperworld Journey

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The drum begins beating. I am running naked and high to the hill at folkfest. It's night time there's a full moon. At the top of the hill there's an Elk with the wings of an owl. There's mist and the elk snorts out steam. I mount the beast and it begins a gallop down the back side of the hill in the direction of the moon. We gallop through the mist toward the moon and then take off and fly to the moon. We soar through the sky. The surface of the moon is white and there is a white pyramid or temple complex with a long stairwell. I am going to meet my teacher. I climb the staircase and at the top there are two figures. One is a short wiry man in his 50's with shaggy hair and wild eyes reminding me of charlie manson combined with my old fencing master Manuel Belmonte and also a bit asian and also a bit native american. The other figure is obviously the Mysterious Lady of Mystery. I want to talk to her but she's frozen. The other fellow tells me I can't talk to her until Ive trained more. And that when I talk to her it's in the middle world and that she is manifest through my lovers. ( hence she is outside of me, not a facet of me like the teacher is) I look down and can see the earth in the distance. He takes out a bat and I lie down and he beats me with the bat as one tenderizes a steak. That being done he leaves me with the Mystery and I of course kiss her. She wakes up and is like a vampire and I lay back prone and she is hissing and ravaging my throat. My neck and throat being completely torn open I manifest into the dark tiger and the tables are turned. Everythings just a messy violent blur. This being all done Im alone on top of the white dias and now there is a pool. I dive in and float for a bit and when I surface Im at the lake at bird's hill.

Shamanic Journey

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The drum begins beating. I am running naked and high through the folkfest campsite during folkfest. I run to the hill across the bridge. At the top of the hill I find a latch and a hole I climb into the hole and there is a descending staircase. I run down the staircase until I arrive in the underworld. There I see the Smoke Tiger. An enourmous cat like a tiger or lion with long hair and mane. Black smoky colour streaked with dark green. Red smouldering eyes like a demon. It circles around me. Ive met it before and it is my gaurdian and guide. Ive observed it before. Ive allowed it to devour me before. This time I allow it to sink it's jaws deeply into my shoulder. Next I am watching it walk proudly down a road in a terrible desert like hell. The sky is red. There is a pyramid. It is like Egypt everything is black and red and gold. At the top of the pyramid the Tiger sits on a throne and sitting next to it is it's mate the Siamese Cat.

Chasing Butterflies

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Originally uploaded by The Stranger.

Im a butterfly chaser
chasing the butterfly through dreams and nightmares
up the staircase
up the ladder
past the table of Alice's mad hatter

Im so thirsty from the chase
drinking holy water

If it wasn't for this hole in my butterfly net
I would have already caught her

Cheer up

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Cheer up my sisters
Cheer up my brothers
Cheer up my Momma
Cheer up my Father too

In defence of My Stone Age principles:

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Right here Right now

I've built a Stone Age Rocket
From whittled peices of wisdom
I found in my corderoy pocket

I was nominated
Least Suitable For Contemporary Society
Will it still be contemporary tomorrow?

The Fortune Teller told me I came from Egypt
She laid out the cards
Blackjack!

PholkFest Recapitulation

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Another part of the vision quest was the ceremonial finding of the sacred grove. This means I wandered off into the woods until I ran into a pack of wild turkeys which led me to the grove and then the sacred tree.Which I hugged and bonded with a bit. I reckon this tree and grove will play an important role somehow in the phests to come. After I went and sat in the truck and turned on the stereo. Neil Young came on the album harvest. Then I picked up this book call the Portable Dragon which Ive been carrying around for a few years now. It's the complete I-CHing with passages gleamed from western literature to illustrate. After that I took off my illaborate red costume, all my jewelry and crystals and put on a plain set of jeans and a white tee-shirt. Then I continued on with the quest which from this point on consisted of primarily feats of phsyical exercise.

I chose to illustrate this particular part of the trip because all though the events seem simple and mundane, it was perhaps the highest moments of my entire life. The Neil in the truck with the I-ching was absolutely completely sublime. I'll carry those simple moments with me for the next year at least. The memory of pure perception. When every second is absolutely perfect and all secrets are revealed. Perfect certainty and ease with all things.

I joined with my long time girlfreind and that's a whole other story. All the very strange ritualized things we did. At one point we made this weird sort of circle of invulnerability on the hill in order to watch the sunset. We didn't speak but were communicating with close-too psyonics I reckon. Waiting for the sunrise we gathered these items from the surrounding area and forged this Magic Wand! That was really weird. Then we sort of incubated it in the circle as the sunrose. Amazing remembering how she gave me the peices to the wand and I took them, mind competely beyond language or speech, and I fitted the peices together just like a key. And then us looking at the wand as the sun rose as if it was our child and it looked so unbeleivably beautiful. Like there was no way those simple objects should look so gorgeous but I could hardly take my eyes off of it.


SIncerely,
Captain Godstar, the Red Sherrif

Tent-Life

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Originally uploaded by The Stranger.

This photo's from inside my tent home. I love my tent home even though the door doesn't work anymore. Sometimes I wonder why I even have a tent anymore. Why not use the ground? Im not sure about the magnetic waves or what in this place but Im on a never ending mind blow. Every day is an endless stream of creative production, physical exertion, sunshine, and enlightening conversation. The talks are just like from that movie Waking life. Random people walk by and it's like I just pick up the conversation wtih them where I left off with the other people. ANd there's virtually 0 small talk. For example listen to this trip that I got into today:

microcosm macrocosm:
when you look at things closely you see inside the molecule and there's the electrons and neutrons and all that. Then you look at space and you see kind of the same thing. Okay lets imagine that they ARE the same thing. So our star is a nuceleus and our planet is an electron. And everything we can see is just part of some giant dude's body or just a rock or something. Okay, have you got that concept in your head?

Okay now think of a scientist who has this superpowered microscope. And he looks into it and finds an electron and he can actually look at it and see it as a planet. Looking further he can actually see cities and houses on the surface of this electron. Focusing even more he looks into an individual house and through the window, and then sees...

himself looking through a microscope!


Whoa I was sitting in a zen garden when I got to that point and the trip actually gave me a physical shiver!

Here's another one:

Chi, prana, all of that spiritual invisible energy can be defined scientifically as bio-electricity.

So if you meditate long enough and then bring the prana (bio-electricity ) into your head. Then theoretically the electricity will ionize the oxygen around your head. Illuminating it and creating a halol. Like Jesus' or bhuda's.

That trip I read in a book about Qigong.

Sweet dreams!

Real Work

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I don't like people thinking Im lazy because I don't like to work. I don't want to work. And I don't want to go to University.

I'm too busy with REAL WORK.

For me, real work is working on my soul and helping the soul of others. I do this by excerizing, thinking, and talking to people in a soothing and enlightening way.

It's not a cop out. It's not easy. Especially because you don't get payed.This is the work we were all destined for.

Working in society's jobs for the most part leads to financial success and spiritual failure. I see people who are so obsessed with their jobs. They worry about every little detail and are so eager to climb the tiny power ladders of the establishment. Eager to put down subordinates at every turn.

These things don't matter. For the most part society's jobs are easy. The best strategy is to go in. Do your job. Don't think about it. Don't stress. Keep a smile on your face. And get out of there so that you can go home and do more REAL WORK.

exercise, create, think about invisible things

Summer Beauty

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Echinacia

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Yellow Flower

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Don't you know me?
Im your lover
Im your brother
Im your son
Im your father
Im the one
Who'll hold your hand
till kingdom come

Chase the Chaser

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summoning the Goddess
from the fire and the foam
is it right to be alone
is it wrong to wail and moan
come return to your crystal throne
make my body your home

1-2-3-4-5-6-7
die and go to heaven
good morning armegedon
dye your hair with lemon
become judas like Bob Dylan
find the virgin mary Magdelyn