The House of the Golden Lion

sproink

2010-07-14T01:16:00.001-07:00

To Ye folkens del alpha y omega

hi guys i miss you

the festival was perfect as usual

Id hate to brag

but we are beautiful

here s some letters I found in the scram when I woke up from folk fest

letter to jedi master:

jedi master,

This message may sound confused and I apologize for such. But truly I just spent a most magnificant weekend at the festival and my kundalini has never ever been so happy go-lucky proud.

Sorry to gush, but now and here I must pay to you the utmost of acknowledgements for the trandscendental training you bestowed upon me during my most transformative years. Alchemaically, yourself and your retinue of outstanding players (our freinds and training partners) were the scourging fire to my burgeoning, base metal.

Thanks.

may the force be with you

Letter to Titania

The Pleasure is all mine milady. and yers
Cheers to the Lady of the Lake and all her retinue
Everything worked out

The pyramid has a permanant home overlooking lake winnipeg, Im scheming to build another wider level maybe out of something that can grow. Building underground levels, winterizing, solar panels, hay bales, ground water heating, wind turbines, bat cave, dilithium crystal, gigantic portrait of the queen, alignment with the four directions, Louis Riel is buried underneath and his ressurection is due in 2012.

Which reminds me, I feel we should collaborate on an assingment for 2012 to celebrate the prophecy of King Louis:

my people will sleep for one hundred years, and when they awaken, it will be the Artists who give them their spirit back.

Im sure you ve heard some of the mumbo jumbo surrounding the date december 21 2012 circulating and gestating around the interdimensional interweb and elsewhere. All Poppycok Im sure you will agree. But why not capitalize on this tidal wave of attention with an intergalactic equinox party of truly chip and pepper magnitude right here in the centre of the world

WINNIPEG MANITOBA CANADA.

Multi day, art expo, fashion show, craft sale, rock concert, rave party, red river rebellion, ballet, darts etc.

It seems early to begin preperation but my beloved, I say nay, the time is exactly right.
first 2 objectives: Very soon we need to have the location nailed down and a superslick call for submissions-invitation sent out to the fairierealm ambbasadors and beyond.

What do you and all those sacred earthen and aetherial spirits think about this idea?

My name is Andrew but my freinds call me nij and the gods call me the Smoky Tiger

return this message to my good astral messenger kitty yukdugu s neck in reply

I wish you and yers nothing but the sincerest of respect.

Letter from God:

Congrats on the prize! I'm hoping everything worked out. let me know if it got out ot you or what needs to be done to make it happen. We can talk more about your ideas of what you'd like to do to colaborate. I'm happy someone who can apprrciate our work now has a peice of it.

I Found this message scrawled in glowstick ink in the bathroom

poem festival 2012:
for titania
walked to folk fest
solved the riddle of the pyramids
meditated on the sacred pope stone for 5 hours
saw every fire pixie dance
witnessed sun rise from popes hill 6 days straight
sobbed buckets at the words -rise again- during finale
lost my shit, then found it better than it was before
gave gumbi water
didnt cross the streams (until the marshmellow man came)
got my moccasins dirty
scared Andrew Neville with barret s privateers
found the secret REAL shady grove
announced the True Leprechaun King s arrival on the hill (oberon)
dispelled 9 death knights w sonicheavenlyvibrations (softies on the inside)
almost got duped by 7 yr old boy to pay 25c rental fee for devil sticks
saw boba fett
8 year old boy swinging 50 feet up over a crowd of folks
stole the missing hieroglyphic bricks from the trading post (hoarders)
found the helm of awe (pink eared black bear with matching pink puffies)
lost the sacred box of the eye of ra (finders keepers losers weepers)
sung so pure that the whole camprground could here (even the quieters)
brad roberts has an enormous head (great job, yer always welcome buddy)
Levon!
joined the leaugue of champions, and the owl society
rolled down popes hill 13 times
obeyed the code
found a lance
discussed 2012 with Basil and a drunk guatamalan who wanted to fight me
realized the actual nature of space and time (what they said was true)
all of history culminates RIGHT NOW
holy lord of clowns and jesters
warped to level 8
parked the scram in the tow away zone for 5 days straight
9 poutines
remained yer humble servant
was accompanied by only the best (you know who you are)
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brought to you by
the letter ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

Holy Dinah Guys. I would expect to feel a headach after all this festing but actually I feel pretty good.

Off to bed.

signing off

goldstar

sproink

2010-07-14T01:15:00.001-07:00

2010

Avalon

2009-12-18T14:15:00.000-08:00

Yet in vain, a paynim foe

Armed with fate the mighty blow,

for when he fell the elfin queen

all in secret and unseen

over the fainting hero throw

her mantle of ambrosial blue

and bade her spirits bear him far,

In Merlin´s agte-axled car,

to her green Isle's enammeld steep,

far in the navel of the deep

from flowers that in arabvia grew

there he regins a mighty kingçthence to britain shall return

if right prophetic rolls I learn

Borne on victory's sceptre to resume,

his knightly table to restore

and brave the tournements of yore.

Parable

2009-12-18T14:04:00.001-08:00

Melt like wax before the flame. Watcher. Judge not beofre you judge yourself. HUman beehieves. Behold the Lord cometh with 10 thousand of his saints. Unto the ends of the Earth. Come hither and hear my voice. Humble Heaven. Steadfast commandments. Follow through the hall of magic mists. As you wirl like a spinning top. I am the tiger. I am orion. Spitting out the demons good times goodtimes. My society wont build a seven forty seven or land on the moon but are either of these achievemtns efficient in terms of the resources poured into them and the results for the inhabitants of this planet. Anarchism is an assertion of human dignity and responsibilityt. It is not a programme for political change but an act of social self-determiniation. You can make sense fo this world only if you base the world on cosniousness. Consiousness is the ground of all being. And quantum physics makes this as clear as dalylight. As if from a deep sleep the angelic humans are awkakening. Remembering. All the world is mind. All the worl is mental. Bring me to the redeemer. Holy Holy is the Lord of Hosts. Forgotten true nature. Iron fist in a velvet glove. Mist. Sometimes you can see everything at once. Personality of Godhead. The supreme Attractive. A dime in a five cent town.

Manito Bandits

2009-12-18T13:46:00.000-08:00

Bandits of the spirit. this is our bandits's code. Free from the monotony and slavery of doing the same thing day in and day out ans is control of the whole job from start to finish. He is free to decide for himself how and when to set about it. He is responisible t5o himself and not to someone else. He is working not because he has to but because he wants to. He is doing his own things. He is his own man.Lunatic asylums. The Dj Prisons. Hospitals graveyards, radio stations. Factories that only use us to one millionth of our true capacity. Corporations who have enslaved us with their toys that we cannot fix when broken. Lord here me now. This is a gigantic prison or palce its hard to tell. Skyscraper. You can impose authority but you cant impose freedom. Stress anarchism as an ideal of personal liberation. Cease to change society except by example. Surveillance. I used to think our countreis were the richest in the world until I realized that riches mean learning and beauty, music and art. Community orginizations. Networks instead of pyramids. WHittle away power from the centre. Many people I know are lost. Threat to the power structure. Macro Micro. How soon before the Third World rises in Revolt. The worlds resources are finite. The wealthy economies are exploiting the unrenewable resources at a rate which the planet cannot contain. How soon? The developed economies are exploiting the resources of the third world as cheap raw materials. Rubert Murdoch great tribulation. The third world countries cannot hope to chieve the levels of consumption of the rich world. Level the factories and give them back to nature. Expel the bankers and the oligarchs. Downgrade the standard of living for the rich. Isnt the only hope for the planet that the industrialized civilizations collapse? Isnt it our responsibility to bring that about? We need to restart the revolutionary movement. The extremely rich are different from us. Their values have been reveresed. Deleiver them for they have fallen. Artificial crises creation. Monolopy of the rockefllers and the Rothchilds. Cartels. The economic crises. Trillions of dollars. Wall street cronies are crooks. I am the Sovereign Smoky Tiger. International monetary fund. Ether. SInce the dawn of time Ancient cultures have understood that every living creature has a spirit. A life force which animates the physical body. Always in a trance enjoying the pleasure within. The spiritual domain which suyrrouns the planet. In recent times an evil group of people who communicate with demons have been destroying the very spirit of the planet Earth. This association of black Magicians is called the illuminati. The corporation.s They are engineering wars and ecological catastrophes causing millions of people to die in a state of terror. Sending shock waves through the ether. Peoples spirits cascade into the spirit world. They control the corporations. Disconnecting us rom the knowledge of our higher spiritual self. BUt you cannot take the heat from the fire.The spirit world exisits. And the fact that reality is shaped by our own consiousness is hidden from the public by control of the world's media. Seas are overfished. Forests are destroyed. Pagans, sahdus and sky watchers have all recognized for thousands of years. The Spi9rit of the Mother earth is central to our survival. Swine flu. The smoky tiger told me to tell you to get blotto tonight. Single handedly. Melt like wax before the flame.

Everything fror Everyone.

2009-12-18T13:32:00.001-08:00

Lets go back to where we belong. The smoky tiger is not my leader. The smoky tiger is my megaphone. Sodom and Gomorah quicksand. The way in which the individual human being s are prvented from developing. There is a vision of the unfulfilled potentialities of every human being. Woodstock permanantly. Folkfest permanantly. Shambhala merpanantly, burning man permanantly. There is a Law for the Outlaw. There is a way for the Renegade. We no longer have the right to house ourselves. I am not talking about Ancient peoples as being inferior because i am not blinmded about my own society´s superiority which blinds me to the subtly and wonder of ancient hisotry. Though shalt not exploit another´s feelings. The great pyramid of egypt was built by an ethiopian pharoah named khufu and the pharoahs used tosmoke the black herb that grew in the valley of gojam in Ethiopia, the most powerful, the strain of which Soloman sowed inside the temple. Word Sound is Power. Doorway in the lake. Pyschologists have stated for many years that any religios impression is a phsychotic phenomenon as if it is something unhealthy. If someoner says I feel a desire to dedicate to the devine psychologists say I have a mystical disease. The Psychologist say we know better, there is nobody to be saved, only people to be treated by us. Follow your will with percerverqance and dedication. Songs of realization. In the course of each period humanity lets itself be drawn towards an ever-worsening corruption and materialism, until a great disaster destroys the civilization and God sends a new prophet to inaugerate an new period of history. Here´s the new plan, I will listen and understand. There is a spirit and it is real. Because it's real. Beauty sweetness and love are not by accident. Thery were divinely created for a higher purpose. The vedic scriptures describe in detail the transformation of anti-matter into matter. Cooperation and surrender to the common good is the real evolution. Evolution of consiousness. Religion and science united. Marijuana cures the suffering of the people. Love your neighbor. Children should be provided with the raw materials to build their own dwellings and make their own gardens and sculptures. No more brainwash education. Take away the money used for brainwasheducactio and give it to the kids so that they can play.

Sproink

2009-12-18T13:14:00.000-08:00

Enjoy. Undulate. From ashes to ahses dust to dust. You are the one who you can trust. As dangerous as a precious jewel on the head of a cobra. Real prophecy not to be forgotten. War chariots in the sky. Jah Rastafari. Chariots approching they are coming from afar. Jah Chariots approching. Our globe is part of stellar space, the waves of which are luminous or magnetic; propogates by the movements and ignitions of the heavenly bodies. Everything that lives on earth is bathed in this ocean of waves; the science that studies this ocean, the science that one day will manage to explain dverything by the state of momentary heaven is the science of self-realization. In the deserted Valley of Death where my personality was swallowed up I found the Jester´s Tomb. I tell you children there is more. More and more people moving out of corporate slavery and working for themselves respendant as the sun. In the Expanse of the Heaven which encircles the world, there are Figures, signs, by which we can know the secret things and the most profound mysteries. These signs are formed by the constellations, which are for the wise man a subject of contemplation and of delight. An Anarchist society, a society which organizes itself without authorityis always in existence, like a seed bveneath the snow, buried under the weight of state and its bureaucracy, capitlaism and it's waste, priverlage and its injustices, nationalism and its suicidal loyalties, religious differences and their superstitious seperatism. Our urge to co-operate is equal ith our urge to dominate. I can walk on water, Im an anarchist. Peter pan could fly, he was an anarchist. Robin hood had his ban dof merry men. Robin was an anarchist. Bakunin and Marx. Society without government like what Lennon said. Marx is an authoritarian and centralizing communist. He wants what we want, the complete triumph of econocmic and social equiality but he wants it through th State and through State power. We want the abolition of the State and of all that which passes by the name of the law. What law has the Outlaw? Permanant war economy. Civilian Deaths. Obama got the Nobel Prize. The Almighty Creator dancing through the elven orchards. She comes with the clouds. The one world Order. Slums. Rastafari Warrios. Unrestrained capitalism. Self-governance. Bring back the old thing. Self'governance by the people for the people. In the area of unrestrained capitalism competition between employers knowing no other weaopon than the explotation of their workers was transformed into a struggle of each employeragainst his own wormen, and ultimately of the entire employing class against their employees, So the State uses wa and the threat of war as a weapon against itos own popluation. War is the health of the State. War is the expression of the State in its most perfect hour. My task is not to gain power but to erode it. To drain it away from the State.

Gamma

2009-12-18T12:48:00.001-08:00

You are Eternal

Songs of Realization. Melchidadek

Master of transformation

Riddle Catalyst

Even though I walk through the shadow of death I fear no evil for you are with me. My faith is not a counterfeit. Ghost Buddy Come. Run children Run. Angelic Host. Let´s evangalize about the holy lord of clowns and jesters offering a special spectacle of mythic proporttions for you and all your freinds.When we become prideful in our positions is when we fall. Follow your will with percerverance. Clowns and Jesters of Lord Nrshimha the Lion headed. The passage of time is not absolute or univeral, but is instead relative to the place and motion of the observer. Tsunami is the mythc bird. As a reflection of your faith you should express yourself. Crop cirlces. Coors light freshie. Dancing in a fairy ring. Zero 20 Hero. The idieas I am putting forward are so much at variance with ordinary assumptions and the solutions I offer are so remote, there is a gap between what is and what according to me, might be, that my audience cannot take me seriously. Dmt Ayawaska. I am the taste of water. Kropotkin I will take you to the other shore where exists a mental technology devised for jumping bewteen worlds. There is a fixed mechanism at work in the dance. A mechanism that may indeed be supernatural, generating uncanny forces at the intersection of Worlds. Im drinking the sweat of the Smoky Tiger. The evolution of speices who are all doomed to die. Consiousness which is eternal. Atheist denies the beuaty and sweetness of love. Strategy. Leberation theology; a Socialist interpretation of Jesus. Highest bird is a hybrd.Great Warrior King. This is a war waged by the forces of civilization against those of barbarism. In the begginning the earth was seperated from the sky. Jeztr´s exile. The heavens from the firmannet, creating a world of perpetual impermanacne and the gateway god stepped through. Spirit of the mountaints. Harmony. Follow your own will with obediance and percerverance. It will guide you to the other shore. Devotion to jah wont allow you to fall. Allowing the music to instill in you higher knowledge of the planetary spheres. Harmonic destiny. King of Seers. Cosmic Preisthood. Multi dimensional beings. Horoscope salesmen. Demi Gods. A body of energy. The Astrologer Enoch is your navigator. Dreams have a tangible reality. Utopia lives. Dechiper the sotry behind the story. See the gravities and influences. Euhcharist of the stars and planets. Fatherless and motherless like Mechizadek. Shiva, Osiris, fate imprinted on my consiuousness like constellations. Alienzodiac from the energetic zone orchestrating the evolution of the soul. This body has been resynthezized since antiquity Hieroglyphic though forms. The heretical truth that we can spark our own divinity from within. Do not overlook the wisdom traditions of the devine mother. Manifest grace like thor the lightning God and wade through the river nile. This way brings showers of glory to you and your house. Venus wears the higher garment of ascension. Thinking in technicolor hearing the music of the spheres. Mars crown chakra the helmet of salvation with which you put on a new mind. You can be a communicator of the higher mind Stoneage rocket. Alpha and Omega. Piles of Rubble Mumies. Historically certain figures sometimes emerge from stagnant despairing or disentigrating cultures to reinterpret old symbols and beleifs and invest them with new meaning. An individual´s decision to play such a role may be purely unconsious but it can sometimes evolve into an acute awareness that he may indeed have the gift-burden of prochecy. This realization may be followed by the public declaration on the part of such a person that he is merely the instrument of a new source of knowledge a new direction and a new order.

paleolitico

2009-03-11T08:39:00.001-07:00

paleolitico
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The system of worship suited to the spiritual needs of our forebears is unsuited to our altered intellectual condition. Therefore, the great spiritual entities in charge of evolution, change the religions of the world in harmony with the passage of the marching orbs in the heavens.

Safe

2009-03-06T21:19:00.001-08:00

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going to sleep
in Toronto

eternal

Toronto

2008-10-22T17:09:00.001-07:00

Picture 3
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owlwoman

2008-09-14T19:53:00.001-07:00

owlwoman
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cat

2008-03-19T13:15:00.001-07:00

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Yippeee!

2008-03-18T20:14:00.001-07:00

Montreal

2008-03-12T14:03:00.001-07:00

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Montreal 2008

2008-03-12T14:02:00.001-07:00

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2008

2008-03-12T13:46:00.001-07:00

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Winnipegasus

2007-10-09T14:21:00.001-07:00

pegasus
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RISE WINNIPEGASUS RISE

rise and bring me to the land of never-returning

Happiness is a Warm Gun

2007-07-19T16:01:00.001-07:00

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Bang Bang Shoot Shoot

Smoking sensimillion
feel it deep in my lungs
thinking about king Louis
And about how he got hung
reborn gypsy pirate
with my nutmeg and rum
trying to show everyone
tigers just want to have fun

smokitygre changing form
like a chameleon
see my rubies diamonds crystals
gold bullion

HA HA actually Im really poor
like a vagabond
but im rich in Mojo just like
james bond
spying for my nation
the prairie nation
winnipeg manitoba
like a space station
in a galaxy of wheat coldest streets in the world
but did I mention that we have the sexiest girls

murder capitol hey
full force throttle hey
godkings rule hey
most efficient tool for the job at hand
who are you talking to fool?

Calamity Jane instigating
calamatous change
re-arranging of the heavenly bodies
all lubed up with oil
i will toil like a honey bee drinking from your tulip
you little hotty

naughty nurse giving me a spongebath
the wrath of khan
gengis khan rise again
because doctor spock is ready
for the heavenly jelly

For Damon

2007-06-23T07:11:00.001-07:00

Pict0106
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My buddy Damon has died of cancer. Last night I dreamt that I cut off my fingers. Also that my house was on fire. In reality I saw Damon laying lifeless in the hospital room.

May

2007-04-30T22:53:00.001-07:00

Pict0084
Originally uploaded by babajiwotan.

well, Im off treeplanting. wish me luck

Freya

2007-04-11T18:23:00.001-07:00

Freya
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When she goes forth, she drives her cats and sits in a chariot; she is most conformable to man's prayers, and from her name comes the name of honor, Frú, by which noblewomen are called. Songs of love are well-pleasing
to her; it is good to call on her for furtherance in love.

Freyja was said to be a sorceress who could fly in a falcon's skin and some traditions state that on her arrival in Asgard she taught the gods the spells and charms of the Vanir (the group of Gods and Goddesses that is older than those of the Aesir).
It is possible that Freyja's lost husband Odur, or Od, of whom nothing is known but his name, was in fact Odin. For she was the goddess of lust as well as love, a suitable partner for Odin who was the father of battles.

April

2007-04-11T18:09:00.001-07:00

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Well, many of the fellows are back in town and we're carousing regularily tossing the disc and kicking the bag. Im rebuilding my body with much swimming and weights.

things happening:
Big Godking Show at the Albert on the 21st.
Paul Bulter collage party 28-29

Thunder bay: 2nd of may

supersonic narsissus

2007-03-15T17:00:00.000-07:00

PICT0108
Originally uploaded by babajiwotan.

tibetan demon with a thousand arms
you cant steal me lucky charms
hydroponic farms
supersonic narsissuss
cowboy camoflauged with a cobra head over the eyes
rising up to meet your maker
going to have a soul down shaker

tho i aint no rumplestilsken you still cant guess my real name

In order to resurrect Osiris, it was necessary for Isis to learn how to swim, and so it was that Isis tricked Ra into telling her his "secret name", by biting and kissing him, so that he would use his "secret name" to survive. This aspect becomes central in magic spells, and Isis is often implored to use the true name
of Ra while performing rituals.

ra

2007-03-15T16:56:00.000-07:00

PICT0108
Originally uploaded by babajiwotan.

antarctic foxy lady slim shady
cowboy camoflauged with a cobra head over the eyes
rising up to meet your maker
going to have a soul down shaker

tho i aint no rumplestilsken you still cant guess my real name

In order to resurrect Osiris for the purpose of having the child Horus, it was necessary for Isis to learn how to swim, and so it was that Isis tricked Ra into telling her his "secret name", by biting and kissing him, so that he would use his "secret name" to survive. This aspect becomes central in magic spells, and Isis is often implored to use the true name
of Ra while performing rituals.

Homage to Lenny D and his Magic Organ

2007-03-10T11:48:00.000-08:00

Babylon
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Receiving revelation

2007-03-10T11:47:00.000-08:00

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Rimbaud:

2007-02-28T23:56:00.000-08:00

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I

When you are seventeen you aren't really serious.
- One fine evening, you've had enough of beer and lemonade,
And the rowdy cafes with their dazzling lights !
- You go walking beneath the green lime trees of the promenade.

The lime trees smell good on fine evenings in June !
The air is so soft sometimes, you close your eyelids ;
The wind, full of sounds, - the town's not far away -
Carries odours of vines, and odours of beer...

II

- Then you see a very tiny rag
Of dark blue, framed by a small branch,
Pierced by an unlucky star which is melting away
With soft little shivers, small, perfectly white...

June night ! Seventeen ! - You let yourself get drunk.
The sap is champagne and goes straight to your head...
You are wandering ; you feel a kiss on your lips
Which quivers there like something small and alive...

III

Your mad heart goes Crusoeing through all the romances,
- When, under the light of a pale street lamp,
Passes a young girl with charming little airs,
In the shadow of her father's terrifying stiff collar...

And because you strike her as absurdly naif,
As she trots along in her little ankle boots,
She turns, wide awake, with a brisk movement...
And then cavatinas die on your lips...

IV

You're in love. Taken until the month of August.
You're in love - Your sonnets make Her laugh.
All your friends disappear, you are not quite the thing.
- Then your adored one, one evening, condescends to write to you...!

That evening,... - you go back again to the dazzling cafes,
You ask for beer or for lemonade...
- You are not really serious when you are seventeen
And there are green lime trees on the promenade...

Salutations

2007-02-17T16:25:00.000-08:00

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Come on down to the Label gallery Tommorow night (Sunday) for pizza at 6:00
music at 7.

Archyoprtix

2007-02-17T16:21:00.000-08:00

PICT0103
Originally uploaded by babajiwotan.

This morning I woke up with the word archyoptrix in my head.

Here's my kitty Yukdugu. Today I observed her claws as she was washing her paws. They are very long and dangerously sharp.

Disaster case

2007-02-16T04:18:00.000-08:00

WTeeth
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Oh man, Im a disaster case lately. I sitting at y folks place at 6 am not being able to sleep due to extreme pain caused by my Wisdom Teeth. Needless to say after two tylonols did little Ive delved into my papas vodka and now I in a lot of pain but drunk.

Ive got a doctors apoitnment today about my knee but may not be able to attend due to tooth surgery.

What a shite show!

Hello Friendly People

2007-02-12T17:26:00.000-08:00

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Apparation

2007-02-04T19:30:00.000-08:00

A very strange thing happened today. I was at the yoga studio taking a course on the different layers or sheaths of the human body. Near the end of the class we started doing a lot of yoga like standing on your head and all these other weird yoga moves. Long ones where you just sort of hang in it with your head back for a long time. Then after we had done a bunch of those we started doing different long meditations like breathing excerises and whatnot. Then something really weird happened:

I was laying in corpse pose with my eyes closed and I guess I passed out for a second and then I woke up with a start like from a dream and there was this ball floating there. I had my eyes open and I was looking at it and thinking, that's funny, why did they hang that there. I thought it was a mobile or something. It was about the size of a beach ball and white and like a snowflake sort of like some kind of hanging ornament. Then right in front of my eyes, it dematerialized! It just faded into nothing! It was the weirdest thing! I was sure I was looking at it, my eyes were open. The whole thing lasted like 10 seconds.

I have no explanation for what it could have been. It doesn't make any sense. I looked on wikipedia and the closest thing I could come up with was stories about ball lightning. But Im pretty sure no one else in the room saw it. It wasn't real yet I really saw it with my eyes.

Mystrica!

2007-02-03T15:39:00.000-08:00

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The present study was undertaken to investigate the effect of an n-hexane extract of Myristica fragrans seeds on depression in mice by using the forced swim test (FST) and the tail suspension test (TST). M. fragrans extract (5, 10, and 20 mg/kg) was administered orally for 3 successive days to different groups of Swiss male young albino mice. M. fragrans extract significantly decreased immobility periods of mice in both the FST and the TST. The 10 mg/kg dose was found to be most potent, as indicated by the greatest decrease in the immobility period compared with the control. Furthermore, this dose of the extract was found to have comparable potency to imipramine (15 mg/kg i.p.) and fluoxetine (20 mg/kg i.p.). The extract did not have a significant effect on locomotor activity of mice. Prazosin (62.5 microg/kg i.p.; an alpha (1)-adrenoceptor antagonist), sulpiride (50 mg/kg i.p.; a selective D(2) receptor antagonist), and p-chlorophenylalanine (100 mg/kg i.p.; an inhibitor of serotonin synthesis) significantly attenuated the M. fragrans extract-induced antidepressant-like effect in the TST. Thus, extract of M. fragrans elicited a significant antidepressant-like effect in mice, when assessed in both the TST and the FST. The antidepressant-like effect of the extract seems to be mediated by interaction with the adrenergic, dopaminergic, and serotonergic systems.

Nutmeg (Myristica fragrans) is used in food preparations for its aromatic flavor. The present investigation was undertaken to evaluate the antibacterial activity of constituents of M. fragrans seeds. Seeds of M. fragrans were powdered and extracted with chloroform to obtain trimyristin, which on saponification yielded myristic acid. The mother liquor remaining after separation of trimyristin was concentrated and column-chromatographed with petroleum ether to separate myristicin. Antibacterial activity of these isolated constituents was evaluated by determination of minimum inhibitory concentration against selected Gram-positive and Gram-negative organisms. All the constituents isolated from nutmeg exhibited good antibacterial activity. This study shows the potential of natural compounds in replacement of synthetic preservatives.

CONCLUSION: The resultant significant and sustained increase in the sexual activity of normal male rats without any conspicuous adverse effects indicates that the 50% ethanolic extract of nutmeg possesses aphrodisiac activity, increasing both libido and potency, which might be attributed to its nervous stimulating property. The present study thus provides a scientific rationale for the traditional use of nutmeg in the management of male sexual disorders.

Lust

2007-02-01T15:49:00.000-08:00

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Siddhi is a Sanskrit term for spiritual power (or psychic ability); it literally means "a perfection." It is known in Hinduism and Tantric Buddhism. These spiritual powers supposedly vary from relatively simple forms of clairvoyance to being able to levitate, to be present at various places at once, to become as small as an atom, to materialize objects, to have access to memories from past lives, and more. The term became known in the West through the work of H.P. Blavatsky.

There are many perspectives of attaining Siddhis. One school of thought states that they are a normal set of occurrences that should not be focused upon because they will pull one from the path. Other perspectives hold that each siddhi should be pursued because it will allow one to understand the power of the Godhead. Siddhis can occur in two ways: naturally, or as a result of extended practice of austerities. They are often mentioned in conjunction with Riddhi (pl Riddhis), which means material or worldly wealth, power, luxurious lifestyles, etc.

[edit] Nine main Siddhis

* Parkaya Pravesh: Parkaya Pravesh means one’s soul entering into the body of some other person. Through this knowledge even a dead body can be brought to life.
* Haadi Vidya: This Vidya or knowledge has been mentioned in several ancient texts. On acquiring this Vidya, a person feels neither hunger nor thirst, and can remain without eating food or drinking water for several days at a stretch.
* Kaadi Vidya: Just as one does not feel hungry or thirsty in Haadi Vidya, similarly in Kaadi Vidya a person is not affected by change of seasons, i.e. by summer, winter, rain, etc. After accomplishing this Vidya, a person shall not feel cold even if he sits in the snow-laden mountains, and shall not feel hot even if he sits in the fire.
* Vayu Gaman Siddhi: Through this Siddhi a person can become capable of flying in the skies and traveling from one place to another in just a few seconds.
* Madalasa Vidya: On accomplishing this Vidya, a person becomes capable of increasing or decreasing the size of his body according to his wish. Lord Hanuman had miniaturized his body through this Vidya while entering the city of Lanka.
* Kanakdhara Siddhi: One can acquire immense and unlimited wealth through this Siddhi.
* Prakya Sadhana: Through this Sadhana a Yogi can direct his disciple to take birth from the womb of a woman who is childless or cannot bear children.
* Surya Vigyan: This solar science is one of the most significant sciences of ancient India. This science has been known only to the Indian Yogis; using it, one substance can be transformed into another through the medium of sun rays.
* Mrit Sanjeevani Vidya: This Vidya was created by Guru Shukracharya. Through it, even a dead person can be brought back to life.

theosophy

2007-01-28T00:36:00.000-08:00

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The theosophical teachings on evolution given out since the formation of the Theosophical Society in 1875 are merely a general outline of the information in the possession of the Brotherhood of Adepts.1 This information is said to have been compiled and repeatedly verified by countless generations of sages and seers, whose occult powers grant them access to the inner realms of nature and enable them to read the records of the earth’s history clairvoyantly. The adepts are also said to possess written records, fossils, technological inventions, and other artifacts from bygone ages. They disseminate their knowledge in proportion to people’s ability to respond to it intelligently.
Darwinism is rooted in the materialistic assumption that the universe consists essentially of physical matter and energy, and that mind and consciousness are merely byproducts of the brain. According to the theosophic tradition, on the other hand, the physical world is the outer shell of inner worlds – astral, mental, and spiritual. Likewise, every physical organism is animated by inner, subtler ‘bodies’ or souls, including an astral model-body (the template for the physical body), an instinctive or selfconscious mind, of widely varying degrees of development, and a spiritual-divine self or monad. Evolution involves the unfolding of latent powers and capacities in response to impulses from within and stimuli from without, and the development of suitable physical forms through which they can be expressed.

Theosophy rejects the darwinian theory of common descent, i.e. the notion that the first unicellular organisms have undergone successive bodily transformations, leading eventually to all the present creatures, including man. The enormous gaps in the fossil record prove that there has been no continuous, gradual transformation of one species into a higher species. Darwinists of the ‘punctuationist’ school recognize this and argue that new species arise relatively suddenly in small, isolated populations, and that such episodes of speciation are separated by long periods of stasis, in which species undergo little change. However, their insistence that these sudden spurts of evolutionary creativity are ultimately based on blind chance places great strains on our credulity.
H.P. Blavatsky and G. de Purucker cited various pieces of evidence contradicting the ape-ancestry theory, including finds of human remains, footprints, and stone tools, such as those presented in section 3, showing that humans of one type or another existed in much earlier geologic periods than orthodox evolutionary theory allows,1 and evidence such as that mentioned in the previous section, showing that the modern human anatomy is simpler and less specialized than that of our supposed ancestors.2 They also mentioned several contemporary scientists who believed that apes had evolved from man, while man had evolved from other types of animals.3 Blavatsky called the ape-ancestry hypothesis ‘self-degrading’ and ‘the most extravagant theory of the ages’.4
Referring to the Lemurian episode of interbreeding, the Stanzas of Dzyan7 state that ‘those who had no spark’ (i.e. nonselfconscious humans) ‘took huge she-animals unto them’,* which belonged to several species and were quite different from any known today, and ‘begat upon them dumb races’. The offspring are described as a ‘race of crooked, red-hair-covered monsters, going on all fours’, ‘a truly pithecoid species, now extinct’, and a Commentary mentions: ‘Red-haired, swarthy men going on all-fours, who bend and unbend (stand erect and fall on their hands again) who speak as their forefathers, and run on their hands as their giant fore-mothers.’8
In the epic Hindu poem the Ramayana, the apes are depicted as far more humanlike than they are today; they even talk and have their own governments and laws. Led by Hanuman, the monkey god, they fight on the side of Rama against the Rakshasas of Lanka in the great epic war of India. Viewed theosophically, the depiction of the apes in the Hindu legend is not entirely fictional.

Strand

2007-01-28T00:31:00.000-08:00

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According to mainstream science, humans are evolved apes who, as a result of random genetic mutations and environmental pressures, happened to acquire the unique power of selfconsciousness. However, the loud publicity and slick propaganda for the ape-ancestry theory cannot alter the fact that the evidence is scanty and contradictory and open to other interpretations.

Anthropologist Richard Leakey has said that ‘If someone went to the trouble of collecting together in one room all the fossil remains so far discovered of our ancestors (and their biological relatives) who lived, say, between five and one million years ago, he would need only a couple of large trestle tables on which to spread them out.’1 Most hominid fossils are fragments of jaws and scraps of skulls but, as palaeontologist Stephen J. Gould once said, ‘they serve as a basis for endless speculation and elaborate storytelling’.2
Paleoanthropological discoveries make it clear that the human family tree is not a single lineage in which one species succeeded another, leading relentlessly to the appearance of modern humans. Instead, the hominid fossil record suggests that our ancestry is better thought of as a bush, with the branches representing a number of bipedal species that evolved along different evolutionary lines.1

For new species to arise through a series of rapid genetic changes, those changes would have to be directed and coordinated in some way. Even then, the belief that humans descended from australopithecines and ultimately from some Miocene ape remains no more than an unproven hypothesis. Theosophy argues that it is actually the apes which are partially descended from man (see section 6). Some scientists have recognized that even the earliest apelike creatures had anatomical specializations that make them unlikely ancestors of humans, who have a simpler, more generalized anatomy (see section 5). As already explained, a few scientists argue that far from being our ancestors, the australopithecines descended from a bipedal hominid and were evolving towards quadrupedalism. However, many evolutionists take the view that there is no objection to anatomical specializations being gained and later lost in the course of evolution – if this is what it takes to save the ape-ancestry theory from collapse!

Godkings

2007-01-18T10:37:00.000-08:00

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There will be a celebration of the Auspicious at the Times Change High & Lonesome Blues Cafe next Thursday the 25th.

String Theory

2007-01-16T23:56:00.000-08:00

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Ever since string theory was first proposed by Leonard Susskind in 1969 it has been plagued by ridicule and controversy, but the theory still continues to attract serious attention from prominent scientists. As with any theory amendments have to be made, and recently Susskind has come out and conceded that his initial model is likely only one small part of a much larger and more complex multifaceted megaverse. But many in the scientific community are resisting this revolutionary train of thought, and claim that Susskind has no evidence, and therefore no reason, to continue with this folly. But regardless of which camp you choose to side with, recent discoveries in astrophysics may soon put this little quandary to rest.

The initial motivation behind introducing string theory was to amend the Standard Model so that its fundamental units would become one-dimensional, elongated objects, rather than zero-dimensional particles. With such a model, string theorists hoped that a cogent and more consistent quantum theory of gravity would be revealed, in addition to a number of other fantastic consequences that would also follow. Some of these consequences may seem fairly mundane to the layperson, such as a unified theory of everything, which would amalgamate scientists' current understanding of the four basic forces of nature (gravity, electromagnetic, weak and strong). But some of these consequences, such as multiverses and other dimensions, seem more akin to science fiction. In more general terms, Susskind proposes that we may be fortunate enough to be living at a time when everything that we know about the universe is about to go through a tremendous and astonishing upheaval.

Susskind claims that our universe, and the unshakable physical laws that govern it, is but one small "pocket" of existence among a multitude of others. In other words, what's true in our neck of the woods does not necessarily hold true elsewhere in the megaverse. It's certainly a tantalizing prospect, but string theory (incorporating a number of variants on the same theme, such as supersymmetry that includes fermions, the building blocks of all matter) has one teensy-weensy problem; it has, as yet, no testable hypothesis. It's this bit of scientific sacrilege that makes it all too easy for critics of the theory to lambaste and lampoon it. One such critic is Peter Woit, lecturer in the Mathematics Department of Columbia University, who seems to be making a career out of claiming that without a testable hypothesis, string theory is no better than religious dogma. Put up, or shut up, as the saying goes. Well now, finally, it looks as though string theorists may finally get their day in court.

It was Einstein who proposed the idea of gravitational waves (a phenomenon that scientists are yet to observe), which are the supposed end product of moving matter warping the fabric of four-dimensional space-time. But now, researchers from the University of Washington (UW) claim that it is possible to detect gravitational waves emitted from what they call superstrings. Superstrings are, apparently, an observable effect consistent with at least one of the prevailing versions of string theory. UW cosmologist Craig Hogan describes superstrings as narrow tubes of energy leftover from the beginning of the universe, which have been substantially stretched out as the universe continues to expand.

Hogan believes there may be innumerable cosmic superstrings stretched out like giant elastic bands throughout the universe, holding indeterminate amounts of the vacuum of the early universe. These strings, says Hogan, can form loops that "flop around" and discharge gravitational waves as they decay and disappear. "They're so light that they can't have any effect on cosmic structure, but they create this bath of gravitational waves just by decaying," says Hogan. But just how does one go about detecting something that has no apparent affect on the cosmic structure?

Working on the premise that any moving body emits a gravitational wave, Hogan hypothesized that these gravitational waves should also produce a detectable frequency. "Big masses tend to take a long time to move about, so there are more sources at lower frequencies," explains Hogan. "Sensing these vibrations would add the soundtrack to the beautiful imagery of astronomy that we are used to seeing. All this time, we have been watching a silent movie." While the frequencies at which any gravitational wave is produced are likely to be well below that of human hearing (possibly 10 to 20 octaves below), Hogan and his team predict that these gravitational waves may feasibly be detected by listening out for them using a proposed orbiting observatory called the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna.

Ultimately, Hogan hopes that among the bass notes of black holes and binary stars there is more than a faint trace of superstrings contributing to his proposed cosmic symphony. "If we see some of this background, we will have real physical evidence that these strings exist," claims Hogan. But Hogan acknowledges that it will take more than just detecting gravitational waves to make a good case for the existence of superstrings; superstring gravitational waves must be isolated from the rest of the symphony. "The strings, if they exist, are part of that noise, but we want to listen in at lower frequencies and try to detect them," he said.

But there is still a very long way to go, and other recent discoveries may yet dampen the enthusiasm surrounding prospects of finally having, at least in theory, a way in which to test for the existence of strings. Researchers successfully mapping the apparent shape of dark matter contained in a region of space may be one example where superstring theory is rendered redundant. Researchers from ESA are amazed by how well their map of dark matter - using a technique called gravitational lensing, which researchers describe as the deflection of light from distant galaxies by the gravitational attraction of foreground mass concentrations - conforms to current standard models of matter. In this respect, the research teams working at ESA now consider dark matter the "scaffolding" encompassing the assembly of stars and galaxies. "It's reassuring how well our map confirms the standard theories for structure formation," says Richard Massey, of the California Institute of Technology.

Somewhat controversially, Peter Woit suggests that string theorists, starved of anything tangible to go on, seem to be appropriating known physics to suit their own ends. According to Woit, string theorists are offering dramatic and outrageous rhetoric, rather than science, to support their case, referring to one such "over-the-top outrageous" quote made by Susskind himself: "Dark matter and dark energy would remain imponderable enigmas, shorn of any clues about where they come from. Astronomers can live without knowing the quantum properties of gravity. But to learn that 96 percent of the cosmos is unknowable would be a bitter pill to swallow. It would be even worse for physicists. Without a logical framework in which to pose and answer questions, our inquiries into the fundamental aspects of the physical world would devolve into semantic quibbles."

Susskind's prospect of extra dimensions and possibilities beyond our wildest imaginings, beyond our "elegant universe," is sure to appeal to the fantasist inside of everyone, but whether this is reality rather than wishful thinking remains to be seen. "I don't know what strange and unimaginable twists our view of the universe will undergo while exploring the vastness of the landscape," Susskind said in a recent interview, "But I would bet that at the turn of the 22nd century, philosophers and physicists will look back nostalgically at the present and recall a golden age in which the narrow provincial 20th century concept of the universe gave way to a bigger better megaverse, populating a landscape of mind-boggling proportions."

Ectoplasm

2007-01-10T23:51:00.000-08:00

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What am I but a ghost? Dreaming a dream of a girl with ectoplasm coming out of her nipples. And here I am, trying to forget myself. Only to be reminded by the phantom of death who sings to me from the moon while I stand on the river in Winnipeg.

Langside Lounge

2007-01-07T20:31:00.000-08:00

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Many religious belief systems have a particular spirit, deity, demon or angel whose responsibility is to escort newly-deceased souls to the afterlife, such as Heaven or Hell. These creatures are called psychopomps, from the Greek word ψυχοπομπóς (psychopompos), literally meaning the "guide of souls". They were often associated with horses, whippoorwills, ravens, dogs, crows, owls, sparrows, harts, and dolphins.

In Jungian psychology, the psychopomp is a mediator between the unconscious and conscious realms. It is symbolically personified in dreams as a wise man (or woman), or sometimes as a helpful animal. In some cultures acting as a psychopompos was also one of the functions of a shaman. This could include not only acompanying the soul of the dead, but also vice versa: to help at birth, to introduce the newborn's soul to the world.

Yukdugu

2007-01-06T12:01:00.000-08:00

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I can't beleive Im here at the Langside Lounge with my Korean Kitty.
Happy New Year!

Lively

2006-12-10T13:46:00.000-08:00

Salutations from Lively Ontario. I am a geological survey wire spooler and copper tube coiler. Bushwacking through snowy swams and up jagged peaks with 200 pounds of complicated technologies on my back all in the name of Science. Ill be Home for Christmas

Montreal

2006-12-01T13:37:00.000-08:00

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Im in Montreal. Headed off to Sudbury on Sunday to make some cahs geological surveying for twenty days until the big party at christmas.

THRESHOLD OF A NEW invention

2006-11-26T18:15:00.000-08:00

All you kitties say meaow

Whoa. Im here soon to be there. Welcome

MErry CHRISTMAS EVERYONE

santa is busy with vigilant diligance
forging the tools of revelrous joy
come and join me
one and all

sincerely

santa

Toronto

2006-11-04T16:26:00.000-08:00

Ive opened an intergalactical, multi-dimensional, higher vibrational, ultra fantastical Gateway.

So that my spirit guide, the porno godess, fairy princess from space, laced with nutmeg and mystery.

Tell me everything's OK

Dream

2006-10-03T07:28:00.000-07:00

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Hmm. I awoke from a dream where I was sitting there with these people. I examined one of the people closely and I realized they seemed to be composed of some semi-transparent waxy material kind of like amber. And they were coloured sort of reddish.

I think this has to do with my recent observations of people's body and skin condition after they have been doing various types of breathing excerises and yogas.

Also Babji's body was described as being made of gold.

Ambition

2006-10-01T20:21:00.000-07:00

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Some people say the way to get enlightenment is to work at mundane things until you enter a level that is beyond boredom and complacency into pure joy at everything you do. Doesn't matter if you're picking cotton or shovelling manure, this type of enlightened being is completely satisfied at all times living in the now.

There is another definition of enlightenment that seems to be contrary to this one. This form of enlightment that has to do with the unfolding of human potential. This form is developed not through standard definitions of work but through what we consider to be liesure. Meditation, dance, singing, creative activity, diet regulation, mind expansion techniques, intelectual activity etc. It requires the luxery that results from privilege.

Dmitri

2006-09-30T07:40:00.000-07:00

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The cherub with it's flaming sword left it's gaurd at the tree of life and all of creation was conusmed and appeared infinite and holy.

Pentagon

2006-09-29T13:17:00.000-07:00

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new york

2006-09-24T14:36:00.000-07:00

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I celebrated the Hebrew New Year last night with unprecedented style. I had the good fortune of being able to attend the anniversary party at the Chapel of Sacred Mirrors. I find it difficult to encapsulate in words the high level of consiousness and culture that I expereinced there through all night music dancing and art.

The gallery is located in the heart of the Manhattan club scene. I was incredibly blessed to have a buddy who's a high class flower decorator. He puts on these flower arrangements for all these famous people and events. He has access to all the biggest clubs in the area and he took me around on a tour!

I felt like pinnochio when he goes aboard that pleasure ship where all the boys are eating candy and smoking cigars and they all get turned into donkeys.

This one bar consisted of giant hall after giant hall with endless balconies, girls dressed as dolls dancing on platforms, countless vip lounges leading into supervip lounges all of which we had access to! Every chamber was seperated from each other by these sound proof passages.

These are the places where the upper elite get sloshed.

Words cannot express the scenes of debauchery and style I witnessed here in the very heart of darkness.

Outside on the street the police presence was massive! They had these huge spotlights to illuminate the street like daylight. There was a small militia of mounted horsemen.

Tommorrow I head for the Nation's Capitol to visit the sites and demonstrate for peace.

Mushroom

2006-09-21T17:03:00.000-07:00

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Mushrooms

2006-09-21T17:02:00.001-07:00

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Mushroom

2006-09-21T17:02:00.000-07:00

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Forest Path

2006-09-21T17:01:00.001-07:00

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Diligence

2006-09-21T17:01:00.000-07:00

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Dalai Lama

2006-09-21T16:53:00.000-07:00

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There's the Dalai Lama!

Triple Diamond

2006-09-21T16:52:00.000-07:00

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End of Summer

2006-09-18T09:33:00.000-07:00

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I am relunctant, I have not yet been given a sign, like an infant yet unable to laugh; unquiet, roving as if I had no home. All men have abundance, only I am forgotten. I have the heart of a fool; so confused, so dark. Men of the world are shining, alas, so shining, bright. Only I am as if locked into myself. Unquiet, alas, like the sea, turbulent, alas, unceasingly.

Can I wipe my dark mirror free of dust?

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.

The cherub with his flaming sword is hereby commanded to leave his guard at the tree of life, and when he does the whole creation will be consumed and appear infinite and holy whereas it now appears finite and corrupt.

Learning Martial arts means self assurance, not arrogance. Your confidence should make you the meekest, must humble person on Earth. It is impossibel to annoy you because you know you cannot be harmed. You know you can fight but you reamain free of violence.

Originally, humanity's energy channels were completely opened. Human beings were capable of flight, prodigious strength, and psychic knowledge. The Gods places three gates in the boy. Shatter these gates.

I move after the enemy but arrive before him.

Im a man of dark secrets. A mountain lion;ready when the beat hits.

Fall

2006-09-12T09:08:00.000-07:00

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Here I am kayaking with my buddies. There are lotuses in the water. The full moon has brought in a shift. The other world is more present now. Sometimes the shadows are moving.

Sleep is deeper and the dream life is deeper.

Stay strong.

anhk

2006-09-11T19:55:00.000-07:00

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The Ankh is defined as: The symbolic representation of both Physical and Eternal life. It is known as the original cross, which is a powerful symbol that was first created by Africans in Ancient Egypt.

The Ankh is commonly known to mean life in the language of Ancient Kemet (land of the Blacks) renamed Egypt by the Greeks. It is also a symbol for the power to give and sustain life, the Ankh is typically associated with material things such as water(which was believed by Egyptians to regenerate life), air, sun, as well as with the Gods, who are frequently pictured carrying an Ankh. The Egyptian king is often associated with the Ankh also, either in possession of an Ankh (providing life to his people) or being given an Ankh (or stream of Ankhs) by the Gods. There are numerous examples that have been found that were made from metal, clay and wood. It is usually worn as an amulet to extent the life of living and placed on the mummy to energize the resurrected spirit. The Gods and the Kings are often shown carrying the Ankh to distinguish them from mere mortals. The Ankh symbolized eternal life and bestowed immortality on anyone who possessed it. It is believed that life energy emanating from the Ankh can be absorbed by anyone within a certain proximity. An Ankh serves as an antenna or conduit for the divine power of life that permeates the universe. The amulet is a powerful talisman that provides the wearer with protection from the evil forces of decay and degeneration.

The loop of the Ankh is held by the Gods. It is associated with Isis and Osiris in the Early Dynastic Period. The Loop of the Anhk also represent the feminine discipline or the (Womb), while the elongated section represent the masculine discipline or the (Penis). These two sacred units then come together and form life. Because of its powerful appeal, the Ankh was used in various religious and cultural rituals involving royalty. In the Treasures of Tutankhumun, the Ankh was a major artifact found in the tomb. The circle symbolizes eternal life and the cross below it represents the material plane. The Ankh is called the "Crux Ansata," it is of Egyptian origin and can be traced to the Early Dynastic Period, appearing frequently in artwork of various material and in relief, depicting the Gods.

It is usually held to the nose of the deceased king by the Gods to represent the breath of life given in the after-world. The Ankh also resembles a key and is considered the key to eternal life after death. Its influence was felt in every dynastic period and survives as an icon possessing mystical power throughout the Coptic Christian era. The Ankh possessed by each God had power associated with that God. The Ankh of the God Anubis is related to the protection of the dead, that of Sekmet, War, Hapi related to the living waters of the Nile and Amen, the spirit God, the breath of life.

sick old city

2006-09-08T20:17:00.000-07:00

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I'm a hillbilly. I live up in the mountains. I make moonshine. I got a long gun and I shoot a long ways and I'm God in the holler. I let the women go to church -- gives her something to do, you know -- but I know who God is and I know who Jesus is and I know who the devil is, and I don't really need anything on the flatland because the mountain holds the light. But when the mountains are dying then I got to come down into the flatlands and I got to put the balance in it -- keep them from strip mining and taking down the trees to where there's nothing left.

Let me say this: The South was in balance with the earth. The plantations were in balance with the earth -- contrary to what the movies tell you. They lived on EARTH. It's the money people that didn't live on earth. They lived in the money. The whole North and South war was based on materialism. You can't blame any one people.

I ain't got no aspirations to do nothing, but I know, I see. I'm aware. I understand what God is and I know he lives in man. If we don't wake up pretty soon, there's gonna be nothing left to wake up to.

It's like the man said, "If you cut those trees down, your children are not gonna survive."
The other guy said, "Let them worry about that. I need the money now."

When the government was formed and the Constitution wrote there was only 13 states and so many million people. Now you've got 250, 300 million. If you fill up a ballpark and see 50,000 people, that's a lot of people. Now fill it up three times a day, every day for seven days, and then pretty soon it would take you six lifetimes to see all them people.

I had a little monkey
And I sent him to the country
And I fed him on gingerbread
Long come a choo-choo
And knocked my monkey cuckoo
And now my monkey's dead

Pretty girl pretty pretty girl
Cease to exist
Just come and say you love me
Give up your world

pentagram

2006-09-08T20:01:00.000-07:00

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Abraxas

A term used by the Basilideans, a Gnostic sect of the second century, designating the Supreme Being or god whom they worshipped. They believed that Jesus Christ emanated from Abraxas and was a phantom while here on earth. They believed the name contained great mysteries because it contained the seven Greek letters when computed numerically equaled the number 365, which is the number of days in the year. It was further believed that Abraxas commanded 365 gods, each possessing a virtue, so there was a virtue for each day of the year.

However, older mythologists place Abraxas among the Egyptian gods, while some demonologists cite him to be a demon with the head of a king and serpents forming his feet. He has been represented on amulets with a whip in his hand. The mystic word abracadabra was derived from his name. Many stones and gems were cut with his capricious symbolic markings, such as a human body having a fowl's or lion's heads, and snakes as limbs, which were worn by the Basilideans as amulets. Also, a favorite amulet bore the number 365.

Later Gnostic symbols were adopted by many societies devoted to magic and alchemy.
"The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Who would be born first must destroy a world. The bird flies to God. That God's name is Abraxas" - Hermann Hesse, Demian

Tertullian

'Afterwards broke out the heretic Basilides. He affirms that there is a supreme Deity, by name Abraxas, by whom was created Mind, which in Greek he calls Nous; that thence sprang the Word; that of Him issued Providence, Virtue, and Wisdom; that out of these subsequently were made Principalities, powers, and Angels; that there ensued infinite issues and processions of angels; that by these angels 365 heavens were formed, and the world, in honour of Abraxas, whose name, if computed, has in itself this number. Now, among the last of the angels, those who made this world, he places the God of the Jews latest, that is, the God of the Law and of the Prophets, whom he denies to be a God, but affirms to be an angel. To him, he says, was allotted the seed of Abraham, and accordingly he it was who transferred the sons of Israel from the land of Egypt into the land of Canaan; affirming him to be turbulent above the other angels, and accordingly given to the frequent arousing of seditions and wars, yes, and the shedding of human blood. Christ, moreover, he affirms to have been sent, not by this maker of the world, but by the above-named Abraxas; and to have come in a phantasm, and been destitute of the substance of flesh: that it was not He who suffered among the Jews, but that Simon was crucified in His stead: whence, again, there must be no believing on him who was crucified, lest one confess to having believed on Simon. Martyrdoms, he says, are not to be endured. The resurrection of the flesh he strenuously impugns, affirming that salvation has not been promised to bodies.'
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Carl Jung (The Seven Sermons to the Dead)

"Abraxas speaketh that hallowed and accursed word which is life and death at the same time. Abraxas begetteth truth and lying, good and evil, light and darkness in the same word and in the same act. Wherefore is Abraxas terrible."
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E. A. Wallis Budge

"Abrasax represented the 365 Aeons or emanations from the First Cause, and as a Pantheus, i.e. All-God, he appears on the amulets with the head of a cock (Phoebus) or of a lion (Ra or Mithras), the body of a man, and his legs are serpents which terminate in scorpions, types of the Agathodaimon. In his right hand he grasps a club, or a flail, and in his left is a round or oval shield”

pentagram

2006-09-08T19:21:00.000-07:00

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pentagram

2006-09-08T19:19:00.000-07:00

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Originally uploaded by babajiwotan.

This was a right hand of a murderer that was severed while the corpse was still hanging from the gallows. It was then used as a charm or in black magic practices after being magically perserved. It is also believed robbers often used the hand when breaking into buildings and homes.

Preferably the hand was cut off during the eclipse of the moon. Afterwards it was wrapped in a shroud, squeezed of blood and pickled for two weeks in an earthenware jar with salt, long peppers and saltpeter. Then it was either dried in an oven with vervain, an herb believed to be able to ward off demands, or laid out to dry in the sun, desirably in the hot dog days of August.

When the hand was ready, candles were fitted on it between the fingers. These were called the "dead man's candles" were made from another murderer's fat, with the wick being made from his hair.

Another method of curing the severed and dried hand was dip it in wax. After this process the fingers themselves could be lit.

The hand with burning candles or fingers was shocking when coming at people. It froze them in their tracks and rendered them speechless. Burglars lit the hand before entering homes. A warning sign was that if the thumb would not light it meant there was someone in the house who could not be charmed or made afraid. It was believed once the hand was lit nothing but milk could extinguish it.

Homeowners attempted to fight back. To combat the hand of glory all sorts of ointments were smeared on the thresholds. The compositions of these various ointments consisted of everything from the blood of screech owls, the fat of white hens, or the bowl of black cats. Perhaps these concoctions worked if they were slimy enough to trip up the burglars.

The hand of glory was linked to witches during the witch-hunt period. There are two noted incidences. One, in 1588, of two German women, Nichel and Bessers, that were accused of witchcraft and exhuming corpses. They admitted poisoning helpless people after lighting the hands of glory to immobilize them. John Fian, after being severely tortured during his witch trial in Scotland in 1590, confessed to using a hand of glory to break into a church where he performed a ceremony to the devil.

The term the "hand of glory" is believed to be derived from the French "main de glorie" or "mandrogore" and be related to the legends of the mandrake. The mandrake plant was believed to grow under the gallows of the hanged man.

OmegaMan

2006-09-08T17:21:00.000-07:00

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Originally uploaded by babajiwotan.

I voyaged to the City to see the Chapel of Sacred mirrors. What a hive that place is! Amazing art and drumming and dancing and people. Many of them coming from Burning man and espousing the'burning man conciousness".

As the full moon passes and the world is slipping into the fall I feel myself becoming more withdrawn and completative. Learning and studying the tao. Trying to figure out my next move.

Princess of the Azure Clouds

2006-09-04T16:31:00.000-07:00

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Originally uploaded by babajiwotan.

Who is she?
SHe's a clown who rides into town in a coffin.
In the cafe where there's three crows
she's laughing
what a vibration
Who is she?
She's Nowhere to be found
From the Land of Slight of Hand
and candy
Laughing running around
Is she controlled by remote?

Burning Person

2006-09-04T16:25:00.000-07:00

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Originally uploaded by babajiwotan.

We can't see God when we think we know what God will look like.

Buddies

2006-09-04T16:23:00.000-07:00

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Originally uploaded by babajiwotan.

Here's some buddies. Im teaching them Hapkido in exchange for wisdom and hilarity.

Revolution

2006-09-01T20:03:00.000-07:00

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Originally uploaded by The Stranger.

Communism is an ideology that seeks to establish a future classless, stateless social organization, based upon common ownership of the means of production and the absence of private property.

Communism can be classified as a branch of the broader socialist movement. It also refers to a variety of political movements which claim the establishment of such a social organization as their ultimate goal. Early forms of human social organization have been described as 'primitive communism' by Marxists. However, communism as a political goal generally is a conjectured form of future social organization.

The notion of communism has a history long predating Marx and Engels. In ancient Greece the idea of communism was connected to a myth about the "golden age" of humanity, when society lived in full harmony, before the development of private property. Some have argued that Plato's The Republic and works by other ancient political theorists advocated communism in the form of communal living, and that various early Christian sects, in particular the early Church, as recorded in Acts of the Apostles, and indigenous tribes in the pre-Columbian Americas practiced communism in the form of communal living and common ownership. Christian communism espouses the idea that Christianity was meant to be communist in nature.

In his 1516 treatise Utopia, Thomas More portrayed a society based on common ownership of property, whose leaders administered it through the application of reason. François Rabelais also described such a utopian society through the mythic Abbey of Thélème. In the 17th century, communist thought arguably surfaced again in England. Eduard Bernstein, in his 1895 Cromwell and Communism [3] argued that several groupings in the English Civil War, especially the Diggers (or "True Levellers") espoused clear communistic, agrarian ideals, and that Oliver Cromwell's attitude to these groups was at best ambivalent and often hostile.[1]

Criticism of the idea of private property continued into the Enlightenment era of the 18th century, through such thinkers as Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

The word "communist" itself was coined in 1840 by Goodwyn Barmby, after the French word communisme, while discussing the egalitarianism associated with Gracchus Babeuf, one of the most radical participants in the 1789 French Revolution, and the Abbé Constant. A correspondent of Engels, Goodwyn Barmby himself founded the London Communist Propaganda Society in 1841. "Utopian socialism", a term itself coined by Marx in contrast with "scientific socialism" (a term coined by Engels), designed all utopian writings and foundation of settlements by writers such as Robert Owen, Charles Fourier, and Saint-Simon.

Karl Marx saw primitive communism as the original hunter-gatherer state of mankind from which it arose. When humanity was capable of producing surplus, private property developed, society became unequal, resulting in classical society, and then to the feudal mode of production, to its current state of capitalism reached by a violent primitive accumulation of capital, which in part depended on the development of mercantilism. He then proposed that the next step in social evolution would be a return to communism, but at a higher level than when mankind had originally practiced primitive communism (in accordance with the influence of Hegel's dialectic on Marx).

In its contemporary form, communism grew out of the workers' movement of 19th century Europe. At the time, as the Industrial Revolution advanced, socialist critics blamed capitalism for creating a new class of unskilled, urban factory workers who labored under harsh conditions, and for widening the gulf between rich and poor.

On the Path to the Palace of Abundance

2006-08-30T16:31:00.000-07:00

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Originally uploaded by babajiwotan.

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

2006-08-30T16:29:00.000-07:00

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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

2006-08-27T14:05:00.000-07:00

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Originally uploaded by The Stranger.

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

2006-08-22T10:43:00.000-07:00

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Originally uploaded by The Stranger.

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

2006-08-21T16:46:00.000-07:00

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Originally uploaded by The Stranger.

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

2006-08-19T17:58:00.000-07:00

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Originally uploaded by The Stranger.

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

2006-08-19T17:46:00.000-07:00

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Originally uploaded by The Stranger.

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

2006-08-19T07:27:00.000-07:00

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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

2006-08-17T22:05:00.000-07:00

Conjuror
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

2006-08-15T21:07:00.000-07:00

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Originally uploaded by The Stranger.

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

2006-08-15T20:54:00.000-07:00

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Originally uploaded by The Stranger.

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

2006-08-13T08:48:00.000-07:00

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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

2006-08-13T08:43:00.000-07:00

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Originally uploaded by The Stranger.

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

In defence of My Stone Age principles:

2006-08-11T07:10:00.000-07:00

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Originally uploaded by The Stranger.

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

2006-08-06T07:46:00.000-07:00

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Originally uploaded by The Stranger.

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

2006-08-05T21:00:00.000-07:00

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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

2006-08-04T14:53:00.000-07:00

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Originally uploaded by The Stranger.

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

2006-08-04T14:41:00.000-07:00

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Originally uploaded by The Stranger.

Echinacia

2006-08-02T07:23:00.000-07:00

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Originally uploaded by The Stranger.

Yellow Flower

2006-08-02T07:21:00.000-07:00

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Originally uploaded by The Stranger.

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

2006-08-01T08:19:00.000-07:00

Blind Nude and Satyr
Originally uploaded by The Stranger.

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

La-La land

2006-07-29T10:32:00.000-07:00

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Originally uploaded by The Stranger.

Hi, here I am and there's my cave in the background. This place is stupendous. In return for 25 hours of easy work a week I get:
1. all the healthiest food and juice that I can drink
2. access to the weights, tennis court, sauna, beach, kayaks
3. access to the art building including supplies and models to draw
4. access to the best new-age library Ive ever been in
5. free reiki, massage, yoga, chanting, tai chi etc

All the people here are really happy and healthy and they come from all over the world. I look everyone deeply in the eye and everyone is smiling. Truely I must say this week has been one of the best Ive ever had in terms of over all happiness and well being. If anything Im a little too happy!

Ive been talking with my sister and perhaps when Im done here in october Ill move to Toronto for awhile where my feline daughter Yukdugu will meet me from Korean and I can help look after my human niece Sofia.

I took a two hour shiatzu meridian massage class this morning, in a little while Ill be headed to a spiritual healing class and after that Im headed for the art hut to begin work on the two giant oil canvases I stretched the other day.

Im thinking that this place will be a part of my yearly cycle now for many years to come. It seems to me to be an ideal living environment. It's like a commune in that Im not planning on spending a cent the whole time Im here. As soon as money is tottally taken out of your life for awhile everything changes a bit for the better and I think that's reflected in everyone's outlook here.

Truly, all is very well and I hope the same for you.

Omega

2006-07-25T19:46:00.000-07:00

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Originally uploaded by The Stranger.

Wow, Im at the Omega place now here's what I did today:

1. ate healthy food
2. went kayaking
3. excericed and stretched
4. ate healthy food
5. played the guitar
6. played ping pong
7. went for a swim
8. played ultimate frisbee
9. Ate healthy food
10. Celebrated the New Moon

It's like Im at summer camp!

By the way this is a picture by the visionary artist Alex Grey who's giving talks and whatnot here.

Keep up the good work!

Ground Zero

2006-07-24T19:14:00.000-07:00

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Originally uploaded by babajiwotan.

I checked out Ground Zero in order to find out whether or not 9-11 was a hoax. Results were inconclusive.

Zoo York

2006-07-23T09:56:00.000-07:00

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Originally uploaded by babajiwotan.

Whoa my mind is spinning! I wen tto the Museum of modern art and Ive never seen so many famous things and so many beautifull chic people looking at them. Whoa on the top floor there was a special Dada exhibit. I can hardly keep my head on right now. I feel like it's folk fest. A rasta ambassador met me at the bus depot at 6:30 this morning and advised me to be careful because today the terror level is at orange. I read the new york times and it seems as if ragnarok is approaching. I went to Ground Zero and yup, they sure did a number on those towers. Nothing much left at all except for a few flags and a bunch of guys in hard hats smoking cigars and talking in funny dialects. Hopefully I won't blow all my money on sunglasses and italian sausages on the street. The Omega bus is picking me up to take me to the compound at 4:00. I walked through central park. I took a taxi cab. I rode on the subway. Im dressed like a schoolboy.

Farewell Langside Lounge

2006-07-21T01:21:00.000-07:00

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Originally uploaded by babajiwotan.

Wow, I thought Langside was dead 56 years ago.
Who would have thunk that Id be here again and the place would be
more feng shui than ever. How many eons have I been sitting here on
this couch alone with this blue haze and the ghost
the ghost was kind this season only freaking me out a few times
giving me strange dreams
How many times have I been here with my lover and that broken stereo
and the ghost is myself from the past
and the future. I can see the future
yet the present still makes me cry. Although it's invisible
I cry forever.
myself in a past life weaps tears that I drink
out of my jaggermiester bottle now
and the war
is where Im headed

Omega

2006-07-19T21:32:00.000-07:00

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Originally uploaded by babajiwotan.

Wow, it's almost time for me to head for the Omega Institute. The Omega Institute is just outside of New York city and lots of folks go there and study the New Age like yoga and reiki and voodoo and crystals and that sort of thing. Im going down to help out with the stuff there until October. Im going to sort of check out the scene in AMERICA.

Hey did you guys notice that there's a war going on?

Power Rich

2006-07-19T21:27:00.000-07:00

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Originally uploaded by babajiwotan.

Here's me and my buddy Damon. Damon used to have leukemia but I reckon now it's beat. He's good at chess.

Tony

2006-07-19T21:25:00.000-07:00

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Originally uploaded by babajiwotan.

Here's my friend Tony Hisco. He's good at frisbee.

Fun party -2

2006-07-19T21:24:00.000-07:00

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Originally uploaded by babajiwotan.

Whoa man be carefull! You have holes in your pants!