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<title><![CDATA[Boxing Day:The Origin ]]></title>
<link>http://eitherorbored.wordpress.com/2009/12/26/boxing-daythe-origin/</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 26 Dec 2009 22:17:49 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>eitherorbored</dc:creator>
<guid>http://eitherorbored.wordpress.com/2009/12/26/boxing-daythe-origin/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Boxing Day is celebrated on December 26th. It is a public holiday in Grenada. If it falls on a Satur]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><blockquote><p>Boxing Day is celebrated on December 26th. It is a public holiday in Grenada.</p>
<p>If it falls on a Saturday or a Sunday, the working day immediately preceding or following Boxing Day is considered a legal holiday. Many believe, Boxing Day, also known as the Feast of St. Stephen (after the first Christian martyr***) originated in England in the middle of the nineteenth century under Queen Victoria. They said it originated as a holiday for members of the merchant class to give boxes containing food and fruit, clothing, and/or money to trades people and servants.</p>
<p>The gifts were an expression of gratitude similar to the bonuses many employers offer their employees today. These gifts, usually given in boxes, gave the holiday it’s name, “Boxing Day”.</p>
<p>Others say the tradition stem from Roman times when money to pay for athletic games was collected in boxes. Amongst the ruins of Pompeii, boxes made out of earthenware with slits in the top full of coins have been found.</p>
<p>Later the Romans brought the idea of collecting boxes to Britain, and monks and clergy soon used similar boxes to collect money for the poor at Christmas. On the day after Christmas, the priests used to open the boxes and distribute the contents to the poor of the village. Thus this day came to be called Boxing Day.</p></blockquote>
<p>via <a href="http://spicewriter.wordpress.com/2008/12/27/boxing-daythe-origin/">Boxing Day:The Origin « spicewriterpost.com</a>.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[The vast Santanic conspiracy]]></title>
<link>http://eitherorbored.wordpress.com/2009/12/26/the-vast-santanic-conspiracy/</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 26 Dec 2009 22:07:32 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>eitherorbored</dc:creator>
<guid>http://eitherorbored.wordpress.com/2009/12/26/the-vast-santanic-conspiracy/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Christmas may quickly be receeding into the past tense but the interesting christmas related posts k]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>Christmas may quickly be receeding into the past tense but the interesting christmas related posts keep coming!</p>
<blockquote><p>Christian soldiers, marching as to war in the pitched battle for the meaning of Christmas, worry that Santa is a tool of the vast Satanic conspiracy. To be sure, the similarity of their names, identical but for one transposed letter, is provocative. Didn’t Mia Farrow use a Scrabble board, in Rosemary’s Baby, to expose her grandfatherly neighbor with the flyaway eyebrows for the warlock he was, shuffling the letters of his name to reveal his true identity? Could the Religious Wrong be right, just this once? Is Santa the Deceiver’s way of hijacking the Christ child’s birthday? Kriss Kringle is a corruption of the German dialectal Christkindl, “little Christ child.” Were Satan and Santa separated at birth?</p></blockquote>
<p>via <a href="http://www.lasvegasweekly.com/news/2009/dec/24/vast-santanic-conspiracy/">Las Vegas Weekly : &#8211; The vast Santanic conspiracy</a>.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[The Joy of Swik]]></title>
<link>http://eitherorbored.wordpress.com/2009/12/26/the-joy-of-swik/</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 26 Dec 2009 20:17:23 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>eitherorbored</dc:creator>
<guid>http://eitherorbored.wordpress.com/2009/12/26/the-joy-of-swik/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Among the many Winter Festivals that are practised, none is stranger than the Discordian festival of]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><blockquote><p>Among the many Winter Festivals that are practised, none is stranger than the Discordian festival of Swik, pronounced &#8217;swik&#8217; or &#8216;christmas&#8217; – although not to be confused with the Christian festival with the same pronunciation and dates. An ancient Discordian tradition, dating back at least twenty years, states “the joy of Swik is Getting, Shouting, and Passing out”, but it is widely recognised that Swik is a festival to be endured rather than enjoyed (much like a Klingon rite of passage). One does not have to be a Discordian to be participating in Swik&#8230; most people are simply trapped in the festival through no fault of their own.
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<p><a href="http://onlyagame.typepad.com/only_a_game/2009/12/the-joy-of-swik.html">Only a Game: The Joy of Swik</a>.</p>
<p>&#60; <a href="http://www.disinfo.com/2009/12/only-a-game-the-joy-of-swik/">via</a> &#62; </p>
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<title><![CDATA[2012 is Happening Inside You]]></title>
<link>http://shiftoftheage.wordpress.com/2009/12/25/2012-is-happening-inside-you/</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 25 Dec 2009 21:30:19 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Timothy Connolly</dc:creator>
<guid>http://shiftoftheage.wordpress.com/2009/12/25/2012-is-happening-inside-you/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[2012 is Happening Inside You For all the talk of 2012 (what I refer to as the Shift of The Age) comb]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Angels can't fly, scientist says | Telegraph - 23narchy in the UK]]></title>
<link>http://eitherorbored.wordpress.com/2009/12/25/angels-cant-fly-scientist-says-telegraph-23narchy-in-the-uk/</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 25 Dec 2009 15:00:24 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>eitherorbored</dc:creator>
<guid>http://eitherorbored.wordpress.com/2009/12/25/angels-cant-fly-scientist-says-telegraph-23narchy-in-the-uk/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Angels depicted heralding the birth of Jesus in nativity scenes across the world are anatomically fl]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>Angels depicted heralding the birth of Jesus in nativity scenes across the world are anatomically flawed, according to a scientist who claims they would never be able to fly.</p>
<p>via <a href="http://23narchy.com/angels-cant-fly-scientist-says-telegraph-0">Angels can&#8217;t fly, scientist says &#124; Telegraph &#8211; 23narchy in the UK</a>.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Christian Story of Jesus’s Birth Is a Myth Born of Politics | Disinformation]]></title>
<link>http://eitherorbored.wordpress.com/2009/12/25/christian-story-of-jesus%e2%80%99s-birth-is-a-myth-born-of-politics-disinformation/</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 25 Dec 2009 14:50:28 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>eitherorbored</dc:creator>
<guid>http://eitherorbored.wordpress.com/2009/12/25/christian-story-of-jesus%e2%80%99s-birth-is-a-myth-born-of-politics-disinformation/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[The Advent season is a fun time. For many Christians, it is the happiest season of the year. The joy]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><blockquote><p>The Advent season is a fun time. For many Christians, it is the happiest season of the year. The joy comes from the anticipation: “Joy to the world, the Lord has come. Let earth receive her king.”I do not desire to dim the lights of Christmas, but it might be helpful to some to hear what the stories of Jesus birth are really about.There are four versions of the life of Jesus. We call them the Gospels: Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. Only two of the versions say anything about the birth of Jesus.Mark, the first of the Gospels, begins the Jesus story with Jesus as an adult. John, the last Gospel written, likewise says nothing about the birth of Jesus. Matthew tells the birth story in only a few short paragraphs. Luke’s version of the beginnings of Jesus is four times as long as that of Matthew.Those two versions are very different. Luke plays with a much larger cast. His flair for the dramatic is pronounced. He includes an abundance of poetry and music with the support of angelic hosts.Reconciling the two versions has been tried by many, but never with success. They are two different stories. They each have their own distinctive version of the events that surrounded the birth of Jesus.</p>
<p>via <a href="http://www.disinfo.com/2009/12/christian-story-of-jesuss-birth-is-a-myth-born-of-politics/">Christian Story of Jesus’s Birth Is a Myth Born of Politics &#124; Disinformation</a>.</p></blockquote>
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<title><![CDATA[The European Union Unmasked]]></title>
<link>http://eitherorbored.wordpress.com/2009/12/22/the-european-union-unmasked/</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 22 Dec 2009 14:33:20 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>eitherorbored</dc:creator>
<guid>http://eitherorbored.wordpress.com/2009/12/22/the-european-union-unmasked/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[In replying to a comment left on my recent post concerning news that Britain is stuck in its worst e]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>In replying to <a href="http://eitherorbored.wordpress.com/2009/12/22/britain-mired-in-longest-deepest-postwar-recession/#comment-92">a comment left</a> on <a href="http://eitherorbored.wordpress.com/2009/12/22/britain-mired-in-longest-deepest-postwar-recession/">my recent post</a> concerning news that Britain is stuck in its worst economic depression since before world war 2 I was reminded of an essay i read by conservative british journalist <a href="http://www.lindsayjenkins.com/" target="new">Lindsay Jenkins</a> concerning the structure of the European Union. It appeared in the disinformation company book &#8220;<a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Everything-You-Know-Wrong-Disinformation/dp/0971394202" target="new">Everything you know is wrong</a>&#8220;.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve tried to find a htmlified copy of the essay to no avail. <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=T75G7hLlk80C&#38;lpg=PP1&#38;pg=PA51#v=onepage&#38;q=&#38;f=false" target="new">Google Books does have the whole thing scanned</a> though.</p>
<p>Interestingly, the english wikipedia page on Lindsay Jenkins has been deleted but is available on the dutch version. <a href="http://translate.google.co.uk/translate?hl=en&#38;sl=nl&#38;u=http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindsay_Jenkins&#38;ei=GdUwS5beN8TKjAffprHSAg&#38;sa=X&#38;oi=translate&#38;ct=result&#38;resnum=2&#38;ved=0CAwQ7gEwAQ&#38;prev=/search%3Fq%3Dwiki%2BLindsay%2BJenkins%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-GB:official%26hs%3DFPl%26sa%3DG" target="new">Here it is translated</a>. It doesn&#8217;t really say much.</p>
<p>Oh yeah, don&#8217;t try and make guesses about where i stand politically based on this post, because you&#8217;ll fail miserably. <img src='http://s.wordpress.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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<title><![CDATA[The Great Dance]]></title>
<link>http://apathtoforever.wordpress.com/2009/12/21/the-great-dance/</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 22 Dec 2009 04:31:37 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Louis</dc:creator>
<guid>http://apathtoforever.wordpress.com/2009/12/21/the-great-dance/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Day after day they traveled. From all parts of the Earth they came. Even some special groups from an]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>Day after day they traveled. From all parts of the Earth they came. Even some special groups from another galaxy. Their destination…a very secluded and carefully shielded location in the mountains and forests of northwest Arkansas.</p>
<p>It may have been the biggest gathering of the “Wee People” in the known history of this planet. Thousands of them were in attendance.</p>
<p>As the time for the great celebration of the Winter Solstice drew near they all converged on the huge ring in the forest and began their dance. It continued for several hours as they slowly raised a special energy.</p>
<p>When the energy reached its peak all the participants, in unison, made a series of intricate gestures which directed the energy deep into Mother Earth.</p>
<p>Having accomplished their task the “Wee People” dispersed and within less than a minute not a one was anywhere to be seen.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Christianity - 'tis all around us]]></title>
<link>http://magicoftheordinary.wordpress.com/2009/12/22/christianity-tis-all-around-us/</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 22 Dec 2009 03:56:33 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Peregrin</dc:creator>
<guid>http://magicoftheordinary.wordpress.com/2009/12/22/christianity-tis-all-around-us/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[A couple of weeks ago magician Lon Milo DuQuette posted an anti-Christmas and anti-Christian song on]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Predictive Programming Part 1]]></title>
<link>http://scatattack.wordpress.com/2009/12/21/predictive-programming-part-1/</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 21 Dec 2009 20:57:06 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Scat</dc:creator>
<guid>http://scatattack.wordpress.com/2009/12/21/predictive-programming-part-1/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[THIS IS THE FIRST PART OF MANY IN A SERIES ON THE SUBJECT PREDICTIVE PROGRAMMING. Predictive program]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>THIS IS THE FIRST PART OF MANY IN A SERIES ON THE SUBJECT PREDICTIVE PROGRAMMING.</p>
<p>Predictive programming, what is it? It&#8217;s a technique used to subconsciously implant thoughts or ideas into ones head over a period of time to help shape ones view of the coming world around them. The elite running this world are Fabian Socialists, which means they implement their agenda slowly through many generations. They found that through forms of entertainment such as fictional books, music and especially tv shows/movies that humans are much more susceptable to outside influences. While we are being entertained our critical thinking process shuts off and we fall into an almost hypnotic trance like state. The ideal condition for programming our minds for the coming changes the elite intend to bring throughout society. We are given this &#8220;accidental&#8221; view of history through the predictive progamming techniques. We never look back at history and think why out of all the infinite possiblities did history follow this or that path. We never ask what was it behind those events in history that caused them to happen. And that&#8217;s all by design. The elite of this world are control freaks. They have their hands in every pot on this planet. Think about this for a minute, why do we call the body of rock we live on floating through space a planet. the answer should become more evident as we go on.</p>
<p>As I was saying, the elite of this world are control freaks. They are deathly scared of anything outside of their grasp. They must have total control in order to keep their agenda running. They cant afford to have any &#8220;X&#8221; factors in this world. &#8220;X&#8221; factors are the unpredictables, the rebels, the ones outside the control system that threatens to disrupt all the control mechanisms that keep the masses inline and ignorant of the world around them. Any time an &#8220;X&#8221; factor pops up its either instantly subverted and taken over by the elite or squashed out of existence as quickly as possible to prevent the elite from losing control over us (the profane or useless eaters. Just 2 of the many lovely names they have for us at the bottom).</p>
<p>We are given this superficial view of history and the world around us and told everything is just accidental. Which couldn&#8217;t be farther from the truth. These Fabians work in long term agendas, planning things 10, 20, 50, sometimes even 100 years into the future. They are able to plan that far into the future easily because well, there&#8217;s no guess work involved in which way the world is gonna move when you are the ones that are in control of the way it moves in the first place. And that all made possible by predictive programming.</p>
<p>Now you still may not be sure what I mean by predictive programming. You probably want some more explanation and examples. Well, that&#8217;s not a problem.</p>
<p>Think about the last movie you saw or the last song you listened to. Did you think about it or analyze what is being presented to you through it or did you just sit there and just shut off your brain and just enjoy it? No need to lie, we both know that about 99.9% of the time (I&#8217;m just as guilty as you are of this) you shut off your brain and enjoyed it. Thats predictive programming. The subliminal indoctrination of the masses into a certain agenda through the use of hidden messages and symbols through various forms of communication/education/entertainment.</p>
<p>See Hollywood is a highly fraternal place. All the big movers and shakers there, all the big stars and celebrities we are conditioned to worship and see being superior to us, are all members of some sort of secret order, the most prominent one being Freemasonry. When you understand the purpose of these secret orders and who are members, and the things pushed by those specific people through various form of entertainment  it becomes even more clear.</p>
<p>The name Hollywood is symbolism in itself. The wood of a Holly tree or Holly-wood is used as the staff or wand in many occult rituals/spells  in these secret orders. So when you hear the phrase &#8220;movie magic&#8221; its just a esoteric (or hidden) symbolism for these secret orders and the spells (predictive programming) they cast upon the profane (you and me) through music, television and movies to guide society in certain directions and create certain elements in our culture that weren&#8217;t present before.</p>
<p>All the latest trends, hip bands, cool clothes, tv shows and movies, anything and everything, whatever you can think of, its all been given to us by design. There is nothing in this world that exists that hasn&#8217;t been authorized to exist. And it only exists for a purpose. These psychopaths at the top don&#8217;t just give us stuff cause they are being nice and think &#8220;hey! this would be really nice for all the slaves at the bottom&#8221;. The world doesn&#8217;t work like that. It&#8217;s all given to us for the specific purpose of  subconsciously indoctrinating us into slowly accepting the idea of a New World Order or a scientifically controlled socialist-eugenics one world government.</p>
<p>The more you research these topics the more evident it becomes. There&#8217;s too much information to cover to write it all in this blog. It would take me many many years and many many books of writing to explain it all. What I&#8217;m presenting is just a condensed surface view of the world around us. In the next few posts on this subject (predictive programming) I&#8217;m going to be posting a bunch of videos that shows all the hidden symbolism and indoctrination into this new world order control grid through the world of entertainment and Hollywood.</p>
<p>Last but not least I&#8217;d like to personally thank Alan Watt (<a href="http://cuttingthroughthematrix.com/" target="_blank">cuttingthroughthematrix.com</a>). A lot of the information I&#8217;m presenting in this predictive programming series I learned from him. I encourage you all to please visit his website <a href="http://cuttingthroughthematrix.com/" target="_blank">cuttingthroughthematrix.com</a> and buy his books and send him donations and make sure you tune into his daily show. Thank you Alan for all your years of hard work and putting all the pieces together making it easier for us to understand the bigger picture.</p>
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<link>http://jonesthought.wordpress.com/2009/12/19/god-damn-religion/</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 19 Dec 2009 06:15:55 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>jonesthought</dc:creator>
<guid>http://jonesthought.wordpress.com/2009/12/19/god-damn-religion/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[&#8220;For centuries, man has used organized religion to control the hearts and minds (not to mentio]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The Known Universe by AMNH]]></title>
<link>http://jonesthought.wordpress.com/2009/12/19/the-known-universe-by-amnh/</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 19 Dec 2009 06:07:57 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>jonesthought</dc:creator>
<guid>http://jonesthought.wordpress.com/2009/12/19/the-known-universe-by-amnh/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[The Known Universe takes viewers from the Himalayas through our atmosphere and the inky black of spa]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Timewave Zero and the 2012 Convergence]]></title>
<link>http://shiftoftheage.wordpress.com/2009/12/18/timewave-zero-and-the-2012-convergence/</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 19 Dec 2009 02:09:58 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Timothy Connolly</dc:creator>
<guid>http://shiftoftheage.wordpress.com/2009/12/18/timewave-zero-and-the-2012-convergence/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Timewave Zero and the 2012 Convergence In a follow up to my book review post on Fractal Time by Greg]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Paraffinpunk: A Media Underground Manifesto]]></title>
<link>http://eitherorbored.wordpress.com/2009/12/18/paraffinpunk-a-media-underground-manifesto/</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 12:30:22 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>eitherorbored</dc:creator>
<guid>http://eitherorbored.wordpress.com/2009/12/18/paraffinpunk-a-media-underground-manifesto/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[*snippity* *snip* *snip* For years we had bleak visionaries like William Gibson telling us of a dyst]]></description>
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<blockquote><p>For years we had bleak visionaries like William Gibson telling us of a dystopian Cyberpunk future &#8211; a high tech, low life world which is pretty much happening all over the first world right now only not quite as high tech and a little more leaning towards the low life. Then along came the delusional Steampunk movement with its laughable, watered down, gothic obsession for Victorian aesthetics &#8211; its devotees dressing up in gimpy Victorian garb and making modern technology seem more visually appealing by sticking the screen of a laptop inside a brass frame that used to house a sepia toned photo of your great grandmother.</p>
<p>Forget all that jibberish. It’s entirely useless I say.</p>
<p>The future is Paraffinpunk!</p>
<p>So impressed am I with paraffin that I’ve decided to start my own subculture, only unlike Steampunk, Paraffinpunk is actually useful and not at all based on fantasy and speculative fiction. Sure you can still wear crazy goggles if you want to, but not for any aesthetic purposes you must understand. When tinkering around with paraffin under pressure and methylated spirits to prep a vaporiser, you’re maybe gonna want to wear goggles just in case of flame-out.</p>
<p>Paraffinpunk is not about fashion, ladies and gentlemen, it’s about survival. Sure, a lot of paraffinalia can be aesthetically pleasing, but it’s also bloody useful and nothing maintains that whole punk rock ethic more than when you switch off your electricity for good and fire up a Tilley Stormlight &#8211; flipping the bird in anarchistic defiance to the overpriced power supplying conglomerates.</p>
<p>Paraffin is still relatively cheap. Shop around, and if you buy in bulk, you might get it for as little as 60 pence a litre. But even if it is more expensive, it’s still worth it, for paraffin is bloody efficient. Take the Tilley Stormlight, for example. For a pint and a half of &#8216;future fuel&#8217; aka paraffin you’ll get up to 12 hours of heat and light. That’s remarkable.</p>
<p>Shit, you can even run a diesel powered automobile on paraffin, and it turns out it’s actually better for the engine since it prevents winter waxing from occurring. The only difference between your summer grade diesel and winter grade diesel is that the latter has more paraffin in it. Fact.</p></blockquote>
<p><a href="http://www.media-underground.net/site/index.php?/archives/1431-guid.html#extended">Paraffinpunk: A Media Underground Manifesto<br />
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<title><![CDATA[Tarot Readings... YOU NAME THE PRICE!]]></title>
<link>http://emcphd.wordpress.com/2009/12/17/428/</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 02:13:42 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Rev. E.M. Camarena</dc:creator>
<guid>http://emcphd.wordpress.com/2009/12/17/428/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[I know that we are all jaded by advertising these days but I am making you a truly GREAT offer]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p style="text-align:justify;">I know that we are all jaded by advertising these days but I am making you a truly GREAT offer&#8230;</p>
<div id="attachment_29" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 241px"><a href="http://home.earthlink.net/~emcphd"><img class="size-medium wp-image-29" title="minister-portrait-oval-aged1" src="http://emcphd.wordpress.com/files/2008/12/minister-portrait-oval-aged1.jpg?w=231" alt="" width="231" height="300" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Click Here For My Website! And LOTS OF FREE STUFF! NO FINES!!</p></div>
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<p>How much would you pay for a 30 minute <strong>COMPLETELY PRIVATE</strong> Tarot Reading? How&#8217;s this for a price: <span style="text-decoration:underline;"><strong>Pay whatever you want to pay!</strong></span> Want to pay $5? Want to pay a couple of thousand? <strong>YOU PAY<span style="font-weight:normal;"><strong> WHATEVER YOU WANT!</strong> Any price is fine with me! You get the reading and I trust you to pop the payment my way as a donation. My suggested donation? Uh, ten million bucks. Want to pay less than that? Then <em>Pay Whatever You Want to Pay!</em></span></strong></p>
<p>People say, &#8220;How can you trust people to pay you?&#8221;<br />
Hey, if I get stiffed I just don&#8217;t read for that person again. So WHO gets cheated? <em>ME or them?</em></p>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p><span style="color:#ff0000;"><strong>First off I would like to point out that Alan Watt has nothing to do with this blog. What’s below is just a transcript from his radio show “Cutting Through The Matrix” on the Republic Broadcasting Network. I encourage you all to please visit his website<strong> &#8220;</strong></strong><strong><a href="http://http://cuttingthroughthematrix.com/" target="_blank">cuttingthroughthematrix.com</a>&#8220;, send a donation his way as well as buy his books and videos. Also make sure you subscribe to his free daily podcast/radio show.</strong><strong> This man truly is the modern day Library of Alexandria. Trust me you don&#8217;t want to miss a single word he has to say.</strong></span></p>
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<p><strong>ALAN WATTS SHOW TRANSCRIPT FROM 04-01-09; CALLERS QUESTIONS</strong></p>
<p>Now, there&#8217;s a long-distance caller from Jordan, on the phone, it&#8217;s Reduan. I&#8217;ll take him right now, as it&#8217;s very expensive. Hello Reduan, are you there?</p>
<p>Reduan: Yes, hello, how are you?</p>
<p>Alan: I&#8217;m surviving, how are you doing?</p>
<p>Reduan: I&#8217;m ok, yes, I&#8217;m ok; I made it to get out of my bed.</p>
<p>Alan: Are you back in Jordan now? You&#8217;re back home now? Because, I know you went to Europe there, to visit someone.</p>
<p>Reduan: No, I didn&#8217;t go yet, it&#8217;s in May that I&#8217;m going.</p>
<p>Alan: You&#8217;re going. Do you have any questions?</p>
<p>Reduan: In May, I will stay two months. Yes, yesterday, I was reading the article on the convict execution organ harvesting van that they have introduced in China.</p>
<p>Alan: What did you think of it?</p>
<p>Reduan: The first thing I thought about was an ancient people that was called Gog and Magog, you know about them. I read some on Wikipedia you know, every world religion has its own view on this folk, so do you know something about them that&#8217;s not conventional thing?</p>
<p>Alan: You&#8217;re talking about the battle; again, there&#8217;s always a story to do with a battle between forces, even going back through Zoroastrianism, and even earlier, they talk about the opposing forces of good and evil, and Gog and Magog, and they also tie that in with the Old Testament. The Old Testament took a lot of stuff from pre-existing ancient mythology or religion and also added it into their own, so, it&#8217;s to do with final battles, always good and evil; the eternal battles you might say. They still say the final one is still to come; and you’ll find this with ancient Persian histories too. The Persians really were so far ahead with this whole idea of a clash between heaven and hell or earth at one time that changed the whole universe when supernatural forces were unleashed. That&#8217;s the basis of most religions, from that area. They say that it never ended, that another clash would come, that&#8217;s what often Christians would say, the ones who believe in Revelation, that the final battle is still to come. Apparently, according to old Persian folklore, nothing was ever the same after that clash, it changed physically everything in the universe and that everything that&#8217;s alive today is a poor copy, you might say, of that which once was, man, trees, everything, animals too. So, it&#8217;s an extensive ancient history, written in various tongues, but mainly from the old Persian region.</p>
<p>Reduan: OK, thanks for your comment on that one.</p>
<p>Alan: Yes, thanks for calling. I mean who&#8217;s to say? Because the old story was that heaven and hell, hell doesn&#8217;t have to be somewhere else and often they would say that which happened in the world was hell and if the kingdom of heaven is within you, then so is the kingdom of hell; that&#8217;s your choice, in a sense. And we certainly have no problem looking at the hell that&#8217;s going around the world, with mass slaughter and high-tech slaughter etc, as they get better at killing people.  People can actually kill people remotely, by sitting in some US base in America, while drones are flown by them &#8211; using computers &#8211; that blast people in their homes, in some other country. It&#8217;s all done <em>hygienically</em>, as they like to say in socialism, they&#8217;re good at killing people hygienically and efficiently, without the human fall-out of those that have to put the bullets in the head; it&#8217;s much more cleaner to do it from a distance. So, hell is present all around us.</p>
<p>There&#8217;s also Kyle from Connecticut, are you there Kyle? Hello? No.</p>
<p>Kyle: How you doin&#8217; Alan?</p>
<p>Alan: You&#8217;re there, go ahead.</p>
<p>Kyle: It&#8217;s good to hear somebody talking about Persian folklore and I was wondering: you know there is only one order that runs this planet and there are very few rebel forces and you know, folklore. I read somewhere that Barack was a winged horse that Mohammed rode to the Seventh Heaven, accompanied by Gabriel, the Archangel and I wonder what your thoughts were on that.</p>
<p>Alan: The whole Seven Heavens idea is, as you know, it’s absolutely ancient; but it&#8217;s also to do with the degrees of societies that existed, even in those days. They also talk about Enoch as well who went through the journey up to the Seven heavens, but it&#8217;s also degrees, and you become as white as snow, that was the standard version of it, meaning you were purified. You&#8217;ll find that in modern Masonry, for instance, where they wear their white gloves, they&#8217;ve got to be white and they wear their white apron, so they can stand in front of the great white throne, in the final judgement etc. It&#8217;s the same idea that is very-very ancient, it went up through Mithraism and so on, and to the general public that listen to these fascinating stories and literally &#8211; you see &#8211; if you talk in a picturesque language, and that&#8217;s how holy books especially, say the Old Testament of the West is written, you can get the exoteric story and you will picture it in your mind, if you&#8217;re a child, you will picture people wandering through deserts and so on. Once that happens, you can&#8217;t see the esoteric that lies within it; that&#8217;s a technique that is used. It was used to its incredible full extent, a long time ago. They don&#8217;t use that so much today, because they use movies.  The idea of going of going up to seventh heaven was really the old seven degrees of ancient times, based on the seven planets that they knew of at that time as well.</p>
<p>Kyle: I&#8217;ve read some controversy about the Dome of the Rock and Al-Aqsa Mosque and the confusion between the two and it&#8217;s interesting when you say Al-Aqsa backwards and you know, where did Mohammed supposedly rise to heaven, was it at the Dome of the Rock or Al-Aqsa Mosque?</p>
<p>Alan: That&#8217;s kind of up in the air, but it&#8217;s the same thing, even the Hebrew write histories because there are professors now in Israel, in the universities, in fact, a book just came out recently by a top journalist that was lauded by these professors, who say that there was no Solomon etc, it was mythology and they agree too that if there was an original Temple of Solomon, it was not where this present one is. We know that one was built under Herod and it didn&#8217;t last that long.</p>
<p>Kyle: Even the Pillar of Jacob?</p>
<p>Alan: The Pillar of Jacob, again, is esoteric &#8211; you have to get beyond the picture and into the esoteric to understand it &#8211; it&#8217;s a ladder to heaven basically, that also was done in Egypt, where they had the four pillars and the ladder going up to heaven. These are very-very old religions that borrow from each other, as they transmutate into a new empire down the road. You&#8217;ll notice, down through history, the elite never disappear, they simply move; it doesn&#8217;t matter if they&#8217;re wearing the clothes of Egypt or Egyptian Pharaohs at one time, with their little apron on, or moving into another country and using a different kind of hat, they never perish. The same in ancient Rome, the elite know well in advance what&#8217;s coming down the pike and they move on. We see that especially in the Middle Ages, where the bankers and those who owned the seas, because of their fleets of ships, they moved from one country to another in Europe, until they eventually settled in Holland and in England. This is standard stuff, all down through history. They generally like to surround themselves with water; they did the same thing in ancient Babylon: they would literally alter the course of a river and make a man-made island in the middle and that became their capital. You see the same thing with Venice: Venice was artificially-created by massive fills into the sea. Why the same symbology? It was the same elite that came down through the ages, that&#8217;s why; and with them comes incredible histories of societies / empires that come and go, countries that rise and fall, and they never throw the histories away. However, we definitely know there&#8217;s an agenda at work and they do know where they&#8217;re going; and under the clever disguise of right wing and left wing, as I say, it&#8217;s a one party system. They do believe the world is theirs, they do believe they are the most evolved people on the planet. And Darwin put that out himself, he said that those from different races who can rise to the top of their own particular race, are accepted in as being more evolved; but those who would not mimic the white man, and his economy especially, would have to be eliminated; that&#8217;s still going on today. It doesn&#8217;t matter if you&#8217;re Chinese or you&#8217;re black American, as long as you&#8217;ve come to the top, you&#8217;re now in the club, your genes are superior, although the people you came from are left behind and they must perish; that&#8217;s part of this elitist doctrine that is taught and preached amongst those who run the establishment.</p>
<p>Kyle: They&#8217;re just trying to get everybody to accept their system. And I think it&#8217;s funny, I think it&#8217;s on the $20 bill, the eagle is from behind the shield and standing on top of it; and that&#8217;s the Federal Reserve symbol.</p>
<p>Alan: Yes, it is; but the eagle is also, I don&#8217;t think the Americans even know, if you look at the symbol of Rothschild, his coat of arms, along with the fable they give us, they give us a fable of his copying a shield, its nonsense, that&#8217;s nonsense. There&#8217;s a symbol in that shield, if you enlarge it of the eagle and the eagle has a shield and the eagle is holding an olive branch in one hand, just like the US one, you see, and the spear is in another; and obviously there&#8217;s the five ones for this and five for that, for the offspring of old Amschel Rothschild. It&#8217;s more than that because that was also the symbol of Ephraim and Manasseh, in ancient times, highly symbolic of an alteration of a superior type of people, from an original stock. That&#8217;s what Manasseh is all about; very-very ancient. Supposedly, they had their lands to the north of Israel, they bred with the Horites, the Greeks called them the Troglodytes, which were cave dwellers, tunnel dwellers and then the Jewish folklore, after breeding with them after generations, the tribe of Manasseh became red-haired, blue eyed, almost Albino in fact, but incredibly aggressive and they often fought, down through the centuries, against the rest of ancient Israel. Sometimes they&#8217;d be with them, sometimes against them. You&#8217;re looking at a symbol of superior type through breeding, that&#8217;s what you&#8217;re looking at, when you see that symbol of Ephraim, Manasseh. And that&#8217;s an incredible coincidence, isn&#8217;t it, that the US seal also has that symbol of that eagle holding the olive branch and the arrows as well, you know. If you go into mythologies and you can understand the esoteric behind what they tell you, a light really comes on, it&#8217;s a blinding light comes on and you understand the whole story. We&#8217;ve been set up, from the beginning, to go along this particular path. You’ll also find out that one of the greatest eugenics societies within the United States was founded by a whole bunch of the Founding Fathers of the United States. They had the largest collection of eugenics material and special breeding etc and it&#8217;s still on the go today, within the United States; it was started up by Franklin and Jefferson.</p>
<p>Kyle: Big here in Connecticut, I mean everybody uses the symbol of the tree, all the towns. These Troglodytes, they were blood-drinkers too, weren&#8217;t they?</p>
<p>Alan: Well, some mythologies go into blood drinkers and all the rest of it; even China has the same kind of stuff about those who lived in the mountains, within the hills (and the BBC did a documentary about that years ago). Every country has its tales of that; but what we do know is, for sure, that in ancient times, just like Indiana Jones when they went to Petra, the city that was carved out of rock, there were people who definitely, and these were not primitive dwellings, these were high architecture and you go into even the Falashas of Ethiopia. Many of them were taken out and brought to Israel during one of the big famines but they left behind them, inside mountains, carved-out churches inside mountains, perfect, beautiful, incredible masonic (I&#8217;m talking about stone masons) handiwork. These were ancient things that were on the go in ancient times. You also have parts of the US too, where you had the so-called cave dwellers as well, with no records left of where they went to; but we have their buildings still, within the face walls.</p>
<p>Kyle: You&#8217;re a wealth of knowledge, Alan, I just hope people take your food and water and aerial spraying seriously, because I was in the military and I did chemical-biological-radiological defence and it&#8217;s serious.</p>
<p>Alan: It is serious, yes. It&#8217;s deadly serious. Thanks for calling.</p>
<p>Kyle: Thank you.</p>
<p>Alan: And to tie this in with what I&#8217;m saying: here&#8217;s an article here, that was put out about over-population again, but targeted mainly at the Catholic Church and I&#8217;ll put this link up as well; and it says:-</p>
<p><em>This is a resource for people concerned about the societies in which they live. We will discuss global security issues and show how one small political entity, the Vatican, in pursuing its own interests, has managed to control US population policy </em></p>
<p>Now, the guy who writes this is one of the top eugenicists in the US; and here he is attacking Catholicism again, it&#8217;s standard. He&#8217;s funded by the Rockefellers and the big Humanist societies. Again, so many different front organisations for Socialism, and I&#8217;m going to out this up on my site. And his name actually is Stephen Mumford. He often gets articles in the newspapers, but they don&#8217;t go into his history. He started off in the military, as a hospital administrator, providing for service personnel and their families. He went right into ways of sterilising the public etc &#8211; Planned Parenthood, blah, blah, blah &#8211; Senior Vasectomy Counselor and later as Director of Research; on what? On Infertility, in creating infertility.</p>
<p>Back with more &#8211; after this break.</p>
<p>=== BREAK ===</p>
<p>Hi folks, I am Alan Watt, we&#8217;re Cutting Through The Matrix and I&#8217;m tying in Dr. Mumford, this guy who&#8217;s made a career, his life career, out of death, basically. It says:-</p>
<p><em>In 1977 Dr. Mumford moved to a leadership position at the International Fertility Research Program </em></p>
<p>Now what do you think that&#8217;s all about?</p>
<p><em>(now Family Health International), </em></p>
<p>It sounds wonderful &#8211; Family Health &#8211; health&#8217;s a good word; &#8220;family&#8221; is nice, isn&#8217;t it. Look into it.</p>
<p><em>focusing on the development, analysis and program design of fertility regulating technologies </em></p>
<p>In other words: sterilisation, folks</p>
<p><em>as well as the social, political and religious pressures that keep reproductive services from people who want them. </em></p>
<p>In other words: they must attack the religions you see.</p>
<p><em>Mumford founded the Center for Research on Population and Security in 1984 to support and continue this work. It was at IFRP that he began a long association with the health professionals </em></p>
<p>You know these guys who are all funded by the big Foundations, and the Rockefellers again; who’s always harping on about too many of us. It says:</p>
<p><em>and scientists developing the quinacrine pellet nonsurgical method of female sterilization. </em></p>
<p>Isn&#8217;t that wonderful? These are the characters who write up some papers all the time, but they never go into this part of what they&#8217;re really about, or who is funding them and what&#8217;s behind it all. Never mind the fact that their targets primarily, they start with the Third World countries, they start with them; but what do they say now? Most people in the Western world, if they&#8217;re not completely sterile now, shortly will be; and that&#8217;s from their own announcements, like the CBC, who did a documentary on The Disappearing Male.</p>
<p>We&#8217;re on a roll and where does this all come from? Well, go back into Karl Marx, who started the whole thing, he drew up a list, after others had done the same list before him, to do with who should survive as a race and who shouldn&#8217;t; and that became, down through the ages, the Fabian Society, backed by the Astors and the big Foundations and George Bernard Shaw and all these boys, HG Wells, that worked for the Milner Group that became the Royal Institute of International Affairs and Council on Foreign Relations, you see, that&#8217;s where it all came from.</p>
<p>Tonight, I&#8217;m going to put up a link for you, it&#8217;s incredible, it ties it together, it&#8217;s wonderfully done, called The Soviet Story. The Soviet Story of how Nazism and the Soviet system were pretty well identical; and you&#8217;ll even see the agreements they all signed between them and how much Hitler learned of how to dispose of millions of people. After all, the Soviets were the ones who killed off over 6 million people, by design, starved them to death, in the Ukraine, when they sold all their grain, at the same time, to the Western world, they starved to death the people who grew it. Why? Because Socialism, by design, always kills off at least 30% when they take over – 30% of the population, minimum – because they must restructure society. And they claim those who are not even into a capitalist system, those who grow and barter etc would never catch up, therefore they have to be eliminated. That was Marxist doctrine that became the Socialist doctrine, whether it was Communist Socialism or Chinese Socialism or Nazi Socialism, it&#8217;s all the same, funded by the same groups in the west. And there&#8217;s Prince Philip, who&#8217;s father had a Nazi uniform given to him by Hitler, meeting Obama, doesn&#8217;t that make you feel better? Doesn’t it? You can&#8217;t put it all together, eh? You don&#8217;t have much time to do so.</p>
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<link>http://eitherorbored.wordpress.com/2009/12/16/the-american-santa-conspiracy/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2009 11:37:32 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>eitherorbored</dc:creator>
<guid>http://eitherorbored.wordpress.com/2009/12/16/the-american-santa-conspiracy/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[This Lecture looks awesome. Even more Awesome if you happen to be in New York this saturday. *sigh* ]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>This Lecture looks awesome. Even more Awesome if you happen to be in New York this saturday. *sigh*</p>
<blockquote><p>Americans know that Santa descends from the mock king who held court at Saturnalia, the Roman festival celebrating the winter solstice. Or that he shares cultural DNA with the Lord of Misrule who presided over the yuletide Feast of Fools in the Middle Ages&#8212;lewd, blasphemous revels that gave vent to underclass hostility toward feudal lords and the all-powerful church.By the late 19th century, Christmas in Manhattan was an excuse for the rabble to go wilding from door to door in upper-class neighborhoods, demanding booze and cash from terrified householders in exchange for an off-key and sometimes off-color yuletide song. In desperation, Washington Irving, Clement Clarke Moore, and other members of New York&#8217;s cultural elite invented Santa Claus&#8212;and Christmas as we know it&#8212;as a means of domesticating the drunken revels of the dangerous classes. Their bourgeois myth was designed to channel lumpen unrest into a more acceptable outlet: a domestic ritual consecrated to home, hearth, and conspicuous consumption.In &#8220;Satan and Santa: Separated at Birth?,&#8221; Dery, a cultural critic and book author, takes a look at the Jolly Old Elf&#8217;s little-known role as poster boy for officially sanctioned eruptions of social chaos, as well as his current status as a flashpoint in &#8220;the Christmas Wars&#8221;&#8212;cultural battles between evangelicals, atheists, conservatives, and anti-consumerists over the &#8220;true&#8221; meaning of Christmas. Along the way, Dery considers New Age theories that Santa is a repressed memory of an ancient Celtic cult revolving around red-capped psychedelic mushrooms; Nazi attempts to re-imagine Christmas&#8212;a holiday consecrated to a Jewish baby, for Christ&#8217;s sake&#8212;as a pre-Christian invention of tree-worshipping German tribes, in some misty, Wagnerian past; and the suspicious similarities between Satan and Santa, connections that have fueled a cottage industry of conspiracy theories on the religious right.</p></blockquote>
<p><a href="http://www.markdery.com/archives/news/000105.html">Satan and Santa: Separated at Birth?</a>.</p>
<p>&#60; <a href="http://www.boingboing.net/2009/12/15/new-york-mark-dery-l.html">via</a> &#62;</p>
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<link>http://eitherorbored.wordpress.com/2009/12/15/in-the-beginning-the-birth-of-a-psychedelic-culture/</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 12:01:18 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>eitherorbored</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[The foreward of the book &#8220;In the Beginning: The Birth of a Psychedelic Culture: Conversations ]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>The foreward of the book &#8220;In the Beginning: The Birth of a Psychedelic Culture: Conversations about Leary, the Harvard Experiments, Millbrook and the Sixties&#8221; by Ram Dass and Ralph Metzner with Gary Bravo, from Synergetic Press.</p>
<blockquote><p>Consider that Dr. Alpert’s first impulse, upon regaining the ability to walk during his first psychedelic experience, was to head off through the snow to his parents’ house and start shoveling their driveway. Upon being discovered, his defiant response was to dance a jig. This is truly a rebel without claws. But a few days after that fateful lunch with Hollingshead, Timothy Leary dropped acid and everything changed. The sober, scientific center of the Harvard Psilocybin Project lost its hold on the centripetal edge. The past started to end and the future started to begin. Their ties loosened and disappeared, along with belief in any such prosaic artifact as objective reality and the social conventions that accompanied it. As Leary later wrote in High Priest  p. 256-257 : &#8220;From the date of this session it was inevitable that we would leave Harvard, that we would leave American society and that we would spend the rest of our lives as mutants, faithfully following the instructions of our internal blueprints, and tenderly, gently disregarding the parochial social inanities.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>via <a href="http://www.realitysandwich.com/beginning_birth_psychedelic_culture">Reality Sandwich &#124; In the Beginning: The Birth of a Psychedelic Culture</a>.</p>
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<link>http://thewitcontinuum.wordpress.com/2009/12/14/lost-in-thought/</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 16:00:51 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Jennifer Rains</dc:creator>
<guid>http://thewitcontinuum.wordpress.com/2009/12/14/lost-in-thought/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Today, it is one of those days.  I am lost in thought&#8230; Peace&#8230; Links: above artwork www.d]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p><a href="http://thewitcontinuum.wordpress.com/files/2009/12/lost_in_thought.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-1450" title="lost_in_thought" src="http://thewitcontinuum.wordpress.com/files/2009/12/lost_in_thought.jpg" alt="" width="448" height="336" /></a>Today, it is one of those days. <br />
I am lost in thought&#8230;</p>
<p><a href="http://thewitcontinuum.wordpress.com/files/2009/12/lost_in_thought.gif"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-1451" title="lost_in_thought" src="http://thewitcontinuum.wordpress.com/files/2009/12/lost_in_thought.gif" alt="" width="320" height="229" /></a></p>
<p>Peace&#8230;</p>
<p>Links: above artwork <a href="http://www.designbygina.com">www.designbygina.com</a></p>
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<link>http://magdelene.wordpress.com/2009/12/14/buddhism-and-god-revisted/</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 14:11:47 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Benjamin</dc:creator>
<guid>http://magdelene.wordpress.com/2009/12/14/buddhism-and-god-revisted/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[God, the word evokes such a lot. In Buddhism however we find that God is as you say, transcendant, b]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>God, the word evokes such a lot. In Buddhism however we find that God is as you say, transcendant, but if we dig deeper God is also immanent.</p>
<p>We see this clearly in:</p>
<p><strong><strong>1</strong></strong></p>
<p>The tao that can be told<br />
is not the eternal Tao<br />
The name that can be named<br />
is not the eternal Name.</p>
<p>The unnamable is the eternally real.<br />
Naming is the origin<br />
of all particular things.</p>
<p>Free from desire, you realize the mystery.<br />
Caught in desire, you see only the manifestations.</p>
<p>Yet mystery and manifestations<br />
arise from the same source.<br />
This source is called darkness.</p>
<p>Darkness within darkness.<br />
The gateway to all understanding.</p>
<p>&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;</p>
<p>This is the ineffible, unknowable reality above reality, beyond reality, something outside of words, outside of concepts&#8230;</p>
<p>This is the &#8220;God&#8221; of the Kabbalist, (Ain Sof: endless light)<br />
This is the God of the mystic (christian and otherwise) such as Meister Eckhart</p>
<p>&#8220;To be full of things is to be empty of God. To be empty of things is to be full of God.&#8221;</p>
<p>The Kabbalist (Jewish Mystic, for sake of argument) states ideas such as:</p>
<p><strong>The Nature of God</strong></p>
<div><strong>(from “God is a Verb” by David A. Cooper)</strong></div>
<p> </p>
<div><span style="font-size:x-small;">“What is God? In a way, there is no God. Our perception of God usually leads to a misunderstanding that seriously undermines our spiritual development.</span><br />
<span style="font-size:x-small;">God is not wht we think It is. God is not a thing, a being, a noun. It does not exist, as existence is defined, for It takes up0 no space and is not bound by time. Jewish mystics often refer to It as <em>Ein Sof</em>, which means Endlessness.</span></div>
<p> </p>
<div><span style="font-size:x-small;"><em>Ein Sof </em>should never be conceptualized in any way. It should not be called Creator, Almighty, Father, Mother, Infinite, the One, Brahma, Buddhamind, Allah, <em>Adonay</em>, <em>Elohim</em>, <em>El</em>, or <em>Shaddai</em>, and It should never, never be called He. It is none of these names, and It has no gender.</span></div>
<p> </p>
<div><span style="font-size:x-small;">When we call It God, what are we talking about? If we say that It is compassionate, full of lovingkindness, the source of love, we may be talking about our image of what we think the divine nature <em>ought </em>to be, but we are not talking about <em>Ein Sof</em>. In the same way, if we say that the God portrayed in the Bible is vindictive, jealous, angry, cruel, uncaring, or punitive, we cannot be referring to <em>Ein Sof</em>. <em>Ein Sof </em>includes every attribute but cannot be definite by any of them individually or all of them combined…..</span></div>
<p> </p>
<div><span style="font-size:x-small;">The idea of <em>Ein Sof </em>was first described by the twelfth-century Kabbalist, Isaac the Blind. He taught that <em>Ein Sof </em>precedes thought (<em>machshavah</em>), and it even precedes the Nothingness (<em>ayin</em>) out of which thought is born. Nothingness is viewed as a level of awareness that is the result of the ‘annihilation of thought.’</span></div>
<p> </p>
<div><span style="font-size:x-small;"><span style="font-size:x-small;">The idea of the annihilation of thought, of course, is paradoxical. Can we imagine a void without beginning or end? Can we, limited by minds that are finite, imagine infinity? The answer is no, we cannot think of Nothing. Anything that we can imagine has some kind of boundary—Kabbalists call it garment or vessel—and boundaries are containers. All thoughts, including all imagination, are garments or vessels.</span></span></div>
<p> </p>
<div><span style="font-size:x-small;"><span style="font-size:x-small;">By definition, a boundary sets limits. We may be able to put a name to infinity, we can draw a symbol of a figure eight on its side and say that this represents infinity, but no matter how much we may believe that our imagination is limitless, we remain confined by the boundaries of our own reality. If it can be imagined, it is not infinite.</span></span></div>
<p> </p>
<div><span style="font-size:x-small;">As infinity is beyond the imagination, what about that which transcends infinity—that which created it? <em>Ein Sof </em>is not ‘restricted’ by infinity. Indeed, we have suddenly run out of words because the idea of ‘trans-infinite’ is a logical absurdity. What can go beyond infinity? Moreover, what can go beyond the Nothingness that surrounds infinity? This is <em>Ein Sof</em>.</span></div>
<p> </p>
<div><span style="font-size:x-small;">Although we are informed that <em>Ein Sof </em>is inaccessible through any intellectual endeavor, we may still ask if there is a ‘knowing’ that surpasses the intellect. Did Isaac the Blind have access to a level of awareness through which he could sense, somehow, the imperceivable?</span></div>
<p> </p>
<div><span style="font-size:x-small;">The answer is yes. Jewish mysticism teaches that we can know <em>Ein Sof </em>in ways that transcend thought. This aspect of developing a relationship with Endlessness, the source of creation, is the key to all Kabbalah and the lifeblood of all Jewish practice. The secret teaching in developing this relationship with the Unknowable is hidden in the mystical foundation of the nature of relationship itself.</span></div>
<p> </p>
<div><span style="font-size:x-small;"><span style="font-size:x-small;">The word ‘God,’ and each of Its various names in Judaism, such as <em>El</em>, <em>Elohim</em>, <em>Adonoy</em>, <em>Shaddai</em>, and so forth, represent aspects of <em>Ein Sof</em>. The exploration of these aspects gives us insight into the nature of <em>Ein Sof </em>. Thus, whenever God is discussed…..we are not talking about a thing in itself, but a representation of a far deeper mystery…..</span></span></div>
<p> </p>
<div><span style="font-size:x-small;"><span style="font-size:x-small;">We can relate to God as an interactive verb. It is God-ing…..Many names of God are included in <em>Ein Sof</em>; God-ing is one name—a name that happens to be a verb rather than a noun…..What would we be without the awesomeness of the unknowable God?</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size:x-small;"><span style="font-size:x-small;">There is no answer to this question; we cannot prove anything about <em>Ein Sof</em>. Rahter, it is a self-reflecting inquiry. Yet when viewed from the perspective of our dynamic relationship with the Divine, it is a self-fulfilling question, for paradoxically the source of the question is the answer it seeks. ‘What would I be without God?’</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size:x-small;">Consider this question from your inner awareness. Not you the noun, the person you may think you are, but you the verb, the process of being in full relationship, continuously, with its creator. When a question arises wthin you, who is asking the question, and to whom is the question addressed? Assume that there is no ‘me’ to ask the question, and there is no God out there to answer it. The question is part of the process of David-ing and God-ing in a mutual unfolding.</span></div>
<p> </p>
<div><span style="font-size:x-small;">Try to do this in a way that melts all barriers or separation. No subject and no obuect. Simply an ever-opening process. No past, no future; only the Now. Each moment is a fresh opening. Each breath we draw, each move we make, is only Now. This is my dance with God-ing. It is an awesome experience…..</span></div>
<p> </p>
<div><span style="font-size:x-small;">Perhaps you will take a few moments to close your eyes and allow yourself to sink into this idea. Meditate on this thought: The teaching of the mystery of <em>Ein Sof </em>is that the center of our being, out of which awe arises, is that about which we are awed. It is It! When we contemplate our continuous process of opening, right here, right now, we realize that God-ing is <em>always </em>with us…..</span></div>
<p> </p>
<div><span style="font-size:x-small;">The Unknowable can be discerned. Beginning at an indefinable point as sharp as a needle. It radiates in various ways which can be perceived—only in the context of process and interaction. We are not an audience watching the God-ing process onstage. We are onstage, ourselves. We mysteriously begin to get a glimmer of God-ing when we succeed in merging with the continuous process of unfolding creation…..</span></div>
<p> </p>
<div><span style="font-size:x-small;">The intrinsic definition of Limitlessness is that It lacks nothing and can receive nothing, for It is everything. As It is everything, theoretically It is the potential to be an infinite source of giving.</span></div>
<p> </p>
<div><span style="font-size:x-small;">The question arises, however, that there is nothing for It to give to because It is everything. It would have to give to Itself. This has been a major conundrum in philosophy and theology for thousands of years.</span></div>
<p> </p>
<div><span style="font-size:x-small;">Kabbalah suggests one way of dealing with this issue. It says that as long as the infinite source of giving has no ‘will’ to give, nothing happens. However, the instant It has the will to give, this will initiates a ‘thought.’ Kabbalah says, ‘Will, which is [primordial] thought, is the beginning of all things, and the expression [of this thought] is the completion.’</span></div>
<p> </p>
<div><span style="font-size:x-small;">That is, the entire creation is nothing more than a thought in the ‘mind’ of <em>Ein Sof</em>, so to speak. Another way to express this idea is that the will to give instantly creates a will to receive…..”</span></div>
<p><a rel="nofollow" href="http://magdelene.net/ain.htm" target="_blank">ain</a></p>
<p>Here we can see that God is NOT God</p>
<p>If we return to Buddhism the Heart Sutra states:</p>
<p>Body is nothing more than emptiness,<br />
emptiness is nothing more than body.<br />
The body is exactly empty,<br />
and emptiness is exactly body.</p>
<p>The other four aspects of human existence &#8211;<br />
feeling, thought, will, and consciousness &#8211;<br />
are likewise nothing more than emptiness,<br />
and emptiness nothing more than they.</p>
<p>All things are empty:<br />
Nothing is born, nothing dies,<br />
nothing is pure, nothing is stained,<br />
nothing increases and nothing decreases. So, in emptiness, there is no body,<br />
no feeling, no thought,<br />
no will, no consciousness.<br />
There are no eyes, no ears,<br />
no nose, no tongue,<br />
no body, no mind.</p>
<p>There is no seeing, no hearing,<br />
no smelling, no tasting,<br />
no touching, no imagining.</p>
<p>There is nothing seen, nor heard,<br />
nor smelled, nor tasted,<br />
nor touched, nor imagined.</p>
<p>There is no ignorance,<br />
and no end to ignorance.<br />
There is no old age and death,<br />
and no end to old age and death.<br />
There is no suffering, no cause of suffering,<br />
no end to suffering, no path to follow.<br />
There is no attainment of wisdom,<br />
and no wisdom to attain.</p>
<p>The Bodhisattvas rely on the Perfection of Wisdom,<br />
and so with no delusions,<br />
they feel no fear,<br />
and have Nirvana here and now. +</p>
<p>All the Buddhas,<br />
past, present, and future,<br />
rely on the Perfection of Wisdom,<br />
and live in full enlightenment.<br />
The Perfection of Wisdom is the greatest mantra.<br />
It is the clearest mantra,<br />
the highest mantra,<br />
the mantra that removes all suffering.</p>
<p>&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..<br />
Here we see the Heart Sutra telling us that God is transcendent and immanent, that God is not God</p>
<p>If we return to christianity again:</p>
<p><em>Gather up the fragments that remain, that nothing be lost.’</em></p>
<p><em>-</em><span style="font-family:Arial;">-John</span><span style="font-family:Arial;"> 6:12</span></p>
<div>&#8220;But if by “God“ we mean a reality far surpassing our own fullness of being we must envisage the divine as total realization, abundance of life and actuality, energy unfailing, of which our mode of being is a pale reflection, and at best a symbol. Yet people persist in asking whether or not God <em>exists. </em>As Dostoyevsky pointed out, their question never finds an answer, because it is wrongly put. Its proper context is the experience of active loving, but it is confined within the narrow limits of a notion of existence which is as irrelevant to life as it is unreal and reductionist. The concept of God as a remote entity which does nothing served as a postulate for some philosophers of the eighteenth century, but it is foreign to all the great religious traditions of humankind. For these the question-and it is a burning question-is not of God‘s existence but of his presence, and this implies his power or energy. Yet even today deism is not dead. The reductionist notion of God, which was formerly the preserve of academics, is uncritically accepted by ordinary people in our society, who on the whole do not reject belief that God exists but have little sense of the divine presence and of communion with him. This reductionist point of view is in direct opposition to the religious instinct and mystical impulse, which suffers widespread atrophy in our times.</div>
<div>In spite of all this, the human heart senses that “God” is not a mono­syllabic blob but the Ever-present One. How are we to understand, and live, this sense? Christianity is sometimes seen as nothing but a collec­tion of moral duties and soothing reassurances about salvation, rather than as a summons to the deification of the human person.</div>
<p>St. Athanasius of Alexandria, a pillar of orthodoxy during the fourth century, insisted upon the divine being’s exuberance. The divine being, ineffably more alive that we are, cannot be self-contained and barren but has to be <em>Father, </em>forever bringing forth his son from the womb of his own substance. This continual begetting is a movement of being which is essentially fruitful. Our human experience of parenting is only an analogy for the perfect generation in the divine being, where there is no before and after, no differentiation into male and female, and where the one brought forth is not inferior to the parent. This vision of God continually pouring forth his very being would inspire Meister Eckhart a millennium later to speak of God in terms of molten metal which is always boiling over. The son‘s coming forth from the Father is a non-stop act of both begetting and giving birth.<br />
Thus for the Christian tradition the divine reality is essentially per­sonal. The three are not merely aspects of some impersonal substrate, nor are they separate individuals. The doctrine of the Trinity states that ultimate reality is <em><span style="font-family:Garamond;">a </span></em><em>communion </em><em>of persons, </em>each dwelling in the others. Here relationship is of the essence. And this communion of persons is the truth and exemplar of all being. In particular it is the hope to which we human beings aspire. We come alive when our eyes meet those of the one who loves us, for we then find our center outside ourselves in the other, and in so doing we touch the mystery of transcendence.</p>
<p>By falling in love we leave behind our own isolation and break away from our old, limited way of life, which is now revealed as loneliness and incompletion. And, even more, in the unromantic daily struggle of active loving, in relationship, we find out who we really are. That is the context in which we can ask about God for it is then that we most resemble God. The Trinity goes beyond both solitude and the mutual opposition of Dual­ism, for God, as St. John says, is love.&#8221;</p>
<p>-<span style="font-family:Arial;">–father symeon burholt</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Arial;">&#8230;.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Arial;">And finally we get a clear idea if we turn to Gnosticism, and the Gospel of Philip (note that of course many Gnostics were highly influenced by Buddhism, in fact one branch even boasts that their leader was the reincarnation of Lao Tzu)</span></p>
<p>Light and Darkness, life and death, right and left, are brothers of one another. They are inseparable. Because of this neither are the good good, nor evil evil, nor is life life, nor death death. For this reason each one will dissolve into its earliest origin. But those who are exalted above the world are indissoluble, eternal.</p>
<p>Names given to the worldly are very deceptive, for they divert our thoughts from what is correct to what is incorrect. <strong>Thus one who hears the word &#8220;God&#8221; does not perceive what is correct, but perceives what is incorrect. So also with &#8220;the Father&#8221; and &#8220;the Son&#8221; and &#8220;the Holy Spirit&#8221; and &#8220;life&#8221; and &#8220;light&#8221; and &#8220;resurrection&#8221; and &#8220;the Church (Ekklesia)&#8221; and all the rest &#8211; people do not perceive what is correct but they perceive what is incorrect, unless they have come to know what is correct.</strong> <strong>The names which are heard are in the world [...] deceive</strong>. If they were in the Aeon (eternal realm), they would at no time be used as names in the world. Nor were they set among worldly things. They have an end in the Aeon.</p>
<p>One single name is not uttered in the world, the name which the Father gave to the Son; it is the name above all things: the name of the Father. For the Son would not become Father unless he wore the name of the Father. Those who have this name know it, but they do not speak it. But those who do not have it do not know it.</p>
<p>&#8230;</p>
<p>We see things as we are<br />
Not as they are</p>
<p>&#8211;Kahlil Gibran</p>
<p>There are no mundane things outside of Buddhism,<br />
and there is no Buddhism outside of mundane things.</p>
<p>&#8211;Yuan-Wu</p>
<div><span style="color:#0000ff;">It is I who am you, and it is you who are me. And wherever you are, I am there. </span></div>
<p><span style="color:#0000ff;">And I am sown in all; and you collect me from wherever you wish. </span></p>
<div><span style="color:#0000ff;">And when you collect me, it is your own self that you collect.</span></div>
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