AIR - Mer du Japon

ESSEL - The Edge

Uplifting gentle female vocals with a bouncy tech rhythm, and superb video casting only some of which I've screen grabbed so if the mood takes you, enjoy.

I haven't thought about advertising in ages but this has given me an idea that I will write up. If you're not using BBC Sounds App you're missing out on possibly the  most sophisticated technology I've encountered and if you're paying close attention it's indistinguishable from magic. It can be a little spooky at times, but mostly it's euphoria and cosmic level laughter.

Yeah that good. I use the website more than the app at present. though not exclusively and I will road test the app much more in the near future.

Don't make the mistake of thinking I'm using hyperbole when describing the experience provided by the technology. There is of course the synthetic reality layer paradox. TBC

Jason Louv // John Dee, Cryptography & Unlocking the Substrate With Enochian Magick

Extraordinary Follow Up Interview.

I also recommend THC's interview as he harmlessly punctures a few bubbles along the way.

If this interview were ever aired on Radio 4, the audience would be banging their applause hammers on the tables.

Talking Real Magic | Dr Dean Radin

Abracadabra

Paul Is Dead - The Replacement of Paul McCartney

Like any rational human, I thought the Paul is Dead thing was a silly time waster story when I first heard it about five years ago. Even when presented with the physical evidence in photographs I ignored it and put it to the back of my mind.

Over time however I began to realise that people I trust had given it significant credence but still I had too many unanswered questions so I moved it from impossible to possible but needs researching.

That process ended last week while I was bed ridden for a few days and had time to listen to subjects that I normally skip over. This presentation by Sofia Smallstorm and Mike Williams is the definitive discussion for this topic. I find Sofia a little too snooty for my taste in her exchanges with Mike but between them they present an overwhelming amount of information that makes it difficult to impossible to reject.

There are still lots of questions that remain to be answered, but I'm now, finally convinced of the Tavistock role in manufacturing the 60's.

In some ways it's exciting because if the social engineers can do this, what can't they do?

I feel I'm living in a different world, and once again I'm in awe of the people who have the balls and the brains to pull the wool over our eyes. 

Sheeps wool.

Just to be clear I'm not convinced that Viv Stanshall is a Bill Shepherd's persona but given how the 'new' Paul McCartney AKA Apple Corp (A Paul Corpse) took creative control of The Beatles from Sgt Pepper onwards, the Viv Stanshall quote above makes a lot of sense.

Is David Copperfield A Rapist?

Listen to "Jeffrey Epstein, Copperfield, Rob Lowe, Robert Downey Jr , Charlie Sheen, Lisa Presely, Kind of a Weird Pattern..." on Spreaker.

Creepy David Copperfield and celebrity cluster rapist information. Like Jeffrey Epstein he has an island where he lures unsuspecting female victims. 

Joe Atwill on Degenerate Alfred Kinsey, Aleister Crowley & The Frankfurt School

Joe Atwill demolishes more 20th century icons with an in depth analysis of the degenerate Alfred Kinsey, Aleister Crowley and the Jewish Frankfurt School.

Christopher Lee discusses Black Magic in 1975

A Very British Witchcraft - Gerald Gardner & Wicca

I'd heard of Wicca through a few friends but didn't really understand what it was all about. This documentary is quite good fun. Gerald Gardener was packed off to the Middle East as a young boy to keep his asthma at bay and came back to the UK a fully fledged weirdo in the best-of-British sense of the word. 

I quite like Wiccans now. 

I'm always up for nature worship and the divine feminine even if it it comes bundled with a 20th century pagan witchcraft religion.

Magic Storytelling - Dan Scheiber

A great talk. I'll be listening to it more than once.

Politics & War as Entertainment - Butler Shaffer

There's no doubt that the above video makes a mockery of most of what I've said about 9/11 on this blog, but it is what it is. 

I've no problem in admitting mistakes because I don't have the military industrial complex or government handcuffs to sit Dick Cheney in a room and pull his pacemaker our with pliers till he speaks. 

I have to rely on the best information I can get my hands on at the time.

I've been reviewing this 911 HollyWeird information for a week or so on James Fetzer's audio blog, but it all started off with the Jay Weidner interview I posted over here though you can see a lot of controversy has been created here in the comments or over here too. 

However you need to sit down and do the work to figure out why it opens up a new dimension, not a million miles away from Sophie Smallstorm's Sandy Hook deconstruction.

I've no real interest in the World Trade Centre towers military grade demolition on 9/11, because it's the million or so Iraqis and Afghanis that are the victims, not the Israelis, British, French or Americans who actually orchestrated most of it. You know. The perpetrators.

However, I hope you were watching your freedoms get pick-pocketed by the war entertainment complex since then.

Here's Butler Shaffer's views on the matter. It's erudite thinking and you really must read it to appreciate a mind ahead of its time.

If I were to offer a seminar on the nature of war, I believe that the first class session would include a showing of the film Wag the Dog. Those who wish to justify the obliteration of hundreds of thousands of total strangers in the name of "good" versus "evil," or "national honour," will likely find the movie discomforting. As the governments of India and Pakistan self-righteously, and in the name of "God," threaten one another with a nuclear war that could instantly kill anywhere from ten to twenty million people, it is time for decent, intelligent people to put down their flags and begin to see war for what the late General Smedley Butler rightly termed it: "a racket." This film offers a quick reality fix.

Randolph Bourne's observation "war is the health of the state" is familiar to most critics of militarism, but few have delved into why this is so. Statism is dependent upon mass thinking which, in turn, is essential to the creation of a collective, herd-oriented society. Such pack-like behaviour is reflected in the intellectual and spiritual passivity of people whose mindsets are wrapped up more in images and appearances than in concrete reality.

Such a collapse of the mind produces a society dominated by entertainment — which places little burden on thinking — rather than critical inquiry, which helps to explain why there has long been a symbiotic relationship between the entertainment industry and political systems. Entertainment fosters a passive consciousness, a willingness to "suspend our disbelief." Its purpose is to generate amusement, a word that is synonymous with "diversion," meaning "to distract the attention of." The common reference to movies as a form of "escape" from reality, reflects this function. Government officials know what every magician knows, namely, that to carry out their illusions, they must divert the audience's attention from their hidden purposes.

Michel Foucault has shown how the state's efforts to regulate sexual behaviour — whether through repressive or "liberating" legislation — serves as such a distraction, making it easier for the state to extend its control over our lives. It is instructive that, in the months preceding the World Trade Centre attacks which, in turn, ushered in the greatest expansion of police powers in America since the Civil War, the news stories that dominated the media had to do with allegations of adulterous affairs by a sitting president and a congressman. It is not coincidence that both the entertainment industry and the government school systems have helped to foster preoccupations with sex.

The authority of the state is grounded in consensus-based definitions of reality, whose content the state insists on controlling. This is why so-called "public opinion polls," rather than factual analysis and reason, have become the modern epistemological standard, and why imagery — which the entertainment industry helps to foster — now takes priority over the substance of things.

Politics and entertainment each feed upon — and help to foster — public appetites for illusions and fantastic thinking. The success of such undertakings, in turn, depends upon unfocused and enervated minds, which helps to explain why motion picture and television performers, popular musicians, and athletes — whose efforts require little participation on the part of the viewer — have become the dominant voices in our politicized culture. It also helps to account for the attraction of so many entertainers throughout the world to visionary schemes such as state socialism, as well as the increasing significance of entertainment industry gossip and box-office revenues as major news stories.

The entertainment industry helps shape the content of our consciousness by generating institutionally desired moods, fears, and reactions, a role played throughout human history. Ancient Greek history is tied up in myths, fables, and other fictions, passed on by the entertainers of their day, the minstrels. We need to ask ourselves about the extent to which our understanding of American history and other human behaviour has been fashioned by motion pictures, novels, and television drama. Through carefully scripted fictions and fantasies, others direct our experiences, channel our emotions, and shape our views of reality. The fantasies depicted are more often of conflict, not cooperation; of violence, not peace; of death, not the importance of life.

Nowhere is the interdependency of the political and entertainment worlds better demonstrated than in the war system, which speaks of "theatres" of operation, "acts" of war with battle "scenes," "staging" areas, and "dress rehearsals" for invasions. The pomp and circumstance of war is reflected in military uniforms that mimic stage costumes, all to the accompaniment of martial music that rivals grand opera. A Broadway play can become either a "bomb" or a "hit;" troops are "billeted" (a word derived from the French meaning of a "ticket"); while the premier of a movie is often accompanied, like a World War II bombing raid, by searchlights that scan the skies. Even the Cold War was framed by an "iron curtain." Is it only coincidence, devoid of any symbolic meaning, that at the end of the American Civil War - one of the bloodiest wars in human history - its chief protagonist was shot while attending the theatre, and that his killer was an actor who, upon completing his deed, descended to the stage and exited?

Adolf Hitler understood, quite well, the interplay between political power and theatre, a truth that continues to reveal itself in entertainers involving themselves so heavily in political campaigns, some even managing to get themselves elected to Congress or the presidency! Nor was it surprising that one of the first acts of the Bush Administration, following the announced "War on Terrorism," was to send a group of presidential advisers to Hollywood to enlist the entertainment industry's efforts to portray the war as desired by Washington! As with earlier wars, the "military/entertainment complex" will continue to write the scripts and define the characters that are required to assure the support of passive minds in the conduct of war.

Furthermore, because entertainment is often conducted in crowded settings (e.g., theatres, stadiums, auditoriums) there is a dynamic conducive to the generation of mass-mindedness. One need only recall the powerful harangues of Adolf Hitler that coalesced tens of thousands of individuals into a controllable mob, to understand the symbiotic relationship between entertainment and politics.

Entertainment is a part of what we call "recreation," which means to "re-create," in this case to give interpretations to events that are most favorable to one's national identity and critical of an opponent. In this connection, entertainers help to manipulate the "dark side" of our being which, once mobilized, can help to generate the most destructive and inhumane consequences. World War II movies portrayed Japanese kamikaze pilots who crashed their planes into Navy ships as "crazed zealots," while American pilots who did the same thing to Japanese ships or trains were represented as "heroes" willing to die to save their comrades. German and Japanese soldiers were presented as sneering sadists who delighted in the torture of the innocents, while the American soldiers only wanted to get the war over with so they could get back home to mom and her apple pie! How many of us, today, think of 19^th century U.S. cavalrymen — as portrayed by the likes of John Wayne and Randolph Scott — as brave soldiers, while Indian warriors were "savages" for having forcibly resisted their own annihilation?

All of this leads me to ask whether the entertainment industry is an extension of the war system, or whether war is simply an extension of our need for entertainment? What should be clear to us is that entertainment is one of the principal means by which our thinking can be taken over and directed by others once we have chosen to make our minds passive, which we do when we are asked — whether by actors or politicians — to suspend our judgement about the reality of events we are witnessing. When we are content to be amused (i.e. to have our attention diverted from reality to fantasy), and to have our emotions exploited by those skilled in triggering unconscious forces, we set ourselves up to be manipulated by those producing the show. 

Politics differs from traditional theatre in one important respect, however: in the political arena, we do not call for the "author" at the end of a war! Most of us prefer not to know, for to discover the identities of those who have scripted such events might call into question our own gullibility

Why Were Spells & Spelling Considered Magic?

For most people magic is some form of entertainment or trickery yet we all understand Arthur C Clarke's assertion that any sufficiently advanced technology looks like magic. Well, take that thought back a few millennia and suddenly the alphabet is more than just a means  of communication. It's a way to speak from the grave.

Jan Irving has been deep sixing interesting subjects for the last year or so and this is up there with Terence McKenna worked for the CIA and Jesus was a Flavian dynasty creation. If discovering talent is a talent. Jan Irving is talented. Meet Jose Maria Barrera. He's very original.

John Lash - Planetary Tantra - Talk Seven

John Lash - Planetary Tantra - Talk Seven by Charlesfrith on Mixcloud

Pretty much my entire day. Rehear some John Lash and try to figure out which picture of transcendental objectification at the end of time to put with it. It's not easy.

Psychic Attacks & Self Defense - Robert Bruce, Greg Hunter

Coast 2 Coast audiences are sky-rocketing during this eclectic age of time folding in on itself like a recursive fractal. George Noory is one of the most seasoned radio host pros I listen to and from a wide range of alternative media. I skipped ahead to the main guest on this so if it's a bit boring to begin with click around till you hit on something that grabs your attention.

September Magic?

A number of interesting people are ringing a little waiter's warning bell about September wizardry which I wont be able to comment on if I don't raise my hand prior to the show. Arthur C Clarke said any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Don't forget that.


Update: The Occupy movement commenced on September 17 2011 and has been brutally suppressed.

What's your magic?

There was a time when this sort of solid gold presentation was only possible to people who ponied up 500 quid at a conference, but is now available through the generosity of folks like Iris and Contagious with their 'Under The Influence' talks (held reasonably enough in London pubs) and of course Iain Tate of Poke who are probably the hippest and thought leading digital agency in London. This is magic.

My Talk At Under the Influence from iaintait on Vimeo.