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It's been quite some time since anything as new and thought provoking as this, has come along. It's a good introduction to the self-control and somewhat indomitable spirit of Billy, known to most as Paul McCartney.

There was a time when I couldn't understand how Billy just stepped into Paul's shoes. Well, the more you know...

If it was cut down to a few minutes, it would make a good entree into the Paul is Dead material for the young and/or uninitiated. 

It took me a few years to take seriously, and then it's all too serious, despite the fairly extensive entertainment.

I don't agree with everything here, and neither should you. That's what having an opinion means.

Ready For Cincinnatus

Telegraph

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Mythos - By Stephen Fry

A couple of years ago, I was working in a complex care home with people who have tricky mental health issues. We had all sorts there, a murderer, bipolar folks, borderline personality disorder, schizophrenics... you get the picture.

It wasn't for me though. I found the work rewarding, but I couldn't switch off after working hours, and I definitely suffered with transference.

In the end I was taken ill with that whole Brachial Neuritus thing which left me with half a paralysed hand after six weeks, but before I quit, one of my colleagues bought me Stephen Fry's Heroes book about Greek Mythology. I was really chuffed with it, but because it was the second book after Mythos, I thought it best to read part one first. I'm OCD on things like that.

Southampton Central library only had Mythos as an audio book, and it's taken me six months to listen to it properly, but what an experience. It's up there with Professor Freedman's Early middle ages lectures at Yale for opening up quite a complex subject that had previously always baffled me.

The thing with Greek mythology that had stymied my wish to understand the subject, is that it's all about the hierarchy of the Gods, or rather the Titans, The Gods, The Olympians and so forth, much like John Dee's empire of Angels.

Once the structure is in place, then another world opens up which is so bizarre that I'll leave it to you to find out how weird it is, but let's just say that internecine isn't too incestuous a word, but if anybody came up with these 'stories' in modern times, there would probably be some readers asking if a shrink might be in order.

It's that effing weird.

Oddly enough, I was once snared by some USA dude from what I assume to be an alphabet agency, who wanted to check me out and let me stew in the process for way longer than necessary.

However after he'd done his thing he told me that everything I needed to know was embedded in the mythology of the Greek gods, and here I am ten years or so later and realising he wasn't bluffing.

Gerald Clark Geneaology of the Gods

Interesting presentation by Gerald Clark if like me you're overloading on the information that is spilling out currently on real life events. Though that isn't to say the genetic manipulation of human DNA isn't credible. In many ways it makes perfect sense.

Nobody On The Planet Can Explain Where The Sandy Hook Blood Went

Listen without prejudice. A real researcher tried to find out unlike the corporate media stenographers. 

Then make your mind up.

Unborn Living, Living Dead, Bullet Strikes The Helmet's Head (Make A Grave For The Unknown Soldier)

Amazing footage of The Doors recorded live on sound stage studios. Oddly enough Ray Manzarek, a few years older than the rest of the group and usually level headed group member comes across cheesy and insincere as if trying to do a TV commercial rather than a sensitive retrospective. This leaves John Densmore as a more mature voice than his autobiographical account of The Doors and Robbie Krieger still pinned downed by shyness punctuated by great guitar work and  fine lyrics when Jim was uninterested.

My top four picks for people who ruffled the feathers of counter-culture management and were taken out for writing or speaking words that got a bit too close to the programme are  Terence McKenna, Bill Hicks, Amy Whitehouse and Jim Morrison. People think Amy and Jim died because they drank but I suspect they drank because they were go to die and it wouldn't be hard to include Hendrix and Joplin in that small group where 27 is popular. 

Coming back to Morrison's work some decades after I knew everything he ever wrote including the posthumous album 'An American Prayer' it's extraordinary to listen how clued up he was about how the machine and 'the man/man works from Nietzsche to Greek mythology his intellectual grasp was not one of a frivolous man. 

Morrison died in a bath like Whitney. Unlike Whitney he wrote a lyric about dying in the bath in a song called Hyacinth House. Worth a listen to the uninitiated.

Via The Very Hip Dangerous Minds

Immanuel Velikovsky's Interdisciplinary Scientific Smart Bomb

Velikosvky is old school classical scholar with a number of feathers to his hat including ancient languages, astronomy, physics and medicine. While at Princeton and a year and half before Einstein's death they discussed/argued over the nature of an Einsteinian gravitic universe and Velikovsky's electromagnetic universe. Finally Velikovsky forecast that if he was right the surface temperature of Venus would be much hotter and that Jupiter would emit radio waves. Einstein died before he could respond to these subsequent proof discoveries but what is interesting is the sheer inability of science to deal with his thinking in a rational way. 

This superb documentary doesn't really dig into the implications of Velikovsky's work but is an excellent introduction to his studies.

Velikovsky states at the end that he never anticipated the 'violence' with which his ideas were opposed. Like much conspiracy theory calumny from the establishment I ask a simple question? 

"If it's only a theory, why the outrage?".

John Lash - Planetary Tantra - Talk Eight

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

The Terma of Gaia Awakening 


A One-Page Synopsis


In the Nyingma tradition of Tibetan Tantra, a terma is a wisdom treasure brought to the attention of the world by a terton or treasure finder. Thousands of such termas exist, but very, very few have been circulated outside the tightly controlled lineage systems in which tertons operate. So much for the past and anything like a precedent.


The Terma of Gaia Awakening is the discovery of a free-lance treasure-finder, the Maine terton. It is an open source, group-generated, serial terma with a time-value of 208 years from October 2008. Its provenance cannot be found in any existing tradition or lineage, and it relies on no established authority, school, or doctrine. It comes from the future, not the past. It belongs to all humankind, but it can only be inherited by those individuals willing to test it out, with the aim of developing interactive magic with Gaia-Sophia, the planetary mother animal.


The TGA is an elegant framework for visionary practice, spare, transparent, and rigorously bounded. It is a unique terma of planetary scope, one of its kind. At its inception, it has almost no teaching content. It consists of three times three elements: three lines of instruction, three pointers of ritual, three magical practices.


INSTRUCTION


The three lines of dakini instruction are:


You cannot become anything but more beautiful. 
Love and the supernatural operate on the same frequencies. 
Samsara and this enlightenment have the same look.


RITUAL POINTERS
The three pointers of ritual are:


Gaia's secret dakini name, her identified persona in lucid dreaming.
The recital of previous names attributed to the planetary goddess. 
The Vow (to be written individually) performed with iron-bonding.


THREE PRACTICES


The three ongoing practices are: 
Observing the night sky to learn the Tantric Zodiac. 
Monitoring dakini instruction timed to the lunar cycles. 
Exploring sensory magic with the vajra star, VV central.


This ninefold practice in its entirety is Planetary Tantra. The specific tool for practice is the SHAKTI CLUSTER, a console of 10 devatas and 8 dakinis configured on a central pentagram (vajra star) with VV (Gaia's secret dakini identity) central. The Shakti Cluster may be compared to the Kabalistic Tree of Life, an iconic-magical device representing the divine body of the planetary goddess, Sophia.


That, in sum, is all there is to the Terma of Gaia Awakening. The bare elementary look of this schema may raise some questions. For instance, Does the terma acquire more instructional content? If so, how? For detailed explanations of the Terma and its applications in Planetary Tantra, see
What is the Terma of Gaia Awakening? 
The Terma of Gaia Awakening in Practice 
Introducing Planetary Tantra 
How to Practice Planetary Tantra


jll : 14 October 2010 Visvamata shift, Andalucia

Strange Landscapes Need Better Questions - Christopher Knowles

Interviewed and via Mike Clelland. You can find Christophers blog over here. Both are excellent in their own way.

The Trickster Archetype (Wave Particle Super Woo Duality)

One of the challenges about the poorly named UFO phenomena is how quickly and extensively it spreads into every area of super woo phenomena. I got into it by targeting quantum mechanics and mysticism for personal study at the beginning of the year and every trail led to UFOs or aliens at some point . As I was studying mysticism, hermeticism and gnosticism I thought it couldn't be that much of a side path to take a fun stroll down.

I couldn't have been more wrong.

And so it's important to say that I don't really find UFO's all that interesting. I find the possible occupants of these craft interesting and that interest doubled as I learned from the likes of Dr. Karla Turner and Niara Isley that the military has a close working relationship with, and is often performing the abductions to conduct experiments on people that are all about  the genetics, the genetics, the genetics.

So it's easy to be misrepresented as to what I'm interested in but the reality is I'm the last to have cause to complain because I've been deceiving myself. All along I've drawn the line at Cryptozoology because it's one thing to be exploring popular culture mysteries that have a military industrial complex trail of evidence, but did I really want to be investing time in Bigfoot and The Mothman prophecies? They just seemed so lo-tech to me and it is this that unveils my cultural bias.

Well, it took a British Midlander's point of view to hold up a mirror to myself because even though I don't wish to pursue CZoology (look I can barely bring myself to spell it out) as a subject I now accept that it's all one big overlapping Venn diagram clusterfuck overlap of super woo Rorschach testing and exploring of the self. Synchromysticism cranks up around UFOs, and UFO's crank up around Cryptozoology sightings and so on and so forth. You get the picture.

Listening to Nick Redfern and the likes of Christopher Knowles and Mike Clelland of late I've  had to accept that as much as I'd like to have nice neat lines of confusion the reality is I haven't got a clue what is going on with the multi dimensional and multiple tiered nuanced and highly contextual subject.

I guess I should have followed my own advice from the way back machine. Everything is contextual. The Trickster is at at play as author Christopher O'Brien explains to a witless interviewer in this interview and as Nick carefully relates below where he says 'it's not that it's just weird, it's too weird'. I didn't want to be here but here I am anyway so I might as well just accept it. It's not cut and dried. Nothing ever is.

Update: Below Nick Redfern I've posted a two part Christopher O'Brien podcast interview on a similar subject though there's some interesting 2012 perspectives in there too and below that (hopefully) is Mike Clelland interviewing Christopher O'Brien on stalking the trickster.

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