Elemental Mysteries Energy, Number,
and Frequency

The heavens, Pythagoras "taught, are the realm of pure number, where objects move in perfect, unchanging circles, the realm that can best be perceived through pure reason. . .
"Our only release from our earthly body, 'the tomb of the soul,' is withdrawal from the world to dispassionate contemplation of reason and mathematics." ¹
Perennial Tradition explores how Divine Consciousness manifests as energy, through such ordering principles as number and frequency. Perennialist teachers Hermes, Pythagoras, and Plato explicated how energy, number, and frequency comprise the elemental substrate of Reality.

"But now the sight of day and night, and the months and the revolutions of the years have created number and have given us a conception of time, and the power of inquiring about the nature of the universe. And from this source we have derived philosophy, than which no greater good ever was or will be given by the gods to mortal man."

Plato, Timaeus

The Perennial Tradition deals with fundamental mysteries and the most basic questions:

Why is there being at all?

Why is our physical world ordered, and not governed by incoherent chaos?

Why and how is this "Cosmos" (as the Greeks termed it) intelligible to humans?

What is the essence of these organizing principles: number, frequency, pattern, structure, harmony, culture, and form?

How do these organizing principles make apperception, understanding, and intelligence possible?
In this essay, we investigate elemental, unknown, as yet inexplicable realities--in short, Mysteries. Unfortunately, to the ordinary mind these essences will seem commonplace and lackluster. To them, there will appear to be no supernatural quality in such awe-inspiring Mysteries as being, existence, space, time, goodness, number, and frequency.

"The deeper secrets and laws of our being are self-protected; to learn them requires an adaptation of character and purpose, and a humility of mind and spirit, inconsistent with those displayed by the perverse or merely curious enquirer. To understand, let alone practically to explore, the Hermetic Mystery is not for every one--at least, at his present state of evolutional unfolding. . . . Only to those whose spiritual destiny has already equipped them with a certain high measure of moral and intellectual fitness will even a rough notional apprehension of it be practicable."Mary A. Atwood, Hermetic Philosophy and Alchemy, 1850

Pythagoras, Plato, and later Perennialist savants have demonstrated that Reality is constructed, at its deepest level, by the imposition of divine organizing principles. Such principles as "energy," "number," and "frequency" are not merely mental patterns of thought imposed on a "blank tablet" (tabula rasa) of bodily sensations. These canons of order are imminent in physical reality and are discoverable through philosophical, mathematical, and scientific investigation.

Apocalypse Turd

This photo released by the Capla Kesting Gallery(CKG) shows a sculpture purportedly cast from 19-week old Suri Cruise's first bowel movement. The work by controversial artist Daniel Edwards, is to be auctioned off for charity on eBay next month

BURNING MAN GOES GREEN

Meredith May, Chronicle Staff Writer

Saturday, August 26, 2006

With the Burning Man art festival in the Nevada desert starting Monday, a group of San Francisco scientists is busy calculating how much the event contributes to global warming.

Encouraged by the resurgence of the green movement, the scientists are taking a hard look at all those sacred flaming temples, gas-powered scooters shaped like cupcakes, and hundreds of rumbling RVs that converge for a week on the dry Black Rock Desert lakebed.

With an idea that would make Al Gore smile, the scientists have created Cooling Man, an online calculator that determines how many tons of greenhouse gases each of the 37,000 "burners" will produce with their art projects and community camps.

For the first time, Burning Man participants will be able to "offset" their global warming impact much the same way large corporations do, by investing in clean energy projects.

"We think Cooling Man is pretty cool," said Marian Goodell, Burning Man's director of communications and business.

Visit the Cooling Man Web site, www.coolingman.org

Law Enforcement Officials

Search for U.S.-Born Terrorists

Associated Press WorldStream
via NewsEdge Corporation

WASHINGTON_U.S-born terrorists - as well as potential ones - are stirring the government's interest.

Worried about American citizens attacking their own country, law enforcement and intelligence officials are trying to learn how and why extremist sympathizers cross a line and become operational terrorists.

Intelligence officials now fear that homegrowns pose as much of a threat to the U.S. as foreign terrorists. State and local police are being enlisted to watch for signs from people who in the past would have never gotten a second look.

"We want to understand the phenomena: What causes a person from being, say, extreme in views, to moving to actually committing violence?" said Charles E. Allen, chief intelligence officer at the Homeland Security Department.

Word said the federal government also "needs to broaden the scope of what terrorism is and what homeland security is."

There is more brutality on any street corner in China than in a splatter porn film, yet Chinese films are still subject to censorship. One example is director Lou Ye, whose film "Summer Palace" has him threatened with a professional ban. But if you ask around, you get the impression no one is really incensed about censorship because it can do very little to curtail the truth. By Susanne Messmer read more

Modern art in Utopia

Zamosc, the "Padua of the North," planned as an ideal city in the 16th century, is a remote town in the Polish provinces. Until the international art scene came to stay, that is. Now Sabrina van der Ley and Markus Richter have enticed a group of artists to come create works on the theme "Ideal City - Invisible Cities." By Birgit Rieger
(Image: Jaroslaw Flicinski, Up, up and away, 2006)
read more

The puppet in the net

Year after year war is declared on the Mafia in Bulgaria, and each time it is ineffective. The Mafia has infiltrated society in Eastern Europe, and is on the verge of infecting the old EU countries as well. Because the Mafia in Bulgaria is not a part of the state: the state, instead, is a part of the Mafia. Writer Ilija Trojanow looks at the tangled web of crime and politics in his home country. read more

The last station

Indian author Kiran Nagarkar thought he knew a thing or two about terrorism, having recently written a novel about "God's Little Soldier." But when the terrorists struck last week in Mumbai he was left with a feeling of disbelief, dismay and incomprehension.
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Healing takes time

Jasmila Zbanic's debut feature film "Grbavica" about life in post-war Bosnia won the Golden Bear at this year's Berlinale. Here, the young director talks with Jan Schulz-Ojala about the war's ugly aftermath, the boycott of her film and the redemptive possiblities of art.
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Knowledge and its price

We live in a knowledge society, but it knows very little about itself. Information technologies allow us to organise knowledge faster than ever, yet we are regularly warned that we are losing touch with knowledge. The total of all stored knowledge is an exotic 5 exabytes, but a closer look reveals a network of one-way streets, detours, and barred routes. By Rüdiger Wischenbart read more

Submarine Channel

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Offering a smorgasbord of weirdness usually in the form of animation and who knows what else is Submarine channel. If you're into bizarre erotic video games and animated comic books...check it out!

RoadTrip update

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The RoadTrip 'Art After Crisis' has been updated with two Balkan cities: Prishtina and Tirana. Ever since his first visit to wartime Sarajevo, traveling writer Chris Keulemans has been fascinated by the way artists reinvent their work, their city and their life after a period of war or dictatorship. For our RoadTrip 'Art After Crisis' Chris will travel to nine cities, such as Sarajevo, Tirana, New York and Baghdad... Along the way, all the material he collects will be on the site. Travel stories, audio interviews, videos and photographs. And of course, the new art of all these cities itself.

>> Art After Crisis

via: Killing My Lobster

Self Century

The Century of the Self posted 03/21/2006, 9:29 PM (InformationLiberation)

The Untold History Of Controlling The Masses Through The Manipulation Of Unconscious Desires

"The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country.

We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of. This is a logical result of the way in which our democratic society is organized." - Edward Bernays

THE CENTURY OF THE SELF

Adam Curtis' acclaimed series examines the rise of the all-consuming self against the backdrop of the Freud dynasty.

To many in both politics and business, the triumph of the self is the ultimate expression of democracy, where power has finally moved to the people. Certainly the people may feel they are in charge, but are they really? The Century of the Self tells the untold and sometimes controversial story of the growth of the mass-consumer society in Britain and the United States. How was the all-consuming self created, by whom, and in whose interests?

The Freud dynasty is at the heart of this compelling social history. Sigmund Freud, founder of psychoanalysis; Edward Bernays, who invented public relations; Anna Freud, Sigmund's devoted daughter; and present-day PR guru and Sigmund's great grandson, Matthew Freud.

Sigmund Freud's work into the bubbling and murky world of the subconscious changed the world. By introducing a technique to probe the unconscious mind, Freud provided useful tools for understanding the secret desires of the masses. Unwittingly, his work served as the precursor to a world full of political spin doctors, marketing moguls, and society's belief that the pursuit of satisfaction and happiness is man's ultimate goal.
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Soul Vessels

Alchemical Vessels as Soul Containers

Written by: Carbonek @ Book of Thoth

Medieval and renaissance alchemical manuscripts are often wonderfully illustrated with detailed and complicated images of the individual steps in the process of alchemy.

In many of these images, the process depicted involves the use of a vessel of various shapes and materials. The alchemical process occurs in these vessels, including processes of combination, separation, dissolution, heating, and evaporation.

While the vessel, or vas, itself appears to be a commonly used piece of laboratory equipment, for the alchemist, the vessel was much more than that, as Jung describes:

“Although an instrument, it nevertheless has peculiar connections with the prima materia as well as with the lapis, so it is no mere piece of apparatus. For the alchemists the vessel is something truly marvelous: a vas mirabile….. One naturally thinks of this vessel as a sort of retort or flask; but one soon learns that this is an inadequate conception since the vessel is more a mystical idea, a true symbol like all the central ideas of alchemy” (CW Vol.14 251).

The alchemical arts have a dual nature, one which may be described as external, embodied and practical, and another which is internal, spiritual, and abstract (Henderson and Sherwood 7). While there were certainly those who practiced alchemy in a physical way, that is, with laboratory equipment with the goal of transmutating a base material into gold (chrysopoeia), or developing an elixir of immortality (spagyrics), it is clear that the metaphor of a laboratory process was more valuable to alchemists as a way to describe what was a psychological and spiritual practice in an attempt to improve themselves as human beings (Henderson and Sherwood 7). Jung "sees a projection of the process of individuation in the steps performed by alchemists" and "devoted many years to the psychological interpretation of alchemical symbology" (Ellenberger 719).

Sacred Cacti

Psychedelic Salon - 025
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"Cacti"

Sasha Shulgin - www.palenquenorte.org This podcast of the Psychedelic Salon Sasha Shulgin's in-depth talk about cacti, which was given at the 2002 Mind States Conference held in Jamaica. After podcast #022 of another talk Sasha gave in Jamaica, we received a lot of eMail saying, "More Dr. Shulgin!!!!" . . . And so, here he is once again.

Although Sasha has given a lot of presentations at conferences all over the world, it isn't often that he has devoted a single talk exclusively to a discussion of his extensive research into these intriguing plants.

In addition to PIKAL and TIKAL, Transform Press has also published Sasha's new book about cacti, all of which are listed in the BOOKS section on the Shulgin's page at Palenque Norte.

Sasha Shulgin
(photo by Jon Hanna)

Another of Sasha's talks about cacti is now online at Sacred Elixirs.

SACRED ELIXIRS PODCASTS A conference on the role of drug plants in the history of religion San Jose, CA October 22 & 23, 2005

"A New Elixir" with Earl Crockett & Sasha Shulgin right click to download part1 part2

Bad Gas

Who Are These Bastards?

He does it

Bad Gas is shat out and then maintained by Nobody.

Nobody

Image Of The Moment

He helps

Fanley is responsible for Lookunlikes and The Google Non-whack. He also reviews drafts, submits rubbish and performs a technically excellent Lynndie.

Fanley

If Nobody has abused you or refuses to answer your e-mails, you can try your luck with Fanley: fanley@badgas.co.uk.

So does he

Smith sends links, looks at things and smashes people in the face.

Smith

If you're a clingy, freakish e-mail addict, why not contact him? He's here: smith@badgas.co.uk.

A man (New)

Chard has sour things sprouting in his mind. He uses Photoshop to translate them into pictures. You look at those pictures.

Chard

Pathologically friendless? Need some money transferred out of Nigeria? Chard is your man: ridchardt@excite.com.

Well done, Spurr, for noticing that the BBC have caught on to the Nigerian scambaiters. At least they chose the best in the business; who else but the 419eater crew could manage to persuade a fat Nigerian man to paint a big red 9 on his saggy tit?

If half-naked African men aren't your thing, then you could always dip into the video library to see what's new. Who knows? You might see a cat smacking a baby, some climbers falling off a cliff, a cat having an epileptic fit, some American teenagers frightening people to death with an airhorn or somebody having fireworks aimed at them. Thanks to Flash and Fanley for the help.

And if all of this is a bit too much for you and you have a slightly weak disposition, perhaps a photo of a rectal prolapse will keep you happy.

7 July 2004

At Norwegian music festivals, people sometimes get up on stage and start having sex. I'm glad they don't do that in England, because people tend to be a lot fatter and uglier here. Especially people who go to music festivals.

And I just stumbled on this enjoyable little number. Some of the photos show an incredible amount of patience and dedication.

American bitch

Kitty Bukkake is this: a cigarette-Photoshopper; a pedant; and a muse for things that are toxic, pustulated and downright funny.

Kitty

Go and stuff her words in your eyes. Even better, watch her latest video.

BEAUTIFUL is not exactly a music video.

“Begins like a laudanum-induced Christina Aguilera karaoke hallucination, then u-turns into Carrie meets Karen Finley meets a back-alley psychosexual nightmare.” — Xeni Jardin, Boing Boing, September 12, 2004

Shot on July 18, 2004 in Historic West Adams, Los Angeles.

Performed and directed by Jen Collins
Camera: Julian Hoeber
Stills: Ann-Marie Rounkle

Warning: This performance is not work-safe. Enjoy at your own risk.

Video

watch video (27 MB)

clip - what?

watch clip (1.7 MB)

Feeling down? Want to sing along? You need a Beautiful prayer card. Send a self-addressed, stamped envelope or alms for the poor to:

Jen Collins
PO Box 27611
Los Angeles, CA 90027-0611
Offer good while supplies last or until I get sued, whichever comes first.

Louisiana 1927/Louisiana 2005

Louisiana 1927
Louisiana 2005

by Randy Newman

What has happened down here is the wind have changed
Clouds roll in from the north and it started to rain
Rained real hard and rained for a real long time
Six feet of water in the streets of Evangeline

via: susan alcorn.com (listen to her pedal steel version)

also (via: ickmusic):

Aaron Neville: Louisiana 1927 (mp3 on this page)

Hemp Farming Approved

California Senate Approves Hemp Farming

Bill would allow hemp farming in California

By Don Thompson
Associated Press, August 17, 2006 Straight to the Source

Sacramento, Calif. (AP) -- California farmers could legally grow industrial hemp under a bill approved by the state Senate that distinguishes it from a widely grown distant cousin: marijuana.

Hemp "bears no more resemblance to marijuana than a poodle bears to a wolf," said Sen. Tom McClintock, a Republican. "You would die from smoke inhalation before you would get high."

He said industrial hemp was improperly lumped into the ban on marijuana in 1937 after it had been grown commercially for decades by American farmers, including George Washington and Thomas Jefferson.

The legislation, which passed 26-13 and now goes back to the Assembly, would require that the hemp crop be tested before harvesting to make sure it has only a trace amount of tetrahydrocannabinols, or THC, the drug in marijuana.

No matter the concentration of THC, hemp currently can't be legally grown in the United States without a difficult-to-get permit from the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration. The bill attempts to avoid federal restrictions by requiring farmers to sell the hemp only to California processors to avoid any interstate commerce that could bring federal intervention.

The crop can be used in a variety of products, including clothing, cosmetics, food, paper, rope, jewelry, luggage, sports equipment and toys. As food, supporters say it is high in essential fatty acids, protein, B vitamins and fiber.

Russians Forecast Cooling

Russian Scientists Forecast Global Cooling

Created: 25.08.2006 17:47 MSK (GMT +3), Updated: 22:33 MSK

MosNews

Global cooling could develop on Earth in 50 years and have serious consequences before it is replaced by a period of warming in the early 22nd century, a Russian Academy of Sciences’ astronomical observatory’s report says, the RIA Novosti news agency reported Friday.

Environmentalists and scientists warn not about the dangers of global warming provoked by man’s detrimental effect on the planet’s climate, but global cooling. Though never widely supported, it is a theory postulating an overwhelming cooling of the Earth which could involve glaciation.

“On the basis of our [solar emission] research, we developed a scenario of a global cooling of the Earth’s climate by the middle of this century and the beginning of a regular 200-year-long cycle of the climate’s global warming at the start of the 22nd century,” said the head of the space research sector.

Khabibullo Abdusamatov said he and his colleagues had concluded that a period of global cooling similar to one seen in the late 17th century — when canals froze in the Netherlands and people had to leave their dwellings in Greenland — could start in 2012-2015 and reach its peak in 2055-2060.

Fluoride Conspiracy

The Fluoride Conspiracy (ekosTV)

"Tell a lie loud enough and long enough and people will believe it."
- Adolf Hitler

"Fluoridation is the greatest case of scientific fraud of this century."
- Robert Carlton, Ph.D, former EPA scientist, 1992

The history of forcing fluoride on humans through the fluoridation of drinking water is wrought with lies, greed and deception. Governments that add fluoride to drinking water supplies insist that it is safe, beneficial and necessary, however, scientific evidence shows that fluoride is not safe to ingest and areas that fluoridate their drinking water supplies have higher rates of cavities, cancer, dental fluorosis, osteoporosis and other health problems. Because of the push from the aluminum industry, pharmaceutical companies and weapons manufacturers, fluoride continues to be added to water supplies all over North America and due to recent legal actions against water companies that fluoridate drinking water supplies, precedent has been set that will make it impossible for suits to be filed against water suppliers that fluoridate. There is a growing resistance against adding toxic fluoride to our water supplies, but unfortunately, because fluoride has become "the lifeblood of the modern industrial economy"(Bryson 2004), there is too much money at stake for those who endorse water fluoridation . The lies of the benefits of water fluoridation will continue to be fed to the public, not to encourage health benefits to a large number of people, but to profit the military-industrial complex.

The story begins in 1924, when Interessen Gemeinschaft Farben (I.G. Farben), a German chemical manufacturing company, began receiving loans from American bankers, gradually leading to the creation of the huge I.G. Farben cartel. In 1928 Henry Ford and American Standard Oil Company (The Rockefellers) merged their assets with I.G. Farben, and by the early thirties, there were more than a hundred American corporations which had subsidiaries and co-operative understandings in Germany. The I.G. Farben assets in America were controlled by a holding Company, American I.G. Farben, which listed on it’s board of directors: Edsel Ford, President of the Ford Motor Company, Chas. E. Mitchell, President of Rockerfeller’s National City Bank of New York, Walter Teagle, President of Standard Oil New York, Paul Warburg, Chairman of the federal reserve and brother of Max Warburg, financier of Germany’s War effort, Herman Metz, a director of the Bank of Manhattan, controlled by the Warburgs, and a number of other members, three of which were tried and convicted as German war criminals for their crimes against humanity. In 1939 under the Alted agreement, the American Aluminum Company (ALCOA), then the worlds largest producer of sodium fluoride, and the Dow Chemical Company transferred its technology to Germany. Colgate, Kellogg, Dupont and many other companies eventually signed cartel agreements with I.G. Farben, creating a powerful lobby group accurately dubbed "the fluoride mafia"(Stephen 1995).

At the end of World War II, the US government sent Charles Eliot Perkins, a research worker in chemistry, biochemistry, physiology and pathology, to take charge of the vast Farben chemical plants in Germany. The German chemists told Perkins of a scheme which they had devised during the war and had been adapted by the German General Staff. The German chemists explained of their attempt to control the population in any given area through the mass medication of drinking water with sodium fluoride, a tactic used in German and Russian prisoner of war camps to make the prisoners "stupid and docile"(Stephen 1995). Farben had developed plans during the war to fluoridate the occupied countries because it was found that fluoridation caused slight damage to a specific part of the brain, making it more difficult for the person affected to defend his freedom and causing the individual to become more docile towards authority. Fluoride remains one of the strongest anti-psychotic substances known, and is contained in twenty-five percent of the major tranquilizers. It may not seem surprising that Hitler’s regime practiced the concept of mind control through chemical means, but the American military continued Nazi research, exploring techniques to incapacitate an enemy or medicate an entire nation. As stated in the Rockerfeller Report, a Presidential briefing on CIA activities, "the drug program was part of a much larger CIA program to study possible means of controlling human behavior"(Stephen 1995).

The ‘dental caries prevention myth’ associated with fluoride, originated in the United States in 1939...

Technomania

How Technomania Is Overtaking the Millennium

By: Langdon Winner.

WE ARE TOLD that "it" looms before us as an irresistible force, a world-transforming dynamism that will eliminate our jobs, educate our children, revolutionize our families, erode our privacy and modify our genes. Faced with "it," there is no alternative, nothing left but to accept the inevitable and celebrate its coming. From now on "it" will determine what the future brings.

The "it" is, of course, technology. As the new millennium beckons, a dazzling array of books, news stories, advertisements and television specials boldly proclaims: Technology holds the key to human destiny.

Typical of this barrage is a recent issue of The New York Times Magazine on the theme "What Technology Is Doing to Us." The magazine assembled a dozen well known writers to enthusiastically explain how technology accelerates the pulse of activity, dominates our personal habits, reshapes the social order and fosters exotic dreams of transcendence.

The Times' musings - which led off with an essay glibly proclaiming that "Technology Is Making Us Better" - merely update what is now a cottage industry in cheerful soothsaying. It's a tradition as old as the internal-combustion engine. During the past two centuries, students of the social "impacts" of technological change have been drawn to ideas of determinism and fatalism. But never, in my experience, has the pungency of such beliefs been as strong as we see today. From the tacky neon pages of Wired magazine to fawning features in the Sunday papers, we find wholehearted embrace of the notion that a technology-driven universe is at hand and that any hope for reasonable human intervention is beside the point. This willful fatalism even permeates examinations of technology's darker side.

Consider the growing stream of reports about threats to personal privacy posed by emerging systems of digital information. America's leading news magazines have been warning readers for some time about the ways that workplace surveillance, on-line monitoring and the built-in tracking abilities of electronic networks generate data trails that provide distant organizations access to the most intimate details of everybody's life history. While these stories sometimes offer advice on how clever consumers can achieve partial shelter from the onslaught, they typically assume that privacy-wrecking electronics are now so deeply entrenched that systematic remedies are unthinkable.

In "No Place to Hide," a chilling sketch of surveillance techniques in Forbes, reporter Ann Marsh worries that information networks "will bring on Orwell's 1984, making us all slaves of the state." Does this mean we need new laws and vigorous citizen action to resist the spreading menace? Heavens, no. Marsh concludes that "the damned thing is practically here. Let the chips fall where they may."

From nearly a decade ago...it shows how little we heed the warning signs. -Ib

Naufana

Naufana is one of the Seven Cities of the Red Night, that contributor William S. Burroughs wrote about.
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Hexagram 31 is "Conjoining". Other variations include "influence (wooing)" and "feelings". Its inner trigram is bound = mountain, and its outer trigram is open = swamp.

T'sun Ken

I have traveled to T'sun Ken, the ancient center of Naufana before the Erectaclysm, to study the graffitii that still is visible in some of the partially submerged temples in the swamps at the base of the Glass Mountain. This Mountain was created by the earthquakes that devestated Naufana.

I have been addicted to pornography since my stay in Ba'Dan and found myself without female consort. When I got to the University city of Wagdas I quickly discovered the pornography section of the library. It was full of the history of pornography and not just from this planet, but from all over the multiverse.

When I learned of the erotic graffiti that existed in the ancient temples of Naufana I was completely obsessed. Legends of strange elaborate graffiti/art work with humans copulating with plants, or as some describe them plant people. I found these legends in out of the way sources in my quest for really strange porn. I decided that I would do a expedition to these temples and see for myself this ancient pornographic graffitti.

Erectaclysm

From Key 23 Hypersigil

Erectaclysm is a word that is a combination of Erection and Cataclysm. It refers specifically to the great natural disasters that have unleased DOR/ Deadly Orgone Radiation. Earthquakes that move a significant amount of material are know to release uranium and other natural radio-active products and mix them with organic material and quartz crytal in natural layers. There are a number of these occurances on record even in the last 900 years. Glass Mountain near Mt. Shasta is a black obsidian lava flow. Black Obsidian happens to be radio-active and when leaked from the ground and then embeded in organic material becomes a monumental deadly orgone accumulator.

Society is disrupted for long periods even after the destruction from the earthquakes has passed. The Erectaclysm comes when the DOR drives a significant number of men insane and they destroy the survivors. These ravening madmen with engorged erections hanging out of their flys and glazed eyes wreak havok on anyone they catch.

The Erectaclysms are so horrid that their traces have been removed from most historical texts. There is a Board Book called Erectaclypsis that contains the only know histories of these disasters. This book (the original) is suspected to be hidden in a cashe of documents that were bricked into the wall of certain Masonic Temples around the world. Photographs of certain plates of copies/forgeries are all that are known to be available.

Faemblem of divstellatio

From Key 23 Hypersigil

Faemblem of Divstellatio

We have only the influence of this text by which to know it, no surviving fragments of it remain. Only by examining the true necronomicon with the aid of other texts from that time can one become aware that there must have been an ur-text. Once the sun is placed within a Conman, the Faemblem of Divstellatio will be fulfilled. Authored thousands of years ago, long before the Erectaclysm destroyed the Toltecs and created the Bay of Mexico, this text is considered the primary source from which Abd Alhazred learnt his magics, and the viracochas Votan took the knowledge he gained from this text and used it to retire in the netherlands once his work in what is now called Peru was complete.

Gut Instinct

Published on Sunday, August 27, 2006 by the Toronto Star

A Hunch About Gut Instincts

by David G. Myers

Say this much for President George Bush: He is not deaf to the inner whispers of his intuition. "I know there's no evidence that shows the death penalty has a deterrent effect," he reportedly said as Texas governor, "but I just feel in my gut it must be true."

Six years and two wars into his presidency, Bush still relies on his gut instincts. His recent fly-in to Baghdad was, he explained to U.S. troops, "to look Prime Minister (Nouri) Maliki in the eyes — to determine whether or not he is as dedicated to a free Iraq as you are." The president's snap assessment? "I believe he is." He told Larry King in an interview last month: "If you make decisions based upon what you believe in your heart of hearts, you stay resolved."

In flying by the seat of his pants, Bush has much company. "Buried deep within each and every one of us, there is an instinctive, heartfelt awareness that provides — if we allow it to — the most reliable guide," offered Prince Charles, whose decisions also have been relentlessly second-guessed for much of his adult life.

For those disposed to follow their inner guide, today's pop psychology offers books on "intuitive healing," "intuitive learning," "intuitive managing," "intuitive trading" and much more. So, when hiring and firing, fearing and risking, investing and gambling, should we follow Bush's example and tune down that analytical, linear, left-brained mind? Should we stop obsessing over logic and data and trust the force within?

Today's psychological science documents a vast intuitive mind. More than we realize, our thinking, memory and attitudes operate on two levels — conscious and unconscious — with the larger part operating automatically. We know more than we know we know. Studies show that as we gain expertise, even reasoned judgments can become automatic. Rather than wend their way through a decision tree, experienced car mechanics and physicians will often, after a quick listen and look, diagnose problems. Chess masters intuitively know the right move.

Terrorism News

war is terror

via: the rings around uranus

The Telling of the Bees

CONTRIBUTIONS FROM
THE MUSEUM OF JURASSIC TECHNOLOGY

COLLECTIONS AND EXHIBITIONS

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Tell the Bees...
Belief, Knowledge and Hypersymbolic Cognition

In the early years of the 20th century, however, there began a movement which flourished under the banner of The Restitution of Decayed Intelligence. Among individuals from various disciplines, it began to be clear that the powerful forces of rationality in their admirable but relentless quest for a reasonable and enlightened future were leaving a swath of decimation in the vast, yet often fragile body of what was by then known as "vulgar knowledge".

Although wide spread, the movement as a whole drew essential inspiration from the writings of Samuel Osprey, who though born in Scotland, settled in Florida in the decade of the teens where he founded the Society for the Restitution of Decayed Intelligence.

The work of the society continued through the 20th century and has had far reaching effects in many ways in many areas of endeavor. We have already noted the extraordinary advances in the field of medicine, which resulted from the restitution of decayed intelligence, but many other fields of endeavor have also been strongly affected. In literature, for example, the early years of this century saw such giants as William Butler Yeats and James Joyce, who's writings were profoundly affected by common knowledge. In the musical world, Charles Ives and Aaron Copland to name just two, drew important inspiration from the music of the common man.

In a similar way, this renaissance of interest in the application of the vast body of vulgar or common knowledge has profoundly effected the fields of ontology and epistemology - the various studies of our methods of comprehending our world - through a renewed interest in and investigation of the beliefs and practices often unceremoniously dismissed as "superstition."

Just as the investigations of various discarded vulgar remedies have led to many important pharmacological discoveries, the investigation of cast off "superstitions" or vulgar knowledge often leads to important advances in the ways in which we understand the mechanisms of the world around us - ontological understandings.

This field of endeavor, however, has been less well developed and is, in fact, only now beginning to be appreciated for the vast, if sometimes overwhelming vista it presents.

Like the period of the flowering of folk remedies into modern pharmaceuticals, there has been building for some time now an interest in what has come to be called "superstition" not just from a folkloric perspective, but from a perspective of recognition of the simple efficacy of the beliefs and practices in question and a corresponding wave of interest in the mechanisms by which these often seemingly nonsensical practices work.

"The efficacy of the practice of certain "superstitious" beliefs is not the question... Our efforts now should be in the direction of by what mechanisms, with which subjects and under what conditions are the practices of these beliefs potent and, contrariwise, by what mechanisms, with which subjects and under what conditions are the practices of these beliefs impotent"

The vista of this field is vast and can be overwhelming. It was, in fact, only toward the end of the last century that this enormous body of vulgar knowledge or traditional belief even came to be gathered (and, unfortunately, dismissed) under the rubric "superstition". Prior to that time vulgar knowledge was contiguous with all other knowledge and not ghettoized, so to speak, under the spurious classification of "superstition".

In order to not to be set hopelessly adrift in this seemingly endless sea of complex and interrelating beliefs, this exhibition has limited its discussion into five areas of inquiry and each exhibit bears a mark which should help the visitor in the identification of the source of the particular belief. The five areas of inquiry are:

Many of the beliefs illuminated in this exhibition are and have been practiced in surprisingly similar forms by peoples separated by hundreds or thousands of miles and often hundreds or thousands of years. One such belief is the belief from which this exhibition draws its name - The Telling of the Bees.

Jews for Jesus

Mason Sues Jews for Jesus Over Pamphlet

NEW YORK (AP) - Jackie Mason is suing Jews for Jesus, claiming the missionary group damaged him by using his name and likeness in a pamphlet.

"While I have the utmost respect for people who practice the Christian faith, the fact is, as everyone knows, I am as Jewish as a matzo ball or kosher salami," the 75-year-old comedian said in documents filed in state Supreme Court in Manhattan.

Founded in the 1970s, Jews for Jesus practices Judaism but regards Jesus as the Messiah.

The $2 million lawsuit seeks the immediate destruction of the pamphlets, which Jews for Jesus members have been handing out at various points around New York City.

(AP) Comic Jackie Mason addresses the media at a comedy club in Chicago on Aug 28, 2002. Mason is suing...
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The pamphlets feature an image of Mason next to the words "Jackie Mason ... A Jew for Jesus!?" with information inside that outlines the similarities between Jews and Christians.

"The pamphlet uses my name, my likeness, my 'shtick' (if you will), and my very act, which is derived from my personality, to attract attention and converts," Mason said in an affidavit.

Homeland Stupidity

Charges dropped, but six remain in Guantanamo Bay

By: Michael Hampton
Posted: August 24, 2006 4:04 am @ Homeland Stupidity

Six men suspected of plotting to blow up the U.S. Embassy in Sarajevo, Bosnia, were brought to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in 2002. They remain imprisoned there even though the charges against them were dropped.

The detainees and their lawyers claim that they are still being held because releasing them would mean the U.S. having to admit an embarrassing error, while the Pentagon says it has classified information indicating the men are dangerous.

In 2004, Bosnian prosecutors and police formally exonerated the six men after a lengthy criminal investigation. Last year, the Bosnian prime minister asked the Bush administration to release them, calling the case a miscarriage of justice. . . .

Senior Bosnian officials said they have been told by U.S. diplomats that the six Algerians will never be allowed to return to Bosnia, which had granted dual citizenship to most of the men before their seizure. Instead, U.S. officials have pressed Algeria to take back the prisoners on the condition that they be confined or kept under surveillance there. So far, the Algerian government has balked. . . .

“The Americans did not want to return me to Bosnia. Why? Because the Americans claimed to have evidence against me. I can’t be returned and found innocent,” Mustafa Ait Idr, one of the six Algerians, told a military tribunal at Guantanamo in October 2004, according to a transcript of the hearing.

“So now I am sitting here in Cuba and I do not know why. I do not know what is happening outside; I do not know. But what I do know is that this is a game.” — Washington Post

The Post has much more, including documents from Bosnia’s official investigations and transcripts of military tribunals held at Guantanamo Bay.

The Pentagon, for its part, says it has information which links the men to al-Qaeda, but the evidence which is known is flimsy at best, and they of course will not present the evidence to the detainees, even in the tribunals, saying it’s classified.

Sounds like a fair trial to me.

When The Ego Dies

“From the smallest particle to the largest galactic formation, a web of electrical circuitry connects and unifies all of nature, organizing galaxies, energizing stars, giving birth to planets and, on our own world, controlling weather and animating biological orgnanisms. There are no isolated islands in an electric universe".
David Talbott and Wallace Thornhill
Thunderbolts of the GodsWhen The Ego Dies...
By Michael Goodspeed
Thunderbolts.info
8-24-6

I wonder what it means when one mourns a loss before it has happened. Is it prophetic grieving, or self-fulfilling prophecy? I think the question is terribly important, now more than ever. A lot of us are living with a terrible sense of foreboding doom. Is our collective psychic gut tensing itself for some terrible tribulation, or are we actively dooming ourselves with our glum thinking?

I don't mean to be a wise-ass, but the answer is clearly "both." We feel the momentum of the past -- all of our habitual thoughts and behaviors as a species -- nudging us toward self-annihilation, and yet we feel powerless to change. Of course, we find this terrifying. I suspect it is the same inner dread that addicts feel when they sense the need for a fix coming on. Yes, they COULD resist the impulse for that first snort, shot, drink, or hit, but they know they lack the necessary will and clarity of purpose to do so.

So it is with the entire human race. We know this game is going to end tragically, even though the tragedy will be avoidable right up until the last moment. A miracle is necessary to save us, and miracles DO happen, but only when you believe in them. And when all you believe in is darkness, miracles are downright scary.

Darkness can be comforting. It affords one a place to hide, even if the light he is hiding from is actually his salvation. Most often, human beings hide in their concepts of themselves. You wake up in the morning and only feel safe if you know who you are. You think, "I am safe because my name is blah blah. I am special because my girlfriend loves me, I have a good job, my body looks great, and I'm better than most people. Of course, if I lost all of this, I would have know IDEA who I am, and life would lose all meaning."

This is the story of human life, and we all know how it ends...

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