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Treadwells Bookshop

I would write about my recent visit to London, but instead of boring people with my personal anecdotes of the city, I thought I would mention my Treadwell's experience.  As organized by proprietress Christina Harrington, for the last three and a half years Treadwell's has been an important nexus of the spiritual and occult undercurrents of London- like no other I might add.  To say that Christina herself is friendly is an understatement, her knowledge of local history, literature and the literati of the world was both humbling (which is not always easy for someone who considers themselves well read!), and enlightening.  The book selection at Treadwell's was very selective, and with enough variety to cater to any discerning intellectual's interest in a variety of subjects.  Christina and a number of regulars make the place a hub for friendly conversations- a 'feast for thought' of the kind I live for.  Shortly after first arriving I was introduced to some of the most amazing people I have ever met, both locals in London's occult community of mages and mystics, and a number of people from abroad.  Over the years I've been to many book shops and Treadwell's is on My Best Of list for being not just the most fabulous book store I have ever come across, but because it is so much more than just a book store.  I'm counting down the days when I can visit again, and if you have the opportunity to do so yourself I highly recommend it.

There aren't enough Runemaster's around

Poor Oswald the Runemaker.  The English Runemaster, owner of the excellent http://www.runemaker.com and http://runeworks.co.uk/ His website warns that he's getting so many orders he's backed up until November.  Well I'm a little upset about that and I want everyone that comes to this site and buy some runeware and order so much stuff he gets backed up until Midsummer!

Quote of the Year Winner, Tony Long

"Conformity through consumption is the name of the game these days. What is a hipster, after all, other than a successful slave to the dictates of the pop culture police? A ponce like that isn't going to stick his neck out for anything. What? And risk having some baton-wielding cop break his iPod? I mean, how annoying is that?"

http://wired.com/news/columns/0,71096-0.html?tw=wn_index_5

Tony, once again, you hit it right on.  Hipsters are the latest morphology of yuppies.  I dare any hipster to deny this.

Someone out there might ask me, but it's only half way through the year, how do you know it will be the best?

Because these articles make the last six years with the radical conservatives in power as a missed opportunity to dust our hands of get to be focused.  In some sense we're still not behind the demographical menace of extremes in this country.  Its time to leave the shadow of past times behind us and make a difference in the world that we live in.  And you cant beat that.

Gorean Kaotians in Second Life

I've been playing Second Life in my free time.  While looking for something to do tonight,  I see the words, "Gorean camp" and I wondered, where had I heard that name before?

Then I remembered, after a long struggle, two days ago I read something about that.   Then I remember, it was something Brit and it had to do with sex cults.  Then I remembered, ahh yes, check the BBC history in my browser.  After pouring through dozens of bbc url's in my history, I came upon a link whose name intrigued me,

 

Police raided the terraced house in Darlington

"Officers discover sex-slave cult A sex slavery cult based on a series of 1960s science fiction novels has been uncovered by police"

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/4996410.stm

Now I dont think it strange to have a S & M community in SL, but I do think interesting how fiction --> sex cults --> Second Life club.  Now maybe it's just a sinister plot the persecuted "Kaotians" believers to go underground so as to continue their real life discipline and play their part in their "return to the "planet of Gor." These are the religious pilgrims of the 21 century; These people sound _just_ as weird as what everyone thought of the American Pilgrims. So what does this say about SL on the whole? 

I would think that Scientologists would feel right at home in Second Life.  Or I could be just exaggerating about how interesting 1960s science fiction novels inspire a dominant male and submissive females, sex cult, apparently wide spread in the UK.  There are many sex cults, my evidence for saying so is in every religion of the world.  They're all sex cults.  (And no I don't mean just Scientology)  And here it is, being played out in SL. 


Theres a certain pagan quality about it.  And thats a certain part of Self that has great difficulty in being contained. And _that_ says a lot about second life.  And what do I do, after thinking about this?  I go check out the club.

Long time readers will notice this is my first post about Second Life.  It's the most stunning space palace I have ever seen.  By space palace I mean dimensions. A space in what is called Waterhead (?) there exists a 3D cube in motion to represent a 4D cube of space time  all mathematicians know is not phyycially available to the conceptionalize, just model with numbers. And that says a lot about Second Life.  I have experianced incredibly good times and met some fantastic people my experience in-world has been.  I am sounding like a Scientologist not living in LA.  Theres quite a lot of qaballah to it.  I think you should try.  Let me know if you do :)

--runelogix Au

last ninja master admits best teaching method ever known

"Be able to kill your students"

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macs, linux, and windows

today finds me very happilly booting into operating system nirvana: OS X, Linux, and Windows XP all running on one machine. thank you god! i havent gotten microsoft vista to boot into this happy trio but i'm working on it.

Thelemites : program a NAEQ calculator into google

if you code it i'll send you a donation.

http://www.google.com/apis/

fireside chat : coffee to the people

unusual experience to report today. a complete stranger who i've come to admire in just three hours time.  so here it is.  i have a confession about a secret of mine.  i keep an internal list of conversations i've had tucked away in my brain that i treasure.  the memory's and experiences that i recall to have lived gives me one of my greatest pleasure out of life.  i have written this down after having one of those experiences today. 

i had heard an old hippie talking about the beats, "jack Kerouac.." i first heard called out.  i started to tune in. "...when I knew ginsberg in '65..." and other details. I, "moving over to over listen to this conversation."  the following is recorded from memory. i havent included private matters spoken about love of god, wife, and san francisco.  also some errors are certainly in the typescript.  some of the ordering is not linear as to the actual conversation, have patience for apparently random jumps in the conversation, i still think the impressions are powerful.

"you know acid was legal back then.  300 microns is enough to lose you shit with.  that's perfect for a transcendental experience, you wouldn't know if you were given more later on because your at such a peak already.  and the acid was, pretty much in unlimited supply.  that was a college kid thing.  college kids were into acid, it was hard to get them to buy marijuana.  marijuana was largely a negro or mexican thing and because everyone wanted to see you drop it your mouth before they did, you end up doing a couple of hundred drops and when the time they start feeling it, you'd be smoking weed, and offer it to them.  that was what really started white kids into the whole thing.   those were the early days though. 

the whole time seem to of been a kind of an initiatory trip in itself.  and this where you have to understand business, because you gotta understand, business as initiatory experience.

see, you have to know the three way hand shake, like computers need to communicate together.  its protocols and way of speaking english, the wrong way of speaking english i will remind you.  english as a language is not spoken in america.  you have to learn when to speak and when to keep your mouth shut.  when to be around and when to be scarce.  once you know the culture and speak the language you can go anywhere in the corporate world and survive.  so little of language is verbal is amazing.  its how you get along with others.

its group dynamics.  everything that a group does together, you me, you, and these people over here, are all part of a group that is changing the very chemistry of each other, right now.  growing up, going to school, a general education,  these are tools for learning how to survive in this culture. 

a free man has no need for any of this.  a free person has all of the things he needs to live his life without outside support.  if you can feed and clothe yourself, like the Indian people that lived here before the west, you dont need international trade.  you dont need all this "stuff" that people have.  if you are a wage slave or a rent slave, then guess what, you ain't free.  international trade means nothing to a free person.  you are not raised to run the business, you are the business.  and you need a whole system to train this officer corp.  this management class that needs a broad degree of specialization.

why do you think the elites are never given a general education. they are mentored.  they are tutored to learn the things you, the average person, are not supposed to know. 

this is the legacy of the whole matrix of matrimony left by Charlemagne.  a whole class of people who were only allowed to marry from a select small number of families.  back then they didn't want you to know that the land was common and could be used by anyone because they wanted to keep it for themselves.  this is how armies were formed around a king and nations were born.  the kings were endowed to divine right only through the church of rome, and thereby drawing the source of their power according to the relationship they had with the roman church.  and that depending on how much money they gave them.  it was this elaborate mess.wars were never fought for religion.  it was always for resources, power, *and making a hand movement* money.  and so this eh, structure and organization..." i interject, "hierarchy," yes this hierarchy of control.  and control is the key word to understanding all this. 

that is the chief legacy of the bishops and the jesuits.  the jesuits for they were the educators and scholars. their life pledged to poverty, and chastity nonsense.  the bishops ruled their parishes, and diocese like a kingdom.  when you commit a sin and you feel bad about it you go to the priest to confess.  he hears you out and gives consolations and says it will take so many hail marys and a donation. 

and so the specialized mentoring, thats the ah...

"journeyman?' i suggest. lets say that...and the source of masonry and architecture, religious...i say, "sacred geometry?"

well sort of like that, yes, but with buildings and highways. and it gets back to physics again, where the electron is spinning in all of our bodies the same way yet we are all very different.

the german princes didnt want to pay rome which was the basis of the reformation.  the netherlands were the praetorian guard, the secret service of rome.  why the secret service is part of the treasury  william penn priests figured out chemical difference of hydrogen and steel with oxygen.  with that oxygen removed, you had the ability with increasing the heat of forging steel.  and with steel you can wrap long strings of steel to make a rope and build stuff like golden gate bridge.  its all about oxygen. 

education is the key to control which is a tutored education from birth to death they, dont receive a general education like the rest of us.  like greek and latin.  latin was the language of rome, the language of the priests and the lawyers.

lawyers run temple bar london in pact with the priests.  a california governor is the source of jesuit progressives.  bush and that gang are just as crazy.  we are considered a young, immature, powerful country by the rest of the world and the  whole world is struggling in ways to bring us down.  and they want to bring down the power, and wealth, of this country.

here we are, american gangsters in a coffee shop.  free individuals that have come together in this non local space in time.  there were electrons that were made to move and i would like to know who it was that made them move.

san francisco is the most dangerous city in the world.  not ruled by the federal government or the U.N.

the gold rush that happened in the eighteen hundreds is never really over.  most of the gold never
left california.  why do you think this city is wealthy.  san francisco has all the gold under the city.  we even have more women working in this city then men.  new york doesnt have the same kind power to draw people like janis joplin from texas. 

we are the Elohim, the worlds highest authority in existence.

no two days are the same in san francisco.  situated on the edge of western civilization, it is truly the place where east meets west, kipling was a fool when he said west is west and east is east and the twain shall never meet, because here they meet. we have escaped the rule of rome. 

see people like that are not considered, intellectuals.'  what we are doing, talking here, is not a test, its a discovery. the journey itself is not what matters, its the moment.  everything is only a series of moments and to make those matters worth while, i have my wife, and i have my faith in god.

before kesey in san francisco, there were no freak outs, bad trips on acid.  it was un heard of.  then he came and started messing shit up. i ask "what about the diggers?" and he said, well since he was in theater business myself and was doing street theater , he knew that they were never really that big a deal in the city.  the reason why the attention is placed on them is the people behind them, politically, which happens to be the roman church.  and look at the name itself.  anyone who chose  that name would of have to of known about the fifteenth century Shrouded in a mystique of anonymity,

[[ the Diggers took their name from the original English Diggers (1649-50) who had promulgated a vision of society free from private property, and all forms of buying and selling. they were undercover jesuits.]]

i was involved with theater, film, and i ran the san francisco oracle underground newspaper.  the people, never forget that its the people that make a city special.  they are simply the extension of gods grace on earth.

this city belongs to jesus.  it was built in his name.  this peninsula was nothing but sand dunes with a couple of wooded knolls. the mission is the foundation of christ and is the only city in the state of california to built with such a divine purpose.  golden gate park is a testament of the people and community of this city to make a park.  we made that place, nothing there is natural.  nothing about us from the moment you put glasses on, use a cain or crutches is natural.  but we still exist in the world of three dimensions.  Rousseau and that school of empiricts destroyed everything.  they didn't know the category's... or geometry...

i say, "the platonic universe"

exactly.  under local church governance can redeem all property lands and use them as we see fit.  this was the mission of the knights of malta, knight templars, and others service to the church.  they were mercenaries, and extremely brutal.  they did everything bad a pack of males could do.  they want to make the new world order, one world government.  they are planning the mark with which you can not buy or sell without.  yes i know what madame blavatsky, aleister crowley, and hubburd want for the planet.

you know the source of the witch was as a collector of potions, magick herbs.  aphrodisics.  stimulents.  the statue of diane was shown wearing a garland of heroin poppy flowers.  not only that, she didnt have to breasts, i said, "she had thousands." the witch collected the poisions, that couldnt be traced, to kill one in your sleep, to make a man mad. "the weaker poisons being vaccines to heal." well, yes,vaccines. "a weak posion is nesasry to heal sometimes." yes you're right about that. [a secret realization came to me with that] the wiccans and pagans, they're all the same thing.  it was no joke about the witch and her broomstick, get kinky with it, she would give herself orgasms with it!  in fact if they found out where i was at i would probably have my throat pulled out from my mouth socket.

"have you revealed the secrets of a master mason?" i ask.  he didnt suspect a masonic challenge. 

well, yes i have revealed many secrets, secrets they don't want you to figure out what the church of rome is up to.  like the duke of bedford, the Marquess of Tavistock.  http://educate-yourself.org/nwo/nwotavistockbestkeptsecret.shtml [link semi functioning] the truth is all in there."

and this is probably the extent of my memory of the conversation, i'll be filling in more as i meditate about this conversation further.  happily, you can find out more about Daniel, captive of Babalon, at http://woodstocknation.org/

the genius and crazy is unmistakable: i love the trait. 

a smiling hippie in his sixties, took a moment to take it all in.  french beret, dark fiery eyes, greying long hair and a mushtache of epic proportions.

still living out times as forward  thinking and considerate you could ever hope to find.  as the hippies follow the setting sun, like the cowboys before them, they never die, they just fade away into the sunset.

Sun Opposition Med.Coeli exact at 19:31

Earth's precessional Great Year

great technical writeup of sidereal astro(logy)nomy

whats sidereal astrology?

The precession of the equinoxes, a phenomenon known to the ancients but forgotten by western astronomers during the Dark ages meant that the western zodiac based on the calendar became out of step with the heavens. They argue that Western astrologers have never done a catching up exercise and many still do not fully understand the implications of their error.

About 2,000 years ago, the two zodiacs were in approximate agreement and the vernal equinox fell at the start of the constellation Aries. Sidereal astrologers see the failure of most western astrologers to relate their work to the actual heavens which they claim to be interpreting as a sign of their ignorance of the astronomy and a fundamental degeneration of the subject.

Because of their inclination from the ecliptic, the planets are not restricted to the thirteen constellation of the ecliptic. The seven planets (excluding Pluto, which ranges more widely due to its high inclination) pass through 21 constellations. Thus there are 21 astronomical constellations of the zodiac. These are Aquarius, Aries, Cancer, Capricornus, Cetus, Corvus, Crater, Gemini, Hydra, Leo, Libra, Ophiuchus, Orion, Pegasus, Pisces, Sagittarius, Scorpius, Scutum, Sextans, Taurus, Virgo.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidereal_astrology

random appendix posts in the news

In other news...

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by GillBates0 (664202) on Tuesday February 14, @05:50PM (#14720142)
(http://slashdot.org/~GillBates0 | Last Journal: Thursday October 20, @01:54PM)

...scientists have determined that the human appendix is not an evolutionary anomaly as previously thought, but an intelligent design feature aimed at keeping the humans guessing as to it's actual function.

And in totally unrelated news, the Mozilla foundation recently announced that their flagship browser Firefox shall soon be renamed to Bigfoot, to reflect the software's large memory footprint.

More breaking news on these topics at 11.

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Re:In other news...

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by ajs (35943)  <[email protected] minus physicist> on Tuesday February 14, @08:21PM (#14721212)
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I've always had a problem with that view of the appendix. First off, one of the assertions made (e.g. by Joseph McCabe in 1912, and often cited since) is that, even if the appendix had some function (which recent research has been inconclusive on), it would clearly have been a greater function in the past in order to have been enough of a survival trait to be incorporated so universally into human anatomy. This, however, overlooks the fact that nearly all human organs had different purposes at one point in our evolution, and thus ANY non-essential organ, no matter how important would be considered "vestigal".

The other problem is that teh appendix has not gone away. One would expect that, at least in some large sample of humans, an organ that truly was useless would have gone away. This leads one to surmise that it serves some function which, while non-essential (you can live without it, after all) is almost certainly a survival trait in the broader context of humanity. Possible functions that would suit this purpose could include: reduction of harmful contaminants in food (possibly colesterol, which has been studdied recently); mitigation of some disease effects; and quite possibly a physical role in digestion (e.g. preventing certain kinds of particulate food from moving through the intestines as quickly as some other kinds).

These are all guesses, but what is known is that most "useless" organs have at one point or another in our history been determined to serve a crucial role. Even the brain was once thought to be nothing more than padding, protecting the eyes and neck.

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