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🧙♂️ Chromamancy & the Wheel of the Year
As I've discussed previously, I have RGB Lighting I Use for Chromamancy (which I also Use in my PC's BackGround). I'll Post more on Elements & Colour Theory soon, but suffice it to say this is "The Way" I do Colour Wheels - i.e., with Yellow on Top, Red on Right & Blue on Left. When not Using Colours specifically for Magickal Porpoises, I've found there is a Colour Progression to the Year, following this very loosely, which you may find of Use:
Green: March 1
Yellow: May 1
Orange: June 21
Red: Aug 1
Purple: Oct 1
Blue: Dec 1
Talking Heads' Lead David Byrne's Movie, "True Stories"- YouTube
There've been some interesting Synchronicities with the Talking Heads in the past 24 hours. Let's see if this Cult Classic triggers any more...
EDIT/PS: The Absurdity will make any Terry Gilliam Fan more than Happy in this 40 year old Movie, and a Perfect Movie for this Discordian 5th Month of the Year, May. I did NOT recall John Goodman having such a big part, and I can't help but wonder if this Movie helped him get on Roseanne?
🧙♂️ My Desk Mini-Altar
After Posting my more Public Altar a couple Months ago, I thought I'd Share my Desk Altar:
2 of my half dozen Large Quartz Crystals - the 2 I've been Using for NRG-Work, 1 in each Hand - Terminate each Side.
On the Right are 4 of the very 1st Magickal Item Ingredients I ever Purchased. I used to Create Medicine Bags back in the day to Give out to Friends & Family Using Random VaryUs™ Ingredients such as what is shown. I still LOVE the little Bottles with their little Cork Stoppers.
The RectAngular Stone = Earth (small) for me. E.g., it often Weighs Down things like my Phone, PC Camera, or a Mirror I have at my Desk, to STOP them from Moving, as Earth Does. Although I didn't Intentionally Do this, it occurs to me that it makes sense to put it betwixt Me & the small Tiki container behind it, which is a Soul Jar for Capturing & Crushing Spirits that Piss me off.
Next is my Gift from Mother Bear that I still need to rePost, likely in a Sunday soon...
I already spoke recently about the Metaphor of "Like Water Off a Duck's Back", and this is a reMinder that we need not even Engage with unDesireAbles.
I doubt I'll Share my Back Altar Behind my Entertainment System beyond the Reflection you can see to the right of the Samsung Logo, i.e.., the foot and a half PineCone from the RedWoods that's Resting on Antlers Gifted to me by Ma Nature decades ago on a very special Walk...
In the middle on the Left is the last of the 4 Piranha I caught when my Father & I Visited the Amazon back in the 1900s, shortly after Teddy Roosevelt (j/k I'm not THAT Old!). Such a misunderstood Fish whose Teeth are STILL Razor Sharp, thru the Decades and the Sealant!
Finally, you can See on the Left 1 of my RGB Lights that become NightLights after Dusk, still Green from St. Patty's Day before I Changed to Yellow/Gold in early May. I've been thinking of Posting a Colour Wheel around the Year, perhaps soon...
Poll Results: What is your Octarine Colour of Magick?
The Poll closed moments ago, & in 3 Days with 81x Votes, here are the Results:
6x Red
8x Blue
5x Yellow/Gold
6x Green
39x Purple
17x Other
Notably, Red, Yellow, & Green didn't have any Votes for the first 24hrs, and Purple had a strong Lead from the Start - from me LOL I find it FASCINATING that more people See Purple than all the other Colours combined!
What I found even more Fascinating were the many Colours & (subModality Qualities?) to these Colours - e.g., the "Molten Magma" mixing the Warm Colours, or being Iridescent - my personal Favourite Colour aspect, even beyond things like Pearlescent, &c.
What I found most Surprising is that not a single person mentioned White nor Black! The latter makes sense, and I guess the former Simply Proves there aren't any White-Lighters in Chaos Magick LOL This reminds me of the Geek Circle Arguments over if LightSabres are White at the Core or their actual Colour, &c. If nothing else, I think that this Poll has shown some of the nuances & depths that the Colours NRG can take.
The Mixes that confound my Visual Senses were the mentions of Complimentary Colours that are "Opposed" on the Colour Wheel, but perhaps this is a Visual Trick I'm Missing.?!
🧙♂️ Spontaneous Artistic Magick Sigils & My 1st Curse?!
For this Week's Unkle Guido Sunday Story Time, I wanted to Share something I've been meaning to Post for a few Weeks now, and given it Aesthetically ties into our most recently deParted u/CalGlitterKing 's Artistic Style (i.e., the Black Sharpie Sigils all over their Arms & Legs), I've moved the Posting of this up. I'll Note that my default to Sigils is on Graph Paper, which lends themselves to a Simplicity & Squared-ness that wasn't any part of this Sigil:
I recall a Summer back in the 1900s - in the Before Time, in the Long Long Ago - when I was still new to Chaos Magick & Sigils, Camping with Intentional Family. We were at a State Park and after a Full Day Partying the day prior, we were aWoken Sun AM to LOUD, Annoying-Assed Neighbors Camping far too close to us for our liking.
We tried several things, including, IIRC, reFocusing, Distractions, Asking Nicely for them to Turn Down their nonsense, Drowning Out their Noise with our own Music, &c. I Don't Recall all the Details as we were quite HungOver at the time. Things eventually reached a point where my Brother's GF - a Faery Witch with a very Dark Side (as Fae Do) - began Drawing something on the Ground with a Stick, that was slowly Growing thru Accretion for... a Curse.?!
She Quietly Smiled & Nodded, Gesturing me - the only other real Magick-User in the Tribe at the time - to Join in. So I did.
Every Chord, every Beat into our HungOver Heads became another Squiggle, another Line, another Spiral. There were a few Shapes that Ended up being Created in our large... Meta-Sigil? Hyper-Sigil doesn't seem correct to me. There was a NoteAble "SeaGull" NRG/Aspect to this Meta-Sigil that developed. However you Desire to Label it, we Finished it shortly before we left to come back Home, Letting Go of the Meta-Sigil, the inConsiderate Neighbors, and our HangOvers as best we could...
There's only 1 Highway that Connects the City to the Coast, where we were. As we drove back, we were Slowed by an Accident. As we finally approached and passed the Wreck, I shit you not it was those Loud Assed Neighbors that ruined our Mornings. I guess they got ahead of us on the way back, as we'd made a couple stops before heading back ourselves. Apparently there was a "Blinding Flock of SeaGulls" and NO I will NOT make any Punny References because that would diminish the Legitimacy of this already unBelieveAble Story. I saw White Feathers sticking out of their Truck's Grill, in the Ditch on the Side of the Road as it was that reminded me of that scene from Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade where Sean Connery uses the Birds to Blind the Pilots trying to kill them. We were all too fucking Dumb-Founded to even Yell anything out the Windows at them as we slowly passed...
For the record, I don't Xpect you to beLIEve me, because I sure as fuck wouldn't believe a WORD of the above, unless I'd LitReally™ been an Active Participant in such. Believe it or not, Healthy Magickal Practice requires Skepticism as much as it requires Acceptance of even unBelievAble Events. Whilst I was far from "new" to Magickal Effects, we were ALL Speechless for the last half hour of the Drive Home. It was just Open-Mouths & Blown-Minds the rest of the way. I think the Results from that Meta-Sigil speak for themselves, and this was at least the 2nd "Miracle" as I Define them - i.e., something so Obviously Vulgar that it's Apparent to All - after fixing my Eyes (see a week or 3 ago's Sunday Story). Unlike my Eyes, however, I felt I could take a bit more Credit on this 2nd Miracle, still tremendously Confidence Boosting. I was still newish to Chaos Magick's Practical Magicks when that was done, and this was a HUGE Confidence Boost in my Skills, despite the fact I Attributed more than half of that to my Faery Witch Sister from that time. I like to think I gave it a pretty good boost, though.
I Contemplated all that had transpired above, earlier in the Day, as I Finished Cleaning up my Weekend. There were a great many Lessons I Learned that HungOver Sunday, including on Confidence & Pride, Morals & Ethics, FreeStyle cf. prePlanned Rites, Beneftis of Group Work, &c., and I hope you may have Learned a few things, too.
Ψ Kinesthetic Practices: Using a Hoberman Sphere to Help with Breath Control/Pranayama (NLP)
In the interest of Adding to the dearth of Kinesthetic Practices, I wanted to Share the following:
I was given this "Breathing Ball" - a Hoberman Sphere - by my MH/Mental Health Therapist, who gives them out to Clients since they're apparently a dime a dozen. Being Primarily Kinesthetic, my Hands found it to be a Fun Fidget Toy (at least for a while). He told me that they can be very Helpful for those who are Challenged by Breath Control. Recalling I'd heard about such herein this sub, I thought I'd Share this with you:
Sync up your Breathing with the Ball in your Hands.
That's it! You can Simply & Easily Do this, &/or add more if you so Desire, like my "Slow, Calm, Deep, Breaths" Meditation I Created when still Working in MH that I recently rePosted. I recall someone in the last year or 3 mentioning how "Trying to Control my Breath Causes a Panic-Attack" for them. Just Focusing on this seems to Help many who Struggle with Breath Control, and so I wanted to Share it with you, in the off chance you may find it of Use.
GLHF!
Scrabble Gematria
Wondering if anyone else has Used the NumeroLogical Correspondences that the English Letters have in Scrabble, for Gematria porpoises?
🧙♂️ Forget Forgetting! Use that Sigil/Anchor! (NLP) Ψ
In the PsychoLogical Model, whilst Sleight of Mind absolutely has an important place, I've been Doing something for decades that I wanted to Share, to wit:
Rather than Forgetting a Sigil after you've Fired it via Gnosis, Aesthetic Satisfaction, &/or Simple Engagement (as we've discussed here recently), I send Any/All Related NRGs to that Sigil in what could be closest deScribed as an "Emotional Devotional Way" (see my Post re: Dr. Cannon's "Six Ways of Being Religious"). E.g.:
I Create a Sigil for a New Job. Rather than Dogmatically Follow the Chaos Magick Orthodoxy (!) of "Fire & Forget", I Focus Any/All Doubts, Fears, Worries, &c. TO that Sigil, Trusting in that Sigil as we Do after a Magickal Working. I also reInForce that Sigil's Success with each Success, like a Call Back, &c. Get Turned Down? Must've been a Shitty Fit! &c.
Seem Counter-Intuitive? When you "Fire & Forget", there is a PsychoLogical Process going on that we often call "Belief", and for all Intents & Porpoises, is also called "Faith".
Do you have a Memetic Allergy to that Word, "Faith"?
Could "Faith" not be a Tool, deScribed as such or not?
Like Emotional Devotional Work in general, you can then Send Any/All Anxieties to the Sigil, along with all the Successes, Thanking it for Working!
Truth be told, we're sorta blurring the (Imaginary) Lines betwixt the Spirit & PsychoLogical Models here, and I'm good with that.
Whilst there is a very important Reason that Chaos Magick Dogma states to "Fire & Forget" (i.e., to overcome the Psychic Censor), there are countless Reasons to NOT Forget a Sigil, and these are but a few.
GLHF!
🧙♂️ Othala: The Rune for Finding & KEEPing Housing
Given my hyperFocus upon QBL, I almost forgot to Share this little Decades' long Hack:
5/11 is an important Anniversary for me re: Housing (see my Post re: such if you're interested in more re: Creating your own Personal Calendar), and I was reMinded I hadn't rePosted this:
I Used Othala to Great Effect for over a Decade to Find & Acquire Housing for myself, including in my "Final" Home for nearly a Decade that was LitReally™ a TreeHouse on Stilts, which makes me think my unConscious takes these Symbols a little TOO Literally sometimes (given the Square Keep is Elevated in Othala's Runic Shape, just like our Home was, which I Named "Triflorian" cuz it was so amazing, but I digress...), not that I'm Complaining. NoteAbly, I then Used Othala for my endless Client List who usually required Housing &/or Income for such when I was Working in Mental Health. My 2nd Proudest Housing Moment (behind Acquiring & Keeping that TreeHouse for nearly a Decade) was when I Helped my AstroLogical Twin Fenwick find his Dream Home in the form of a Log Cabin - in under an Hour! - that I KNOW wasn't Listed the day prior when I was Helping Clients look for Housing on Fri.
So, having Established the Decades' of personal Use of & Success with Othala, I Hope Othala also Helps you both Acquire & Keep Stable, Safe, AffordAble Housing for you & yours.
GLHF!
🧙♂️ "Christianity Continued", &/or "My Miraculous Childhood", &/or "The Gift of not getting Magick 'Civilized' out of me as I grew up"
Since I was reMinded I hadn't rePosted the Story of the 1st actual Miracle that I XPerienced and I'd thought I'd Closed my Talk of Xianity last Sunday, I thought I'd include all the inevitable Forgotten Xian things for this Sunday's Stories, to wit:
My Parents got Divorced when I was only 5 largely due to my Scientism Father & FunDuhMentalist Mother "REAL-I-zing", "Real-Eyes-ing", "Making Real for your Eye/'I'" or "Finally Seeing" that they were on Different Paths. Divorce wasn't Common back then, but unsurprisingly, both of my Parents came from Homes with Divorce when it was REALLY both Rare & Strongly Shamed.
I stayed with Mom as she dragged us both further down the FunDuhMentalist Rabbit Hole, further reInForced with her Marriage to another Man, the Father of my 2 Half-Brothers, who are also balls-deep into Jeebus. We very much Believed in Faith Healing, Speaking in Tongues, Demonic Possession, the lot.
During this time, amongst the 24/7 Xian Programming I was inundated with - Spiritual Abuse as some have Correctly called it - I was taken to 1 of the Big Names in evAngelical Xianity when he came to town. It wasn't Jimmy Swaggart, but if not Billy Graham, someone similar. I thought you'd enJoy this:
At the End of Billy's Sermon/Show when it came time to "Call People for Healing", I was enCouraged to go up on stage, just a few years after becoming "Born Again" for the 1st time @ age 10, I went up. See last Sunday's Story re: the 2nd Time I became "Born Again" in the Xian Sense of the phrase. See my body of Posts re: a few of the countless times I've ACTUALLY been Born Again in the Esoteric, Initiatory Sense. I stopped Counting when I finally made Peace with Phoenix back in the 00s LOL (a Drawing or 2 of which I Shared here recently).
We were all Lined Up on Stage with the Tele-Evangelist going down the Line, Healing everyone as they're gently Caught by a couple of Happy Helpers who ease people to the Ground after Billy smacks'em on the ForeHead with a Final "BE HEALED!"
So there I stood, and when it became my turn, he Xtended 1 of his Hands toward me, Yelling all sorts of Banishing Words for a few Moments of "In the Name of JESUS CHRIST I COMMAND THIS DEMON of Sickness BEGONE!" type of rhetoric into the Mic. Despite already Feeling the Holy Spook prior to this day, I didn't really Feel anything... until just after the Forehead Smack, those 2 Kind Helpers DRAGGED my ass to the Ground, there on the Stage JFC IIRC, this was the first of Countless times I'd be on Stage, although it'd always involve Performance Art - MCing, Singing & Acting in School, MC/DJing & LitReally™ thousands of Hours on the Dance Floor.
Unfortunately, surprisingly, and disappointingly, I was NOT - in fact - Healed of this particular Problem I'd been Born with. (Side Note: I was Able to Finally Heal myself of this after several yeras in Magick+, at least a Decade+ later). A year or 3 later, however, I was to XPerience the 1st Miracle of getting something (else) Healed:
For several Months I began to get severe Headaches when I was in Middle School. Apparently, after visiting an Optometrist we figured out that my EyeSight had deteriorated to a point where the Solution to my Headache Problem was seen to be (pardon the pun) that I Required Glasses.
Now, Brief Context/Background for the Story:
I don't recall all the specific details aside from the fact that I was the official Paper Deliverer for our Morning Class, walking papers to the office for whatever reason every morning. I showed up in school with my new glasses that I absolutely fucking HATED - they looked HORRENDOUS - after we picked them up from the Optometrist the evening prior, but they were all Mom could afford. That Morning, when I came back to Class after delivering the papers, EVERYONE - including the Teacher - had on these identical stupid paper cutout Glasses as they all LOL'd at me. It was truly a different time. It really negatively impacted me, although I don't recall how the rest of that day went - nor even if I told my Mom. I probably sobbed myself to sleep from Shame.
The next Morning, I awoke as usual and began my Morning Routine. However, when I went to put on my new Rx Glasses, I couldn't See thru them. I ran some quick Tests. I had been HEALED, Objectively & Empirically VerifyAbly so, as my Glasses no longer Worked for me. I put them on & off several times to reVerify this Literal Miracle! I then put them aside, never needing them again. To be fair, I DID Need Glasses again, but only after a few decades had gone by and I was in my 30s. Sadly, I've NOT been Able to replicate that Healing again - not YET, that is, as I always have Lasik LOL I've never been Able to completely figure out the Cause of the Healing. Primarily, this boils down to, was that Jesus or Me who Healed Myself of this Affliction? It really doesn't matter nearly as much as the Result, of course, that I was in fact Healed, at least of this.
In the interest of Completing my Posting re: Xianity, I wanted to Share A couple more things, including the fact that my Fundy Family went to Heritage USA more than once. It was actually really AMAZING in the Hotel itself. They had Created a "Classic Americana" Street with Ye Olde' Shoppes and such under a Covered Ceiling that rePresented the Sky with Clouds & Sun during the Day & Stars & the Moon at Night. All the Hotel Rooms overlooked this Main Street or whatever they called it. This was actually the only thing about Heritage USA that I really Liked or enJoyed at any Level.
Jim & Tammy Faye Bakker of course Filmed all of their Sunday+ Shows in this enormous Mega-Church before they were a thing, which we Attended, of course. They also had a reCreation of the Last Supper and a few other important Biblical Locations in their Jesus Theme Park. I think we stopped going eventually due to the scandals Jim & Tammy Faye had with Jessica Hahn. A Hypocrite on Fidelity, but compared to many Far-Right Homophobes, at least he wasn't asking for Glory Hole Fun in random various Airports like more than a few on the Far Right have been caught seeking. Enter Sam Kinison and the rest, as they say, is History.
Despite all the Problems that my Childhood had, at least 1 Silver Lining is that I was given the Gift of never disBelieving in Magick. Most Children in the West have the Natural, Innate Curiosity about Magick & nonCorpoReal Entities Taught - if not Beaten - out of such "Silly, Childish Beliefs". My AstroLogical Twin Fenwick did NOT have this Benefit, growing up in the more typical Scientism Paradigm most in the West hold. Not so for me. I was inundated with constant reAffirmation that Miracles can & DO Manifest everyday with the countless Miracles Jesus bestows upon his Believers that networks like CBN, TBN, &c. constantly Broadcast across the Airwaves 24/7. And we had Satellite TV, so we had ALL the Channels, including the Eccentric-Billionaire Conspiracy Channels, &c.
I'll Finish though not Complete my Xianity DownLoad by reMinding you that using an "X" = "Christ" has gone on since the first Millenium, so don't let the Xians blow smoke up ur ass with "taking the Christ out of Xmas" &c., although TBF most of this was far more relevant before the deChurching of the USA a couple decades ago.
This also adds an Xtra Level for all of my wRitings Using Xs. Coinkidink or Conspiracy? DID I ever "make it back from" Xianity like I recently claimed, and How Deep of an Operative could I be? I'll let YOU decide!
Let me know if you've any Questions re: Xianity below:
✡ What If...?! ☯
What if the HoloGraphic Model is really Real.?!
What if Every Situation, Thing, & Process is a Metaphor for Every other Situation, Thing, & Process in Manyfestation?
What if NonDuality Xists, and it also Xists outside SpaceTime - i.e., AvailAble 24/7 in Any Moment in Any Place by Any Person.?!
What if wee humans could Easily & Simply "Reach" a NonDual ASC/Altered State of Consciousness Any Moment in Any Place by Any Person.?!
What if the "Key" to this is Simple "atOnement" (as my former Prof. Dr. Dale Cannon has so astutely pointed out) with Any Person, Situation, Thing, Process, &c.?!
What if wee can Help Focus ourSelves Toward THE ALL™ in All Using ANYTHING at All.?!
QotD: "The more Virtuous you think you are, the more you think you have Permission to behave Diabolically"
This is 1 of the countless Problems with Religious FunDuhMentalists & other Fanatics in general, but in this 5th Month, the Month of Eris, I thought I'd Share a less severe Link.
🧙♂️ Blessing: "I Wish you Great Luck & even Better Success!" 🍀
This was the Blessing I gave all of my Clients on my Final Appointment as we reviewed all their Successes & Growth, and thought you may find this of Use, also. I used it for the better part of a Decade, and still Use it as my Favourite Blessing.
What Blessing do you Use or Prefer?
It breaks 1 of the most core "Rules" about Forming/4ming Intent - namely, Specificity. I.e., As I don't Desire any Bad Luck, simply mentioning "Luck" without a Directional Qualifier is LitReally™ just tossing Pandora's unLocked Box down the Stairs and Hoping for The Best. Lady Luck is a known Fickle Bird. Thus I wince a bit whenever I see or hear anyone saying, "Wish me Luck!", and if Wished "I Wish you Luck", I always follow-up with, "Hopefully only the Good Kind!", to which they inevitably acquiesce. I.e.:
I always specify what type of Luck I Desire.
But maybe you've not XPerienced this? PLZ tell me if you've XPerienced different!
Whilst more Circular in Theory, often more Spiral in Practice, e.g., via Neijia, &c. Thus, "Round".
Since it's Star Wars Day May the Fourth, I thought I'd Share this little reMinder of 1 of the Absolute preSuppositions of the NRG Meta-Magick Model.
GLHF!
There've been Questions recently re: Paradigm Surfing. As Paradigmal Pyrrhocy was 1 of countless things that drew me to the Chaos Magick Current, I thought I'd Share what was my most Xtreme XurSize for today's Unkle Guido Sunday Story Time. NoteAbly, I'm breaking my own personal "Rule" in that I largely stay out of the Xianity Debates anymore, having been involved in many lifetimes' worth when I was younger, part of what would eventually become America's deChurching from a few Decades ago. However, it's the Subject of today's Story and thus unAvoidAble, so this will be The Xception that Proves The Rule™ of me usually avoiding talk of Xianity, Satanism, &/or anything really having to do with Western Religions and their TheoLogical Memes:
I always Loved Practicing Paradigmal Pyrrhocy, Surfing Random VaryUs™ Paradigms. It's actually quite Simple - although not so Easy! - to Do. It likely Helped I was a Double Major in Psychology & Philosophy/Comparative World Religions. If we posit that a Paradigm is Simply Created out of a Set of Absolute preSuppositions, then Surfing into others is quite Simple and can be quite Easy, as well. Amongst countless other benefits, doing so Reveals to us our own unConscious Biases as aspects of (usually) the Paradigm we grew up in &/or most strongly Adopted.
After Practicing with the Die Rolling Method, and even Changing Up the Paradigms from what Pope Pete suggests in Liber Null, I could sense there was a Depth that was being Missed. I therefore began Adopting Paradigms for Weekends, then Weeks & Months at a time, and it's Here that True Revelations & Personal InSights can begin to Reveal themselves. It often meant setting aside my CM Practices, so I had to Time these XurSizes around other Magickal & Life things, as we always do.
The Funniest thing I recall from those Paradigmal Piracy days was when I went to a gorgeous Historical Catholic Church on 1 Sunday Morning. This was at least the 3rd Sunday Morning that Year I'd attended a Xian Sunday Service. I rather inJoyed seeing the Differences from my FunDuhMentalist Childhood Weekly Sunday Sermons. Between the Sitting, Standing, & Kneeling, I never knew Catholics got in so much Cardio during Mass JFC Speaking of Mass, I did really Appreciate the Formal Ritual aspects that I never XPerienced growing up as a FunDuhMentalist Protestant. However, despite this & trying my darndest to "Be Catholic", I was Xposed as a Poseur when I went up to "Receive Mass". Suffice it to say, I did not Do the Things you're Supposed to, due to my Ignorance of my Role in this Rite (this was preInternet & YouTube of course) Big OOF LOL Best of all, my Step-Mother - who is Irish Catholic - and I had a long, laughter filled (mostly mine, TBF) debrief afterward, particularly since she decided to Show this particular Sunday.
Since I'm talking about Catholics, I must give them MAD Props for Walking the Walk. Like all Organizations in Manifest XisTense, they're far from Perfect in this World. However, their "Way of Right Action" (see my Post re: "6 Ways of Being Religious") is fucking ON POINT. ALL of the Local Social Services are Provided by 1 of a few Charities and they're ALL CATHOLIC, as I quickly learnt in my old Mental Health Career finding Resources for my Clients, &c. Mad Love for that alone, RESPECT. Sadly, Protestant Charities often come with Strings Attached - usually in the form of "We'll Help you, but you must Accept & Attend regular Bible Study & Sermons", which is BullShit in my not so humble opinion. The Protestants could use some Learning of the concept of "Faith" and "Let Go & Let God" re: Lust of Result for getting more Souls to Jebus. Speaking of which:
Not more than a Year or 3 after the aforementioned XurSizes, I became unEmployed, let go from what was my last time DJing Professionally. Not ready to go back to finish my Degree, the only Luck for finding Work I was having was all BAD. My Roommates who were basically Financially Supporting me had all found Jesus, whom I didn't know was Missing to begin with, but whatever. Long Story Short, I became Born Again, Again, after the first time being when I was 10, a decade or 3 prior. Phoenix has been a LifeLong Companion, & I LitReally™ lost track of the number of times I've been "Born Again", Initiated, &c. in this single LifeTime alone.
This was the Deepest & most Committed I'd ever Dived into re: Paradigmal Adoption, going "Full Christian" only falling short of Burning my Occult Books, which I packed away as I unPacked my old Bible from childhood. In so many Ways, it was both far Easier & far Far FAR more Difficult to Dive (back) into my Childhood's Religious UpBringing that included various Forms of Abuse, all in the Name of Jesus. It really felt like Asking my Abuser to "Take Care" of me again, yet the alternative was even far worse.
I have a Rule re: Paradigmal Pyrrhocy:
I Will Xclusively Adopt the Paradigm until it feels as Instinctive & Natural as my previous/starting/default Paradigm, before I Open my Practices back up... (Edited for Clarity)
I.e., I must Identify with the Paradigm. I must be Protective over it like I've been over previous Paradigms. &c.
Since I still had unResolved Issues with Yeheshua ben Miriam, He & I Spoke at Length during this Time of my Life, which was also rather Shit as already deScribed, above. I even joined Weekly Bible Study Groups, although they seemed put off by the ease with which I Displayed Glossolalia, or "Speaking in Tongues" as they call it. I still Do Glossolalia, which I should really Post about sometime. Interesting to Note that the Church didn't Help with my Homeless ass, but Friends from the Gay Club I used to DJ & still Danced at every Week did Help. There's at least a Lesson or 3 in there.
Back to our Story, I ended up getting kicked out of that House due to a few too many No Rent Months, sadly. However, the person who Witnessed & Converted our Household Helped me get a small part-time job from a local Mormon Owner to Help, despite it not being enough. It was the 1st of a couple of Jobs working at a Pizzeria. This Job had an interesting Synchronicity in that the Kind Old Man who used to run a Pizzeria in another entire City - not to mention Deliver it to our Stoned Asses for years, year prior - Worked there now, also.
I really didn't feel like a "Christian" yet, despite becoming Homeless, and so I continued to Worship Jesus, albeit from a more Christian Mystic perspective. I still Invoked & Evoked Jesus frequently throughout the Day, as all Outward Practices like Going to Church, Ended. During this time I even became quite active in 1 particular Xian Mystic Group online. Eventually, after about a Yearish? (9-18months) I came back to Chaos Magick, likely due to still Needing Income, which Magick eventually acquired for me.
I believe this was the Year that, on Xmas Day, He InSpired me to "Simply Read the Book of Mark", which not-coincidentally is also considered the "Most Accurate" of the Gospels, all of which were penned decades after His Death & Zombiefication. I gotta say, reReading Mark from start to end in a single sitting (an hour or 3ish?) really Paints a Different Picture of Jesus, who never proClaims He's "The™ (one & only, Xlusively!)" Son of God. I highly Recommend it.
I was going to Post a big thing on Fun-Duh-Mentalism in Religions in general - and I still may - but tl;dr is that I don't think that specific Religions are Problematic, but rather their FunDuhMentalist Fanatics found in all 3 Western Religions. Cultures can also Clash, but I don't think you can Blame this on the Religion. The Problem is ALLWAYS with the Interpretation & Xecution of said Sacred Texts in those Communities & the Individuals they Serve. Frankly, this is the main Reason I despise Sacred Texts, and rather than Crash Out over the Evils they've perpetuated over the centuries, I'll bring it on back... but not before mentioning that FunDuhMentalism in all its Forms is Essentially a reAction Against Modernity and everything since...
u/psypolardisorder recently Posted about Paradigm Surfing, and reMinded me of 1 of countless Lessons I was reMinded of... whilst Doing the Surfing:
If "Ultimate Reality" is NonDualistic Transcending SpaceTime, then that Means the NonDualistic State of Mind, State of Being, is AvailAble 24/7 in the NowHere, RITE NOW as you're Reading these Words!
Like the HoloGraphic Universe, Blake's "Eternity in an Hour", and "atOnement" in General, The All is rePresented by All, NoWhere...
It should be Noted that back in the day, I was not the first Chaote to go "Full Xian", although it was still rather unheard of amongst Chaotes. Fenwick - who's far more SocialAble than myself - could think of maybe a few others who'd done so, and as Fen put it, "they all ended up going actually Clinically Insane". I always wore it a point of Personal Pride that I was the only Chaote up to that time who was in Chaos Magick, set it aside for Xianity, & made it back to this Side in one piece and still relatively Sane-ish.
As I'm reReading this before Posting, it occurred to me that although I didn't Magickally Surf Paradigms, I had to at least Temporarily Adopt the Paradigms of my Mental Health Clients so that I could Help them, in the Way they Desired. Empathy is absolutely Increased with Practicing Paradigmal Piracy, and vice' versa, not to mention the Shadow-Work, Awareness of Implicit Biases, &c... there are SO MANY Benefits to Paradigm Surfing.
Despite not having Practiced any Magickal Paradigmal Pyrrhocy in at least a Decade+, I Chose to Do such yet again with my Primary Magickal OS/Operating System(s). I.e., in 2023 I set aside Taoism/the I Ching & Elder FUThARK Runes to "XClusively only Use" QBL & Tarot until the QBL, Tarot, & Tree of Life become my default Paradigm/Frame of Reference. Only AFTER I've Accomplished this Goal Will I even consider taking up the Runes &/or Taoist Practices like the I Ching again. I think I could've technically been Done with this Practice after Doing Daily Posts leading up to Autumnal Equinox last Year, but I'm not actually where I'd like to be yet. It'll likely be in the next year or 2 when I finally actually Open Up my Practices past QBL/Tarot.
Notably, today is The Day to Ask Questions about Christianity, if you have any for me. E.g., did you know that I went to Jimmy Bakker's "Heritage USA" (of Tammy Faye & Jessica Hahn fame), their Xian ThemePark? More than once! I also got "Faith Healed" by... Billy Graham? THAT one didn't Work, but I DID get Miraculously Healed for something else a few years later - my EyeSight - in a Post that I've not rePosted, so I will get on that, likely for next Sunday's Story.
Of course, you don't "Need" to Do any of this Paradigm Surfing, and anything you Do is likely better than not Doing this XurSize at all. I hope this InSpired you and others, that there is so much more to be disCovered by Doing Paradigm Surfing than simply Rolling a Daily Die.
This is NoteAbly the 2nd of 3 Posts I've Planned re: Paradigmal Pyrrhocy, with Grad Work to come soon, for those who've Mastered everything above already...
GLHF out there PsychoNauts! Surf Well!
Happy Happy May Day!
Outdoor Fucking begins Today!
What are you doing to Celebrate this Weekend?