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| Wednesday, August 27th, 2008 | 8:48 am
[el_jefe59]
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| | Wednesday, August 20th, 2008 | 2:16 pm
[el_jefe59]
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It's H.P. Lovecraft's birthday!  I think he might have enjoyed some of this! Current Mood:  goofy | | Saturday, July 26th, 2008 | 8:49 pm
[sypha23]
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The Mauve Zone  Be assured. Mauve Zone Recordings is a seal of absolute quality and esoteric satisfaction. Mauve Zone Recordings aims to deliver a deluxe service high stake's audio experience at the very highest levels of the international game, at an affordable price (that is, free: MZR is a nonprofit netlabel). Tonight, for your delication, a song to revive your jaded senses: we offer you a new track by Sypha Nadon, named "The Mauve Zone." It is one of two new Sypha Nadon tracks, which will appear next month on the MZR album "A Dream as White as the Death of a Seagull" [MZR014]. "The Mauve Zone" is like no other Sypha Nadon song. Juxtaposing the atmosphere of a Kenneth Grant poem of the same name with new and exciting musical and recording techniques, it marks the second coming of the Sypha Nadon sound, a nocturnal symphony that evokes the miasma of a nightside dream. In fact, it could very well be the official anthem of Mauve Zone Recordings. Inspired by the sublunary literature of the Mauve Zone and also H.P. Lovecraft's "At the Mountains of Madness", it is bound to excite the phantom flowers which grow in the deepest soil of your soul. The new song may be heard at the Sypha Nadon MySpace page, here: http://www.myspace.com/syphanadon Also coming soon from MZR: a new album by Sypha Nadon, plus two new albums from Bryce Clayton Eiman (one in 2008, the other in 2009). This news has been brought to you by the Dark Tentacle in league with the Final Church of the Zumb Zumb Apocalypse. Mauve Zone Recordings: providing moving arias for a vanishing style of mind.  | | Thursday, July 24th, 2008 | 1:06 pm
[sobekptah]
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another question
8008
I notice that Michael Bertiaux makes reference to nine "African-Atlantean" magical bodies.
Does anyone know if this is something that actually comes from African culture or if it is just one of his things?
Either way, I would be interested to know what they are. Such schema are usual interesting, be they Egyptian, Norse or whatever. | | Tuesday, July 15th, 2008 | 3:16 am
[sobekptah]
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miscellanea
8008
Just a mini-rant and a couple of questions:
RANT
It bothers me when people think of Cthulhu as a sea monster. I mean, I have nothing against sea monsters. I am all for them. But this guy lived in a city and had a job...High Priest, no less. Plus, if you actually read the story, it is made quite clear that the sea water is antagonistic to Cthulhu's powers and influence.
QUESTIONS
1. I notice that the Necronomicon Transhumanism site is down. Does anyone know if this is temporary or permanent?
2. What exactly was the "Hermetic Mead" used by the Miscatonic Alchemical Expedition?
| | Thursday, July 3rd, 2008 | 12:18 am
[alobar]
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unearthed magickal PDF files  Current Music: Tom Heasley - Thonis (Drone Zone: Atmospheric ambient space music. Serve Best Chilled. Safe with mos | | Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008 | 10:57 pm
[alobar]
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The Temple of Abzu Deck I nipped the link below from the Horus Maat e-list. Makes me wish I had a functional printer.
=================================[Visit the gallery here]
The Temple of Abzu Deck is a deck of cards created for people who want to work with Lovecraftian Occultism and related areas. Check it out in the gallery. The deck is based on a gematria system applyed upon the works of Lovecraft and represents the values 1-99 in this system. Each card combines art and two phrases that in some way stands for the value, but the deck is constructed so that it leaves much interepretation to the 'user' of the cards ( sort in the spirit of the the Rorschach inkblot test ). Work with this deck has shown that the cards is connected with certain astral experiences and the cards might be used as gateways or links to this. The phrases in the cards does not list any Yog-Sothothery/'Cthulhu Mythos' entities by names and neither will you see places like 'Kadath' be mentioned in the phrases and the main reason for this is that I believe it would lock the interpretation too much. I think this has actually added to the strength of the deck, because the astral links that is connected with this isn't easily defined by any sort of bounderies. If you still want to check out what the value for an entity is thats easy to do just by following the provided link on this page to the online calculator. What you will notice if you decide to experiment with the deck is how closely connected to the underlying forces of Yog-Sothothery( or 'Cthulhu Mythos' as Derleth refered to it) it is. Maybe the reason is the mapping against Lovecrafts work or maybe this is due to some other strange force. One might ask why calling the deck the Temple of Abzu Deck? Abzu is an alternative old name for the Abyss. This might give some more answers:
http://www.blackalchemy.net/gematria/cards/ Current Music: Galactic Anthems - Way Out There (Drone Zone: Atmospheric ambient space music. Serve Best Chilled. S | | Wednesday, May 28th, 2008 | 10:32 am
[el_jefe59]
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Cthulhu's kitten  Current Mood: silly | | Wednesday, March 12th, 2008 | 10:12 am
[el_jefe59]
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Hehehehehehe  Current Mood: giggly | | Monday, January 28th, 2008 | 10:00 am
[el_jefe59]
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| | Friday, December 7th, 2007 | 1:13 pm
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| | Tuesday, December 4th, 2007 | 10:03 am
[the_brat_prince]
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Sonic Sigilisation
Hi all,
I was reading about William Burroughs using his cut up technique on sounds to affect a working over an area of the town he was living in. He basically took a 'sonic fingerprint' of the area by recording sounds in the area, and then sigilised it by 'cutting in' sounds of disaster, police sirens, gunfire, and sounds of general mayhem. He then played back the tape softly while walking up and down the area. I was wondering has anyone ever attempted the same thing? And if so did it work? | | Saturday, November 10th, 2007 | 11:09 am
[the_brat_prince]
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Psychodelic aftermath
Hi all
Let me just say thank you to all of you who responded and gave hints, tips and advice.
I deem the 'experiment' a success.
I took the trip right before the I started the ritual, that way when the circle was called up and it was time for the introspection work things would be in full swing. A lot of the ritual I won't go into because it is quite personal, only to say, that the use of masks, while tripping in a candlelit room with all the trappings of ritual, makes for one intense experience. I managed to make contact with an entity that I will call Lord E. here (there is no drug reference there, just his name starts with E and I don't want to disclose it at length), who had been previously identified as the name of my Shadow persona. If you want to learn what I'm rambling about or how I became in possession of this name, then read "Dark Moon Mysteries" by Dr Timothy Roderick. What I found there was that Lord E was everything I was scared of being, and embracing. Including powerful, capable, in control of himself and those around him. I have always tried to give people free reign in and outside of Coven, and as such there has been a tendancy for people to walk all over me. I believe the whole thing about everyone having a True Will, and that all others True Will's will work in harmony with me - providing people follow theirs - and that keeping myself to myself is the best option. Moving through the shadows and twilight in life. Lord E is all about being in the light. Being seen, being overt and getting away with it. So the lesson I learned there was to embrace that side of me. Stop playing the reluctant leader, the underdog, and actually start taking true power in my own life. I did this by simply taking off the Mask. For in essence that is all the Shadow is, a mask we choose not to wear. One that gets left on the wall and so goes sullen and is left unfulfilled. By bringing it into the light (ironic I would keep a Luciferian figure like Lord E in the darkness) and removing the mask I basically chose to bring this aspect of me into my life more, to be more in the light and more seen.
I'm certain I can hear some of the naysayers out there complaining that I could've done this without the ethneogens. This may be true, but to be honest the LSD had hardly kicked in at this point. The amount it had effected me was only to enhance the visual stimuli involved. The true connections came after that I found. There was a sense of 'connectedness'. The closest I can come to describing it (and I'm still mildly under its effects - so I apologise if some of this is ramble, but I want to get it out of head while its fresh) is that reality is like a sea or miasma. And because in a waking conscious state we interact with it everyday we don't notice it as much. I've previously called this the Sea of Possibility. Under the influence of various substances (such as the one I am currently recovering from), the veil that our conscious mind puts up to filter out all the extraneous sensory input, is torn off. And what is left is the impression that the subtlest movement, the tiniest thing can create visible ripples in ones field of vision, and ultimately precipitate larger events. Through a distorted sense of time, one can almost see others movements before they've happened. However I am uncertain how that is proportioned between the delayed relaying of images to the brain, and any genuine prophetic ability.
This connectedness I spoke of earlier came from the fact that the subtlest movement does cause a ripple. By extension, no matter how small one's movements are, how small a gesture is, it does have an effect on reality. Tiny ripples can cause massive waves. And so we are all connected by this Sea of Possibility.
The creativity, oh man, the creativity. The poetry that came our of my mouth last night ... if only my working magical partner had written some of it down. I found that once I applied my will and imagination to some blank screen I was able to project my awareness into another plane/space/ or time. The bathroom walls melted away, and in its place was realm of imagination. Sadly whether that vision reflected some other plane I will never know. What I do know is that for the last 12 hours or so reality was plastic, pliable, and totally at my own whim. I think that this could merit some use in mirror gazing, providing one can sit still long enough to get into the mirror.
The conclusion I've come to is that these substances are a paradox. They are a useful tool, but only to the initiate. The inexperienced will have a fun time sorting flights of fancy from true vision. The paradox of this is that by the time the practitioner is proficient enough to be able to steer things to any useful end, they've (assumedly) moved beyond any need for them. It is only in the direst need that one should have to resort to the use of any psychodelic (LSD in particular) in ritual. The value to the unintiated is this sense that everything is connected, and by observing ever so carefully we can se exactly how. LSD sort of scrawled the connections in blue smoke on the horizon so I couldn't help be notice, but the need for this in a practiced setting is minimal.
All in all it was fun. I touched the Gods, saw the world through their eyes, and have a bit more of a handle on my own internal workings. Would I do it again? Maybe, but not for a while I have a enough on my plate to digest. | | Tuesday, November 6th, 2007 | 3:21 pm
[the_brat_prince]
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Ritual use of hallucinogens
Hi all,
I'm about to undertake a shamanic ritual working involving the use of LSD, design for confrontation with the shadow. Has anyone else undertaken anything similar? If so what was your experience like? What about it would you do again? What parts would you change? Are there any particular things you wish you'd done but didn't?
You feedback is appreciated
Bratty | | Tuesday, August 14th, 2007 | 10:20 am
[el_jefe59]
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Cthulhu t-shirt Here's a t-shirt design in the running from Threadless that might be of interest to members of this community:  Current Mood:  impressed | | Thursday, July 12th, 2007 | 1:08 am
[alobar]
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ookie-spookie Necronomicon revisited Yet again, tales of the ookie-spookie Necronomicon have surfaced on an e-list I am on. {BIG SIGH!} Seems to me that people obsess about dangerous books and practices, without actually looking at their own personal lives to see why energies of a particular entity or pantheon upset them so.
![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) lassiter made a quip on the thread: "The most urgent issue is whether THEY have taken any interest in YOU! :) " to which I responded:
In my experience, they feign disinterest in folks until a person begins to pay attention to them. Then they come running and bouncing and slithering into one's dreams, offering sex and adventure and interdimensional perichoresis.
Then another person voiced their fears and said they will no longer have "that book" in the same house as their young children.
Current Music: Androcell - Process Of Unfolding (Space Station Soma: Tune in, turn on, space out. Ambient and mid-t | | Monday, March 12th, 2007 | 7:04 pm
[biandu]
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SO.. is anyone here still breathing? | | Friday, January 19th, 2007 | 9:53 am
[draconis]
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Can anyone direct me to good sources of pro-Old One writings? I've found http://www.philhine.org.uk but that's about it. Book suggestions too, would be nice. | | Wednesday, January 10th, 2007 | 12:08 am
[draconis]
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An introduction and request for comment..
Hi, gang.
I posted something in my journal today and subsequently went on a renew cthulhu trawl, only to find this place, which I'm hoping will be just the ticket for sharing some particular ideas I've been having. So i'm posting the same thing here in the hope that you guys will find it interesting, and it might give you a bit of an idea of what I'm about.
Anyway, here we go:
Having just procured a copy of The R'lyeh Text: Hidden Leaves from the Necronomicon (very silly but lots of fun) , and ordered a copy of The Cthulhu Mythos Bibliography and Checklist , it would seem I am becoming something of a fanatic. This is a good thing.
When I was a lot younger, I indulged a similar fascination in many things occult and demonolatrous, and took upon myself to acquire materials relating to these subjects; I was never fully satisfied, however. The information and reasoning behind what professed to be true magicks was always obviously flawed and ugly. With Lovecraft's fictional mythos, however, the very fact that it is fiction makes it more real; allow me to explain:
The nature of reality and perception, and the nature of their close inter-relation (particularly bearing quantum processes in mind), implies (to me, at least), that it is far more viable and reasonable that we create our own gods and magicks, than to be arrogant enough to think that something we do not have direct experience of is real.
Thus, I take inspiration from the sources that provide it, and I allow myself to be immersed.
Please do not think that I have have abandoned rational thought here; after all, what we need more of is science. But I feel it important to let an aspect of myself be ruled by the forces that writhe within my imagination, the things that I feel moving almost imperceptibly under my skin. So I continue my collection, investigation and scholarship of the faux-occult and quasi-antiquarian, because to me its more real than anything anyone else has come up with.
Christians fulfill their deity-love need with God. That same gap in my heart is filled by something much darker and betentacled, but no less beautiful or adored.
p.s.
I'm really really really not a nutjob. Really. | | Sunday, October 8th, 2006 | 2:12 am
[sammaelhain]
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