Open Topic

I have tried to get a social area going before but no one has been interested and that is fine. What needs to be understood is that the OAK material presented thus far deals with personal empowerment in all aspects of living. There is no need for a social group! Being a solitary is just fine.

The real magick happens in groups though. Humans have joined together in groups for thousands of years. The Rosicrucians, The Freemasons, the OTO, The Martinist Order and many others gain their power from the collective energy of like minded souls.

We are currently in a situation where magickal paradigms collide and short circuit each other. It is no surprize that the magick seems gone! If you believe the magick is gone I suggest you read Edgar Allan Poe by Hanns Heinz Ewers! The magick is so strong within that essay it sizzles! The magick crackles as well within the OAK material. It crackles with the energy of the new age.

Crowley put the last changes on the Kabalistic egregore that governed how magickal energy flows through human society but the Kabala is dead. Kabalistic thinking belongs to the old eon. Crowley is dead as well.

Antimonies must be resolved. The final bugs must be worked out and we are all pushed into pure survival mode. Survival mode is for individuals. That is why you don't see much group work right now. The OAK egregore is asserting its dominance and the other ones will not work until the energy settles.

It's like several printing projects going to the printer at the same time. The printer can only print one out at a time and everyone is trying to be first. Once the sequence is established everything works again, subordinate to higher systems of course.

The requirements of the OAK system are ridiculously simple: Those that personaly generate the most energy go first. That is the way of nature.

There are three energy systems to consider.

The physical system based on light/electricity and magnetic fields. The earth is covered with a living energy grid that is magnetic/electric in nature and like the wiring in our house, it must have a circuit to travel in. If it doesn't lighting finds its own path as do storms.

The cycle of life is the second cycle. When we cut down the rain forests in Brazil vegetation growth occurs more rapidly in other parts of the world because it must! There is a balance that must be kept at all costs or all life will perish. Mankind needs to fit his activity into harmony with this great cycle of life.

The human social cycle is the third. A very special human energy does flow from person to person and it is hierarchal in nature. It flows from the top down. That is why there is no such thing as equality. One individual is energetically above or below the next and the energy will flow into him or her from a higher level and out to a lower. This is the basis of magickal initiation into a hierarchal system.

As solitaries we can empower ourselves to survive on earth and in harmony with the earth's living ecosystem but we can't empower ourselves within the human social system without the support and acceptance of other people.

The old human social system is outdated and corrupt. It allows undeserving individuals to hold power that they have not earned simply because they have been initiated into some system like the Kabala. Now the old systems are not working and deserving individuals are finding ways of self-empowerment.

As this process continues these deserving individuals will want to join with other like minded individuals for support and true magickal empowerment. When that happens they will find there way here.

Getting things together

[Feb. 6th, 2002|02:12 am]

This is where the new forum will be for anyone that wants to chat and discuss any of the things in Anarchist World or whatever! I'm hoping it will be more appropriate here and be used. No one was using it before.

Edgar Allen Poe by Hanns Heinz Ewers (Translation by Joe E. Bandel

[Jan. 31st, 2002|12:29 am]

I am going out. Through the enormous palace of the Roman Emperor Karl that led the German Nation. Cross through the mighty columned courtyard and out through the long avenue of white blooming acacia. Through the meadow covered with thousands of blue Irises.

A tower shows and the tomb of the princesses, the sultan’s daughters, Zayda, Zorayda and Zorahayda, appears at last before me. The Crusaders described these windows in song.

Over the valley on the hill I see the boundary where Boabdil gave his last sigh over the lost Granada. From the General’s Garden I can clearly see the ancient cypress where the last Moorish king’s wife, the beautiful Hamet, brought disaster through her tryst with Abenceragen deep in the shadows.

Every stone here tells a sad tragic legend.

Down at the bottom of the valley the road continues on the long way to the cemetery. A pair of black goats graze on the green slopes. In back, under the prison tower sits a ragged customs agent in front of his filthy den. Long eared rabbits graze close to him and nearby seven cocks battle, pecking the ground or flying after each other, combs and black feathers plucked.

Far in the east glows the snow on the purple-red Sierra Nevada.

A troop of ragged Bengalis moves slowly across the valley bottom. Two carry a small child’s coffin on their shoulders open in the Spanish custom. Another shoulders the lid. The coffin is very simple, three yellow planks and two plain ones. But a small waxy face and dark hair appear out of the flowers, many flowers, red, yellow, white and blue flowers that have been placed inside.

No Priest, no relatives, no father or mother in the procession, only ragged Bengalis. Still, the dead child rests in such fresh blooming fragrance among so many colored flowers. How good they didn’t close her eyes! They look around curious at the colored flowers, at the old Moorish Palace and then back to the splendor of her flowers, this small dead maiden, so contented and fortunate to never again be alive.

Egar Allan Poe by Hanns Heinz Ewers (translation by Joe E. Bandel) continued

[Dec. 31st, 2001|11:12 pm]

We admire the Tiger Orchid. Is the magnificent orchid less beautiful because it feeds on insects by slowly torturing them to death in the narrow way? We are joyed and amazed at the glorious lillies in the Park of Cintra. We have never seen any so large and so white! How does it happen that their exceptional beauty is owed to the clever gardener that fertilizes the ground not with pure water but with treatments of Guano, applied manure?

Sometimes a sympathetic smile comes at the wide country roads our art must travel by chance before it shines meagerly here and there like a lantern piercing the fog of intoxication. There are times when it only comes through the union of intoxication and art. Then it is the only way great inspiration can come out from within and make itself known. When this happens the highest place must be given to the scouts Hoffman, Baudellaire and Poe, who first worked consciously through intoxication to find their art.

Let’s be honest! Is there an artist that can go without stimulation? No one can do without their little stimulants, tea, tobacco, coffee, beer or what ever. Do these things hinder our inspiration of art or help shape its spirit more clearly?

They often help shape it more clearly.

Art is contrary to nature. A man that lives in abstinence keeping body and mind pure and whose ancestors also lived in abstinence for long generations has poisoned blood and can never become an artist! Not even God’s favor in life can awaken the ecstasy. It’s spirit has been poisoned.

Nature and Art are the worst enemies. Where one exists the other is not possible.

In the best sense what precisely is an artist? A pioneer of culture in the new territory of the unconscious. In this holy sense how few deserve this proud name! Th. A. Hoffman deserves it and Jean Paul and Villiers and Baudellaire and most certainly Edgar Allan Poe. Griswold must admit to himself that this poet of the soul related in so many of his stories a secret land considered by no one before him and gave us a first glimpse of a new genre of literature.

This powerful land of the unconscious, the land of our eternal desire lies in gray hazy clouds. The beggar lies warm in the sun. The commoner crouches sated by the oven. But there are those whose desire is so immense that their inspiration must come bleeding out.

They must in triple protect their breast when they leave the land of consciousness and steer through the gray murderous flood back toward Avalon. Many, many get dashed to ground without casting a single glimpse behind the clouds. Very few succeed at this journey. These discover new territory for the culture and the border of the unconscious is pushed back a little further.

The artists are these great first explorers. Then mankind may equip researchers to survey and investigate this new land. They send in officials and civil servants to organize and record-men of science.

It is certain that in addition to other ways the so called poisons we call narcotics are capable of taking us across the threshold of consciousness. If anyone has success and gets solid footing on the "other side" they can metaphysically in a positive way create new works of art. They are in the finest sense an artist.

Maybe it is necessary to stress the truth that art can never converse naturally with self except while working through frenzy. Some form of stimulation is needed. Or another, that no intoxicant in the world can bring art out of a person that has none inside to begin with!

The Griswolds and Ingrams want less wine drinking, less opium smoking, less hashish eating. If they had their way no more art would be created!

But he who works through intoxication together with narcotics creates suitable conditions where ecstasy can later be invoked. This highest level of ecstasy can be invoked in anyone according to their intelligence and capabiliy.

Griswold was right. Edgar Allen Poe drank. And yes, he drank too much. His body reacted badly to alcohol. His addiction was hereditary, so he drank a lot. He drank too much. But his actions were deliberate. While in the intoxicated condition things came out in a frenzy that later, perhaps years later, were shaped into new works of valuable art. Such intoxication is no pleasure. It is a horrible agony where awareness is only of the yearning for the art blazing like the mark of Cain upon his brow.

It is a belittling lie of the narrow minded that artistic production is no work, that it is a joy. Those that say so and the large masses with their thankless thought chatter never have a hint or breath of the ecstasy that only the artistic condition produces. This frenzy is always an agony to experience even if the ecstasy at first brought delight.

It is said the mother cat has pleasure bringing her young into the world but they are only poor blind kittens. This may be the weekend chatter of the Buxtehuder Newspaper like the writer of "Berlin at night" who with pleasure puts his lines on paper.

A work of art is never born without pain.

Edgar Allen Poe by Hanns Heinz Ewers (translation by Joe E. Bandel

[May. 29th, 2008|06:37 pm]

This is a rough draft exerpt for the curious!

interesting stuff! It was published in German before 1923.

-anarchistbanjo

Edgar Allen Poe

By Hans Heinz Ewers

This booklet is dedicated to

Gustav Meyrink

Drunken Artist, dreamer, he believed dreams are the true reality just as Poe did. He wrote what he dreamed.

In the Alhambra

April 1905

Hanns Heinz Ewers

My feet stride lightly upon the morning stones of the old way that I have so often traveled up through the sacred groves at Alhambra. I long for that vast world behind the jeweled gate where time flies. I wander so lightly in the dreamland, where the elms rustle, where the spring babbles, where a hundred nightingales sing out from the laurel bushes. I can certainly reflect upon my poet there.

You should not do it. Really not. You should not go there and read any book about an artist you love. How can a priest speak about God? You need to be careful, so very careful.

You should do this:

You love Firdus? Don’t you know Goethe wrote about him? Good. First of all learn what he said about the Persian before you begin. And then after you have learned enough and are ready to write about your favorite, decide what he would have written, you will not be disappointed.

It doesn’t matter what the critics write about the artist you love. And if the critics boast about him being a star or say he is only a wisp of mist- It doesn’t matter! It doesn’t matter either if the critics know enough because you know. You are telling the truth about your artist.

I haven’t done it this way. I’ve got a few drops of thick flowing German thoroughness in my blood, a sense of duty.

I thought:

Before I write about my favorite artist, what have others written before me?

I thought:

"Perhaps—"

Many have written about Edgar Allen. Only I’ve been disappointed, so very disappointed. There was just one able to grasp the spirit of him.

There was only Baudelaire. Baudelaire whose art came from hashish. How could he not grasp him, he who formed valuable art out of alcohol and laudanum.

Now I need to forget what the others have said. I must forget the horrible Griswold whose poisonous vomit is not a Poe biography.

"He drank too much, he drank too much, such a shame, he drank too much!"

Also I must forget the horrible fool Ingram who would defend my artist’s honor in return by stammering "He did not drink, really, he did not drink".

Quick, before I forget I’ll put down the dates I have about him:

Edgar Allen Poe, born on 19 January 1809 in Boston. Irish family, long pedigree, Norman, Celtic, Anglo-Saxon, Italian blood. 1816 to England with his foster parents, a couple of years in a boarding school in Stoke-Newington, 1822 back to America, 1826 student in Richmond, then in Charlottesville, 1827 travel through Europe with unknown adventures, 1830 Cadet Officer at West Point, 1834 Head of the Southern Literary Messenger in Richmond. 1836 married his cousin Virginia Clemm. He wrote. He lived in various places, in New York, Philadelphia, Richmond, Fordham. He had a rough time. "He drank too much", (said Griswold). "He does not drink", (said Ingram). He died on 7 October in a hospital for the poor in Baltimore, forty years old.

So, these are the all important dates. Now I can forget.

How difficult that is. For a long time I go along the elm lined avenue up to the royal palace. I turn left and enter the gate to the mighty tower of the Law. I am glad of the hand above that averts the evil eye. I think, this might keep my moralists outside. Now I am above. Alone in the familiar spaces.

I know exactly where I want to go. Quick through the myrtle courtyard, through the hall of the Mocaraben into the courtyard of the twelve lions. Enter left into the room of the two sisters and through it to the Ajimeces. Now I’m there in Mirador de Daraxa, where Boabdil’s mother Aicha lived. I sit by a window looking out on the old cypress trees.

How hard it still is to forget! There go my moralists strolling in the garden. Two English hypocrites with round hats, short pipes, black jackets and reviews in their hands.

"He drinks too much", hisses one.

"Oh no, he does not drink at all", chimes the other.

I would like to knock their heads together!

"Go away you rats, go away! I’m sitting here dreaming about an artist I love. He sang in your language and you sticks know nothing about him!"

They left all right. Be certain of that. I am alone once more.

He drinks too much. He does not drink. That is how the Englanders argue about their poet. They let Milton starve, they steal Shakespeare’s entire life’s work, they scrabble with crooked fingers in Byron’s and Shelley’s family history, they villify Rossetti and Swinburne, stick Wilde in prison and point their fingers at Charles Lamb and Poe. Because they drink!

I’m so glad that I’m a German! Germany’s great men are permitted to be indecent. Indecent—Certainly that means not as decent as the good citizens and moralists. The Germans say "Goethe was a great poet." They knew he had vices but did not consider them.

The Englander says "Byron was indecent, therefore he was not a great poet."

Only in England could the repulsive moral preacher Kingsley create a household phrase about Heine.

"Don’t speak of him. He was a bad man!"

When no one listens, when people gather round to acknowledge the "indecent" English poet they love, the Englander is finally compelled to speak and then he will lie. He does not give up on his hypocracy. He says then, "After further examination he was not at all indecent but high moralled, completely pure and completely blameless!

This is why the English liar could not take it any more and vindicated Wilde’s honor with a Saul to Paul conversion. The same with Poe and Ingram’s reply to Griswold.

"Oh no, He did not really drink!"

The English have only now after all this time officially recognized that Edgar Allan Poe was a decent man!

We however, never make a big deal of middle class and moralistic purity. We love him even if he drank. Still more, we love him because he drank. Even though toxins destroyed his body, great art sprang out of his life’s blood, that was his gift. How great art originates is not determined by the layman. It comes from out of the artist himself. No one is permitted a say in this or a derogatory judgement or cut-down.

Only the few whose insight perceives the creative process because they love him, only they are permitted to watch in silence, to comment. Wilde related the fairy tale of the lovely rose created from the heart’s blood of a dead nightingale. The fallow student looked and wondered, never had he seen such a marvelous blood red rose. But he didn’t know how it was formed.

Virility, Decadence and the New Age

[Apr. 29th, 2008|07:40 pm]

Sometimes I feel like going on a rant and by God it is justified. If the simple law that governs life is personal effort it is certainly being abused by those that live sedentary lives and expect things to be handed to them without any effort on their part. If all that is truly needed for progressive advancement is the generation of daily energy spikes over long periods of time the vast majority of the population will never get past first base. They flat line their lives and avoid the very intensity spikes needed to stay vital and young.

Like a sponge we need to squeeze ourselves dry during the day and soak up the cosmic energy during the night as we sleep. That is the way to avoid clogged arteries! Look at how important doctors claim a simple aerobic exersize program can be! That is not even intense enough to produce a meaningful energy spike and it still does wonders.

Our culture is rotten and when that has happened in the past civilizations have become weak, passive and decadent. Think of the mindless boobs out there watching tv for hours or playing video games for days at a time. What about real life? What about real relationships? What about real work? What about real creativity instead of passive absorbtion?

Our society and culture is becoming so passive and decadent it is weak. The question is not if our civilzation will fall but who the virile and productive conquerers will be. I'm not saying rape and pillage is the way things will happen but there is an important connection between productivity, sexuality and creativity. The new rulers will come from a hard working, hard loving and hard playing place. Most likey they will be our neighbors. They will not come from another country but from another mind space.

I'm both happy and proud to join the ranks of this august community of pioneers. I used to think live and let live was a noble path until I realized it was simply another way to say I didn't really care. We all share a common soul and civilization is the blending of common values. The word needs to get out and shared with as many as possible.

If you sit around passive all day and are overweight without trying I don't know if I want to share my world with you. God knows I'm not perfect but at least I'm alive! Survival pressures are the most powerful cure for depression that I know. You can either live or die, that is unless someone steps in and artificially keeps you alive out of pity. I can't even imagine being alive and dead at the same time.

Atlantis the World's Greatest MUD?

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[Apr. 20th, 2008|03:19 pm]

MUD stands for multi-user dimension. Some of the greatest and most sophisticated gaming ever developed still exists as online text based gaming. Visual and audio transformed online gaming with MUDs like Everquest and other multi-player games like DOOM. It has been several years and I no longer know much about the online gaming environment. It has evolved faster than I have been able to follow and I don't have much time for online gaming anymore.

There is a MUD called Atlantis but I'm not talking about computers or online gaming right now. I'm going to talk about the real Atlantis and why no one has ever been able to find it. Supposedly it was an ancient advanced civilization that sank beneath the waves of the Atlantic ocean some fourteen thousand years ago.

Atlantis had a marvelous advanced technology that included flying machines, genetic manipulation and an almost total dependency on the power of crystals. These crystals powered just about everything. This continent was destroyed in atomic warfare as a result of the wickedness of its population.

That is the general story. Reality seems to be a bit different. Neanderthals roamed the earth during the time of Atlantis leading a nomadic and uncivilized life style. This is one reason the existence of Atlantis has been so hotly debated and doubted. Atlantis was not an advanced civilization of Neanderthals or was it?

Let's change the subject for a few minutes and explore the concept of evolution and how the human fetus moves through all stages of evolution as it grows from a single cell into a viable human being. There is a point where the human fetus looks like a tadpole and another where it has gills. This is common knowledge but what about after birth?

Is it not as reasonable to consider the stages of childhood and adolescence might also be evolutionary landmarks? Might not these stages represent humanities evolvement through Neanderthal and Cro-Magnon? Is not the Neanderthal considered childlike in his mental functioning and living?

Think back to when you were a child and loved to play "make believe". We lived on a farm in the country and I loved pretending to be Daniel Boone or other famous historical figures or television heroes. I would draw lines in the dirt and create houses to play in. What I'm getting at here is that "make believe" is an evolutionary stage humanity has passed through.

It is my belief that Atlantis existed as an astral "make believe" place each Neanderthal would visit in their daydreams. They would project their awareness to Atlantis and it was as real to them as a MUD is to today's online gamers. They could share adventures and communicate with each other. They could even help each other out in times of trouble. It is very likely that the Neanderthal could even communicate with animals in this magickal realm of Atlantis. Atlantis was a collective daydream and the greatest past time.

What exists in the astral seeks to become physical and Atlantis was no exception. These great souls dared to bring Atlantis into physical manifestation and today's world is Atlantis! Computer chips or crystals control almost every aspect of daily life. Flying machines transport people around the globe on a daily basis and we struggle against the threat of the nuclear destruction of our planet while we toy around with genetic manipulation of plants and animals. Atlantis never sank into the ocean, it sank into material manifestation!

Atlantis the World's Greatest MUD?

[Apr. 13th, 2008|06:55 pm]

There is a MUD called Atlantis but I’m not talking about computers or online gaming right now. I’m going to talk about the real Atlantis and why no one has ever been able to find it. Supposedly it was an ancient advanced civilization that sank beneath the waves of the Atlantic ocean some fourteen thousand years ago.

Let’s change the subject for a few minutes and explore the concept of evolution and how the human fetus moves through all stages of evolution as it grows from a single cell into a viable human being. There is a point where the human fetus looks like a tadpole and another where it has gills. This is common knowledge but what about after birth?

Think back to when you were a child and loved to play “make believe”. We lived on a farm in the country and I loved pretending to be Daniel Boone or other famous historical figures or television heroes. I would draw lines in the dirt and create houses to play in. What I’m getting at here is that “make believe” is an evolutionary stage humanity has passed through.

It is my belief that Atlantis existed as an astral “make believe” place each Neanderthal would visit in their daydreams. They would project their awareness to Atlantis and it was as real to them as a MUD is to today’s online gamers. They could share adventures and communicate with each other. They could even help each other out in times of trouble. It is very likely that the Neanderthal could even communicate with animals in this magickal realm of Atlantis. Atlantis was a collective daydream and the greatest past time.

What exists in the astral seeks to become physical and Atlantis was no exception. These great souls dared to bring Atlantis into physical manifestation and today’s world is Atlantis! Computer chips or crystals control almost every aspect of daily life. Flying machines transport people around the globe on a daily basis and we struggle against the threat of the nuclear destruction of our planet while we toy around with genetic manipulation of plants and animals. Atlantis never sank into the ocean, it sank into material manifestation!

The Collapse of the Old Age

[Apr. 3rd, 2008|03:44 pm]

I’m going to be fifty-one years young next month. A life time of metaphysics and spirituality has brought me to a place in my life that I never would have dreamed of.

I’ve walked the spiritual path in search of mystical union with God. I tried to dissolve myself in the light in a form of spiritual suicide but was gently pushed back toward the earth. I was only allowed to go into the Light so far before I found myself falling back toward earth. Perhaps this is what the old myths called flying to close to the sun.

I only know that from that point on my only path led back toward the earth. This was the path of magick and I studied all the magick I could find including Crowley. My connection to the earth grew year by year and I developed different permanent astral bodies that convinced me of the hidden reality behind physical life.

There were years of astral conflicts, some of them very serious. Study of the Holy Kabalah became routine. My own personal paradigm is called OAK and it was in serious conflict with the old ways. I guess that makes me one of the new age adepts. My message is a new message suited for a new people and a new way of life.

The three most vital points to be shared are the concepts of competency, internal authority and the existence of non-physical reality and the powers of the soul.

Individuals within our society are becoming so helpless and dependent that it is frightening. They are becoming so bold as to demand that individuals that put forth no effort at all are entitled to the same benefits and life styles of those that put forth intense personal effort. I’m sorry but that is against natural law. It feels good to be skilled at what you do. It also feels good to be able to pull your own weight in this world we all share. The competent person does not fear change or fear challenge but embraces them. Fear is not something that should fill our lives and the message from our government should not be one of fear.

Internal Authority is the Christ Spirit that resides within our hearts. It is the still small voice of our conscience and the Master Within. The mystical path teaches the way of the Master Within. Today’s world has become so materialistic that the demand is for external authority, not internal authority. Every day the demand is make for more external laws to restrict personal freedoms and for more guns to enforce the laws that exist! The average person can not comprehend that the use of initiatory force against any individual can never be justified. They believe it is right and proper to force individuals into politically correct ways of behavior. They believe it is right to force others to believe and act the way they want them to! This also is against natural law.

These are things that always happen at the end of an age. The magick is used up and the only power that is left resides in the collective will of the people. The people choose who will lead. They choose who will hold power and give their own power over without thinking about it. That is also why the end of any age is rotten to the core. The power is in the hands of people that don’t deserve it. The power is in the hands of people that are not competent. At the end of an age the old ways fall away and are destroyed because they no longer work. They have gone to far against nature. They have given the power to the weak and that is against nature.

Individual effort is the only way to develop the soul and its powers. Every decadent civilization has been weakened from within and then overrun by a stronger and more virile people and culture. Every age brings in a new energy and a new magick that vitalizes and empowers the individuals that put forth personal effort and penalize those that resort to trickery and deception. Said another way every new age brings justice and this new age is no exception!

It is time to think about who the strong? Who are the virile? Who are the new leaders that are going to lead society into the new age that is already here? Three things are certain. They will be competent. They will follow internal authority and have a new message and they will have a magickal and mystical power that will not be denied because it will represent the new will of nature and the new will of the human collective!

The New Age Energy Pathways

[Mar. 6th, 2008|04:44 pm]

I may have been wrong about a global event last October but it has certainly been a major event for me personally. At one point just before the solstice at Yule the energy hit me so strongly that I had to call in sick for work. I got up in the morning and started making coffee when I noticed the room seemed to be spinning a bit. Walking around the house made it worse and I needed to sit down.

Throughout the day I tried to eat food and move around but each time the sensation of energy spinning would disorient me just enough that I needed to sit and do nothing to let things settle down.

One year before at Yule a similar thing had happened at work. A wave of energy hit me and I needed to go home because of the spinning sensation but it only lasted three or four hours. This time the disorientation lasted the entire day.

I am not prone to illness or dizziness. This was definitely energy swirling around in my physical body at the etheric level. Things were being energized at the etheric level and possibly even at the cellular level.

Another notable occurrence was a lucid dream. In this dream I woke up in bed and saw a second projected astral double of myself standing at the foot of the bed and a third etheric double of myself as an infant on the bed beside me. I was actually playing with the baby and rolling it around. It fell off the bed head first and I felt the sensation of my face impacting the floor at the same time.

I’m not even going to speculate here about why there were three non-physical doubles of myself within this dream. I will only say that this year since October has been about the permanent activation of my Etheric Double. This has been a major metaphysical and spiritual achievement and brought extra sensory abilities as well.

Topping things off my wife, Annie and I both had precognitive dreams that our relationship would be ending and it has. In Annie’s dream an ancient and ornate pair of golden handcuffs that bound us together unlocked and fell to the floor. You can’t get a message more clear than that about time to be moving on.

It has been a hard winter but a blessed winter and I am grateful for the things that have happened. In my life they might not have all been pleasant but they have been both freeing and empowering.

This spring is definitely about new beginnings and greater exposure for Anarchist World.

Late October-A Global Event???

[Sep. 19th, 2007|06:19 pm]

I have been working with the energy of the New Eon for over fifteen years now. I first tapped into it back in Phoenix, AZ in 1991. Since then every year I've felt both myself and the new energy develop and get stronger but it never seemed to make any real changes in my outer life. All of the changes have been inner changes.

I've felt like an electrician wiring a new house, drilling the holes, pulling the wire and installing the switches and plugins. But I've never been able to get any power to run things. That was until the last winter solstice. The incoming energy was so strong when it hit that I needed to go home. I was dizzy and felt sick and had trouble standing. When I got home the room was spinning so much I couldn't lay down on the sofa.

That new energy is still here and moving its way for the first time through the astral planes forging new pathways as it goes. During these last few months I've felt this energy surge through the power lines and astral cords that I have created over the years. Like the house being wired the circuit breaker has been turned on and there is "power" in the house to run things. The astral circuitry has taken the surge and is now operating in new ways than ever before.

Combining this with the earth's completion of its move into 4th density which also happened this summer it seems very likely to expect some interesting things in the near future. This is obviously a time of powerful and extreme change, both for me personally and for the American public and the entire earth.

2008 brings us the most contested presidential election in living memory. It is a change election. Everything is about change. Change is upon us. The old ways are no longer valid.

There is a wave of awareness that is sweeping the American public. I've see it in the astral. Things have been lined up like dominos in fancy patterns waiting for the first one to be pushed over. Once that first domino is toppled the whole thing goes. Guess what? The first domino has been toppled and the others are going as we speak.

The agent for this sweeping change is ZeitGeist-The Movie. It can be viewed online at:

ZeitGeist-The Movie

Never before has this type of information been made available to the general public in such understandable form. Log on and watch the movie. Then buy a DVD of it for $5 and make copies to give people you know. This is like a pyramid scheme in reverse. It is not about getting rich but about living a rich life. If you tell five people about the movie and they each tell five people about the movie there will be a revolution. It is already happening. Don't miss out!

Now for a prediction. I'm not into prophecy or making predictions but the signs are pointing at a global event that will happen the weekend before Halloween of this year. Traditionally this is the time of year when the veil between the worlds is the thinnest. Combine that with the new move into 4th density and the activation of the new age energy and the stage is set for earth shaking events. The winter solstice of this year will be the 2nd year of this new energy surging through the astral. That is too late.

If anything is going to happen it will happen this first time the energy forces its way through the restrictions of the past. If there is ever going to be an ascension or mass landing of UFO's or biblical type intervention before the tribulation hits it will happen this last weekend of October when the veil between the worlds is thinnest.

I can't really say what will happen but I can say with conviction I believe something is going to happen and it is going to be big!

bright blessings
-anarchistbanjo

Your Altar

[Sep. 11th, 2007|08:03 pm]

In a very real way the physical body is an altar and a temple. This is alluded to in the Wiccan religion although the tendency is to think of the female body as an altar. In the OAK tradition we embrace the male and the female that is within each one of us. Within our bodies flows the "vital life force" that is responsible for our very awareness. The altar is an opening or gateway that taps into the "vital life force" of the earth itself. It is a place of sacred power and a place where we can attune with our own guides, Gods, and Goddesses. It is also a place where we can perform magick using the "vital life force" energy of the earth instead of using our own energy. This gateway or opening is created by "activating" the altar. Without activation an altar is simply a shrine or sacred space hosting a collection of sacred objects.

The activation of the altar begins with a purification of the area. I use a basic banishing ritual, LBRP, for this. The idea is a simple purification of the space and of the items belonging to the altar itself. Then I continue with a basic circle casting.

Following this is a self energizing technique: I mentally reach up into the "highest spiritual light" I can reach and draw a handful of it down through me and down through my spine, through my feet and into the center of the earth. This creates a "powerline" from the "light" to the "dark". Next I mentally reach down and draw a handful of "dark Earth" energy and raise it up through my feet, up my spine and out the crown chakra up into the "highest spiritual light" as an offering. This creates the second "powerline" and causes the "vital life force" energy to course through my physical and astral bodies.

The "highest spiritual light" might well be symbolized by the dot within a circle or the symbol of the "sun". This is also the symbol in electronics for the "positive" pole of a battery. In like manner the "dark earth energy" might well be symbolized by the cross within a circle or the symbol of the "Earth". This is also the symbol in electronics for the "negative" pole in a battery.

The "light" and the "dark" are seen as the positive and negative poles we connect to. They are the terminals of a cosmic "battery" or power source. This connection allows the "vital life force" to flow more strongly within us. These are the "primal" forces OAK taps into and uses for magickal power.

When I call the God and Goddess and my patron Marie to assist me in the activation of my altar, I feel their presence around me and their good will and blessings. If I don't I do not continue further. Next I mentally reach up into the "light" above my altar and bring a handful of it down through the altar itself and into the center of the Earth creating a powerline as before. Then completeing the circuit I mentally take a handful of "Earth" energy and raise it up through the altar into the "light" and create the second powerline. With the second powerline created I can sense the power and energy eminating from the altar. The altar is now active.

An altar should be permanent and never closed. Once activated it will always remain open and a source of power when you need it during the day. It should be approached with reverence and the candles never blown out but snuffed out. Further banishings and circle castings are not needed after the initial activation unless the altar is taken down after use. This is not recommended.

A person's altar is a personal thing and will grow with time. An item should never be simply placed upon an altar. You should ask permission to the altar, God and Goddess and/or your patron to determine if the item really belongs on your altar.

My altar is quite simple. I have a large black candle (in a jar) in the central position. Behind it is a statue of the Virgin Mary and on either side behind it a black and a white Goddess image. Together they form a triangle. The white is on the left and the black on the right. Above the altar on the left is a picture of Marie as Empress and on the right a picture of Marie as High Priestess. Scattered on the altar are magickal tools of the four elements, Fire, Water, Air and Earth.

Modern Wicca and Paganism

[Aug. 26th, 2007|07:15 am]

Modern Wicca and Paganism
Wicca and Paganism are the religions of the future and not of the past. This essay will serve as an introduction to a modern variety of both. I realize many Wiccans and Pagans will have their own versions but some standard will arise and I believe that standard will be closely reflected by the points in this essay.
The thoughtful person recognizes life has not come out of the void. There must be a higher Creator/Intelligence that has fashioned our universe. This ultimate Deity is beyond human comprehension and equally beyond human reach. Like the Freemasons we can call this First Source the Grand Architect of the Universe and leave it at that. There is no more to say except it has nothing to do with the Practice of Modern Wicca or Paganism.
Likewise we recognize through modern science the basic building block of all matter is the photon and its reciprocal electricity. The Grand Architect of the Universe created the universe out of light and electricity. Science tells us that matter and energy are interchangeable. The photon expands outward in all directions until it can go no further. Then it collapses inward upon itself and returns back toward the point of its origin as an electrical pulse. This is vibratory motion and duality in action.
Modern Wicca and Paganism are not in conflict with modern science, psychology or electronics. Instead they propose a view of reality that embraces them all in harmony with magickal practice, religious practice and nature.
For the Wiccan and Pagan the photon/electricity is the first expression of male and female energy. The outward expansive energy is called male energy and the inward embracing energy is called female energy. Thus both Wicca and Paganism share a common understanding of the absolute duality within creation. In union the male and female create a cycle that is complete and stable.
At the cosmic and planetary level the sun and the stars as givers of light are seen as male. Outer space, the galactic center and the earth and moon are seen as female. These are physical manifestations of male and female energies and Symbols of a Great God and Goddess.
Paganism holds the vital life force within all living things as sacred. One might consider the practice of Paganism to be the worship of the life force in all living things. There is a circle of life and a balance to nature that must be maintained. To live in harmony with nature’s cycles is to live a pagan life.
Wicca contains Paganism within it. But Wicca is much more because Wicca is about the human race and the survival of humanity into the future. The human race is a single organism and we all share a common collective soul. We are all part of each other. To hurt someone else is to hurt yourself in the largest sense.
The religion of Modern Wicca is the worship of the human Collective and the guiding intelligence of the human race embodied as God and Goddess. When we say the Goddess we mean the Collective feminine guiding intelligence of the human race. When we say the God we mean the Collective masculine guiding intelligence of the human race. Together they form the collective soul of humanity. Since we are all a part of them, they may at times speak through us. This is an important part of the Wiccan religion.
What is the difference between a religion and a personality cult? A true religion offers spiritual and mystical experience along with the development of the individual soul and its powers. Each person is allowed to grow spiritually. Each person is expected to find their own path and develop the "Christ" within their own heart. They are expected to listen to the still small voice of their conscience as the "God/dess of their heart.
A personality cult does not allow this. Only the founder of the personality cult has exclusive right to spiritual and mystical experience. Others can not do what this divine person has done. Sadly Christianity once was a true religion. Christians were told to pick up their own crosses and walk the same path as Jesus. They were told they could do the same miracles and have the same experiences. Christians were told to become "Christs".
Today Christianity has degenerated into a personality cult where one is told to "cling to the cross" and have faith in the power of Jesus to save them. They are not encouraged to have mystical experiences or follow the inner voice of their conscience. External authority does the thinking for them. The literal interpretation of symbolic literature assures those in power remain there. Believers will get their reward after they have died.
Both Modern Wicca and Paganism are profoundly religious and offer internal guidance with mystical and magickal experience. Both deal with the reality of living a right life in the present moment. The concept of reincarnation ensures that all karma and unresolved issues must someday be confronted. There is no escape from cause and effect. We must create heaven on earth or live in a hell of our own creation. This is a responsible position and teaches the need to deal honestly with life.
The development of the individual soul and its powers is an important part of Modern Wicca. This is done through hard work and the generation of physical, sexual, emotional, mental and spiritual energy on a daily basis. The work is cumulative and the development of the soul is certain.
Each individual soul has a male and a female aspect to be developed. Physical genetics only allows XY chromosomes to generate male energy and XX chromosomes to generate female energy. The development of each individual soul requires both male and female energy. We get the needed opposite sex energy from our love relationships with others.
The sharing of male and female energy can be physical and sexual or it can be non-physical as in platonic friendships. The Great Rite of Wicca is a symbolic enactment of this sharing. Wicca is about love and male/female relationships and the development of the soul and its powers through this sharing.
In love relationships something is created within each person and it grows as the energy is exchanged. This is the great secret. This is the great balance of male and female that exists in all things. This is duality.

Egregores and Magickal Links

[Aug. 19th, 2007|03:35 pm]

There is a lot of babble about magickal links and egregores. The bottom line is that they are one and the same. In doing drivers ed I have created a route I take all of my students on. I have found the only way to be fair to everyone is the take them all on the same route and make sure they complete it.

Over several years this route has become an egregore. It exists non-physically as well as physically. It exerts an influence on my students that is subtle but powerful. I've noticed areas of my route that used to give students trouble no longer do. There is some force that gets them instinctively through those areas. This is the power of an egregore at work.

Magickal links are about getting results. When you put out energy you get a solid return. That is a good definition for a magickal link. Something goes out and something comes back. There is no lost energy. There is no waste. There is no doubt that something has happened.

In the case of my driver ed students they are changed by the act of going through my route. At the end of a 2 hour session they have been transformed into better drivers with higher skills and self-confidence.

Restating this another way we can say that the actions required to physically manifest desired results act as both egregore and magickal link. When they are repeated by myself or by others they will bring specific results that are similar for each person that performs the actions or goes through the rituals. These results are guaranteed.

A magickal tradition is simply the path or route one person took to achieve mastery over his or her life. It will bring the same results to others that repeat that path or route.

I've noticed this with the OAK Energy Ball Meditation. It took me six weeks to go through it the first time. Now I can take a group of people through it in a one hour meditation session with similar results. The OAK Energy Ball Meditation has become both an egregore and a magickal link that connects a person with their Holy Guardian Angel and with the "Photon" level of spiritual light.

As long as I am leading the meditation others don't need to do the same amount of work I had to do. It is easier for them. If they attempt it on their own it will be much more difficult but still easier than what I did because they are following my path even though they are doing it individually. This is the power of group working.

Group working would not be effective if I had not created a working egregore or magickal link in the first place. Someone needs to go first and create something out of nothing and it needs to manifest solid results for everyone or it is not valid. Someone needs to bring fire down from heaven and share it with others that can't reach as high. This is what a magickal tradition or current is.

This is also why initiation into an egregore or tradition is so important. It uses the energy of the group to empower the individual in very specific ways.

Going First

[Aug. 6th, 2007|06:51 pm]

My adventures as a writer have been quite interesting even though things have not turned out quite the way I have expected. Reality has a way of doing that and I am extremely grateful for the things I have learned and the things I am learning and will continue to learn.

Writing itself is becoming second nature to me by now with almost two years of constant posting and writing. I feel like I haven't brushed my teeth if I haven't written something during the day.

Having a substantial amount of material and three books in print has been very exciting as well. It makes a person feel different about themselves. I'm starting the second science fiction novel, "Anarchist Journeyman" and the feeling is simply matter of fact. I know exactly what needs to be done and how much work it is going to be. It will be much easier this time around and I'm grateful. I'm not fearful of the process like I was the first time around.

Seeing the readership increase on the website has also been very gratifying. I've put a lot of work into this place and it feels good to know others are finding it.

Perhaps the most difficult thing for me is the relative lack of feedback. Luckily I know from the last ten years of being on the internet that people find my stuff interesting but very few comment or want to discuss it. Perhaps the material is a bit to unfamiliar for people to feel comfortable with it yet.

I'm finding the same thing locally. I tried starting a local pagan discussion board and a few people have checked it out but no one is using it yet. I've been trying to get some kind of community involvement going in the local area and no one is stepping up. I correct that. One person has shown interest so far. It will be interesting to see how things develop in the coming year as word gets around.

I'm also coming out with a local magazine in mid September. I'm hoping that some local talent will contribute material. Some people have volunteered to help with the project. I have a very modest goal of simply keeping four or five copies in stock at the local bookstore. Using a print on demand publisher makes this type of creative publishing feasible.

Perhaps the most interesting feature in this adventure has been the resistance. As a writer on the internet you start out as a nobody. Why should anyone listen to what you have to say over any one else? That is a very good point. The answer of course is to put out interesting stuff that is not available anywhere else.

First I've gained some respect by writing quality things. Second, I produced so much volume of the past ten years that people had to admit I at least was a prolific writer. Getting a solid blog readership did wonders in both my daily word output and in my self esteem as a writer. Let's face it. You need to have some success and encouragement to get you through the tough times. Thank you so much for the words of encouragement!

Getting my first book in print was the most magickal act of my writing life. Holding that book in my hands for the first time was like a dream come true and it still is. There is nothing like it. Seeing my books in the local bookstore is another high. My success is very modest.

My books are self published and not in bookstores. They are sold locally and over the internet. But that is enough. There is personal satisfaction in a job well done. Three books down and three more in the works. These are not meant to be best sellers for the mass market. They are meant for a more selective readership.

I've noticed that I feel differently about myself now in a good way and I've also noticed that others see me differently as well. Putting the magazine out locally will add another factor into the mix. Coming out of the closet is always an empowering thing to do. There is a difference between writing something on the internet and having a controversial magazine in the local book store. I'm not exactly sure how it will go. I only know that it is something I must do if I want to advance toward my goals of finding new friends and strengthening the local pagan community. It seems that someone must always go first.

Dominion, Submission, Challenge and Expulsion

[Jul. 14th, 2007|05:08 pm]

Sometimes I hate it when a deep understanding comes to me. There are some things that I just don't want to admit because they go against my basic nature. This is one of them.

I have been forced to accept that nature insists upon stability existing only in four types of experience. These are Dominion, Submission, Challenge and Expulsion. In any given situation these are the only options available. Nature will not accept equality or compromise no matter how noble and lofty it might be. Said another way this is simply an energy dynamic that exists at the foundation of everything. Trying any other solution will only create problems in the long run.

Dominion is fairly easy to explain. It means being the boss. As a driver's ed instructor I am placed in this position in respect to my students. There are a few other areas in my life where I am seen as an Elder. Writing is one of my strong areas where I dominate the page. Each of us has some areas where we are dominant. It may only be in our homes or with our pets.

Submission is a little tougher. In paying taxes to the IRS the Federal Government holds dominion over a part of my life. At work I submit to the will of my employer and do what is needed. I comply to the demands of the work place. In going to a doctor I submit to his or her medical expertise. In music I listen to music that I love but have no ability to produce myself. In the largest sense we all submit to the will of the human collective in one way or another. We also submit to our spouses and other family members from time to time.

Challenge is pretty easy. When we don't like the way things are going we can always challenge them. If we are strong enough we win. If we are not strong enough we lose. Things really are that simple. Challenge is our only choice at times. Letting things slide or putting things off only causes the problem to grow larger and more serious.

The most drastic consequence is expulsion. This is when we are deliberately left out of things because of our basic non-adaptability or compliance. We don't belong so we are expelled.

In looking at nature and the herd instinct we find all four of these options in strong usage. The herd has a strong leader and the members of the herd must comply or submit to the leader or leave the herd. From time to time the leader is challenged and a new leader always arises. This is basic universal law and it bugs me.

In my life I have refused to dominate or assume leadership roles even when I was the most qualified. It has created nothing but hardship and trouble for everyone involved. In looking back on things it has probably been the worst thing that I have done. With ability comes responsibility. That is the law and I have not heeded it.

Likewise I have refused to submit or compromise my self or my soul to any external authority. My spirit remains unbroken and free. While I submit to the IRS and the law it is through survival and not through any other reason. We must all submit to the human collective. It holds the force of God and is stronger than any individual.

My refusal to dominate and to submit have left me with only two options most of my adult life. They have been challenge and expulsion. I've always been up against a resistance that I never understood. For some reason I've always had to do things the hard way and not the easy way. Now I begin to understand that process. I don't need to fight if I can merge with the human collective in a win-win situation.

This also means that I don't need to be an outsider. What it does mean is that I need to accept the responsibility for those things I am best qualified to do and do them. I need to accept the position of leader or teacher in my area of expertise and be the dominant one. Every cell in my body resists this knowledge and I'm still struggling with it. The worst part is that I feel the rightness in accepting my own personal mastery even though I resist it.

The things I write about are true. They are some of the most powerful and effective techniques of self-empowerment in the world! Anarchist World is the best!

The Importance of Community

[Jun. 26th, 2007|08:13 pm]

I've got a generic version of the community going! There is a lot of work setting things up and getting templates to do what you want them to. The community forums are set up so you can login as a guest and try them out.

There has been a small setback in setting up dynamic rss webpages for the contest. It seems every wordpress blog requires its own data base. I can't create blogs for everyone. I can do the next best thing though. This is what I suggest anyone interested in entering the contest or trying out a dynamic rss webpage do.

Register for three blogs at blogger.com-The folks at blogger welcome multiple blogs and they allow ads.

Register for three blogs at wordpress.com-These are the blogs that will allow future posting.

Register for three blogs at livejournal.com-one can be your main blog and you can create community blogs as well. Livejournal blogs support audio and video formats. These will allow you to show multi-media on your dynamic rss webpage.

I will set these blogs up to control modules for your dynamic rss webpage and get you going. I've been working on a sample page but don't have a lot of time.

I'm just playing with it right now but you can get a rough idea of what I'm doing. Check it out at:
Anarchist World Live

You can get the basic idea of the various modules and templates possible to use. Each module can also be colored. This page updates automatically and I never need to do anything with it. (Once I get it the way I want it)

bright blessings
-anarchistbanjo

Tell us what you think!

[Jun. 3rd, 2007|04:38 pm]

This is the place to let everyone know what you think about Anarchist World or about any topic that is appropriate to the site. Got a question? Looking for some information? This is a public forum for people to share their own thoughts about the topic of Modern Survivalism.

It would be great to hear from you!
bright blessings
-anarchistbanjo

Still Some Minor Tweaking To Do

[May. 19th, 2007|06:01 am]

There is still some minor tweaking to do on Anarchist World but generally I think the new changes are a great improvement over the old site. In particular the community forum links need to go directly to the forums and not where they are going right now but that is minor since few people have been using them anyway.

This is the place where readers can sound off and let their own veiwpoints be heard! So let's hear from you!

anarchistbanjo

Future Posting

[May. 14th, 2007|07:42 pm]

This is a test of the future posting feature to see if it works properly