tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9074442232620192582024-03-13T21:09:59.744-05:00Sean JobstThoughts and Musings of an Independent Researcher, Spiritual Seeker, and Lover of WisdomSean Jobsthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17351165299354431339noreply@blogger.comBlogger131125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-907444223262019258.post-21078675002084264302023-04-28T04:04:00.001-05:002023-05-31T14:00:35.766-05:00Walpurgisnacht 2023 - Path of Solitary Gnosis, Demystifying Occult Knowledge, and a Life-changing Travel<p>by Sean Jobst</p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: left;"> </p></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivlmNDWEZqXx96Fv7apSwqeJiYYQCG2Q7Xz7u9HrfqeQCtrXih8yC1PHvroPnwltJfhgWSCGr951WrxDCRbe3qevHtPAs1MhdwFJW-h_XNa7o5c3GATZuc6WSUyUuga9y6YUxnDVEl7JivbFhu2J_3KPUnf3yX2mrcQ6wmAuLjwd8uWZwsqwVHWxgU8g/s609/R.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="605" data-original-width="609" height="318" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivlmNDWEZqXx96Fv7apSwqeJiYYQCG2Q7Xz7u9HrfqeQCtrXih8yC1PHvroPnwltJfhgWSCGr951WrxDCRbe3qevHtPAs1MhdwFJW-h_XNa7o5c3GATZuc6WSUyUuga9y6YUxnDVEl7JivbFhu2J_3KPUnf3yX2mrcQ6wmAuLjwd8uWZwsqwVHWxgU8g/s320/R.png" width="320" /></a></p></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfr74ShEzr39882sGxOBtfEFExRfkH2wizg_7VRkIyDSSuHJyAPSsmeK-5YOlcjrwmqcrvD_mU4-v7oKskxZEhU-jlxa8ydevPZOI_sQKukp7fL4j3pUeWiATdDhdPWrCvBszUNbMjjEc_Bt1f1YwlbaWZCkNcK9LjsIRRGb1O-2s0V38pF6w4oo3RgA/s2048/67d5154a26d3079f113cb5a9e8b1794f.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2048" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfr74ShEzr39882sGxOBtfEFExRfkH2wizg_7VRkIyDSSuHJyAPSsmeK-5YOlcjrwmqcrvD_mU4-v7oKskxZEhU-jlxa8ydevPZOI_sQKukp7fL4j3pUeWiATdDhdPWrCvBszUNbMjjEc_Bt1f1YwlbaWZCkNcK9LjsIRRGb1O-2s0V38pF6w4oo3RgA/s320/67d5154a26d3079f113cb5a9e8b1794f.jpg" width="320" /></a></p></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"> Without any </span><i style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">conscious</i><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"> thought,
something in my soul has stirred me towards the magical, liminal night of
Walpurgisnacht: 30th April. Sure, there is the ethnic connection I have to a night rooted
in German folklore and traditions, but I know from my initial </span><a href="https://sjobst.blogspot.com/2020/04/walpurgisnacht-journey-across-time.html" style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">deep analysis</a><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"> that began this yearly tradition for me, just how scattered the knowledge (much less the
awareness) is around the entire subject of Walpurgisnacht. This path of solitary Gnosis, </span><a href="https://sjobst.blogspot.com/2023/02/seek-mysteries-some-meditations-on.html" style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">seeking the mysteries</a><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"> within as much as those outside, is a path of intensive studying and piecing together from scattered resources - and an even-greater level of intuition. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 10pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"> It was in that first article that I developed my firm conviction that Walpurgisnacht is a unique German celebration rooted in the hybrid Celtic/Germanic regions of Germania - thus it being on the eve of Bealtaine (1st May) - overlaid with certain "Christian" imagery to preserve this auspicious night under the watchful eyes of Church and State.(1) "</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">We know that our forefathers very generally kept the beginning of May as a great festival, and it is still regarded as the trysting time of witches, i.e. once of wise-women and fays [fairies]; who can doubt that heathen sacrifices blazed that day?"(2) </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 10pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"> Sacrifice is simply to be understood as the Animistic understanding of reciprocal exchange (also known as the "gifting cycle") with various spiritual beings and energies. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">It has always been accepted as a basic fact worldwide that we cohabit this world with various unseen spirits and spectres at different dimensional levels. It was the same for Germanic and other ancient Europeans, despite the tendency to only see Animism within distant tribal "others", whether from a dismissive or paternalistic lens depending on the observer's intent. Walpurgisnacht</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"> has many supernatural elements, with the veils thinnest between worlds. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 10pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"> One example abounds when we study the <a href="https://blutundhexenkunst.wordpress.com/2017/04/29/walpurgisnacht-the-night-of-the-witches-and-the-lore-of-the-harz/">Hexentanzplatz</a></span><span style="font-family: georgia;">, a plateau in the Harz mountains surrounded by many Walpurgisnacht legends about "Frau Holda and her witches dancing away the snow." This marked the changing of the seasonal tide, as one of the rites was washing one's face with the morning dew of May - an homage to the Spring Goddess <a href="https://sjobst.blogspot.com/2020/04/ostara-germanic-goddess-of-spring-and.html">Ostara</a>, whom I view as the seasonal counterpart of Frau Holle. The local Saxons honored the spiritual energy of those forests and mountains, whom they named <i>Hagedisen</i>, especially around the night leading into 1st May. Then there is the German tradition of <i>Ankenschnitt</i>, an offering of bread covered in butter and honey, left out on Walpurgisnacht as a offering to ensure that the "howling hounds" of the winds would not damage one's homestead during the year.(3)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 10pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 10pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXRXvmBN5861KLuLWINThOufyDWlIEVDItsoesE88mRv5SkhfbYbf2uQOkbVmFKJSHFi93Caojb9ygyOAmK86uPx4LE4ZtSr6tu1RIYThOY40DGnq5x3hO_ExFtneDOOJ7nhnhpuOagTrHGrVVamHNEb6pBH6_2ZSf7cybIsVAUvi9x7kMJjIppirBbg/s236/d0545e2fc2c829a5a74de2a24bdf1214--tesla-quotes-spirit-science.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="236" data-original-width="236" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXRXvmBN5861KLuLWINThOufyDWlIEVDItsoesE88mRv5SkhfbYbf2uQOkbVmFKJSHFi93Caojb9ygyOAmK86uPx4LE4ZtSr6tu1RIYThOY40DGnq5x3hO_ExFtneDOOJ7nhnhpuOagTrHGrVVamHNEb6pBH6_2ZSf7cybIsVAUvi9x7kMJjIppirBbg/w320-h320/d0545e2fc2c829a5a74de2a24bdf1214--tesla-quotes-spirit-science.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 10pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"> Bonfires were ritually lit that night - the physical fire being a reflection of the internal spiritual fire (a subject for a future article). Jacob Grimm made a priceless contribution to keeping alive those fires of German folklore that speak far more to me personally than the Eddas or other Norse sources ever could. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">As if to kindle my own internal spiritual fire, I have also been able to see the Heathen soul amidst the outwardly "Catholic" traditions practiced in my ancestral regions. In the process, I navigated through Abrahamism in general back into the calling of my ascended Ancestors that reside within my blood down to the cellular level. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 10pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"> Each year I learn more about Walpurgisnacht which reflect other aspects of my life, so these articles are also a way of taking stock of life, my personal tradition of spring introspection although that is most saved for journaling. 2020 was a year of darkness but for many of us it was a great <a href="https://sjobst.blogspot.com/2020/03/coronavirus-reflections-and-advice.html">opportunity</a> for growth and introspection, as I deepened my spiritual studies and became very productive in writing. </span>As if to signal my initiation through this Hermit phase, my <a href="https://sjobst.blogspot.com/2021/04/walpurgisnacht-2021.html">Walpurgisnacht 2021</a> article coincided with another contribution for the excellent Black Front press: "Evola: Initiation and Transcendence of the Pagan Anarch". </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 10pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"> This came a full decade after I wrote another article for Black Front about Evola and other Traditionalist ideas from a Sufi perspective(4), so my journey has come full circle back to the <i>primal</i> Pagan and Animist which is the <i>Natural</i> State of Being. Likewise, truly grounding my <a href="https://seanjobst.substack.com/p/essays-on-anarchism-the-state-usury">Anarchism</a> within Natural Law, Occult knowledge, and the decentralism of tribes and local communities. If the events these last few years haven't made the case for building parallel societies - all based on free will, non-coercion, and mutual agreement - than I don't know what can. Taking it away from merely discussing economic theory, just as Paganism is moribund if not grounded and activated by the necessary Animism. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 10pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"> So the 2021 revision was then followed up in 2022 with more research into the </span><a href="https://sjobst.blogspot.com/2022/05/walpurgisnacht-2022-1-general-overview.html" style="font-family: georgia;">folklore and etymology</a><span style="font-family: georgia;"> of Walpurga, and a </span><a href="https://sjobst.blogspot.com/2022/05/walpurgisnacht-2022-2-general-overview.html" style="font-family: georgia;">basic introduction</a><span style="font-family: georgia;"> to true Magic vis-a-vis what's often termed "Dark Occult".(5) I devote this current effort to the magical </span><b style="font-family: georgia;">power</b><span style="font-family: georgia;"> within each of us and the necessity to demystify the mental shackles that </span><i style="font-family: georgia;">bind</i><span style="font-family: georgia;"> people under the </span><i style="font-family: georgia;">spell</i><span style="font-family: georgia;"> of the Narcissistic and Psychopathic control-freaks who presume their "right" to dominate others.</span><span style="font-family: georgia; mso-spacerun: yes;"> I know only too well from my personal life that spiritual awakening is closely bound up with cutting off the Narcissists surrounding us. Because its all about energy, there are naturally some humans of various mind viruses who feed off the energies of others. </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 10pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-family: georgia; mso-spacerun: yes;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 10pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvoOVKkU70kiufaHKOH8Rua1vsgQm90PdyuL7rfJm7JwEEVfOWmNj7HAUIY5-KHFXJiM5fyWusR_eb6vcWli4Kkn5skOKWq5mq6uGDckApn5TCwwJFtW95k-JC57zM6N-625UZrTs9Gf_7q7OR8cIFgI3GTF0cbm5IPIauvgvYexbAJZPgsowF4-Fafw/s519/8d32a8b05ddc965115ccd994f87783bb--native-art-north-america.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="519" data-original-width="397" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvoOVKkU70kiufaHKOH8Rua1vsgQm90PdyuL7rfJm7JwEEVfOWmNj7HAUIY5-KHFXJiM5fyWusR_eb6vcWli4Kkn5skOKWq5mq6uGDckApn5TCwwJFtW95k-JC57zM6N-625UZrTs9Gf_7q7OR8cIFgI3GTF0cbm5IPIauvgvYexbAJZPgsowF4-Fafw/w306-h400/8d32a8b05ddc965115ccd994f87783bb--native-art-north-america.jpg" width="306" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><br /></span></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSEIAVAjOD8upj-c0amdMKEW7m0fnaCi_OIbKmPV8hAWkgG8OJz68HDDZ3A1o5G5cbAgCr6g61F4guq-oRPPpXxJIioWvnKWjBda3cDJWou-m7lpLuAsYsSNysFpIuSTvuICXFg507CWjg3h5_GgSmXdlhE1sJPYvlhy0358veoLK2U-GGHlq4hLOZlg/s850/Figura-3-america-invertida-Joaquin-Torres-Garcia-1943.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="848" data-original-width="850" height="319" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSEIAVAjOD8upj-c0amdMKEW7m0fnaCi_OIbKmPV8hAWkgG8OJz68HDDZ3A1o5G5cbAgCr6g61F4guq-oRPPpXxJIioWvnKWjBda3cDJWou-m7lpLuAsYsSNysFpIuSTvuICXFg507CWjg3h5_GgSmXdlhE1sJPYvlhy0358veoLK2U-GGHlq4hLOZlg/s320/Figura-3-america-invertida-Joaquin-Torres-Garcia-1943.png" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Georgia, serif;">Top: North America as the Turtle Island of Cree and</div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Georgia, serif;">other Native American traditions...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Georgia, serif;">Bottom: Drawing "América Invertida" (1943) by the </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Georgia, serif;">Uruguayan artist Joaquín Torres García, which </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Georgia, serif;">shows the North and South can be </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Georgia, serif;">a matter of perception depending on </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Georgia, serif;">how the observer sees it. I will discuss more</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Georgia, serif;">about this following my travels there.</div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 10pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"> By the time Walpurgisnacht arrives this Sunday, I will be in the Southern Hemisphere on <i>the</i> most life-changing journey. Its foremost about <i>Amor</i>, but it won't be lost on me the difference in polarities. Being more sensitive to energy and electromagnetism in relation to the two poles, which most who remain within one or the other tend to take for granted. Aside from the well-known difference of the seasons, what flows clockwise in the North flows counterclockwise in the South. How the polarities flow around a central point which peoples worldwide knew as an axis mundi or World Tree. What does it practically mean in relation to what others have said about <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKR5yoFcqr9kd_B4AC5Bww-40n-kVAAEX">Ascension</a> and the 5D shift, or <a href="https://sjobst.blogspot.com/2022/12/animism-and-lessons-of-earths-power-4.html">Sophia's Correction</a>? </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"> This will be my introduction to the various travel articles and setting the stage for yet more articles on the more esoteric level. Everything is connected. Although apparently they are solely materialistic in their focus, those who seek mastery over others are actually engaging in a spiritual attack which has been increasingly clear to me as I've delved deeper into learning about Archontic intrusion, Wetiko and other mind-viruses, and Mass Formation Psychosis. So it is that many articles to come will demystify the "Dark Occult" from true Occult wisdom that is actually inseparable from our personal power and self-awareness. From the Grounding also comes the Ascension. <i>Holle....Huul....Huar</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><br /></span></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvZjmCKfi9ZZ1Aqnu-eakQ3OLNyxpnRvg_GKRO7ke-Gfx-m2WsF3oAMj8CsMLSA_L_pbWRpYlz1jzKhnPoorrwcIoJ35BFv8pF5KL78UlZm6AOYPQDwkpEV2AtgjeaaMAEWwIPrR4RfWwKn9e1bi1zPqI5MpodiukZNgnAl9Hkau2v__jmEVLP5F3L7w/s933/912df540c33a239f7461dfaf74814eb7.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="933" data-original-width="700" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvZjmCKfi9ZZ1Aqnu-eakQ3OLNyxpnRvg_GKRO7ke-Gfx-m2WsF3oAMj8CsMLSA_L_pbWRpYlz1jzKhnPoorrwcIoJ35BFv8pF5KL78UlZm6AOYPQDwkpEV2AtgjeaaMAEWwIPrR4RfWwKn9e1bi1zPqI5MpodiukZNgnAl9Hkau2v__jmEVLP5F3L7w/w300-h400/912df540c33a239f7461dfaf74814eb7.jpg" width="300" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Gaia" by Colombian visual artist Dora Alis Mera</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Notes:</div></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 10pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 10pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">(1) This is not to deny there <i>were</i> specific traditions lost with the centuries, or that Christianity didn't leave some traces on
how Walpurgisnacht is perceived. Yet I cannot stress my guiding principle along this journey: The Pagan/Heathen tradition of a people is not completely lost but survives even
after their conquest/conversion in various residual forms through folklore,
folk magic and folk medicine; as well as unconsciously through archetypes and
symbols. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Each of
us first need to reclaim our <a href="https://sjobst.blogspot.com/2022/08/animism-and-lessons-of-earths-power-2.html">Indigeny</a> and Animism to decode the various layers
built upon these traditions over centuries of imposed social conditioning.</span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 10pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">(2) Jacob Grimm, <i>Teutonic Mythology</i>, Vol. II, p. 614.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 10pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">(3) A direct connection with the Wild Hunt, about which I wrote a series of articles from late 2020 onward. The last article of that series will be upcoming later this summer. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 10pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">(4) Just within the last couple of months, an article which has suddenly been brought to my attention again by some interested people who discussed it. Learning as I have to read the language of synchronicity, a dialogue between the unconscious mind and the higher self, and with the spirit world, I know this is no coincidence.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 10pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">(5) An important distinction that has nothing to do with the simplistic division between "white" and "black" Magic. Rather, its more about an illusion of power vs. authority - which is why Dark Occultists want to keep knowledge for themselves since that knowledge would empower others against their mental control over others. Mental because the mind is inseparable from consciousness. Mind should also be distinguished from the cognitive processes of the brain, including the presumption that every thought allegedly comes from us.</span></p>Sean Jobsthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17351165299354431339noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-907444223262019258.post-71177629534236392252023-02-23T14:28:00.001-06:002023-02-23T14:28:10.770-06:00Pagan/Heathen Origins of Swabian Fastnacht Celebrations<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">By Sean Jobst</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">23 February 2023<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">[<a href="https://swabian-pride.blogspot.com/2023/02/paganheathen-origins-of-swabian.html">Published</a> simultaneously on my Swabian Paganism/Folklore blog, alongside an <a href="https://swabian-pride.blogspot.com/2023/02/the-importance-of-animism-in-swabian.html">animistic</a> article]</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEik4xpFyGg6cEk4JRgsUopRa2sW2SvXVCkcEcXbwZBOMe9k9aLQopLVu__ZiStOdnVL4ZLy7ibxBnbU6PLOaxO7chutjPBm1OMH3puJNbM7qj5sCc02hr1P8x6ap6kChoBMsc4yH1THskty7A02wtL8I0N7Ivw06XaZ5g0QwOqREmt2n0zal-e5-Uking/s1920/media.media.c33cbf74-a430-4ae0-bc2a-f87933aed5ce.original1920.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1261" data-original-width="1920" height="263" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEik4xpFyGg6cEk4JRgsUopRa2sW2SvXVCkcEcXbwZBOMe9k9aLQopLVu__ZiStOdnVL4ZLy7ibxBnbU6PLOaxO7chutjPBm1OMH3puJNbM7qj5sCc02hr1P8x6ap6kChoBMsc4yH1THskty7A02wtL8I0N7Ivw06XaZ5g0QwOqREmt2n0zal-e5-Uking/w400-h263/media.media.c33cbf74-a430-4ae0-bc2a-f87933aed5ce.original1920.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The various pictures here are public photos of Fastnacht<br />celebrations. So my Gratitude towards each photographer.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I used to ask my late
Oma about our paternal ancestors and their traditions, collecting all the
information I could no matter how small (even daily habits). I felt the
importance of Ancestors, knowing we each come from a continuous line of successive
generations who made us the individuals we are. Not just the gift of life our
Ancestors gave to us – for we are alive exactly because of their choices, love,
and overcoming challenges – but even in the subtle qualities we may not even be
conscious about. We should cultivate that Gratitude to truly know ourselves. The
health and psychological benefits of a relationship with one’s Ancestors is
well-known – and second nature to we who reclaim its spiritual implications.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My great-grandparents
and Oma were from Bad Cannstatt, now a part of Stuttgart that I personally
visited back in July 2016. But my great-great-grandparents and as far as we
could recount, were from two villages in the Ostalbkreis region of the Swabian
Alps (on the administrative border of Wurttemberg with Bayern, but in the heart
of Schwaben) – Ellwangen and Bopfingen/Baldern. (One of my family lines, the
Vaas, were <a href="https://sjobst.blogspot.com/2022/03/the-wild-hunt-symbolisms-meanings-and.html">originally</a> from northern Spain but settled in Ellwangen sometime around then. My Schneider
line was from Baldern while my Neuner line I found some links to the Swabian
part of Bayern). Among my prized possessions are family pictures from the 19<sup>th</sup>
century of our farm, <i>wirtschaft</i> (inn/guesthouse), and the always-looming <i>Schloss
Baldern</i>. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One of these
traditions I learned is Fastnacht, which this year coincided with the New Moon
on 20th-21st February. Ostensibly a cultural tradition of our “Catholic” faith,
seeing with the deeper perception of a Pagan/Heathen I find remnants of our
indigenous faith borne from our ancestral landscape. These were absorbed into
the Church but did not originate with them. As readers of my articles are
aware, its my firm contention that Paganism was not completely “lost” but has
survived continuously in the various folklore, folk medicine, and folk magic
traditions; and also embedded in the collective Unconscious, surfacing through
various symbols and archetypes – such as occurs in much of the imagery around
Fastnacht. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5JOgFIGZaI7U_jJMGalPnrYsjL_4IxPZt1JrkIckGjOPB-j1vmfpiqnDpgS6UmZGx_adcw5GdJJgFPIMPQeVsk8SECJo48vpYUmgfh0UpyB0YowC8_HUI-nf7OUOzpZ69Kta7StcYsYPYsRRm7kBNqFKD11E7AP9ZnAEq68s8fXNRIL0w6GsukFJejQ/s490/Jesters%20of%20baroque%20and%20Italian%20style%20-%20Wolfacher%20Schellen-%20und%20R%C3%B6slehansel.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="367" data-original-width="490" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5JOgFIGZaI7U_jJMGalPnrYsjL_4IxPZt1JrkIckGjOPB-j1vmfpiqnDpgS6UmZGx_adcw5GdJJgFPIMPQeVsk8SECJo48vpYUmgfh0UpyB0YowC8_HUI-nf7OUOzpZ69Kta7StcYsYPYsRRm7kBNqFKD11E7AP9ZnAEq68s8fXNRIL0w6GsukFJejQ/w400-h300/Jesters%20of%20baroque%20and%20Italian%20style%20-%20Wolfacher%20Schellen-%20und%20R%C3%B6slehansel.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jesters of baroque Italian style - Wolfacher Schellen- und Röslehansel<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b><i>General Thesis.</i></b> Although
it broadly shares many features with the Carnival traditions of other regions
and countries, enough distinctions exist from those foreign traditions and
common features with each other to identify a distinctive <i>Schwäbisch-Alemannischen</i>
Fastnacht throughout all historic lands of the Suebi and Alemanni: Schwaben,
Alsatz, Schweiz, and Vorarlberg. That it extends despite artificial divisions
between Katholisch and Evangelisch further illustrates pre-Christian Heathen
traditions and customs before Christianity was imposed by the Frankish
conquerers.</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b><i>Etymology.</i></b>
Fas(t)nacht and its dialect variations (Fassenacht, Fasnet, Fasent, Fasching)
seem to originate with fasten “to fast” as celebrations preceding the Lenten
time of fasting (Kalchthaler and Sigmund, 8). This leads most academics to
presume Fastnacht originated in the <i>civitas diaboli</i> tradition of the Catholic
Church (Beitl, Sund, et. al., 15). They operate under the false presumption
that fasting arrived as a Christian tradition, whereas there is evidence of
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcQubw3jd3I">fasting as a Pagan tradition</a></span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">: For
example, in the 700s the Archbishop of Canterbury Theodore reported in his
<i>Paenitentiale Theodori</i> that Anglo-Saxon Pagans were fasting to honor the moon,
cure illnesses, and generally for good health. As for Germany, around 932
Bishops outlawed fasting because they identified it as a lingering Heathen
practice of divination. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"> That fasting existed within both the Vedas and Hellenic
philosophers leads us to recognize it similarly within Germanic Heathen
practice given the common Indo-European roots with those other traditions. That Fastnacht expressed some Pagan origins can be seen in the Church's claims of "<a href="https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13763a.htm">excess</a>" as with other Carnival traditions, ultimately choosing to appropriate and infuse it within their confines as they did with other folkloric celebrations that couldn't be completely suppressed. A good rule of thumb for anyone reclaiming an indigenous faith amidst the official religion is to see what those religious hierarchies <i>prohibited</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-0AZn6YlPe5aIQu1uPMNap54c5E1hzI4cASjCgV3cKKE9HYY_xBT4tqjux0EGexH05zX_G46IWeqOtY9YUIdOHdLwWUPzdNugPsth84G-x4o5VkZIvfpwqP_1nt48-lNJrUz4RmFabsG6-be1nArvGjkywe_f56mGpBju2UHBV2CvhSkIzT63SiY44w/s696/Eastermap.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="370" data-original-width="696" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-0AZn6YlPe5aIQu1uPMNap54c5E1hzI4cASjCgV3cKKE9HYY_xBT4tqjux0EGexH05zX_G46IWeqOtY9YUIdOHdLwWUPzdNugPsth84G-x4o5VkZIvfpwqP_1nt48-lNJrUz4RmFabsG6-be1nArvGjkywe_f56mGpBju2UHBV2CvhSkIzT63SiY44w/w400-h213/Eastermap.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhynFxZEJbTT34EmCvmYkZ6WEZECtjQrOjgTwCb9nMZ5dJYXTIWhBf2L1ckx151SuAG5u2t4TGoXmhOsQwbfCb717nZWY_8v-q4v-YFruXCoawRiAqHk7KKB1ubhngvOw9Pqfru0tSSs5CMBYsyHIs8u7lWEKXVx9fAJUHGRgRungHk4oDpUcscsM7vkw/s1280/The%20Fight%20Between%20Carnival%20and%20Lent%20-%20Pieter%20Bruegel%201559.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="924" data-original-width="1280" height="289" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhynFxZEJbTT34EmCvmYkZ6WEZECtjQrOjgTwCb9nMZ5dJYXTIWhBf2L1ckx151SuAG5u2t4TGoXmhOsQwbfCb717nZWY_8v-q4v-YFruXCoawRiAqHk7KKB1ubhngvOw9Pqfru0tSSs5CMBYsyHIs8u7lWEKXVx9fAJUHGRgRungHk4oDpUcscsM7vkw/w400-h289/The%20Fight%20Between%20Carnival%20and%20Lent%20-%20Pieter%20Bruegel%201559.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"The Fight Between Carnival and Lent" (1559) by the Flemish painter <br />Peter Bruegel the Younger. An homage to my maternal Vlaam heritage.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i><b>Lent as Seasonal.</b></i> That
Fastnacht is a surviving remnant of the traditional lunisolar Germanic calendar
is proven exactly by its link to Lent. Rather than being created by the
Catholic Church (much less a Latin term), <i>Lent</i> was simply the Anglo-Saxon term
for “spring” and even today the Dutch/Flemish term <i>Lente</i> means “spring”. Its
for the same reason that native Germanic words like “Easter” – from the Spring
and Dawn Goddess <a href="https://sjobst.blogspot.com/2020/04/ostara-germanic-goddess-of-spring-and.html">Ostara</a> – prevailed over the Hebrew term “<i>pascha</i>” that expressed a link to Passover. The
Christian Frankish chronicler Einhard, in his <i>Vita Karoli Magni</i> (circa 830,
Chapter 29), listed the third moon of the Frankish year as <i>Lentzimanod</i>
(Lengthening Moon/Month), preceding <i>Ostarmanod</i> as the fourth moon. “The church
is more Heathen than those using the equinox to date ‘Ostara;’ as the church,
like the Frankish and Anglish Heathens dated their Eostre to a Full Moon. The
first day of <i>Lentzinmanoth</i> (a new moon) is about six weeks before the full moon
of ‘Ostar’ (and also about six weeks before Easter Sunday). Hence this six week
period sorta matches the church's six weeks of Lent” (Sass).</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b><i>Liminal time between
Winter and Spring.</i></b> Fastnacht with its elaborate mix of “dark” and “light”
elements, expresses the liminal time between Winter and Spring. Its well known
that St. Valentine’s Day shares more features with the Roman Lupercalia than anything
Biblical, so we can use the same logic to many other festivities of this time.
As midpoint between Yule and Ostara, Fastnacht is part of the broader tradition
of February festivities like Candlemas and Imbolc that were symbolic of “when
the pre-spring moon announces that winter is losing its strength and the ‘sun
buck jumps” (Storl, 54), devoted to the Celtic Spring Goddess Brigit/Brigantia.
Common in Celtic lands, Candlemas is “the Christianized version of the old
Celtic pagan Imbolc” with its observable Pagan traditions like caroling and
wassailing (Emerick, 54; Owen, 247). <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One of the
distinctions to Fastnacht is exactly because our Suebi and Alemanni ancestors
absorbed the pre-existing Celts who also form part of our bloodlines. Nor is it
any accident, as argued by scholars such as Philip A. Shaw, that the veneration
of Ostara thrived exactly in those regions with earlier Celtic veneration of
the <i>Matronae</i>. So that Fastnacht is uniquely Alpine going back to the most
ancient times. For example, the similar features between Perchta with the
Befana figure of northern Italy – through the medium of the Celts who were
indigenous to all the Alpine regions.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnH6r9KZn6cXS5yzFwGe-Ft7JPZts71VxF4GR9SOPa1h53pGaM2aWggh-1qzWghtqAp0RTM_yVnvWlAtRm231yhzbimlmaDOxvk5wLT24NmUEXs2IH-Nu-MoLidJK6ra9-6nAp2RRRkbHlRfBiuw4L-Fo30TJwfLaBaofe5VALw3VuL64o2CTB0mrZWA/s1123/Hooriger%20B%C3%A4r%20(hairy%20bear)%20of%20the%20Poppelezunft%20Singen.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1123" data-original-width="800" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnH6r9KZn6cXS5yzFwGe-Ft7JPZts71VxF4GR9SOPa1h53pGaM2aWggh-1qzWghtqAp0RTM_yVnvWlAtRm231yhzbimlmaDOxvk5wLT24NmUEXs2IH-Nu-MoLidJK6ra9-6nAp2RRRkbHlRfBiuw4L-Fo30TJwfLaBaofe5VALw3VuL64o2CTB0mrZWA/w285-h400/Hooriger%20B%C3%A4r%20(hairy%20bear)%20of%20the%20Poppelezunft%20Singen.jpg" width="285" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Hooriger Bär (hairy bear) of the Poppelezunft Singen</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b><i>Observing the
Shamanic Bear Spirit.</i></b> In his <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7LieB7ZLXI">explanation of Fastnacht</a></span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">, Wolf-Dieter Storl traced its masks and costumes
to representations of spirits of the forests and mountains. He even theorized
that Groundhog’s Day is a survival of the time when one observed the bear
coming out of hibernation in a cave as an omen for whether spring would come or
not. Pennsylvania Deutsch Heathens called <i>Urglaawe</i> similar make a connection
between Fastnacht (which they called <i>Fawesenacht</i>) and Groundhog’s Day
(Schreiwer and Eckhart, 23). There are <a href="https://sjobst.blogspot.com/2020/02/roots-of-proto-celticgermanic-mythos_25.html">shamanic qualities</a> </span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">to such
bear symbolism, including to rebirth and solar cycles, Germanic warriors
wearing bear skins to carry on the “ecstasy” (<i>wode</i>) personified by Wodan, and
the related Germanic concepts of inherited “luck” and a “guardian spirit” that
was often the bear. The Fastnacht processions of costumed and masked “spirits” are
mock representations of the Wild Hunt.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b><i>Purification and
Rebirth.</i></b> Fastnacht has other shamanic and fertility connotations through the
figure of Perchta, whom I <a href="https://sjobst.blogspot.com/2022/01/the-wild-hunt-symbolisms-meanings-and.html">discussed elsewhere</a> in greater detail. Fastnacht festivals use birch – considered her material as
the one who presides over the spirit of witches roaming across this time of
year (leading up to <a href="https://sjobst.blogspot.com/2020/04/walpurgisnacht-journey-across-time.html">Walpurgisnacht</a>).
“During the Alemannic carnival, the archaic, colorful festival at which many
costumed and masked people parade as various ‘spirits’<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>in February, the witches still carry a birch
broom, occasionally ‘riding’ it and symbolically swooshing it around to cleanse
the atmosphere. The role of the witches is usually played by men because it is
believed that women are more receptive in nature and more likely to be
possessed by the spirits represented on the masks” (Storl, 70-71).</span> <span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Similarly,
the Pennsylvania celebration is marked by such practices as a cackling and
crowing called “<i>Du bischt die fawsenacht</i>” (Shoemaker), and a folkloric figure
named <i>Butzemann</i> who is honored by taking “vanquished habits and negative
energies with him in fire on <i>Allelieweziel</i>” (Schreiwer and Eckhart, 24). The
element of fire was understood as purifying, so that bonfires were a common
feature of all these liminal festivals that marked the changing of seasons –
its about the release of spiritual energies. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b><i>Fastnacht Guilds.</i></b> </span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 16px;">The last noteworthy aspect to me is that of competing Fastnacht guilds: “Swabia is the region for the ‘Narrenzünfte’ (in English Narr means ‘Fool’ but it would be wrong to use it; Zunft means ‘guild’, so let’s call it Fasnacht guild). Almost every village and city has its own Narrenzunft in the region of the South-West to the Northern part of Switzerland. Every member of a Narrenzunft has its own costume and mask that is called ‘Larve’. They are made out of wood, fabric, ceramic or wire. Every costume is hand made and shows the specific theme of the Narrenzunft.” To me this harkens back to the decentralized socio-political structures of the Suebi/Alemanni called pagi or cantons. It also expresses the creativity and imagination nourished out of friendly competition. Each one creates something unique and distinctive, together making Fastnacht the vibrant, living Swabian tradition it is.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #111111; font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI";"><br /></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3Vx4fnl1xRxoz828MqZBgvsqyDGh6SJBtEm3_zU9fbxWfDBtydBgzmB4nl5_vFjebNPBCyuqOTHo4OuEMoKi8hU0287juOyCeadVF3QDKtaTy7JEOJyTmTtmdgtAy9MZc3fyd_Qc6xUuIzUuiOd4vJ7xcuww5j2LWhx2qS4zvloVDyE5M77XBn0PaFA/s560/narrenzunft-raemaesser.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="420" data-original-width="560" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3Vx4fnl1xRxoz828MqZBgvsqyDGh6SJBtEm3_zU9fbxWfDBtydBgzmB4nl5_vFjebNPBCyuqOTHo4OuEMoKi8hU0287juOyCeadVF3QDKtaTy7JEOJyTmTtmdgtAy9MZc3fyd_Qc6xUuIzUuiOd4vJ7xcuww5j2LWhx2qS4zvloVDyE5M77XBn0PaFA/w400-h300/narrenzunft-raemaesser.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Rämässer Narrenzunft from Ringsheim, Schwarzwald</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><b><i>References:</i></b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Beitl, Klaus; Horst Sund; et. al. <a name="_Hlk127962060"><i>Fas(t)nacht
in Geschichte, Kunst und Literatur</i></a>. Konstanz: Universitätsverlag Konstanz,
1984.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Emerick, Carolyn. <i>European Christmas Lore: Collected Works</i>.
CreateSpace Independent Publishing, 2018.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Kalchthaler, Peter and Sigmund, Hans. <i>Hexen, Lalli,
Flecklehäs</i>. Freiburg: Herder Verlag, 2007.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Owen, Trefor M. “The Celebration of Candlemas in Wales.” </span><span lang="FR" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: FR;"><i>Folklore</i>, Vol. 84, No. 3, Autumn 1973, pp. 238-251.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Sass, Robert. “The REAL Origins of Lent vs. Historical
Sigrblot. Modern Paganism vs. Historical Heathenry”. Feb. 27, 2020. < </span><a href="https://www.aldsidu.com/post/the-real-origins-of-lent"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">https://www.aldsidu.com/post/the-real-origins-of-lent</span></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Schreiwer, Robert L. and Ammerili Eckhart. <i>A Dictionary of
Urglaawe Terminology</i>. 2012.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Shaw, Philip A. <i>Pagan Goddesses in the Early Germanic World:
Eostre, Hreda and the Cult of Matrons</i>. London: Bristol Classical Press, 2011.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Shoemaker, Alfred L. <i>Eastertide in Pennsylvania</i>. Mechanicsburg,
PA: Stackpole Books, 2000.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Storl, Wolf-Dieter. <i>The Untold History of Healing: Plant Lore
and Medicinal Magic from the Stone Age to Present. </i>Berkeley, CA: North Atlantic
Books, 2017.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuUHfU_wx_LC3XuMAhDUhVcyMlmx9LEaLxgXhizOXRJhwqPJUsvBaqGAOVnCp2i0LPBARCZt_ldLcT8BsqMjk0F6S_Zu8LDv28pbgDYklf4S5M032a03viuueUFpdUsUoZ8F9nsdOa49weXDJBXsaYsXcI2hLvZWedaQE7b_1gS2LF4W0UdXAPMSclPA/s1067/Fastnacht_mask.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1067" data-original-width="800" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuUHfU_wx_LC3XuMAhDUhVcyMlmx9LEaLxgXhizOXRJhwqPJUsvBaqGAOVnCp2i0LPBARCZt_ldLcT8BsqMjk0F6S_Zu8LDv28pbgDYklf4S5M032a03viuueUFpdUsUoZ8F9nsdOa49weXDJBXsaYsXcI2hLvZWedaQE7b_1gS2LF4W0UdXAPMSclPA/w300-h400/Fastnacht_mask.jpg" width="300" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Fire-themed Fastnacht mask</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlw_7Vd--Thw8_-RDGlwcyifvYV3f5JVCrtEjvnASblKNtqthFEynZkhoa2WYWVQtiZWkomzHV-iutlWs0XHtT1LQJPqEvWkP3i4K6mDR8-0msjVsSxxy3IhypqMuxgOGsvoi8pvnp4FbNNzt7wsxcaE6RZsS-wpa19zi-hl2Eo4Ozi9hl5sSxF5ipcQ/s1119/Fasnacht%20in%20Willisau%20(2012).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1119" data-original-width="800" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlw_7Vd--Thw8_-RDGlwcyifvYV3f5JVCrtEjvnASblKNtqthFEynZkhoa2WYWVQtiZWkomzHV-iutlWs0XHtT1LQJPqEvWkP3i4K6mDR8-0msjVsSxxy3IhypqMuxgOGsvoi8pvnp4FbNNzt7wsxcaE6RZsS-wpa19zi-hl2Eo4Ozi9hl5sSxF5ipcQ/w286-h400/Fasnacht%20in%20Willisau%20(2012).jpg" width="286" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Fasnacht in Willisau (2012)</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /><br />Sean Jobsthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17351165299354431339noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-907444223262019258.post-85353809754899591532023-02-18T15:44:00.005-06:002023-03-07T13:23:46.595-06:00Seek the Mysteries! Some Meditations on the Othala and Tiwaz Runes, Wodan-Vili-Ve, and the Journey to Know Ourselves<p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">by Sean Jobst</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">18 February 2023</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhipWtPTUbhQbkab2wboTpW03vUmN1din89mo0pIQD1-2oFxHZyQto4zsi81ItrDz2kyO_xaPg0ceHLArJH_0CHK_3ETR18Fv8rWhMPueLcKNXNERZD85NwFB05HyVqroJyoVZkO6AQe-xJtCKr4iFOI_9gloaypRR8DIpCCqM4AB2Dc5PdfsOfCl0ZUQ/s1000/ReynTilRunaCold.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="1000" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhipWtPTUbhQbkab2wboTpW03vUmN1din89mo0pIQD1-2oFxHZyQto4zsi81ItrDz2kyO_xaPg0ceHLArJH_0CHK_3ETR18Fv8rWhMPueLcKNXNERZD85NwFB05HyVqroJyoVZkO6AQe-xJtCKr4iFOI_9gloaypRR8DIpCCqM4AB2Dc5PdfsOfCl0ZUQ/s320/ReynTilRunaCold.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">“Seek the Mysteries!”
A simple phrase of three words containing all that is within us, including the
entire cosmos. Depending on the source, its either an ancient expression of
esoteric wisdom or creation of a modern guild of Rune initiates – perhaps
that’s the point for a mantra beyond the bounds of time. When I first came across
this saying, it inspired me immediately as a Germanic equivalent to the
Hellenic maxim famously inscribed on the Temple of Delphi: “Know Thyself”(1), with much the same meaning and implications.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The phrase itself comes
from the Old Norse <i>Reyn til Runa</i>, literally “Seek toward the Mysteries!” As
might be expected, <i>reyn</i> has a direct root to “rain” which can be viewed esoterically
as the cleansing energy descending from the skies percolating within the soil to
ascend again as the nourishing mist and dew. We can understand our initiation
within this animistic cycle through a shamanic technique called <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5flFKxijTw">Huul Breath</a>(2):
The primordial energy of Hagalaz comes down to regenerate the world, melting
into the energy-filled water of Uruz flowing as conduit through our bodies,
coming out the feet to become the grounding Earth energy of Laguz. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> A possible
Proto-Germanic reconstruction can be *<i>Sokijana</i> “to seek” + *<i>werthaz</i> “toward” + *<i>Runa</i>
“secrets, mysteries.” Not surprisingly given the close connection between these
two kindred peoples (especially in my ethnic regions), <i>Runa</i> carries the same
meaning in Celtic languages.(3) Runa is the sense of seeking what is hidden
within ourselves and the world, the sacred mysteries imbuing all Nature. Another meaning of Runa is "whisper", indicating the importance of contemplation and the fact that esoteric workings occurs in silence. The
appreciation and awe at knowing mystery is in the journey itself, knowing that
no matter how much we become initiated to it there is still beauty in the
mysterious.</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 107%;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjH1hvcZjyIib3gSIx76EHAK8McBholmbnl_kyG2nvVEjE_dPk5TpmJH5HuMaF2rCjXzYQ8REGTF2oD6i_EcfgbyfFKimzfGrl2KnUO55a8WOwBqEV8J4pKyuKO9IEHDDoZfTK3EEzEfFhNkjPtXg0-6mDBpr4iFj0RqhXiIr0r7GdfDtpudB_YcGdaeQ/s480/hqdefault.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="360" data-original-width="480" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjH1hvcZjyIib3gSIx76EHAK8McBholmbnl_kyG2nvVEjE_dPk5TpmJH5HuMaF2rCjXzYQ8REGTF2oD6i_EcfgbyfFKimzfGrl2KnUO55a8WOwBqEV8J4pKyuKO9IEHDDoZfTK3EEzEfFhNkjPtXg0-6mDBpr4iFj0RqhXiIr0r7GdfDtpudB_YcGdaeQ/w400-h300/hqdefault.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"> Runa stems from Proto-Indo-European *</span><i style="font-family: georgia;">rewHn</i><span style="font-family: georgia;"> “to roar, grumble, murmur, whisper”, the primal recognition of sounds and vibrations that birthed the universe and <i>will continue</i> to create the universe.(4) This is to be known energetically, as expressed by the third Hermetic principle of </span><i style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="http://www.kybalion.org/kybalion.php?chapter=II">The Kybalion</a></i><span style="font-family: georgia;"> (which expresses Natural Law inherent in </span><i style="font-family: georgia;"><b>all</b></i><span style="font-family: georgia;"> Indigenous spiritualities): “Nothing rests; everything moves; everything vibrates.” It continues: “Every thought, emotion or mental state has its corresponding rate and mode of vibration. And by an effort of the will of the person, or of other persons, these mental states may be reproduced.” </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;">Even emotions are <i>energy in motion</i> - we can be empowered even with our thoughts.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 107%;"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> This includes the
human will to seek the mysterious, encoded through Germanic traditions about
the primordial giant <i>Ymir</i> (*<i>Jumjaz</i>/<i>Jumjos</i>) whose name literally means “screamer”
and simply affirms that everything manifests from life-force energy and
consciousness.(5) These resonate at varying levels of vibrations and frequencies as encoded throughout language. I defer to Natural Law teachers, including this
concise yet comprehensive <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EA418kQ3V5Y">introduction</a> which points out even the word <i>Universe</i> means “one song” (the principle of
Mentalism), whose different “notes” are individual stories and experiences:
“The universe is both a playground and a school.” As he brilliantly sums up: "You are in motion - animation - and breathing in life-force energy." </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> Our soul is "experiencing itself through a limited subjective experience" coming from the primordial: "The consciousness of the universe created an illusion that separated itself in order to have an experience; an object and subject to have that experience." That coming from separation provides the depth, width, meaning, and complexity of the universe. Even through our individual purpose (life itself being an ongoing process to discover and live that mystery), there is this universal purpose to expand consciousness by forging and creating our experience with none of the false separation between spirit and matter exhibited in the religions (and their secularist variations): "Spirituality is the human experience of living as matter imbued with consciousness exploring itself."</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhn8sV6Sfgdo3f1PrIkzEQljF0MGzc9pSwiObrLRgp1eihmDXS3gyB2tD0c9vzDgk1h5E4fZA-TWewbnOUH15QS1td-Q3bOdy0A2pqY9CnD9mofY_rfMj3WicV-mmWIV54nDy8huzEvBrzPlJ1RAevm1zw6kax5ILB5R41te-O68_kgnna-IPqsWYGfLw/s3264/20230207_212713.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3264" data-original-width="2448" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhn8sV6Sfgdo3f1PrIkzEQljF0MGzc9pSwiObrLRgp1eihmDXS3gyB2tD0c9vzDgk1h5E4fZA-TWewbnOUH15QS1td-Q3bOdy0A2pqY9CnD9mofY_rfMj3WicV-mmWIV54nDy8huzEvBrzPlJ1RAevm1zw6kax5ILB5R41te-O68_kgnna-IPqsWYGfLw/w300-h400/20230207_212713.jpg" width="300" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Wodan through His example inspires with His<br />favor the Journey at all levels of Consciousness,<br />so we may Seek the Mysteries and balance our<br />ravenous Thought and Memory into Individuation.</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span> </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;">The soul
command-mantra of Seek the Mysteries is so instinctive and beyond words that it
can be best expressed through those ultimate Mysteries – the Runes. Not mere letters
forming words, the Runes are vibrations that reverberate on all levels of
conscious and unconscious thought and action. They contain the animistic interconnectedness of all life being spirit and consciousness manifesting at
various levels. They are tied to the folk-soul of a distinct people </span><a href="https://sjobst.blogspot.com/2022/12/animism-and-lessons-of-earths-power-4.html" style="font-family: georgia;">emerging</a><span style="font-family: georgia;">
from a specific landscape, but are truly primal so similar equivalencies can be found within other cultures (i.e. Celtic Ogham, Turkic
Runes, Chinese Daoist Bagua, Mayan Glyphs, etc.) - these are all spiritual concepts expressed through the vibrations of language where the creative process of Imagination is also paramount. “Seek the Mysteries” is charged in a Bind-Rune combining Othala and Tiwaz.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> Othala is Rune of both the spiritual
inheritance from genetics and the Ancestors, and the material inheritance of
land or possessions. As with its shape, Othala relates to the enclosure which
can be understood on various levels: Our place within the enclosure of this
world (<i>Midgard/Mittilgart</i> “middle enclosure”), 3D reality of space-time
through which our souls experience life. Othala also relates to enclosure of a
clan or tribe, our resonance to a specific landscape – even more broadly our
responsibility to something greater than ourselves. On a more cosmic level,
it’s the enclosure of the electromagnetic field holding everything in their proper balance
and measures. Othala is the transformative awareness that the psyche is not
so much within us but that <i>we are within</i> its enclosure.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 107%;"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> We understand our personal boundaries
through various levels of enclosures. The electromagnetic field enclosure holds
all the energies preserving our physical bodies down to the cellular level
so our soul may experience; without it there would be no personal identity which can only come through differentiation. What is life but a continuous journey to discover our identity? Contraction and expansion occur in a continuum – hence Othala is enclosed on top while its “legs” extend outward.
Boundaries are what allow us to assert our identity. Much evil results from not knowing or respecting boundaries; even the concept of evil (the very inverse of "live") stems from ignorance about one's boundaries.(6) As <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iX450kAQhWo">noted</a> by Mark Passio, respect comes
from Latin <i>re</i> “again” + <i>spectare</i> “to see, to look at”, so “we re-examine ourselves, our worldview, our mindset, our beliefs, and our
behaviors. Then, in light of seeing ourselves with new eyes, we willfully
decide to change these things about ourselves, and in doing so, re-create who we
are in this world.” </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 107%;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHtjbxACdxoy2Dl4b3tsr8kDB4GYfbqfEgNvXDhZQa0p2Ks3QocTEIoq5c9bt6DBI8iop0cV4wsPdIw6QKPnKWp8MM7uUzmYn1nu3idU8POQhm9_7pkGRKBpK2Mi-YyxRRbA4Hnw7HbVfIJkzjAmCW_pPk53IhYVrJKVUHFX3YaDm3uqb-9LPosDtTJQ/s980/black-square-background-with-othala-rune-in-a-magic-circle-vector.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="980" data-original-width="980" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHtjbxACdxoy2Dl4b3tsr8kDB4GYfbqfEgNvXDhZQa0p2Ks3QocTEIoq5c9bt6DBI8iop0cV4wsPdIw6QKPnKWp8MM7uUzmYn1nu3idU8POQhm9_7pkGRKBpK2Mi-YyxRRbA4Hnw7HbVfIJkzjAmCW_pPk53IhYVrJKVUHFX3YaDm3uqb-9LPosDtTJQ/s320/black-square-background-with-othala-rune-in-a-magic-circle-vector.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_bXI7iPrbjXxH9UlBqVtT6xiNGzEFcYwtJpRRGMlLuH4DFNQbgF-SyD5TPN2JHh75hbiWrvsmyg2BNGjaddEKmv3PMsaEsmvcwVR0HsqtGY57EdTyFvg_dBAn72_5hZgzztgGzLkGum2rT98To9-6d9s1Umrv5hxTlqAHo1AycR_kPFnV0BhR-aL0Jg/s1920/maxresdefault-2.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1920" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_bXI7iPrbjXxH9UlBqVtT6xiNGzEFcYwtJpRRGMlLuH4DFNQbgF-SyD5TPN2JHh75hbiWrvsmyg2BNGjaddEKmv3PMsaEsmvcwVR0HsqtGY57EdTyFvg_dBAn72_5hZgzztgGzLkGum2rT98To9-6d9s1Umrv5hxTlqAHo1AycR_kPFnV0BhR-aL0Jg/w400-h225/maxresdefault-2.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"The Cycle of Birth and Death" by the artist Jadurani Dasi</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="line-height: 107%;"><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> Othala is
also the Rune of “Home” – knowing ourselves in relation to the world. It’s the sense
of peace and safety coming from the sense of “home”, simultaneous to the
necessity to go outside our “comfort zone” to seek new experiences for growth without
the delusion that we can only find it in the external.(7) This is the
whole-ness of Individuation - a grounding in individual identity that also expresses itself through concentric circles of healthy, balanced
social interactions. We were never born as a tabula rasa but carry on conscious and unconscious memories from
our genetic lines and past incarnations. To Seek the Mysteries is to unveil our
own “veil of forgetfulness” – its no accident Wodan / Óðinn fears most the raven
“Memory” would not return.(8) The deeper wisdom is that perception itself is only the act of processing in the moment <i>the memory</i> of our experiences <i>every</i> preceding second - so the past and present operate in a continuous cycle.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> Othala
overcomes the various external control and internalized programming that perpetuates
that veil. Othala is the enlightenment grounded in Ancestral wisdom, including
the responsibility we have in co-creating a better world for not only ourselves
but our Ancestors who will be reborn into our descendants. After our mortal
death we will leave some impact and legacy upon the world – it’s within our
power how that will manifest: “Cattle die, kindred die. Every man is mortal:
But the good name never dies of one who has done well.”(9) Or as expressed by Athenian military leader Pericles: “The sepulchre of famous men is the
whole earth, not only the epigraph engraved on the columns in their own
country, since also in foreign lands there dwells the unwritten memorial of
them, graven not on stone but in the hearts and minds of men.”(10)</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> The
second Rune in this combination is Tiwaz, which is inseparable from balance and
interconnectedness: A center pillar, the World Tree (Irminsul / Yggdrasil), as a conduit of energies flowing
upward with the sky as its canopy and grounding downward into the Earth. This Rune stirred within and spoke to me especially
on the <a href="https://sjobst.blogspot.com/2020/09/an-afternoon-on-trails-welcoming-autumn.html">hiking trails</a> that are paths to my “temple”: Nature. Applying the Hermetic principle of
Correspondence, the World Tree parallels our bodies
as the physical vessel for souls to experience life in this reality; and the spine which channels the electromagnetic/spiritual energies (<i>kundalini</i>) that reflect the terrestrial <i>Maha Kundala</i>. Tiwaz contains metaphysical truths
of the entire universe, reflecting the Sky Father (Ziu) joining in a continuous
union with Mother Earth which is the <a href="https://sjobst.blogspot.com/2022/10/animism-and-lessons-of-earths-power-3.html">primal cosmology</a> of all Earth-based traditions.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"> There is a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-FYLyZ_28s">basic format</a> </span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">shared across
cosmologies as diverse as Daoist, Vedic, Germanic/Norse, and various
Indo-European traditions. A primal nothingness out of which arose one – not “oneness”
of the monotheists but the undifferentiated pure potential creating all life-force
energy. Out of one arose two, the polarity of masculine and feminine energies, the
Ying/Yang balance personified as Ymir in the Germanic tradition. From that two
arises three, an Indo-European “trinity” that has absolutely nothing to do with
that of the Christians which only arose later. We have each of the three within
ourselves. Out of those three arise the five, which are the five elements. </span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">A</span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">nd out of the five elements flows infinity since it’s all a cycle of
eternal recurrence. How can we decode and apply the patterns
to ourselves?</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFmCKLhnezJiB7xNShYGdNLD6_vIzTzpDt9iug6kEVqZnbFjz1oGIvUNmd2QdHGzrDR5Qh8WJzTICaGxmvhS4yRidJ434VC-OtFYvV-pZ8QnOrFzbmQfBfu6R1Mzwm3Dv4tlY_poFtSudDBwLwjZ9RLZD2WTaQKoNspEAjg5SYBrX3DpLD1hkDTqbzoQ/s1024/ginnungagap-norse-mythology-1024x576.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="576" data-original-width="1024" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFmCKLhnezJiB7xNShYGdNLD6_vIzTzpDt9iug6kEVqZnbFjz1oGIvUNmd2QdHGzrDR5Qh8WJzTICaGxmvhS4yRidJ434VC-OtFYvV-pZ8QnOrFzbmQfBfu6R1Mzwm3Dv4tlY_poFtSudDBwLwjZ9RLZD2WTaQKoNspEAjg5SYBrX3DpLD1hkDTqbzoQ/w400-h225/ginnungagap-norse-mythology-1024x576.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The <i>Ginnungagap</i> / <i>Ginunga</i> "gaping abyss" of Nothingness, the <br /><i>ginn-</i> prefix represented a sacred, "magical (and creative) power-<br />filled space" as noted by Jan De Vries. Hence, the <i>ginn-heilagr </i><br />and <i>ginn-regin</i> (the Gods) and <i>ginn-runa </i>(the Runes). </td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnb7msoS8u4T78zgC6AMe0BCkbLdHDUvmd40pUHT5FYn2aYv64psgqetwYLigamkDCLkR4fI939WCcn_AqdKQ-z5VMyHINl_1LRjo2aUWGK0gi_jeAgU6DXhaolbsWvElmwdcRhKKm3zT81eWTU0GlKDHWjM_GzPEWdbnh8RDGw1FtxmXwvQyXT91_HQ/s589/Ymir-being-slain-by-the-gods.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="589" data-original-width="536" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnb7msoS8u4T78zgC6AMe0BCkbLdHDUvmd40pUHT5FYn2aYv64psgqetwYLigamkDCLkR4fI939WCcn_AqdKQ-z5VMyHINl_1LRjo2aUWGK0gi_jeAgU6DXhaolbsWvElmwdcRhKKm3zT81eWTU0GlKDHWjM_GzPEWdbnh8RDGw1FtxmXwvQyXT91_HQ/w364-h400/Ymir-being-slain-by-the-gods.jpg" width="364" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Ymir being slain by the gods" by the German artist Franz<br />Stassen (1869-1949) for the 1920 edition of the Eddas.<br />This is not a literal portrayal but should be seen as allegory.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> The name Ymir,
one of the “giants” (unknown chaotic forces of the universe and within), means
both “screamer” (primordial vibrations) as I decoded earlier, and the “twin”
(literally “hermaphrodite”) of masculine/feminine energies – or as expressed by
<i>The Kybalion</i>: “Gender is in everything; everything has its Masculine and Feminine
principle; Gender manifests on all planes.” This is a <i>spiritual</i> energy <b>not</b>
<i>material</i> gender contained in varying measures within everything. In terms of
the psyche, Carl Jung termed it the Anima and Animus – adopting both names from
the <a href="https://sjobst.blogspot.com/2022/07/animism-and-lessons-of-earths-power-1.html">same word</a> for “breath” (life-force energy) and “animism”. The Sacred Feminine includes
the heart-based intelligence, creativity, intuition, imagination, empathy,
nurturing, and caring about what is right and true. The Sacred Masculine
includes the logical mind, reason, drive, power, will, analytical thinking, and
figuring out solutions. We need these qualities within ourselves and manifesting outward. Much evil has resulted from imbalance
between masculine and feminine. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> What we
know as our three-dimensional reality and thus ourselves, is the interplay of three
separate spiritual/psychic qualities (one of whom is also a Deity). So it was
that Ymir was “killed” by the three figures of Odin/Wodan, Vili, and Ve, meaning
they took the unmanifested energy of the cosmos (Ymir’s “corpse”) to delineate
and differentiate the three-dimensional reality – just as we create and
manifest our reality every second. Only one of these is also a Deity who
appears throughout the Myths, which is why the last two are sometimes
interchanged with the names <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 107%;"><i>Hönir</i></span> and <i>Lodurr</i> as a metaphoric formula as <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjGejvGB4dQ">decoded</a> by Norwegian scholar Maria
Kvilhaug. It is through these three functions <i>within</i> us that we <i>experience</i>
the universe as ambient life-force energy manifesting our reality; and that we
may <i>know</i> ourselves and our Journey. </span><span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 107%;"> Vili,
whose name comes from the Proto-Germanic *Wiljo (itself from *wiljana “to
want”), represents the power of will and desire. He personifies the intent,
desire, and passion to will into existence. Our intention and desire determine
our actions and most often manifest their results. As Lodurr in the myth of the
“first” human beings Ask and Embla(11), he is the vitality who gave them blood,
heat, and hue (<i>Völuspá</i>, Stanza 17). In other versions Vili is Loki, “the fiery
one” and “mover of stories” whose role is always as <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zor-MMLQSo">a catalyst</a> </span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">– a <i>neutral</i> force creating the conditions sparking
<i>others</i> to actions they know are necessary but held back by their own fears or
complacency; he holds the unconscious mirror up to their conscious awareness. Its
no accident he most often accompanies Wodan, the wisdom, spirit and awareness,
or Donar, the life-force energy.(12) Vili is the passion creating motion, the
internal spiritual fire that includes the intensity to alter our consciousness.
We need passion to inspire us and develop that awe of life – but it needs grounding
in our reason and logic. Yet without passion we become stagnant and mechanical, not growing into our potential that only becomes from the
Mysterious. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 107%;"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> Ve, whose
name comes from Proto-Germanic *<i>Wihaz</i> “sacred, holy” (itself from Proto-Indo-European *<i>weyk</i> “to choose, separate, set aside, consecrate as
sacred”), represents the awe that comes from a sense of the sacred within <i>and</i> without.
This is why the same root can be seen in Germanic words for sanctuary,
witchcraft, and village. The sacred heart-center and “hearth”, the numen or
spiritual power imbued throughout the entire external world (Animism). That spiritual
energy concentrated into some sense of “space” so we can relate to it – </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="line-height: 107%;">Ve personifies the Will-Power without which our
Soul could not <i>experience</i> life. He is the Hönir who “gives” sense to Ask and Embla.
As noted by Kvilhaug, this name means “chicken”: “a humorous way of referring
to the chattering, clucking, cackling sounds of thoughts in our heads.” This is why he is “quick” and “long-legged” - an allegory for the speed of our
thoughts, which are dynamic and not passive, just as passion creates emotions</span>. Other Myths express how he is "advised in
all matters" by <i>Mimir</i> “Memory” – exactly how the Mind
works as it <i>processes</i> the Soul. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span></span></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAUElLdEfT06A6XjnIGzypQcyGfMXFxa-Anqi2E_vepPH7e1ymvfiBmTXoEYJo76_jwK7O1aQIe11YfoZhh5ie5lpIzKXijMma_nLwyXd05F_OAJMwaMy7PIWAcAFYi9WFUfocyNENfTa2jkJ4_53vDPVKP7g_9szwyF5YR3J7AIOuVqiPgvnb_W5RcQ/s600/cache_7922132.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="429" data-original-width="600" height="286" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAUElLdEfT06A6XjnIGzypQcyGfMXFxa-Anqi2E_vepPH7e1ymvfiBmTXoEYJo76_jwK7O1aQIe11YfoZhh5ie5lpIzKXijMma_nLwyXd05F_OAJMwaMy7PIWAcAFYi9WFUfocyNENfTa2jkJ4_53vDPVKP7g_9szwyF5YR3J7AIOuVqiPgvnb_W5RcQ/w400-h286/cache_7922132.png" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Suche die Geheimnisse! He is a multifaceted God of wisdom,<br />shamanic journeys, higher awareness and initiation, and the<br />Wild Hunt. He is the "Wode/Od" of ecstasy and frenzy,<br />the "swaying" (literal meaning of his spear, Gungnir) <br />wind of storms and Kundalini.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span></span></span></div><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> Out of
the three, Odin / Wodan is the only one who is a God and thus appears in all
variations. <i>Odr</i> or <i>Wode</i> means “spirit, frenzy, fury, ecstasy, inspiration, poetry”
– all of these qualities come from the same energetic properties, whether the
passion to seek higher awareness, the concentrated rage and fury to overcome
challenges, or the ecstasy that inspires deep transformation. </span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Od</i> bears some relation to Othala. </span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The <i>-in/-an</i> suffix
has dual meanings of “the one” and “death” – for He has relation to a <i>specific
kind</i> of death (as survives in His folkloric role as <a href="https://sjobst.blogspot.com/2020/12/the-wild-hunt-symbolisms-meanings-and.html">leader</a> of the Wild Hunt)
as well as the <i>ancestral</i> memory that is paramount to any individual whole-ness.
As Spirit, Wodan is multifaceted as we can only expect with a God who travels
across all the worlds and dimensions – all contains a spiritual energy of its
own. It is He who offers the Soul and Breath to Ask and Embla – </span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">to breathe is to <i>animate</i> and <i>respire</i>, so is synonymous with spirit and anima.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> Wodan is
the <a href="https://sjobst.blogspot.com/2020/08/tribute-to-carl-jung-ii-on-german.html">archetypal</a>(13) power of self-awareness, grounded in our spirit and essence but
able to expand beyond limitations – just as He travels across all worlds in a
tireless quest for more knowledge and wisdom. It’s a quest not just for more
knowledge for the sake of it, but to truly transform and raise consciousness,
to know oneself better. This is why His two “brothers” – Vili (desire,
intention, passion) and Ve (sacred space, mind, thought) – are actually aspects
of Himself. Just as we need the Soul as the sacred space to contain self-awareness,
the Mind to process what the Soul experiences, and the will, intention and
passions to inspire and guide that Journey. All these range of emotions are the
companions and guides on our internal journey, often manifesting outwardly what
is within our internal state. Yet none of that is static – we have that Wotanic
energy to inspire, empower and propel us to Seek the Mysteries and experience transcendence into our higher awareness.</span></span></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Footnotes:<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 107%;">(1) γν</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 107%;">ῶ</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 107%;">θι σεαυτόν - <i>gnothi seauton</i>.
Despite efforts by some philosophers to attribute it to previous philosophers,
traditional Hellenic folk-faith understood it as a greeting by Apollo. As with
Wodan, Apollo is well-wisher to those seeking the mysteries, knowing ourselves through an initiation both internal and external.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">(2) A powerful technique created by the spiritual teacher
Thunder Wizard (Michael William Denney) related to the Goddess Holle, who most personifies Mother Earth within my continental Germanic Pagan/Heathen perspective. Known as Frija in other contexts, she is the Goddess most connected with Wodan, archetypal
God of seeking the Mysteries. These two sacred masculine/feminine Deific energies are both connected to the <a href="https://sjobst.blogspot.com/2020/12/the-wild-hunt-symbolisms-meanings-and_31.html">Wild Hunt</a>, with its dual chthonic and airy connotations.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">(3) Runa is also self-identifier for the Quechua for whom it means “man, person, human being” (hence <i>Runakuna</i> “the people”)
– it was common around the world for tribes to identify themselves with names
indicating their human status, such as <i>Alemanni</i> “all-men”. I agree with the many Indigenous American oral traditions that indicate ancient Transatlantic
cultural diffusion. In the Andean context, I see similar traits between the
wisdom-bringer Viracocha and his <a href="https://sjobst.blogspot.com/2023/01/hiking-up-serpent-mound-autumn-2022.html">serpentine power</a>,
and the energetic qualities of Wodan and serpent symbolism within Germanic Mythos.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 107%;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 107%;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQyxsOe6oyW7qeXWDOFgMy7496Ov5onD_PhT15_nOCo40aWRW5piggo7mlyPX-SdmbMygnyJ_DyCDNMwNQZJo6sZABr0VcvIE5lnU6G8I6d1DLucI2W9voEdwOFEwpjcoY9XPSm1tw703Dg9dMxPICMt-kWVQZqzUfSUPXDsnosXIY_u38qQOGtI77sQ/s1033/bea582e40d1f8666eb1bafd77f969078.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1033" data-original-width="794" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQyxsOe6oyW7qeXWDOFgMy7496Ov5onD_PhT15_nOCo40aWRW5piggo7mlyPX-SdmbMygnyJ_DyCDNMwNQZJo6sZABr0VcvIE5lnU6G8I6d1DLucI2W9voEdwOFEwpjcoY9XPSm1tw703Dg9dMxPICMt-kWVQZqzUfSUPXDsnosXIY_u38qQOGtI77sQ/w246-h320/bea582e40d1f8666eb1bafd77f969078.jpg" width="246" /></a></span></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiO7FlfDOrWmxTEjm4APL_TLKZpb9otJ2rJRoKuDl6-RvaJsThby8wtSiBjnMD8xTK4e9kWu4Si-oqFfoudKDw0W15g36BS_PbuW5c22v3x3dLhCMe851A2koOv4JHJqVORcYo2sAQJprikYAICE__p01TAm_cq_xY-MVY5B8QEJgxXA73DkasnoiLtWQ/s800/vikinge-vedhaeng-odin-uppland.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="800" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiO7FlfDOrWmxTEjm4APL_TLKZpb9otJ2rJRoKuDl6-RvaJsThby8wtSiBjnMD8xTK4e9kWu4Si-oqFfoudKDw0W15g36BS_PbuW5c22v3x3dLhCMe851A2koOv4JHJqVORcYo2sAQJprikYAICE__p01TAm_cq_xY-MVY5B8QEJgxXA73DkasnoiLtWQ/s320/vikinge-vedhaeng-odin-uppland.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Comparison of image of Viracocha<br />from the gateway at Tiwanaku in<br />Bolivia (top) and Bronze pendant<br />of Odin found at Uppland, Sweden<br />(bottom). These are simply stylized<br /><b>not literal</b> representations of Deities.</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 107%;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">(4) As with other tribal cultures, the Germanic expressed a
cyclical view of time. They even lacked a future tense – only past and present
as documented by Paul C. Bauschatz in his book, <i>The Well and the Tree: World and
Time in Early Germanic Culture</i> (Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press,
1982). We can visualize the World Tree whose branches extend into the skies and
trunk grounds deeply into Earth: Above-ground is manifestation,
while below is unmanifested potential and the past – hence the relation to the
Underworld as realm of Ancestors. </span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">We move as a circle accumulating lessons and experiences along the way within this Cosmic Web of Wurt/Wyrd/Uurd. </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">Bauschatz argues that the Norn Skuld, whose name is often translated as “future”,
properly means “debt, obligation”. This is the Natural Law of Karma
(which our Ancestors would have known but under a different name) – our
choices in the present moment will have consequences, and the patterns
from which the present comes into being at every moment. Incidentally, Skuld is related to the word "should", expressing this sense of obligation and action.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">In one of her podcasts (which
first brought this book to my attention), Carolyn Emerick notes how the Germanic
past-facing culture meant our Ancestors were impervious to apocalyptism, thus from
the fears and anxieties used to easily control people.</span> Our concept of Time was subverted so the <a href="https://sjobst.blogspot.com/2022/08/animism-and-lessons-of-earths-power-2.html">salvationist</a> mind-virus could fester gradually making us ripe for conquest. In his talk "<a href="https://ratical.org/many_worlds/JohnTrudell/HumanBeing.html">What It Means To Be A Human Being</a>," the late Santee Lakota poet John Trudell gave an excellent overview of the Indigenous concept of Time (also shared by indigenous Europeans): "We are in time and space, but we're from beyond time and space." Venerating Ancestors for help and guidance is understanding that "we were borrowing today from the past and the future." There is incredible personal power in knowing we are creating and manifesting our future in this moment. On a personal level, many self-help thinkers advise the wisdom of treating every day as separate from the one before - truly inculcating a sense of the moment. Magic practitioners stress the importance of putting out one's will and intention without obsessing about the outcome.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">(5) Decoding the Voluspa’s emergence Myth, Maria Kvilhaug <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evE6aLg-_Q8">explains</a>
the passage <i>Ar var Alda</i> – “In the beginning was a big wave.” Alda means waves,
rivers, streams – part of the primeval forces of the universe. Another form later
used is “little waves”, so it’s a poetic metaphor for movement and vibrations.
Ymir “Screamer” has his body “divided” – it’s the waves and vibrations of the
cosmos experiencing differentiation.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">(6) To put it simply, all control systems are
ultimately founded upon blurring these personal boundaries so there becomes a “need”
for their own “boundaries”. People who do not know their own boundaries will
not demand more for oneself and so will cede their <a href="https://sjobst.blogspot.com/2022/04/on-freedom-responsibility-true.html">responsibility and power</a> to these
authorities. These control systems are often in a nation-state, but efforts to
erode these physical boundaries and <a href="https://sjobst.blogspot.com/2020/11/the-rona-and-global-surveillance-state.html">consolidate</a> them into some broader Globalist
institutions, perpetuate and intensify this <a href="https://sjobst.blogspot.com/2020/11/building-back-better-to-great-reset.html">erosion</a> of personal boundaries
(i.e. “You will own nothing and be happy,” certain mandates restricting free
will and medical choices, etc.). From my <a href="https://sjobst.blogspot.com/2021/06/essays-on-anarchism-state-usury-and.html">Anarchist</a> view, Othala as Rune of
inheritance is intertwined with personal boundaries which flow and thrive through
decentralism. Political concepts of boundaries shouldn’t be confused with the natural boundaries arising organically between tribes and clans.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">(7) A perfect example of this is travel. I experienced
and benefited much from my own travels, whether reconnecting with my heritage (thus truly knowing Myself) in Stuttgart/Swabia and Madrid/Castilla; the hospitality and welcome I received from locals in
Turkey and Albania; the warmth and friendliness I felt in Cape Town from South Africans and other African peoples; the poetic and artistic sense of “Saudade” I discovered in Portugal; learning
more about this continent of Turtle Island and my own place within this world among
the Oglala Lakota of Pine Ridge. All the while also coming to better appreciate
my sense of “home” as something both grounding and dynamic - its truly where the Heart is. Its no coincidence Wodan is The Traveler, for He awakened the enlightenment within after accumulating growth and experiences from travels across the various worlds. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">(8) <i>Grímnismál</i>, Stanza 20. The various
mythologies and traditions making up the lore should be seen as the sacred
living spirit with many levels of allegory and symbolism, rather than as a “holy,
revealed” literalist scripture. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">(9) <i>Havamal</i>, Stanza 76.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">(10) From his Funeral Oration for fallen Athenian
warriors, as quoted by Thucydides, <i>History of the Peloponnesian War</i>, II.43.3.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">(11) This should be understood as allegorical and
not a literal “creation” such as exists in Abrahamic religions. The Myth
simply states they were the Ash and Elm trees who lacked <i>Orlog/Urlag</i>, “fate, destiny” – they already contained sentient life. Their emergence from the water indicates the originating role of the Mother Goddess, who is also a river or sea Goddess in Mythology. This is a continuation of the earlier Myth that mentions waves (see footnote 5) - its about primal movements and change in the cosmos. This Goddess is none other than Mother Earth, a co-emergent creation as old as She whom morphed into the Earth. Ask and Embla are inseparable from the same Nature that imbues all the elements of life. Even now we breathe in oxygen from trees while they breathe in our carbon in a harmonious mutual exchange of spirit and consciousness. </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">(12) Since there is no duality between “good” and “evil”.
Yes, sometimes our actions result in negative consequences, but we learn and grow most from challenges - we accept responsibility for our actions while having the capacity to rise above and correct errors. The mischievous
trickster represents a spark inspiring <i>others</i> to take action and evolve to <i>their</i> potential. This often results in the Gods “discovering” their
powers, such as Donar (life-force energy) and his Hammer (the heart-beat). Loki
is not a deity himself – he doesn’t exist in continental Germanic lore and is barely
attested outside Scandinavia. Rather, he is a neutral energetic force bound up
with action, similar to the Greco-Roman figure of <a href="https://seanjobst.substack.com/p/illuminating-the-lightbringer-the">Lucifer</a>: an agent of change who is that potential spark of self-illumination through
the quest for knowledge and awareness. The “children” of Loki personify one’s
lower instincts and unhealed traumas – not considered “evil” but simply what
needs to be put in check lest we allow those aspects overtake us. One of these
is the <a href="https://sjobst.blogspot.com/2023/01/hiking-up-serpent-mound-autumn-2022.html">World Serpent</a> Jormungandr.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">(13) If the Divine holds inspiration and reflects into the human psyche at various levels; if our stages of growth are subject to the Web of Wurt/Wyrd; then there is no reason to dismiss seeing the Deities as Archetypes. It doesn't make them any less "real" - a presumption many still hold on to from Abrahamic dualistic thinking. It takes stepping outside the conditioning and into a deeper perception to realize that Animism expresses how everything (including Archetypes) have their own spirit and consciousness. There are multiple layers of meaning and relation to ourselves and the Deities.</span></span></p><p></p>Sean Jobsthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17351165299354431339noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-907444223262019258.post-9005932950329033632023-01-25T13:59:00.008-06:002023-02-05T08:16:36.981-06:00Hiking Up the Serpent Mound, Autumn 2022 - Path of Souls, Kundalini, Gnosis, and Esoteric Meaning of the Serpent<p><span style="font-family: georgia;">by Sean Jobst</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">25 January 2023</span></p><p>[<span style="font-family: georgia;">Including an analysis of the Feathered Serpent, Donar against the World Serpent, Mayan links to the Southeast US, comparative Native American and Germanic Mythology, and the Gnostic Myth of Sophia, the Aeons, and Healing the Gender Rift]</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> Last Autumn, I took three hiking expeditions to a local site called Morton Hill (2,064 feet / 629 meters). Spread across 80 acres (323,748 square meters), it contains the cultural legacy of the indigenous Abehka, a nation of the Creek Confederacy, surviving within the landscape long after the Trail of Tears. The initial archaeologist's survey in 2009 identified "41 stone walls, six stone mounds, two boulder caches, one possible historical stacked wall feature, two wall tips, and two springhead arches."(1) </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">"Over the next two years more limestone-made stone features were found. Most of the stone mounds are oval or oblong rock pile cairns ranging from 3 to 7 feet in height and up to 17 feet in diameter. The walls are generally 3 to 9 feet wide and 3 feet in height. Their lengths are from 26 to nearly 600 feet. The archaeologists determined that at least some of the stone features were prehistoric and similar to Native American-attributed stone mounds and structures found elsewhere."(2)</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> My travels helped me to grow through many experiences, but events of 2020 halting those international travels drew me inward into a greater appreciation for my own region, the southern foothills of Appalachia. I studied more about </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">the indigenous Creek (Muskokee) people of Alabama and Georgia and visited the </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKR5yoFcqr9lfdWwG0d5bumGx6lKJCjWj" style="font-family: georgia;">Etowah</a><span style="font-family: georgia;"> (Etula) and Ocmulgee mounds. While reconnecting with my own European heritage, including a spiritual awareness through folk traditions, archaeological and linguistic evidence, I endorse similar efforts by a group of scholars named the </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC37jaRfwMXpIPKlCRGysxkw" style="font-family: georgia;">People of One Fire</a><span style="font-family: georgia;"> to reclaim the suppressed heritage of this region. These include the incredible work of Richard Thornton, a Georgia Creek-Uchee historian and architect who </span><a href="https://apalacheresearch.com/" style="font-family: georgia;">documents</a><span style="font-family: georgia;"> how extensively the Southeast was melting-pot of the Mayans and other cultures, seen on mound structures and petroglyphs, toponyms, and tribal names.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> I was unaware of any of this back in 2009 and 2010 when, as an activist-minded college student, I was involved in local protests to preserve mounds that were ultimately destroyed for Consumerism. My motive then was simple decency and justice, but now I recognize there was something primal that <i>knew</i> my tribal ancestors - for everyone is <a href="https://sjobst.blogspot.com/2022/08/animism-and-lessons-of-earths-power-2.html">descendant of a tribe</a> at some point in history - had similar mounds. For my tribes these were sacred sites of ancestor veneration and reincarnation.(3) Only </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">with my spiritual journey these last four years have I also learned mounds are on</span><span style="font-family: georgia;"> every continent, their meanings and symbolism, and just how ancient they are, challenging dogmas about linear history. Awakening to animism meant connecting to my local landscape and its spiritual vibrancy, including greater respect for the original inhabitants of this region. </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">So it was with all this in mind that I hiked Morton Hill and found many mounds scattered throughout these forests....</span></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiA9-__ymSVV-ueaqYBBqYA-5GM6pw8R0viqrR3WJG7Ya_JLC3P34tybDadoTW48mKPGS2gQtEvAQNH0shLycuYG55EySjZpu2eQgRHyYSCCh7CNJS2QTcBqJ6ba1sdSHmsWYzprQaxT_t6nSaG_HPt9RFIg6aeSKnn9lfBLkx-mKjJvdTH9plyQLVK_A/s5152/DSC05662.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3864" data-original-width="5152" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiA9-__ymSVV-ueaqYBBqYA-5GM6pw8R0viqrR3WJG7Ya_JLC3P34tybDadoTW48mKPGS2gQtEvAQNH0shLycuYG55EySjZpu2eQgRHyYSCCh7CNJS2QTcBqJ6ba1sdSHmsWYzprQaxT_t6nSaG_HPt9RFIg6aeSKnn9lfBLkx-mKjJvdTH9plyQLVK_A/w400-h300/DSC05662.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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All these and others I saw there are not a natural placement of stones but placed in a ritualistic purpose by ancient human hands. "Other stone mounds were apparently made as places of 'remembrance' of the dead, with participants placing a stone on a mound at regular intervals. Some walls and stone piles were placed at spots where spiritual power emerged - by springs and along waterflows. In addition, there are other stone features in the immediate area placed on the highest overlooks. These include large and impressive 'prayer circles' and 'prayer seats' which were used in ceremonies." Others were used for three-day vision quests, during which "participants spent daylight hours constructing winding walls as both a means of concentration and a way to create physical exhaustion."(4)</span><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> The Abehka were known to carry "burden stones" in remembrance of the dead(5), especially after a flood destroyed the village and mounds at Choccolocco (whose name was shared by an <a href="https://www.appalachianhistory.net/2018/05/the-sleeping-giant-an-indian-legend-from-al.html">elder chieftain</a>). Creek oral history told of a city "lost in the water". Mounds were identified at nearby <a href="https://www.appalachianhistory.net/2017/12/creek-indians-of-boiling-spring-al.html">Boiling Spring</a> in the early 20th century. Some scholars have theorized our local sites collectively formed <i>Ulibahali</i> ("mulberry people"), the mysterious Creek village mentioned by the De Soto expedition whose exact location has been unknown although some placed it in Alabama (whose name even came from this village as noted by several Spanish accounts).(6) All these mounds were apparently aligned with Signal Mountain, atop which a mound was built from burden stones (whose impending destruction was the reason for our protests). </span></div><div><br /></div><div> <span style="font-family: georgia;">My first hike up Morton Hill </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">was on the eve of Autumn Equinox (20th September), when the Sun would have a greater effect upon these stones at Dawn or Sunset. This matches the solar alignments of mound chambers and stone circles worldwide. </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">The largest and most well-known Serpent Mound in Ohio is aligned at different points of its winding body to solar positions on the Solstices and Equinoxes. </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">The Creeks had a <a href="https://apalacheresearch.com/2022/09/21/the-creek-solar-calendar-green-corn-festival-and-new-years-festival/">solar calendar</a> that reckoned the New Year from Summer Solstice. Like my own ancestors, the Creek people had a </span><a href="https://apalacheresearch.com/2022/12/20/sun-goddesses-and-sun-circles-the-trans-atlantic-connection/" style="font-family: georgia;">Sun Goddess</a><span style="font-family: georgia;"> and their petroglyphs include solar symbols. The stone walls I saw were aligned with smaller stone circles, apparently symbolic markers of an initiate's journey leading to the largest stones used for contemplation. We</span><span style="font-family: georgia;"> can imagine an initiate's vision quest in a heightened state after a steep hike that would have been much harder than in our own time. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> Many larger mounds there are surrounded by thorny brushes, so the animist in me respected these sentient stones did not want to be accessed. Other stones were easy to reach so these were the ones I visited and discussed here. </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">Their spiritual energy was still felt by me despite no longer being charged in Abehka ceremonies. The lack of electrification around the mountain made me more sensitive to the natural energy, giving me a much-stronger intuitive feeling. </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">I returned back the next week, hiking further than the first time but still unable to find the Serpent mound. Oral histories spoke of a "Water Tiger" stone effigy that (according to scholars) served as a kind of aqueduct to carry water down the valley - yet as I will discuss within this article, there is good reason to argue it served important ritualistic purposes as well. It was only on my third visit (4th October), after hiking well over three hours and beginning the descent back down, that I was guided to see it....</span></div><div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYrxmI-p3zMRHwwJr9jzydIPQqp3du7LC4fHidAzA_qMDH4XR3XJd88oNvLHa55ERbVPFZRamYNiwEfana_SfpvVaAv8MDeVMqPZY9313zeOt-xd5s4Z8dKJKilE_nTSUvh3KHClowRZ8LPoiJDMDBgCMHnz0T8Li-0ZwqAhMOYUIdhWn0R4TKHSwZZw/s5152/DSC05718.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3864" data-original-width="5152" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYrxmI-p3zMRHwwJr9jzydIPQqp3du7LC4fHidAzA_qMDH4XR3XJd88oNvLHa55ERbVPFZRamYNiwEfana_SfpvVaAv8MDeVMqPZY9313zeOt-xd5s4Z8dKJKilE_nTSUvh3KHClowRZ8LPoiJDMDBgCMHnz0T8Li-0ZwqAhMOYUIdhWn0R4TKHSwZZw/w400-h300/DSC05718.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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Two large stones are placed atop each other to form his "mouth", with other stones forming his "eyes" and "head". Other stones form his "body" and "tail", not straightened but at winding much like a Serpent. In the forest leading up to the Serpent, are several flat marker stones that appeared to be ceremonial. One stone was carved into a rectangle, with segments visible even with grass growing over it. Its my theory this stone was carved into a solar symbol that was sacred to the Creek (similar to symbols across the world), namely the Sacred Fire and Royal Sun symbol from Etula and the Track Rock glyphs....</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgthf4JwvHACXacqHKrjqCA-jMNZ49U0IIasstgTbmnQmnvlgTcsgT0j4tnYxQZy5KDCypEp4gsBvV0jQGPTrLBGczZXa8lRn0qcRBZ6Csq5gwAdE1rOVr3K6V4Zk1oQBpXl6BwFkVmvrcUvTymszGr_eQNA53r2SJMV7iO29n4cji-IyHw1yOVhKQGw/s5152/DSC05725.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3864" data-original-width="5152" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgthf4JwvHACXacqHKrjqCA-jMNZ49U0IIasstgTbmnQmnvlgTcsgT0j4tnYxQZy5KDCypEp4gsBvV0jQGPTrLBGczZXa8lRn0qcRBZ6Csq5gwAdE1rOVr3K6V4Zk1oQBpXl6BwFkVmvrcUvTymszGr_eQNA53r2SJMV7iO29n4cji-IyHw1yOVhKQGw/w400-h300/DSC05725.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiscDYH6Rt2hj3U-BU9RQRZXct02JDFKfpRHumR-3ir4V2H0vDkE-wxAvpxY92QZ32RhV726MRqaSbrl7ktqdPMYTB8NSV3b-un7pG0bfavgjzgMjGhZJS6-r1zzrD_AbA8Jhy1AdzHnkTHxafvUwY5mb-KR1S7yp_uHb0HzP2VJ6WCXbLjBrn5F8V7eA/s5152/DSC05726.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3864" data-original-width="5152" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiscDYH6Rt2hj3U-BU9RQRZXct02JDFKfpRHumR-3ir4V2H0vDkE-wxAvpxY92QZ32RhV726MRqaSbrl7ktqdPMYTB8NSV3b-un7pG0bfavgjzgMjGhZJS6-r1zzrD_AbA8Jhy1AdzHnkTHxafvUwY5mb-KR1S7yp_uHb0HzP2VJ6WCXbLjBrn5F8V7eA/w400-h300/DSC05726.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhq7Qk3NV8RL-qcnt1AMvKMNBhPZdRUi0HD4qaqP8qbuNvaczN6dNyW6ZQuBiDa6Hh-cgRhJS52T-b08k7WG5TQWk-6niEfrRfuizWNy3897xyzg2ZA0-xhbUbAIpDxD5bFRauPKjAzp94c_hg65T3pdyBkvJbQNOj-F4Nbw6AZWsBSbqO0BUU3LvSiFQ/s5152/DSC05727.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3864" data-original-width="5152" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhq7Qk3NV8RL-qcnt1AMvKMNBhPZdRUi0HD4qaqP8qbuNvaczN6dNyW6ZQuBiDa6Hh-cgRhJS52T-b08k7WG5TQWk-6niEfrRfuizWNy3897xyzg2ZA0-xhbUbAIpDxD5bFRauPKjAzp94c_hg65T3pdyBkvJbQNOj-F4Nbw6AZWsBSbqO0BUU3LvSiFQ/w400-h300/DSC05727.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><br /></div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><i>Mississippian Mound Sites and the Path of Souls</i></b></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> My contention is that Morton Hill shares similar features with both the Creek petroglyph stones and mounds across North Georgia, and the Mississippian sites to the west which form the Southeastern Ceremonial Complex. Mapping out mounds in the area surrounding Morton Hill reveals at least five separate sites clustered like a serpent, with Morton Hill jutting out as its head and the other sites forming its body until reaching its tail, the Signal Mound. This is the greatest cluster of mounds and stone sites between Etowah (near Cartersville, GA) and Moundville (near Tuscaloosa, AL). Given the central location between those two large mound cities, its natural these local sites would form some kind of ritual significance. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> At Moundville, the Feathered Serpent represented the Scorpius Constellation and ruled the Underworld, </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">in constant opposition with the Upper World. This </span><a href="https://sjobst.blogspot.com/2022/10/animism-and-lessons-of-earths-power-3.html" style="font-family: georgia;">cosmology</a><span style="font-family: georgia;"> of upper and lower worlds balanced by our middle world, is common among other tribes from the Prairies down to Mesoamerica. A shell gorget from Spiro Mounds (eastern Oklahoma) showed two dancers facing east and west emanating from a striped axis mundi, </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">containing several solar symbols also carved on Creek glyphs. Creek origin stories recount emergence and a migration from Mesoamerica.(7) </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">Themes of <a href="https://sjobst.blogspot.com/2022/12/animism-and-lessons-of-earths-power-4.html">emergence and emanation</a> from the Earth are present on a carved whelk shell from the Spiro central chamber showing two figures emerging in both directions from an intertwined serpent. As <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnNN9JUydGE&t=1559s">noted</a> by</span><span style="font-family: georgia;"> archaeologist Kent Reilly, the two figures are the Morning and Evening Stars, part of the Hero Twin motif at other Mississippian sites and related to the Mayan Hero Twins, Hunahpu and Xbalanque. Between them is the Milky Way center, represented by a serpent such as Mexica's </span><i style="font-family: georgia;">Mixcoatl</i><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">("cloud serpent"). The energies of the Earth are also expressed as Serpentine as will be documented later.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><br /></div><div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-0vn7xk_aDleT9hmVJ2c5UW1lSSGrX8-iZKnBs6MSTriDxxdoT3urE4N1Meb_sAbOoh_zkkumz23mK33r83Yp6sz2WADxnBunGwb8XijwYu-FuW3exX8Q19LHrKdeFS2jK0GsLR-LSMMUFeklGwGfpp8ZIMhZqcqm6SixhHC1zSLO_rG1oDQkZ1fa0w/s625/77-Counties-Spiro-Mounds-02.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="589" data-original-width="625" height="378" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-0vn7xk_aDleT9hmVJ2c5UW1lSSGrX8-iZKnBs6MSTriDxxdoT3urE4N1Meb_sAbOoh_zkkumz23mK33r83Yp6sz2WADxnBunGwb8XijwYu-FuW3exX8Q19LHrKdeFS2jK0GsLR-LSMMUFeklGwGfpp8ZIMhZqcqm6SixhHC1zSLO_rG1oDQkZ1fa0w/w400-h378/77-Counties-Spiro-Mounds-02.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Spiro Shell Gorget. The three points on the bottom pillar match <br />the exact alignment of Orion's Belt on the eastern horizon. <br />Called the Royal Sun, the four-pointed symbol in the middle is <br />identical to glyphs at Etowah (Georgia) and Palenque (Yucatan).<br /><br /></span></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKqJMCZGeLs8utoAaQskFXa8Cpm5niWjkJdFNXwclBMS7jxGAh-xlUywN4cPgx5K3JJ-1kdqbG4uCCiN4LVfiaBeYu2jCThL3d_x90qkCpTWukkPF4f8pkY1ysFYd6bMML-w36ZigCNMkthUhxIoFBtmAtorUR4zmL62EuwKqwNW1UzbaIxcIx7WT1fA/s457/9bd186a463fa31c0dd5f0b3021aaef0b.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="405" data-original-width="457" height="284" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKqJMCZGeLs8utoAaQskFXa8Cpm5niWjkJdFNXwclBMS7jxGAh-xlUywN4cPgx5K3JJ-1kdqbG4uCCiN4LVfiaBeYu2jCThL3d_x90qkCpTWukkPF4f8pkY1ysFYd6bMML-w36ZigCNMkthUhxIoFBtmAtorUR4zmL62EuwKqwNW1UzbaIxcIx7WT1fA/w320-h284/9bd186a463fa31c0dd5f0b3021aaef0b.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Image from a carved whelk shell emerging<br />from an intertwined serpent. Engraving by <br />artist Herb Roe from the original Spiro artifact.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /></div><div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOgKduLTptf6WZzEqiUuROV4uP_rF3fQuPhSGBf28clQS05qOg-gGdirjxcYuskSYLDRsun9k7o7uGoCB8Abzf7-i3yAOGulYnGDNFyDhFuP50ZsiboPj9wj-60M9Rdk_n8OKtXq-xWJrWbKOT5FEJ4uVXauA28pj2VwadwB4onam1giSYcEcfQTIQTA/s1064/dany-wilten.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="795" data-original-width="1064" height="299" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOgKduLTptf6WZzEqiUuROV4uP_rF3fQuPhSGBf28clQS05qOg-gGdirjxcYuskSYLDRsun9k7o7uGoCB8Abzf7-i3yAOGulYnGDNFyDhFuP50ZsiboPj9wj-60M9Rdk_n8OKtXq-xWJrWbKOT5FEJ4uVXauA28pj2VwadwB4onam1giSYcEcfQTIQTA/w400-h299/dany-wilten.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">"As Above, So Below. As Within, So Without."</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> We can view these Serpent symbols - including the Morton Hill effigy - in context of the Path of Souls. The mound builders held that in addition to the life-soul connected to the physical body, there is a second free-soul that leaves the post-mortem body. This soul journeyed west over a body of water(8) on the eve of Winter Solstice. The soul then waited until early morning when Orion's Nebula (below the three belt stars of Orion) was about to descend below the horizon, at which point the soul "leaped" into this portal on to the Milky Way. Eventually the soul reached the Cygnus constellation, personified as a large raptor bird that served as "judge" or "mediator" for the soul. If the tests were passed, then the soul was allowed to make its final journey out of the sky into the realm of the dead.(9) </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> The soul journey is also portrayed on the Moundville Rattlesnake Disc, showing a hand (reversible downward or upward) with an eye in the center and surrounded by two intertwined rattlesnakes. Its been <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmuLoZMGDvM&t=811s">interpreted</a> as a North Star cosmogram with perfect alignment laid out on a Summer Solstice star map. The middle finger is aligned perfectly with the iris, north towards Polaris in an exact 60-degree angle to allegorize the Solstice sunrise. The eye is 9-degrees off-center, matching the exact position from Polaris between 1100 and 1450 CE. The eye represents the North Star in the center, aligned with the thumb (Little Dipper). The eye is an <i>ogee</i> symbolic of portals to the spirit world, the conduit of spiritual energies and an esoteric knowledge about perception - our minds have an active role in what we see and manifest.(10) It could be deflecting the "evil eye" in an example of sympathetic magic. The way the snakes are intertwined replicate the </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">counter-clockwise </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">movement of Cassiopeia and the Big Dipper around the North Star. The snakes are aligned to the two brightest stars, Vega and Capella. </span></p><p><br /></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyzvYUXZUdQ83SmzxSsU9A7-M9_pDH40KYplNodFtSJEwS-SDIqJLmI5IsYkhNJaxW0DIlUD_VYzJccTFBZAQJY3ZJlhShJVbbDh9Xi-CdodCZS4-nQV9QsfZ25iF543favnv-LOQqQ34PF0wRBiEaf8xPbI4tMyUeL6nptp8cQRZRdTwUZpEH7SOV4Q/s600/RattleSnake1-600x573.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="573" data-original-width="600" height="306" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyzvYUXZUdQ83SmzxSsU9A7-M9_pDH40KYplNodFtSJEwS-SDIqJLmI5IsYkhNJaxW0DIlUD_VYzJccTFBZAQJY3ZJlhShJVbbDh9Xi-CdodCZS4-nQV9QsfZ25iF543favnv-LOQqQ34PF0wRBiEaf8xPbI4tMyUeL6nptp8cQRZRdTwUZpEH7SOV4Q/s320/RattleSnake1-600x573.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Moundville Rattlesnake Disc</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhus6v-P4oBwMheyUE3dK4nw_Pffc4GbxlZ6O9HJ0iTZCSSqNeyFTe-eCm68qUAYfwlHdcRvGvkm7Q_zRiXY1NZ8p4h4dVv5eKvOV_S0ozxgl3Z1bHgTMoldq1BSNoFAtUeO4KrzpqL9APrGiOh9IrBN-acGe3bh9DjjHgA-7m0VA9V34o8N1EVdVFNRA/s580/4c003b67349f6c65a5b8a72e6554d55b.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="314" data-original-width="580" height="216" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhus6v-P4oBwMheyUE3dK4nw_Pffc4GbxlZ6O9HJ0iTZCSSqNeyFTe-eCm68qUAYfwlHdcRvGvkm7Q_zRiXY1NZ8p4h4dVv5eKvOV_S0ozxgl3Z1bHgTMoldq1BSNoFAtUeO4KrzpqL9APrGiOh9IrBN-acGe3bh9DjjHgA-7m0VA9V34o8N1EVdVFNRA/w400-h216/4c003b67349f6c65a5b8a72e6554d55b.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Moundville feathered serpent<br /><br /></span></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNbKFNQBR8NaIcwFFtbtX7scwxx6SaP5XOFfgLP5ckG7mcg0eLmTpxeUqcJixN7Of2O_3n1rp6j0wO5nPJy24MGRL5G5XAsGEkYqnjz91sX8UozIvoZP9z1GyJvSLabvag8MzRYh4iYO50Os0sLr4qciJGZ48fHHaCwlfrZIOGw5KwRKrOziAatml4fA/s440/440px-Chromesun_4_uktenas_design.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="401" data-original-width="440" height="292" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNbKFNQBR8NaIcwFFtbtX7scwxx6SaP5XOFfgLP5ckG7mcg0eLmTpxeUqcJixN7Of2O_3n1rp6j0wO5nPJy24MGRL5G5XAsGEkYqnjz91sX8UozIvoZP9z1GyJvSLabvag8MzRYh4iYO50Os0sLr4qciJGZ48fHHaCwlfrZIOGw5KwRKrOziAatml4fA/s320/440px-Chromesun_4_uktenas_design.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Image from a Spiro gorget showing feathered<br />serpents rotating as a primal worldwide motif<br />allegorical of movements around the North Star.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><i>Feathered Serpent in Mesoamerica and the Southwest</i></b></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;"> Applying what we know about Mississippian sites to the west and Creek sites to the east, its possible the Morton Hill effigy was also connected to Path of Soul rituals. The ritual occurred in winter, when Scorpius was invisible below the horizon, as it was believed the Feathered Serpent would snatch the soul down into the Underworld. </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">The Underworld itself should not be viewed negatively like an Abrahamic "hell" but simply not part of the celestial Path of Souls. These Feathered or Horned Serpents have tails resembling corn. As Scorpius is visible most in summer, I propose a possible correspondence to the Creek Green Corn festival (<i>poskita</i>), whose <a href="https://apalacheresearch.com/2022/09/21/the-creek-solar-calendar-green-corn-festival-and-new-years-festival/">days varied</a> from village to village but started when the corn crop ripened, around the full moon that followed the Summer Solstice. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> Given the Mesoamerican links occurring throughout their origin stories and other evidence, its no coincidence the Feathered Serpent was connected to corn, which served the same mythical function as other grains across the Atlantic: An allegory of regeneration, like serpents shed their skin into renewal. These qualities abound in both his Mesoamerican incarnations as Quetzalcoatl (Aztec) and Kukulkan (Mayan), and rituals among American Southwest tribes also involved corn meal. As <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykGZEjoUARQ">expressed</a> by James True, the Plumed Serpent Quetzalcoatl is the heroic-trickster who "stores the epigenetic wisdom of mankind inside corn." Scientists are unable to explain the unique growing process of corn which goes against the linear evolutionary model, since corn and wheat preceded the alleged beginning of farming. Applied to an esoteric level, this relates to spiritual transformation through our innate wisdom. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> Quetzalcoatl represents a spirit energy that is both primal and transcendent. Sergio Magaña (Ocelocoyotl), a Mexican healer of the Toltec tradition of Nahualism and the Tol lineage of dream knowledge, describes <i>Quetzalcoatl</i> (whose name means "rising of the serpent") as the lord of knowledge and consciousness. He is a spirit and archetypal(11) serpent rising </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">from the coccyx (bottom of the spine) along various points of the body corresponding to the chakras, up to the forehead (representing the conduit to higher awareness) where he transcends as a Feathered Serpent flying to the Sun. The Mexica and Toltec Long Count calendar recounts a total of 26,500 years, divided into four periods of 6,625 years each called "suns". </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> Their cosmology is made up of 13 heavens, so their calendars were divided into 13-day solar wave cycles: "The ancient Mexicans were perfectly aware of the fact that the rotation of the solar equator takes 26 terrestrial days, meaning that the sun shows a different face to us every 13 days." He represents the unmanifested spiritual potential of every human being: "The prophecy says Quetzalcoatls, plural, meaning people around the world will find this precious knowledge."(12) I also like this <a href="https://www.quora.com/If-the-Aztecs-worshipped-the-feathered-serpent-and-Lucifer-is-a-feathered-serpent-Were-they-worshipping-Lucifer">description</a> of Quetzalcoatl by another Mexican source: "The serpent represents everything man has that keeps him linked to the earth/the ground, the feathers in old Tolteca thinking means the virtues each man has got that keep him connected to the “Sky” to the infinite, to the Gods or as the Mexica called him 'Ometeotl''Tloque Nahuaque''Giver of life' which means the totality and the source of all things that exists and the father/mother of their gods: Tlaloc, Huitzilopochtli, Tezcatlipoca and Quetzalcoalt."</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLbk5rhrsSw8JX4iHqCj4Iuvrnilz5Ul-2snE_xu6VUCa9SLS88EUzfFxMky4PjwkZniv2OBtpsagonAdDTlEaFReN5sZD3NygTixM9QwqzzrIdyZcGT2G8WbvL9ENG7HZ4S5IHuwNQE04Ug4YjWK4DAT4lzP6sQOxu6HuzoTO5hsdG0PJXSYFrBqKzA/s774/itzaKukulkan-57a9b5955f9b58974a220b45.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="581" data-original-width="774" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLbk5rhrsSw8JX4iHqCj4Iuvrnilz5Ul-2snE_xu6VUCa9SLS88EUzfFxMky4PjwkZniv2OBtpsagonAdDTlEaFReN5sZD3NygTixM9QwqzzrIdyZcGT2G8WbvL9ENG7HZ4S5IHuwNQE04Ug4YjWK4DAT4lzP6sQOxu6HuzoTO5hsdG0PJXSYFrBqKzA/w400-h300/itzaKukulkan-57a9b5955f9b58974a220b45.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Kukulkan effigy at the base of one of the Chichen Itza pyramids<br />in the Yucatan. I see parallels with the Morton Hill serpent effigy.</td></tr></tbody></table></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> Kukulkan represents the shamanic ability to transcend to higher consciousness and develop ourselves in the Fifth Dimension, to communicate with ancestors and spiritual beings as <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXZhoJJcuFA">mentioned</a> by the late Mayan elder Carlos Barrios. </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">Mayan traditions speak of portals called "serpent ropes" lowering from the celestial and mythic North (not to be confused with the geographic north), conducting down to spiritual centers within the body. Their cosmology relates the "ropes" to magnetic storms that disrupt the poles and spark changes in Earth's energy fields. One of their most sacred practices was the Vision Serpent, who "served as a gateway to the spirit realm" and induced visions to communicate with Ancestors and Deities who symbolically <i>emerged</i> from the serpent's mouth. He "created the center axis which communicates between the spiritual and the earthly worlds or planes."(13) </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> He represents the same type of spiritual energy as Wodan, the shamanic ability to travel across all worlds and communicate with the higher awareness; his Initiation upon the World Tree awakened primal and ancestral Mysteries (Runes). </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">Among Q'eqchi' Mayans, a shaman's initiation involved the serpent Ochan, who induced a vision quest possibly similar to the Morton Hill serpent effigy. </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">Pueblo tribes of the American Southwest preserve traditions of a Plumed Serpent. As <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFZYgWRVzEs">noted</a> by the late Zuni elder and wisdom teacher Clifford Mahooty, this serpent is a divine spirit of knowledge named Kokopelli (</span><i style="font-family: georgia;">koko</i><span style="font-family: georgia;"> meaning "the good"). As with my own European ancestors before our conversion/conquest, Divinities among the Southwest tribes are related to Energy, Light, Consciousness, and Spirit within an all-pervading animistic worldview. These were collectively called Kachinas (pronounced <i>Kaht-see-nah</i>), appearing after the tribes' emergence into the present Fourth World to teach balance with Mother Earth. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> These and other higher "star people" beings of other Native American lore parallel what our Germanic tribes knew as <i>Alfar</i> (Elves), the "Shining Ones" who are ascended Ancestors of higher spiritual energy and not the creatures they were turned into by Christianization. In any case, Southwest American </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">origin stories refer to a flood (much like the Deluge existing in traditions worldwide </span><i style="font-family: georgia;">long predating</i><span style="font-family: georgia;"> the Abrahamic story of Noah/Nuh), after which Kokopelli appeared to teach the tribes. One of their sacred sites is the San Ildefonso Pueblo, where a mysterious serpent image appears on the mountainside whenever it rains but never visible when dry. Mahooty mentioned how every Southwest tribe have their designated place for the Plumed Serpent. The seven Zuni Medicine Societies care for snakes because "they're the ones that go and pollinate the herbs" when they crawl across the ground - another parallel to the corn allegory cited earlier. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><div><br /></div><div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgw3oe0Up6xpmCpUsMdKnKzxfe6pV2Tf9l5CExhWgr-0QFCUc1GNiZxImUp6SdDuctS6tiLbi-e3SWRIullKZKoUXn0xZLd0obRQimFl-6sKayUuAlVcWM3otZjwVp8ojMaPRR2ZMFDzULlKfrIbiJ3jQ_sPu6P25Qh1c9GaMFW8J4U8eIEyLWh8RYUbQ/s480/zunipetro2.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="300" data-original-width="480" height="250" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgw3oe0Up6xpmCpUsMdKnKzxfe6pV2Tf9l5CExhWgr-0QFCUc1GNiZxImUp6SdDuctS6tiLbi-e3SWRIullKZKoUXn0xZLd0obRQimFl-6sKayUuAlVcWM3otZjwVp8ojMaPRR2ZMFDzULlKfrIbiJ3jQ_sPu6P25Qh1c9GaMFW8J4U8eIEyLWh8RYUbQ/w400-h250/zunipetro2.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Zuni petroglyphs of the serpentine Kokopelli, with other<br />symbols common to megalithic structures worldwide.</span><br /><br /></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div><br /></div></span></div><div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijCTEcFqBSp2XLFvZha1IDiPk5qSq1zxSoDNE8PQUYNP3YqzOu5qSzC-tGVIM5Hx5szi28sKxGWHeWlzSxP0HEpgf3at7Qt09MvHEHUpqUiFIh07lMt_GRFkB8Fn3vkwq3xekywyC8NWvC3VMAXlFqTP3l6u58O9YYKIZdCRJwehAVH5xRaJ8_BHZ91A/s1280/AmIxchel-TradeMap-2-1280x640.webp" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="1280" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijCTEcFqBSp2XLFvZha1IDiPk5qSq1zxSoDNE8PQUYNP3YqzOu5qSzC-tGVIM5Hx5szi28sKxGWHeWlzSxP0HEpgf3at7Qt09MvHEHUpqUiFIh07lMt_GRFkB8Fn3vkwq3xekywyC8NWvC3VMAXlFqTP3l6u58O9YYKIZdCRJwehAVH5xRaJ8_BHZ91A/w400-h200/AmIxchel-TradeMap-2-1280x640.webp" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The path between the Yucatan and Southeast United States is<br />too short for there not to have been trade and cultural links. </span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><i>Path of the Feathered Serpent to Alabama?</i></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> In one of his channeled messages, the American clairvoyant Edgar Cayce proposed how "at the beginning of the Mound Builder Period [3000 BCE and later], people from the Yucatan, from Peru, including the Inca, and from the Norse land, settled in the eastern portion of Alabama and Florida," people he identified as "the lords of the land" who "gave instructions to the other peoples regarding moral and religious tenets and in regards to 'penal codes.'"(14) Morton Hill and other local sites of East Alabama would have clearly been within their path, leaving another tantalizing theory about these sites. </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">Cayce faithfully conveyed messages even whenever they challenged both his own Christian upbringing and conventional knowledge of the time (as well as modern dogmas). Oral traditions worldwide refer to Wisdom Bringers who carried knowledge such as building and aligning the megaliths. This does not make local sites any less indigenous to the Abehka or Creek but conveys another layer to the cultural diffusion expressed throughout their traditions, much as Serpentine symbolism itself can be understood through multiple layers of meaning. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> Similar to Quetzalcoatl and Kukulkan in Mesoamerica and Kokopelli in the Southwest, the indigenous tribes of the Andes (many of whom predated the Incans) referred to the Plumed Serpent named Viracocha. At the "Snake Temple" of Santiago de Ojje near Lake Titicaca, an anaconda is portrayed emerging out of a stone in ways remarkably similar to those aligned to the entrance of Karahan Tepe half-way across the world in Anatolia. Both have been described as initiation sites much like our later local sites. Serpents were long regarded as protectors of sacred precincts. Andean traditions ascribe the megaliths to Viracocha, who is viewed in ways similar to other Plumed Serpents. Serpent symbolisms abound on megaliths as far afield as Xochicalco, Cholula, Avebury, Ggantija, Saqqara, and Cusco. The stone walls I saw scattered (yet aligned perfectly) across Morton Hill remind me of the "Viracocha walls" the Australian archaeologist Charles Kos <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOojxNR2tI4">described</a> as extending across the United States, from California to New England - so why not such a crossroads as the Southeast? </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div> <span style="font-family: georgia;">Mayan traces are present throughout Etowah and the Chickasaw site of Moundville, showing a cultural diffusion that could include our local sites of East Alabama. Recounting his meeting at the Museo Nacional de Antropologia with the Mayan archaeologist </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">Dr. Román Piña Chán, Richard Thornton <a href="https://apalacheresearch.com/2021/04/21/the-fictional-history-of-the-southeastern-indians-while-i-was-in-mexico/">writes</a>: "</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">He immediately asked me why the Indians at Etowah made marble statues of Maya slaves? He then pulled out his landmark book, <i>La Cultura Madre</i>, and showed me that the earthen “pyramids” of the Olmec Civilization were identical the earthen mounds of the Southeastern United States. He then pulled out his landmark book, <i>Chichen Itza . . . the City of the Wise Men of the Water</i>, and showed me how the art on the shell gorgets and copper plates of Etowah Mounds had the same human figures as found on the bas relief stone carvings at Chichen Itza. He then pulled out his landmark book, <i>Los Toltecas</i>, and showed me that several types of art and artifacts, excavated at Tula, the capital of the Toltecs, were identical to art and artifacts, excavated at Moundville, Alabama."</span><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: georgia; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0CKQ5MAou1GIF81z3gT2PmK-NK6q6FSg5lzPO-_9tF4koPPd6qtRekxMwTZGgrF5zwxE31fkt0jgu3QrUpWWzwJslh0oz1Ygv-h0iScOWiy1kNdUrnfpqGKDLNIplgtFX05xJj3chwn-zNPCgN0fFPBNzVLiZEu73KFnP62DIyiSmXD6MelhXUhYF3w/s814/lotus%20flower.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="814" data-original-width="425" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0CKQ5MAou1GIF81z3gT2PmK-NK6q6FSg5lzPO-_9tF4koPPd6qtRekxMwTZGgrF5zwxE31fkt0jgu3QrUpWWzwJslh0oz1Ygv-h0iScOWiy1kNdUrnfpqGKDLNIplgtFX05xJj3chwn-zNPCgN0fFPBNzVLiZEu73KFnP62DIyiSmXD6MelhXUhYF3w/w209-h400/lotus%20flower.jpg" width="209" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: georgia; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: georgia; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgv0EWq6E7Iq5o9LE5x7oXpvGW9ZevZx0pAulXtK252cLCdERZGI6bgd3cg5B9g2J36eShmOXijQEy37inVXteE2mKu9gbY_qrWAzCyaLzNeA3-5D4INNyjQnTHpl0YYoRlish0IGgQxTroQYM1l1HOvPJe3InZ19Fvhpb_2Nwe2L2LZlDfoDz74WSO3g/s320/!cid_image009_gif@01CCD3E0.gif" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="320" data-original-width="248" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgv0EWq6E7Iq5o9LE5x7oXpvGW9ZevZx0pAulXtK252cLCdERZGI6bgd3cg5B9g2J36eShmOXijQEy37inVXteE2mKu9gbY_qrWAzCyaLzNeA3-5D4INNyjQnTHpl0YYoRlish0IGgQxTroQYM1l1HOvPJe3InZ19Fvhpb_2Nwe2L2LZlDfoDz74WSO3g/s1600/!cid_image009_gif@01CCD3E0.gif" width="248" /></a></div><div style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: georgia; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div style="font-family: georgia;"><i><b>The Serpent As Kundalini: Grounding into the Earth</b></i></div><div style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: georgia;"> As archetypal spirit of initiation, the Feathered Serpent correlates to what the Vedic tradition calls <i>Kundalini</i>. This dormant energy at the base of the spine (<i>muladhara</i>) awakens as a serpent, channeling energy upward to the head crown (<i>sahasrara</i>), activating the pineal gland and ascending into higher awareness. "Kundalini, the serpent power or mystic fire, is the primordial energy or Shakti that lies dormant or sleeping in the Muladhara Chakra, the centre of the body. It is called the serpentine or annular power on account of serpentine form. It is an electric fiery occult power, the great pristine force which underlies all organic and inorganic matter."(15) <i>Kundalini</i> comes from the Sanskrit words <i>kundal</i> "coil, spiral" and <i>lini</i> "that which is coiled". Spirals and coils are a natural fractal occurring throughout DNA, the frequencies of light and sounds, encoded within mythologies and inscribed on megaliths, and extend outward on the macro level to patterns of galaxies.</div><div style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: georgia;"> Kundalini is not life-force energy as often mistaken (although one can be used to supplement the other), but specific psychological and sexual energies attached to the spine. Its not escape from the physical body into "higher" dimensions as it <i>is</i> the ego and identity maturing as it arises through various stations called chakras. These are not energy cauldrons but points along the spinal column projecting emotional realities so one can achieve greater awareness of our potential. It's our higher awareness of the most primal realities of ourselves and how we can understand experiences that go beyond what we perceive as "normal". Each chakra has its own higher and lower resonances, just as Kundalini itself is neutral - solely positive or negative depending on the charge. Kundalini is also called serpentine because it's associated with the <i>Nagas</i> in Vedic traditions, supernatural beings who were higher wisdom teachers (similar to Kachinas and Feathered Serpent symbolism).(16)</div><div style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: georgia;"> Our individual Kundalini is "the microcosmic aspect of Mahakunda, the serpentine power (vital-electromagnetic field) of the Earth."(17) <i>Mahakunda</i> reflects and grounds kundalini to Earth's telluric powers, the ultimate Source of our powers and energies as expressed in my Animism series. This natural vibration is the reason why <i>Ma</i> exists in words such as matter, mother, and <a href="https://sjobst.blogspot.com/2022/12/animism-and-lessons-of-earths-power-4.html">matrix</a> - and also the last element of the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBFyrKYI6TU">primal sound</a> "Aum" that does not need use of the tongue, which helps us to form those primal sounds into various combinations. Its relation to the primal is also reflected in many <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ma">Indo-European</a> words for "mind" (not the intellect but our higher consciousness) and "man" (human being). <i>Ha</i> is a common <a href="https://www.etymonline.com/word/ha">expression</a> of surprise or laughter, thus stepping outside our normal perception. One Vedic source even ascribes the root of Kundalini to <i>kunda</i> "deeper place", viewed as a "cavity" within the Earth that served an initiatory purpose.(18) </div><div style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: georgia; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxjIxx-Cnk2Y2O3CNeuT40QzSFRgeCEaVpHoTdlHxwvoGjE5v992UBUBXBHohfdULACDNMqlkk-kB_B7LIXB7z3serE4VOFSx_P4kXYjdlRtDJrLoSLJJ2XatxEidCxciyqajJALOBJpzaQvDMVUwJcV5zGImkuiUyq-IGvYW6g_emuW4RwAh5cSzaeA/s1600/5247073-Frederick-Lenz-Quote-You-draw-the-mystical-kundalini-from-the.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="1600" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxjIxx-Cnk2Y2O3CNeuT40QzSFRgeCEaVpHoTdlHxwvoGjE5v992UBUBXBHohfdULACDNMqlkk-kB_B7LIXB7z3serE4VOFSx_P4kXYjdlRtDJrLoSLJJ2XatxEidCxciyqajJALOBJpzaQvDMVUwJcV5zGImkuiUyq-IGvYW6g_emuW4RwAh5cSzaeA/w400-h225/5247073-Frederick-Lenz-Quote-You-draw-the-mystical-kundalini-from-the.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: georgia; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: georgia; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: georgia; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvIatdwStjT_9Cw1hTwlo4HcXW6WOeGoWNyUDYOoe4hQY8noN1Fx2O5AJrqBWomfo8jTmvpgieSZ10RIlwKQK12oyaOM104Mrpe2N8q_Igu7-6BlaOgR6QrBp4jTl7HKXrpUGntKcN_t49hw0RMXaqxVupCScy4Mcn05ck1qL78byuF7zia8W8J7I-ww/s236/e5e072d2adeff3ab811218a1a58a8218--holographic-universe-space-time.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="236" data-original-width="236" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvIatdwStjT_9Cw1hTwlo4HcXW6WOeGoWNyUDYOoe4hQY8noN1Fx2O5AJrqBWomfo8jTmvpgieSZ10RIlwKQK12oyaOM104Mrpe2N8q_Igu7-6BlaOgR6QrBp4jTl7HKXrpUGntKcN_t49hw0RMXaqxVupCScy4Mcn05ck1qL78byuF7zia8W8J7I-ww/w320-h320/e5e072d2adeff3ab811218a1a58a8218--holographic-universe-space-time.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: georgia; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: georgia; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: georgia; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: georgia;"> This is the primal understanding why the Earth Mother was linked in various traditions to Goddesses of the Underworld, a realm of initiation where the soul reflected upon its past life and planned its next incarnation. Citing just one example, Frau Holle relates to the words for "cave" (<i>höhle</i>) and "hole"; one figure involved in the initiatory Wild Hunt was <i>Herda</i>, so with letters shifting with time Herda became known as <i>Erda</i>, Mutter Erde. If we apply the Law of Correspondence, Earth's <i>kunda </i>parallels the <i>Brahma-randhra</i> ("cave of Brahma"), a "hole" in the <i>sahasrara</i> through which the soul escapes at death. For this reason, the Celts understood the head as place of the soul and Greek philosophers often spoke of the "seat of the soul" as connected to this same mind center. So too does the brain contain its own "cavity" that resembles a slumbering, coiled serpent. </div><div style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: georgia;"> Kundalini is the <i>ini</i> "small" power of the Earth's <i>Kundala</i>, another layer of meaning within the term itself. Kundalini grounds within Kundala while awakening one's higher perceptions. Its neither an escape from the body or deification of the person, but activates what Tantra calls <i>siddhis</i>, or "supernatural" powers to be found <i>within</i> the physical body. The spirals of DNA are a microcosm of the spirals and coils of Kundala. Mother Earth is "the supreme ambient force that holds DNA configured in its spiralling chains of nucleic acid."(19) Long before modern science "discovered" DNA, ancient initiates knew that "precisely in the human body is to be found the best visible trace of the divine in the material world."(20) Awareness of our divine power within the conscious planetary body was the same whether <i>Magna Mater</i> of the Mediterranean Mysteries or <i>Shakti</i> in India: "The Natural, which is the manifestation of the Mother of Nature, and the Spiritual, or the Mother as She is in and by Herself, are one. But the initiate alone truly recognizes this unity."(21)</div><div style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: georgia;"> Energy naturally emanates from the Earth, moving in random directions and curves but most often "serpentine" forms of spirals and coils. These energy lines connect various sacred sites, from ancient mounds and stone circles to modern religious (including certain "secular" political) sites built upon previous sacred sites - built over these not only as symbolic of their conquest but to harness and channel those sites' energies. The Greeks referred to the serpent Python guarding the <i>omphalos</i> or Earth's navel, represented by an oracle stone at Delphi. This "son" of the Earth Mother Gaia was "born" from slime left over from the Deluge, allegorical of the energies of land regenerating and renewing itself. Apollo had to "slew" Python before the Temple of Delphi could be built, an allegory for harnessing Earth's energies for ritual purpose in living balance with Gaia. As a healer god, one of Apollo's epithets was "averter of evil" and he was patron of Delphi, a role he took over from the serpent guardian Python - unbalanced aspects of his psyche reflecting back at himself in an archetypal Hero's Journey.</div><div style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></div><div><br /></div><div style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: georgia; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjypWF0Q4rM6Ji78Tetlxf4TUczxt0ZqE7f1XPadDjTq7auGyntBUtzn0gDEBatUsyGtF-DiXF7jH5d805zuAY_y9KjkOBZ5nkt9b-mmfVuwOvAxXxSIPS7o6qxhOZaQsx4LViPTG3EsEZO0b53MP-Qa-x7E9zik66PusUH3Qmm3qlokc9Nz0MSxVMVWQ/s474/Thor%20Jormungandr%20-%20Emil%20Doepler.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="251" data-original-width="474" height="211" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjypWF0Q4rM6Ji78Tetlxf4TUczxt0ZqE7f1XPadDjTq7auGyntBUtzn0gDEBatUsyGtF-DiXF7jH5d805zuAY_y9KjkOBZ5nkt9b-mmfVuwOvAxXxSIPS7o6qxhOZaQsx4LViPTG3EsEZO0b53MP-Qa-x7E9zik66PusUH3Qmm3qlokc9Nz0MSxVMVWQ/w400-h211/Thor%20Jormungandr%20-%20Emil%20Doepler.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">A 1905 illustration of Donar and the World Serpent, <br />by the German artist Emil Doepler (1855-1922)</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /></div></div><div style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgm9UEL9bOimBOflLhWUgozlxsSM4umw5vcUFLNaFl8iCcUyx0bOxTTZPtUztVX9hH6L6YgI9XAsdU8DOtTyftu73VNAMZ1vi0tQxEYpvPJnHtARFxRYRfoYSzn4TQO2Trrb-QHvDUNNx2orCkH1RDa5Iq_bPrI66bzhPeAVkztdt-CSI2rgAwAP3_C5w/s550/8b328a26214f8c003f844411f34acc16.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="550" data-original-width="346" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgm9UEL9bOimBOflLhWUgozlxsSM4umw5vcUFLNaFl8iCcUyx0bOxTTZPtUztVX9hH6L6YgI9XAsdU8DOtTyftu73VNAMZ1vi0tQxEYpvPJnHtARFxRYRfoYSzn4TQO2Trrb-QHvDUNNx2orCkH1RDa5Iq_bPrI66bzhPeAVkztdt-CSI2rgAwAP3_C5w/w251-h400/8b328a26214f8c003f844411f34acc16.jpg" width="251" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span>Serpent Runestone at </span>Yttergärde, Sweden</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhz1lOA1weDR84OrqEn6cBMY_DuYJsqLf5WnthJ5C_nLC6Tg7WmUKXeWktDtfOBWqGyaMRjCBlWw-BfodVs6ummYBiLU34H4DdAycO0qNT9bGFBcQD0WBa5kmegDpfa0vm3YIAe3RqNaqY6Uv9C9Sl0vrVeP7VB5_3wDq-jRJau0wnF_AczF1uWbDWthg/s1280/19f95ee5dc54b630ae9ef3ea22af42f3.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="552" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhz1lOA1weDR84OrqEn6cBMY_DuYJsqLf5WnthJ5C_nLC6Tg7WmUKXeWktDtfOBWqGyaMRjCBlWw-BfodVs6ummYBiLU34H4DdAycO0qNT9bGFBcQD0WBa5kmegDpfa0vm3YIAe3RqNaqY6Uv9C9Sl0vrVeP7VB5_3wDq-jRJau0wnF_AczF1uWbDWthg/w173-h400/19f95ee5dc54b630ae9ef3ea22af42f3.jpg" width="173" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: georgia;"><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><i>Deeper Meanings of Ouroboros and the World Serpent</i></b></span></div><div><br /></div><div> The Moundville rattlesnake disc is part of common Neolithic symbol: "Compositions on the shoulders of cult vases reveal pairs of snakes with opposed heads, making the world roll with the energy of their spiraling bodies."(22) The serpent Ouroboros biting its own tail is an expression for the continuity of life. Just as we create psychosis for ourselves if our kundalini is not properly channeled, so too we create an unconscious feedback loop for ourselves where we repeat the same traumas, neuroses, and going beyond the balances of Natural Law. Ouroboros also represents the liminal boundaries that depend on our choices which path we choose - one choice will have an effect in a continuity of outcomes, the principle of causality and <i>karma</i> (properly understood as the Natural Law of consequences). </div><div><br /></div><div> A serpent wrapped around a mountain occurs in the Puranas, in the <i>samudra manthana</i> "churning of the ocean" that created the elixir of immortality. This story expresses the animist awareness that mountains have their own consciousness, including "serpentine" energies, which is why serpent effigy mounds were constructed worldwide upon mountaintops and hills such as I found locally; and that all life itself is cyclical, so that the eternal soul "tastes" this immortality. Within the cosmology of Jainism, one of the lesser-known Dharmic traditions, the middle-world (<i>madhyaloka</i>) is encircled by the ocean <i>Kundalasamudra</i>, which contains many concentric continents (<i>dvipas</i>) including one called <i>Kundaladvipa</i>. All these traditions express the Maha Kundala that empowers and encircles our world.</div></div><div style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: georgia;"> Out of this same innate animism, Germanic traditions speak of the World Serpent whose name in the lore contains many clues: Old Norse <i>Jörmun </i>"great, exalted, huge", the same meanings as Old Saxon <i>Irmin </i>and Proto-Germanic *<i>Ermunaz </i>+ <i>Gandr</i> which means both "monster, beast" and "staff, magic, wand" (Proto-Germanic *<i>gandaz</i> or *<i>wandaz</i>). So the Serpent is imbued with the great power emanating from Earth. He was born of the giantess Angrboda, giants being allegories of <i>unknown</i> chaotic forces (<i>jotun</i> "devourer") so that the serpent's presence around Middle Earth forms a protective enclosure between this world, <i>jotunheim</i>, and other dimensions<i>.</i> Jormungandr could personify the equator "belt" that wraps around the world, or the atmosphere and gravity holding that force, just as Mother Earth maintains our space within the universe. The World Serpent's containment within the sea correlates to the subconscious, which comes out <i>jormun</i> in our lives if left unbalanced. </div><div style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: georgia;"> The fate of Jormungandr is intertwined with the Thunderer God Donar, who was "born" of the Earth and Wodan, who personifies higher awareness of and initiation to the Mysteries (both within and without), the spirit and transcendence to the Infinite. (As my roots are Vlaam and Schwäbisch, I personally use our continental names for the Deities and not the more well-known Norse). Not <i>only</i> the physical thunder, Donar represents the electro-magnetic field and life-force energy that holds everything in place even while pushing the boundaries of growth. Expansion must be contained within some boundaries lest the chaos consumes. Similarly, Algonquin traditions speak of <i>Wetiko</i> using the allegory of "cannibal" much like the serpent eating its own tail. Donar holds back the chaotic forces (<i>jotnar</i>), but never destroy them fully due to this necessity for unmanifested potential. He is the power of Mind (not the same as intellect) that reflects and processes the Soul. </div><div style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: georgia;"> Donar will defeat the Serpent but "die" afterwards since the subconscious always exists as a mirror no matter how much one makes Conscious. Nor does He end the eternal cycles even the Gods and Goddesses are subjected to (not to be misconceived as "limitation", as indeed Donar continuously expands the potential of growth). Indeed, Donar is the life-force energy of expansion who battles the World Serpent who represents the forces of limitation in the <i>Götterdämmerung</i> (Twilight of the Gods), not an eschatological event but archetypal process of Nature and <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jung/comments/knst0i/ragnarok_and_the_psyche/">the Psyche</a> that <i>always was and is, </i>so the event is as much past and present. What "dies" is the old self being shed while growing into the more expansive, empowered self. Within our animist understanding, Donar is a Deific power-force <i>and</i> an Archetype for growth of our own psyche, as represented by "fighting" the serpent/dragon: </div><div style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> "In myths the hero is the one who conquers the dragon, not the one who is devoured by it. And yet both have to deal with the same dragon. Also, he is no hero who never met the dragon, or who, if he once saw it, declared afterwards that he saw nothing. Equally, only one who has risked the fight with the dragon and is not overcome by it wins the hoard, the 'treasure hard to attain.' He alone has a genuine claim to self-confidence, for he has faced the dark ground of his self and thereby has gained himself. He has acquired the right to believe that he will be able to overcome all future threats by the same means."(23)</span></div><div style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPwGxOx_dP5TafBSRYkODBnQa90fXeqZENtf0J5e-n9H4UYgc5w4ZqJop9XPCQTI4uLdtWdfjjTlt4an6xmV1_1uE2I0eoluasGCsTjlJZ3bEBt_4IcSMPLJAcqPgpYWk9MaHwqNWcrNA6MRLJII1UgymlSu4gDKEV-0W29ZSA4tiJIN47IAxaJeOb-w/s400/vidaalien55_02.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="380" data-original-width="400" height="304" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPwGxOx_dP5TafBSRYkODBnQa90fXeqZENtf0J5e-n9H4UYgc5w4ZqJop9XPCQTI4uLdtWdfjjTlt4an6xmV1_1uE2I0eoluasGCsTjlJZ3bEBt_4IcSMPLJAcqPgpYWk9MaHwqNWcrNA6MRLJII1UgymlSu4gDKEV-0W29ZSA4tiJIN47IAxaJeOb-w/s320/vidaalien55_02.jpg" width="320" /></a><br /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"The Sanctum of the Winged Serpent" image from<br />an Orphic ceremonial bowl, 200-300 CE. Sixteen<br />initiates - equal number of male and female - circling<br />around a serpent, with their feet grounded to the Earth.<br /></span></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="font-family: georgia;"><span><br /></span><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><b><i><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></i></b></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><b><i><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></i></b></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><b><i><span style="font-family: georgia;">Gnosis and Serpentine Energies of the Aeons</span></i></b></div></div><div style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">Readers will now be aware that upon my ethnic-rooted Paganism I've been infusing esoteric wisdom of a specific school of Gnosis rooted in its <i>true</i> Pagan foundations (I reject <b>all</b> other Gnostic schools as world-denying misdirection back into Abrahamism). Gnosis is <i>not</i> a religion but the esoteric undercurrent of all tribal/folk faiths(24), presenting in the most coherent mythos <i>the</i> primal narrative of a Goddess morphing into the living, conscious Earth. Her name in Gnostic cosmology is Sophia ("Wisdom"), expressing the wisdom and mystery imbued through Nature. She is one of a group of Deities called Aeons, "a cosmically pervasive process, aware, animated and animating. Aeons manifest sensory worlds by dreaming, rather than by the artisan like act of creation attributed to the biblical father god."(25) </span></div><div style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"> The Aeons are conceived in similar ways as other Polytheistic classes of Deities (such as the Ansuz/Aesir, Asuras, etc.). The visionary teacher John Lamb Lash has defined the Aeons as neither anthropomorphic nor angelic, but as great torrents of serpentine luminosity, currents of Divine energies and frequencies that are sentient and conscious in their own right. He noted how scientists detected a "plume" of energy emanating from the Galactic Center, considered in to be realm of the Aeons, called the Pleroma in Gnostic cosmology. Could this be the source of Plumed Serpent symbology so widespread in the ancient Americas? Especially since their own descriptions of the Plumed Serpent are Divine energies from the Skies and emanation from within Earth - just as Mother Earth remains an Aeon while embodied in the Natural world. Her powers both radiate from the Pleroma and are grounded in Nature, so are accessible and transcendent to anyone seeking to discover themselves. </span></div><div style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span> </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">Kundalini involves what Gnosis describes as the Organic Light, an electrical surge of energy channeling up the spine. Its connected to the Pleroma while grounded on Earth and expressed through the body (the dichotomy between spirit and matter being a false one that has resulted in imbalance and mind-control plaguing our world). This expresses itself in various ways (as I cited in several articles here throughout 2022) - the conflating of power with authority; mental separation of Divinity from the Natural world; and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVi093GMMKI">inversion of the Gender principle</a>, with Feminine and Masculine properly being about the respective energies, behavior, and instincts creating a complementary Balance. The latter is spiraled into the Gnostic theme of the "gender rift" that arose after Sophia fell and emerged the Anthropos (human beings), discussed in the Nag Hammadi text called "The Hypostasis of the Archons" or "The Reality of the Rulers".</span></span></div><div style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"> In his <a href="https://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/vida_alien/alien_archons23.htm">commentary</a> on this text, John Lamb Lash mentioned how beings known as Archons, most known for their delusion in <i>falsely claiming</i> to be "creators" of the world and humanity, attempted to make woman inferior to man but failed as she becomes "the instructor" and then assumed a "serpentine" form (with an Aramaic pun between "snake" and "instructor"): "The 'female instructing principle' is Kundalini, the Serpent Power. This power is an internal faculty of blissful innate knowing, or cognitive ecstasy. The rulers acted from jealousy when they forbade access to the tree of knowledge, precisely because the fruit of the tree releases the Serpent Power. The myth (90.10) suggests that originally this power belonged to snakes, or was carried by reptiles, but was taken from them and transferred to humanity." </span></span></div><div style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyV6NYJKn9J_uVPpWBP_Xbi0v3xLY9Q4ZOU4QokJ9ST8CAdhAD0EZ11ghZRepflZuQGdlJkhRGV9nMIOXYqxPi8__hrLGvbPJZOLKs7gC0StQEOjUrTE2yARf72CmivRJEM9vdUIzYFMRnuCkfvqDCj5PAbw3Vc_if6djwDk-IZZhaYM7_G499_tSxJg/s456/3AWDlCWJ5IRLYbqy0yBagFho9Jw.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="456" data-original-width="342" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyV6NYJKn9J_uVPpWBP_Xbi0v3xLY9Q4ZOU4QokJ9ST8CAdhAD0EZ11ghZRepflZuQGdlJkhRGV9nMIOXYqxPi8__hrLGvbPJZOLKs7gC0StQEOjUrTE2yARf72CmivRJEM9vdUIzYFMRnuCkfvqDCj5PAbw3Vc_if6djwDk-IZZhaYM7_G499_tSxJg/s320/3AWDlCWJ5IRLYbqy0yBagFho9Jw.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></span></div><div><div style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: georgia;"> Expressing the awareness that the gender principle is <i>both</i> a biological vessel and a spiritual energy, the text describes the biologically-bound "'carnal woman,' contrasted to the spiritual or 'pneumatic' woman who is instructor, the 'Eve' in this Gnostic Myth. The Archons 'cursed the woman' (91.30), including the snake - not realizing their own drakontic or 'reptilian' form: The 'curse upon the snake' is their response to the serpent instructor, Kundalini, by which humans can resist and repel alien intrusion, and heal the traumas caused by Archontic aggression. Kundalini is snake medicine." Much can be said about the "aliens/reptilians" here (with so much disinformation out there), but the reference is simply to <i>ultraterrestrial</i> beings described under various names by <i>every</i> ancient tribal culture. </div><div style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: georgia;"> This natural serpent power has been disconnected in common parlance (scams synonymous with "snake oil", etc.) but most insidious is the Abrahamic myth of Eden that has contributed to the imbalance. This includes the disenchantment of Earth with Her <i>Kundala</i>, woven into their theme of humanity "falling" from this far-off "paradise" that is none other than the realm of the Archons and their chief, the Demiurge (who later became the "god" of the Abrahamic scriptures). "Upon leaving the [biologically bound] woman, the Spiritual Woman enters the serpent and instructs the man and woman to eat from the tree of recognizing good and evil, against the Rulers' command. This act of spiritual instruction is simultaneously an act of insubordination. Upon questioning Adam, the Rulers learn from him that woman gave to him from the tree and they curse her."(26)<span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span>Much can be said about this passage. </div><div style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"> First, the "creation" myth involving "Adam and Eve" is an inversion of the worldwide Myth of emanation or emergence of human beings from the panspermia of the cosmos and elements from Earth. This is the esoteric wisdom contained in all Indigenous myths; and the awareness there is an Earth Mother and Sky Father whose own "sacred marriage" nurtures our species. All the Deities of various pantheons express and manifest Feminine and Masculine energies. The Fourth-century "heresy-hunter" Epiphanius referred to the Orphite "snake-worshipper" initiates, who "venerate the </span>Serpent because God has made it the cause of Gnosis for mankind. Ialdabaoth [Gnostic name for the false creator god Jehovah] did not wish humankind to have any recollection of the Generators (Aeons), the Cosmic Mothers and Cosmic Fathers on high. It was the serpent who, by tempting them, brought Gnosis to our parents; who taught the first people of our kind the complete knowledge of the Mysteries from on high."(27)</div></div><div style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> Second, this explains the earliest origin of the strange pathology against trees that reared its ugly head, from the Hebrew tribal god jealously commanding his zealots to destroy the trees of Asherah (while ordering <a href="https://sjobst.blogspot.com/2022/08/animism-and-lessons-of-earths-power-2.html">idols to be consecrated to him</a>); to cutting down the sacred trees and groves of indigenous Europe (such as Donar's Oak and Irminsul, the latter linked to jormun, or those of the Celtic Druids), inspired by the biblical command against "the heathens/ethnos" (Jeremiah 10:2-4); to mass unbalanced deforestation under corporatism and communism (two ideological offshoots of salvationism). Finally, is the inversion of this Serpent from a sentient "instructor" for human growth (seen as a spirit guide) into a malevolent force that "tempted" human beings away from submission and compliance to the Demiurge. Thus was constructed his Shadow called "satan/shaitan" to serve as a convenient scapegoat, inverting the Greek mythology about Lucifer as I've documented <a href="https://seanjobst.substack.com/p/illuminating-the-lightbringer-the">elsewhere</a>.(28) The vibrant Maha Kundala of this sentient, conscious Earth is likewise demonized.</span></div><div style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: georgia;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuBE7wFXR5aAuxZ6MiJqRPnMxDdOIc2Ld8iyHtvMeS2nO2GlNzm6bOnOJPBectXtOKrqyCcPPpvstHjUNVtMzQTfrqYNBTISR60px0wflVd3fDgFHa0MRd5gOUVvhisqpcahUDYoJ-8Gu7Qp1qrPJZZ0GqxdrsOEOfm5vwLETbvkw2qizFw1WqZhAt4A/s960/55a557d5703bf05942f83eb8e885cd55.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="745" data-original-width="960" height="310" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuBE7wFXR5aAuxZ6MiJqRPnMxDdOIc2Ld8iyHtvMeS2nO2GlNzm6bOnOJPBectXtOKrqyCcPPpvstHjUNVtMzQTfrqYNBTISR60px0wflVd3fDgFHa0MRd5gOUVvhisqpcahUDYoJ-8Gu7Qp1qrPJZZ0GqxdrsOEOfm5vwLETbvkw2qizFw1WqZhAt4A/w400-h310/55a557d5703bf05942f83eb8e885cd55.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"The Sacred Grove of the Druids" painting from the <br />Opera Norma, by Vincenzo Bellini (1801-1835)</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1p6yT8-iAmTxF5yBGMXxyA21Xz0ozGM6iAvaB0Y7TrY85Yv10LhapZpamp8F3fNcDjQ1aR9m2uvHWSSltH2C3tmSgcVZCnDD73Cbdy1WP5TYE_-6qsfYXKJ7wLhHLTSDPc88QAwVisnkrxTB0hq4-HpWrq9LVQq0Wxduua93JeX_ETPXBoQs-95-rpA/s500/avatars-000376944935-hz21hb-t500x500.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="500" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1p6yT8-iAmTxF5yBGMXxyA21Xz0ozGM6iAvaB0Y7TrY85Yv10LhapZpamp8F3fNcDjQ1aR9m2uvHWSSltH2C3tmSgcVZCnDD73Cbdy1WP5TYE_-6qsfYXKJ7wLhHLTSDPc88QAwVisnkrxTB0hq4-HpWrq9LVQq0Wxduua93JeX_ETPXBoQs-95-rpA/w400-h400/avatars-000376944935-hz21hb-t500x500.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></div><div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><i>Conclusion</i></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> I increasingly find peace and solace in places such as this mound and the surrounding forests but also feel their spirit and energy, to be <i>experienced</i> rather than conceptualized. At the same time I present here an comprehensive study of this mysterious worldwide symbolism of the Serpent - its esoteric meanings and implications, grounded as it is in the Animism that was and is innate. The Ancients knew of <i>natural</i> technology (modern technologies are often a simulation of processes already in Nature) within the Earth, charging the initiates who went to mountaintops or to sit upon or around mounds. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> These are liminal places between Earth and Sky, represented often by a serpent awakening into its higher incarnation as a Feathered Serpent to fly towards the Sun ("Soul"), much like Kundalini arising up through our bodies. I felt the melancholy of these mounds on Morton Hill. I maintained a healthy respect for them since these specifically are not part of my heritage, yet still sensed their energy such as exists throughout the land but also left by the past generations who constructed them and "charged" them in rituals. So it is that I meditate upon the mounds and present this study of the Serpent.</span></div></div></span></div></div><div><div><p><i style="font-family: georgia;"><b>Footnotes and Sources:</b></i></p></div><div><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">(1) Harry Holstein, "<a href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/264309293_A_Preliminary_Archaeological_Investigation_of_the_Morton_Hill_Stone_Structure_Complex_1CA671_Calhoun_County_Alabama">A Preliminary archaeological investigation of the Morton Hill Stone Structure Complex, 1CA671, Calhoun County, Alabama</a>," Jacksonville State University, Archaeological Resource Library, Research Series #5, March 2010, p. 1. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">(2) Gregory L. Little, <i>Native American Mounds in Alabama: An Illustrated Guide to Public Sites</i>, Memphis: Archetype Books, 2017, p. 31.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">(3) Self-discoveries I expressed in articles about <a href="https://swabian-pride.blogspot.com/2018/10/cairns-megalithic-mounds-and-mithraeums.html">mounds in Swabia</a>, their connection to the <a href="https://sjobst.blogspot.com/2020/12/the-wild-hunt-symbolisms-meanings-and_31.html">Goddess Holle</a>, and the importance of mounds within <a href="https://sjobst.blogspot.com/2022/03/the-wild-hunt-symbolisms-meanings-and.html">Celtic and Iberian</a> folk-traditions. The linguistic, folkloric, mythological, academic, and experiential evidence demonstrates the connection of mounds and stone circles to ancestors, reincarnation, and celestial events.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">(4) Little, <i>op. cit.</i>, p. 32.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">(5) This was also common across the Atlantic, with processions carrying stones to European mounds in remembrance of ancestors. As noted by Portuguese archaeologist and researcher Arith Härger, in ancient Iberian processions people would remove a stone from <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtK5eXepibw">mountaintop grave mounds</a>, journey back to where their procession began, and then return to the mound in a symbolic journey to the Underworld and back into reincarnation. They also commemorated ancestors with <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUKow-bkSdg">stylized stones</a> honoring a Solar Mother Goddess. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">(6) George Stiggins, </span><i style="font-family: georgia;">Creek Indian History: A Historical Narrative of the Genealogy, Traditions and Downfall of the Ispocoga Or Creek Indian Tribe of Indians by One of the Tribe</i><span style="font-family: georgia;">, Birmingham: Birmingham Public Library Press, 1989, pp. 139, 141.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">(7) Louis Le Clerc Milfort, <i>Mémoires, ou coup-d'oeil rapide sur mes voyages en Louisiane, et mon séjour dans la nation Creeke</i>, trans. and ed. Ben C. McCary, Savannah: The Beehive Press, 1972, p. 236; John R. Swanton, <i>Early History of the Creek Indians and Their Neighbors</i>, Washington, D.C.: Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin, no. 73, 1922, p. 192; and Albert James Pickett, <i>History of Alabama and Incidentally of Georgia and Mississippi, from the Earliest Period</i>, Birmingham: Webb Book Co., 1900, p. 78.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">(8) A parallel shared with Celtic traditions, with Finisterre in Iberia and the "Western Sea" in Gaelic lore as western liminal places between land and the Otherworld. Mounds and bodies of water were generally viewed as portals into the Otherworld.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">(9) Gregory Little, <i>Path of Souls: The Native American Death Journey</i>, Memphis: Archetype Books, 2014.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">(10) In native European spirituality, the Moon "mind" reflects the light of the Sun "soul". It was understood our soul is so transcendent we work with it through our mind which reflects it. Much evil has resulted from the confusion of mind with intellect, and assumptions that <i>every</i> thought comes from us rather than implanted from elsewhere or conditioned by others. Although spiritual beings in their own right given our Animistic worldview, the "dwarves" and "elves" were also understood as allegories of different parts of our psyche. These were not the later caricatures they were made into which distorted the actual ways our Ancestors viewed our traditions.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">(11) This is only a contradiction to those still holding on to Abrahamic dualistic baggage they seek to transpose upon Paganism. Our Ancestors knew that something could be an Archetype with multiple layers of meaning and be a "literal" Being at the same time. </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">All tribal and folk faiths are Animistic - they knew that all things have Spirit and Consciousness. This obviously includes those spiritual energies and realities that can also be related to as Archetypes.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">(12) </span>Sergio Magaña, <i>Caves of Power: Ancient Energy Techniques for Healing, Rejuvenation and Manifestation</i>, Carlsbad, CA: Hay House, 2016, pp. 24, 186-187.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">(13) Linda Schele and David Freidel, <i>A Forest of Kings: The Untold Story of the Ancient Maya</i>, New York: William Morrow, 1990, pp. 68, 395.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">(14) Gregory L. Little, John Van Auken, and Lora Little, <i>Ancient South America: Recent Evidence Supporting Edgar Cayce's Story of Atlantis and Mu</i>, Memphis: Eagle Wing Books, 2002, p. 96, citing Edgar Cayce Reading 1298-1.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">(15) Swami Sivananda, </span><i style="font-family: georgia;">Kundalini Yoga</i><span style="font-family: georgia;">, Tehri-Garhwal, Uttar Pradesh: Divine Life Society, 1994, p. 34.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">(16) This description of Kundalini I summarize from the work of Michael William Denney (ThunderWizard), whose teachings I recommend especially on Energy Work and reclaiming an indigenous Germanic shaman tradition.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">(17) John Lamb Lash, <i>Not In His Image: Gnostic Vision, Sacred Ecology, and the Future of Belief</i>, 15th Anniversary Edition, White River Junction, VT: Chelsea Green Publishing, 2021, p. 396.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">(18) Swami Satyananta Saraswati, <i>Kundalini Tantra</i>, Yoga Publications Trust, 2002.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">(19) For the observations and quotes in this paragraph, I am indebted to an article by John Lamb Lash, "Kundalini and the Alien Force: Gnostic and Tantric Practices of Sacred Sexuality," <a href="http://metahistory.eu5.org/metahistory/KundaliniForce.php.htm">Metahistory.org</a>.</span></p><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">(20) Michael Allen Williams, <i>Rethinking "Gnosticism": An Argument for Dismantling a Dubious Category</i>, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1996, p. 117.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">(21) John Woodroffe,</span><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span><i style="font-family: georgia;">Shiva and Shakti</i><span style="font-family: georgia;">, 1918, p. 88.</span></div><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">(22) Marija Gimbutas, <i>The Goddesses and Gods of Old Europe, 7000 to 3500 BC: Myths, Legends and Cult Images</i>, London: Thames and Hudson, 1974.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">(23) Carl Jung, <i>Collected Works Vol. 14: Mysterium Coniunctionis</i>, New York: Bollingen Foundation, 1963.</span></p><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">(24) Although using the names and archetypes of Khemet and Hellas, Gnosticism was first born of the esoteric class of northern Iranian tribes called Magians - thus founded within the common Indo-European mythology. After the rise of Zoroastrian duality (a degeneration of Iranian faith later inspiring Abrahamism), Gnosis took root in the Levant, Anatolia, Egypt, and Greek world, but the geographical network of <i>Telestai</i> ("those who are aimed") - called Gnostics by their detractors - also included the native seers, priests, and magicians of ancient Europe. The central aim is Gnosis, the eternal and universal command to "Know Thyself". </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">(25) </span><i style="font-family: georgia;">Not In His Image</i><span style="font-family: georgia;">, p. 387.</span></div></div></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">(26) Anne McGuire, "Virginity and Subversion: Norea Against the Powers in The Hypostasis of the Archons," in <i>Images of the Feminine in Gnosticism</i>, ed. Karen L. King, Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1988, pp. 239-258.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">(27) Jean Doresse, <i>The Secret Books of the Egyptian Gnostics: An Introduction to the Gnostic Coptic Manuscripts Discovered at Chenoboskion</i>, Rochester, VT: Inner Traditions, 1986.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">(28) Sean Jobst, "Illuminating the Lightbringer: Rudolf Steiner and the True Nature of Lucifer," in <i>Emissary of the Soul: The Mystical Life & Thought of Rudolf Steiner</i>, ed. Troy Southgate, Black Front Press, 2022, pp. 54-80.</span></div>Sean Jobsthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17351165299354431339noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-907444223262019258.post-39097815761663977542022-12-21T14:50:00.000-06:002022-12-21T14:50:18.912-06:00Animism and Lessons of Earth's Power - 4. Emergence, Emanation, True Meaning of Matrix, and Debunking the Simulation Inversion<p><span style="font-family: georgia;">by Sean Jobst</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">21 December 2022</span></p><p><br /></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiawqufpMKTggqjYbIO5h66fTsA6H6jxl7e4LiiJHDxMUkPwyFTSc6SLb_15gLmenwnUHWl2yCOX7Xs71lEImgYj2YsWXmU31w-sfVlXh9hqiexQqZfvGt81-CwIkPj_nYP1nWqkl-E7l8YOkdBrtpxS6qo1gLPoBla1oIATSJKQnj2ibA_ygoju8inQA/s640/Kinuko%20Y%20Craf%205%20Stars%20%5Bphistars.com%5D%20hd%20wallpaper%20art%20paintings%20fantasy%20old%20magic.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="462" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiawqufpMKTggqjYbIO5h66fTsA6H6jxl7e4LiiJHDxMUkPwyFTSc6SLb_15gLmenwnUHWl2yCOX7Xs71lEImgYj2YsWXmU31w-sfVlXh9hqiexQqZfvGt81-CwIkPj_nYP1nWqkl-E7l8YOkdBrtpxS6qo1gLPoBla1oIATSJKQnj2ibA_ygoju8inQA/w462-h640/Kinuko%20Y%20Craf%205%20Stars%20%5Bphistars.com%5D%20hd%20wallpaper%20art%20paintings%20fantasy%20old%20magic.jpg" width="462" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">A beautiful painting by the Japanese-American artist Kinuko Craft, <br />showing a magician working with Earth Magic. To me it expresses <br />powers that come to the individual who lives in balance with Nature</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> We are individuals with powers rooted in our Source - Earth, and whose unlimited potential connects to celestial bodies. This link of Earth-Cosmos is expressed throughout the wisdom of various </span><a href="https://sjobst.blogspot.com/2022/10/animism-and-lessons-of-earths-power-3.html" style="font-family: georgia;">Indigenous cosmologies</a><span style="font-family: georgia;">. My core is my own ethnic traditions drawn back to the tribal level (Suebi/Alemanni, Celtiberian, Belgae) as its essential to harmonize all parts of ourselves and honor all our Ancestors. Building upon this foundation, I branch out to learn from other closely-related traditions; and then from broader tribal peoples who have kept their unbroken chain of </span><a href="https://sjobst.blogspot.com/2022/08/animism-and-lessons-of-earths-power-2.html" style="font-family: georgia;">Indigeny</a><span style="font-family: georgia;"> up to now.(1) </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">I encourage everyone to reclaim their <i>indigeny</i> no matter their bloodlines, including a mutual respect with other cultures since we all share the common bond of Animism. Its the </span><i style="font-family: georgia;">Gnosis</i><span style="font-family: georgia;"> of Know Yourself, including through others, and restoring the over-rationalistic use of the mind back to <i>philosophia</i> - </span><i style="font-family: georgia;">Love</i><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i> of Wisdom</i>.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> Animism links us all together as children of Mother Earth, made from the same metals, liquids and minerals as the Earth and Stars; and our purpose and destiny is irrevocably tied to our planet and cosmos. We are souls whose physical bodies were shaped from various ethnospheres and carried through ancestral vessels, allowing us an <i>experience</i> that can only be perceived through material form. B</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">eing rooted in Animism means <a href="https://sjobst.blogspot.com/2022/04/on-freedom-responsibility-true.html">knowing</a> our power and responsibility; that every infringement upon freedom and sovereignty by the Globalist archons with their Agenda 2030, Transhumanism, and "Great Reset" is founded upon their biophobia and enabled through the <a href="https://sjobst.blogspot.com/2021/12/30-on-mind-viruses-and-lies-of-humanity.html">mind-virus</a> of salvationism to ensure most are binded to them no matter what specific iteration infects the individual or collective. We should remind ourselves of the empowering sense of Mystery imbuing this beautiful planet and our lives: "</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">The Mystery is not so much what we perceive, but what makes us perceive."(2)</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> We are exceptional (not "superior") beings within this perpetual cycle of life, interconnected with all living beings, exactly because we have the Divine capacity for latitude - to grow and correct our errors, to create and overcome no matter the odds. </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">Our perspective here should be </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">Biocentricism</span><span style="font-family: georgia;"> - knowing our place as living cells within a sentient planet unlike any others: The body of a planetary Mother Goddess who morphed into the Earth and in whose </span><i style="font-family: georgia;">Dream</i><span style="font-family: georgia;"> we live as active participants - its no "coincidence" Australian Aboriginals and other tribal peoples spoke about Dreamtime. As noted by John Lamb Lash: "The Earth and all the components of the sensory world are aspects of this Divine Being who is accessible to us and present to us immediately."(3) No matter where in the world, all tribes and cultures <i>knew</i> Earth as a Mother Goddess - giving Her their own names, whose various qualities included fertility of land and Nature cycles, and bringing the Dawn, as Her presence was always felt.(4)</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> Through the medium of science "fiction", Philip K. Dick </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">was making sense of living on an exceptional planet such as when he quipped: "If you find this world bad, you should see some of the others."(5) Observing Earth from his 1971 Lunar expedition, astronaut Edgar Mitchell had a mystical experience inspiring awe within him that Earth is part of a sentient, integrated system with other bodies like the Sun and Moon. He conceived his experience as <i>Savitarka Samadhi</i>: <i>Samadhi</i> is oneness with the object of meditation, while <i>Savitarka</i> ("deliberative") concentrates the mind on an object perceptible to our senses.(6) </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">He founded the Institute for Noetic Sciences in 1973 with the mission: </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">"To broaden </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">the knowledge of the nature and potentials of mind and consciousness and to apply that knowledge to the enhancement of human well-being and the quality of life on the planet." Through that he drew upon the Greek term </span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i>noetikos</i> "inner, intuitive knowing", which is our exceptional capacity to learn, grow, and correct our errors. As he recounted the moment of his <i>noetikos</i> or Gnosis:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> "</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">I had completed my major task for going to the moon and was on my way home and was observing the heavens and the earth from this distance, observing the passing of the heavens. As we were rotated, I saw the earth, the sun, the moon, and a 360 degree panorama of the heavens. The magnificence of all of this was this trigger in my visioning. In the ancient Sanskrit, it's called Samadhi. It means that you see things with your senses the way they are - you experience them viscerally and internally as a unity and a oneness accompanied by ecstasy. All matter in our universe is created in star systems, and so the matter in my body, the matter in the spacecraft, the matter in my partners' bodies, was the product of stars. We are stardust, and we're all one in that sense. I realized that the story of ourselves as told by science - our cosmology, our religion - was incomplete and likely flawed. I recognized that the Newtonian idea of separate, independent, discreet things in the universe wasn't a fully accurate description. What was needed was a new story of who we are and what we are capable of becoming."(7) </span></p><p><br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_jDR_DrN8xgxnv6T1tJ2z9PxZa09GXE5wR5jXq6oq7kK-rEpXMkHDlLG-d3OMiR3RlKiFTLDW43eurGk_Sdoh1Le-c5XdcAV176WOphsmd3VJG1sL21FxwEoMk0ac2-mTXbJ3THzm22C4YczdkoGf3Xncw6M5JYANT9PW5ob4jC2zi7F7jXbM5yekyw/s474/OIP.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="266" data-original-width="474" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_jDR_DrN8xgxnv6T1tJ2z9PxZa09GXE5wR5jXq6oq7kK-rEpXMkHDlLG-d3OMiR3RlKiFTLDW43eurGk_Sdoh1Le-c5XdcAV176WOphsmd3VJG1sL21FxwEoMk0ac2-mTXbJ3THzm22C4YczdkoGf3Xncw6M5JYANT9PW5ob4jC2zi7F7jXbM5yekyw/w400-h225/OIP.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibhB_jWndaoLgDYw4smMdGdawa-UmA3PLqzSQpRb0L8AZ7LZ_OFMtFhrS5lA05LSJgHnoVzB8wMcmEOlELp1ib5HBPLBEys11_2tWDuGMafrAQD1BpcbJF9KpdgeP-h0xu7l2hX1LgnLM47zc4Jz79SsFrXz5m1NKJUKtzjtUI1HJ5RBn6hnLwmGIqIw/s474/OIP%20(1).jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="266" data-original-width="474" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibhB_jWndaoLgDYw4smMdGdawa-UmA3PLqzSQpRb0L8AZ7LZ_OFMtFhrS5lA05LSJgHnoVzB8wMcmEOlELp1ib5HBPLBEys11_2tWDuGMafrAQD1BpcbJF9KpdgeP-h0xu7l2hX1LgnLM47zc4Jz79SsFrXz5m1NKJUKtzjtUI1HJ5RBn6hnLwmGIqIw/w400-h225/OIP%20(1).jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The notion of this world as a "simulation" is nothing but an<br />Archontic inversion of the reality which is that we live on<br />and within a sentient Earth imbued with Spirit/Consciousness<br />in all things to which we are connected. It also obscures the<br />true meaning of Matrix - long overdue we decode the reality....</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><div><br /></div></span><p></p><p><b style="font-family: georgia;"><i>Are We Really Living in a "Matrix" or "Simulation"?</i></b></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> That "new story" of both our origin (Being) and our potential (Becoming), is nothing less than </span><i style="font-family: georgia;">the oldest</i><span style="font-family: georgia;">, most primal story engrained within the folklore and mythology of every tribe and upon every continent. Its the one surviving in a coherent form via the Gnostic Mystery Schools, who represented the esoteric protectors of native wisdom around the Mediterranean and in Europe before the Abrahamic onslaught. That is the Wisdom Goddess Sophia's plunge from the Pleroma (Galactic Core), literally morphing into Earth. </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">That even the most isolated tribes affirmed Earth as a Mother Goddess (giving her cultural-specific names), was evocation of this mythic event within ancestral memory. So too are all the mythologies about the world forming out of a clash between elements of fire and ice or water, giving life to what was before an Infinite Void, and shaped from the body of a spiritual being (for there is no true distinction between spirit and matter). </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"> Many have confused the insanity of the world around us for the Earth enveloping and sustaining us, even claiming we live in a "matrix" or "prison planet". They fail to recognize its only by the compliance and energies harvested by the Psychopathic Control Grid, the ceding of powers for "authority", that such a state exists. Their errors only enable what they claim to oppose, allowing the Transhumanists' simulated "metaverse" to pose as the "reality". Such inversion </span>makes them project their own reality - they manifest a prison planet for themselves by <i>thinking</i> they live in one. This material world is the living body and womb of the Earth, imbued with consciousness at all levels, and we can only know the simulation of psychopathic "authorities" by <i>the reality</i> of this world. Simple logic dictates a simulation can only replicate something original, but never be the real thing itself. The true meaning of matrix used in this context is nothing but an inversion:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> "Matrix (n.) late 14c., <i>matris</i>, <i>matrice</i>, 'uterus, womb,' from Old French <i>matrice</i> 'womb, uterus' and directly from Latin <i>matrix</i> (genitive <i>matricis</i>) 'pregnant animal,' in Late Latin 'womb,' also 'source, origin,' from <i>mater</i> (genitive <i>matris</i>) 'mother'. The many figurative and technical senses are from the notion of 'that which encloses or gives origin to' something."(8)</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> This Latin meaning of Matrix survives today in Spanish and Portuguese Matriz, with triple meanings of womb, matrix, and source. In no way do these words conjure up anything "artificial" about the material world. The Romans spoke of Magna Mater, a "Great Mother" they assimilated from Cybele, a mother goddess of the indigenous peoples of Anatolia whose traces have been found at Neolithic statues that share similar features with the Paleolithic <a href="https://swabian-pride.blogspot.com/2020/02/roots-of-proto-celticgermanic-mythos.html">mother goddess statues</a> that have been found across Europe (and collectively called "Venus"), including a womb, curvaceous body, and large breasts. She personifies the feminine energy of fertility, and the literal body (womb) of the Earth with all her curves (mountains, hills) and entrance (caves) into the Underworld through which the cycles of life flow.(9) </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> Many cosmologies speak about creation out of a previous state of "nothingness". The Mayans recounted how Sky and Earth arose out of an Infinite Void, "the matrix from which every Universe arose."(10) This corresponds closely to the Norse/Germanic <i>Ginnungagap</i> ("gaping, abyss, yawning void", from Old High German <i>ginunga</i> "opening, cleft, rictus"), a realm of unmanifested potential through which two oppositional realms formed our own world: "In the myths of these forest people, in particular the Germanic and Celtic tribes, the world was created out of the interplay between fire and water or, for the northern Germanic people, between fire and ice. These oppositional forces make up the totality of the world. Thereby, water symbolizes the beginning and fire the end: we are born from the watery uterus, and the funeral pyre releases us again from earthly existence."(11) The scientists are only now catching up with this ancient wisdom.(12) All points to the formation of our Earth as a cosmic womb. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7k6qdkSZRjo2jsTJjCHNEOf0JEitMu2zPN9TUADU8NBevHcjV3dlmZieuqxeJ8BONgnq_RQjWHinfcvJL1Kc85NY2KkUhzSeTne3f2t2s3jIdRD74u04C3AIbeRkJcwjj-_m18FrqQIuNL7kvWv-ukG6vHIAdbnyvT5-E9Hu7JtUdAFw4diCfbGmOfw/s506/14442.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="506" data-original-width="500" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7k6qdkSZRjo2jsTJjCHNEOf0JEitMu2zPN9TUADU8NBevHcjV3dlmZieuqxeJ8BONgnq_RQjWHinfcvJL1Kc85NY2KkUhzSeTne3f2t2s3jIdRD74u04C3AIbeRkJcwjj-_m18FrqQIuNL7kvWv-ukG6vHIAdbnyvT5-E9Hu7JtUdAFw4diCfbGmOfw/w395-h400/14442.jpg" width="395" /></a></b></span></div><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><br /></b></span></b></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><i>Nature, the Divine Source of our Powers and Perceptions</i><br /></b></span><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i style="font-weight: bold;"> </i>In the above image, drawn from Hellenic mythology and expressing deeply esoteric allegory, the Wisdom Goddess known as Athena, Sophia, or Demeter, pulls up from Gaia's womb the Divine Child Iacchos who is "nothing other than you born from the womb of nature, the magical child of the Wisdom Goddess. You are Iacchos and the revelation of the true identity of the human species was the central teaching of the ancient Mysteries." On the right is Kekrops, "a serpent man that is the image of a telestic or Gnostic initiate. And they were called serpents because they found the source of their power and knowledge in the Great Serpent power of the Earth itself which is called in Sanskrit Maha Kundala." Kekrops holds a sheaf of wheat in one hand, representing symbolic power coming to you from the Earth, and his right hand holds a finger to his lips, a gesture of initiation into the Mysteries (which comes from the Greek verb "to murmur, talk softly") which creates such ecstasy at being in the Earth's radiant presence that to sustain the experience one should not exclaim or speak of it loudly.(13)</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> We live not in a "simulation" but within an altered state, because the Source - Earth - gives to us powers constantly and perpetually in such a way it appears to be produced by us internally. There are two vectors that come into us and project upon the totality of our sense of what is real, two forces that beam into us at all times. One comes from the living intelligence of the Earth, which directs us to the supernatural reality of life. The direct experience of our bodies and their natural functions, our pleasure functions, our abilities to feel pain or use the senses, "all belongs to the Natural Matrix of the Aeonic Mother, and from the Aeonic Mother, from the planet - not somewhere beyond the planet." The second vector comes from what Castaneda called "the extraneous forces," constantly trying to misdirect us towards a simulation and deviate us from our natural perception. This is nothing but a virtual world that has affected a mass number of people under a mass psychosis with the support of an inverted technocracy obsessed with separating people from the reality of life upon this planet.(14) </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> A cosmic projection was taught by ancient Vedic teachers as </span><i style="font-family: georgia;">Parinama</i><span style="font-family: georgia;">, a Sanskrit term meaning "change" or "transformation". </span><i style="font-family: georgia;">Parinama</i><span style="font-family: georgia;"> places us within the material world, where we are actively involved in this projection. There is constant change within </span><i style="font-family: georgia;">Prakriti</i><span style="font-family: georgia;"> "matter" due to cycles of Creation, Preservation, and Destruction throughout the universe. These cycles are expressed by Shiva, whose spiritual powers have been </span><a href="https://sjobst.blogspot.com/2022/05/walpurgisnacht-2022-2-general-overview.html" style="font-family: georgia;">inverted</a><span style="font-family: georgia;"> by dark occultists and the ignorant alike. Interactions with his feminine union Parvati expresses much wisdom about Love, the union of Shiva and Shakti balancing all the cosmos. On one occasion, she playfully put her two hands over Shiva's eyes and the entire universe became dark.(15) It repeated itself multiple times, with light returning to the universe when Shiva opened his third eye - this is Consciousness. As noted by Thomas Sheridan, one allegory is that we are living in <i>Maya</i> "illusion" in the sense that the universe "dissolves" before our eyes into "nothingness". He relates this to the double-slit experiment whereby when you look into something, it turns into matter - when you look away, it turns back into energy: "You're literally creating the universe in front of you by how you observe it."(16)</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span style="font-family: georgia;"> <i>Maya</i> comes from the Sanskrit root <i>ma</i> "to measure", symbolic of a world "measured" in different dimensions according to the observer's level of perception.(17) <i>Maya</i> is the illusion to only see the world as what it appears without recognizing the deeper unity behind multiplicity. Those who claim <i>maya</i> refers to "duality" between the material world and spirit, cite the first part of a statement by the Advaita Vedanta (<i>advaita</i> "not-two", his own school expressing non-duality) philosopher Sankara, "The universe is unreal. Brahma is real", but ignore his conclusion: "The universe is Brahma." This means not that the universe is "unreal" but that it has no reality independent from the Consciousness that pervades throughout the cosmos. The 20th century sage Ramana Maharshi explained the world as not <i>asat</i> ("unreal") in and of itself, but only so when one perceives it purely by appearance and not the underlying spirit behind the "separate" objects.(18) The <i>a-</i> is a negation of something within Sanskrit, so its opposite is <i>Sat</i> ("real"), meaning "eternal, ever-present, unchanging": This simply means that what we perceive is always changing and in flux, but the ultimate Source is Eternal. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"> Those who deny the Spirit/Consciousness that pervades throughout the cosmos, including the sentience of Nature; those who make the erroneous distinction between spirit and matter - such people are the ones who most live under this <i>maya</i>. </span></span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;">Your intention focused on something will manifest your reality, whether for good or bad. </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">By allowing themselves to be under Archontic programming, such people perceive around them a "Prison Planet" that simulates the</span><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span><i style="font-family: georgia;">authentic</i><span style="font-family: georgia;"> material </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">world</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">. The biggest illusion is to confuse Earth for the simulation </span><i style="font-family: georgia;">they</i><span style="font-family: georgia;"> (certain entities and authorities</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">, the Archons) want you to manifest so your will and energy is bound under</span><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span><i style="font-family: georgia;">their</i><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">spell. </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">Maya does not mean the world itself is an "illusion" but what is illusionary are our veils of </span><i style="font-family: georgia;">perceiving</i><span style="font-family: georgia;"> that world. </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">Our internal powers flow from Earth and throughout the Cosmos, or what Gnostic texts describe as powers of the Aeons (Divinities) to materialize through Imagination. With all our capabilities, we as a species also have this tendency to get lost in the models and abstractions we create rather than recognizing they flow as an expression of our imagination. So it is with such <i>maya</i> as the obsession to create an A.I. and other technologies to "transcend" our own humanity. Technology becomes separate from the Spirit that manifested it, opening the door to more Archontic programming.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEY-YdIgfP8EMwEX0PhfrWW-BCidZlRSRat_R6PncmgUiFeZJBWL8WhDWCktVXusihviIsQ0eU_8YH_4FwMzpw8QLmUPY1gsGyurUhICEAouEZZ3amq5lfJKR1klgK4gO0KjqmZnnoOp8RQBORJEmY5BJT4kjvxrczm4KHRb6Nv2OG-XUeT-M2FDiJ8w/s626/Shiva-Parvati.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="626" data-original-width="449" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEY-YdIgfP8EMwEX0PhfrWW-BCidZlRSRat_R6PncmgUiFeZJBWL8WhDWCktVXusihviIsQ0eU_8YH_4FwMzpw8QLmUPY1gsGyurUhICEAouEZZ3amq5lfJKR1klgK4gO0KjqmZnnoOp8RQBORJEmY5BJT4kjvxrczm4KHRb6Nv2OG-XUeT-M2FDiJ8w/w288-h400/Shiva-Parvati.jpg" width="288" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Shiva and Parvati</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p><b style="font-family: georgia;"><i>Authentic Gnostic Cosmology and Two-Source Duality</i></b></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"> Gnosis is to be seen at its core as Animism, an esoteric devotion to the mysteries and powers of the Earth that were affirmed by all tribal spiritualities and encoded within their myths, traditions, and folklore. It was the Church Fathers who projected a Patristic strawman <i>against</i> the Gnostics, claiming they associated the world of matter with the Demiurge and thus innately "evil". Unfortunately, this has been accepted as factual by most of the leading voices professing Gnosticism, who further misdirect it as a sect of Christianity rather than a complete repudiation of Abrahamic religion. Such people downplay the central role of the Goddess Sophia who morphed into the Earth(19), slipping in a neo-salvationism they call "Christ Consciousness" and inverting the crucial distinction made in the Gnostic texts: The Demiurge Yaldabaoth <i>claimed</i> to "create" the world but that is <i>the</i> ultimate Lie. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">Gnostic cosmology holds that our solar system is a "spiral" consisting of a Galactic Core and a "pinwheel" of four or five "limbs" or "arms" spiraling out from that core. This same pattern exists throughout Nature, also expressed worldwide by such symbols as the Celtic Triskele or the Native American Medicine Wheel. </span>This core is the <i>Pleroma</i> (Greek "fullness, plenitude"), a realm I suggest correlates to the highest realm of the Gods, such as Asgard, while accepting that Divinities permeate throughout the cosmos and within our world. From the <i>Pleroma</i>, the Divine Intelligence/Wisdom (the Divinity of pure energy) personified by the Goddess Sophia <i>emanated</i> through the third <i>Kenoma</i> or galactic arm, morphing into the physical <i>and</i> imaginative body of the Earth. This is the primal source of the various mythological allegories about the Earth forming out of Wisdom, Love, Imagination, or Dreamtime - all indicates this same pure energy that manifested the world:</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"> "The galactic vortices are all variations of a chalice form, a flattened torus with a central core (the galactic bulge) and a surrounding disc (the spiral arms). The hub of a galaxy, its Pleroma, is counterbalanced by the flat carousel structure, the spinning armature, called the Kenoma, 'deficiency,' 'inferior realm.' The Pleroma is a fullness, infinite potential that outpours itself into the realm of 'deficiency,' finite potential. In the Pleroma all possibility is complete, all is fulfilled, evolved to its fullest potential. Pleromic gods like Sophia <i>can only give of themselves</i>, selflessly, without affecting what they emanate or imposing themselves upon the conditions they set up in the Kenoma. The selfless outpouring of the Pleromic gods is a key theme of Sophianic cosmology. It is also the model of human generosity. The Kenoma, the carousel armature of a galaxy, is the realm of chaos where finite, bounded potential develops. It is composed of dark elementary matter arrays (<i>dema</i>), atomic and subatomic fields, including proto-organic elements, residue of past worlds. Suns are born in the galactic arms and planetary systems emerge there."(20)</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"> Mythology is not "false" but <i>the</i> deepest, most primal truths conveyed by every Indigenous people right back to Source. Only in recent years have the scientists caught up with the Myths, using their technologies whereas the ancients had their spiritual technologies that withstand any limitations. Astrophysicists using a Low-Frequency Array (LOFAR) radio telescope <a href="https://www.science.org/doi/full/10.1126/science.aat7500">found</a> "a ridge of radio-emitting plasma extending between two galaxy clusters," affirming "that intergalactic magnetic fields connect the two clusters." They found this <i>exactly</i> where our solar system exists in the third galactic arms, after Sophianic cosmology spoke for thousands of years about Earth forming from the plasma discharge of Her body. David Lonebear Sanipass, the Mi'kmaq (<i>mi-gah-mah</i>) Elder who brought the 20,000-year-old Copper Scrolls and their Star Teachings to the public, mentioned in one of his interviews how each arm of the Milky Way is around 10-20 years apart, observing a "turning" of the current that has "compressed" the timeline. We need only look at the rapid technological advancements, transformations in thinking and structures, how time seems to be speeding up even on our micro level - its the synchronicity of Indigenous prophecies pointing to our current cycles.(21)</span></span></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsn6jJTgmGAkCWS5MQcGeC4MqQBhqHmKxQhUBNfAKmzKb6U0AZwlEa37EevIOKT-VfIaekq9ApQkkingbDTRNPxOovC8qPFHdq-y7RQFVrKodX9gq03cXu2mdbMzZa6R0a_ONniSSv5IFi4TiViwT9p48oQ7tVEA5EO18Z8ANS0YaLivl_nz-7Yty-vQ/s634/6bbd7731bc2ec6c2bf1334abe24a25da.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="634" data-original-width="634" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsn6jJTgmGAkCWS5MQcGeC4MqQBhqHmKxQhUBNfAKmzKb6U0AZwlEa37EevIOKT-VfIaekq9ApQkkingbDTRNPxOovC8qPFHdq-y7RQFVrKodX9gq03cXu2mdbMzZa6R0a_ONniSSv5IFi4TiViwT9p48oQ7tVEA5EO18Z8ANS0YaLivl_nz-7Yty-vQ/s320/6bbd7731bc2ec6c2bf1334abe24a25da.png" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The plasma discharge emanating from the third<br />galactic arms as observed by astrophysicists. This<br />is where the pure Divine energy extended from the<br />Pleroma and Earth formed out of the Goddess body.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"> Nowhere within the Gnostic texts is Sophia or the resultant world presented as "fallen" in the same sense as the "fall of man" from Eden. The formative word used for the human species and the world we inhabit is <i>ennoia</i> (Greek: "mental intent"), "the intentional power applied by Aeons to produce sensory worlds and imbue those worlds with spontaneous, free-form creativity. In human terms, intentionality that produces spontaneous acts and guides goal-orientation; 'free will.'"(22) The Gnostics spoke of a "two-source duality" which has nothing to do with the Zoroastrian "split-source duality" that assumed good and evil split at the Godhead, positing an opposition between Ahura Mazda versus Ahriman. From this duality arose the Abrahamic notion of a wrathful father god who was simultaneously the source of "divine love". Out of these mental gymnastics arose the "need" for an "adversary" figure who was merely the Shadow of this "omnipresent god" as I <a href="https://seanjobst.substack.com/p/illuminating-the-lightbringer-the">documented</a> elsewhere. In stark contrast is Gnostic cosmology as the esoteric wisdom of Pagan Mysteries in balance with our sentient Earth:</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"> "Split-source duality is <i>not</i> what the Sophia mythos presents, however. It is of the utmost importance to distinguish Persian split-source duality from the two-source duality of Gnostic teachings. In the Gnostic view there is <i>no split in the Pleroma</i> and consequently there is <i>no absolute opposition of Good and Evil</i>. In fact, Gnostics did not characterize the problem posed by the Archons in terms of evil at all. They framed it in terms of <i>error</i>. They taught that we come to understand how evil arises in the world by tracing the working of error, the Archontic factor. The appearance of the Archons in the cosmic scenario of terrestrial formation is called 'the generation of error.'"(23)</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> The real world of simulation is </span><i style="font-family: georgia;">Stereoma</i><span style="font-family: georgia;">, often mistranslated as "heavens" or " firmament" by those with an Abrahamic lenses but is actually "a stereometric projection like the holograph of a living thing. The holographic image is not alive but it can replicate something that is." Its a realm of </span><i style="font-family: georgia;">hal</i><span style="font-family: georgia;"> (Coptic: "simulation"), "not a genuine emergent world like ours, pervaded with potential for novelty, beauty, innovation, chance, and change."(24) The Archons, correlating to beings known under other cultural names, manipulate human beings through various <a href="https://sjobst.blogspot.com/2021/12/30-on-mind-viruses-and-lies-of-humanity.html">mind-viruses</a> and <a href="https://sjobst.blogspot.com/2022/03/on-natural-law-and-immunity-spiritual.html">spiritual attacks</a>. Theirs is a false "reality" they try to project upon us, viewing our world as a battery system to harvest our energy. Referring to the Earth "Layered Intelligence Forming Energy" (LIFE), Robert Monroe, a pioneer in studying Out-of-Body Experiences, coined the term "Loosh" to describe the "purest" human energy that such entities feed off:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> "It is possible for you to perceive the destination of the rays of pure energy called Loosh or Love as it penetrates into your earth space in several segments of what you call time. Its a specific observable result of exposure to the Loosh or Love Radiation. Therefore, it is the driving force, the creative energy that motivates human thought and action. Faced with this question of supply and demand, someone decided to produce it artificially, so to speak, rather than search for it in its natural form. He decided to build a garden and grow Loosh. I turned inward picking up the Loosh-rote: Loosh and energy generated by all organic life in varying degrees of purity, the clearest and most potent form coming from humans, engendered by human activity which triggers emotion. The highest of such emotions being Love....When they have feelings like loneliness, desire, parent's love, grief etc., the highest quality distillated loosh can be harvested, which is by far better than any other raw loosh."(25)</span></p><p><br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjm6Evbx_G3QRqOngwzlP5RuocQemdumF2dwdP4DBe0X_xVxxneUWvcFPfbb96YkbKIGsOkxky30wlvG3DFptV35D1HGEq8SmdWK0NEd6X7m_zXJwfWPqAUnRLQbAzQ_M5ApwUM-WgIT2_ZY92RPhChiFOrLBidZFCgWDhD5ObJBqhvdoPNhqEoRcWCug/s739/thoth.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="739" data-original-width="563" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjm6Evbx_G3QRqOngwzlP5RuocQemdumF2dwdP4DBe0X_xVxxneUWvcFPfbb96YkbKIGsOkxky30wlvG3DFptV35D1HGEq8SmdWK0NEd6X7m_zXJwfWPqAUnRLQbAzQ_M5ApwUM-WgIT2_ZY92RPhChiFOrLBidZFCgWDhD5ObJBqhvdoPNhqEoRcWCug/w305-h400/thoth.jpg" width="305" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><i>Simulation Theory of False Gnostics is Kabbalistic Inversion</i></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> The popular reading of Gnostic cosmology as a world-denying philosophy of human beings as Spirit "trapped" in a "lower" world of Matter "created" by the Demiurge, is a Kabbalistic inversion that repudiates Gnosis with another expression of the salvationist mind-virus. Such false Gnostics reframe it as "divine sparks", but their Kabbalism actually downgrades human beings as "shells" (<i>qlippoth</i>) that "shattered" across a "barren" world needing "repair" (<i>tikkun olam</i>). It says more about the schizophrenia of this "one god" who proclaims himself "perfect" while alleged "sparks" of his shattered. He hates the world he "created" and projects his own insecurities upon that world, inspiring such fanatics as those who destroyed the sacred trees and groves, who demonize carbon, those under <i>wetiko</i>, etc.. This false "Gnostic" subversion is promoted by certain public speakers, publishing houses, and TV networks because they are well-funded dupes passing off as "Gnosis" what is Archontic.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i> </i>The reality is that <i>tikkun olam</i> (such as held by the Chabad supremacist cult) is an Archontic inversion of the <i>true</i> Gnosis of Correction (Greek: <i>diorthosis</i>): "</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">the realignment of life on Earth with the cosmic center, the source from which Sophia (the autopoetic planetary intelligence) emerged. Distinct from off-planet redemption promised by the salvationist creed."(26) Whereas the inverted "repair" is to be defined and carried out by a select few who project their salvationism upon the rest of humanity, Sophia's Correction is a life-affirming interactivity between Mother Earth and the human species: <i>Diorthosis</i> can also be translated as "dual/two-solution", expressing this cooperation. The former places a "redemptive" value upon human suffering, whereas the Animistic view is that suffering is just something we all undergo but can learn from and through. We have a higher purpose immersing ourselves in the beauties and mysteries of this world. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> As John Lamb Lash stresses, the claim falsely attributed to the Gnostics that we are "divine sparks" trapped in this world, is a misreading of the Nag Hammadi texts which use <i>Kaz</i>, a Coptic variant of Greek Gaia (<i>ge</i> "earth") who is none other than Mother Earth. These texts use the Greek term "cosmos", which means "system" and is distinguished from both the material world and broader universe. That "system" resulted from <i>anomia</i> (Greek: <i>anomaly</i>, <i>aberration</i>), unlike Earth which was born from Divine Intelligence and Imagination. Even psychologist Stephan Hoeller, who expresses many Kabbalistic themes and a Gnostic "Church" (whereas Gnosis is truly animistic and Pagan and a solution <i>to</i> religion), agrees: "</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">Gnostics did not necessarily reject the actual earth, which they recognized as a screen upon which the Demiurge projects a deceptive system. To the extent that we find a condemnation of the world in Gnostic writings, the term used is inevitably <i>kosmos </i>and never the word <i>ge</i> (earth), which they regarded as neutral if not outright good."(27) </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> In stark contrast is the Kabbalistic concept of two distinct universes - one is dark, empty, and without form; the other is "light" emanating from the off-planet "god" who "contracted" himself out so "chaos" could be "enclosed" within a vessel. The "world of rectification" (<i>Olam HaTikkun</i>) is the inverted correction of this "world of chaos" (Olam HaTohu). Incredibly (but not so much for those of us who know he falsely claimed to be "creator"), Earth is <a href="https://www.thetorah.com/article/creating-order-from-tohu-and-bohu">described</a> as "tohu and bohu" (Genesis 1:2) in the sense of being primordial, i.e. existing <i>before</i> this alleged "creation". The Demiurge engages in his own projection with his claims of this primordial Earth being "chaotic" despite the order within Nature, while the process by which his "sparks" <a href="https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/296601/jewish/The-Fallen-Sparks-of-Tohu.htm">fragmented</a> <i>is</i> chaotic. His "contraction" inverts the cosmic balance of contraction <i>and</i> expansion. Contrary to the World Tree and other expressions of the Axis Mundi, symbolic of the interconnectedness of Animism running throughout <i>all</i> Indigenous spiritualities, the <i>Zohar</i> inverts a "Tree of Death" buried deep within the Earth and nourished from the "chaos" of our material world, in stark opposition to a "Tree of Life" above our world.(28) </span></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaBflRm5Z059YWRcoODHZ9_aVn5vB7HFybS8lrJapL-ia46-qkX6MLirJ4QhBmNaZBZxtXYV5ZkgfXLe1rhOzOTibfVdje0085jv-jzNCz4_cz8p_4s4DCVr7Nj5tQ81C9zvTLaKGF3jZ_Zbtv6vRwg29sBNsq7niaCzWoJjxSjnyspO-IPH1q703APQ/s677/sipapu.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="677" height="236" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaBflRm5Z059YWRcoODHZ9_aVn5vB7HFybS8lrJapL-ia46-qkX6MLirJ4QhBmNaZBZxtXYV5ZkgfXLe1rhOzOTibfVdje0085jv-jzNCz4_cz8p_4s4DCVr7Nj5tQ81C9zvTLaKGF3jZ_Zbtv6vRwg29sBNsq7niaCzWoJjxSjnyspO-IPH1q703APQ/w400-h236/sipapu.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Indigenous tribes of the Southwest speak of <i>Sipapu</i>,<br />the places of Emergence from within the Earth.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><i>Emergence and Emanation</i></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> Our sentient, terrestrial Matrix (womb of the Mother Earth Goddess) is flows throughout the Animistic wisdom in Indigenous cosmologies and the Gnostic Pagan Mysteries alike, which speak of Emergence and Emanation out of Her living and imaginative body. Emergence is the "development of life and consciousness within a shared matrix ('deep structure') in which new elements constantly arise to express and optimize the integral properties of the whole." Emanation is the "Asian metaphysical concept for the spontaneous process by which sensory and material worlds emerge from a nonmanifesting matrix of pure, overflowing awareness." The latter is expressed often in the myth-theme of Dreaming, an empathic and imaginative participation in an Eternal Now: "The timeless act of emanation in which the formative forces of the cosmos pervade and shape the processes of the natural world, the human psyche."(29)</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> Those models for our creation out of emergence and emanation, is expressed beautifully by tribes of the American Southwest. The Hopi, Zuni, and Yavapai alike have <i>Sipapu</i>, places of emergence from the underworld, seen as the womb of Mother Earth (as we have already seen with the <i>true</i> meaning of matrix). In fact, <i>sipapu</i> <a href="https://www.taosnews.com/magazines/leyendas-tradiciones/sipap-the-place-of-emergence/article_f6e17f95-b119-5d7f-b001-f4da97655a75.html">also means</a> "womb/navel/heart of the Earth" in Uto-Aztecan languages and carry connotations of higher awareness. </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">These parallel the mounds across Europe that were central to </span><a href="https://sjobst.blogspot.com/2022/03/the-wild-hunt-symbolisms-meanings-and.html" style="font-family: georgia;">rituals and traditions</a><span style="font-family: georgia;"> of my Germanic, Celtic, and Iberian ancestors, with the same themes of the underworld, liminal, cycles of life and Animism. To American Southwest tribes, from these places of emergence they entered into the present Fourth World, there being multiple manifested worlds in their cyclical understanding.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> Much as with the esoteric symbolisms my European ancestors held about our mounds, the late Zuni elder and wisdom teacher Clifford Mahooty </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFZYgWRVzEs" style="font-family: georgia;">described</a><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span><i style="font-family: georgia;">sipapu</i><span style="font-family: georgia;"> as portals involving other spiritual beings, including the </span><i style="font-family: georgia;">Kachina</i><span style="font-family: georgia;"> (pronounced </span><i style="font-family: georgia;">kaht-sina</i><span style="font-family: georgia;">). He also mentioned the underground places known as </span><i style="font-family: georgia;">Kiva</i><span style="font-family: georgia;">, whose rituals recreate the emergence in and out of the Earth through the ladder which represents the Axis Mundi point around which everything "churns and spins". Even their structure and their alignment with stones are highly symbolic of the directions and important celestial events. There is a primal awareness about the emergence worldwide, with the discovery of "serpent pits" resembling <i>kivas</i> near the ancient sites of Göbekli Tepe and Karahan Tepe in Anatolia, whose own discovery challenged the dogmas of official (linear) timelines. This last Autumn, I went on a hiking expedition to a local serpent effigy mound, so will expand on this in a future article. Not a process by which we were "created" as passive beings, the Animistic worldview is an empowering one of <i>interactive</i> emanations as the archetypal shaman Don Juan mused:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwMU3oYUiJ0T7I_POyvo4a_PT36jPDoAgLQiXWBMz2iAgOt4bJMF9tzsKlfvr0XSueGPiIhAO5M26BnjtCdIxQbLuBcDc5SjXPspDNo9awMqzpvNORtzc44etchQVR4y8zq2qaFDbbsKDJBBwB_i0bGLQdCGCmlsqbGSRCxxfmTz21fO70zcaOH5pmHQ/s900/0f61bfa5205ed37510d8cfa5743e55ee.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="900" height="341" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwMU3oYUiJ0T7I_POyvo4a_PT36jPDoAgLQiXWBMz2iAgOt4bJMF9tzsKlfvr0XSueGPiIhAO5M26BnjtCdIxQbLuBcDc5SjXPspDNo9awMqzpvNORtzc44etchQVR4y8zq2qaFDbbsKDJBBwB_i0bGLQdCGCmlsqbGSRCxxfmTz21fO70zcaOH5pmHQ/w400-h341/0f61bfa5205ed37510d8cfa5743e55ee.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Almanegra DeviantArt: "Don Juan Matus. Another commission <br />related to the books of Carlos Castaneda for the 'Toltec Black <br />Metal' band 'Tal'Set' --- Otro encargo relativo a los libros de... <br />Don Juan Matus". Beautiful illustration of the current subject.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><br /><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> "He explained that what he called the key to everything was the firsthand knowledge that the earth is a sentient being and as such can give warriors a tremendous boost; it is an impulse that comes from the awareness of the earth itself at the instant in which the emanations inside [spiritual] warriors' cocoons are aligned with the appropriate emanations inside the earth's cocoon. Since both the earth and man are sentient beings, their emanations coincide, or rather, the earth has all the emanations present in man and all the emanations that are present in all sentient beings, organic and inorganic for that matter. When a moment of alignment takes place, sentient beings use that alignment in a limited way and perceive their world. Warriors can use that alignment either to perceive, like everyone else, or as a boost that allows them to enter unimaginable worlds."(30)</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> Such emanations were expressed in Vedic teachings about the Earth containing its own memory. Its an energy known instinctively through Animism, but what the magicians, seers, shamans, telestai, druids and other Indigenous wisdom teachers discovered was that "the earth in its totality can be regarded as a living being available for interactivity," as John Lamb Lash observed in one of his dialogues. "The earth in its totality, the instructions in the term of Gaia Awakening, come from the earth itself." While Don Juan mentioned "cocoon" as what "sheathes" the Earth, this can also be viewed as the Organic Light, "viscuous cocoon of light which surrounds the earth. The earth is comparable, of course, to the luminous egg that surrounds and, in cases, each human animal." Both "cocoons" are packed with filaments or emanations that can be interacted with in direct perception at all levels of the Earth and in alignment with that immanent Source of life:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> "The luminous cocoon of the earth which consists of Organic Light, is full of filaments which are living mycelium of the Dreaming Power of the Earth Goddess. Her Dreaming Power is material, everything is material. Her Dreaming Power manifests in the filaments of the Organic Light. These filaments pervade and interpenetrate the entire material world. They saturate and vibrate through all the realms of nature, organic and inorganic, and these filaments of the Organic Light assume a particular configuration within the luminous egg of each individual being." Even the human soul is a cluster of these filaments, our current bodies being the vehicle for something transcendent and material at the same time.(31) So it is that the Earth's power is our power; the false projections of authority masking itself as "power" do not want our species reclaiming our innate empowering Love and Intention aligned with that of the Earth. They want us trapped in the illusion that separates Spirit and Matter, and would have us look upon our world as anything other than what our ancient Ancestors <i>all</i> knew.</span></p><p><br /></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjP3Sjm-5I6mc4-PiZIHX0yRq1SDxtViezPOCjG4PbzI1wW4ztasOvrNMvkQRh81HD9JGSUtsM6R-6icDbTZw04M99pW-C4bFcpJ8apbtXerpEOCFWs1URhAMpzHyshYID4OJgtKHb7N3Qtvz1RLDXy2_yaQSF7AYxBO1xTlcPAJnBtIVnciRUh2uWAMg/s271/a68be6ed31516c7920dbd5e278d8162c.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="271" data-original-width="236" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjP3Sjm-5I6mc4-PiZIHX0yRq1SDxtViezPOCjG4PbzI1wW4ztasOvrNMvkQRh81HD9JGSUtsM6R-6icDbTZw04M99pW-C4bFcpJ8apbtXerpEOCFWs1URhAMpzHyshYID4OJgtKHb7N3Qtvz1RLDXy2_yaQSF7AYxBO1xTlcPAJnBtIVnciRUh2uWAMg/w348-h400/a68be6ed31516c7920dbd5e278d8162c.jpg" width="348" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">For we are all spiritual warriors as much as we are Seekers</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><i>Footnotes and Sources:</i></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">(1) Even traditions cut off through conversion by the conquering religion/ideology can be reclaimed through the various remnants that survived through folklore and customs; and which were passed through symbols, archetypes, and the Unconscious. The narrative of a quick and bloodless Christianization of Europe ignores a long process that included violence, destruction, and hundreds of years of eroding traditions through syncretism with the Church appropriating whatever it couldn't destroy. Such inconvenient truths give the lie to simplistic narratives like "Europe has been Christian for 2,000 years" or which ignore that we too are descendants of tribes.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">(2) Carlos Castaneda, <i>The Power of Silence: Further Lessons of Don Juan</i>, 1987. Those who obsess about quantifying everything point out how Castaneda did not actually live among the Mexican Yaqui people. They miss the point that he was a mystic making sense of his own deep experience in <i>the Imaginal</i>. In their hive-mind, only selected academic "experts" can speak about specific subjects that are then disconnected from any holistic totality of knowledge. They tolerate no opposing views (or imagination) outside their own dogmas.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">(3) John Lamb Lash, "Direct Access to The Divine," recorded on 16 Dec. 2011, <<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZ-4S8FV82w">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZ-4S8FV82w</a>>.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">(4) I examined Her multiple expressions within my continental Germanic pantheon as the Swabian Goddess <a href="https://swabian-pride.blogspot.com/2019/10/zisa-swabian-goddess.html">Zisa</a> and the Dawn Goddess <a href="https://swabian-pride.blogspot.com/2020/04/ostara-germanic-goddess-of-spring-and.html">Ostara</a>. Among Her important names were <a href="https://swabian-pride.blogspot.com/2020/12/the-wild-hunt-symbolisms-meanings-and_31.html">Frau Holle</a>, a Goddess of the Hearth and Winter whose nurturing esoteric energies relate to the Underworld and caring for the souls waiting for their next reincarnation. I recommend the <a href="http://www.metahistory.org/tantra/GaianTantraVow.php">Gaian Tantra Vow</a> for a broad and poetic overview of our Earth Mother's cultural expressions.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">(5) The title of his speech at the second Festival de la Science Fiction in Metz, France, 24 Sept. 1977. Transcripts of his speech are available online: </span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><<a href="https://empslocal.ex.ac.uk/people/staff/mrwatkin/PKDICK.htm">https://empslocal.ex.ac.uk/people/staff/mrwatkin/PKDICK.htm</a>>; and <<a href="https://www.openculture.com/2021/08/hear-philip-k-dicks-famous-metz-speech.html">https://www.openculture.com/2021/08/hear-philip-k-dicks-famous-metz-speech.html</a>>.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">(6) Gregor Maehle, <i>Ashtanga Yoga: Practice and Philosophy</i>, New World Library, 2007, pp. 177-179.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">(7) "Mystical Experience of Edgar Mitchell, Sc.D., Ph.D.," <<a href="https://imere.org/third-party-story/mystical-experience-edgar-mitchell-scd-phd/">https://imere.org/third-party-story/mystical-experience-edgar-mitchell-scd-phd/</a>>.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">(8) "Matrix," <<a href="https://www.etymonline.com/word/matrix">https://www.etymonline.com/word/matrix</a>>.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">(9) From a continental Germanic Heathen view, Mutter Erde could relate to an earlier word with a dropped "h" as part of a shift within Old High German. Thusly, (h)erde which would relate her to the Goddess Frau Holle, the word <i>höhle</i> also meaning "cave". For a lengthy presentation of her qualities and folklore, see GardenStone, <i>Goddess Holle: In search of a Germanic goddess</i>, Norderstadt, Schleswig-Holstein: BoD - Books on Demand GmbH, 2011. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">(10) Carlos Barrios, </span><i style="font-family: georgia;">The Book of Destiny: Unlocking the Secrets of the Ancient Mayans and the Prophecy of 2012</i><span style="font-family: georgia;">, trans. Lisa Carter. New York: HarperOne, 2009, p. 47. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">(11) Wolf-Dieter Storl, <i>The Untold History of Healing: Plant Lore and Medicinal Magic From the Stone Age to Present</i>, Berkeley, CA: North Atlantic Books, 2017, p. 36.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">(12) They have observed "dark energy" as spaces of void causing more expansion within the universe. "Over billions of years, matter accumulated to form galaxies, groups and clusters. And as those structures grew, the voids emptied and enlarged." They theorize how "In the next few billion years, the voids will end up dissolving the cosmic web, forcing all matter into isolated clumps separated by hundreds of millions of light-years of emptiness." (Paul Sutter, "Giant voids of nothingness may be flinging the universe apart," <i><a href="https://www.livescience.com/dark-energy-may-cause-voids">Live Science</a></i>, Aug. 12, 2022)</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">(13) John Lamb Lash, "You Are Living In An Altered State -- Not The Matrix," Dec. 2, 2022, <<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-oOYH4JvizE">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-oOYH4JvizE</a>>.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">(14) ibid.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">(15) <i>The Mahabharata</i>, trans. Kisari Mohan Ganguli, 1883-1896, Book 13: Anusasana Parva, Section CXL, pp. 287-288.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">(16) Thomas Sheridan, "Shiva Blinked," 3 Dec. 2022, <<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZUXzqEwTrs">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZUXzqEwTrs</a>>.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">(17) "The word <i>maya</i> comes from the same root <i>ma</i>, 'to measure', as does <i>matra</i>, 'measure', which in turn is etymologically linked to the Latin <i>materia</i>, from which our word 'matter' derives. <i>Materia</i> not only relates to <i>mater</i>, 'mother' and to <i>matrix</i>, but also to <i>metiri</i>, 'to measure, to lay out (a place)'." (Adrian Snodgrass, <i>The Symbolism of the Stupa</i>, New Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass Publishers, 1992, p. 29).</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">(18) Steve Taylor, <i>The Leap: The Psychology of Spiritual Awakening</i>, Novato, CA: New World Library, 2017. See the relevant excerpts at: <<a href="https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/out-the-darkness/201704/the-world-is-not-illusion">https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/out-the-darkness/201704/the-world-is-not-illusion</a>>.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">(19) Traces of this primordial Myth can be found throughout the Indo-European theme of the Earth forming from the literal body of a primordial spiritual being, identifying all the aspects of Nature as parts of their flesh, body, bones, and organs. This central theme is expressed in the Vedic </span><i style="font-family: georgia;">Rig Veda</i><span style="font-family: georgia;"> as Purusa, the Iranian </span><i style="font-family: georgia;">Bundahisn</i><span style="font-family: georgia;">, Greco-Roman </span><i style="font-family: georgia;">Metamorpheses</i><span style="font-family: georgia;">, and the Nordic </span><i style="font-family: georgia;">Eddas</i><span style="font-family: georgia;"> which mention the story of Ymir.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">(20) John Lamb Lash, <i>Not In His Image: Gnostic Vision, Sacred Ecology, and the Future of Belief</i>, 15th Anniversary Edition, White River Junction, VT: Chelsea Green Publishing, 2021, p. 174.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">(21) Sanipass mentioned 2015 as an important transition year, which just happens to coincide with what John Lamb Lash observed of Sophia's Correction that same year, and also relates to the Toltec wisdom teachings of Sergio Magaña. I touched upon the Kali Yuga cycles and other indications we are at an important transition time, i.e. the end of one cycle and beginning of another, in an August 2021 article: "<a href="https://sjobst.blogspot.com/2021/08/rise-of-wotanic-energy-and-fall-of.html">Rise of Wotanic Energy and Fall of the Empire of False Pestilence</a>". </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">(22) <i>Not In His Image</i>, p. 392.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">(23) <i>ibid.</i>, p. 192.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">(24) <i>ibid.</i>, pp. 182-183.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">(25) Robert Monroe, <i>Far Journeys</i>, New York: Knopf Doubleday, 1985, Chapter 6.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">(26) <i>Not In His Image</i>, p. 389.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">(27) Stephan Hoeller, </span><i style="font-family: georgia;">The Gnostic Jung and the Seven Sermons to the Dead</i><span style="font-family: georgia;">, Wheaton, IL: Quest Books, 1982, p. 15.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">(28) That his acts of "creation" are a complete inversion of the Divine, lends credence to true identity as the Demiurge Yaldabaoth. Even amidst his lies he was forced to admit some truths, such as the passage admitting the Earth as primordial, for it was written by mortal men under the influence of his mind-virus. Being the </span><i style="font-family: georgia;">anomia</i><span style="font-family: georgia;"> he is as overlord of the Archons, everything he says is an aberration against Natural Law. A perfect illustration of this is his strange hatred of trees, inspiring the destruction of Irminsul and Donar's Oak among other sites around the world, positing his own "tree of life" against those representations of Order and Animism.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">(29) </span><i style="font-family: georgia;">Not In His Image</i><span style="font-family: georgia;">, pp. 391-392.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">(30) </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">Carlos Castaneda, <i>Fire From Within</i>, New York: Washington Square Press, 1991, pp. 205-206.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">(31) John Lamb Lash, "Gaian Tantric Magic: NB 96 The Boost of the Earth," Nov. 28, 2013, <<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MFbtLVMs1s">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MFbtLVMs1s</a>>.</span></p>Sean Jobsthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17351165299354431339noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-907444223262019258.post-16168443437196406232022-10-20T14:26:00.008-05:002022-10-25T23:27:06.675-05:00Animism and Lessons of Earth's Power - 3. A Broad Overview of Cosmology. Towards a Gnosis of Earth-Cosmos<p><span style="font-family: georgia;">by Sean Jobst</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">20 October 2022</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjX1UNfml4p-KXshCKYP7AQzDeqaibVVP7PdgyKwJSSVCzrl6AcerTZf7nTzW8JfDswBp7UpwAIn5fJN33GzLQ5urDPtoU2GOa_J3udFFoYdDNody8PQOGOJQCBQ3AhR15GHEtt0Chob_U6iu8T8ILmsPr-dfn20uQezJS15zm1AS-IYIk1KLZ4tXn7vQ/s960/Hiking%20near%20Cheaha.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="960" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjX1UNfml4p-KXshCKYP7AQzDeqaibVVP7PdgyKwJSSVCzrl6AcerTZf7nTzW8JfDswBp7UpwAIn5fJN33GzLQ5urDPtoU2GOa_J3udFFoYdDNody8PQOGOJQCBQ3AhR15GHEtt0Chob_U6iu8T8ILmsPr-dfn20uQezJS15zm1AS-IYIk1KLZ4tXn7vQ/w400-h300/Hiking%20near%20Cheaha.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWxpF-33x5ChIuWEg3LBIm-letKMzhmPfTZoJ7IslDCcCpsN6LrEBWw-sDFIJP0rd7aLC7gN31bk6lz98T2PeIz4TExenWyjQbPdFULEyuIJM74m8dQnnUt_JmPSQY4Aa09UF2sChVAo4J2x_AUM3FljsL7eY2Au4zOYD7U-9sDnY0qmmyD2XBHhFHHg/s2592/DSC05621.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1944" data-original-width="2592" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWxpF-33x5ChIuWEg3LBIm-letKMzhmPfTZoJ7IslDCcCpsN6LrEBWw-sDFIJP0rd7aLC7gN31bk6lz98T2PeIz4TExenWyjQbPdFULEyuIJM74m8dQnnUt_JmPSQY4Aa09UF2sChVAo4J2x_AUM3FljsL7eY2Au4zOYD7U-9sDnY0qmmyD2XBHhFHHg/w400-h300/DSC05621.JPG" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">From some of my local hikes in the southern foothills of <br />Appalachia. Getting "lost" in these woods but finding and <br /><i>knowing</i> myself in the process. Its an intimate connection <br />to the Source, an awakening to Animism which is <i>Being</i>.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> A defining delusion of our time is the <a href="https://sjobst.blogspot.com/2021/12/30-on-mind-viruses-and-lies-of-humanity.html">collective lie</a> that confuses authority with power; that Sovereignty allegedly </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">comes from these authorities; and personal responsibility (living in balance with our innate Earth-given powers) is ceded to those holding the outer vestments of "authority": the State and its apparatchiks, selected "expert" micromanagers, and media echo-chambers. These are only <i>appearances</i> of "power" feeding off energy: "</span>These are imitations of power and they are only ‘power’ because in our minds we allow it to be power."(1) Instead of thinking for themselves, most outsource their thinking to these authorities, whose minds become <i>their</i> minds; their illusions become <i>the</i> vision of those who cannot think (much less live coherently) for themselves. Tribal cultures around the world warned of inorganic beings who fed off the energy of human beings and infected their minds. Only their terms for these beings differed for a spiritual assault described as using the same methods. </p><p> Their <i>ultraterrestrial</i> energy works through human agents who love control over others - the psychopaths of the control matrix. These agents <i>occult</i> (make hidden) these spiritual realities to give them a <span style="font-family: georgia;"><i>mystique</i> that only entrenches their authority. Such as in the abuse of language, with their "authority" being </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">the <i>archontic</i> illusion that can only mimic and simulate reality but never manifest <i>true</i> reality. It can only offer a fake substitute for the real, implanting suggestibility in people to cede their own powers and responsibilities, which comes from repeating errors rather than correcting them. At odds with their illusion is the empowerment of Sovereignty, rooted </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">from the Latin </span><i>super</i><span style="font-family: georgia;"> "above, beyond, outside the boundaries of" + </span><i>regum</i><span style="font-family: georgia;"> "rulership": To refuse to be a slave under any master.(2) Sovereignty manifests within the physical body and is transcendent above ourselves, as expansive as the galactic arms of the universe and yet grounded down to the most cellular level so that its truly <i>our</i> power: </span></p></span><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> "Power. It's very important that we understand who we are in relationship to power, because we have been tricked and lied to, almost in a way one would say, 'brainwashed', into looking at authority as power. It is very important that we make this distinction because we need to have something to pass to the next generations. Authority is not power. Authority is authority. All authority is usually based upon aggression or implied aggression or active aggression. Authority is authority. Power is something else. Power is what we come from. It is a part of the natural order of the universe -- power. Authority is something that man creates. Its limitation is that it was created by man. Power has no limitations."(3)</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> As expressed by Gnostic visionary John Lamb Lash: "Authority is what you get when you don't rely on your own conscience. The Gods endowed us with their essential goodness but in order to act on our goodness, we have to act out of our own conscience. Every individual has a sovereign conscience that tells them what is true, what is not true, what is right or wrong to do. And when you do not act on that conscience, you go into a default mode and in that default mode, the authorities take over and they tell you how to act. What the word 'authorities' means in the metaphysical sense, is a voice that tells you how to act that is not the voice of your own conscience. The Archons also work through this illusionary power of the authorities. The authorities really have no power - the only power they have is when you surrender your power to them. The only real power is this sovereign power of individual conscience."(4)</span></p><p><br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCQh-pHXuudFLMqP1FOOfE7pu4h8B5TMq2RbSABdhd7gKUlDHhlKsj_jEMEuMD-B8HN1jEEHUpYK8p1TD0j-KtDDR5g4ZoJZK1jOtgDalrEhNu2YZrg1BFQDgC93E2YXZ4_hO8Oluq2TxetLc8ryhxybjvG7rHcF78Rt-LpQ3kInqQk3KDuHUkV4VTRA/s500/avatars-000376944935-hz21hb-t500x500.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="500" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCQh-pHXuudFLMqP1FOOfE7pu4h8B5TMq2RbSABdhd7gKUlDHhlKsj_jEMEuMD-B8HN1jEEHUpYK8p1TD0j-KtDDR5g4ZoJZK1jOtgDalrEhNu2YZrg1BFQDgC93E2YXZ4_hO8Oluq2TxetLc8ryhxybjvG7rHcF78Rt-LpQ3kInqQk3KDuHUkV4VTRA/s320/avatars-000376944935-hz21hb-t500x500.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> These powers are unseen and <i>the</i> most real, a birthright innate to our essence. We are beings birthed and grounded by our Mother Earth in addition to direct Ancestral lines connecting us to something deeper than our physical bodies. Yet we live in a narcissistic time (social media personas, instant gratification, virtue signaling, savior complexes masked as empathy, etc.) where most have <i>forgotten</i>, apparently sure of themselves but desperately masking their nihilism (lack of meaning and purpose) through various political and social trends.(5) Various neuroses and personality disorders stemming from an individual refusal to confront and integrate the Shadow (then manifested out on a collective level), seem to be explained away including the efforts to normalize psychopathy. People with legitimate mental health issues often the result of society's lack of meaning, purpose, initiation rites, or an empowering Mythology - and an obsession with labeling and medication to prop up Big Pharma. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> We see promoted the <a href="https://sjobst.blogspot.com/2022/04/on-freedom-responsibility-true.html">unnatural</a> delusion that one should always be "happy", so its only natural they confuse what truly leads one to be content and following our soul purpose. </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">People hide under false selves to not align with their true selves, fed upon by these forces only too happy to distract them and harvest their energies. The incessant need for "control" which is ironically fed upon by the world's (micro-)managerial energy harvesters deliberately keeping people under mental stupor. </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">"Inner motives spring from a deep source that is not made by consciousness and is not under its control. In the mythology of earlier times, these forces were called </span><i style="font-family: georgia;">mana</i><span style="font-family: georgia;">, or spirits, demons, and gods. They are as active today as ever. If they go against us, then we say that it is just bad luck, or that certain people are against us. The one thing we refuse to admit is that we are dependent upon 'powers' that are beyond our control."(6)</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> Most dependent upon these false authorities are people who profess their individuality the most, for example priding themselves on "The Science" while blindly following "Experts" who replaced the scientific method with Dogma. Ultimately this is rooted in the difference made in my </span><a href="https://sjobst.blogspot.com/2022/08/animism-and-lessons-of-earths-power-2.html" style="font-family: georgia;">previous post</a><span style="font-family: georgia;"> between anthropocentrism and biocentrism. Anthropocentrism <i>apparently</i> places value upon humans as the alleged focus of all existence, but is really a narcissistic mind-virus imposing false authorities by projecting an illusionary sense of "power" onto human beings - its false transcendence <i>over</i> a nature separate from us and only leads to self-destruction on <i>their</i> behalf. Look </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">at the various lies politicians tell to give people illusions of "freedom" or "greater good" while undermining their sovereignty and all goodness. </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">"None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free."(7) </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">Even the word "believe" contains a "lie" - its better to think and contemplate. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> Biocentrism is true power of our creative role within the energetic interconnectedness of Earth-Cosmos. Its the liberating Gnosis that we are <i>exceptional</i> not "superior" due to our unique sacred gift of remarkable latitude to experience different outcomes based on our choices. Authentic transcendence is <i>through</i> Nature, from which we are inseparable. </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">Within our world is an abundance of </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">false individuality masking complexes and co-dependency (such as Statism in <i><b>any</b></i> of its ideological expressions), while true Individuation is suppressed and ridiculed. Central to the wholeness of Individuation is knowing we </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">are connected to something above but also innate to ourselves, more timeless than the current cycle that has been a great </span><a href="https://sjobst.blogspot.com/2020/03/coronavirus-reflections-and-advice.html" style="font-family: georgia;">clarity</a><span style="font-family: georgia;"> about how people relate to authoritarian appeals to conformity - the potential is within us depending on how clear and authentic our minds. </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">Confusion and inauthenticity allows the </span><i style="font-family: georgia;">archontic</i><span style="font-family: georgia;"> to thrive, but the power is ours to choose. Nor is it about errors that make us feel guilt and shame, but our divine capacity to <i>correct</i> and rise above those errors.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> Sovereignty supersedes the mastery of false beliefs, by asserting oneself as a true Heretic (from the Greek </span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i>hairetikós</i> "able to choose") which means not only thinking for ourselves but the power of discernment. This is more true now as when Nikola Tesla observed in 1934: "The s</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">cientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane. </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">Today’s scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality.</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">"(8) Two of our guiding principles should be: Do not confuse every thought as coming from us, especially when we are inundated with a barrage of "information" designed to program our minds; and We should embrace the recognition that not everything can be quantified, indeed that Earth and Cosmos are enriched with interactive Mysteries just waiting to be <i>experienced</i>.</span></p><p><br /></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgh-lzXUXlOEIXMswKnBVASzZZnn3wdB_t--avNVBSFv5jwQc5SX-bCpyuE3ty0qUfKAKEbWkV_lFNmTDDSLjnbtRIreAsT9JnWCG82IPFLLFcjMeXQa9TaJ4Z9m_PGCAN-Kbw-loqQEYfzUX1_r1XMSoENz0qfAUy6IS9cvW2PWcKgzQo5ipRQzapsTw/s473/fcf35941ff1f1a10031ed2c75178f413.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="355" data-original-width="473" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgh-lzXUXlOEIXMswKnBVASzZZnn3wdB_t--avNVBSFv5jwQc5SX-bCpyuE3ty0qUfKAKEbWkV_lFNmTDDSLjnbtRIreAsT9JnWCG82IPFLLFcjMeXQa9TaJ4Z9m_PGCAN-Kbw-loqQEYfzUX1_r1XMSoENz0qfAUy6IS9cvW2PWcKgzQo5ipRQzapsTw/w400-h300/fcf35941ff1f1a10031ed2c75178f413.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">A famous engraving by an unknown artist in an 1888 book<br />by the French astronomer Camille Flammarion. To me its a<br />perfect representation of our place within Earth-Cosmos.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><i>The Creative Gnosis of Cosmology</i></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> Gnosis is the Divine Knowing of what it means to be human. Cosmology is studying the Natural Order of the Cosmos, its role in our spiritual growth often neglected. Their relation through Animism is expressed in the universal themes of an Earth seen as sentient and alive, personified as a Mother Goddess (her energies often channeled down in the aspects of nature represented by other Goddesses), and a Father associated with the Sky and Time. We see this theme in such myths as the Greek Chronos and Gaia, or Quechua Pachamama and Pachatata. Even our modern words </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">for the Divine stem from the Proto-Indo-European *</span><i style="font-family: georgia;">Dyeus Pater</i><span style="font-family: georgia;"> "Sky Father". The same energies are present within Earth and Cosmos, including polarities allegorized as feminine or masculine (necessary for balance): </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">convergence and divergence, creation and destruction, or contraction and expansion. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> Everything is Energy, working through frequencies - cosmic energies spreading outward and causing differentiation. The Cosmos work through movements, with Ether "whirling" to cause matter to either form or disappear. Even particles come from energy fields around a central point. What we call mass, magnitude, and volume result from a divergent magnetic field. Space has no properties but only attributes; and time is but a measure of masses and magnitudes.(9) The Scientism cult only sees things in terms of atoms and cannot explain non-physical phenomena, such as the Ether or energy fields. Such phenomena as synchronicities challenge their perception of time as static and linear. Heretical physicists have proposed a "double causality" where our creative intentions cause effects in the future and become future causes of our present effects. The future is in transformation and influenced by our intentions. Our Consciousness generates our mind's impressions of space and time.(10) </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> The ancients recognized the creative role in "time", personified as feminine beings of time such as the Germanic Nornir who "weave" the threads of a Fate that is in constant flux and not fixed. What is being woven is the active intelligence that manifests life. There is a shamanic awareness with cosmic "threads" or "cords" that allows one to ascend and descend across different realms and channels communication and the vital force, as it is with the Hawaiian <i>akka</i> thread or Tibetan <i>dmu</i> cord. To the Dakota, one's </span><i style="font-family: georgia;">nagi</i><span style="font-family: georgia;"> (soul) is connected to Sky world through the </span><i style="font-family: georgia;">cekpa</i><span style="font-family: georgia;"> "navel/umbilical cord". Rather than being a "creation" of the world, tribal Myths described creation of every individual via deep awareness of reproductive cycles and our interconnectedness with Earth-Cosmos. A symbolic representation of this is the World Tree, a common theme across cultures that will be discussed later.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> These emergence Myths encode much about how its about a constant movement. The future is but a projection of your present thoughts into the present. Emotion is energy in motion, which is why emotions such as fear are so vital to the energy harvesters. Natural Law works in time and historical epochs through polarities of ascension and descension; cultures by rise and decline. Even the "now" is already over the very moment its verbalized or even thought, underscoring our unmanifested potential every moment. Memories are the movement of past moments activated through the present act of remembrance, which is why it was stressed within the initiatory ordeals of Wodan. (I use our original continental name for Him, going back to the roots of <i>wode</i>, the life-force energetic breath). Science is only recently catching up to the truths known for countless thousands of years, that Memory is contained within the universe, the Earth, even within the smallest molecules of water. Everything in the cosmos is also within the human body, including memory, information, and energies.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMZXhi0ThqE8yXAJeCzyb70E_L6c3YXYM-JW-NQr_XGJ5WlVQ3OSktJCEq8ZOwvJfMqI6RPoCJ2yXoh27BGp6lfeHyEh_YT0N3Nhik7yHKk53OgS6Ywe9S0ZVqXjnWwrqLM12eN-mQQLU2SG_ABgVMdSh15plfRawP-hyavHa0ZvSDJWbsQ498W43ZKA/s1000/heraclitus-quote-2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="1000" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMZXhi0ThqE8yXAJeCzyb70E_L6c3YXYM-JW-NQr_XGJ5WlVQ3OSktJCEq8ZOwvJfMqI6RPoCJ2yXoh27BGp6lfeHyEh_YT0N3Nhik7yHKk53OgS6Ywe9S0ZVqXjnWwrqLM12eN-mQQLU2SG_ABgVMdSh15plfRawP-hyavHa0ZvSDJWbsQ498W43ZKA/w400-h200/heraclitus-quote-2.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> Our measurement of time being cyclical, there are certain requirements as we move through different epochs. As noted by comparative cosmologist Laird Scranton, a change in our ability to perceive the non-material accompanying a physical change in materiality. He cites the Vedic metaphysics of </span><i style="font-family: georgia;">Sankhya</i><span style="font-family: georgia;">: Universes form in pairs, with a cycle of energy between them making one more material than the other. It describes seven pairs of parallel universes, with ours being the fourth. Scranton cites the teachings of the Dogon tribe of Mali, most known for their incredible awareness of Sirius B long before science "discovered" it. The Dogon express life as a movement of energy between parallel material and non-material realms. Its seen as a fluctuating cycle, dipole centers of positive and negative energies that converge or diverge. This dynamic between material and non-material manifests as </span><i style="font-family: georgia;"><b>unity to multiplicity</b></i><span style="font-family: georgia;">.(11) As a polytheist and animist, its easy for me to recognize the harmony between one sentient Earth abounding with a multiplicity of energies and divinities. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"> If the Cosmos is about energies and frequencies, its only natural those would "mirror" back to us, appearing parallel to our own world. These realms mirroring ours is the divergence polarity to the convergence that brought about our cosmos. The stars and all beings are the cells of a sentient, evolving cosmos, their mitosis through planets sustained by the Sun's magnetic field. </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">Even the same fractal patterns can be observed throughout the cosmos, nature, and within the human body. Identical symbols appear worldwide from the most ancient cave art down to being allegorized in mythology and enacted through ritual, manifesting the timeless principle: <i>As Above, So Below. As Within, So Without</i>. </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">Ancient seers and sages were also the astrologers and astronomers of their tribes, for knowing how to live in balance with Earth and Her interactive powers of magic <i>is</i> awareness of the Cosmos. They understood that stars and constellations have direct effects upon our lives.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"> Myths expressed how events in the heavenly realm are reflected in this worldly realm, as in the battlefield dialogue between Krishna and Arjuna in the </span><i>Bhagavad-Gita</i><span style="font-family: georgia;">, how Ragnarök (Twilight of the Gods) in the Norse </span><i>Eddas</i><span style="font-family: georgia;"> can be related to events in this worldly realm of Midgard, or battles between the three groups of supernatural beings in Gaelic mythology describing the historical cycles of Ireland. All these Myths have multiple layers of meaning, related to the Cosmos above, the Earth enveloping, or Consciousness within. Irish myths for example can also be related to our psyche: The Otherworld could relate to the Subconscious, and the Tuatha De Danaan "tribe of gods" part of the individual's tribal DNA.(12) Worldwide was the recognition of guardian spirits that exist parallel to your own life, such as the <i>Fylgja</i> or <i>Fetch</i>. The Dakota spoke of the <i>wanagi</i> "other soul" in the sky world, parallel to our own soul in this world. The physical body being spiritual energy transformed into matter, we have a life-soul animated by a parallel non-material free-soul that undergoes different incarnations in a cosmic cycle while our bodies are returned back to the Earth.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgiS8GnOTTboMM46-wUjSXfAaelno6kx4DkuU2bb2FKUYWGLeyFppxo7k6wfvMuhNPj7K8j_L5bnUPXYA43dp9xh3_rtwE-dOAHK-FBFdgnWu7q4DyyGJh-ZpNmExBI1SZUUt8AxUsgzPPRyktMsnwutyCNJvS-M2eC_of0qG-5a7Wk74qNPuF-nxYxA/s960/Quinta%20da%20Regaleira%20-%2030%20June%202017.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="960" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgiS8GnOTTboMM46-wUjSXfAaelno6kx4DkuU2bb2FKUYWGLeyFppxo7k6wfvMuhNPj7K8j_L5bnUPXYA43dp9xh3_rtwE-dOAHK-FBFdgnWu7q4DyyGJh-ZpNmExBI1SZUUt8AxUsgzPPRyktMsnwutyCNJvS-M2eC_of0qG-5a7Wk74qNPuF-nxYxA/w400-h300/Quinta%20da%20Regaleira%20-%2030%20June%202017.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgloo5726zpbDaI1LtDt7wXN2ycc7B92HIucTxKuZu9Opi2M3by2JCLo6Bj1L8-JNvRnu4-8dV0RrE4olaiDJocAVx0XzCnj1S37icYGp-benu9EEMbaQEPldVq14NmW9qjpQugQJV3_RSZrOnX1ZEP6Yxo7lq9mGLWSkFVNHtFcmytbDj59OphU2SxEg/s960/Quinta%20da%20Regaleira.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="720" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgloo5726zpbDaI1LtDt7wXN2ycc7B92HIucTxKuZu9Opi2M3by2JCLo6Bj1L8-JNvRnu4-8dV0RrE4olaiDJocAVx0XzCnj1S37icYGp-benu9EEMbaQEPldVq14NmW9qjpQugQJV3_RSZrOnX1ZEP6Yxo7lq9mGLWSkFVNHtFcmytbDj59OphU2SxEg/w300-h400/Quinta%20da%20Regaleira.jpg" width="300" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Just some sights from my pilgrimage to the<br />magical Quinta da Regaleira, Sintra, Portugal,<br />30 June 2017. An amazing place of Gnosis and <br />Self-Initiation by reflecting on the Aesthetic.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><b style="font-family: georgia; font-style: italic;"><i><br /></i></b><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-style: italic;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></span></p><p><span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><i>Singularity, Panspermia, and the Three Worlds</i></b></span></span></p><p><span><span style="font-family: georgia;"> These cosmic energies worked through singularity, "a purepoint of spiritual energy" that can also be called Spirit or Consciousness as noted by Gregory Little. </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;">Energies "churning" within themselves created two opposite forces, the shamanic Upper and Lower Worlds. </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">The Zuni of New Mexico referred to the "container of all" which thought outward, a close similarity with the Vedic teaching of the cosmos arising out of vibrations, or the Hermetic principle of Mentalism ("</span><i style="font-family: georgia;">The All is Mind; the Universe is Mental</i><span style="font-family: georgia;">"). This notion of three shamanic worlds was expressed by different cultures, which further divided them into other realms. The Upper World represents the energy of creation and order; the Lower World the energy of chaos and entropy - </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">everything degrades back into its most primordial state. Our realm is the Middle World, created to balance these two Worlds that interplay with our 3D world. All energies are spirit, including rocks (solidified spirit), water (flowing spirit), fire (spiritual energy released), and crystals (purified spirit).(13) More on the Middle World later in this article. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> Singularity has a deeper esoteric meaning than the one given to it by physicists obsess with quantifying. In the Nag Hammadi Gnostic texts as recounted by John Lamb Lash, the Greek word </span><i style="font-family: georgia;">Monogenes</i><span style="font-family: georgia;"> is used meaning "singularity" or "single-generating", referring to our human potential with the exceptional latitude for both error and innovation.(14) Singularity has nothing to do with its hijacking by Transhumanists like Ray Kurzweil, presuming a merger of human intelligence with AI, or any anthropocentric delusions of an ascending spiral of evolution. Rather, </span><i style="font-family: georgia;">monogenes</i><span style="font-family: georgia;"> is our unique human contribution (Biocentrism) to the self-organizing ecosystem: "A system that has emerged from the reciprocal evolution of organisms and their environment over the eons of life on Earth."(15) </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-style: italic;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;"> </span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;">Panspermia is a theory first proposed by Swedish physicist and chemist Svante Arrhenius and embraced by English biologist Francis Crick, a co-discoverer of the helix structure of DNA. Through panspermia, the seeds of organic life floated through the universe until arriving on Earth, a favorable environment from which they could sprout. In the Gaia Hypothesis of Lynn Margulis and James Lovelock, these seeds interacted with inorganic surroundings upon Earth to form a synergistic, self-regulating system that maintains and perpetuates the conditions for life. This interplay of elements (spiritual energies) form the basis behind various origin Myths, for example, the Celtic Mother Goddess Danu "falling" from the sky and interacting with the oak Bilé</span></span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"> ("sacred tree"): Could her fall relate to that of the Fallen Goddess and the oak's acorns recalling "seeds" that spawned our species? According to Margulis, these spores were driven by solar winds, a description reminding me of what the Incans call </span><i style="font-family: georgia;">Inti Muju</i><span style="font-family: georgia;"> (solar seeds of Consciousness). She observes that even if life originated here on our planet, "Earth itself is suspended in space, so any way you look at it, life came from space."(16)</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-style: italic;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;"><br /></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-style: italic;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;"><br /></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-style: italic;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-style: italic;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhvcsKgMpKOSYa5L3t_nTw3fGpEip4lfdHK-tcnQIIUYjmY3D1RjvwEGZCJ9cQdzTo4MXYHrkzcyblYYE2HtPqT-btDRVZvE1ceIrkuAyr0WP-0LVDZgb2atpYLntdkxTsqybyJL9dmPHWwYCJte7aKpyy-CK-L8GwGGqR8vIV4WdXXkY_mO7WAe_2Og/s900/incan-cross.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="499" data-original-width="900" height="221" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhvcsKgMpKOSYa5L3t_nTw3fGpEip4lfdHK-tcnQIIUYjmY3D1RjvwEGZCJ9cQdzTo4MXYHrkzcyblYYE2HtPqT-btDRVZvE1ceIrkuAyr0WP-0LVDZgb2atpYLntdkxTsqybyJL9dmPHWwYCJte7aKpyy-CK-L8GwGGqR8vIV4WdXXkY_mO7WAe_2Og/w400-h221/incan-cross.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></span></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhR2Iks9XfrzJcCNigE1whCRelqP-ISXa1uM_h5EXfcFI-X7psInVG5abEVKhjKEWRE8qBz48COEehdAhB-eB7c7pKRGAPabGEtvSN_crrmEeKOx58SW7p_BZ1yc4jCAZ-LIN0POzLXV5dlBxPcG0AQydOdn0YLGa9tnewhTq16N5jpNeXkvBV05DLa6Q/s736/ba84aa4feefad2e7bfa835e84ebfeda9.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="736" data-original-width="735" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhR2Iks9XfrzJcCNigE1whCRelqP-ISXa1uM_h5EXfcFI-X7psInVG5abEVKhjKEWRE8qBz48COEehdAhB-eB7c7pKRGAPabGEtvSN_crrmEeKOx58SW7p_BZ1yc4jCAZ-LIN0POzLXV5dlBxPcG0AQydOdn0YLGa9tnewhTq16N5jpNeXkvBV05DLa6Q/s320/ba84aa4feefad2e7bfa835e84ebfeda9.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Symbols such as the Andean chakana or the<br />Norse aegishjalmur (Helm of Awe) have <br />multiple layers of meaning, generally the <br />interconnectedness of energies, directions, <br />elements, and the Earth-Cosmos-Psyche</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: georgia; font-style: italic;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></span></span><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;"> Panspermia explains the complementary Myths that we are both star beings <i>and</i> birthed from Earth. The seeding of life from the cosmos forms the point right <i>before</i> the process then picked up by origin Myths. There is deep wisdom in the Greek term </span><i style="font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;">autochthones</i><span style="font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;"> ("self/people sprung from the soil"). Using its Latin translation <i>indigenas</i> (source of the word <i>indigenous</i>), Tacitus recounted the "<i>antiquis</i>" (<i>ancient</i>) </span><span style="font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;">Germanic origin myth of "a god born of the Earth, Tuisto."(17) Being offspring of the Sky Father Tiwaz and the Earth Mother, </span><span style="font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;"><i>Tuisto</i></span><span style="font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;"> stemmed from the Proto-Indo-European "twin founders" motif. In his later expression in the </span><span style="font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;"><i>Eddas</i></span><span style="font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;">, the body of primeval giant (chthonic being) Ymir ("screamer", primordial vibrations?) underwent entropy because this spiritual energy had to materialize into the body of Earth to be perceived and experienced. </span></span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;">Could this be a latent memory of the Goddess </span><i style="font-family: georgia;">morphed</i><span style="font-family: georgia;"> into the Earth after Her <i>plunge</i> from the Galactic Center?</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;"> Just as "our bones, flesh and blood are made up of the metals, liquids and minerals of the earth," as stated by John Trudell, so too is it a fact that we are made from the same elements and minerals as the stars. This was known by ancient cultures long before modern scientists proposed that we are "stardust." Accepting there were many migrations across history, for the most part life was seeded into physical existence through this interplay of the Cosmos and Earth, so peoples have this primal connection to their various biospheres. Our connection is lived through what the Canadian anthropologist Wade Davis termed </span><span style="font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;"><i>Ethnosphere</i></span><span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;">, "the sum total of all thoughts, dreams, myths, ideas, inspirations, intuitions brought into being by the human imagination since the dawn of consciousness"....</span></span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;">"The myriad cultures of the world make up a web of spiritual life and cultural life that envelopes the planet and is as important to the well being of the planet as the biosphere."(18)</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> B</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">iospheres nurture our common experience as the same species across Earth. We experience Her energies through Natural phenomena, expressed through universal and eternal symbols and myth-themes that are primal and transcendent across cultures. Ethnospheres give us an intimate connection via our unbroken chain of ancestors. Our physical bodies are the vehicles for our spirit to experience, shaped by the elements from which our earliest ancestors arose. We live the unique ways of Ethnosphere through inherited symbols, myths, and customs.(19) A better appreciation of one's own Ethnosphere means a mutual respect for that of others, including willingness to learn from others while appreciating what makes them unique. The relation of Mother Earth to the Cosmos is expressed through a masculine, non-material cosmic force personified in a "shining" Sky Father. Expressing this theme in Celtic terms, we can refer to the balance between Danu and Bel, the "Shining One" also known as Belenus or Belenos. We experience His energies through cosmic phenomena interacting with our Earth.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggfyd4kHmzF8noh1p4A2aAetTuAEug9GkU76Ww6ofhJ1wVEI2mYdyppHadOtKY3erudd3p1wJLDDz0PMFp45gCtiJ9Ep6OhDnrsyFGYIqFr0ZVeHqk1jw7TSyW--AIE7wJOHQtlt93R-G9KGvRXTXJF7D0DowYR8x7yI4OmOV9wp0RRol3KM9Wmxr-1g/s960/Birkenkopf.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="960" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggfyd4kHmzF8noh1p4A2aAetTuAEug9GkU76Ww6ofhJ1wVEI2mYdyppHadOtKY3erudd3p1wJLDDz0PMFp45gCtiJ9Ep6OhDnrsyFGYIqFr0ZVeHqk1jw7TSyW--AIE7wJOHQtlt93R-G9KGvRXTXJF7D0DowYR8x7yI4OmOV9wp0RRol3KM9Wmxr-1g/w400-h300/Birkenkopf.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGr-9LgBDAirBR6mbicWECAYt78VMMyECm1bX-PcZZ6LXGy7sGAxKiAPb0hxyJ-08CYJbZRRt7BczuPTXTUTvCKJQkiacSrnQjK137JLRFagdSFtvjQEN960_eOrBanWw0qTk5Ycbdpf7LPQ58W8VljPtxkH7qqUNPGCiRRsQIP9EAwTLH4W8MWRcuYw/s960/Birkenkopf%20-%209%20July%202016.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="960" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGr-9LgBDAirBR6mbicWECAYt78VMMyECm1bX-PcZZ6LXGy7sGAxKiAPb0hxyJ-08CYJbZRRt7BczuPTXTUTvCKJQkiacSrnQjK137JLRFagdSFtvjQEN960_eOrBanWw0qTk5Ycbdpf7LPQ58W8VljPtxkH7qqUNPGCiRRsQIP9EAwTLH4W8MWRcuYw/w400-h300/Birkenkopf%20-%209%20July%202016.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">My hike upon the Birkenkopf, Stuttgart, 9 July 2016. It was <br />a very spiritual place, awakening something within me as I <br />meditated over the forests and valleys an hour-and-a-half to <br />the east that were home to most of my paternal ancestors.<br /></span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /><div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><i>Earth-Sun-Moon: Three-Bodied Planetary Ecosystem</i></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> Mother Earth nurtures all beings on our planet with Her energies and holds our space within the universe so we may experience ourselves physically. She is our dimension, her movements linked to those of the Cosmos. One of the biggest delusions of scientism is to dismiss Her as "just" one planet among other planets. Her unique sentience was embraced by the esoteric Mysteries, with their teachings about the <i>trimorphic protennoia</i> "three-bodied original intention" of the Earth Goddess meaning she forms a closed, integrated, symbiotic ecosystem with a satellite (the Moon) and a central star (the Sun). "We on Earth inhabit a three-body cosmos. Sophia is essentially the matriarch of a single-parent family - a single-planet goddess, if you will. But she relies on the support of the surrogate bodies, sun and moon, to manage her terrestrial brood."(20) As John Lamb Lash expresses it, the <i>protennoia</i> was the right cosmic setting for our species to emerge and demonstrate our singularity.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> Our three-bodied ecosystem was expressed in lunisolar calendars reckoning time from a harmony of Sun and Moon cycles, synchronized with Nature. Solar cults were as widespread as Mother Earth veneration, as the Sun's rays provided the light and warmth necessary for life to thrive. </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">Germanic etymology links the Sun to "Soul" and Moon to "mind" and "memory", as these are two different aspects of one ecosystem together with Earth - all three bodies give us Consciousness down to the darkest parts of our psyche. These celestial bodies form a feedback loop, with the Mind (Moon) reflecting the light of the Soul (Sun) upon the Earth; our soul has this connection with the </span><i style="font-family: georgia;">Nous</i><span style="font-family: georgia;"> or Divine Mind (known as </span><i style="font-family: georgia;">Citta</i><span style="font-family: georgia;"> in the Vedic tradition). Mind is not only the intellect but is also the Gaian/Sophianic energy of care and intuition, the sacred feminine heart-based intelligence joined with the sacred masculine critical-based intelligence, united into the right action that would radiate our true Soul purpose. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> Whether the official view of the Moon born from a collision between Earth and another planet, or the "capture" theory of the Moon being captured within the Earth's gravitational force, there is much to back up the remarkable anomalies of our Moon. Its larger than the moons of other planets, underscoring our unique the trimorphic ecosystem. So is it larger when rising on the horizon, while the Sun remains consistent whether it rises or sets. The light reflected by the full moon cause certain flowers to bloom, animals to migrate, and affects human behavior in weird ways. Like Earth's two poles (North and South), the two Moon nodes (Rahu and Ketu in Vedic astrology) create two areas of electromagnetic energies opposite each other. Like Earth, t</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">he Moon has a liquid iron-core and tectonic plates. Its gravitational pull causes ocean tides to rise and fall. </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">Menstrual cycles align with lunar cycles (despite recent <a href="https://sjobst.blogspot.com/2022/03/on-natural-law-and-immunity-spiritual.html">unnatural</a> disruptions), honoring women with a self-cleansing ability like Mother Earth's. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"> Their unnatural schemes include a geoengineering(21) desperate to destroy Earth's life-force energies and vibrations and replace them with their own archontic simulations, motivated by their envy and hatred of Earth and Humanity. Massive electrification is an effort to blot out and replace the natural auras of Earth by creating a false one of their own. Despite their best efforts, these are ultimately destined to fail since their motives are profane and against Natural Law, succeeding in the present only by the compliance of most people. This should make us even more responsible to expose them and work against their efforts. They were preceded by other centralizing social-engineering efforts, such as unbalanced Solar cults (i.e. Akhenaten, Sol Invictus, and Aztec temple sacrifices), or erroneous identification some occultists make between the Moon and an "Eighth Sphere" </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">(not to deny there <i>is</i> validity to an Eighth Sphere in principle). Nor should the importance of the Sun be denied: We should expose insane schemes to "block out" the Sun backed by certain technocratic oligarchs and Globalist agencies, using <a href="https://sjobst.blogspot.com/2022/07/animism-and-lessons-of-earths-power-1.html">global warming</a> as an excuse but actually about their "Smart Cities" Reset of 2030.(22) </span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5mEKZkf1HPI_T9kuTP4aH7UP_5f5qqkmfLTyeOTbfbYPiFGP0rxEQW_Duh-VDBIkrZzZ0IbsJCKQqHZ0C6GVzn6Ijg8wq_ftXR_KC-leZzjrjizfgzrMqN5CxFPoa7Dtn8CEzvttEbjOqo3kR0cLT3kyGm_z9OcKEUGBakNal9HE_zSRhbJAOmgji0w/s768/16713243368_0bcd26026d_b-768x533.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="533" data-original-width="768" height="278" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5mEKZkf1HPI_T9kuTP4aH7UP_5f5qqkmfLTyeOTbfbYPiFGP0rxEQW_Duh-VDBIkrZzZ0IbsJCKQqHZ0C6GVzn6Ijg8wq_ftXR_KC-leZzjrjizfgzrMqN5CxFPoa7Dtn8CEzvttEbjOqo3kR0cLT3kyGm_z9OcKEUGBakNal9HE_zSRhbJAOmgji0w/w400-h278/16713243368_0bcd26026d_b-768x533.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEif7uycDxrZ3gi9oYQju6ZQiLTWd5V4AaBCifU3X_DUs7FfQNE1xjjnvFmpg51TsbFhBfcNfGhiUULaUAkhsyoOwTKC11o1jS7k7RjzWV0yXTr_rensde4SLlrAPA9AkPXWyhmWeveYNf0kZjqngvHyPpvyzBefTcbG7jT_Fhg2Jw8JclPsFZErvDm0LA/s947/natutral-frequency-of-gaia-and-us.webp" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="711" data-original-width="947" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEif7uycDxrZ3gi9oYQju6ZQiLTWd5V4AaBCifU3X_DUs7FfQNE1xjjnvFmpg51TsbFhBfcNfGhiUULaUAkhsyoOwTKC11o1jS7k7RjzWV0yXTr_rensde4SLlrAPA9AkPXWyhmWeveYNf0kZjqngvHyPpvyzBefTcbG7jT_Fhg2Jw8JclPsFZErvDm0LA/w400-h300/natutral-frequency-of-gaia-and-us.webp" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The<i> true</i> frequencies of Earth form a natural resonance, not to be <br />confused with their <i>false</i> geoengineering/electrification efforts. <br />The matter always goes back to Energy and Vibrations.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"> The problem is when the lunar or solar are unbalanced and not synchronized with Animism. Its not about only the visible bodies but their spiritual energies, with a link between water as flowing spirit and fire or sunlight as the release of spirit. Mesoamerican cosmology holds that the Soul comes from the skies, engendered by the Sun and entering the fetus head born within the waters. The Celts spoke of the Soul residing in the head; the face provides individuation in psychological terms. Waters are symbolic of the Subconscious and were seen as "portals" to the Otherworld. Scientists admit that water holds memories, bringing what was unconscious back to Consciousness. The Mayan <i>Popol Vuh</i> mentions a time when the sky was in suspense and the Earth submerged in water, until "the waters were agitated by the will of <i>Hurakan</i> (the Heart of Heaven)." This refers to our (human) conscious emergence out of spiritual energies. </span></div></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> We can find deep wisdom within the Mayan creation myth. As noted by the late Guatemalan Mayan elder and spiritual guide Carlos Barrios, Sky and Earth arose out of an Infinite Void, "the matrix from which every Universe arose."(23) This Infinite Void appears similar to the Norse and Germanic <i>Ginnungagap</i>, with interaction between the fire and water/ice elements.(24) Our physical realm was manifested by two deities named Heart of Earth and Heart of Sky, the "Great Father" whose name contains the Mayan word <i>Hu</i> for both "heart" and "one".(25) Barrios mentioned how the Heart of Sky is related to the Sun but not the hidden Sun which is "the Heart of Hearts, the Sun of Suns, the center and generator of the universe."(26) The concept of a primordial void or abyss represents pure unmanifested potential, the true meaning of "nothingness". Out of this Galactic Center, the <i>ceiba</i> World Tree that serves as a conduit between the three worlds and represents the Milky Way, four directions emanated, each defining one's purpose and destiny in life.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> Just as the Galactic Center emanates the outward arms of the Cosmos and the World Tree represents the central interconnectedness of Earth with other worlds, our Heart is the central organ without which our physical body could not experience life, the joining of spirit with matter so consciousness can experience itself. Barrios expressed the Mayan view that the heart is one of the four aspects of the human alongside spirit, mind, and body: "Find your heart, and you will find your way." There has been too much disassociation between the body and spirit, heart and mind, that need to find alignment again. Simplicity is the key, not elaborate rituals and distracting thoughts planted in our minds to perpetuate our disconnect. </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">As noted by anthropologist Enna Reittort, many Asian languages have a unified "heart-mind": </span><i style="font-family: georgia;">Citta</i><span style="font-family: georgia;"> means "mind" in Sanskrit but also "heart" in Bengali. In Chinese, </span><i style="font-family: georgia;">xin</i><span style="font-family: georgia;"> refers to both the physical heart but also "mind" and "will". The Japanese have </span><i style="font-family: georgia;">kokoro</i><span style="font-family: georgia;">, a concept joining together the heart, mind, spirit, and soul in harmony. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> The point of all these wisdom teachings is not to delineate ourselves into different parts, but to achieve <i>inner</i> unity within <i>outer</i> multiplicity. Much like the Sun, its the Heart that <i>warms</i> our intelligence and mind. Like the Moon that reflects sunlight, the Heart can <i>reflect</i> our spiritual energies to cultivate true alignment with the "fire" within and without us. The benefits of sunlight are well-known (despite efforts by the medical tyranny to exaggerate or outright invent the harms) and long known as an important source of <i>prana</i> "life-force" energy. It was affirmed worldwide in various mythological motifs of an outstretched figure planted within the underworld, enveloped by our Mother Earth, and serving as a conduit for the energies of the upper world. Various energies from the Earth and Sun are sources for the life-power known to Norse and Germanic peoples as <i>Megin</i> or <i>Magina</i>. All these esoteric teachings were encoded from the earliest <a href="https://swabian-pride.blogspot.com/2020/02/roots-of-proto-celticgermanic-mythos_25.html">prehistoric finds</a> up to Leonardo da Vinci's Vetruvian Man during the Renaissance, and throughout various indigenous spiritual practices.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgY9yA7Rxy0tKjhpVvRXD_7115eHBx9iHD-EENNijecwr73l2mrUNrMkCWEHax4lKjiIC6YqiR3r2bY-OjNj9B2NftUOIOveTsKb6k3LtILGlSGJwOoCtxobaMxN9cejbKhH1yiFC7lSIckS78H3vUShtDaQdZ54V4YjzyINK3kM1VkHbJ-E7NvWETHlQ/s648/irminsul%20sunset.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="648" data-original-width="648" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgY9yA7Rxy0tKjhpVvRXD_7115eHBx9iHD-EENNijecwr73l2mrUNrMkCWEHax4lKjiIC6YqiR3r2bY-OjNj9B2NftUOIOveTsKb6k3LtILGlSGJwOoCtxobaMxN9cejbKhH1yiFC7lSIckS78H3vUShtDaQdZ54V4YjzyINK3kM1VkHbJ-E7NvWETHlQ/s320/irminsul%20sunset.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The sacred Irminsul, continental Germanic form of<br />the World Tree that represents interconnectedness<br />of all life (Animism) and conduit of energies and <br />communication between the seven worlds. (It was<br />nine worlds for the Norse, connected by Yggdrasil).</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><i>Middle Earth, World Tree, and Polar Symbolisms</i></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> The world we can sense, perceive, and know is in the sacred middle, inseparable from the upper and lower worlds. These spiritual energies and symbolisms are so </span><i style="font-family: georgia;">real</i><span style="font-family: georgia;"> they cannot be reduced to a "physical" place.(27) The middle world with an "enclosed garden" is a primal awareness evolved from our earliest Stone Age ancestors.(28) For the Celts, </span><i style="font-family: georgia;">Mediolanum</i><span style="font-family: georgia;"> "sanctuary, sacred enclosure, center", deriving from Proto Celtic </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">*</span><i style="font-family: georgia;">medyos</i><span style="font-family: georgia;"> "middle" + </span><i style="font-family: georgia;">lanom</i><span style="font-family: georgia;"> "plain, field",</span><span style="font-family: georgia;"> is "a Middle Earth whose sacred sites correspond to places in the upper and lower worlds."(29) The Germanic terms for middle world, such as Norse <i>midgard</i>, Old High German <i>mittilgart</i>, or Old English <i>middangeard</i>, literally mean "middle enclosure". Germanic animism is expressed in the name for the various worlds, -<i>heim</i> "home". </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">Even the word <i>environment</i> contains <i>environs</i> that connect and <i>envelop</i> us within Middle Earth. Its not so much the physical world as the deeper metaphysical and spiritual existence on </span><i style="font-family: georgia;">all</i><span style="font-family: georgia;"> levels that our spirit experiences <i>through</i> the material.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> The Celts taught that the soul can transcend the body, with the Druids formulating a Five Fold system corresponding each part of an individual with an element, direction, and Moon phase. The Spirit/Soul is "at the Center of the Four Elements, joining them all and creating a balanced, and unified empowerment." Linked to the element of Air, Spirit/Soul is inseparable from Animism, which is also why it corresponds to the Overworld enveloping all other realms through the sacred center. Symbolic of the perpetual flame "that transforms and interconnects the Three Realms of Water, Earth, and Fire": "Through the Fire we honor the Sky, the Otherworld, and the Solar Deities, carrying our offerings upwards. This concept of unity let us understand that the spirit is present in all, as part of the oneness of body, spirit, and mind. The passage of the Otherworld is within us. This is the highest expression of the Druidic Ritual World, the interconnection of the clan, the self, and the cosmos."(30)</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> At the Sacred Center connecting all realms, beings, and energies is the World Tree. This is the "great pillar" or universal column known to ancient Germans as the Irminsul and Norse as Yggdrasil. Its the <i>axis mundi</i> that channels the Earth's energy lines and their resonance with movements of the Cosmos, like a spoke rotating a wheel. This movement is symbolic in the dual meaning of <i>Yggdrasil</i> being also the stead of Óðinn who "slips" across worlds. Its branches expand outward across the skies while its three roots (or "wells" within the lore) seep into the underworld, to represent the cyclical journey of the Soul from waters of the Mother's womb (both human and Earth), up through the "afterlife" journey into the stars, and back into the Underworld realm of our Ancestors. The World Tree balances masculine and feminine energies, being both a phallic symbol and representing female reproduction, including the umbilical cord that is symbolic of our connection with the sky world. The World Tree symbolizes the Cosmic Order around which everything is structured and naturally flows.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> For Celtic and Germanic peoples, the World Tree was connected with through sacred groves centered around a large tree, such as the <i>nemetons</i>. Of course, they knew these trees weren't the <i>literal</i> World Tree but representations so much as <i>all</i> is imbued with the Spirit and Consciousness since we are Animists. Its no coincidence the Abrahamic god possessed a strange fanatical hatred of trees (despite calling himself "creator"), from his jealousy against the tree poles of Asherah (see Deuteronomy 12: 3–4, 2 Kings 23:14–15) the Semitic Mother Goddess(31), up to their destruction of our sacred groves across Europe (and what followed elsewhere due to the <a href="https://sjobst.blogspot.com/2022/08/animism-and-lessons-of-earths-power-2.html">Victim-Perpetrator Bond</a>). It was a desperate attempt to sever our innate connection to a sacred, vibrant Earth and disrupt the Cosmic Order - I'll discuss this in a future article on Irminsul. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqQ2mvXo-8XEasI7CZKFpoQdIsBCYyHpJdILtOf8-Fh0d0-S4WhNBWma8Kid09c_MvQkFzwCmmQCRycPZsIrOTGGP1sitFlvtP-JCRXy_swa4B3mBp0jzsCd9Oh7LR6bkB_eJkx-fIZTFdstryTQj1K_ans1-z0nYvG6pZBjVq1XGZBjDkY0HGNJ1NvQ/s1280/maxresdefault.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1280" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqQ2mvXo-8XEasI7CZKFpoQdIsBCYyHpJdILtOf8-Fh0d0-S4WhNBWma8Kid09c_MvQkFzwCmmQCRycPZsIrOTGGP1sitFlvtP-JCRXy_swa4B3mBp0jzsCd9Oh7LR6bkB_eJkx-fIZTFdstryTQj1K_ans1-z0nYvG6pZBjVq1XGZBjDkY0HGNJ1NvQ/w400-h225/maxresdefault.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">There are many efforts to correlate Vedic chakra systems to the <br />World Tree and aspects of native European spirituality. Source <br />for the image is the excellent "Norse Magic and Beliefs" channel.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> Trees are highly symbolic of the interplay of elements, whether it be fire sparked by lightning striking its bark and branches, the air it breathes to us and we exchange with it through our carbon, and indeed the ether permeating Earth-Cosmos. Norse lore refers to Óðinn breathing into wood, creating his "brothers" Villi and Ve, who then blew Consciousness into human beings. This was not a literal "creation" of human beings but an allegory for the Spirit/Soul (Óðinn) that "creates" the conscious Will/Desire/Mind (Vili) and Heart/Passion (Ve). The interplay of the air, water, and fire elements, which also exists within Celtic cosmology. Its no accident the Irish sacred letters known as Ogham, each relates to a tree and is pronounced like the "<i>Om</i>" sound that represents the essence of <i>Atman</i>/Consciousness in the Vedas. For the same principle we look at how the Germanic Runes were "discovered" through Wodan's initiation upon the World Tree - its about the "writing" (manifested reality) coming out of the primordial vibrations of the Cosmos. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"> Relating the principle "As Above, So Below", we can perceive the Milky Way as a central "column" or "pillar", its expanse symbolized by "two arms" much as the Galactic Center emanates its "arms" outward. This could be another reason for the motif of a figure with outstretched arms to conduct and exchange energies. The Irminsul could also be seen on a cosmic level as the unmoving center around which bodies of the galaxy "swirled", an expansive generative force towards multiplicity. <i>Irmingweg</i> happens to be a German name for the "Milky Way" cited in some historical sources. As noted by the Austrian Germanist Rudolf Simek, the realms of Middle Earth and that of the Gods were joined through a Way (uueg), "the swaying road to heaven."(32) Much as the World Tree is the <i>axis</i> upon which Earth and Cosmic energies flow and channel, so too our bodies have Kundalini energies, related to the German </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i>Wirbelsäule</i> "whirl column". The same esoteric principle is imbued in the <i>Triskele</i>, the ancient Celtic triple spirals which can be related to harmony of mind, body, and spirit.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"> Energy and elements is present in Celtic mythology of a primordial Cauldron, whose three elements correlate to three wells and Nornir at the World Tree's trunk within Germanic mythology. A shamanic allegory preserved by the Druids can be seen in a mysterious Irish poem discovered in the medieval era, that also relates "three cauldrons" to energy points within the human body: "</span>Where is the root of poetry in a person - in the body or in this soul? Some say it is in the soul, for the body does nothing without the soul. Some say it is in the body, where the arts are learned, passed through the bodies of our ancestors ['to father from grandfather' in the literal Irish]. It is said that this is the truth remaining over the root of poetry and wisdom in every person's ancestry does not come from the Northern Sky into every one, but into every other person."(33)</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> The "Northern Sky" refers to the Pole Star, the point around which everything rotates. A symbolic North which is the realm of the Gods, the center of wisdom, and place where the Soul journeys into the body through the ancestral cycle. Mother Earth's ambient frequencies known as the Schumann resonance, "rotate" while pointed towards this star. This Pole or the "trunk" of the World Tree, is the point where the fiery <i>Muspelheim</i> (unmanifested pure energy) meets the icy/watery <i>Niflheim</i> (the material, structural energy) - emanation from the center coming back into itself. Mythological symbols and figures now viewed as Solar were often initially Polar, the former relating more towards the external and the latter to the internal.(34) As I've expressed through this article, our Earth is a vibrant, sentient place enchanted with Sacred Mysteries. She forms part of a three-bodied ecosystem so we can arrive at an animistic <i>Gnosis</i> of Cosmology: Knowing ourselves and our powers/energies related to Earth and Cosmos.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaLdVG9Mr5XkUIc0omezoL6HT2Snsk4G-waS0zGotFGqsAJSaMa-Ovc2ohcqdsVko7OUKjC_xtDV8fv_dxxTNtB4W5bHcwniQ2mIZaHU5FWRUsX3IgYmX2HjjhPqeoKh48KTPFiDdGyOmaTAgB5u3ejQEvdtBrpQb5Zu6VRFhMbxRYa4Kskys01bIOvw/s432/Spirit%20of%20the%20Elements%20-%20Josephine%20Wall.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="432" data-original-width="343" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaLdVG9Mr5XkUIc0omezoL6HT2Snsk4G-waS0zGotFGqsAJSaMa-Ovc2ohcqdsVko7OUKjC_xtDV8fv_dxxTNtB4W5bHcwniQ2mIZaHU5FWRUsX3IgYmX2HjjhPqeoKh48KTPFiDdGyOmaTAgB5u3ejQEvdtBrpQb5Zu6VRFhMbxRYa4Kskys01bIOvw/w318-h400/Spirit%20of%20the%20Elements%20-%20Josephine%20Wall.jpg" width="318" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"Spirit of the Elements" by Josephine Wall</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><i>Footnotes and Sources:</i></b></span></div><div><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">(1) John Trudell, from his "We are Power" speech on Thanksgiving 1980: <<a href="https://airwalker.tumblr.com/post/69013049722/john-trudells-1980-thanksgiving-day-address">https://airwalker.tumblr.com/post/69013049722/john-trudells-1980-thanksgiving-day-address</a>>. These are the <i>masks</i> or <i>persona</i> of authority, as I discussed in an article last November: <<a href="https://sjobst.blogspot.com/2021/11/addendum-20-on-death-pathology-neuro.html">https://sjobst.blogspot.com/2021/11/addendum-20-on-death-pathology-neuro.html</a>>.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">(2) </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">For more on these core foundations, see Mark Passio's presentations on Sovereignty and Natural Law. For more on the archons, see the work of John Lamb Lash. For how these relate to the warnings of tribal peoples about psychopathic viruses, I recommend the work of Paul Levy on </span><i style="font-family: georgia;">wetiko</i><span style="font-family: georgia;">, the Algonquin term for this virus that eats away at spirit and mind</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">(3) From John Trudell's speech at Berkeley, 26 April 1997: <<a href="http://sisis.nativeweb.org/sov/trudbari.html">http://sisis.nativeweb.org/sov/trudbari.html</a>>. His work long resonated with me for my past activism, but only after awakening </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">to my own native European spirituality four years ago have I found a deeper appreciation of what this great Santee poet and thinker was expressing. For more on how I came to realize my pro-Indigenous activism was foremost an internal process of my unconscious ancestral awakening (beyond just the external justice and human decency motives), see my article: "Reflections of a Wašíču on the Pine Ridge Rez," <</span><a href="https://sjobst.blogspot.com/2021/05/reflections-of-wasicu-on-pine-ridge-rez.html" style="font-family: georgia;">https://sjobst.blogspot.com/2021/05/reflections-of-wasicu-on-pine-ridge-rez.html</a><span style="font-family: georgia;">>.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">(4) From his talk "Direct Access to The Divine," recorded on 16 Dec. 2011, <<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZ-4S8FV82w">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZ-4S8FV82w</a>>. The great Pagan <i>philosophers</i> ("lovers of wisdom") stressed the essential Goodness of the Deities while the concept of "perfection" was entirely alien to them, thus avoiding the endless debates over "evil" that obsess Abrahamic theologians and their atheist detractors alike. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">(5) Another perfect example is the scheme to erase student debt: The State "forgives" those loans by passing the burden of paying to others whose resources and wealth they steal. </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">Over 60% of student debt here in America is incurred by the wealthiest and upper-middle classes - contrary to either the State's or their "Progressive" supporters' propaganda. Those who bought into the lie of degrees that are now mostly centered around one's Social Credit and compliance to the State, a racket that churns out minds infected with Marxist doctrines and entrenches the Bankers' Debt machine.</span><span style="font-family: georgia;"> Narcissism works hand in glove with irresponsibility. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">(6) Carl Jung, "Approaching the Unconscious," in </span><i style="font-family: georgia;">Man and His Symbols</i><span style="font-family: georgia;">, Dell Publishing, 1968, p. 71.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">(7) Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, <i>Die Wahlverwandtschaften</i> (<i>Elective Affinities</i>), 1809; München: dtv Verlag, 1982, Book II, Chapter 5, p. 397.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">(8) "Radio Power will Revolutionize the World, by Nikola Tesla as told to Alfred Albelli," <i>Modern Mechanix and Inventions</i>, Vol. XII, No. 3, July, 1934. Available online: <<a href="https://teslaresearch.jimdofree.com/articles-interviews/radio-power-will-revolutionize-the-world-modern-mechanics-july-1934/">https://teslaresearch.jimdofree.com/articles-interviews/radio-power-will-revolutionize-the-world-modern-mechanics-july-1934/</a>>.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">(9) For these scientific observations, I am indebted to the work of Ken Wheeler (Theoria Apophasis), who challenges the presumptions of atomist-materialistic Scientism with a profound knowledge of ancient Vedic and Greek metaphysics.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">(10) See the recent talks of French astronomer and paranormal researcher Jacques Vallée, who cites the work of physicist Dr. Philippe Guillemant, <i>La route de temps</i> (<i>The Road of Time</i>, 2018). </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">Vallée broke through the extraterrestrial dogma of ufology with his pioneering research about the ultraterrestrial beings and phenomena long described by tribal cultures worldwide.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">(11) See his Higherside Chat interview "Comparative Cosmology, Gobekli Tepe, & The Spirit World," <<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0K3TGcf6md0">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0K3TGcf6md0</a>>.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">(12) Thomas Sheridan and Neil McDonald, <i>Atlantis: An Empire Lost and Found</i>, Megalithic Publishing, 2022, pp. 96-97. For more elaboration on this theme, see Sheridan's book <i>The Druid Code: Magic, Megaliths and Mythology</i>, Street Druid, 2017.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">(13) Gregory L. Little and Andrew Collins, <i>Origins of the Gods: Qesem Cave, Skinwalkers, and Contact with Transdimensional Intelligences</i>, Rochester, VT: Bear & Company, 2022.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">(14) John Lamb Lash, <i>Not In His Image: Gnostic Vision, Sacred Ecology, and the Future of Belief</i>, 15th Anniversary Edition, White River Junction, VT: Chelsea Green Publishing, 2021, pp. 398, 404.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">(15) <i>ibid.</i>, p. 326, citing James Lovelock, <i>Gaia: The Practical Science of Planetary Medicine</i>, Oxford University Press, 2000, p. 11.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">(16) Lynn Margulis and Dorian Saga, <i>What is Life?</i>, Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1995, pp. 59-60.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">(17) Tacitus, <i>Germania</i>, Chapter 2: "<i>deum terra editum</i>". </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">(18) Wade Davis, "Dreams from Endangered Cultures," <<a href="https://home.csulb.edu/~acargile/resources/WadeDaves.pdf">https://home.csulb.edu/~acargile/resources/WadeDaves.pdf</a>>.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">(19) From a Heathen view, <i>Arfr</i> forms "a set of universal and eternal ideas that are common to all spiritual traditions and are accessible through initiation into them." <i>Arfr</i> is "the higher philosophy and universal principles" behind </span><i>Siðr</i>/<i>Sidu</i>/<i>Situ</i>/*<i>Siduz</i>: Germanic words denoting "custom" and used synonymously with the "Old Ways" before our tribes were converted to the Abrahamic mind-virus. What survived through folk-customs and can be traced to our ancient practices, has been crucial in my Pagan path honoring the three aspects of my heritage. For more on the <i>Arfr</i>/<i>Siðr</i> distinction and how it relates to Tradition, see: Matthew Hern, "The Marriage of Heathenry and Chaos Magic: A Dagazian Paradox that Gave Birth to a Bastard Child," in <i>Elhaz Ablaze: A Compendium of Chaos Heathenry</i>, Elhaz Press, 2018, p. 37. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">(20) Lamb Lash, <i>op. cit.</i>, p. 184. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">(21) For more research on the evidence behind and harm caused by geoengineering and the electrification of Earth, I highly recommend the work of Elana Freeland. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">(22) </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">Jeff Tollefson, "First sun-dimming experiment will test a way to cool Earth," <i><a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-07533-4#ref-CR1">Nature</a></i>, Nov. 27, 2018; Trevor Nace, "Harvard Scientists Begin Experiment To Block Out The Sun," <i><a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/trevornace/2018/12/05/harvard-scientists-begin-experiment-to-block-out-the-sun/">Forbes</a></i>, Dec. 5, 2018; Jason Murdock, "Fact Check: Is Bill Gates Trying to Block the Sun?," <i><a href="https://www.newsweek.com/fact-check-bill-gates-block-sun-conspiracy-theory-scopex-1573108">Newsweek</a></i>, March 2, 2021; David Vetter, "Solar Geoengineering: Why Bill Gates Wants It, But These Experts Want To Stop It," <i><a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidrvetter/2022/01/20/solar-geoengineering-why-bill-gates-wants-it-but-these-experts-want-to-stop-it/">Forbes</a></i>, Jan. 20, 2022. There is a <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160202021453/http://www.google.com/patents/us5003186">1991 patent</a> for "stratospheric aerosol injection", openly discussed by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. </span></p><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">(23) Carlos Barrios, <i>The Book of Destiny: Unlocking the Secrets of the Ancient Mayans and the Prophecy of 2012</i>, trans. Lisa Carter. New York: HarperOne, 2009, p. 47. The word <i>matrix</i> actually means "womb", surviving in words like the Spanish <i>la matriz</i>. Its not the inverted simulation or "prison planet" it has been manipulated to denote in modern English.</span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">(24) "In the myths of these forest people, in particular the Germanic and Celtic tribes, the world was created out of the interplay between fire and water or, for the northern Germanic people, between fire and ice. These oppositional forces make up the totality of the world. Thereby, water symbolizes the beginning and fire the end: we are born from the watery uterus, and the funeral pyre releases us again from earthly existence." Wolf-Dieter Storl, <i>The Untold History of Healing: Plant Lore and Medicinal Magic From the Stone Age to Present</i>, Berkeley, CA: North Atlantic Books, 2017, p. 36.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">(25)</span><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span><i style="font-family: georgia;">Hu</i><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">is a primal vibration from the breath. I recall it from my past experience as a Sufi, among whom its an important</span><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span><i style="font-family: georgia;">dhikr</i><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">"remembrance", uttered out-loud as it was in my</span><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span><i style="font-family: georgia;">tariqa</i><span style="font-family: georgia;">, or silently uttered with the heart among other</span><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span><i style="font-family: georgia;">tariqat</i><span style="font-family: georgia;">. Among Sufis,</span><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span><i style="font-family: georgia;">Hu</i><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">refers to the essence or "oneness" of their god whose "spirit" or "breath" is often invoked. As one who <a href="https://sjobst.blogspot.com/2018/09/a-spiritual-transformation-my-journey.html">left</a> the Abrahamic paradigm in <b>all</b> of its iterations, I can now infer it was a primal sound carried over from the shamanic traditions conquered and absorbed by mystical Islam. There is value to breath-work in spiritual practice - just taking the natural magic (energy/vibrations) and not inverting it with the mind-virus, taking it back to one's indigenous forms.</span></div></div></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">(26) Barrios, <i>op. cit.</i>, p. 52.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">(27) See the article by Norwegian scholar Eldar Heide, "Contradictory cosmology in Old Norse myth and religion - but still a system?", in <i>Maal og Minne: Norske Studier</i> (Oslo), Vol. 106, 2014, pp. 102-143.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><div><br /></div><div>(28) Storl, <i>op. cit.</i>, pp. 102-103.</div><div><br /></div><div>(29) Graham Robb, <i>The Ancient Paths: Discovering the Lost Map of Celtic Europe</i>, London: Picador, 2014, p. xvi.</div><div><br /></div><div>(30) Eliseo Mauas Pinto, <i>The Celtic Otherworld</i>, CreateSpace, 2015, pp. 8-10.</div><div><br /></div><div>(31) The meanings of Asherah's epithets, such as Akkadian <i>rabitu</i> "lady", Ugaritic <i>Atirat</i> "lady of the sea", <i>qnyt 'ilm</i> "creatrix of the deities", and "mother of all living", all relate to their local Levantine forms of Mother Earth, whom combined within Herself aspects of various feminine energies through which cultures worldwide related such as Dawn and Sea Goddesses. So there was this envy and jealousy that Yaldabaoth who proclaimed his "Kingdom" off-planet but wanted it "on Earth as it is on Heaven", possessed against the Goddess who morphed into the Earth. He wanted to break the innate connection all <i>Ethnikos</i> had with Her.</div><div><br /></div><div>(32) Rudolf Simek, <i>Dictionary of Northern Mythology</i>, trans. Angela Hall, Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 1993, pp. 36-37. </div><div><br /></div><div>(33) <i>The Cauldron of Poesy</i>. For a deeper analysis of <i>The Cauldron</i>, see two articles: <<a href="http://obsidianmagazine.com/Pages/cauldronpoesy.html">http://obsidianmagazine.com/Pages/cauldronpoesy.html</a>> and <<a href="https://www.urban-druid.com/2019/04/19/the-cauldron-of-poesy/">https://www.urban-druid.com/2019/04/19/the-cauldron-of-poesy/</a>>.</div><div><br /></div><div>(34) See the work of esoteric teacher Mario Garza, who cites the work of John O'Neill, <i>The Night of the Gods: An Inquiry into Cosmic and Cosmogonic Mythology and Symbolism</i> (London: 2 volumes, 1893/1897); and an interesting Finnish text called the Bock Saga that contains many ancient esoteric teachings despite being "modern".</div></span></div></span></div>Sean Jobsthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17351165299354431339noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-907444223262019258.post-10517679684772018482022-08-05T15:28:00.007-05:002022-09-06T17:33:11.007-05:00Animism and Lessons of Earth's Power - 2. Roots of Disconnect and the Need to Reclaim Indigeny<p><span style="font-family: georgia;">by Sean Jobst </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">5 August 2022</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsU1UIvanCt8CUtHoBMGSEDp6Gp9foIifdy5gtBn4Yc87aD20mU6FUroTHHShomyB7VRc-LsE8HcYOTcmbtILcl21cQVZPrXEiu3eEgQQHmeQF8rOjcYXK84nWLo09db8NopSLMWSO_P3N0qZKixYbZxQcPuc6UIj5FqMIogSzccygBOOjO9CmYzThRg/s960/55a557d5703bf05942f83eb8e885cd55.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="745" data-original-width="960" height="310" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsU1UIvanCt8CUtHoBMGSEDp6Gp9foIifdy5gtBn4Yc87aD20mU6FUroTHHShomyB7VRc-LsE8HcYOTcmbtILcl21cQVZPrXEiu3eEgQQHmeQF8rOjcYXK84nWLo09db8NopSLMWSO_P3N0qZKixYbZxQcPuc6UIj5FqMIogSzccygBOOjO9CmYzThRg/w400-h310/55a557d5703bf05942f83eb8e885cd55.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"The Sacred Grove of the Druids" painting from the Opera Norma, <br />by Vincenzo Bellini (1801-1835). Our Ancestors, being Animistic, <br />worshipped outside in sacred groves and other natural sites.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> Animism was engrained within the cultures and allegorized through the lore of all peoples, shaping how they related not only to the world around but themselves down to the cellular level. It was only with the rise of Abrahamism in a small corner of the Middle East that this aberration arose of the Earth merely "created" for use and abuse by a human species who are separate and "above" it. </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">The mind-virus posits itself as </span><i style="font-family: georgia;">anthropocentricism</i><span style="font-family: georgia;">, seeming to build up the human while <i>actually</i> internalizing their lesser status to some off-planet god who "created" them flawed. This same god, who is "perfect" while still angered at the flaws of his creation, sent redeemers and saviors to "correct" what is inherently wrong morally and physically with the </span><i style="font-family: georgia;">anthropos</i><span style="font-family: georgia;">. This is projection at its most insidious, rearing its ugly head </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">in its latest forms of Transhumanism and Scientism, that pride themselves in rejection of traditional religions but are founded on the same mind-virus.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> One of the earliest organized critiques of this mentality was by Hellenic philosopher Celsus, whose <i>Logos Alethes</i> (<i>The True Word</i>, 175 CE) was burned by the Christian authorities but unwittingly survived through the attempted critique by early Church father Origen. Basing his arguments on the instinctive animist perspective, Celsus saw human beings as a type of animal like any other but endowed with certain faculties like reason. We are subject to the same natural laws as other beings, part of the same Nature. Many examples can be given of the wisdom, sentience, will to live, desire, conscious healing, and complex social structures of different types of animals. What about their abilities that are instinctual yet require more planning and effort when done by humans? It can't be presumed that the universe was "created" solely for humans, but more correctly that "all things have been adjusted, not with reference to each other, but with regard to their bearing upon the whole."(1) </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> In contrast to anthropocentricism is Biocentricism, centered upon the sentience and sanctity of all life, that all beings have a place within our shared existence. Nature and human beings have innate meaning and value. Abrahamism "prepared the way for a desacralized universe and, ultimately, a dehumanized one," as admitted by the Hungarian Catholic theologian Thomas Molnar. Their "rejection of folk myth and ritual, its reduction of nature to a created object, and its relegation of all holiness to a distant god left humanity with a wholly profane existence for the first time in history."(2) There is a supernatural element festering under this mind-virus we can identify with the <i>Wetiko</i> "cannibalistic" spirit (dehumanizing self-destructive) identified by the Algonquins and other American Indigenous tribes, or the Archontic Infection warned against in the Gnostic texts.(3) </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> This is the Religious Perception of Reality, founded upon the mind-virus that human beings are guilty and sinful for the "crime" of living in a "barren" world fit only for subjugation on behalf of an off-planet father god. At odds is the innate Spiritual Perception of Reality, founded upon the connectedness of everything, the sacred mystery of Earth, and human responsibility. We can identify it as an infection in the mind of specific human beings at a specific time and place in history, festering and spreading over centuries so that it has truly become institutional. "Spiritual reality is based upon responsibility. Religious realities are not spiritual. The religious reality that exists in these technologic industrial perceptions are not about responsibility — they’re about authoritarianism and guilt and sin and blame, domination and submission."(4)</span></p><p><br /></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiw11xD0ewPMFwHVRr_1xSgsnfm5z3rclPCtAMQK5TPVt-lD57Vsvg3F7sFLaKgSJggSfqA9o8MiMpdDROCzcZbAss4QSwKOMTM7JvsJTbS2tjEsuEP92HgprEimAawQeG0DZKmHvfZPFbmTZw_BCapNbjtsQlnzZgs5rv9n_0_0XB1RSRtyNuTUmHsRQ/s400/wetiko2.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="246" data-original-width="400" height="197" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiw11xD0ewPMFwHVRr_1xSgsnfm5z3rclPCtAMQK5TPVt-lD57Vsvg3F7sFLaKgSJggSfqA9o8MiMpdDROCzcZbAss4QSwKOMTM7JvsJTbS2tjEsuEP92HgprEimAawQeG0DZKmHvfZPFbmTZw_BCapNbjtsQlnzZgs5rv9n_0_0XB1RSRtyNuTUmHsRQ/s320/wetiko2.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Wetiko 2" illustration by Liana Buszka</td></tr></tbody></table><p><br /></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><i>Archontic Theological Roots of Disconnection</i></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> All tribal societies knew Earth as an enchanted place with vibrant interconnectedness of all sentient beings. It was only with an aberration that human beings were seen as separate and distinct from Nature, and this world was viewed as a barren place (as its sentience was denied) to be exploited and was associated with the "fall" of humanity from an off-planet Eden. As I discussed in <a href="https://sjobst.blogspot.com/2022/07/animism-and-lessons-of-earths-power-1.html">Part 1</a>, there is the Kabbalistic theme of "divine sparks" (<i>qlippoth</i>)(5) shattering upon the "creation" of this world and became associated with "lower" nature. The messianic, utopian impulses driving control ideologies throughout history have arisen as ways to "save" people from themselves. You are "guilty" for the "sin" of being born into this "lower" world.(6)</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">Such mental aberration arose at a specific time among the Hebrews, until then just another tribe little different from their Semitic neighbors. So it wasn't their </span><i style="font-family: georgia;">nature</i><span style="font-family: georgia;"> but the result of a mind-virus implant, a mental </span><i style="font-family: georgia;">hack </i><span style="font-family: georgia;">not genetic or biological</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">.</span><span style="font-family: georgia;"> Its a <a href="https://sjobst.blogspot.com/2022/03/on-natural-law-and-immunity-spiritual.html">supernatural attack </a>by predators "that came from the depths of the cosmos and took over the rule of our lives," in the words of the Peruvian-Mexican shaman Carlos Castaneda (through the archetypal Yaqui teacher Don Juan). "The predators give us their mind, which becomes our mind. The predators' mind is baroque, contradictory, morose, filled with the fear of being discovered any minute now."(7) The main result of this mind-virus was <i>mental</i> disconnect of humans from the Source, the living and conscious Earth Mother, with all the self-empowerment and wisdom that <i>inspires</i>; the instinctual Animism <i>known</i> by all our tribal ancestors no matter where in the world. The visionary Gnostic teacher John Lamb Lash expressed it brilliantly: </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> "In the Gnostic perspective the Archons are not only mind parasites - delusional nodes in the human mind, considered as quasi-autonomous psychic entities, if you will - they are cosmic imposters, parasites who pose as gods. But they lack the primary divine factor of <i>ennoia</i>, 'intentionality,' 'creative will.' They cannot originate anything, they can only imitate, and they must effectuate their copycat activity with subterfuge and stealth, lest its true nature be detected. Hence they offer Abraham something that already belongs to him as a member of the human race. The Earth has already been given to humanity: it is the precious habitat the goddess Sophia dreamed for the Anthropos, and which she manifested by the metamorphosis of her own divine luminosity. The Archons approach Abraham with a fake deal, promising him possession and domination of the terrestrial realm, but this is not compatible with Sophia's <i>ennoia</i>, her divine intention. The Earth is not a territorial prize but a precious setting where the human species can realize its innate genius, its capacity for novelty, acting within the natural boundaries set by the Goddess. The Archons mimic the divine <i>ennoia</i>, Sophia's intention, and at the same time they invert it. In place of participation in the divine miracle of symbiosis and evolutionary emergence, which is the true birthright of humanity, they promise Abraham a fake sovereignty that works against that birthright and deviates human purpose from its proper course of unfoldment. This is countermimicry in action."(8)</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p><br /></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigSFmvl0ekag9hz5aUCTn8lr49eh93KsRTJelyqMHtc5GwSoofC0WEb18ipWpJROFIBYazn3uapoqrvyLPE17LW2EKxQfsjuMPHBhCmS2QCuUqwMIK5ckg4g2STZDDqy2K0wMYYNzShijwQm-9keMclXlAg97wbvtIB2ot0F0KTOiREqn-vxugYC--Lw/s1024/5316364012_57e416acc4_b.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="680" data-original-width="1024" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigSFmvl0ekag9hz5aUCTn8lr49eh93KsRTJelyqMHtc5GwSoofC0WEb18ipWpJROFIBYazn3uapoqrvyLPE17LW2EKxQfsjuMPHBhCmS2QCuUqwMIK5ckg4g2STZDDqy2K0wMYYNzShijwQm-9keMclXlAg97wbvtIB2ot0F0KTOiREqn-vxugYC--Lw/w400-h266/5316364012_57e416acc4_b.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"The Meeting of Abraham and Melchizedek" (1626) by the Flemish<br />painter Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640). Without ancestors or genealogy <br />(Hebrews 7:3), Melchezidek was a shadowy figure who anointed priesthood <br />upon Abraham. The Midrash says he secretly taught Torah to the Patriarchs <br />before it was publicly "revealed" at Sinai. Talmudic scholars regard him as <br />"guardian angel" of Israel. The Zohar calls him "the King Who rules with <br />complete sovereignty." He is identified with the <i>nasi </i>"warrior agent" in the <br />Zaddikites' Dead Sea Scrolls, a messianic title given to Sephardic financier <br />and proto-Zionist Joseph Mendes in the 16th century. Paul compares Jesus to <br />Melchezidek throughout Hebrews 7, as a divine redeemer and savior.<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span><span style="font-family: georgia;"> We can easily trace the steps by which this mind virus was implanted and distorted what was already held by this tribe previously indistinguishable from its other Semitic neighbors. </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">These tribes were united by belief in a father god named El who portioned lands to his "sons" (collectively called the Elohim), who each became associated with a different people (Deuteronomy 32:8). Multiplicity was still embraced in the idea of El presiding over a "divine assembly" to "render judgement among the gods" (Psalm 82:1). </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">According to the Ugarit list of gods, found near modern Latakia, El overthrew and usurped the power of his father. </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">His name is attested in archaeological findings and inscriptions from the Levant as far back as 2000 BCE. </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">YHWH, literally meaning "lord", was El's son who had been allotted the Hebrews (Deuteronomy 32:9). They elevated him as Elyon "Most High" after having been only the local god of Jerusalem. The earliest historical mention of Yahweh is from a 14th century BCE Egyptian inscription on a wall cartouche in Soleb Temple, built by Pharaoh Amenhotep III in Nubia: "The Shashu of Yahweh's Land."(9) </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> This mysterious land has not been identified, although proponents of the Kenite hypothesis identify it with Midian given his associations with a volcano (Exodus 19:16-18, 20:18, Psalm 97:5). His earliest Biblical reference was in association with Seth's son Enosh (Genesis 4:26). At some point YHWH elevated himself over his fellow <i>elohim</i> (Psalm 89:6) and commanded them to only worship him (Psalm 29:1). </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">While proclaiming himself all-powerful, Yahweh was still overpowered by Chemosh's chariots (Judges 1:19, 2 Kings 3). </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">These foundational texts of Abrahamism, which later birthed the scriptures of Christianity and Islam, did not deny the Deities but proclaimed their own tribal god as the one "superior" and "jealous" over the others. Only gradually was this multiplicity of spiritual beings actually denied, after being considered "demons" (which still accepted their existence), in ways foreshadowing how modern atheistic transhumanists deny the soul and consciousness.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> From this mythic event of Yahweh's elevation over the <i>elohim</i> it was a natural conclusion to deny Animism. The <span>Israeli Biblical scholar Yehezel Kaufmann stressed the central difference between Judaism that arose out of the Hebrews, and the polytheistic and animistic Gentiles (<i>goyim</i> "the nations"). </span><span>The latter is a "metadivine realm" or "meta-dimension" wherein there is permeability between different realms of reality, a magical "fabric" embedded within everything. Earth is accepted as an enchanted realm where human beings can tap into creative power. This is "useless" for the monotheists whose god "transcends" Nature "because their conceptualization of god and their conceptualization of the world does not really allow for human beings to permeate within the fabric of reality in a way to access the source of it all and enter in communication with the gods."(10) </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgavBhgqoIDi3Dq1eqZwt9PEtHoEml1-hPTG7miuzYzJX4YFurIhiwIgsFXNow4WIXiLTW0m5Y0AabTwDUGYGQla_OEf7nkgh6Y4Mp9Jiiq9NP9PkI_UQ_NmHpzoQvi7aerKeAXBxTiPPsYlIcIANFeeRS8tuaxqeMDJQsiSckFj1U3UzNddlcgqSttag/s1280/maxresdefault.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1280" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgavBhgqoIDi3Dq1eqZwt9PEtHoEml1-hPTG7miuzYzJX4YFurIhiwIgsFXNow4WIXiLTW0m5Y0AabTwDUGYGQla_OEf7nkgh6Y4Mp9Jiiq9NP9PkI_UQ_NmHpzoQvi7aerKeAXBxTiPPsYlIcIANFeeRS8tuaxqeMDJQsiSckFj1U3UzNddlcgqSttag/w400-h225/maxresdefault.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Hebrew apayim, "nostrils" but often rendered as his "anger" <br />(Exodus 34:6, Numbers 14:18, Joel 2:13, Jonah 4:2, Nahum 1:3,<br />Nehemiah 9:17, Psalm 86:15, 103:8, 145:8). "Smoke rose from <br />his nostrils; consuming fire came from his mouth, burning coals<br />blazed out of it" (Psalm 18:8). "Finding refuge under your wings"<br />(Psalm 17:8, 57:1, 61:4, 63:7, 91:4). He sent "fiery serpents" <br />(Numbers 21:6) and ordered an idol built of Nehushtan<br />(2 Kings 18:4) while demanding human sacrifice (Numbers 31:17,<br />36-40). "One transcendent god" hiding his identity in plain sight.<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaHKTXFwXhp0B-_Jop3cqSDyr0S346PA_PL9prkiuYpq17DgJF590Q98HVpdH6255tmA5J8Wc3Hg_J8THKvD7vabvYxH8KDfI-NYlnonzjqt_J2xYKAmD0eWC-4e9W5ThfkEOjfPcZixs8Z8LCPbVSELtZWn7TeFeXF0y3L6AUJy4B1-D8GSTjDth3mw/s1600/79fc44047f40574d9d6aef6576630907.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1066" data-original-width="1600" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaHKTXFwXhp0B-_Jop3cqSDyr0S346PA_PL9prkiuYpq17DgJF590Q98HVpdH6255tmA5J8Wc3Hg_J8THKvD7vabvYxH8KDfI-NYlnonzjqt_J2xYKAmD0eWC-4e9W5ThfkEOjfPcZixs8Z8LCPbVSELtZWn7TeFeXF0y3L6AUJy4B1-D8GSTjDth3mw/w400-h266/79fc44047f40574d9d6aef6576630907.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The common worldwide motif of a dying-and-rising hero-god<br />figure crucified was stolen, then infected with the mind-virus <br />of salvationism. Compared to Nehushtan (John 3:14), itself an<br />inversion of global serpent imagery allegorical of Earth energies. <br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;"> This entity who proclaims himself "transcendent" yet still "jealous" over the Deities and "angry" over his alleged "creation" not submitting to him: Jehovah declares, "I am God and there is no other!" (Isaiah 45:5, 45:22, 46:9). "Besides me there is no savior" (Isaiah 43:11). In archontic fashion, these <i>elohim</i> deluded themselves into thinking they "created" humans "in our image" (Genesis 1:26). In his later iteration once salvationism began festering amongst "the nations" (<i>goyim</i>), he proclaimed: "For there is one God and one meditator between God and mankind" (1 Timothy 2:5). And in a later incarnation six hundred years later he ordered people to proclaim: "There is no god but Allah" (Qur'an 2:255, 4:171, 23:91, 59:22, 112:2)....He changed names to spread variants of his mind-virus to different places and times, but his origins and reality was expressed at Nag Hammadi in Khemet (Egypt): </span><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> "And he became arrogant, saying, 'It is I who am god, and there is no other apart from me.' When he said this, he sinned against the entirety."(11) "Now the archon who is weak has three names. The first name is Yaldabaoth [child of the void], the second is Saklas [the fool], and the third is Samael [god of the blind]. And he is impious in his arrogance which is in him. For he said, 'I am God and there is no other God beside me,' for he is ignorant of his strength, the place from which he had come."(12)</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> "Yaldabaoth himself chose a certain man named Abraham, and made a covenant with him that if his seed would continue to serve him he would give to him the earth as an inheritance. Later through Moses he brought forth from Egypt the descendants of Abraham, gave them the law, and made them Jews. From them the seven gods, also called the Hebdomad, chose their own heralds to glorify each and proclaim Yaldabaoth as God, so that the rest of mankind, hearing the glorification, might also serve those who were proclaimed by the prophets as Gods."(13)</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> Lash traces how this manifests in a pathological hatred of Nature: "Monotheism begins with a god who hates trees. 'Ye shall utterly destroy all the places wherein the nations which ye shall possess served their gods, upon the high mountains, and upon the hills, <i>and under every green tree</i>. And ye shall overthrow their altars, and break their pillars, and burn their idols with fire; and ye shall hew down the carved images of their gods, and destroy the names of them out of that place. (Deut. 12:2-3). </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">The Demiurge of the Old Testament is jealous, insisting that no other gods be honored before him. This demand of course implies that there are other gods, competing deities. They are Pagan divinities who pervade nature, manifesting in all manners of creatures, in clouds and rivers and trees, even in rocks. Monotheism will tolerate none of these sensuous immanent powers. It makes the Earth void of divinity, its inhabitants subject to an off-planet landlord. </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">By a strange twist the biblical deity who claims to have created the natural world forbids humanity to adore his handiwork. For an artist to insist on personal adoration for himself instead of, and in exclusion of, his work, is rather perverse considered in human terms, but with the supreme deity of the Hebrews it is perfectly normal. The wrathful, capricious temperament of Yahweh belies deep insecurity, for if Gnostic myth points to the truth, this god is a fraud, a violent and demented imposter."(14)</span></p><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKWL4kIqdcaD0FXpgcmLeL-Vvn6qu9yPPTeldbme6ZvdttiVfnrnfAcxyBEecvXje8Nwe28hm0k7cnC2p5-m_90AqHvolf2CZgtkoDPwaJ_jGnBW6S1WXDV5XwEB5H41wmLEcXuDVk0B33idwHjrUOQfWosawI_7PeDdV6kAUki34xFR2nq3lossKQpQ/s863/bonifacio.PNG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="642" data-original-width="863" height="297" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKWL4kIqdcaD0FXpgcmLeL-Vvn6qu9yPPTeldbme6ZvdttiVfnrnfAcxyBEecvXje8Nwe28hm0k7cnC2p5-m_90AqHvolf2CZgtkoDPwaJ_jGnBW6S1WXDV5XwEB5H41wmLEcXuDVk0B33idwHjrUOQfWosawI_7PeDdV6kAUki34xFR2nq3lossKQpQ/w400-h297/bonifacio.PNG" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Boniface chopping down the sacred Donar's Oak of the Hessi<br />tribe (known by their Roman name Chatti), backed by armed<br />force of the Frankish authorities near modern Geismar in 724. <br />From a fresco by Heinrich Maria von Hess, München, 1834-1844.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEja3LMgwn898kWZy1xlq6xm0FjFWEZNQ3krCe-ZPE3KoqE0wEBmRq3ytUk6paNhd6kXs-gNs3C9x1cajhWboeaZLoNdwQNTUS9rqOgNv4FJPgLG3DPKX3_NlCbf1QSAS1a1lgJFonCH1DKhx8TgsSKx9u8pO6ZE9-CSVjhX2s-_CZ1OAaoBhMdKHZcWZg/s979/Zerst%C3%B6rung_der_Irminsaule_durch_Karl_den_Gro%C3%9Fen_by_Heinrich_Leutemann.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="979" data-original-width="635" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEja3LMgwn898kWZy1xlq6xm0FjFWEZNQ3krCe-ZPE3KoqE0wEBmRq3ytUk6paNhd6kXs-gNs3C9x1cajhWboeaZLoNdwQNTUS9rqOgNv4FJPgLG3DPKX3_NlCbf1QSAS1a1lgJFonCH1DKhx8TgsSKx9u8pO6ZE9-CSVjhX2s-_CZ1OAaoBhMdKHZcWZg/w260-h400/Zerst%C3%B6rung_der_Irminsaule_durch_Karl_den_Gro%C3%9Fen_by_Heinrich_Leutemann.jpg" width="260" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Charlemagne's jihadist destruction of the sacred <br />Irminsul and genocide against the Saxons, 772. <br />From an illustration by Heinrich Leutemann, 1882. <br />The Irminsul was a physical representation of the <br />World Tree, an Axis Mundi that refers to the inter-<br />connectedness of all worlds and beings (Animism).</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><i>Reclaiming Indigeny</i></b></span><br /><br /><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> Each and every one of us are descendants of a tribe at some point in history. Many social and psychological problems, nihilism, feelings of disconnect, and identity crises, are direct results from forgetting this basic fact. Remembrance is essential, the ancestral memories within you that ground you to something greater than yourself yet are innately <i>you</i>; that remind you have a personal responsibility to the past as much as to the present and future. Its an empowerment of meaning, carrying within you the blood of generations whose love, joys, sorrows, hopes, heroic actions, hard choices, and overcoming adversities <i>produced</i> you. All of this is within you down to the most basic cellular level, manifesting outward to your physical features, and showing themselves in unconscious thoughts or the talents and moments of inspiration that seem to manifest at the most crucial moments in your life but otherwise cannot be explained. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> Encoded within every individual's DNA is the collective experience of their lineage from the beginning. There is ancestral memory that we are beings made from the Earth; that all things have being; and that there was a point in time when our tribal ancestors encountered a new technologic perceptional reality that imposed itself upon them in "a war for the possession of the souls of the godless heathens." Our ancestral understanding of Animism was replaced with a control system where "we committed a moral crime for getting here." To understand this process and truly know oneself, every individual should acquaint themselves with what tribe(s) they are descendants of, and how that tribe got "civilized". It was done against the tribes of Europe long before it was unleashed upon the Americas and elsewhere, with the perception of reality being the same but the methods refined over the centuries.(15)</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> In this age where existential meaning has been lost, where millions of people have problems resulting from identity crises and how they relate to the world, its more important than ever to be reclaim <b><i>Indigeny</i></b> - that sense of being descendant of a tribal people indigenous to a specific biosphere (thus forming an <i>ethnosphere</i>), with all that entails of responsibility and being. Various false identities such as consumerism or authoritarian ideologies and cults, even the latest hysterias and fears, are nothing but desperate surrogacies to fill a void that can never be filled without this return to the Animistic. A mind-virus converted and "civilized" people, and then turned them against other peoples as mercenaries of that mind-virus in a perverse process called the Victim-Perpetrator Bond:</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> "....the victim-perpetrator bond works in the course of history as it is known to work in dysfunctional families. The redeemer complex, the insidious core of salvationist belief, asserts the redemptive value of suffering in such a way that it legitimates and even sanctifies suffering. On top of all that, the victim-perpetrator bond makes suffering extremely contagious....The lethal insanity of the victim-perpetrator bond is staggering. The complicity of victims and perpetrators is a gruesome pact, but there is still a deeper dimension to this horror....The factor of 'supernal masochism' comes to expression in what can be called <i>victim-perpetrator collusion</i>. The two parties are not merely complicit in their beliefs, they are intricately and intimately codependent in their actions. Victims and perpetrators need each other desperately and use each other both viciously and vicariously to keep their bond intact. This is not true of first-time, out-of-the-blue victims, of course, but of the addicted kind, those who come back for more, glorify in the victim role and blindly follow the same narrative as the perpetrators, convinced that it puts them on higher moral ground than those who harm them, or believing they are called to suffer for the sake of others."(16) </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivOjaJTpDT6qEogAm_nVX3FvU23BTckHNL0NXE2lTpwAuPxELs6IZZCi-AdvAtjuJfpmTpxCXPUBEs-d7CNWhVsFIozmNa4h9Xf-rPj1qoT8OEfTzpfWQX91GMrQVLBaLXT3D30zKd_fEL7yW2zuFAVHke5s06grlRyoRo55vvcH2d-bp5jaky40GgTA/s600/R%20(1).jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="572" data-original-width="600" height="381" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivOjaJTpDT6qEogAm_nVX3FvU23BTckHNL0NXE2lTpwAuPxELs6IZZCi-AdvAtjuJfpmTpxCXPUBEs-d7CNWhVsFIozmNa4h9Xf-rPj1qoT8OEfTzpfWQX91GMrQVLBaLXT3D30zKd_fEL7yW2zuFAVHke5s06grlRyoRo55vvcH2d-bp5jaky40GgTA/w400-h381/R%20(1).jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This painting by the Dutch-French artist Ary Scheffer (1795-1858) <br />shows the moment in the Battle of Tolbiac (496/506) when the <br />Frankish King Clovis offered himself as vector to carry the <br />salvationist mind-virus for victory in battle against my Alemanni <br />tribe. A defining moment of this Bond, as he embarked on his crusade<br />to subjugate and "civilize" the Alemanni in a process of more than two<br />centuries. It festered among his descendants, especially Charlemagne. </td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;"> Historical examples of this include when the newly-converted Arabian tribes were unleashed as a <i>jihad</i> against the Levant, Persia, Egypt, and eastern Africa. The newly-converted Berber tribes were then turned into the Moorish force that invaded the Iberian Peninsula, as well as southward against the animistic African tribes. After liberation (<i>reconquista</i>), Spanish <i>conquistadores</i> led the effort to convert Indigenous nations of the Americas while oblivious to our own Celtic and Iberian native heritage. Farther north, the newly-converted Franks set themselves up as primary blunt force of the Victim-Perpetrator Bond against the rest of the Germanic Heathen peoples. Once converted, Saxon crusaders were turned against the Pagan Prussian, Baltic, and Slavic peoples. Imbued with the Protestant iteration of the mind-virus, converted people from northwest Europe acted out the Old Testament subjugation of entire nations in "Manifest Destiny" over North America. Further back, we can identify the imperial troops of Rome subjugating the tribal peoples, slaughtering Druids and others who preserved the indigenous wisdom for their tribes, after having themselves been lost to a tribal Italic worldview that preceded the centralization of Imperial Rome.</span><br /><br /><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> Recognizing this has nothing to do with the external shame/guilt complex turned into ideology: An infection of the same mind-virus. Such people only project their own internal feelings that arise from willful ignorance about their identity, appropriating certain causes in a paternalistic way that reveal themselves to be the very racists they decry. To not know oneself makes you nihilistic, with little meaning other than a savior complex. So often I've </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">encountered that white Americans especially have a disconnect from knowing they are also descendants of tribes at some point - those of us from more recent immigrant heritage are more fortunate in this regard. Many just can't wrap their minds around the fact European peoples also had our own rich, deep spiritual worldview that was just as animistic and shamanic as those of other tribal peoples; much less how many folk traditions are living remnants of our ancient traditions. Being linear in their mindsets, they also fail to recognize the historical dynamics of the Victim-Perpetrator Bond. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> Many others who escape the Abrahamic mind-virus seek to fill the spiritual void by looking to other tribes for their own spiritual meaning, most notably from Native American cultures. While we can and should learn in mutual respect from others, what these confused vultures do is unbalanced so lacks authenticity to even the traditions they counterfeit much less being authentic to themselves. Even others who are on the right track of reclaiming their own native European spirituality often carry over Abrahamic baggage (especially Protestant Christianity) into new forms of neo-Paganisms that do very little in actual reconstruction. These are often centered around specific caricatures (for example, the Vikings who were only a specific time in Norse history much less the wider Germanic world), treating written accounts as revealed books; devolving into more-political (than spiritual) feuds of "folkish" vs. "universalist", while the true historical practice was <i>Tribal</i> and localized; becoming too church-like, with obsessive focus on Deities and thus ignore the vibrant interconnectedness of <i>all</i> Beings.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> Balance is to awaken to Animism as both a noun and verb to which </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">can be attached specific tribal adjectives to reflect that it's coming innately from the spirit of all peoples. <i>K</i></span><i style="font-family: georgia;">nowing</i><span style="font-family: georgia;"> interconnectedness helps one reclaim Sovereignty, not falling for the latest hysterical and fear-driven iterations of this mind-virus - or the Authorities who use it to construct their control-systems built on those who internalize this Bond and Comply with their free-choice and energy (ignorance is NOT bliss). Transcendence to <i>beyond</i> just knowing: </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">"The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence."(17)</span><span style="font-family: georgia;"> Building a relationship with one's ancestors inspires a </span><a href="https://sjobst.blogspot.com/2021/12/sanguine-gnosis-vs-transubstantiation.html" style="font-family: georgia;">Blood Gnosis</a><span style="font-family: georgia;"> that is the ultimate impediment from authoritarian manipulation. Much more can be said but we will proceed in Part 3 with a truly self-empowering narrative about the Earth's innate power and its access to all free and sovereign individuals; it can never be taken by these authoritarian systems and ideologies who only derive their authority from what others give them of </span><i style="font-family: georgia;">their</i><span style="font-family: georgia;"> power.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikw00tg8J0gqndGN4lRbDznQTsU-hhaLfApIfkJDeVlUvPGzYr7RcYlxc-lst-NCgmGtatnIXSc4U2u7OsqGbrLlNcaOEwRCInsxzbY8YqrzNi5Nvh1hSOY8OKx9_9by67KZnVcrl9PAwj5JFBV0eD6A8-BX_SVgejgGXFHy579Syh_5Aqg0iRgmbAIA/s354/a95bab0df5f6c0b4aa98ab1205a58ede--jiddu-krishnamurti-yoga-quotes.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="354" data-original-width="236" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikw00tg8J0gqndGN4lRbDznQTsU-hhaLfApIfkJDeVlUvPGzYr7RcYlxc-lst-NCgmGtatnIXSc4U2u7OsqGbrLlNcaOEwRCInsxzbY8YqrzNi5Nvh1hSOY8OKx9_9by67KZnVcrl9PAwj5JFBV0eD6A8-BX_SVgejgGXFHy579Syh_5Aqg0iRgmbAIA/w266-h400/a95bab0df5f6c0b4aa98ab1205a58ede--jiddu-krishnamurti-yoga-quotes.jpg" width="266" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><div><b><i>Footnotes and Sources:</i></b></div><div><br /></div><div>(1) Quoted in Origen, <i>Contra Celcum</i>, Book IV, 99.</div><div><br /></div><div>(2) Thomas Molnar. <i>The Pagan Temptation</i>. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1987, p. 9. He specifically named Christianity, although his insights can be broadly applied to all the Abrahamic religions.</div><div><br /></div><div>(3) For an in-depth analysis of Wetiko, see: Jack D. Forbes. <i>Columbus and Other Cannibals: The Wétiko Disease of Exploitation, Imperialism, and Terrorism</i>. New York: Seven Stories Press, 2008; and Paul Levy. <i>Dispelling Wetiko: Breaking the Curse of Evil</i>. Berkeley, CA: North Atlantic Books, 2013. </div><div><br /></div><div>(4) "A Conversation with American Indian Activist and Poet John Trudell," 1999, <<a href="http://bencorbett.net/index.php/john-trudell-speaks/">http://bencorbett.net/index.php/john-trudell-speaks/</a>>.</div><div><br /></div><div>(5) <i>Qlippoth</i>, "shells, husks", considered the spiritual obstacles to "holiness". In Lurianic Kabbalah, the vessels intended to contain seven <i>Sefirot</i> ("emanations" of the divine) at the "creation" event shattered and the <i>Qlippoth</i> came into being by the "sparks of divine light" still caught in these shards. The world thus being associated with these scattered "divine sparks", there is considered a need for "repair" (<i>tikkun olam</i>). </div><div><br /></div><div>(6) Aside from the well-known Abrahamic instances like the <i>Amalek</i> "hereditary enemy" are such modern expressions of this mental disease as the financial system's fiction of "national debt" which makes everyone born with a "debt" that was actually incurred by governments and not the people; the Cultural Marxist lie that certain individuals inherit either a "victim" or "guilt" and "privilege" status based solely on their skin color; and the climate alarmists' narrative that one is guilty for their "carbon emissions" so must accept whatever the Great Reset proposes for them. As perverse codependents, meaning is found in such feelings of shame and guilt by these cultists who lack existential meaning. </div><div><br /></div><div>(7) Carlos Castaneda. <i>The Active Side of Infinity</i>. 1998.</div><div><br /></div><div>(8) John Lamb Lash. <i>Not In His Image: Gnostic Vision, Sacred Ecology, and the Future of Belief</i>, 15th Anniversary Edition. White River Junction, VT: Chelsea Green Publishing, 2021, p. 115.</div><div><br /></div><div>(9) The son and successor of Amenhotep III would be the Pharaoh known as Akhenaten, who imposed a monothestic cult of Aten upon the Egyptians. There is an interesting theory, most prominently held by the psychologist Sigmund Freud, that Akhenaten and Moses was one and the same person. Indeed there is a direct linguistic connection between Egyptian Aten and Hebrew Adonai, and similarities have been proven between Psalm 104 and Akhenaten's Great Hymn to the Aten. </div><div><br /></div><div>(10) Yehezel Kaufmann. <i>The Religion of Israel, from Its Beginnings to the Babylonian Exile</i>. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1960. His analysis is incredibly accurate and blunt, although he deduced these Deities are "limited" in contrast to the transcendent god who is "ruler" of the entire universe but only "revealed" himself to the Hebrews. While not denying polytheism, he used the "conflicting agendas" argument to make them "lesser" to his own "perfect" god.</div><div><br /></div><div>(11) <i>The Reality of the Archons</i>, 4:94.20-25.</div><div><br /></div><div>(12) <i>Apocryphon of John</i>, cited in James M. Robinson, ed. <i>The Nag Hammadi Library in English</i>. San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1988, pp. 111-112.</div><div><br /></div><div>(13) Quoted in Irenaeus, <i>Against Heresies</i>, I.30.10. </div><div><br /></div><div>(14) Lash, <i>op. cit.</i>, p. 227.</div><div><br /></div><div>(15) This paragraph is my synopsis of John Trudell's speech "What It Means to be a Human Being," delivered in San Francisco, March 2001. Available in many recordings and transcripts online.</div><div><br /></div><div>(16) Lash, <i>op. cit.</i>, pp. 243-244.</div><div><br /></div><div>(17) A quote by the Indian philosopher Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895-1986), from a 1929 talk where he also expounded on the spiritual meaning of Freedom. Theosophists sought to groom him into their own "Maitreya" or "World Teacher", projecting their own Abrahamic salvationism upon the wisdom of the Vedic tradition beyond their infected minds to even comprehend. Being authentic to himself, Krishnamurti rebelled against these efforts and asserted his own Dharma over their well-funded schemes. Theosophists went on to provide a religious framework to Globalist institutions.</div></span></div>Sean Jobsthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17351165299354431339noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-907444223262019258.post-37502063863046916032022-07-31T18:31:00.002-05:002022-08-10T14:38:31.172-05:00Animism and Lessons of Earth's Power - 1. Animism Defined and Discerned from Biophobic Doomsday Narratives<div class="separator"><span style="font-family: georgia;">by Sean Jobst</span></div><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">31 July 2022</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhN8ZTXA0_hxPbZPd3P_NmTZf1-RPdSI6VuIH1uV64Ceov4Gn2p7l8o-Cc1yv4yQyLx2uoDD5IxUJFH_fkcasdh5XEX4jYYHsR2gQFIG2CqQ-KDdFlakpR3zRIaQtqEElF4aYDRBevXbeSHIOwYtlA1S_SfHXsjC56K_5xPMXsrS9pNL6K4j8UusWOTqg/s758/a8dd92b7d4fa6a7079bbb02e5047916c.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="758" data-original-width="540" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhN8ZTXA0_hxPbZPd3P_NmTZf1-RPdSI6VuIH1uV64Ceov4Gn2p7l8o-Cc1yv4yQyLx2uoDD5IxUJFH_fkcasdh5XEX4jYYHsR2gQFIG2CqQ-KDdFlakpR3zRIaQtqEElF4aYDRBevXbeSHIOwYtlA1S_SfHXsjC56K_5xPMXsrS9pNL6K4j8UusWOTqg/s320/a8dd92b7d4fa6a7079bbb02e5047916c.jpg" width="228" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span><p></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> We are facing events with a deeper spiritual and metaphysical dimension. Money and power alone cannot explain their motives. Their policies are consistently anti-Natural, borne from an apocalyptic delusion with no appreciation for the cyclical beauties and mysteries of life. Transhumanism arises from <i>Biophobia</i>, a hatred and fear of what it means to be human. One reason why they control through fear is to offset effects of <i>their</i> own fear of life and death.(1) The energy they harvest is solely through compliance and consent given freely by people whom, for one reason or another, choose to live their lives in willful bliss to what is hidden within plain sight.(2) The lack of personal <a href="https://sjobst.blogspot.com/2022/04/on-freedom-responsibility-true.html">responsibility</a> through complicity freely given allows their policies and mandates to free them from any accountability, while lower-level elites may be symbolically "sacrificed" whenever needed to safeguard the broader agenda.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> I've previously given examples of their Biophobia, so will now suffice with a celebration of Animism as <i>the</i> ultimate remedy to all their efforts to control. Not so much a philosophical essay as a recognition that we can experience the richness and beauty of life - including even the sorrows through which we can learn, grow, and cultivate gratitude for the happiness we experience. A blueprint inspiring the Parallel Society of various tribes (no matter on what basis these are formed); knowing the multiplicities within life underscores how anti-Natural their centralized structures and "solutions" truly are. As with other words and concepts, we can better appreciate Animism by looking at its etymology. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> Animism comes from Latin <i>anima</i> "life, breath, soul", itself deriving from the Proto-Indo-European root *<i>ane-</i> "to breathe", surviving in various Indo-European words meaning soul, spirit, breath, and life. Spirit comes from the Proto-Indo-European *<i>speis</i> "to breathe", reflecting the intuition that breath conduits our life-force energy: We clearly breathe the same air as the trees and our breath is part of the same processes as the atmosphere. There is no sharp distinction between the physical and ethereal: Proto-Germanic *<i>deuza</i> "animal, beast" and *<i>deuzaz</i> "wild, fierce, bold" both derive from the Proto-Indo-European *<i>dʰews-</i> "to breathe, spirit, soul, creature". Carl Jung was tapping into this animistic worldview when he described the complementary elements of <i>anima</i> and <i>animus</i> existing in varying degrees within every individual. Mysteries abound within language, reflecting what is most instinctive even if we have generally strayed from their proper understanding.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> Everything is full of Divinities. This basic understanding is as true now as when Thales of Miletus(3) expressed it despite 2,500 years of further disconnect. This understanding is not pantheistic, as it acknowledges a spiritual essence or consciousness at all levels. These multitude of entities are imbued with "spirit" (with no sharp distinction with the "physical" here implied), unified in the totality by their uniqueness, individual by common participation in existence. These are interconnected at various levels of existence. "All forms are universal life force energy expressing itself in infinite ways," as Logan Hart of The Wizard Factory expressed in a Natural Law presentation. Animism is "a lens that you view everything through, which recognizes that all energy is sourced from the universal life force of consciousness, experiencing itself through infinite subjective experiences. That we are connected to it, a part of it, inseparable from it."(4)</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> Animism is not the theory of a sentient and living Earth, but is inseparable from direct perception and experience of that intuition. It's to transcend whatever can be conceptualized in the mind, as noted by the visionary teacher John Lamb Lash, who has brilliantly placed Gnosis and the story of Sophia back within its proper animistic and Pagan context, as well as re-introducing awareness of the Archons and their infection.(5) Those men and women who were the most <a href="https://sjobst.blogspot.com/2022/05/walpurgisnacht-2022-2-general-overview.html">self-aware and self-knowing</a> of their tribes, whether they were called shamans, telestai, sorcerers, Druids, or whatever specific cultural name, discovered by their various experiences and heightened perception that "the earth in its totality can be regarded as a living being available for interactivity." Animism is thus the innate state of being for all peoples, waiting to be re-discovered by anyone willing to realize they are descendant of tribes and inseparable from the sentient Earth whom all peoples worldwide knew as our shared Mother.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> "Animism is not the belief that the natural world is alive and animated, but it is the direct perception. Animism is the norm for the human animal. Animism is the natural innate condition of human awareness. So all ancient and indigenous societies, insofar as they represent the true potential of our species and reflect the true nature of this experiment, were animistic." - John Lamb Lash</span></p><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkJxkkCUi8XL2beTvHD3hmKlDDfh4ZN9-hYAqIih7l8tn0m71ZUoxlZhc9A7jKJ-ca5GxMZTQznYO7tCzenbHW6tO6pD1JburARhOSo--qALa2YfioNKArZtbsd3gMpfnv9Cl3eojeegInV7LqDfahxeymP3hilatHodeMObHNvLEABao6jF4R4osp9A/s895/Screenshot%202014-04-29%2011.27.31.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="643" data-original-width="895" height="230" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkJxkkCUi8XL2beTvHD3hmKlDDfh4ZN9-hYAqIih7l8tn0m71ZUoxlZhc9A7jKJ-ca5GxMZTQznYO7tCzenbHW6tO6pD1JburARhOSo--qALa2YfioNKArZtbsd3gMpfnv9Cl3eojeegInV7LqDfahxeymP3hilatHodeMObHNvLEABao6jF4R4osp9A/s320/Screenshot%202014-04-29%2011.27.31.png" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Deconstructing the dialectic</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj--IQl6AEFcBT7-lM3_A6HwOl9AAemwPeUUv3U941uAemUwrI6Y3SXNaf9j6X0_nH55EMxXKP8moJzYns2nNyADqj1XYtnQUN42WxdDxChddvS6OhADi3IkKbfEYNnlYcSdubBlyZ1SMqj4Z_gyVvp1wGgi2qft-Nkq0evGrSdVXbLaPZE4MmlKFsmQg/s300/R%20(1).jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="169" data-original-width="300" height="169" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj--IQl6AEFcBT7-lM3_A6HwOl9AAemwPeUUv3U941uAemUwrI6Y3SXNaf9j6X0_nH55EMxXKP8moJzYns2nNyADqj1XYtnQUN42WxdDxChddvS6OhADi3IkKbfEYNnlYcSdubBlyZ1SMqj4Z_gyVvp1wGgi2qft-Nkq0evGrSdVXbLaPZE4MmlKFsmQg/s1600/R%20(1).jpg" width="300" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">It's about the redistribution of wealth</td></tr></tbody></table><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><i>Technocratic Oligarchs Behind the Green New Deal Scam</i></b><br /><br /> Awakening to the innate power (not to be confused with "authority") accessible to us within Nature means also to challenge the <a href="https://sjobst.blogspot.com/2021/12/30-on-mind-viruses-and-lies-of-humanity.html">ruling dogmas</a> these authorities project upon humanity. Unfortunately efforts to live in balance with Nature, firmly rooted within Animism, is confused with the psyop of "environmentalist" movements and initiatives meant to misdirect it towards the salvationist mind-virus. A hallmark of Agenda 2030 and its Great Reset is centralizing all resources in the name of "saving" Earth from a "climate change" apocalypse. Just as the greatest transfer of wealth in history occurred using Rona as the excuse and their <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200920085124/https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/11/shopping-i-can-t-really-remember-what-that-is/">slogan</a> "You Will Own Nothing and Be Happy" masks that <i>someone will own</i> those resources, these institutions merely want to steal all land and resources for themselves under the claims of "conservation" and "sustainable" development. Their own documents call for "the political implementation of a global governing structure to control all land, water, and air."(6)</span><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> Behind their <a href="https://sjobst.blogspot.com/2021/11/addendum-20-on-death-pathology-neuro.html">masked language</a> is <i>real</i> ecological abuse by technocratic oligarchs to sustain their "Fourth Industrial Revolution". Rather than being accountable for such real abuse, caused directly by their policies <a href="https://sjobst.blogspot.com/2022/03/on-natural-law-and-immunity-spiritual.html">including</a> mass production of masks and <a href="https://www.politico.eu/article/mass-coronavirus-vaccinations-environmental-impact-climate-change/">the jabs</a> tying up the supply and production chains, "climate change" is a way to transfer blame upon the masses to accept their own "solutions". These are designed to further separate people from Nature and direct access to sources of wealth, health, and food; instead herded into crowded megacities to be closely monitored and micromanaged upon a technocratic Smart Cities grid. Freedom of <a href="https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200218-climate-change-how-to-cut-your-carbon-emissions-when-flying">travel</a> and trade are restricted (greatly facilitated since 2020) as penance for the sin of "carbon emissions", while these oligarchs and their lackeys enjoy unfettered travel on private jets to exclusive "climate" conferences where they can lecture the rest of us about our guilt/sin/blame for being carbon-based lifeforms while <i>they</i> <a href="https://www.technocracy.news/part-ii-stealing-the-global-commons-and-everything-else/">steal the commons</a> in a process of <a href="https://nowhere.news/index.php/2018/10/28/domesticating-man-ethnocide-during-the-agricultural-industrial-revolutions/">domestication</a> that began centuries ago.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> As the global pandemic narrative winds down, they will again ramp up threats of climate apocalypse to harvest fear and energy from the masses; to tax carbon and other measures laid out in the Green New Deal, "the trojan horse for the financialization of nature" as </span><a href="https://www.theartofannihilation.com/a-100-trillion-dollar-storytelling-campaign-a-short-story/" style="font-family: georgia;">exposed</a><span style="font-family: georgia;"> by Canadian investigative journalist Cory Morningstar. Others have documented the </span><a href="https://nowhere.news/index.php/2019/04/01/astroturfing-the-way-for-the-fourth-industrial-revolution/" style="font-family: georgia;">financial interests</a><span style="font-family: georgia;"> behind Extinction Rebellion. Rather than being the grassroots effort claimed by its Marxist stooges, a "Global Green New Deal" was first proclaimed by elite Globalist institutions in a </span><a href="https://unctad.org/news/bold-action-required-finance-global-green-new-deal-and-meet-sdgs" style="font-family: georgia;">2019 report</a><span style="font-family: georgia;"> that mentioned the word "growth" no less than 392 times "to help reboot the global economy." These are desperate attempts to stem the <a href="https://greg-moffitt.medium.com/the-long-descent-decline-and-fall-of-industrial-society-6d90c48d0f9a">Long Descent</a> of decline caused by the inner contradictions of their own financial system and Malthusian central planning. Their "<a href="https://feedthewolves.substack.com/p/un-agenda-21-2030-hidden-agenda">sustainability</a>" slogan is as much a marketing trick as "<a href="https://sjobst.blogspot.com/2020/11/building-back-better-to-great-reset.html">build back better</a>": To centralize wealth and authority in their own hands while claiming its for the "greater good".</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> Their schemes are designed to grow their own power and wealth while lecturing the masses about the "limits to growth", as expressed by Club of Rome founder Aurelio Peccei (who <a href="https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2019/12/world-economic-forum-davos-at-50-history-a-timeline-of-highlights/">repeated</a> it at Davos).(7) This stems from their obsession in forecasting the future (thus the central planning, their desperate measures to cheat death or delay cyclical decline, etc.), contrary to the natural animist worldview of "borrowing today from the past and the future".(8) Theirs is a mechanistic view of humanity to be saved from themselves, while these elites are beyond any reproach for their actions. The Club of Rome proclaimed such in one of their <a href="https://archive.org/details/the-first-global-revolution-a-report-by-the-council-of-the-club-of-rome-alexande">reports</a> hidden in plain sight, always couched in nebulous "global" terms</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">:</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> "It would seem that men and women need a common motivation, namely a common adversary against whom they can organize themselves and act together in the vacuum; such a motivation must be found to bring the divided nations together to face an outside enemy, either a real one or else one invented for the purpose. New enemies therefore have to be identified. New strategies imagined, new weapons devised. The common enemy of humanity is man. In searching for a common enemy against whom we can unite, we came up with the idea that pollution, the threat of global warming, water shortages, famine and the like, would fit the bill. All these dangers are caused by human intervention, and it is only through changed attitudes and behavior that they can be overcome. The real enemy then, is humanity itself."(9)</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizdiCPw9RQQcozdzyfCnHbz3hkQbi2fpe-KEAINfMNY6KAT4g7tVvmSHwXlQSKC21ezlvDnSoWixZc9CuHlTqUL3zs9Tg30Bu6-tB2RORxdH2DTS-fNTMLYeG_EHoZBYW75ifCl_v1GjFJPEYY7VHZ7c_ml7vOuV2X5oZZY871KC6OSlKCvve3T9QDTQ/s593/OIP%20(1).jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="593" data-original-width="400" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizdiCPw9RQQcozdzyfCnHbz3hkQbi2fpe-KEAINfMNY6KAT4g7tVvmSHwXlQSKC21ezlvDnSoWixZc9CuHlTqUL3zs9Tg30Bu6-tB2RORxdH2DTS-fNTMLYeG_EHoZBYW75ifCl_v1GjFJPEYY7VHZ7c_ml7vOuV2X5oZZY871KC6OSlKCvve3T9QDTQ/w270-h400/OIP%20(1).jpg" width="270" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Its beyond my scope to personally verify<br />each information, but interesting to ponder</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><i>What Is Behind the Demonization of Carbon?</i></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> Although couched in atheistic and "scientific" terms, their demonization of carbon originates as the latest iteration of the same <i>archontic</i> <a href="https://sjobst.blogspot.com/2021/12/30-on-mind-viruses-and-lies-of-humanity.html">mind-virus</a> (or <i>wetiko</i>) that gave rise to Abrahamism. In scientific terms, Carbon contains 6 protons, 6 neutrons, and 6 electrons - with "666" being considered <i>the</i> evil number in Biblical eschatology. Within numerology, <a href="https://www.astrovera.com/bible-religion/173-bible-number-6.html">six is</a> "the number of man, the number of imperfection in man's work. It is a human number. It implies man's existence sans God, sans Christ." Their thinking comes from the Kabbalistic concept of "divine sparks" (<i>qlippoth</i>) trapped in a "lower" world of matter (carbon), waiting to be "corrected" (<i>tikkun olam</i>) on behalf of one off-planet "father" god.(10) The "corrections" are to be defined by these elites, their agenda for the world being nothing but a technocratic neo-feudalism with them as the overlords.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> A logical conclusion of this mind-virus is separation between spirit and material, founded on the Religious Perception of Reality whereby anything "spiritual" inevitably seeks to transcend the physical body; or its dialectic that reduces humans to only the material body without anything deeper, since the soul, consciousness, and ether are denied because these cannot be measured. The two polar opposites are borne from the same imbalance, as noted by Druidic philosopher John Michael Greer: "Desacralization of the universe opens the way to the materialist vision of a dead cosmos governed by chance and blind force."(11) Thus arose the mental separation between Culture and Nature, as observed by French anthropologist Bruno Latour: "The difficulty lies in the very expression 'relation to the world,' which presupposes two sorts of domains, that of nature and that of culture, domains that are at once distinct and impossible to separate completely."(12)</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> This mental separation can be seen in the urge to "save the world", coming from seeing oneself as higher than Nature, rather than affirming one's interconnectedness within a sentient and conscious Earth. Their "apocalyptic narratives" are founded in theological concepts of "salvation, redemption, and spiritual progress".(13) Such a missionary attitude can be seen in the urge to "save" a distant rainforest while completely oblivious to their immediate environment. In his characteristic bardic satire, the late George Carlin observed their motives as "just one more arrogant attempt by humans to control nature." These elites are simply "worried that someday in the future, they might be personally inconvenienced." I also see as fitting the famous maxim by H.L. Mencken: "The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it. Power is what all messiahs really seek: not the chance to serve. This is true even of the pious brethren who carry the gospel to foreign parts."(14)</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPhUf4QC_Rwcbu4_0WUwn1laHX5ud1bi479wy4eH_lSniyLiEVynOgOvPHYMfXdrt5pksc_XRTeE8wmTpLlP1LRFw0UVW4js7THWpEh-4zE65rSTdn-Ey0O0rOs13E-YLDSdkDvE3u-VXRCeR1RINLaQ20f1hWysRVtFFc_KL_bOVRN3bJHWG7h7wbGQ/s960/d17d9200bed2dc533988136edfd2923f.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="602" data-original-width="960" height="201" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPhUf4QC_Rwcbu4_0WUwn1laHX5ud1bi479wy4eH_lSniyLiEVynOgOvPHYMfXdrt5pksc_XRTeE8wmTpLlP1LRFw0UVW4js7THWpEh-4zE65rSTdn-Ey0O0rOs13E-YLDSdkDvE3u-VXRCeR1RINLaQ20f1hWysRVtFFc_KL_bOVRN3bJHWG7h7wbGQ/s320/d17d9200bed2dc533988136edfd2923f.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">John Trudell (1946-2015), the great Santee Dakota<br />poet and thinker whose insights have influenced<br />mine and will be expressed throughout this article.<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><i>Conclusion</i></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> Animism empowers free individuals in their sovereignty, while these doomsday narratives bind people as domesticated co-dependents of the State. They see us as resources to be mined the same way they mined the earth for her resources. As John Trudell observed: "Our bones, flesh and blood are made up of the metals, liquids and minerals of the earth." They mine our minds and being to fuel their machine, because its all about energy which we have and is innate within Nature. It's the exact same mind-virus that saw people as separate from Nature and now proclaims itself Transhumanist, because it covets the same resources and energy that it cannot create and control on its own.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> To reduce what is sentient and transcendent to such a delusion as thinking its in "crisis" due to human action, is to express the will to change it according to one's own image rather than affirming our interconnectedness to it. Mother Earth has withstood far more than human beings ever could, and has the omnipresent ability to cleanse and heal herself. This is <i>not</i> to deny our responsibility or place within these cycles, for we should live in a more balanced way. Its a recognition that </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">cha</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">nge is constant within Nature, which shows historical cycles of warming and cooling periods balancing out through Earth's infinite abilities. There were historical periods with more carbon emissions than now. </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">An Animist knows we breathe the same air that the trees breathe in a profound act of exchange, which also occurs with the atmosphere. So carbon being the building block of life is not to be demonized.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div> <span style="font-family: georgia;">Their neofeudal industrial technocratic delusion is to shape the world and humanity in their image, yet all they can create is a simulation of what is real. Artificial Intelligence is a cheap imitation of human intelligence which is grounded in Earth and expands to the Cosmos. The Metaverse is a virtual simulation masquerading as "reality". When Bill Gates boasts "We're changing the world with technology," or when he calls for a "digital nervous system" and a future belonging to "symbol logicians"(15), this is nothing but a Dark Occult inversion of technology into a simulation of all that <i>is</i> real and living. Its no accident the Gnostic texts referred to the modus operandi of the archons as "simulation" (<i>hal</i>)....</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">With this proper discernment thus established, we will discuss Animism in relation to Indigeny, theological roots of the "separation" of humanity and nature, and the empowering Sophianic Narrative of animistic Gnosis in Part 2....</span></div><div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8Y-sNcXFbCKb2FwI5M244-A0BvHFrie0STXOXjndOPEyLoqJR1QDr4FLknsMs-AGOD0JHr9SmipZWO3WsSQnNDNphuQIaLCvBtdYCNBifSktZ_DdPH4h8iwDp7Yito6QIKnQvdrFS0nM4ePyb-vNJ6hWihcUF2H37fAkj8u4jJv9WGWr_Yug-efevNg/s600/gaia-sacred-system-cristina-mcallister.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="509" data-original-width="600" height="271" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8Y-sNcXFbCKb2FwI5M244-A0BvHFrie0STXOXjndOPEyLoqJR1QDr4FLknsMs-AGOD0JHr9SmipZWO3WsSQnNDNphuQIaLCvBtdYCNBifSktZ_DdPH4h8iwDp7Yito6QIKnQvdrFS0nM4ePyb-vNJ6hWihcUF2H37fAkj8u4jJv9WGWr_Yug-efevNg/w320-h271/gaia-sacred-system-cristina-mcallister.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Gaia Sacred System" painting by Cristina McAllister<br />that perfectly expresses the conscious, living Earth.<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><i>Footnotes and Sources</i></b>:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">(1) As in their obsessions with A.I., space travel, doomsday seed vaults, and underground bunkers. For evidence their will to cheat death stems from a Dark Occult ritual, see the work of Peter Mark Adams on the Sola-Busca Tarot: Elite bloodlines seek to maintain authority across generations while suppressing knowledge about reincarnation from the masses. We can also cite <i>archontic</i> mythologies justifying authority by "sacred" bloodlines: Judaic "chosen people" supremacism; how the dynastic families that Christianized Europe like the Carolingians invented genealogies from the Hebrews or Troy giving them a "divine right" to subjugate the Heathens; perversion of the Celtic initiatory Grail Mythos into a fictional Christ/Magdalene "sang real" of the Merovingians; up to modern Statist justifications.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">(2) For more about compliance and Revelation of the Method, see my article: "Rise of Wotanic Energy and Fall of the Empire of False Pestilence," <<a href="https://sjobst.blogspot.com/2021/08/rise-of-wotanic-energy-and-fall-of.html">https://sjobst.blogspot.com/2021/08/rise-of-wotanic-energy-and-fall-of.html</a>>.</span></p><p></p><div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">(3) Thales of Miletus (circa 624-545BCE) is a pre-Socratic philosopher and one of the Seven Sages of the Hellenic world. He is considered the first recorded philosopher, being one who used "scientific" methods to observe and analyze Nature. Such distinctions between branches of knowledge is a modern invention, as scientific methods were intertwined with animism and polytheism. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">(4) Logan Hart, "3 Ideas That Can Evolve The Natural Law Perspective," May 30, 2021, <<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5t6lE79piE">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5t6lE79piE</a>>. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">(5) Despite early Christian sects that did incorporate Gnosticism, and modern voices who misdirect it towards a dualism of "Christ consciousness" alongside Sophia. True Gnosis rejected all iterations of the Abrahamic mind-virus. Its cosmology affirmed the world as the Sophia's living dream rather than identifying it as a "lower" material creation of the Demiurge. In reality, the Nag Hammadi texts did not identify Yaldabaoth as the "creator" of this world but condemned his delusion in <i>thinking</i> he did so. There are two dialectics between those who will not even mention the Archons, or misuse this supernatural element by separating it from the central narrative of Sophia's plunge transformation into the Earth Mother. </span></div></div></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">(6) Search out their <i>open</i> documents and notice the slogans being slipped into public policies by authorities down to the municipal level. For more about Agenda 21/2030, I recommend the work of Marc Malone - <<a href="https://america21century.com/">https://america21century.com/</a>> - and the late Rosa Koire, <i>Behind The Green Mask</i>. For how it ties into geopolitics and technocratic transfer, see the work of Brendon O'Connell. The late Nikki Raapana documented how the ideological theory behind these elites can be found within the Communitarianism of Amitai Etzioni.</span></div></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><div>(7) A document praised by Marxist sources such as <i><a href="https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/limits-growth-book-launched-movement/">The Nation</a></i>, the latest example of the historical nexus between Marxist "revolution" and Oligarchs, via the "stakeholder capitalism" advocated at Davos. For an analysis of this ideology that we can variously call Corporate Socialism or Woke Capitalism, see the work of Michael Rectenwald: <<a href="https://www.michaelrectenwald.com/essays/great-reset-corporate-socialism-or-capitalism-with-chinese-characteristics">https://www.michaelrectenwald.com/essays/great-reset-corporate-socialism-or-capitalism-with-chinese-characteristics</a>>. These Hegelians are devoted to the syncretism of ideologies.</div><div><br /></div><div>(8) John Trudell, "What It Means To Be A Human Being," 15 March 2001, <<a href="https://ratical.org/many_worlds/JohnTrudell/HumanBeing.html">https://ratical.org/many_worlds/JohnTrudell/HumanBeing.html</a>>.</div><div><br /></div><div>(9) Alexander King and Bertrand Schneider. <i>The First Global Revolution - A Report by the Council of the Club of Rome</i>. New York: Pantheon Books, 1991, pp. 70-75.</div><div><br /></div><div>(10) See the recent talk by John Lamb Lash, "You Are Not A Divine Spark Trapped In Matter," <<a href="https://nemeta.org/course/16-planetary-tantra/">https://nemeta.org/course/16-planetary-tantra/</a>>.</div><div><br /></div><div>(11) John Michael Greer. <i>A World Full of Gods: An Inquiry into Polytheism</i>. Tucson, AZ: ADF Publishing, 2005, p. 192.</div><div><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: georgia;">(12) Bruno Latour. <i>Facing Gaia: Eight Lectures on the New Climactic Regime</i>, trans. Catherine Porter. Cambridge, UK: Polity Press, 2017.</span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: georgia;">(13) See the works of Evan Berry, an Arizona State University academic who specializes in the history and ideology behind environmentalist movements.</span></p><p>(14) <i>Minority Report: H.L. Mencken's Notebooks</i>. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1967, p. 247.</p><p>(15) Bill Gates, <i>Business @ the Speed of Thought</i>, 1999.</p></div></span></div></div>Sean Jobsthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17351165299354431339noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-907444223262019258.post-65214399316959722982022-05-29T00:17:00.006-05:002022-07-01T11:52:14.651-05:00Walpurgisnacht 2022 - (2) Dark Occult vs. Basic Definitions of Magic<p><span style="font-family: georgia;">by Sean Jobst</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">28 May 2022</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> Continuing from the previous <a href="https://sjobst.blogspot.com/2022/05/walpurgisnacht-2022-1-general-overview.html">Walpurgisnacht article</a>, this one will give some basic definitions of Magic and personal reflections thereof. These are laying the foundations for two upcoming articles - one on the negative aspects of magic and occult knowledge used against us by certain forces (including those who ridicule or suppress its use for the masses); the other is a life-affirming, empowering reiteration that there are positive aspects we can use not only for our personal growth but as powerful tools to affirm our <a href="https://sjobst.blogspot.com/2022/04/on-freedom-responsibility-true.html">innate</a> freedom and responsibility. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> Dark Occultists are those who use it for negative purposes: to control and manipulate others for their own illusionary power. They publicly deny and ridicule Magic and Occult knowledge, because they do not want the competition that could resist their control. One law for themselves; another for the masses. The main problems with most online exposes of occultism is they come from an Abrahamic perspective dismissing all occult knowledge, failing to distinguish between Dark Occult and Magic or Occult knowledge in general which is Natural. People whose rejection of it comes from either their Abrahamism or a reductionist view of Scientism that denies spiritual realities, play right into the hands of these Dark Occultists through willful ignorance, as both extremes are founded upon a disenchantment of the Earth and her Mysteries.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> Walpurgisnacht has been the date of many auspicious events even to the present day when </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">many governments worldwide instituted lockdowns and mask mandates (to be understood as </span><a href="https://sjobst.blogspot.com/2021/11/addendum-20-on-death-pathology-neuro.html" style="font-family: georgia;">ritualistic</a><span style="font-family: georgia;">) on or around that date in 2020. These relate to the "Season of Sacrifice" mentioned by Mark Passio, the forty-day period from 22nd March to 1st May, when modern sacrifice rituals like wars and false flag events are more prevalent. Whether one dismisses this as a "conspiracy theory" matters nothing because its <i>what dark occultists</i> <i>believe</i> that informs their actions - and there is nothing more dark occultist than authoritarian political ideologies, including their mind control and propaganda efforts. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgV5PvjG_crpMNYD2kx4vCMvQDHPHx5yzXcvXb6zLBtAYPGm1rQarUuDLmSGivnMSy1Uf6IK3ga7RC6UA9AiAxtg2muE0DtUU_llj4C1s9EZHESpvv5IOiDkhxlq54qEQTzgBilqElEGKuHmvbkD0xI888UyKh8V_xAt4mXigY_dl8N29NJ2RSvY1VrRw/s339/80467d7b517dc11131363a0ada199b06--capricorn-aquarius.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="339" data-original-width="214" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgV5PvjG_crpMNYD2kx4vCMvQDHPHx5yzXcvXb6zLBtAYPGm1rQarUuDLmSGivnMSy1Uf6IK3ga7RC6UA9AiAxtg2muE0DtUU_llj4C1s9EZHESpvv5IOiDkhxlq54qEQTzgBilqElEGKuHmvbkD0xI888UyKh8V_xAt4mXigY_dl8N29NJ2RSvY1VrRw/s320/80467d7b517dc11131363a0ada199b06--capricorn-aquarius.jpg" width="202" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Saturn, the Roman name for the <br />Greek god Kronos, whom they <br />related to the planet and astrological<br />sign of the same name. From an<br />unknown illustration, 1550-1570.<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><i>The Dark Occult Spells of Authoritarianism and Mind-Control</i></b></span><br /><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> Theirs is an inversion of the positive <a href="https://sjobst.blogspot.com/2020/04/ostara-germanic-goddess-of-spring-and.html">energies and symbolisms</a> of Spring, so it is with Walpurgisnacht which has symbolic potential for <a href="https://sjobst.blogspot.com/2020/04/walpurgisnacht-journey-across-time.html">heightened awareness</a> given its liminal time. These energies are neutral, depending on the will and intention of the individual, so can be inverted by those who seek to control others. "Signs and symbols rule the world, not words nor laws," as often attributed to Confucius (himself purveyor of a philosophy justifying a ruling elite).(1) An example is Saturn, who has his negative and positive qualities. His symbol is the sickle: its no accident that Communism, with its occult origins and symbolisms(2), charged its sigil combining the hammer and sickle. It adopted its official holiday for May 1st, when privileged "revolutionaries" (their revolutions funded by banking houses and industrialists) pretend to celebrate the very proletariat whose energies and power they exploit. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> Even while their regime was on the verge of collapse, the Bolsheviks ruling Bavaria rushed to execute seven Thule Society occultists on Walpurgisnacht, 1919. The Freikorps entered Munich the next day, May 1st. With its own occult connections harnessed to a political system, National Socialism continued this occult tradition with its own rituals and sigils. Much has been written about the occult elements of that ideology, much of it exaggerations or outright disinformation, but there are some elements of truth in it.(3) It was on Walpurgisnacht, 1945 that Hitler committed suicide; that same day elsewhere in Berlin, Soviet troops raised the Hammer and Sickle over the Reichstag to replace the competing sigil of the crooked Swastika. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> These were competing totalitarian occultists playing out their magical battles in the physical realm; it mattered nothing to them that millions died in the process (in a war that the Western Allies and their "democratic" ideology had as much a role in bringing about). One example we can view as dark occult is propaganda, and openly totalitarian ideologies were never the only purveyors. Indeed, some of the earliest propaganda techniques were tried and <i>perfected</i> in the Western "democracies". Individuals like <a href="http://aireform.com/wp-content/uploads/20160219cpy..-Century-of-the-Self-Transcript-4-part-film-series-by-A.Curtis-55p.pdf">Edward Bernays</a>, Walter Lippmann, <a href="https://www.masscommunicationtalk.com/harold-lasswells-propaganda-theory.html">Harold Lasswell</a>, émigrés from the Frankfurt School, and various advertising and public relations firms can be seen as examples of dark sorcerers who combine psychology with elements of political ideology harnessed for the ends of government and/or corporations. What are the symbols of governments and corporate logos except new sigils? </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0--l_8zB5ZwXQq9INvnYpcskKaJ8AbkPKhaJP8xpVXLCuDPLmYxZdxdGJD6ce1e_1Msa3lXoo2eea00Wl5RC9ZIPldM3srakaoEuIIJUyFA5KjFUwlJJWIj8qcVJcGLD3mO7v6Xb0VALpKtPDD9l1dOn5R5LY-tsFotoqHwdBSHi0J3_xUs_WDZnHIA/s325/download.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="155" data-original-width="325" height="153" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0--l_8zB5ZwXQq9INvnYpcskKaJ8AbkPKhaJP8xpVXLCuDPLmYxZdxdGJD6ce1e_1Msa3lXoo2eea00Wl5RC9ZIPldM3srakaoEuIIJUyFA5KjFUwlJJWIj8qcVJcGLD3mO7v6Xb0VALpKtPDD9l1dOn5R5LY-tsFotoqHwdBSHi0J3_xUs_WDZnHIA/s320/download.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Statue of Shiva the Destroyer's Cosmic Dance,<br />outside the CERN building in Geneva, Switzerland</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i><b>Dark Sorcerers of the Cult of Scientism</b></i></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;"> What was regarded as Magic in the past is often considered "Science" today, especially in physics. Even the most reductionist scientific types are coming around to admit there are deeper spiritual realities. A perfect example is CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research which runs a hydrogen collider on the Swiss-French border - a modern effort to re-create the primordial cosmic events described in various mythologies, by smashing particles together. They <a href="https://home.cern/news/news/accelerators/large-hadron-collider-restarts">restarted</a> it after a three-year break in late April. The World Wide Web was invented by Tim Berners-Lee while he was working at CERN and <a href="https://home.cern/science/computing/birth-web">released to the public</a> on Walpurgisnacht: "On 30 April 1993, CERN put the World Wide Web software in the public domain. Later, CERN made a release available with an open license, a more sure way to maximise its dissemination. These actions allowed the web to flourish."</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;"> CERN is famously known for the Higgs Boson "<a href="https://home.cern/science/physics/higgs-boson">God Particle</a>", a vain attempt by Technocrats to simulate and re-create the Divine. On April 1, 2015, CERN physicists <a href="https://home.web.cern.ch/news/news/cern/cern-researchers-confirm-existence-force">affirmed</a> that "an invisible Force permeates the universe, binding the galaxy together," making reference to four other "forces" like electromagnetism innately known to the Ancients (who encoded it within their myths and traditions) thousands of year before being "discovered" by CERN. On October 30, 2020, CERN <a href="https://indico.cern.ch/event/964891/">declared</a> a "Dark Matter Day" to <a href="https://www.darkmatterday.com/">mock and invert</a> "the historic hunt for the unseen" on the Celtic All Hollow's Eve and various Wild Hunt traditions, and manifest in physical "scientific" form the Unseen denied by these same Technocrats. Their delusions that everything can be quantified is nothing but a fool's errand to disenchant an Earth with all the beauty, creativity, and mysteries abounding within life. Where are the Extinction Rebellion and Green New Deal types to protest all the energy used by CERN? Or are Technocrats free from any carbon sin which only applies to the working and middle classes?</span><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> Multiple universes are now <a href="https://home.cern/news/news/physics/crunching-multiverse-solve-two-physics-puzzles-once">accepted</a> by the same Technocrats who scoffed at "superstitions" that were always known to ancient cultures worldwide. Given their disconnect from anything natural and even from a balanced psyche, CERN wants to see <a href="https://www.sciencenatures.com/2021/07/researchers-at-large-hadron-collider.html">gravity transferred</a> across multiple universes, such that "gravity can leak into extra dimensions, and if it does, then miniature black holes can be produced at the LHC [CERN atom smasher]." This is contrary to ancient folklore and mythologies that <i>knew</i> the boundaries between these worlds are not to be crossed, certainly not by most people, and these boundaries should be respected. These Technocrats' hubris is such that they want to open up a portal (much like the occult symbolism present with 9/11) between worlds. We can see this in light of my <a href="https://sjobst.blogspot.com/2022/03/on-natural-law-and-immunity-spiritual.html">previous article</a> that detailed how a floodgate of spiritual entities unleashed itself these past few years. Could CERN be such a portal intensifying Wetiko mind-viruses and Archontic Infection on a mass scale through its Technocratic hubris?<br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 10pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"> They will selectively take from ancient wisdom but invert the meaning and make the sacred profane. An example is how they distort the symbolism of the Vedic Lord Shiva. On 18 June 2004, CERN<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><a href="https://cds.cern.ch/record/745737?ln=en">unveiled</a> a 2 meter-tall statue of Shiva and his Cosmic Dance. Why it did so it explained
thusly: “In the Hindu religion, this form of the dancing Lord Shiva is known as
the Nataraj and symbolises Shakti, or life force. As a plaque alongside the
statue explains, the belief is that Lord Shiva danced the Universe into
existence, motivates it, and will eventually extinguish it. Carl Sagan drew the
metaphor between the cosmic dance of the Nataraj and the modern study of the
'cosmic dance' of subatomic particles.” CERN sees itself as “dancing” the life
force into existence, their Scientism proclaiming its transcendence along with its hubris to destroy what it “creates”. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 10pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 10pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjun4RfIaHWbrjPkbUqlpQrycCBJy-CNsXXbzY2mn56gAjyMaNt5NskW1Cf3qGDdrJzGgCaXpBrjAPzP3eTYUBjNVG9f9g5frxLrJAc_HT62-z9pmvm22RZ6JpKyJn84-nLrz2PPIAxcHkqO8_vJkM27m1x66YSILreJD79K0-4A-TJZCN06CNwH7NSA/s900/DxCvCiNX0AUUvqn.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="900" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjun4RfIaHWbrjPkbUqlpQrycCBJy-CNsXXbzY2mn56gAjyMaNt5NskW1Cf3qGDdrJzGgCaXpBrjAPzP3eTYUBjNVG9f9g5frxLrJAc_HT62-z9pmvm22RZ6JpKyJn84-nLrz2PPIAxcHkqO8_vJkM27m1x66YSILreJD79K0-4A-TJZCN06CNwH7NSA/s320/DxCvCiNX0AUUvqn.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><br /><br /><b><i>Dissolving Self and Psyche through the Jab</i></b><br /></span></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 10pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"> Doing its faithful <a href="https://home.cern/news/news/cern/cern-hosts-covid-19-vaccination-centre">part</a> offering its services for <a href="https://sjobst.blogspot.com/2021/12/sanguine-gnosis-vs-transubstantiation.html">Transubstantiation of the Jab</a>, CERN is near headquarters of the World Health Organization and Gates' GAVI, The Vaccine Alliance. All three are funded by wealth governments steal from taxpayers and workers, their policies decided in secrecy and carried out by those governments using <a href="https://sjobst.blogspot.com/2021/08/rise-of-wotanic-energy-and-fall-of.html">propaganda means</a> - Dark Sorcerers of a Medical Tyranny. Their objective is to control and <i>alter</i> minds, as in the meaning of <i>pharmakeia</i> (φαρμακεία): "the use of medicine, drugs or spells; drug-related sorcery."(4) In his "Ultimate Revolution" speech at Berkeley in 1962, Aldous Huxley famously predicted a "pharmacological method of making people love their servitude." When we see the religious fervor with which so many obediently follow every dictate by government and media for their health and bodies, trusting the dogmas of selected "experts" placed before them, lining up for the perpetual-dose jab</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">, and virtue signaling themselves as "superior" than others for their compliance</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">, we are seeing people pharmacologically-induced into a Cult.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 10pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"> On 16 Jan. 2019, WHO head (and Ethiopian Marxist activist) Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus <a href="https://twitter.com/DrTedros/status/1085559977597636609">posted</a> a picture of himself meeting with Chinese officials in front of a Shiva statue: "WHO & #China have enjoyed a long & productive partnership. WHO is proud to have supported the overseas training of more than 2000 Chinese #HealthWorkers. Grateful for China's commitment to strengthening health systems in other countries through its Belt and Road Initiative." Foundations were laid before the events of 2020 which facilitated the <a href="https://sjobst.blogspot.com/2020/03/is-globalist-surveillance-state.html">geopolitical interests</a> of the Belt and Road and other power-forces of which the WHO is merely the outer "medical" authority. The inclusion of a Shiva statue at their meeting is a deliberate message of their shared will to destroy old systems, including local forms of sovereignty, and rebuild a new Globalist bureaucratic structure on top of those ruins. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 10pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"> Witnessing the first modern nuclear explosion at the "Trinity" site near Alamogorado, New Mexico, on 16 July 1945, J. Robert Oppenheimer quoted two passages from the Bhagavad Gita(5): "If the radiance of a thousand suns were to burst at once into the sky, that would be like the splendor of the mighty one" (11:12), and when Vishnu told Arjuna: "I am Death (Shiva), the destroyer of worlds" (11:32). The phrase he rendered as "death" was translated as "Time I am" by a leading Hindu sage.(6) When Oppenheimer appeared before a crowd at Los Alamos on August 6th (the night of Hiroshima), he only lamented it was not completed in time to use against Germany.(7) Almost like an incantation, Oppenheimer was proclaiming himself to be "Destroyer of Worlds" through his work on the bomb. It was a dark occult ritual that was also inverting the <i>true</i> meaning of Shiva.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 10pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><br /></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBOeFSQCipyiW35UTvg_PTBRWDt4AInNW1DjJnCmKYLmTZwBA4Yl6h-ZIS6uaT8nHtjydktnLBMGSiKAskQBHJ968Z9dCZa8giDZg-h8SU2kMjCR9vfEHFdCwpeoa8Kly1T0lrpdFdv5NI1Kz9YNnhRTnc8uDbBwPlpipi92lM1-MN5uZ99yt07iAC0A/s304/download%20(1).jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="304" data-original-width="166" height="304" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBOeFSQCipyiW35UTvg_PTBRWDt4AInNW1DjJnCmKYLmTZwBA4Yl6h-ZIS6uaT8nHtjydktnLBMGSiKAskQBHJ968Z9dCZa8giDZg-h8SU2kMjCR9vfEHFdCwpeoa8Kly1T0lrpdFdv5NI1Kz9YNnhRTnc8uDbBwPlpipi92lM1-MN5uZ99yt07iAC0A/s1600/download%20(1).jpg" width="166" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Saturno devorando a su hijo"<br />by Francisco Goya, 1819-<br />1823. Allegory for Time<br />devouring its "children"<br /><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i><b>Creativity Flows From Destruction</b></i></span><br /><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> None of this proves any devotion of these Dark Occultists to Shiva, but how they invert the polarity of energies he symbolizes. Shiva is the destructive balance to the creation personified by Brahma - and both are associated with Vishnu, who personifies Preservation. Both power-forces(8) are present within Nature and the Cosmos - there is a time and place for both energies. Like the Roman Saturn and Greek Chronos, Shiva represents Time - what we perceive and measure as time decays until a new cycle begins. Shiva relates to us through our own Shadow, the Unconscious aspects of our Personality we need to integrate and make Conscious: "India balances Brahma, the god of creation, with Shiva, the god of destruction, and Vishnu sits in the middle keeping the opposites together. No one can escape the dark side of life, but we can pay out that dark side intelligently. The balance of light and dark is ultimately possible - and bearable."(9)</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> As a "Wild God of Power and Ecstasy", Shiva represents a primal archetype through whom "we enter realms deep in our innermost nature and simultaneously penetrate the profundities of ancient history": "The mystery we are approaching is the image of the human being itself. At the beginning of time, the image appeared as in a flash of lightning, by which a surprised primate saw himself for the first time and, in that instant, was torn from the dream consciousness of his animal state. This image of light, stunning that first human soul, has remained engraved in the human memory ever since. Undefinable and inapprehensible, the image was, nonetheless, given thousands of names, decorated with endless attributes, and honored in myriad rites and rituals."(10) </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> Such primal images inspired creativity within early human beings, no matter the specific cultural name they gave this power-force. They viewed seasons changing, with destructive natural forces giving way to creative elements in a perpetual cyclical dance. They observed new life sprouting forth from decaying trees in a forest. Through observing how these cosmic and natural forces "danced" (to use the imagery of Shiva), they extrapolated how these power-forces also exist within ourselves. Creativity means destroying old qualities holding you back from manifesting your talents. Learning something new means creating new neural pathways and destroying your previous ignorance. To know yourself is to destroy the lack of awareness previously held about yourself and the world, bringing what was hidden within your Unconscious into the light of Consciousness. Self-awareness is free will to create more experiences, using your innate freedom to manifest your will into outer reality.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgicS-Y9QoqrtSGUCguTXr43HvWAKzZiwzpZAxHsqoAhmCwvzfWw1tGYsgN2cZ2QsT9pDZD37E8fi-W14a1kL_ZWSwcQxGaB2jIDNZVg_CYYOjhevbZj_UCE6HNPi4wF5Ta_gLb7SYfDBC8iyT_GkT-yjc1do0fwgYrbnL-tjbrrD-THjRg03gJMVMz4A/s736/99c5c5aec8a61e919fa3efa1dab511cd.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="736" data-original-width="736" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgicS-Y9QoqrtSGUCguTXr43HvWAKzZiwzpZAxHsqoAhmCwvzfWw1tGYsgN2cZ2QsT9pDZD37E8fi-W14a1kL_ZWSwcQxGaB2jIDNZVg_CYYOjhevbZj_UCE6HNPi4wF5Ta_gLb7SYfDBC8iyT_GkT-yjc1do0fwgYrbnL-tjbrrD-THjRg03gJMVMz4A/s320/99c5c5aec8a61e919fa3efa1dab511cd.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><i>Self-Awareness and Power</i></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> Its the timeless maxim to "Know Yourself" as was inscribed on the Oracle of Delphi. All organic tribal societies regarded their spiritual elites as the most self-aware individuals. <i>Druid</i> comes from a Celtic word meaning "true" and "to know", which also relates with "to see" (trusting your intuition and senses). <i>Gnostic</i> comes from a Greek word meaning "those who know as the gods know".(11) <i>Shaman</i> comes from an Evenki (one of the Tungusic peoples of northern Siberia) word meaning "to know". Although the term itself comes from Siberia, tribal cultures worldwide had their own shamanic tradition under different names - there is no "appropriation" as its primal and the potential exists within all. The shaman is the "Wounded Healer" as defined by the Hungarian psychologist Károly Kerényi: "To be at home in the darkness of suffering and there to find germs of light and recovery with which, as though by enchantment, to bring forth Asclepius, the sunlike healer."(12)</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> Self-awareness comes out of confronting the Shadow and one's traumas, ascending and descending throughout a life-long process with no place for such unnatural notions as "perfection" or always being "happy"; one should strive for the contentment that comes from being authentic. Speaking from his calling as a Lakota medicine man, John Fire Lame Deer advised how one "should experience and feel all the ups and downs, the despair and joy, the magic and the reality, the courage and the fear, of his people. He should be able to sink as low as a bug, or soar as high as an eagle." "You can't be so stuck up, so inhuman that you want to be pure, your soul wrapped up in a plastic bag, all the time," but "being right in the midst of the turmoil, not shielding yourself from it. It means experiencing life in all its phases. It means not being afraid of cutting up and playing the fool now and then. That's sacred too."(13)</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> A crucial aspect is Intuition, a guiding sense whether or not one is out of sync with <a href="https://sjobst.blogspot.com/2022/03/on-natural-law-and-immunity-spiritual.html">Natural Law</a>. It may express itself in bodily sensations, but ultimately is "very deep-rooted in our consciousness" as noted by the Irish artist and magician Thomas Sheridan. "The creative intention that spawns from this intuition truly is a magical undertaking where you know the creative person is connected at a higher spirit." An awareness that we are interactive with the universe, not merely a passive observer. Seeing our lives as an energetic process, where we move with these higher cosmic and natural forces but with enormous leeway to create and manifest our reality. Taking control of our lives and manifesting that creative will outward, following our intuition means we cannot be easily programmed and conditioned. "We can all as individuals build the reality we desire through the artistic creative magic which we may not see the results in our own lifetimes as straightforward but sometimes you do. We can all drop these pebbles of our creativity into the pool of collective human experience from this creative plunge. The ripples will continue into all eternity and beyond."(14) </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJ_V4Z71bzvL2wrh6QpeHr0QzdjDHlWiDNG8kTVjLxFPtdp_t87KBNjdoyvIUwuCs_J7uOn5jYuS52fNycNU3v9cQgOgYhSJtHbIPAdLE-o2Sl9ZtCRpxljBxlejwPG0QfrHLx4OmSV4lRb_aUHT-ZkuzR7cABmY2B4HXqN8CRYh6eD9r8EhhDt1WtWw/s1625/334_001.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1093" data-original-width="1625" height="269" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJ_V4Z71bzvL2wrh6QpeHr0QzdjDHlWiDNG8kTVjLxFPtdp_t87KBNjdoyvIUwuCs_J7uOn5jYuS52fNycNU3v9cQgOgYhSJtHbIPAdLE-o2Sl9ZtCRpxljBxlejwPG0QfrHLx4OmSV4lRb_aUHT-ZkuzR7cABmY2B4HXqN8CRYh6eD9r8EhhDt1WtWw/w400-h269/334_001.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Die heilige Stunde" (1911) by the great German Heathen<br />artist and visionary, Ludwig Fahrenkrog (1867-1952)</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><i>Basic Definitions of Magic</i></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> This brings us now to some basic definitions of Magic. There are few terms as loaded with as many wrong associations, whether it be those who reduce it to stage tricks, elaborate ceremonies and costumes, or to obtain mundane ends; those who arrogantly dismiss it as the superstitious glimmer of a "backwards" history; or those who demonize and confuse it with the inverted magic of Dark Occultists. All these are wrong perceptions that play into the spell that has binded most of humanity by this Psychopathic Control System. The ultimate ways to defeat that is to set up Parallel Societies through Creativity and Non-Compliance - both of which tie into the definitions we will see below. Creativity carries responsibility to "create dangerously" and provides an "emancipatory force" against tyrants, as expressed by the great French writer Albert Camus.(15) </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> Magic also means to see the Earth as enchanted - as it always is and has been, despite the veils of delusion clouding most people from appreciation and Gratitude. The importance of giving meaning to life, seeing it in terms of allegories and metaphors; one's own life as an unfolding Mythology, that we are active writers acting out our own Monomyth as noted by the American mythologist Joseph Campbell. Seeing our achievements as personal heroic triumphs over obstacles. Learning from mistakes and errors, which we can turn into mere opportunities for growth. Realizing the limitlessness of our potential, even through our limitations. These are part of a magical process not only accessible but instinctive to all who care to demystify what has been blinded from us while appreciating the actual Mysteries of life. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> Magic (n.) late 14c, <i>magike</i>, "art of influencing or predicting events and producing marvels using hidden natural forces," also "super-natural art," especially the art of controlling the actions of spiritual or superhuman beings; from Old French <i>magique</i> "magic; magical," from Late Latin <i>magice</i> "sorcery, magic," from Greek <i>magike</i> (presumably with <i>tekhne</i> "art"), fem. of <i>magikos</i> "magical," from <i>magos</i> "one of the members of the learned and priestly class," from Old Persian <i>magush</i>, which is possibly from Proto-Indo-European root *<i>magh-</i> "to be able, have power." (<a href="https://www.etymonline.com/word/magic">Online Etymology Dictionary</a>) </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> "Magic is the art of causing changes in consciousness in conformity with the Will." (Dion Fortune) "Magic is the art of effecting change in consciousness at will." (William Butler Yeats) "Magic is just the art of changing the focus of consciousness at will." (Robert Anton Wilson, <i>The Earth Will Shake</i>, 1982)</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> "Magic is the science and the art of causing change to occur in conformity with will." (Peter J. Carroll, <i>Liber Null & Psychonaut: An Introduction to Chaos Magic</i>, San Francisco: Weiser Books, 1987, p. 15)</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUEHSkCSGOnjHjNn4qF8mvM3kps4nHqWTAYB3VnXg1urvUUz7F9jrcG7spEdxBtvdy1dqSA9bCJodvRqD5HOA8xqQbXukP-BjIKxy0K5DPMwoFMmpjqw3bGYQRpXde-RWDjhLhV5PbI8G_EzZWGo8JQlGPOqBi2N6FiYl1A2O9UMPr8SfDZlpy9DunPg/s793/72996e82acd11e4a06d9c5ac5938523b.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="793" data-original-width="505" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUEHSkCSGOnjHjNn4qF8mvM3kps4nHqWTAYB3VnXg1urvUUz7F9jrcG7spEdxBtvdy1dqSA9bCJodvRqD5HOA8xqQbXukP-BjIKxy0K5DPMwoFMmpjqw3bGYQRpXde-RWDjhLhV5PbI8G_EzZWGo8JQlGPOqBi2N6FiYl1A2O9UMPr8SfDZlpy9DunPg/w255-h400/72996e82acd11e4a06d9c5ac5938523b.jpg" width="255" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Illustration of Wodan and a Seeress, by<br />the German graphic artist Emil Doepler</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /><br /><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> "Magic is a set of techniques and approaches which can be used to extend the limits of Achievable Reality. Our sense of Achievable Reality is the limitations which we believe bind us into a narrow range of actions and successes - what we believe to be possible for us at any one time. In this context, the purpose of magic is to simultaneously explore those boundaries and attempt to push them back - to widen the 'sphere' of possible action." (Phil Hines, <i>Condensed Chaos: An Introduction to Chaos Magic</i>, Tempe, AZ: The Original Falcon Press, 1995)</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> "Magic is the science and art of causing change, on a material as well as a spiritual level, to occur in conformity with will by altered states of consciousness." (Frater U.:D., <i>Secrets of Western Sex Magic: Magical Energy & Gnostic Trance</i>, St. Paul, MN: Llewellyn Publications, 2002)</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> "Magick is the science and art of causing change (in consciousness) to occur in conformity with will, using means not currently understood by traditional Western science....In this case 'will' is understood not in terms of the individual’s petty wants and desires, but rather as an intention that is in harmony with the fundamental essence of the individual’s Higher Self, and also in full accord with natural or cosmic law." (Donald Michael Kraig, <i>Modern Magick: Twelve Lessons in the High Magickal Arts</i>, St. Paul, MN: Llewellyn Publications, 2010)</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> "Real Magick is not merely an assortment of skills and techniques. It's more like an open-minded attitude, a blend of interest and dedication, which allows each honest mage to observe, to learn, to adapt, and to invent unique ways of changing identity and reality from within." (Jan Fries, <i>Visual Magick: A Manual of Freestyle Shamanism</i>, Mandrake of Oxford, 1992)</span></div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhu6kAQ1EVhhhg2EJB2bixnGcsZWDhcDOW4VR1aaZUO0Gdoeso04QXf-hPBTY6Rd-nbHQ8zaFgBtf3tFUTFmmyLf2AbDG3XPXaS-KZNFShfc0Zburd-9aG-Bq_hiJ1J-LJ9rb9C_0u0vngMIDESY7fxlNS39-0GKy7IU0iV3LuZlgG4qcFrmmrbnaXTsA/s550/the-sacred-grove-of-the-druids-from-the-opera-norma-by-vincenzo-bellini-1802-35_u-l-o2d570.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="413" data-original-width="550" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhu6kAQ1EVhhhg2EJB2bixnGcsZWDhcDOW4VR1aaZUO0Gdoeso04QXf-hPBTY6Rd-nbHQ8zaFgBtf3tFUTFmmyLf2AbDG3XPXaS-KZNFShfc0Zburd-9aG-Bq_hiJ1J-LJ9rb9C_0u0vngMIDESY7fxlNS39-0GKy7IU0iV3LuZlgG4qcFrmmrbnaXTsA/w400-h300/the-sacred-grove-of-the-druids-from-the-opera-norma-by-vincenzo-bellini-1802-35_u-l-o2d570.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"The Sacred Grove of the Druids", from the opera "Norma" <br />(1831) by the Italian composer Vincenzo Bellini</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><i>Witchcraft and Concluding Thoughts</i></b></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;"> The word and concept of Magic itself is not the property of Kabbalistic-inspired ceremonial magical schools, with their dogmas and ceremonies. Rather, its an organic and natural outgrowth from the landscape itself and each people's unique relationship with that landscape, as well as their potentials. This is why there are unique folk magic traditions down to regional differences, including even in the most-industrialized societies and the "New World". It says much about the human condition, that we have these tools within ourselves and our biospheres already to be empowered, being both and at the same time grounded to the Earth and reaching to the Stars. We can recognize this in the wonderful secrets revealed by the etymology of a closely-related word to magic: Witchcraft. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;"> Witchcraft comes from the Old English <i>wiccecræft</i>, combining the two elements: <i>wicce</i> "female magician, sorceress" or <i>wicca</i>(16) "sorcerer, wizard, man who practices magic" + <i>cræft</i> "power, skill". These derive from Proto-Germanic *<i>wikkjaz</i> "necromancer" -> Proto-Indo-European *<i>weg-yo</i>, *<i>weg</i> "to be strong, be lively". There are possible connections with Gothic <i>weihs</i> "holy, sacred" and Proto-Germanic *<i>weihan</i> "consecrate". (<a href="https://www.etymonline.com/word/witch">Online Etymology Dictionary</a>). The Grimm Brothers suggested a link to the Ingvaeones(17) via a word <i>wikkon</i> related to the Gothic <i>weihs</i>, which he proposed as coming from the PIE *<i>weik-</i> "to separate, to divide", pointing ultimately to Germanic divination and other magical practices reported by the Roman writer Tacitus. (Wilhelm and Jacob Grimm, <i>Deutsches Wörterbuch</i>; and <i>Reallexikon der germanischen Altertumskunde</i>, Vol. IV, p. 506)</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> As noted by the Gnostic teacher and visionary John Lamb Lash, "witchcraft" also comes from the same Indo-European root as "wit," "wisdom", and "magnify", which he identified with using one's will and intention. It was in that same <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHnGjey4jiM">interview</a> that Jeffrey Daugherty gave an interesting distinction between magic and witchcraft: "Magic is where you use somebody else's sigils, incantations, and spells, the names and powers of other people, and many times without concern to the intention or will of other people. Whereas witchcraft is the use of your own intention, your own will in accordance with the laws of nature, only to do benevolent manifestations of your own will." We can see this in our original subject: <i>Wal-</i> has various magical meanings ("wands, staves") + <i>burga</i>/<i>purga</i> ("towns, mountains, hearth"), so is the Magic that comes from the Earth Herself.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> Ultimately, this is an interactive magic that comes from living in balance with a sentient Earth, having an animistic perspective as stressed by Lash: "She is a great power and source of our lives. So when you practice magic to magnify your own intention, you combine your own intention with her intention. That's what causes the magnification. You can't magnify it on your own." Its a power-sharing, rather than a power-trip. Gratitude is an essential element in this empowering magic - lacking to the authorities whose hubris is compounded by their greed and envy against the planet and humanity. True Magic is the <a href="https://seanjobst.substack.com/p/evola-initiation-and-transcendence">initiatory path of The Anarch</a>, grounding us to the Earth whom birthed us while also allowing our potential to soar with the Stars. We have the power that the profane authorities envy because theirs is an illusionary one that is neither grounded or limitless despite all their desperate efforts.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdPYcgiOnKR03x--nuw3oP6rO9mk2II3_4BdvLnG6dKkRANXYt5r8Odeef-Jfr47QQVF-QCon-n0rcdi4au2VNKxFNyIOv9c5E0QuDqBp6NcKgsw8QE1mIVYhWqrz80wKqx0MHONbC7dm9YPu4ANwAkrvA3LXwadnvYkDuo_sIpFI9X1Latrj2pbf6Mg/s500/avatars-000376944935-hz21hb-t500x500.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="500" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdPYcgiOnKR03x--nuw3oP6rO9mk2II3_4BdvLnG6dKkRANXYt5r8Odeef-Jfr47QQVF-QCon-n0rcdi4au2VNKxFNyIOv9c5E0QuDqBp6NcKgsw8QE1mIVYhWqrz80wKqx0MHONbC7dm9YPu4ANwAkrvA3LXwadnvYkDuo_sIpFI9X1Latrj2pbf6Mg/s320/avatars-000376944935-hz21hb-t500x500.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /><br /><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><i>Footnotes and Sources:</i></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">(1) Although the quote itself is very true, it seems to be a loose paraphrasing of more abstract concepts and terms Confucius wrote about in Analects: <<a href="https://philosophy.stackexchange.com/questions/36056/did-confucius-say-signs-and-symbols-rule-the-world-not-words-nor-laws">https://philosophy.stackexchange.com/questions/36056/did-confucius-say-signs-and-symbols-rule-the-world-not-words-nor-laws</a>>. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">(2) Just some examples: Marx's call for the "abolition" of all traditions, morality, family structures etc. overlapping with the subversive goals of 18th-century secret societies. Influence of Russian occult thinkers like Nikolai Fyodorov (a precursor to Transhumanism) on the early Soviet regime, especially Trotsky whose occult interest was well-known. The burgeoning ideology of Cosmism within the USSR, with its views on the "divine" potential of "scientific materialism" to overcome humanity, nature, and the cosmos. The massive library of magical and occult works released from the Soviet archives only after 1991, quickly seized upon by Western NGOs and academic institutions. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">(3) That movement distorted Germanic archetypes and symbols for profane (political) ends, transposing them upon a centralizing totalitarianism more rooted in Abrahamism than the decentralism inherent to our Germanic tribes. Whether it be the political structures, personality cult, or even the architectural style, it had more to do with the Imperial Roman solar cult and Charlemagne's Reich than with Germanic Paganism. It used the Thule Society and other Occultists to be propelled to power, but once achieved turned on them and suppressed occultism in general for the public while filling their own State archives with that knowledge much like the Soviet elites did.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">(4) <i>Strong's Greek Concordance</i>, 5331.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">(5) Robert Jungk. <i>Brighter than a Thousand Suns: A Personal History of the Atomic Scientists</i>. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1958, p. 201.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">(6) A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada. <i>Bhagavad-Gita As It Is</i>. Los Angeles: The Bhaktivedanta Book Trust, 1972, p. 183. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">(7) Ray Monk. <i>Robert Oppenheimer: A Life Inside the Center</i>. New York/Toronto: Doubleday, 2012, pp. 467-468.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">(8) Calling Deities archetypes or power-forces does not make them less "real" or Transcendent, as our Pagan perspective being Animistic means we know even aspects of Nature and power-forces possess Consciousness. I recognize and respect these Vedic Deities, although for my own ethnic reasons I work with my native Germanic and Celtiberian archetypal Deific power-forces. We have our equivalents and many similar traditions given our common Indo-European heritage. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">(9) Robert A. Johnson. <i>Owning Your Own Shadow: Understanding The Dark Side of The Psyche</i>. HarperSanFrancisco, 1994.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">(10) Wolf-Dieter Storl. <i>Shiva: The Wild God of Power and Ecstasy</i>. Rochester, VT: Inner Traditions, 2004, pp. 3-4.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">(11) John Lamb Lash. <i>Not In His Image: Gnostic Vision, Sacred Ecology, and the Future of Belief</i>, 15th Anniversary Edition. White River Junction, VT: Chelsea Green Publishing, 2021, p. xx. "Gnostic" was the term given to them by their detractors, whereas they called themselves <i>Telestai</i> "we who are aimed," meaning "we know our purpose". I endorse his research that places the Gnostic origins in the Pagan Mystery Schools rather than the "heretical" sect of Christianity as it has been distorted.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">(12) Quoted in Paul Levy, "The Wounded Healer," <<a href="https://www.awakeninthedream.com/articles/the-wounded-healer-part-1">https://www.awakeninthedream.com/articles/the-wounded-healer-part-1</a>>.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">(13) <i>Lame Deer, Seeker of Visions</i>. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1972, pp. 75-76.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">(14) Thomas Sheridan, "Creative Intentions," Jul 13, 2011, <<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXsKBN_5Oho">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXsKBN_5Oho</a>>.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">(15) Albert Camus, "Create Dangerously," Speech at Uppsala University, December 1957. He presented many great thoughts about creativity despite his socialism, for his was an Anarchic soul.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">(16) Not to be confused with the modern religion that has syncretic elements drawn from various Pagan traditions, but lacks in authentic reconstruction of those traditions, strewing together some historical Celtic along with invented holidays on a solar "Wheel of the Year" among many other anachronisms.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">(17) One of the three tribal groupings descended from the sons of Mannus in the Germanic origin myth recounted by Tacitus. These were the coastal tribes and related to Ing-Freyr, who was the legendary founder of the Anglo-Saxons. I wrote about this origin myth in an article that needs some updating in light of new research and insights: "<a href="https://swabian-pride.blogspot.com/2018/09/divine-progenitors-of-suebi-analysis-of.html">Divine Progenitors of the Suebi</a>". </span></div></div></div>Sean Jobsthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17351165299354431339noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-907444223262019258.post-80360783206298033212022-05-04T14:06:00.003-05:002022-05-08T10:59:27.458-05:00Walpurgisnacht 2022 - (1) General Overview and Decoding Folklore and Etymology<p><span style="font-family: georgia;">by Sean Jobst</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">4 May 2022</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> We are now at one of the liminal times of the year, when the flow of energies is greater and barrier between different dimensions or realities are at their thinnest. Walpurgisnacht is on the night of April 30th, followed by the season known as Bealtaine in Gaelic lands. I wrote an article back in April 2020: "<a href="https://sjobst.blogspot.com/2020/04/walpurgisnacht-journey-across-time.html">Walpurgisnacht - A Journey Across Time, Space, and Darkness</a>" - about the folklore, meanings, and symbolisms of this day.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> <i>Seasonal</i> because holidays in Celtic and Germanic lands being tied to lunisolar dates meant they weren't reduced to <i>just</i> one day. Despite the later creations of modern-day neo-"Paganisms" who embrace an ahistorical "Wheel of the Year" that cobbled together both cultures without regard to the authenticity of either</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">, nor is Walpurgisnacht a "Witches' Sabbat" - the Hebrew notion of a "day of rest" (</span><i style="font-family: georgia;">sabbath</i><span style="font-family: georgia;">) was foreign to native European celebrations of life, fertility, and the cycles of Nature. The basis of our ancestral calendars were lunisolar, not fixed solar dates, although there was a reckoning of lunar cycles around solar events:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> "If we browse the internet for holidays of the Germanic people, we mainly find pages presenting an octopartite year cycle, the so-called 'eight-spoked wheel of the year' based on the solstices, the equinoxes, and four moon feasts in between. This year cycle has absolutely no historical basis. Although it is very popular in neopagan circles, especially within Wicca and eclectic Asatru, there is no verified evidence for such a year circle as basis for the seasonal festivities. The same is true for the Celtic feasts within the year circle, because the Gauls too, used a lunisolar calendar as we know from the examples of Coligny and Villards d'Heria. If one has internalized such ideas, one should get rid of them immediately!"(1)</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhANdEYejwUW8avY5ftWW48jV4pYLf88_G9kipdeE81SI2k7rZ2BS-9yKgMlOjpZkDleGW2pZ8GY1OyrJltjUYySCl_kaG2qUFbk2_Zair_XffFNWMIKxZ0E4sOT1yTPgpIL3hNLCTrVYQIZwPvz0QujjkZ6Zc91OhSyPO_fVF8-VnqVSgnxWJ6zD2Lag/s702/320px-Heilige_Walburga.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="702" data-original-width="320" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhANdEYejwUW8avY5ftWW48jV4pYLf88_G9kipdeE81SI2k7rZ2BS-9yKgMlOjpZkDleGW2pZ8GY1OyrJltjUYySCl_kaG2qUFbk2_Zair_XffFNWMIKxZ0E4sOT1yTPgpIL3hNLCTrVYQIZwPvz0QujjkZ6Zc91OhSyPO_fVF8-VnqVSgnxWJ6zD2Lag/s320/320px-Heilige_Walburga.jpg" width="146" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span face="sans-serif"><span style="background-color: #f8f9fa; font-size: 12.32px;">Painting by Der Meister von <br />Me</span></span><span face="sans-serif"><span style="background-color: #f8f9fa;"><span style="font-size: 12.32px;">ßkirch, 1535-1540</span><br /></span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><i>Christian or Heathen?</i></b></span></p><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> Walpurgisnacht is an ostensibly <a href="https://www.aldsidu.com/post/asatru-s-most-embarrassing-time-of-the-year">Christian feast day</a>, established by Anno II, Archbishop of Köln, in the 11th century. It was to honor Saint Walpurga, an 8th-century Anglo-Saxon missionary </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">to Franconia canonized by Pope Adrian on 1st May 870 after her relics were moved from Heidenheim to a new abbey constructed in her honor elsewhere in Bavaria. "Her bones were 'translated' (that is, moved) on May 1 - which became her feast day - sometime during the 870s to Eichstätt, where he brother Willibald had been bishop. Ever since then an oily liquid has oozed out of the rock on which her tomb rests, and has been renowned among pilgrims for its great healing power."(2)</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> Her life-time miracles were only attributed to her later, in works from 895 and the late 10th century, by which time the Church had a vested financial interest in promoting pilgrimage to her site as well as demonstrating the power of its own "acceptable" magic over that of the Heathens, symbolized by her relics being moved from <i>Heidenheim</i> "Heathen home"(3). The translation of earlier works on natural philosophy meant a greater acceptance of magic so long as it was "natural", harnessing the power of natural properties, and not the "demonic" variety of powers and entities outside the Church.(4) Examples of the Church's magical traditions include the traditional Latin Mass, basically an appropriation of previous Roman rituals; doctrine of the Transubstantiation; consecrated altars; blessed candles and oils; and specified incantations used for exorcisms and other occasions.</span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> Thus were many hagiographies (biographies of saints) written after the mortal lives of their subjects. Her story seems apocryphal, carrying more symbolic than literal meaning. First, her alleged pedigree into an aristocratic family of English missionaries who persecuted Heathens in Southern and Central Germany. The Church tended to send foreign missionaries to convert local tribes and bend them to the dual political power of the Merovingians and Carolingians and religious power of Rome. Walpurga's maternal uncle was Boniface, who chopped down Donar's Oak of the Hessi tribe (known to the Romans as the Chatti) from whom Hesse was named. It was Boniface who sent for Walpurga and her two brothers, Winibald and Willibald, to join in the family endeavor of converting Heathens and building churches over previous sacred sites. She actively participated in the destruction of sacred groves and preached that of the Saxons' Irminsul (later carried out by Charlemagne's Christian jihadi armies in 782). </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNo1WtZrvRM0BdJauXbLW95x25MAxJ5ROXpowdFWQQIP8nHOm_kLu4MAC5KdSA093Zs8ezCPzivcDLwmFkM6OxXDk2bVES-rh_-1JvoHJAig_cHhLQootyWycXR2S4OauMaP0jE0kH3MLk_mE26gyYI4xu1nvywv600vO986YSUxySGyvUg2ZCzdx0vQ/s1125/Hitda_Codex_-_dedication_miniature_f6r_-_DarmBib_1640.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1125" data-original-width="832" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNo1WtZrvRM0BdJauXbLW95x25MAxJ5ROXpowdFWQQIP8nHOm_kLu4MAC5KdSA093Zs8ezCPzivcDLwmFkM6OxXDk2bVES-rh_-1JvoHJAig_cHhLQootyWycXR2S4OauMaP0jE0kH3MLk_mE26gyYI4xu1nvywv600vO986YSUxySGyvUg2ZCzdx0vQ/s320/Hitda_Codex_-_dedication_miniature_f6r_-_DarmBib_1640.jpg" width="237" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Walpurga in the Hitda Codex</td></tr></tbody></table><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><i>Symbolic Authority</i></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> Such "spiritual" powers invested in a fictitious aristocratic bloodline could have been designed to mentally establish the magical power of the Church over the subjugated Heathens. The <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Walpurga">etymology of Walpurga</a> "ruler of the fortress" comes from Germanic <i>waltan</i> "to rule" + <i>burg</i> "fortress", from Old High German <i>waltan</i> "rule". Authority and symbolic powers abound in apocryphal stories. "The porter who one evening refused to carry out Walpurga's orders and to light the lights of her monastery is the picture of the unintuitive man who always sees and never beholds, while a light welled up from Walpurga's pure heart and flooded around her figure, who in the middle of the night began to shine so brightly that the horde of nuns rushed over in dismay and, speechless with astonishment, surrounded the beaming woman."(5)</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><div> Another clue can be found in the earliest representation of Walpurga from the Hitda Codex, published at Köln in the early 11th century, which depicted her holding stalks of grain. Given that peasant farmers fashioned her image in a corn dolly at harvest time, including what can be called a transubstantiation within the grain sheaf, some scholars have made a compelling case that Walpurga was constructed from an earlier Heathen Grain Mother Goddess.(6) Other folk traditions portrayed her with a three-cornered mirror and a spindle, correlating to the Norns. Folklore holds that spells sent using the spindle originated with Walburga herself, and lazy farmers would be presented with a straw doll called "Walburga" to shame them into ploughing their land.(7) To return to the Hitda image, Walburga was seen as investing Hitda, the Abbess of Meschede in Nordrhein-Westfalen, with spiritual authority:</div><div><br /></div><div> "The placement of Hitda on the right of St. Walburga also increases her authority and equivalence in power to men. Traditionally, the right side of a religious figure was reserved for men and symbolized their spiritual strength in the face of passion and intrigue. In contrast, the left side was the arena of women and symbolized earthly desires and the weak souls whom God must protect. By placing herself on the right, Hitda is subverting gender norms and forging an image of spiritual strength. Hitda’s power is also conveyed through her presentation of the Codex to St. Walburga, an act which has been interpreted as a gift exchange by Henry Mayr-Harting. Early medieval monks and nuns believed that through gifts they could hold patron saints to their promises of protection and advance the interests of their houses. By giving the book to St. Walburga, Hitda is showing that she is the authoritative channel of access to the patroness. Also by receiving the book, St. Walburga invests Hitda with the power that a donor has over a recipient."(8)</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhge_RCR5rdul9YVW7E552BBuSOtd0T9WJ9yJCA9ZzTMAKt7W_vsFjojLoW4AgdYzzADsAoMXSWXZUroy713jWPnz0_Vdiu3Z3AZ8OBiL7EFTLa57B5K31A0t3OHeMAffCSXOABei-e4OHwGgiXzDMfDXbDtDqW4CJNluiPSJbfxR-t_-dEqpCZeDHIXA/s960/14316901_10206789511567675_3296128101235582182_n.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="960" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhge_RCR5rdul9YVW7E552BBuSOtd0T9WJ9yJCA9ZzTMAKt7W_vsFjojLoW4AgdYzzADsAoMXSWXZUroy713jWPnz0_Vdiu3Z3AZ8OBiL7EFTLa57B5K31A0t3OHeMAffCSXOABei-e4OHwGgiXzDMfDXbDtDqW4CJNluiPSJbfxR-t_-dEqpCZeDHIXA/s320/14316901_10206789511567675_3296128101235582182_n.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbzqlHZ9odQeUmLjV9XtJysTSh5o6KcIFcpS8hB8oJTTsi9c5VJTP7YPqSCjV2qj52uHls_8yl-sxBlK-J_bYNzxhul-tVpWHwvGGY4ld_ydSeBUBaBp9PXeiu-VRszchah0Qa49NxwnUf9djCDFoxO_IAzVrQBLQhg96i_5iXn4_Zp2Vl2XPYlg274A/s960/13557674_10206355958449118_5738548050154644271_n.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="598" data-original-width="960" height="199" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbzqlHZ9odQeUmLjV9XtJysTSh5o6KcIFcpS8hB8oJTTsi9c5VJTP7YPqSCjV2qj52uHls_8yl-sxBlK-J_bYNzxhul-tVpWHwvGGY4ld_ydSeBUBaBp9PXeiu-VRszchah0Qa49NxwnUf9djCDFoxO_IAzVrQBLQhg96i_5iXn4_Zp2Vl2XPYlg274A/s320/13557674_10206355958449118_5738548050154644271_n.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvuXWdhADHtxUnHjDTaZ8inOivWn-8nhdZF-EHxZonfhinZyNaoTb2driErtNbAYM5FOT21BpMYv5bHDRdayAa03DZKIWnGL3PACHBRzuRHloq0NIBXLr2TDa0s6iWH_TxeiSk_8K-jYvHPi-mEvevUcA5eVVB0_s4V2AMTQNU2qMkF-tWF523MOTNSg/s960/13620171_10206355957049083_1823680577815961562_n.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="598" data-original-width="960" height="199" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvuXWdhADHtxUnHjDTaZ8inOivWn-8nhdZF-EHxZonfhinZyNaoTb2driErtNbAYM5FOT21BpMYv5bHDRdayAa03DZKIWnGL3PACHBRzuRHloq0NIBXLr2TDa0s6iWH_TxeiSk_8K-jYvHPi-mEvevUcA5eVVB0_s4V2AMTQNU2qMkF-tWF523MOTNSg/s320/13620171_10206355957049083_1823680577815961562_n.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Walking along the Neckar, Bad Cannstatt, 9 July 2016</td></tr></tbody></table></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><i>Anointing and Initiation</i></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> Her bones exuding a "miraculous" therapeutic oil, upheld by such theologians as Cardinal Newman(9) and in folkloric pilgrimages to the site, could relate to her rocky(10) resting place being the site of a healing spring from Heathen times. The spiritual seeker has long experienced "anointing", such that when I was still seeking mystical experiences within an Abrahamic paradigm, I was anointed with oil allegedly from St. Stephen at a local Orthodox Christian church (although I was only visiting there as a Sufi from an original Catholic background) in 2014; visited a Sufi retreat at a thermal springs outside Yalova, Turkey, in 2015; and drank from and smudged myself with therapeutic spring water at the <i>Meryemana</i> (Mary's House) on Mount Koressos near Ephesus in 2017. It was only as I began researching and delving deeper into my own ethnic folklore that I discovered the <i>spiritual</i> importance of healing springs as we see throughout southern Germany (including my family's experiences living near the thermal springs of <i>Bad</i> Cannstatt). So there is a mystique into which those constructing stories of Walpurga were tapping. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> Aside from seeking transcendence through initiation, anointing has an animistic origin as noted by John Lamb Lash. He points out how the Greek <i>Chrestos</i> "the good one" represents the function of <i>anointing</i> within Nature, such as in morning dew or the formation of cells since those have porous membranes through which liquids flow.(11) It was only among the Hebrews that it became a <i>physical</i> "anointing" of kings and priests as occurs throughout the Bible, later turned into a "messiah" figure via the mind-virus of salvationism. For such an anointed person, "the application of the holy oil to his head was believed to impart to him directly a portion of the divine spirit. Hence he bore the title of Messiah, which with its Greek equivalent Christ, means no more than 'the Anointed One.'"(12) </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> I've previously <a href="https://sjobst.blogspot.com/2021/11/addendum-20-on-death-pathology-neuro.html">traced</a> </span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i>chrestos </i>to the same Indo-European root as Germanic and Iberian words carrying meanings like "mask" (Old English <i>grima</i>, Old Norse <i>grima</i>, <i>grimr</i>, Proto-Germanic *<i>grimo</i>) and "disgust" (Spanish and Portuguese <i>grima</i>), reflecting a concept steeped in occultic imagery as its inversion demonstrates - i.e. a figure hidden in social masks or personas, the outer trappings of <i>authority</i>. Yet if we return to an animistic view, Walpurga and her anointing could represent a natural yearning for a feminine counterpart to a masculine anointer, as the previous Gods had their Goddess counterparts. This yearning was resolved after Christianization through the devotion to Mary and localized saints like Walpurga, complete with the imagery and healing qualities often associated with previous nurturing, motherly Goddesses. Its a balance of energies and metaphor for how these flow.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiop8xeZm1ILLXNhndz8Xtq2LEoU5aTSnYRc3ng7gyOffRMh8zD3rOPKp0C1E4Uuo9LrxgQCP1quew3N9eu7af0eB5rIDFl5id6O-fK4l2TdmnJuQ106nlqzNNBH1rTurQCJW6798E5OxUCX-5howCdDvzufQcmXb8yL4_3wLodDoHN6uL9SF0BEQpidw" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="960" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiop8xeZm1ILLXNhndz8Xtq2LEoU5aTSnYRc3ng7gyOffRMh8zD3rOPKp0C1E4Uuo9LrxgQCP1quew3N9eu7af0eB5rIDFl5id6O-fK4l2TdmnJuQ106nlqzNNBH1rTurQCJW6798E5OxUCX-5howCdDvzufQcmXb8yL4_3wLodDoHN6uL9SF0BEQpidw" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjv4OcBLF54PqjM9Vf7Y57NFsg0cO4YXGleV2rcXZT7A7Kjbv3p-eu9JHcg_VOu6y8Zrg73XUthiKbYvvWNR575ENvTSL1yE6MwW6ZBGeqZjK7NYlFhhAqkbw5uEP6SjEmEn-pUMpVSVVy1chgtlKDoMzK889x_TXVdoEkrvwWpC_YsCbQsvDKRUhzCig" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="720" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjv4OcBLF54PqjM9Vf7Y57NFsg0cO4YXGleV2rcXZT7A7Kjbv3p-eu9JHcg_VOu6y8Zrg73XUthiKbYvvWNR575ENvTSL1yE6MwW6ZBGeqZjK7NYlFhhAqkbw5uEP6SjEmEn-pUMpVSVVy1chgtlKDoMzK889x_TXVdoEkrvwWpC_YsCbQsvDKRUhzCig=w240-h320" width="240" /></a></div></div></div></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEibonVWVSOlewkcmH0zCGep36dZTZct2HVRVXImfye9x2P0DqG4miMummL-f58BkcomCrNGyoRi4xdJShlfPNbgsLGUOVSI-7YC5DZvsG_HuF_LTAdnx6pyQd_pTumkJAT1pGpF9qRKCT2P-SE1yawNHw2wazZn3IM3TMyhq4bXo0XTMh-3QxdtLvX65Q" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="960" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEibonVWVSOlewkcmH0zCGep36dZTZct2HVRVXImfye9x2P0DqG4miMummL-f58BkcomCrNGyoRi4xdJShlfPNbgsLGUOVSI-7YC5DZvsG_HuF_LTAdnx6pyQd_pTumkJAT1pGpF9qRKCT2P-SE1yawNHw2wazZn3IM3TMyhq4bXo0XTMh-3QxdtLvX65Q" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Meryemana, including the niche spring and <br />the "wishing wall", 25 June 2017</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><i>Witchcraft and Magical Workings</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"> As Walpurga was "celebrated in the Middle Ages as a protectoress against magic"(13), its strange how Walpurgisnacht became known as an infernal night when witches freely took flight and gathered in mountain conclaves. The "threat" of such witches had to be magnified to justify the "protection" from them, so that it became a day of persecuting those seen as witches, as in its Czech version of <i>Pálení čarodějnic</i> "Burning of Witches". Its beyond the scope of this article (or my knowledge) to give a detailed analysis of these "witch trials" except two broad points. First, that it was almost entirely confined to Protestant areas with some exceptions, such as the famous witch-trials in one of my ancestral villages, Ellwangen. Perhaps because the Catholic Church had its own magical tradition (although never calling it "magic"), it was seen as <i>warding off</i> any "inferior" magic outside its institutions. But in returning to the Old Testament, the Protestants disavowed <i>any</i> magic so the "threat" was more heightened.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"> Second, contrary to the romantic notion of a continuous network of witches operating throughout the Middle Ages and Renaissance, I tend towards the view of such contemporaries as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alonso_de_Salazar_Fr%C3%ADas">Alonso de Salazar Frías</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balthasar_Bekker">Balthasar Bekker</a>, that the witch-trials and witch-hunts were more about social and political power capitalizing on superstitious fears to entrench and expand their power (sound familiar?). There were indeed some high-profile cases of traditional folk healers outside the burgeoning medical establishment, which saw herbalism and folk medicine as a threat. And there were some isolated cases of people holding to the Old Ways still being persecuted, such as mentions of <i>Elfhame</i> in certain Scottish cases. But for the most part I see pre-Christian lore as surviving most in folklore, waiting to be decoded; and also in a Jungian sense of lurking archetypes within the unconscious and folk soul of a people. On a physical level, there was this undercurrent either hidden in plain sight or deep within the psyche, not an actual network of "witch" practitioners. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"> We can still obtain much wisdom through decoding these folk traditions of Walpurgisnacht. After all, the word "witchcraft" does comes from the same Indo-European root as "wit" and "wisdom". Rather than being about actual witches, more important is the deeper wisdom that Walpurgisnacht tapped into, contrary to the authorities' wishes. Secrets can be found in the word itself. "Clairvoyant, wise women played such an important role among the forest peoples that it astonished the Romans. In the Germanic-Celtic settlement area, they were known under the names Wala and Voelva and in southern and central Germany as Walburg and Walburga, which means 'staff bearer' (Germanic <i>waluz</i> = stave, staff; from Indo-European *<i>uel</i> = turn). They carried wands with which they were able to steer things magically."(14) Also reflected in Gothic <i>walus</i> "staff, wand" and Lombardic <i>Gand-bera</i> "wand-bearer."(15)</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"> According to Longobard lore, the seeress Gambara sought the assistance of the goddess Frea (their name for Frija), wife and consort of Wodan. The <i>wal-</i> element could also relate to the <i>walkuries</i>, the messengers of death who "chose" selected warriors off the battlefield to take with them into the Underworld. Norse tradition held that Freyja had first pick of these dead before Odin. Historical seeresses likely lent their names to the Walpurga figure. A Greek inscription from 2nd century pottery on Elephantine Island mentions a Germanic seeress named <i>Waluburg</i> who served the Roman governor of Egypt, calling her "Sibyl from the Semnones".(16) Roman historian Cassius Dio mentioned a seeress named <i>Veleda</i>. "The Veleda or Weleda goes back to the original Celtic <i>velet</i> or <i>fili</i>, which means 'visionary' or 'poet'."(17) Given both its prevalence in areas of southern and central Germany settled earlier by Celts, as well as coinciding with Bealtaine - which would have began on Walpurgisnacht since days were reckoned from the night before - I conclude that Walpurgisnacht also had lingering Celtic origins rooted in the German landscape. The second element, <i>-purgis</i> and <i>-burga</i>, could relate to <i>burg</i> "homestead" or <i>berg</i> "mountain", both conveying images of the hearth and the magic coming from the Earth (animism) - but that is a subject for a future article.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGbZMtPv-XSTx4HNNCK18Qv1RE5jBMG5jqHnsGCeaYS9-NZ-3RZPM0rl_KM3UIAZDZnuwVTm9kk_RwiBJHwZT_IaB_vLegoQ7pP-y9sIHjUmygRf9ekHwq4b3ZLFtrS0GGFTp91YxWMmCtHHBOFjtFMq_DeqED5YVhRLypO1-Ho53Vso3B9J0N3K-vvQ/s793/72996e82acd11e4a06d9c5ac5938523b.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="793" data-original-width="505" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGbZMtPv-XSTx4HNNCK18Qv1RE5jBMG5jqHnsGCeaYS9-NZ-3RZPM0rl_KM3UIAZDZnuwVTm9kk_RwiBJHwZT_IaB_vLegoQ7pP-y9sIHjUmygRf9ekHwq4b3ZLFtrS0GGFTp91YxWMmCtHHBOFjtFMq_DeqED5YVhRLypO1-Ho53Vso3B9J0N3K-vvQ/s320/72996e82acd11e4a06d9c5ac5938523b.jpg" width="204" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Odin and the Völva" illustration by<br />the German artist Carl Emil Doepler,<br />from Nordisch-Germanische<br />Götter und Heiden (1882)</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><i>Sources and Footnotes:</i></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">(1) Dr. Andreas E. Zautner. <i>The Lunisolar Calendar of the Germanic Peoples: Reconstruction of A Bound Moon Calendar From Ancient, Medieval and Early Modern Sources</i>, trans. Johanna Klapper. Norderstedt, Schleswig-Holstein: BoD - Books on Demand, 2021, p. 83.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">(2) Richard M. Wunderli. <i>Peasant Fires: The Drummer of Niklashausen</i>. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1992, p. 46.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">(3) The existence of a Heidenheim in both Bavaria and Wurttemberg, as well as the activities of such missionaries in the 8th and 9th centuries, show lingering devotion of our ancestors to the Old Ways, contrary to the simplistic narrative of "2,000 years" of Europe being Christian. It was a gradual, syncretic process that eroded and adopted previous Pagan and Heathen traditions under a new Christianized form solidifying dual authorities of Church and State.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">(4) Peter J. Forshaw, "The Occult Middle Ages," in <i>The Occult World</i>, ed. Christopher Partridge. London: Routledge, 2016, pp. 34-48.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">(5) Annette Kolb, "Das Leben der Heiligen Walpurga," in <i>Wege und Umwege</i>. Berlin: Hyperion Publishing, 1919, p. 217.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">(6) Pamela C. Berger. <i>The Goddess Obscured: Transformation of the Grain Protectoress from Goddess to Saint</i>. Boston: Beacon Press, 1985, pp. 61-64.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">(7) Ernst Ludwig Rochholz. <i>Drei Gaugöttinen: Walburg, Verena und Gertrud, als deutsche Kirchenheilige. Sittenbilder aus germanischen Frauenleben</i>. Leipzig: Verlag von Friedrich Fischer, 1870, p. 40.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">(8) "Abbess Hitda gives a codex to St. Walburga," Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index, University of Iowa Libraries, 2014, <https://inpress.lib.uiowa.edu/feminae/DetailsPage.aspx?Feminae_ID=34059>.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">(9) "Walpurgis, St," in <i>Encyclopædia Britannica</i>, Vol. 28, ed. Hugh Chisholm, Cambridge University Press, 1911, pp. 290–291.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">(10) There was a sacredness often invested in stones, going back to the most ancient Megaliths and including the mythic Omphalos of Greece. Contrary to modern "altars", Germanic and Celtic peoples constructed outside altars from stone, often a simple pile of stones consecrated for sacred purpose. This is reflected in the various words derived from Proto-Germanic *<i>harugaz</i> and Proto-Celtic *<i>krowko</i>, carrying the same dual meanings.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">(11) John Lamb Lash. <i>Not In His Image: Gnostic Vision, Sacred Ecology, and the Future of Belief</i>, 15th Anniversary Edition. White River Junction, VT: Chelsea Green Publishing, 2021, pp. 140, 173.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">(12) Sir James Frazier. <i>The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion</i>, Vol. 1. Garden City, NY: Doubleday Anchor, 1961, p. 21.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">(13) John Canaday. <i>The Nuclear Muse: Literature, Physics, and the First Atomic Bombs</i>. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2000, p. 98.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">(14) Wolf Dieter Storl. <i>The Untold History of Healing: Plant Lore and Medicinal Magic from the Stone Age to Present</i>. Berkeley, CA: North Atlantic Books, 2017, p. 267. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">(15) Rudolf Simek. <i>A Dictionary of Northern Mythology</i>. Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2007, pp. 135, 333. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">(16) Wolfgang Spickermann, "Waluburg," <i>Brill's New Pauly</i>, <http://www.encquran.brill.nl/entries/brill-s-new-pauly/waluburg-e12208850>.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">(17) Storl, <i>op. cit.</i>, p. 267.</span></div></div></div></div></div>Sean Jobsthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17351165299354431339noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-907444223262019258.post-17423894782196278442022-04-25T11:59:00.005-05:002022-04-25T11:59:45.697-05:00On Freedom, Responsibility, True Happiness, and Contempt of Authorities<p><span style="font-family: georgia;">by Sean Jobst</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">25 April 2022</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUrpOIkgOYZk8c6swtLI4DHoILtRR37CMkMhqUWhqyQjtLw5wpKf_RrPef8Sp4eYFaAmC3DpXFuyT4Ii7D4TJZUlBffrknzeWE1KHn29eg9zUVDpmx6kWYATX-PC5737eLINuBjCtugy00_lTIiZ4w5X7t60muKAG4TUWdwmZSk44_cALQm8Vpim862g/s275/images%20(2).jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="183" data-original-width="275" height="183" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUrpOIkgOYZk8c6swtLI4DHoILtRR37CMkMhqUWhqyQjtLw5wpKf_RrPef8Sp4eYFaAmC3DpXFuyT4Ii7D4TJZUlBffrknzeWE1KHn29eg9zUVDpmx6kWYATX-PC5737eLINuBjCtugy00_lTIiZ4w5X7t60muKAG4TUWdwmZSk44_cALQm8Vpim862g/s1600/images%20(2).jpg" width="275" /></a></div><p></p><p></p><p><b style="font-family: georgia;"><i><br /></i></b></p><p><b style="font-family: georgia;"><i>Mass Formation Psychosis Admitted by its Deniers</i></b></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> In my <a href="https://sjobst.blogspot.com/2022/03/on-natural-law-and-immunity-spiritual.html">previous article</a>, I focused on the intensified spiritual and psychological attacks working through the political agenda these past two years. These have coalesced into what has been termed mass formation psychosis which the Establishment gatekeepers dismiss as "a new far right buzzword" - their orbit centered more around ad hominem dismissals than any free debate. Its not a mere invention of Dr. Robert Malone, the inventor of mRNA technology excommunicated by the Cult of Scientism for daring to speak against their dogmas. Hiding their admissions in plain sight, one of the "experts" cited in their "<a href="https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-science-health-joe-rogan-ap-fact-check-a87b1044c6256968dcc33886a36c949f">fact check</a>" (<i>Newspeak</i> for censorship) </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">is Jay Van Bavel, a New York University assistant professor of psychology and neural science who directs a Social Identity and Morality Lab that </span><a href="https://www.jayvanbavel.com/lab" style="font-family: georgia;">openly states</a><span style="font-family: georgia;"> its objective to "examine how collective concerns - group identities, moral values, and political beliefs - shape the mind, brain, and behavior."</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> Their tyranny disguises itself through the manipulation of language, changing words and their meaning; calling mind-control by other names while rejecting other terms if they come from outside their "acceptable" lexicon. Van Bavel dismisses the latter as "conspiracy theorists" while projecting with his own conspiracy theory about "a massive collective effort to bolster false beliefs." He obviously admits collective behaviors - its just his ilk want to steer and direct that collective think. He advocated that governments and medical establishments <a href="https://twitter.com/jayvanbavel/status/1261633491562790912">use COVID</a> for "managing collective behavior". Just as Freud's nephew Edward Bernays put psychology at the disposal of advertising and public relations, Van Bavel is one of the Dark Psychologists harnessing his collectivist theories for "<a href="https://www.apa.org/monitor/2022/01/special-psychologys-influence">public health</a>", as defined by the State and Medical Establishment. Gate's GAVI Vaccine Alliance has boasted of COVID as a new excuse for governments to <a href="https://www.gavi.org/vaccineswork/subtle-psychology-nudging-during-pandemic">use</a> "nudges to change social behavior". </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> If there is no other lesson to take out of this, its that tyrants mask their pure will to control others under claims of "public health" or the "common good", as defined by <i>them</i>. In May 2020, Van Bavel co-authored an article on "<a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-020-0884-2">using social and behavioural science</a>" to mold people using COVID as their excuse. "People's behaviour is influenced by social norms" but "changing behaviours by correcting such misperceptions can be achieved by public messages reinforcing positive (for example, health-promoting) norms." Norms being behavior based on <i>conformity</i> to their dictates and policies, through fear-mongering: "A meta-analysis found that targeting fears can be useful in some situations, but not others: appealing to fear leads people to change their behaviour if they feel capable of dealing with the threat, but leads to defensive reactions when they feel helpless to act. The results suggest that strong fear appeals produce the greatest behaviour change only when people feel a sense of efficacy, whereas strong fear appeals with low-efficacy messages produce the greatest levels of defensive responses."</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIOGw4Ya60rahBOmNKEmQu-sNmZquPsUvUoIchpSDXT_5tpftsn73DZ5K_3Y1rUIqxxDIqQFT1yJaNct9VIGL6Ar9GcotA9xSqOpgxY786exKV2Wt-5Cs2YDgucmgTF22QRDj6Na4HgBZIGXrtkqHI2NWpNapAQ2t9Mj8IcOKgsSVuZZhpcll7zvHWaQ/s299/images%20(3).jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="168" data-original-width="299" height="168" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIOGw4Ya60rahBOmNKEmQu-sNmZquPsUvUoIchpSDXT_5tpftsn73DZ5K_3Y1rUIqxxDIqQFT1yJaNct9VIGL6Ar9GcotA9xSqOpgxY786exKV2Wt-5Cs2YDgucmgTF22QRDj6Na4HgBZIGXrtkqHI2NWpNapAQ2t9Mj8IcOKgsSVuZZhpcll7zvHWaQ/s1600/images%20(3).jpg" width="299" /></a></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDV8NbRpN-SSA4ELHMNwRkKxKOi5jtTpV08hcOH1xycDKRi0yOu7r3nxmD5q7DRdf89Itso3i_ViT8nrzD226FIgVWj4kC5Jn917PPCDkfR5p7wGQJp4X-dQdQCHnwVyj47ULjIqohV5rhqGdJw6vFC1wMPJJKKUS0qRoyz7GuTgB5N-5uzzDux0ftBA/s273/download%20(7).jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="185" data-original-width="273" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDV8NbRpN-SSA4ELHMNwRkKxKOi5jtTpV08hcOH1xycDKRi0yOu7r3nxmD5q7DRdf89Itso3i_ViT8nrzD226FIgVWj4kC5Jn917PPCDkfR5p7wGQJp4X-dQdQCHnwVyj47ULjIqohV5rhqGdJw6vFC1wMPJJKKUS0qRoyz7GuTgB5N-5uzzDux0ftBA/s16000/download%20(7).jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cognitive dissonance: Among the images used<br />by the Wash. Post and CBC, respectively, to<br />"prove" that Canadian protests against jab<br />mandates are "white supremacist" - a visibly<br />non-white family and a sign on the side by<br />"Anishinabee Warriors" standing for freedom<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><i>Official Stenographers Openly Hate Freedom</i></b></span></p><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> A sign of their failing agenda - for they are far from omnipresent, the image they want to project so more people comply with this "new normal" - is their desperation, making more rushed moves and showing their hands with more mistakes. In occult terms this is <a href="https://sjobst.blogspot.com/2021/08/rise-of-wotanic-energy-and-fall-of.html">revelation of their method</a>, such that they are now openly proclaiming themselves against the very concept of Freedom. Despite its use among the <a href="https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/diaspora/sikhs-who-represent-major-share-of-truckers-protest-against-canadas-vaccine-mandates-as-trudeau-and-his-family-left-their-downtown-ottawa-home-365812">diverse</a> Canadian truckers and others who protested Trudeau's jab mandates, even the word "freedom" became <a href="https://www.cbc.ca/radio/checkup/what-s-your-reaction-to-the-ottawa-standoff-and-the-border-blockades-1.6349636/why-the-word-freedom-is-such-a-useful-rallying-cry-for-protesters-1.6349865">associated</a> with "far-right groups" by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. I previously <a href="https://sjobst.blogspot.com/2020/11/building-back-better-to-great-reset.html">observed</a> how leaders on this side of the border admire Trudeau's policies and wish they could institute them en masse (rather than in the slow gradual manner they're doing now) if not for the Bill of Rights restraining them. So its not surprising American media corporations repeated the same tropes against freedom as their Canadian counterparts. </span></div><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> Hatched in the eggheads of privileged Marxist academics, the media promoted the trope that the very concept of freedom is "white supremacist". A column in the <i>Toronto Star</i> <a href="https://www.thestar.com/opinion/contributors/2022/01/31/freedom-protests-are-white-supremacy-in-all-its-glory.html">slandered</a> anti-vax mandate protestors as heirs of racism and colonialism, projecting blame away from the same government that <i>is</i> an <i>actual</i> outgrowth of this colonial past and on whose behalf these same media hypocrites lie. "The notion of 'freedom' was historically and remains intertwined with Whiteness, as historian Tyler Stovall has argued," <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2022/02/11/ottawa-trucker-convoy-is-rooted-canadas-settler-colonial-history/">writes</a> Taylor Dysart in the <i>Washington Post</i>. "The belief that one's entitlement to freedom is a key component of White supremacy." </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">Stovall was a Berkeley history professor who wrote a book </span><a href="https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691179469/white-freedom" style="font-family: georgia;">published by academia</a><span style="font-family: georgia;"> promoting the trope. Another is Olúfemi O. Táíwò, a Georgetown philosophy professor who openly writes on </span><a href="https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9780801456596/legal-naturalism/#bookTabs=1" style="font-family: georgia;">Marxist law theories</a><span style="font-family: georgia;"> and </span><a href="https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/tyler-stovall-white-freedom/" style="font-family: georgia;">reviewed</a><span style="font-family: georgia;"> Stovall's book for </span><i style="font-family: georgia;">The Nation</i><span style="font-family: georgia;">. These talking-heads screaming "white privilege" inhabit a privileged orbit of Ivory Towers, academic publishing houses, and Corporate media elites, masking their projections under the "revolutionary" poshness of champagne Marxism. The vast majority of people from </span><i style="font-family: georgia;">all</i><span style="font-family: georgia;"> races lack </span><i style="font-family: georgia;">their</i><span style="font-family: georgia;"> privileges.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> Another anti-freedom advocate is the Israeli writer Yuval Noah Harari, a leading <a href="https://www.weforum.org/people/yuval-noah-harari">advisor</a> to World Economic Forum leader Klaus Schwab. He is most known for promoting the biophobia of Transhumanism in his various books and lectures, idolized as a trailblazing "philosopher" by automaton academic and media elites who lack the creativity for actual critical thought. Such dribble is beyond the scope of this article, but what most concerns us here are his <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/sep/14/yuval-noah-harari-the-new-threat-to-liberal-democracy">denials</a> of freedom and free will, for obvious reasons since he openly defines humanity as "hackable animals" to be molded by governments and corporations. Harari <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ChHc5jhZxs">said</a> at the University of California on Feb. 27, 2017: "Freedom has absolutely no meaning from a physical or biological perspective. It's just another myth, another empty term humans have invented. Humans have invented God, and humans have invented Heaven and Hell, and humans have invented free will, but there is no more truth to free will than there is to Heaven and Hell."<br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjG2WNvYRzH7OTCHhKh8ft_xzt6z2Jk8MHLkmIF3W8W5OLAWTPDiwXexOfa8MlnufSZQ9B84L4ggM67Ap2M6nDZ5JFCcOTp6dlbthiI_ck_91brEEQen0V9pfyw9UzRnDzxL1Spl0LEFDU2Lt1bby7fqeihF4WFgz3QhbfMe8ahYHFKUs8C8-SKxRsNAA/s620/creativity-is-the-mystery-of-freedom.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="620" data-original-width="620" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjG2WNvYRzH7OTCHhKh8ft_xzt6z2Jk8MHLkmIF3W8W5OLAWTPDiwXexOfa8MlnufSZQ9B84L4ggM67Ap2M6nDZ5JFCcOTp6dlbthiI_ck_91brEEQen0V9pfyw9UzRnDzxL1Spl0LEFDU2Lt1bby7fqeihF4WFgz3QhbfMe8ahYHFKUs8C8-SKxRsNAA/w200-h200/creativity-is-the-mystery-of-freedom.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><i>The Empowerment of Freedom</i></b></span></div><div><br /></div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> They deny anything that connects the human being to something higher, whether it be the soul, consciousness, free will and imagination, their connection to the Cosmos and Earth alike, because all of these things are a threat to their power and control over others which can only come about by reducing the innate power of the human being. Or making people no longer mindful of that power. I'll expand on this in some upcoming articles, but suffice it to say that freedom is not some abstract concept specific to one race or culture - its inherent to all tribal cultures being the natural state of being all over the world before the rise of abstract ideologies and authoritarian institutions disconnected people from Natural Law. Nor is myth false, despite the limited brains of Harari and his ilk. Myth was always understood as deeper truths told through allegory and metaphor, far more true than what these authoritarians have inverted as "truth". </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">Lacking the true imagination and connectedness from knowing their true humanity, these elites can only mimic and invert what is real and true - what they make in their limited minds can never measure up to the natural. </span><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> Their version of "freedom" is compliance, what they "give" or can "take" based on one's compliance to their </span><a href="https://sjobst.blogspot.com/2021/11/addendum-20-on-death-pathology-neuro.html" style="font-family: georgia;">masks of authority</a><span style="font-family: georgia;">. A modern expression of the mind-virus of salvationism that has wrecked this world for thousands of years. This worship of "authorities" is one of the </span><a href="https://sjobst.blogspot.com/2021/12/30-on-mind-viruses-and-lies-of-humanity.html" style="font-family: georgia;">lies of humanity</a><span style="font-family: georgia;"> defining events of the last two years. </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">Compliance seeps into the culture to become the norms, what is normalized through various levels of coercion and social pressure. The prisoners become the ones policing each other for the elites, as validation and meaning is sought through one's level conformity. People are made less "valuable" by being labelled as "anti-vaxxer" or "anti-maskers" (both of which imply there </span><i style="font-family: georgia;">are</i><span style="font-family: georgia;"> vax and mask cults); new social classes centered around norms rather than functions or trades. And because people are more compliant, freedom is less valued and seen as abnormal. Many great creative, imaginative minds have identified how creeping authoritarianism has become culturally normal to the vast majority of people, who are conditioned to see nothing different exactly because they are disconnected from themselves: </span><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> "Authoritarianism in religion and science, let alone politics, is becoming increasingly accepted, not particularly because so many people explicitly believe in it but because they feel themselves individually powerless and anxious. So what else can one do…except follow the mass political leader…or follow the authority of customs, public opinion, and social expectations?" (Rollo May, <i>Man’s Search for Himself</i>, New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1953; 2009 edition, p. 37)</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> "Our particular problem in the present day is an overwhelming tendency toward conformity. In such times ethics tend more and more to be identified with obedience. One is 'good' to the extent that one obeys the dictates of societ. It is as though the more unquestioning obedience the better. But what really is ethical about obedience? If one’s goal were simple obedience, one could train a dog to fulfill the requirements very well." (<i>ibid.</i>, p. 140)</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqj31kFNIwYub6eWT5pGVChqUSJj0h9XLQ8FI5_4WB6VCSmkuUhLvDvoRfn3UenB2knfXM4Nc67Al1TLNGAaCuVHkG_2PBP_YuqWdgOOrOD5phyak1DDeOs0EtQf8DPZJn34phf1nFG2MpnlXPkmeLcEyyoP_sTZ0KAg2GRSU0xVzrabOfG4ymlsIFYg/s281/download.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="179" data-original-width="281" height="179" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqj31kFNIwYub6eWT5pGVChqUSJj0h9XLQ8FI5_4WB6VCSmkuUhLvDvoRfn3UenB2knfXM4Nc67Al1TLNGAaCuVHkG_2PBP_YuqWdgOOrOD5phyak1DDeOs0EtQf8DPZJn34phf1nFG2MpnlXPkmeLcEyyoP_sTZ0KAg2GRSU0xVzrabOfG4ymlsIFYg/s1600/download.jpg" width="281" /></a></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVlApw2_Yt8sV6HECsBk9-C4ZUzqcy-SXvLZ7jb_7II7GWN00RYD9pHREYwEDwWB8yWllt8m-ElyT1mmulaUZMAjjo1ZQvUgNPixAi6mCnhXVZFzzC5grODtDphQhgsPZ6T-hdedwMqKUWYVP9F5R6Bw97DfFHFtip-zl2Nb3FZ33VpGlkvm-frPnTyw/s850/quote-when-i-am-weaker-than-you-i-ask-you-for-freedom-because-that-is-according-to-your-principles-frank-herbert-134-29-43.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="850" height="151" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVlApw2_Yt8sV6HECsBk9-C4ZUzqcy-SXvLZ7jb_7II7GWN00RYD9pHREYwEDwWB8yWllt8m-ElyT1mmulaUZMAjjo1ZQvUgNPixAi6mCnhXVZFzzC5grODtDphQhgsPZ6T-hdedwMqKUWYVP9F5R6Bw97DfFHFtip-zl2Nb3FZ33VpGlkvm-frPnTyw/s320/quote-when-i-am-weaker-than-you-i-ask-you-for-freedom-because-that-is-according-to-your-principles-frank-herbert-134-29-43.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The modus operandi of tyrants and aspiring tyrants</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;"> "Freedom is valued not only for its intrinsic worth, but what it costs. And a people to whom liberty is given will never prize it as highly, defend it bravely, or wear it as proudly as a nation that wrenched it from the hand of tyranny." (Frederick Douglas, 1868)</span><br /><br /><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> "If freedom is regressing today throughout such a large part of the world, this is probably because the devices for enslavement have never been so cynically chosen or so effective, but also because her real defenders, through fatigue, through despair, or through a false idea of strategy and efficiency, have turned away from her.…Man’s greatness lies in his decision to be greater than his condition. And if his condition is unjust, he has only one way of overcoming it, which is to be just himself.” (Albert Camus, "Create Dangerously," in his anthology of essays: <i>Resistance, Rebellion, and Death</i>, 1960)</span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> “A decline in courage may be the most striking feature which an outside observer notices in the West in our days…Should one point out that from ancient times declining courage has been considered the beginning of the end?” (Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, "A World Split Apart," Harvard Commencement Address, 8 June 1978)</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> "To what extent are modern technologies of surveillance, advertising, and control creating a new, modern slavery taken for granted because of its invisibility? It is arguable that those controlled and deceived by modern technology are being transformed into the 'slaves by nature' that Aristotle described and accepted as normal....[as our] modern subservience to technology shares many traits with ancient slavery by creating and resting up on an easily manipulated population." (Oswald Sobrino, <i>Technology and Human Existence: José Ortega y Gasset's Meditation on Technology</i>, 2019)</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqrv8VVnJRnnoL4GWpEsYOuFLfwbZEaR7Vj_5OtJ7ZEUWylP3lb1dz30JbSwTM_qZbEU7KojmHoeaU1NsxpcelijlYBlSBOXPT_Vha9ej__L516QlicC3uXGSl8PH6PAiwlmtfzSnlEwzc0JGhOVbIUM93Mrmzfuh2qui6Apj4rnNfsNZklVaJlN1w7A/s254/images%20(4).jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="254" data-original-width="198" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqrv8VVnJRnnoL4GWpEsYOuFLfwbZEaR7Vj_5OtJ7ZEUWylP3lb1dz30JbSwTM_qZbEU7KojmHoeaU1NsxpcelijlYBlSBOXPT_Vha9ej__L516QlicC3uXGSl8PH6PAiwlmtfzSnlEwzc0JGhOVbIUM93Mrmzfuh2qui6Apj4rnNfsNZklVaJlN1w7A/w250-h320/images%20(4).jpg" width="250" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Wanderer above the Sea of Fog" (1818),<br />German painter Caspar David Friedrich</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><i>Responsibility, Respect, and Remembrance</i></b></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;"> What are we to do with this inherent freedom? It carries responsibilities towards one's self and others. Responsibility gives challenges and opportunities to every individual who reclaims his or her innate power. As noted by Mark Passio, responsibility, remembrance and respect are "the ultimate solution" to what's facing us. Respect comes from the Latin re "again" + spectare "to look at", so is inseparable from internal dialogue, that Shadow Work of going deep down inside yourself even though it forces you to confront hard truths, as this is the only path to growth. The archetypal Hermit must always goes back into the world after a period of withdrawal and reflection, better equipped with the tools to face the external without shedding his true self. One can only truly respect others by respecting one's self which means accepting responsibility for yourself, your actions, words, and thoughts (while also being able to distinguish what's actually your thoughts versus those implanted by social factors). Finally, coming to <i>remember</i> who you are, all that entails of the <a href="https://sjobst.blogspot.com/2021/12/sanguine-gnosis-vs-transubstantiation.html">blood gnosis</a> of your ancestry and how it grounds you to the Earth and connects you to the Stars. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> "You alone make choices. You alone are answerable to the consequences of your behavior," as Passio brilliantly <a href="https://www.whatonearthishappening.com/videos/195-mark-passio-on-occult-mockery-of-police-a-military">phrases it</a>. "The people who think that they are in control have no right to usurp the Natural Law of sovereign human beings on this planet, and it is not going to be allowed to continue for much longer. And the simple reason for that is: Authority is not truth. It is a fiction that exists only as a construct in the diseased human mind and human spirit, the diseased human spirit." In another <a href="https://whatonearthishappening.com/news/571-watch-mark-s-presentation-de-mystifying-the-occult-part-ii-satanism-the-dark-occult-online-now">presentation</a>, he explains three steps to this awakening process. Repentance ("I was wrong") means taking responsibility for one's own wrong-doing and wrong thoughts. The next is Refusal ("No!"), to not comply with these false Authorities (knowing their true nature as <i>Archons</i>) by reclaiming your own rights and not externalizing your power to others. The final is Rebellion ("I Will"), to abandon "all the false and dogmatic beliefs holding back the progress of Consciousness by impeding the reception of Truth and Natural Law." To project your own will to affect changes within and around you (definition of mag</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">ic). These are guiding principles for a Parallel Society as I'll discuss in upcoming articles.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><i>Loss of Meaning and the True Nature of Happiness</i></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> Those who have bought into these <i>archontic</i> fictions of "authority" and the doomsday virus have a pathological fear of death, an emptiness masking itself as altruistic concern for others (even while deriding we who don't comply and take the experimental jab). Its a virtue signal to make them feel better about themselves, by presenting themselves as "superior" for caring for the "greater good" unlike we who affirm the inviolable power and rights of the Individual. They ignore how it is <i>they</i> who have enabled the authoritarianism that has grown using this virus as the excuse, with all that entails of the social, economic, and psychological effects of lockdown policies upon people, including the actual deaths that have occurred from despair and lack of medical treatment since the narrative was maintained at all costs. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjL_eureGtPBU31LoBMxeFKMnEXarA66J6qof2KdreCZt8lTYeRyhJdQa6FtvgXmNQuIEM0-fYoHjRZWJ7hoNX7f878vug-rOEBVDwqnzVKEjkvxkNyU-qRkp_3irlG42WBazH6gkioMvJLymVky6OnJeHIPNMlFgW4QQOTnZ9tjWlQHfJcyuRC-lrAfA/s347/thumb_the-urge-to-save-humanity-is-almost-always-only-a-46593169.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="347" data-original-width="300" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjL_eureGtPBU31LoBMxeFKMnEXarA66J6qof2KdreCZt8lTYeRyhJdQa6FtvgXmNQuIEM0-fYoHjRZWJ7hoNX7f878vug-rOEBVDwqnzVKEjkvxkNyU-qRkp_3irlG42WBazH6gkioMvJLymVky6OnJeHIPNMlFgW4QQOTnZ9tjWlQHfJcyuRC-lrAfA/s320/thumb_the-urge-to-save-humanity-is-almost-always-only-a-46593169.png" width="277" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWfGcTl0wTEmTqZm3niTywTulbt3TVxIDZ4-TKWo7uzgdjA8a5qDGG2GFDdwsWjZzUqXYHWWvr5m7BNJDWiJkeyHfBiZPH3AHs6QJtu4p0keBiZwBn7JWgmtWCET7W-m8WEMj-SfoLLQJkfb7LsRkulrzNtxeZKqXgJ6iqw5z34vrs8Q1VKRHC8LtUAw/s549/331049a1d99c54054fa1d965da83f07e.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="349" data-original-width="549" height="203" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWfGcTl0wTEmTqZm3niTywTulbt3TVxIDZ4-TKWo7uzgdjA8a5qDGG2GFDdwsWjZzUqXYHWWvr5m7BNJDWiJkeyHfBiZPH3AHs6QJtu4p0keBiZwBn7JWgmtWCET7W-m8WEMj-SfoLLQJkfb7LsRkulrzNtxeZKqXgJ6iqw5z34vrs8Q1VKRHC8LtUAw/s320/331049a1d99c54054fa1d965da83f07e.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> I am referring not to people who may comply for personal reasons - that is their choice and their free will should be respected no matter how misguided. I am referring to those who elevate it to a new Cult with its dogmas, salvation, and witch-hunts of heretics, who gloat at the deaths of people who don't get jabbed or are skeptical of the narrative, tying it to the virus while hypocritically ignoring the obvious epidemic of deaths (both high-profile and common) after Needlecraft doses despite no underlying conditions. These are people who lecture and police others who don't comply like they do, seeking to impose their own will upon others because they do not respect their own will and responsibility; they have ceded whatever may be left of their souls to the State and its Corporate experimental needles. "Outsourcing our own agency and autonomy," as <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-djKkxr4G38">noted</a> by writer and podcast host Luke Dodson, in a conversation last February with Legalise Freedom host Greg Moffitt.</span><p></p></div></div><div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> They observed that what's been going on with the suicides and deaths from despair with the Rona, as well as apocalyptic trends and movements such as Extinction Rebellion, is the existential search for meaning in a modern world that cannot provide it. Its futile since its still trying to think within a collective for "solutions", further moving the individual away from true meaning which must come from within. I tie this in with the collective psychosis and neuroses arising from the <a href="https://sjobst.blogspot.com/2021/12/30-on-mind-viruses-and-lies-of-humanity.html">collective lies</a> people <i>allow</i> society to internalize within their minds. We can link this with the reductionist mentality most people approach the world (and themselves) with, rather than living in an active mythic and magical engagement with a dynamic reality over which they have alot of potential power. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> Socially, the virus and other apocalyptic fantasies are attempts by the elite to stem the inevitable tide because their entire system is founded on lies of "endless progress and increasing prosperity" as noted by the prolific writer John Michael Greer, who calls it the Long Descent. "The roots of the crisis lie in the cultural stories that shape the way we understand the world" (Greer, <i>The Long Descent</i>, 2008). Such fictions have become <i><a href="https://sjobst.blogspot.com/2022/03/covid-hyper-normalization-collectivism.html">normalized</a></i> in society, affecting people down to their thoughts and mind, which is why I've connected it on a <a href="https://sjobst.blogspot.com/2022/03/on-natural-law-and-immunity-spiritual.html">spiritual level</a> to mind viruses like <i>wetiko</i> and archontic infection. </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">We can see the policies especially these past two years as desperate attempts to cling to these fictions, using various slights of hand to deceive a public by slowly conditioning them to accept more authoritarianism. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> "The few freedoms and rights temporarily handed back to us simply serve to reduce expectations and make us content with less," as Moffitt writes <a href="https://greg-moffitt.medium.com/the-long-descent-decline-and-fall-of-industrial-society-6d90c48d0f9a">concerning the Long Descent</a>. "In addition, the general breakdown of social bonds and institutions undermine mutual support and militate against any form of collective action. Those in control wish to remain in control, and if they are to do so during an era of decline, draconian measures will be required. Some see this agenda encapsulated in the World Economic Forum's doctrine The Great Reset. In reality, this is nothing more than the globalist elite attempting to soothe their own conscience while maintaining their positions, and it will ultimately fail. The Long Descent is a great leveler and it will trump the technocratic fantasies of The Great Reset."</span></div></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizt1V-dTNtEDwdas8DUZNHb0ccUbiyXEmpa3A1sCZO9G0In7TIvd-7dV0JlFRgxUBWtQNZRScyv1qxxeQXb3PhcRpEMayW4ktG4n-RE9XaPL-MwsrLKnt2CNPcF5u90A3Z6qMTfZSj8Jy_GCE5XzrS-R18KCXXq6qgGzKXMYNfdOecsLpque72ZVZS9Q/s600/Emojipedia-Face-with-Medical-Mask-Comparison.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="600" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizt1V-dTNtEDwdas8DUZNHb0ccUbiyXEmpa3A1sCZO9G0In7TIvd-7dV0JlFRgxUBWtQNZRScyv1qxxeQXb3PhcRpEMayW4ktG4n-RE9XaPL-MwsrLKnt2CNPcF5u90A3Z6qMTfZSj8Jy_GCE5XzrS-R18KCXXq6qgGzKXMYNfdOecsLpque72ZVZS9Q/s320/Emojipedia-Face-with-Medical-Mask-Comparison.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Happiness and meaning through mask psychosis?</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> Realizing this means there is no need for doom and gloom about our current situations, especially since our ancestors withstood much more - their struggles, resilience, hope and inspiration is within our blood and psyche. It also means seeing the authorities neither as the paragons of virtue or the omnipresent beings they want to project. Theirs is a constant story of covering up failures and improvising whenever their plans don't pan out or they inevitably come up against the human will. None of this means to let down our guard and be anything less than vigilance, but that the ultimate resistance is through those values expressing our soul, the song within our hearts, and our creativities whatever that may be from person to person.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> They hide their tyranny under phony altruism, the false front of all authoritarians whether in positions of control or those with that mentality in daily life. An example is the World Economic Forum's infamous "You will own nothing and be happy". Not only will <i>someone</i> own what the people give away, but this notion of perpetual "happiness" is a cruel fiction. I completely agree with this <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GV7Q0Ljr2es">observation</a> by Thomas Sheridan: "There's nothing more against Natural Law than the concept of being constantly happy. You should aim for contentment. And you only get contentment when you had highs that made you appreciate the joys of life and lows that made you appreciate your ability to survive them." A people unaware of this cyclic reality, which also includes a remarkable power to overcome and create, are easier to control. A false "happiness" brought by the most unhappy authoritarians is part of their constant efforts <a href="https://sjobst.blogspot.com/2022/03/on-natural-law-and-immunity-spiritual.html">against the natural</a>, disconnected from it as they are themselves. Their "happiness" only relies on a state of constant fear and anxiety to control others.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><i>Misery and Contempt of Authorities</i></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> They have overplayed their hands as more people have awakened to their true nature. Just as people under their spell find meaning in being micromanaged from thinking and acting for themselves, the authorities being the narcissists and psychopaths they are, can only find meaning in controlling others because they lack a truly content soul. They propose external "solutions" because lacking an internal dialogue, they only find themselves in relation to external control. This explains all their denials of the soul and consciousness, why they are so obsessed with proposing un-natural "solutions" to transcend humanity; this is why they have their <a href="https://sjobst.blogspot.com/2020/11/building-back-better-to-great-reset.html">mindless slogans</a> and mantras, lacking true creativity as seen in what they promote as "art" and "talent". Its also why they act the same way, seeming to follow the same playbook, because they can only think within their collective hive minds rather than for themselves. And this is what they want to desperately project upon humanity. All the hype and propaganda is nothing but a false persona of strength to hide their weaknesses.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> In his "<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEwTpZKUieE">Five Skull Crown</a>" message, John Lamb Lash observes how the main expression coming from the authorities is one of envy, much like the Gnostic texts describe the Archons' envy of human beings. They are envious of what we have as "free and sovereign agents of life". They hate our human values that express our innate soul; our abilities to be content, to find happiness and security in the blessings life has given us; our work and acquiring through the honest, genuine way rather than their ill-gotten gains many of them inherit. Converse to us, they always cheat and steal from others; their "powers" are illusionary and their financial system based on what is fake; their knowledge of human psychology is superficial and a projection of their own misery. Our attitude towards them should be one of contempt at all levels. We should have no desire to negotiate or argue with them, which is nothing but being under the spell of their "power" and playing on their terms, but to instead mock them, reclaiming our will and intention, so "we will feel free in the face of someone who is not free."</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> When you look at these authorities, how the physical strain shows even on their faces whereas many of us have never been as strong and vibrant as now (despite all their efforts these past two years), their immune systems literally failing right in front of our eyes; their desire to transcend humanity because they don't appreciate life, have no gratitude for what the Earth Mother (and all other powers of divinity within and without) has given all of us; they isolate themselves in mansions and shelters, when they travel it's on private jets and never to admire and experience the beauty in the world; their ill-gotten gains means they have no innate pride that comes from knowing you achieve what you have through your hard work. Their inability to be authentic and creative, unlike ourselves. Once we have this contempt and see them as miserable beings who act out of desperation, we cast off the spell they have upon others and pull the mystique right from under them. And that's the path towards liberation and living our sovereignty. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVeOnx6JBXBgaS8Z23ilmrQKHkc83PCvx_KN_drrKxs2qijs7Ti1dZIOwytGCgsFNapqsGNZ9SjOIYZIH8AqahJzKDF779o__kvtUlxmuHcF7IuDzoPQdoExtw-C6lOnGDNsVkdadvvpAGgu9QRDjpxIom09imO_uLgs527z2wN3lQiGA7xBUHNW9NJA/s460/aegeR5v_460s.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="356" data-original-width="460" height="248" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVeOnx6JBXBgaS8Z23ilmrQKHkc83PCvx_KN_drrKxs2qijs7Ti1dZIOwytGCgsFNapqsGNZ9SjOIYZIH8AqahJzKDF779o__kvtUlxmuHcF7IuDzoPQdoExtw-C6lOnGDNsVkdadvvpAGgu9QRDjpxIom09imO_uLgs527z2wN3lQiGA7xBUHNW9NJA/s320/aegeR5v_460s.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Hiding in plain sight? The cartoon figure used<br />by the CDC website to advocate for the jab <br />looks similar to the famous NPC meme.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div>Sean Jobsthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17351165299354431339noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-907444223262019258.post-91656291991823368722022-03-30T12:31:00.004-05:002022-04-05T16:00:02.637-05:00On Natural Law and Immunity, Spiritual Attacks, Social Isolation, and Epigenetics<p><span style="font-family: georgia;">by Sean Jobst</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">30 March 2022</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhvEZsnRfwSRZ9TUeWgXBi5-U5Ue0mhtgkRKPK_kFkwqPDbqm23bXpN4Xzp-IDClAmZ61RdccEnXuBIKj5ppwHrEkBf4NUABeOLhGKOikGDEO61SNJe-vVyyaM6egOtfnnonyPjBYwEEx5FT4vPbb5pflhoQm0eiyR3oozTM0wd-a4cOwNMCSP8oQjv-A=s1255" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1210" data-original-width="1255" height="309" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhvEZsnRfwSRZ9TUeWgXBi5-U5Ue0mhtgkRKPK_kFkwqPDbqm23bXpN4Xzp-IDClAmZ61RdccEnXuBIKj5ppwHrEkBf4NUABeOLhGKOikGDEO61SNJe-vVyyaM6egOtfnnonyPjBYwEEx5FT4vPbb5pflhoQm0eiyR3oozTM0wd-a4cOwNMCSP8oQjv-A=s320" width="320" /></a></div><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>Artificial Supplanting of Natural Immunity</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> At the Munich Security Conference on 18 February 2022, Bill Gates <a href="https://ocla.ca/transcript-bill-gates-and-canadian-foreign-minister-joly-at-the-munich-security-conference-2022/">lamented</a> the strength and reliability of people's natural immune systems over the experimental treatments he has funded and promoted: "Sadly, the virus itself - particularly the variant omicron - is a type of vaccine. That is, it creates both B cell and T cell immunity. And it's done a better job of getting out to the world population than we have with vaccines."....T</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">he vaccine is not a means towards achieving their latest goal-post (i.e. two weeks to "flatten the curve", now the illusion of "zero-Covid") - its </span><i style="font-family: georgia;">the</i><span style="font-family: georgia;"> end-goal, but <i>why</i>? </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> There has been a <a href="https://brownstone.org/articles/the-strange-neglect-of-natural-immunity/">strange neglect</a> of natural immunity, despite it being affirmed in no less than <a href="https://brownstone.org/articles/79-research-studies-affirm-naturally-acquired-immunity-to-covid-19-documented-linked-and-quoted/">150 research studies</a>. "A strange feature of rhetoric during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic that came to public notice in early 2020 was the odd silence about the immune system," as <a href="https://brownstone.org/articles/the-world-health-organization-oversold-the-vaccine-and-deprecated-natural-immunity/">noted</a> by the economist Jeffrey Tucker. "Whereas in the past, vaccines and natural exposure were regarded as partners in disease mitigation, this time they were set up in competition, with all respectable voices pushing vaccines and shouting down anyone who dared break the silence about natural forces." The WHO's initial definition of "herd immunity" included "immunity developed through previous infection," deleted by November 2020 although it has since been reiterated. Others who downplayed natural immunity in their insatiable lust for the jab have finally admitted natural immunity, such as the <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/71/wr/mm7104e1.htm">CDC</a> and <a href="https://fortune.com/2022/03/24/fauci-stealth-omicron-surge-vaccine-restrictions/">Fauci</a>, although Fauci seems disappointed at the virus' inability to "evade immune response" from "prior infection." Tucker concludes: "Experience with Covid-19 is a textbook case of how the immune system scales naturally to take on the newest pathogens that have always and will always vex the world. The vaccine (especially one using a new innovation rather than a traditional inoculation) for this type of virus – respiratory, widespread, and mild for most – will necessarily be more hit-and-miss, simply because of the pace of mutation and the emergence of variants." </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> We can speak about the <a href="https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/pfizer-raises-covid-19-vaccine-sales-forecast-36-billion-2021-11-02/">$36.8 billion in sales</a> Pfizer made off the jab in 2021. Pfizer and Moderna <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2022/03/03/covid-pfizer-moderna-project-51-billion-in-combined-vaccine-sales-this-year.html">project $51 billion</a> in Covid vaccine sales this year. Moderna reported <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/moderna-beats-profit-estimates-fueled-by-vaccine-sales-11645707646">$7.21 billion</a> just this last sales quarter. Recurring profits as <a href="https://www.projectveritas.com/news/fda-executive-officer-on-hidden-camera-reveals-future-covid-policy-biden/">admitted</a> by the FDA Executive Officer: "There's a money incentive for Pfizer and the drug companies to promote additional vaccinations." The revolving door between the State and Big Pharma means the government promotes jabs even while the CDC admits it prevents neither <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2021/12/21/cdc-dir-walensky-being-vaccinated-with-two-doses-may-not-be-enough.html">infection</a> or <a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/cdc-director-covid-vaccines-cant-prevent-transmission-anymore/ar-AASDndg">transmission</a>. The media gatekeepers admit hospitals <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/04/24/fact-check-medicare-hospitals-paid-more-covid-19-patients-coronavirus/3000638001/">make money</a> from reporting more Covid cases, so its common sense the definition of "COVID cases" will be broadened and </span><a href="https://www.theepochtimes.com/cdc-responds-after-reporting-fewer-covid-19-pediatric-deaths_4348279.html" style="font-family: georgia;">numbers inflated</a><span style="font-family: georgia;"> in collusion with the State which grabs more control from "fighting the virus". Fear sells and is a powerful tool for social control.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> Profit is not the sole or even deeper agenda. These authorities hate Nature and her cycles, because they know she is <i>the Source</i> of people's innate freedom and central to their health. They want their vaccine technology to supplant people's natural immune systems, to trust in that external "savior" because it views people as broken shells to be "upgraded" with the latest "booster" fix. </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">They want people to outsource their bodies to them in perpetuity. We are being conditioned to weaken our immune systems by fearing any exposure to the bacteria and viruses that are part of Nature's cycles, our adapting to them overtime that eventually makes them harmless. Rolling out a vaccine at the height of an alleged pandemic violates basic Virology, forcing the original virus to morph into variants always a step ahead of their technology. They hate and fear the strong will and resilience of the human being, which has overcome innumerable diseases and illnesses through the power of our blood and DNA throughout history. This is why I call what they seek the </span><a href="https://sjobst.blogspot.com/2021/12/sanguine-gnosis-vs-transubstantiation.html" style="font-family: georgia;">Transubstantiation of the Jab</a><span style="font-family: georgia;">. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBzoI0HLhdQnbuyRXwoL3O5VgHBXFlKb9yV2h7qGrHRuD8lnoWm1oCsJaKqtMGF8UJBIts8XllpeSd1uaYQlNco83EqBud4eNIDxBKElgcOwV1LKs-UpdrGbeJfQipvhW-rHpPao3wloh3Xq0ANj2HHgv9hXK4uvZsAm4VDXUTEIJDY1vCVMBQ5eEfeA/s1200/Living-in-sterile-man-made-environments-that-72785.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="630" data-original-width="1200" height="168" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBzoI0HLhdQnbuyRXwoL3O5VgHBXFlKb9yV2h7qGrHRuD8lnoWm1oCsJaKqtMGF8UJBIts8XllpeSd1uaYQlNco83EqBud4eNIDxBKElgcOwV1LKs-UpdrGbeJfQipvhW-rHpPao3wloh3Xq0ANj2HHgv9hXK4uvZsAm4VDXUTEIJDY1vCVMBQ5eEfeA/s320/Living-in-sterile-man-made-environments-that-72785.jpg" width="320" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg18J3zkLOUXCQfpdWc_84-0fh2xSv1EvQyxx7OmjC_1J0o2K3o2JihBpFdJxhstw0kL9e7AcfsECHxv4yJDIFhQn8444-Gr8do0WCTEqkJ3RqSWG-DkKI9eZcKmAOU3ehYDXBfFouHedOAGRIa7TwyGImee7BAyrwMqM0sZLoc8Vi4YgAlhSuMKhubYg/s3840/6671032-Steven-Magee-Quote-The-more-alien-that-you-make-your-environment.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2160" data-original-width="3840" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg18J3zkLOUXCQfpdWc_84-0fh2xSv1EvQyxx7OmjC_1J0o2K3o2JihBpFdJxhstw0kL9e7AcfsECHxv4yJDIFhQn8444-Gr8do0WCTEqkJ3RqSWG-DkKI9eZcKmAOU3ehYDXBfFouHedOAGRIa7TwyGImee7BAyrwMqM0sZLoc8Vi4YgAlhSuMKhubYg/s320/6671032-Steven-Magee-Quote-The-more-alien-that-you-make-your-environment.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> You cannot be disconnected from these cycles and expect to be "healthy", as they deliver nothing but sickness by trying to cheat and supplant Nature. They admit the harmful effects of their jab technology (as indeed its an experimental technology, not even a conventional vaccine), hidden in plain sight within their scientific reports; as is the fact it has the built-in capacity to alter DNA. A Swedish <a href="https://www.mdpi.com/1467-3045/44/3/73/htm">study</a> published by <i>Current Issues in Molecular Biology</i> reveals the Pfizer-BioNTech BNT162b2 mRNA vaccine carries a reverse transcriptase enzyme called LINE-1 that attaches itself onto a human liver cell to reverse transcribe the vaccine's genetic code into the DNA. Another peer-reviewed study found a spike protein that can <a href="https://www.cell.com/cell/pdf/S0092-8674(22)00076-9.pdf">still be detected</a> in the jabbed's lymph nodes for up to 8 weeks, as well as in the blood after the Pfizer vaccine equal to and in some cases greater than what occurs in the blood after COVID infection. These will be long-term effects as a <a href="https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2119912">report</a> in the <i>New England Journal of Medicine</i> refers to a "rapid decline in immunity" after six months, hence the "need" for an endless supply of Needlecraft in contrast to lasting natural immunity.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> The vaccine also <a href="https://igorchudov.substack.com/p/dna-transcribed-from-pfizer-mrna">contains</a> a Moderna-patented cancer gene sequence in its spike protein. Such spike proteins built into the vaccines allegedly assist the "memory cells" that help with immunity, but could it not be encoding false "memories" into our DNA? Technologies to "trick" receptors and thus alter certain elements of our DNA. Memories should be understood here on an energetic level of information accumulated from the land, other beings, or experiences, then affecting us down to the cellular level. Some are useful for our growth, for knowing our true selves and connecting to higher awareness; others can bind and be manipulated against us. That Moderna is in the genetic altering business is proven by its <a href="https://metagenomi.co/press/metagenomi-and-moderna-establish-collaboration-to-develop-next-generation-in-vivo-gene-editing-therapeutics/">research partnership</a> with the CRISPR gene editing company Metagenomi. "CRISPR is a technology that can be used to edit genes and, as such, will likely change the world," <a href="https://www.newscientist.com/definition/what-is-crispr/">according</a> to <i>New Scientist</i>. There are <a href="https://innovativegenomics.org/projects/crispr-based-dna-vaccine-enhancer-covid-19/">efforts to encode</a> CRISPR as vaccine "enhancers". </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> A study done by CDC researchers found the risk of the heart inflammation myocarditis is <a href="https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2788346">133 times greater</a> in those who take the jab than in others. Far from denying this, the CDC justifies it by advising an eight-week <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2022/02/23/cdc-says-waiting-longer-between-pfizer-moderna-doses-may-reduce-myocarditis-risk.html">waiting period</a> between their Pfizer and Moderna fixes whose inefficiency is admitted by many scientific studies. Such is the religious fanaticism with which they promote this new savior, a dogmatic superstition held by exactly many of the most "rational scientific" people. It has nothing to do with "science" and everything to do with the <a href="https://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/politics/452654-for-big-pharma-the-revolving-door-keeps-spinning">revolving door</a> between the State and the very industries it "regulates". Many who used to accept this common knowledge are under the cognitive dissonance of Covidianism. The State and Corporate Media are compliant despite companies like Pfizer being the source of past <a href="https://rwmalonemd.substack.com/p/remain-skeptical-my-friend">fraud and malpractice</a> crimes. The FDA has a history of <a href="https://www.science.org/content/article/hidden-conflicts-pharma-payments-fda-advisers-after-drug-approvals-spark-ethical">receiving payments</a> from pharma companies after approving their drugs, which are rushed because those payments <a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/fda-repays-industry-by-rushing-risky-drugs-to-market">account for 75%</a> of their budget for scientific reviews. Now with the current vaccine, that agency <a href="https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/wait-what-fda-wants-55-years-process-foia-request-over-vaccine-data-2021-11-18/">wanted 55 years</a> "to release the safety data from those clinical trials," as noted by mRNA inventor-turned-whistleblower Dr. Robert Malone. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhxyYBm4GDS107fyxekfMRSuw3yHFb382isHk66-FqGB0QlQ6GaQN3DOyv8zmxJWuSlgAqLj9MOSdrf604E1TqXaSwV2p_a4cygYCERoJQMchGrs6Ojc33axT7cCrclmVeuPuATqsnZAehOV7PbhZijE2vPnpyt3Qu2M9TaYcyrNsnCl9NfWp5gWM833w=s300" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="168" data-original-width="300" height="168" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhxyYBm4GDS107fyxekfMRSuw3yHFb382isHk66-FqGB0QlQ6GaQN3DOyv8zmxJWuSlgAqLj9MOSdrf604E1TqXaSwV2p_a4cygYCERoJQMchGrs6Ojc33axT7cCrclmVeuPuATqsnZAehOV7PbhZijE2vPnpyt3Qu2M9TaYcyrNsnCl9NfWp5gWM833w" width="300" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhyWCjxx-V6_E_UY6I_Aa0D8oXd4rVEuedV5w-38JyEjR4pxrp6Alg3A_bL86jaITEMGz0zUtq6YcpXG9dHiXsNNMZKqfOptYGyrODJPJHrrUTv-sVlcmVp2ueaNyh15L57CBFAa6PWCwBP7VEXu__kSRNzMQEjbT_HQAgpn50EtkjpBl5gsxTfmzk9Pw=s555" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="442" data-original-width="555" height="255" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhyWCjxx-V6_E_UY6I_Aa0D8oXd4rVEuedV5w-38JyEjR4pxrp6Alg3A_bL86jaITEMGz0zUtq6YcpXG9dHiXsNNMZKqfOptYGyrODJPJHrrUTv-sVlcmVp2ueaNyh15L57CBFAa6PWCwBP7VEXu__kSRNzMQEjbT_HQAgpn50EtkjpBl5gsxTfmzk9Pw=s320" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>Gender Imbalance and Assaults Upon Nature</b></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> Anecdotes abound of women's menstrual cycles being off-balance these past two years, enough to indicate an actual trend. There is something in the world the elites are structuring to cause such chemical changes, using the virus as their excuse to roll out the latest chemical weapon. This profane <a href="https://sjobst.blogspot.com/2021/08/rise-of-wotanic-energy-and-fall-of.html">Needlecraft</a> </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">causes changes in menstrual cycles, according to a <a href="https://journals.lww.com/greenjournal/Fulltext/9900/Association_Between_Menstrual_Cycle_Length_and.357.aspx">study</a> led by the Oregon Health and Science University in Portland which still downplayed it as a "minor side-effect" and promoted the jab. Even if its "only" temporary, the fact it disrupts the woman's normal cycles at all should illustrate just now anti-Natural (not merely un-natural) these experimental jabs are. For many decades there has been a gradual assault upon both the masculine and feminine, what it means to be a male or female, and how we complement and balance each other through our qualities and nature. Their tools are primarily chemical - what's placed into the surface and air around us, and injected through the foods and drugs they engineer. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> Nearly all cultures worldwide have understood Earth to be feminine, personified as a Mother with her nurturing, intuitive, caring energy. This primal recognition is lost to modern denials of the Earth's sentience, capitalized by <a href="https://sjobst.blogspot.com/2021/11/addendum-20-on-death-pathology-neuro.html">false authorities</a> who deceive people into thinking Sovereignty and Power come from their own institutions or laws rather than being the innate gift humans absorb directly from Earth. Desperate yet unable to produce anything but an inverted mockery of whatever is real, the elites are envious of this birth-right and terrified that people would connect to that Source. They engineer artificial conflicts between males and females, knowing that holistic balance would automatically cause their structures to crumble upon their own inner contradictions. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> "We have to invoke and create the sacred union, the holy matrimony between the Sacred Feminine principle of non-aggression and the Sacred Masculine principle of self-defense," <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVPxYXc6Cbo">as noted by Mark Passio</a>. "And also the marriage within us of the sacred masculine of the logical mind, and the sacred feminine of the heart-based intelligence. Emotional thinking helps you to care about what is right and true. Logical and critical thinking helps you to figure out solutions regarding what is right and truth." These are internal values that can be manifested outward through constructive action, founded upon firm foundations of truth, justice and the sovereignty that comes from not just reacting in the ways that plays into their hands or by their system, but by the timeless and eternal Law of Nature. It grounds us to the Earth below and around while also connecting us to the Cosmos above. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> Just as their jabs have disrupted menstrual cycles, their masks have polluted land and oceans. I see masks littered nearly every time I'm out and I'm sure others can attest to what they've seen. According to a study by researchers from the University of Portsmouth, face mask litter <a href="https://www.port.ac.uk/news-events-and-blogs/news/researchers-unmask-the-environmental-impacts-of-covid-19">increased 9,000%</a> from March to October 2020. Researchers from Nanjing University and the University of California-San Diego found nearly <a href="https://www.pnas.org/content/118/47/e2111530118">29,000 tonnes</a> of "COVID-19 related plastics" floating in the oceans, according to a November 2021 study. "All told, the study found that 193 countries have generated more than 8.4 million tonnes (approximately 9.3 million U.S. tons) of COVID-specific plastic waste since the pandemic began, and 25,900 tonnes (approximately 28,550 U.S. tons) of that ended up in the world's oceans," <a href="https://www.ecowatch.com/face-mask-litter-covid-2656020815.html">according to EcoWatch</a>. "Interestingly, the bulk of this waste is not coming from individual use of PPE [personal protective equipment], which only accounted for 7.6 percent of the total. Instead, the bulk of the waste came from hospitals, at 87.4 percent." </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> The World Economic Forum <a href="https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/06/ppe-masks-gloves-coronavirus-ocean-pollution/">admits it</a> but uses it to shame individuals and giving an excuse for elitist institutions to propose the "solutions". To look externally instead of within is an energetic transfer of power we also see in the climate doomers, hence a close overlap between climate and virus apocalyptism. These are rooted in dual diseases of salvationism and denying a sentient Earth, as that would make it evident she is self-sustaining and has withstood far worse in her cycles than human activity could ever cause. </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">Distracting from the actual elite polluters, who project their hypocrisy upon the "guilty" masses whose "sins" must be "atoned" by seeking external "solutions", much like the elites constantly violate their own Rona mandates and lockdowns. </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">They place themselves as the superseders of Nature and humanity, whose own laws are designed in such a way to impose control and manipulation upon the masses while conveniently absolving themselves of responsibility. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsd18yBdtrVTu0Heu8V9Ivt8NixCijynKP6w-IAHTmAGciQfORrXtXnzad0TeLMxHI0ogfl0dqjzVgNS7UggU5nvHK9PfMah8jODVUaW9VcN4N1f6QNseqbOp5vuBqXRXmSt9PTJuYAW8s2RfpTfnT3UAMk_qQcmOGHzYR8KUckVG2zkXsiXpEAAtyZA/s263/download%20(3).jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="192" data-original-width="263" height="234" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsd18yBdtrVTu0Heu8V9Ivt8NixCijynKP6w-IAHTmAGciQfORrXtXnzad0TeLMxHI0ogfl0dqjzVgNS7UggU5nvHK9PfMah8jODVUaW9VcN4N1f6QNseqbOp5vuBqXRXmSt9PTJuYAW8s2RfpTfnT3UAMk_qQcmOGHzYR8KUckVG2zkXsiXpEAAtyZA/w320-h234/download%20(3).jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRqM8oFFJbp0FGvVXKd69nf5bPSlX3H2lo_PY7xQtxmTMdf0OErsL4-pIWeD1Ok60VSloA1P8u1Za6-vrGGy-q2CNsNUZTC2sO7VdHGDb9y8vkH-I6WtZHVcBHEmhIlW7xAe_yYEqjQ3xi9Nud5NOVR3ePh5toXj7-00OqyM9ryB3-qTaoJBvGwHxXdQ/s225/download%20(5).jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="225" data-original-width="225" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRqM8oFFJbp0FGvVXKd69nf5bPSlX3H2lo_PY7xQtxmTMdf0OErsL4-pIWeD1Ok60VSloA1P8u1Za6-vrGGy-q2CNsNUZTC2sO7VdHGDb9y8vkH-I6WtZHVcBHEmhIlW7xAe_yYEqjQ3xi9Nud5NOVR3ePh5toXj7-00OqyM9ryB3-qTaoJBvGwHxXdQ/s1600/download%20(5).jpg" width="225" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Social Isolation and Atomization</span></b><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> Their "cures" are worse than actual problems, their "solutions" designed to gather more control and profit into their hands. These cover up their inner weaknesses, being disconnected from Nature and their selves hidden behind their <i>archontic</i> masks and personas. Instead of producing anything, they live off the labor and resources of the masses. While so many are blinded by their spell of fearing the virus, they used it as their excuse for the <a href="https://sjobst.blogspot.com/2021/01/the-rona-global-surveillance-and-great.html">largest transfer of wealth</a> in history - and this includes the <i>occultic</i> (hidden) tax of inflation. Their predatory economic system founded upon <a href="https://sjobst.blogspot.com/2021/06/essays-on-anarchism-state-usury-and.html">artificial wealth</a>, expresses the same mind virus as their drugs that harvest real health from people and deliver its opposite: </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">"Unlike a real economy that creates wealth, the vampire squid </span><i style="font-family: georgia;">wetikonomy</i><span style="font-family: georgia;">, a global, organized crime syndicate, extracts and extorts wealth from the real economy and from real people like you and me. There is an actual creature called </span><i style="font-family: georgia;">vampyroteuthis infernalis</i><span style="font-family: georgia;">, which literally translates as 'vampire squid from hell,' a living symbol and perfect description of </span><i style="font-family: georgia;">wetikonomics</i><span style="font-family: georgia;">" (Paul Levy, </span><i style="font-family: georgia;">Dispelling Wetiko: Breaking the Curse of Evil</i><span style="font-family: georgia;">, Berkeley, CA: North Atlantic Books, 2013, p. 235).</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> Being enemies of Natural Law as much as they are enemies of the human immune system, they invert everything real and organic - the State replaces the Community, Society replaces the Individual. They construct legal "personhood" for artificial corporations whose profits are protected, while every child born in this Earth have an artificial "debt" imposed upon them which follows them throughout life. Theirs is only an abuse of "power" since they don't accept responsibility but only pass it on to the people who actually can exercise it if not for being under their mind-control spell. Government: Latin <i>guvernare</i> "to direct, rule, guide, govern" + <i>mente</i> "mind" = Mind Control. One current example of <i>wetikonomics</i> is the fact that <a href="https://www.thedesertreview.com/opinion/columnists/pfizer-moderna-investors-run-for-the-exits/article_f33832ce-9347-11ec-830c-6fe60d1a126b.html">investors are running away</a> from Pfizer and Moderna, as they know the profits may be immediate and will continue to flow, but playing the long-game they know complications from the needles will be felt for decades to come. They want people to yield responsibility to their own structures and institutions, rather than knowing economics is about interactions and human agency.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> To disconnect people from their health and minds, </span><a href="https://archive.org/details/american-vetrans/Destroy%20The%20Soul%20With%20Vaccines/" style="font-family: georgia;">cut off from the spiritual</a><span style="font-family: georgia;"> realities of life to keep them conditioned. There's an effort to artificially separate the "spiritual" and "material", with dogmatic scientism leading many people to deny there even is an energetic component. It can empower us and inspire growth; it can also be turned against us by these elites who know those realities but keep that knowledge for themselves while deceiving the masses to deny it for themselves. Under the excuse of health and safety, governments imposed lockdowns they violated themselves, responsible for the countless mass suicides and deaths from despair, not to mention cutting people off from many life-saving treatments since medical resources were so tied into the Rona. T</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">he </span><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jun/02/a-sacrificed-generation-psychological-scars-of-covid-on-young-may-have-lasting-impact" style="font-family: georgia;">psychological effects</a><span style="font-family: georgia;"> for decades to come and even across future generations (via ancestral traumas).</span><span style="font-family: georgia;"> A <a href="https://wfhresearch.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/WFHResearch_updates_March2022.pdf">joint study</a> this month by economists from Stanford, the University of Chicago, and the ITAM think-tank in Mexico, used survey data from 5,000 people comparing their changing attitudes over the past two years. Noting that in March 2020, 11% of people polled said they would "have no return to pre-COVID activities"; two years later, that number has risen to 13%! This led Stanford economist Nicholas Bloom to describe this phenomenon as "long social distancing": Effects of the lockdowns have become so internalized that no amount of time has wavered the mental hold it has upon millions of people. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> Such people have become COVID's <a href="https://www.pulsetoday.co.uk/views/coronavirus/covid-is-the-new-religion-and-that-is-the-gospel-truth/">true believers</a>, allowing their fears to alter their behavior, how they see the world, and even how they relate to their own families and friends. To desperately ward off the threat of virus apocalypse, they self-flagellate themselves with holy needles upon the Altar of Scientism, desperately seeking the blessings of their Cult's "expert" priesthood. <a href="https://sjobst.blogspot.com/2022/03/covid-hyper-normalization-collectivism.html">Normalization</a> has bewitched them as they consume all these measures, conform their minds to what's expected of them, and blindly obey those carrying the sacred vestments of "Authority". They have now been <i>transubstantiated </i>so they feel meaning and purpose can only be found through wearing muzzles, virtue signaling their "vaxxed" status to make themselves feel more "virtuous" than others (to cover up their internal void), and offering their arms up as penance for the sin of being "filthy" disease-carrying humans. Hyperbolic perhaps, but does this not describe the psychology of why so many blindly follow every dictate and trend put before them by the media and government? </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> Their control is facilitated by breaking people's trust in each other, seeing every other person as potential plague-carriers. Their collectivist "solutions" engineer atomization, breaking the <a href="https://medcraveonline.com/SIJ/anomie-in-the-sociological-perspective-of-eacutemile-durkheim.html">positive bonds arising</a> from healthy social interactions. Instead of strengthening these bonds, for many people "social" media and online "connectedness" has paradoxically intensified their feelings of despair and loss of meaning or purpose. This is a technocratic <a href="https://medium.com/@xzhan065/power-of-panopticism-in-modern-society-79ea015fab9a">panopticon</a> where the prisoners police their own behaviors out of fearing punishment. Finding ultimate meaning in compliance, once "converted" they then police the behavior of "heretics" as we have seen with the hordes of virtue-signaling tin-pot tyrants. This is the <a href="https://academyofideas.com/2021/10/social-media-why-it-sickens-the-self-and-divides-society/">crowdsourced panopticon</a> of social pressures, designed to stifle the individual because <i>all are individuals</i> "united" by the State exactly because they are disconnected from themselves. As Hannah Arendt observed: "The truth is that the masses grew out of the fragments of a highly atomized society whose competitive structure and concomitant loneliness of the individual had been held in check only through membership in a class." There are new social classes defined not by their functions but through their compliance to the "new normal". </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglO5aohJ3pDGRuJu7OXAE7HKpqfmxFC_Mj9HN_DfvMgqF3FgMfJ-YnRqUxdztPr9EfmxYlfbku80aWeSDNVPfdumua1EUxsNP5q3xWVc_DHEpBRmlgFSBukZ05_26sAxor2f0EadnYydpskkAy3aoyAKNdTatg8eRKg69sds8OqMcMAS16m46tJ7oz9g/s624/1_pxbZyM0uO8000JhmSAah0g.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="350" data-original-width="624" height="179" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglO5aohJ3pDGRuJu7OXAE7HKpqfmxFC_Mj9HN_DfvMgqF3FgMfJ-YnRqUxdztPr9EfmxYlfbku80aWeSDNVPfdumua1EUxsNP5q3xWVc_DHEpBRmlgFSBukZ05_26sAxor2f0EadnYydpskkAy3aoyAKNdTatg8eRKg69sds8OqMcMAS16m46tJ7oz9g/s320/1_pxbZyM0uO8000JhmSAah0g.png" width="320" /></a></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkywGop-DsPEzwQTmbvjhgSYFntZeMzyf8oRxtE_quVXVc8HdDlAa_Eobo1HbEgBq3ekdk-gyGAdGMknv_4PQpg-5VtgbF29519sMU9nel8kTYFPbN5gO-eZOdBdi05s4bDtPSSOpJUcZ7FCWrJKmZD_A5ZMbZXHo9IWciewUf24LJcSQtkrPemPstHw/s850/quote-the-mass-state-has-no-intention-of-promoting-mutual-understanding-and-the-relationship-carl-jung-141-24-28.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="850" height="151" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkywGop-DsPEzwQTmbvjhgSYFntZeMzyf8oRxtE_quVXVc8HdDlAa_Eobo1HbEgBq3ekdk-gyGAdGMknv_4PQpg-5VtgbF29519sMU9nel8kTYFPbN5gO-eZOdBdi05s4bDtPSSOpJUcZ7FCWrJKmZD_A5ZMbZXHo9IWciewUf24LJcSQtkrPemPstHw/s320/quote-the-mass-state-has-no-intention-of-promoting-mutual-understanding-and-the-relationship-carl-jung-141-24-28.jpg" width="320" /></a></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span><b style="font-family: georgia;">Spiritual/Energetic Attacks on the Mind and Soul</b></div><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;"> A floodgate has opened these last two years of an intense spiritual and psychic attack, greater than before. It has thrived by the climate of fear, envy and hysteria certain entities have fed upon, enabled by their human agents, the self-proclaimed authorities. These authorities are psychopaths, corrupted humans to be sure yet still "inter-species predators who use charm, manipulation, intimidation, and violence to control others and to satisfy their selfish needs" (Robert D. Hare, <i>Without Conscience: The Disturbing World of the Psychopaths Among Us</i>, 1994, p. 26). In 1967, Colin Wilson spoke of "mind parasites" lurking deep in the subconscious mind, feeding off people's energy through fears and neuroses: "I have said that, in a sense, the parasites were a 'shadow' of man's cowardice and passivity. Their strength could increase in an atmosphere of defeat and panic, for it fed on human fear. In that case, the best way to combat them was to change the atmosphere to one of strength and purpose" (Colin Wilson, <i>The Mind Parasites</i>, Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 1967, p. 188).</span><br /><br /><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> These entities match descriptions of the "counterfeit spirits" known as Archons in the Gnostic Nag Hammadi texts. As noted by psychotherapist Jerry Marzinsky, these parallel the "voices" heard by schizophrenics, which can also be studied for insights into how events of the past two years have been used against the psyche. Denying even the existence of such entities and mind viruses, the elites reduce it to a "chemical imbalance" that can only be "corrected" by their drugs - much like the vaccine "salvation" intended to supplant natural immunity. Various negative, low-vibrational thoughts are being implanted whether through their mind-control, drugs, or vaccines. These carry the negative energy of the "energetic parasites" who engineer them, feeding off people's energies and thoughts. Among their methods are changing people's perceptions by bombarding them with confused images and "news" to demoralize them to such an extent they give in to doom and gloom; and confuse people to assume every thought comes from themselves, even when those are negative ones clearly implanted and conditioned.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> "The purpose is generating negative emotional energy for them to feed off, and it goes back to frequency and vibration," Marzinsky observes. "The voices insert negative, paranoid, destructive thoughts into the thought system of their victim. These thoughts often consist of lies. The ultimate name of the voices is to get the victim shut out from all others and isolate them so they have control of them, and there's no interference with their agenda of generating negative emotion and sucking them dry of the negative emotion energy." The counselor George Jangatic agrees: "The voices want to separate us, not only from each other but ourselves. They don't want you to talk about what they say. They want you to be isolated, they want to pull you away from people into your head so they can create a belief system of their making, not of our making. Our sanctity of the mind is gone when we buy into their belief system." (I get both quotes from some of their interviews).</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> Rudolf Steiner observed beings feeding off people's negative energies: "There are</span><span style="font-family: georgia;"> beings in the spiritual realms for whom anxiety and fear emanating from human beings offer welcome food. When humans have no anxiety and fear, then these creatures starve. People not yet sufficiently convinced of this statement could understand it to be meant comparatively only. But for those who are familiar with this phenomenon, it is a reality. If fear and anxiety radiate from people and they break out in panic, then these creatures find welcome nutrition and they become more and more powerful. These beings are hostile towards humanity. Everything that feeds on negative feelings, on anxiety, fear and superstition, despair or doubt, are in reality hostile forces in supersensible worlds, launching cruel attacks on human beings, while they are being fed. Therefore, it is above all necessary to begin with that the person who enters the spiritual world overcome fear, feelings of helplessness, despair and anxiety. But these are exactly the feelings that belong to contemporary culture and materialism; because it estranges people from the spiritual world, it is especially suited to evoke hopelessness and fear of the unknown in people, thereby calling up the above mentioned hostile forces against them." ("</span><a href="https://rudolfsteinerquotes.wordpress.com/2015/05/31/there-are-beings-in-the-spiritual-realms-for-whom-anxiety-and-fear-offer-welcome-food/" style="font-family: georgia;">Die Erkenntnis der Seele und des Geistes</a><span style="font-family: georgia;">," Berlin, Dec. 12, 1907, p. 145)</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoLpEAPaae_Iw83hwuBYSize0hy-tK5m0MTf8aOSXaoJkXp4beGskFoQIicW2WVB3Mht_GkGM63eHQuXEOnhXNAumeuR6bGoorxFiKa5f7nGMrbZZRtPHIoIwQUOknZ5JAjpUatMkrurVRZCnMBwBGmSc0cPEBkRqTlZQJIBHMsvHKYkra_Ogaw8sjcw/s620/63222f78-6897-4c2d-bb0d-4c88a3043b72.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="325" data-original-width="620" height="210" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoLpEAPaae_Iw83hwuBYSize0hy-tK5m0MTf8aOSXaoJkXp4beGskFoQIicW2WVB3Mht_GkGM63eHQuXEOnhXNAumeuR6bGoorxFiKa5f7nGMrbZZRtPHIoIwQUOknZ5JAjpUatMkrurVRZCnMBwBGmSc0cPEBkRqTlZQJIBHMsvHKYkra_Ogaw8sjcw/w400-h210/63222f78-6897-4c2d-bb0d-4c88a3043b72.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Illustration of Wetiko by Liana Buszka</td></tr></tbody></table></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> Spiritual attacks inwardly reflect what's occurring in the world around us. These entities hating others telling about them and their attacks are a mirror for the authorities' censoring all information ("disinformation") outside their gates. These "gates" are nothing but portals for this atomization, negativity, anxieties and other low-frequencies that would alienate us from our true selves and innate power. Using virtual "ghosts" as a metaphor, the Japanese director Kiyoshi Kurosawa captured these themes in his film "</span><i style="font-family: georgia;">Kairo</i><span style="font-family: georgia;">" (</span><i style="font-family: georgia;">Pulse</i><span style="font-family: georgia;">, 2001). These "ghosts" invade the living world to make people more isolated and alienated. Much like the Archons were described, they want to suspend people into this purgatory where their mind-viruses feed upon and simulate our humanity only to have us mentally cannibalize ourselves. His </span><a href="http://www.reverseshot.org/interviews/entry/1503/kiyoshi-kurosawa" style="font-family: georgia;">words are prophetic</a><span style="font-family: georgia;"> in light of the last two years: "This unknown force that was spreading like a virus throughout the country and had that kind of ominous and menacing feel to it." </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> Our task is to be vigilant, reading the signs all around us and how they relate to our inner world. Not to confuse every thoughts as truly ours, much less to identify the social masks and personas with our authentic self. These mind-viruses have no independent existence except what we give to them if we cede our power to them. They are parasitic, feeding off our energy and working through our blind spots - unresolved traumas or neuroses, failure to integrate our Shadow, and unmanifested creativity. These happen to be the doors through which the government and media mind-manipulators feed off people's energies. Theirs is a dark spell using the knowledge and wisdom at our disposal, but turned against us for their own purposes.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> While social interaction is healthy and essential, so is the internal work of individuation they seek to subsume into their collective psychosis. As the Scottish poet and philosopher Charles Mackay observed: "Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they ony recover their senses slowly, and one by one" (<i>Extraordinary Popular Delusions And The Madness of Crowds</i>, 1841). Re-center back to your true self, your true intentions and will; respect and nurture those in others, especially immediately around you. Know that the elites are miserable and to be seen with contempt (the subject of the next article); their "power" a cover for their inner weakness. </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">They condition people to see themselves as broken, ugly, and defeated - and the elites as paragons of virtue and empathy - because those are projections of their pitiful inner conflicts.</span><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhB70jN2RJoG-0zUSNSxgu4sv038vvyaUwRuLM_xAeBo06epziBzbobFVVutg1wianjTsgjiJCfbn4CJLZPeLGvnBSjv7MX_ERvybrY23Jg-GsjuTf0nuiJz9GOSCyRZ0WPXjoWiV0JOd8giRpcrs8YApYG46_6ETBECk4uTlgYYKhj0uKHw-BybRtCPA/s300/download%20(6).jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="168" data-original-width="300" height="168" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhB70jN2RJoG-0zUSNSxgu4sv038vvyaUwRuLM_xAeBo06epziBzbobFVVutg1wianjTsgjiJCfbn4CJLZPeLGvnBSjv7MX_ERvybrY23Jg-GsjuTf0nuiJz9GOSCyRZ0WPXjoWiV0JOd8giRpcrs8YApYG46_6ETBECk4uTlgYYKhj0uKHw-BybRtCPA/s1600/download%20(6).jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> Empower yourself with the knowledge that you are the product of millions of ancestors with all their loves, joys, passions, lessons learned, and obstacles overcome. There is a power within your blood they want to alter with their technologies. They fear you knowing yourself and the <a href="https://sjobst.blogspot.com/2021/12/sanguine-gnosis-vs-transubstantiation.html">Sanguine Gnosis</a> that connects us to our ancestors, grounds us to this beautiful Earth, and uplifts us to higher awareness of the Cosmos (<i>nous</i>). Rather, they compensate for their own voids by seeking control over others - that stems from unhappiness masked by illusions of their outer world. Epigenetics is the science of how your behaviors and environment can cause changes affecting how your genes work. It can and has been turned against us - but there's also a remarkable power in how we have the free will over our genetic destiny. I close with this long but comprehensive description of our epigenetics:</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><div> “We used to think that genes created disease and that we were at the mercy of our DNA. So if many people in someone’s family died of heart disease, we assumed that their chances of also developing heart disease would be pretty high. But we now know through the science of epigenetics that it’s not the gene that creates disease but the environment that programs our genes to create disease—and not just the external environment outside our body (cigarette smoke or pesticides, for example), but also the internal environment within our body: the environment outside our cells. </div><div><br /></div><div> "What do I mean by the environment within our body? As I said previously, emotions are chemical feedback, the end products of experiences we have in our external environment. So as we react to a situation in our external environment that produces an emotion, the resulting internal chemistry can signal our genes to either turn on (up-regulating, or producing an increased expression of the gene) or to turn off (down-regulating, or producing a decreased expression of the gene). The gene itself doesn’t physically change—the expression of the gene changes, and that expression is what matters most because that is what affects our health and our lives” (Dr. Joe Dispenza, <i>Becoming Supernatural: How Common People Are Doing the Uncommon</i>, Carlsbad, CA: Hay House, Inc., 2017, pp. 39-40).</div></span></div>Sean Jobsthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17351165299354431339noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-907444223262019258.post-507828552586758302022-03-15T14:33:00.006-05:002022-03-23T13:13:43.385-05:00Covid Hyper-Normalization, Collectivism, Digital IDs and Vaccine Agenda, and Weaponizing Scientism in the Technetronic Era<p><span style="font-family: georgia;">by Sean Jobst</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">15 March 2022</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh1HXjuQrhGpYugf0m-LrmmI1i3oCf4SARPUCOuQZgZ5EpRmTj6_B_d852cWlUmdQwa-DUmBmJzKgNu6VgazcesbdIKiEXtUwms0-bPNq9E1960i9sIUyOOWv2_5xGLt6PAE5ghwA0ALwpM64Q4V6bQCJ8HBdhhbcqWr_57qtBE4-Eua670mNJ2xNrbyQ=s300" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="168" data-original-width="300" height="168" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh1HXjuQrhGpYugf0m-LrmmI1i3oCf4SARPUCOuQZgZ5EpRmTj6_B_d852cWlUmdQwa-DUmBmJzKgNu6VgazcesbdIKiEXtUwms0-bPNq9E1960i9sIUyOOWv2_5xGLt6PAE5ghwA0ALwpM64Q4V6bQCJ8HBdhhbcqWr_57qtBE4-Eua670mNJ2xNrbyQ" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: georgia;">"The 'technetronic' society - a society that is shaped culturally, psychologically, socially, and economically by the impact of technology and electronics - particularly in the area of computers and communications. The technotronic era involves the gradual appearance of a more controlled society. Such a society would be dominated by an elite, unrestrained by traditional values. Soon it will be possible to assert almost continuous surveillance over every citizen and maintain up-to-date complete files containing even the most personal information about the citizen. These files will be subject to instantaneous retrieval by the authorities." (Zbigniew Brzezinski, <i>Between Two Ages: America's Role in the Technetronic Era</i>, New York: Viking Press, 1970)</span><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">Throughout 2020, I wrote a series of articles exposing the various interests and agendas behind the Rona. This was followed up with a greater focus on the deeper spiritual elements in several articles last year. To recap that initial series:<br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">- </span><a href="https://sjobst.blogspot.com/2020/03/is-globalist-surveillance-state.html" style="font-family: georgia;">Part 1</a><span style="font-family: georgia;">: Roles of the NSO Group, Carbyne, and other Unit 8200-linked cybersecurity firms; general introduction to the Israeli-Russian-Chinese hi-tech oligarch alliance within Globalism.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">- <a href="https://sjobst.blogspot.com/2020/04/is-global-surveillance-state-exploiting.html">Part 2</a>: Blackwater/FSG, DarkMatter, the Chinese Communist Belt and Road Initiative, and UN "Smart Cities" hi-tech surveillance scheme.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">- <a href="https://sjobst.blogspot.com/2020/05/the-rona-and-global-surveillance-part-3.html">Part 3</a>: Microsoft links to Unit 8200; surveillance through the Covid-tracking apps; WHO as a puppet of the Gates Foundation and the Chinese Communist regime.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">- <a href="https://sjobst.blogspot.com/2020/05/the-rona-and-global-surveillance-part-4.html">Part 4</a>: Event 201 pandemic simulation; Big Pharma and Unit 8200 links; Charles Lieber and Nanosys' links to Israel and China; history of CCP and Mossad espionage at American laboratories; and predictive programming in the 2010 Rockefeller Foundation report.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">- <a href="https://sjobst.blogspot.com/2020/11/the-rona-and-global-surveillance-state.html">Part 5</a>: The World Economic Forum and Global Government; agenda of Central Bank Digital Currencies.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">- <a href="https://sjobst.blogspot.com/2021/01/the-rona-global-surveillance-and-great.html">Part 6</a>: Economic agenda - Green New Deal, crashing the US Dollar, hyper-inflation; Unit 8200 links to the World Economic Forum; Communist China as model of the Global Technocracy.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgJ7SOT_gDXuRkksy9Y2yuBwhyuIM9s-IoaCX_A9T0nwsN_uzRmlAmbGCgPiyL07ZN6e5vLw2mrj2SE7zicOqGaIccyxSDU5bsK4o8PsFg98qcaRjYgWG6XkfSGtZIXpq-MbkQ-18WNhqMpsYOpWYzM--0KbrobbOp-NRCl9GnJFSZ_5B9U6gp2jpJVxA=s1024" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="760" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgJ7SOT_gDXuRkksy9Y2yuBwhyuIM9s-IoaCX_A9T0nwsN_uzRmlAmbGCgPiyL07ZN6e5vLw2mrj2SE7zicOqGaIccyxSDU5bsK4o8PsFg98qcaRjYgWG6XkfSGtZIXpq-MbkQ-18WNhqMpsYOpWYzM--0KbrobbOp-NRCl9GnJFSZ_5B9U6gp2jpJVxA=s320" width="238" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiMA1Kc81Rw94_cumxyHeyiiZ_piatXqZ0oBkPgsisybpxdSnjA28apuAaEOMfP6Oz0-q27jMqmjW1svbMBIg-s95ABhqUr53ehpqow00jE1kHZJ5dmCdXhl_oYsC0qdH_gUEvcHgYohuca47aG4G1jAJLHo0VekjKhfi-kg8FZU-psPpe9Zyc_5YUkJg=s678" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="678" data-original-width="640" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiMA1Kc81Rw94_cumxyHeyiiZ_piatXqZ0oBkPgsisybpxdSnjA28apuAaEOMfP6Oz0-q27jMqmjW1svbMBIg-s95ABhqUr53ehpqow00jE1kHZJ5dmCdXhl_oYsC0qdH_gUEvcHgYohuca47aG4G1jAJLHo0VekjKhfi-kg8FZU-psPpe9Zyc_5YUkJg=s320" width="302" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>Hyper-Normalization and Engineering the "New Normal"</b></span></span></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span> Before the Corporate Media conditioned minds to embrace a "New Normal", that slogan was touted in a <a href="https://www.gpmb.org/annual-reports/overview/item/from-never-again-to-the-new-normal-what-does-the-2018-2019-ebola-outbreak-in-the-democratic-republic-of-the-congo-tell-us-about-the-state-of-global-epidemic-and-pandemic-preparedness-and-response">2019 report</a> by the Global Preparedness Management Board (GPMB): "From 'never again' to the 'new normal': What does the 2018–2019 Ebola outbreak in the DRC tell us about the state of global epidemic and pandemic preparedness and response?" Closely linked to The Wellcome Trust and Gates Foundation, the GPMB was active in pandemic "simulations" like Event 201; is connected to the World Bank, World Economic Forum, and World Health Organization; led by public health officials from America, Russia, China, the EU and elsewhere who just happened to become the COVID "response" leaders of their countries; and even one link to the Chabad messianic-supremacist </span><span>cult. (All these links are </span><a href="https://sjobst.blogspot.com/2020/05/the-rona-and-global-surveillance-part-4.html">documented</a><span> in Part 4).</span></span></div></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><div> In 1984, the Soviet KGB defector Yuri Bezmenov named Normalization as the last of four stages to transform the thinking and behavior of a population. The objective is "to change the perception of reality to such an extent, that despite the abundance of information, no one is able to come to sensible conclusions in the interests of defending themselves, their families, their community, and their country." First is Demoralization: Put out so much confused and conflicting information (as done with the 24/7 "news" cycle and facilitated by social media culture) that a population can neither discern or process what is truth. </div><div><br /></div><div> The second stage is Destabilization: To alter the norms of a society by capturing the cultural institutions. This includes increasing the size of bureaucracy and the civil service, where the people are conditioned to rely on them; and this process is especially helped by the media and academia as gatekeepers of "truth". The third stage is Crisis: Whether real ("never let a crisis go to waste") or engineered as they increasingly are. Its easier to manipulate people through fear and hysteria, so they accept whatever "solutions" the crisis-engineers propose. The culmination is Normalization, where people have been conditioned to embrace what was imposed upon them through this gradual process.</div><div><br /></div><div><div> That people are conditioned to change even their perception of time, as well as cede their own roles as active agents of history, that after "defining" crises like 9/11 and COVID there is to be nothing but a "new normal" as defined of course by the State-Corporate gatekeepers. One is to blindly "trust the experts" and believe the State-Corporate-Media nexus serves only their best interests, suspending their own critical thinking in the process. Such a linear manipulated timeline lends itself to Non-Linear Warfare, whose theorist Vladimir Surkov brought his avant garde experience in theater to politics. </div><div><br /></div><div> "His aim is to undermine peoples' perceptions of the world, so they never know what is really happening," as Adam Curtis - most known for his ground-breaking documentary "The Century of the Self" (2002) about Freud's nephew Edward Bernays, who brought psychological techniques to advertising and created Public Relations - expressed in "Hyper-Normalisation" (2016). "A war where you never know what the enemy are really up to, or even who they are. The underlying aim, Surkov says, is not to win the war, but to use the conflict to create a constant state of destabilized perception, in order to manage and control." The theorist is Russian but his ideas are the strategies used by elites worldwide to manipulate <i>all</i> populations.</div></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhnTr2DkBhpZzQ1mEknNSAQsIIl52MT-dWBntxCo4xFJTRtpxOVFyf631vcNxdgjdjA-afQ0xXXBErBevjmgWBZ5UZ1rQISvNTIJ3SUriyGqipEGiG3XHtD8JutJZ7qh-atMTFXRf8QYaadbbw4kryDYhdZMC_qCTtzXrEMC5QJvIX5LltpF3tmWzZWww=s1255" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="653" data-original-width="1255" height="167" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhnTr2DkBhpZzQ1mEknNSAQsIIl52MT-dWBntxCo4xFJTRtpxOVFyf631vcNxdgjdjA-afQ0xXXBErBevjmgWBZ5UZ1rQISvNTIJ3SUriyGqipEGiG3XHtD8JutJZ7qh-atMTFXRf8QYaadbbw4kryDYhdZMC_qCTtzXrEMC5QJvIX5LltpF3tmWzZWww=s320" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div><b>Weaponizing Scientism</b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><div> One of the effects of this psychological assault upon our minds is people internalizing the talking points, so that any dissent has to be prefaced - i.e. "But I am not against the science". Altering perceptions to such an extent that Scientism the ideology can operate through a dogmatic manipulation called "the Science", contrary to the very essence of inquiry and discovery (<i>true</i> science). Its about the corporatist managerial elite first advocated by such Fabian Socialists and upper-class Marxists as H.G. Wells and J.D. Bernal, updated now for the Technocratic Age, and enabled by this nexus of media, academia, and bureaucracy. These are connected across traditional borders via Globalist institutions, yet playing the same old political deceptions to bind all the regions to this system:</div><div><br /></div><div> "Today we are again witnessing the emergence of transnational elites....[Whose] ties cut across national boundaries ...It is likely that before long the social elites of most of the more advanced countries will be highly internationalist or globalist in spirit and outlook....The nation-state is gradually yielding its sovereignty....In the technotronic society the trend would seem to be towards the aggregation of the individual support of millions of uncoordinated citizens, easily within the reach of magnetic and attractive personalities effectively exploiting the latest communications techniques to manipulate emotions and control reason." (Brzezinski, <i>op. cit.</i>)</div><div style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></div></div><div> That science would be weaponized by elites into a strategy for control, was accurately predicted by the Bavarian alchemist and chemist Johann Rudolf Glauber in the 17th century, with armaments including psychological and information techniques: "The existence of a group of scholars - 'men endowed with a quick and penetrating mind' - whose only task must be to develop and perfect more and more sophisticated armaments....war will no longer be won by brute force but by the intelligence of scholars and engineers: 'Force will yield to skill, for skill often succeeds in overcoming force.'" (Quoted in Ioan P. Culianu, <i>Eros and Magic in the Renaissance</i>, University of Chicago Press, 1987)</div><div><br /></div><div> Yet intelligence yields to dogmatism here for purposes of control and manipulation. "The scientific institutions would in fact gradually become the government, and a further stage of the Marxian hierarchy of domination would be reached," according to the scientist and Marxist philosopher J.D. Bernal in his book, <i>The World, the Flesh and the Devil: An Enquiry Into the Future of the Three Enemies of the Rational Soul</i> (1929). "The world might, in fact, be transformed into a human zoo, a zoo so intelligently managed that its inhabitants are not aware that they are there merely for the purposes of observation and experiment." Such elitists project their own rigid mechanistic attitudes upon a humanity whom they desire only to transcend, having lost their own humanity in body, mind, and spirit.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh-EKlrkctnKO8RlUyX2BKMiFnnutWxp69qENn6qV6plqREc8b5NeEr_HHkbsM9zQ4pw3AVexzI7garSi44KuV_U1c_FEcgb8u_StqNzVkQuBUyYzET7CLCsFfDCwrTqxKWgmtu_UAT8qIoWumyLiaQ_EFgN1ob0pl_lVmxUHQUgF8M55xQaSw2v5lO7w=s600" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="323" data-original-width="600" height="172" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh-EKlrkctnKO8RlUyX2BKMiFnnutWxp69qENn6qV6plqREc8b5NeEr_HHkbsM9zQ4pw3AVexzI7garSi44KuV_U1c_FEcgb8u_StqNzVkQuBUyYzET7CLCsFfDCwrTqxKWgmtu_UAT8qIoWumyLiaQ_EFgN1ob0pl_lVmxUHQUgF8M55xQaSw2v5lO7w=s320" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh_hrB7PcB9D6_fFFC6wDtsRIKb45ZBvOF0Jbaxj43zh5sbzJfDhA3wSWbEpmGaGuhZ5Gc83fIvRQdAZ706bLk8fHJaiufe2Loot17g7Hrs79gHubBwki63wVqZBOGGHM18oTUGFtmxfDnjIR8MkN2ZMvYWhJQ8ivvJifud9FhMmSF9UykykcPcUqz8vQ=s567" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="342" data-original-width="567" height="193" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh_hrB7PcB9D6_fFFC6wDtsRIKb45ZBvOF0Jbaxj43zh5sbzJfDhA3wSWbEpmGaGuhZ5Gc83fIvRQdAZ706bLk8fHJaiufe2Loot17g7Hrs79gHubBwki63wVqZBOGGHM18oTUGFtmxfDnjIR8MkN2ZMvYWhJQ8ivvJifud9FhMmSF9UykykcPcUqz8vQ=s320" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div><div><b>Collectivism and the Great Reset</b></div><div><br /></div><div> "Various types of belief can be implanted in many people, after brain function has been sufficiently disturbed by accidentally or deliberately induced fear, anger, or excitement. Of the results caused by such disturbances, the most common one is temporarily impaired judgement and heightened suggestibility. It's various group manifestations are sometimes classed under the heading of 'herd instinct,' and appear most spectacularly in wartime, during severe epidemics, and in all similar periods of common danger, which increase anxiety and so individual and mass suggestibility." (William Sargant, <i>Battle For The Mind: A Physiology of Conversion and Brain-Washing</i>, 1957, p. 131)</div></div><div><br /></div><div> The key word here is "implanted": Control through <a href="https://sjobst.blogspot.com/2021/12/30-on-mind-viruses-and-lies-of-humanity.html">mind viruses</a> because the mind manipulators can steer people any way they want if they can successfully implant whatever thoughts they want into the person. Herd instinct can be seen through the collectivism that has been present with Covidianism. There is to be more fear, wanting the State and the financial interests behind it to take responsibility over people rather than personal responsibility over their health. Its not fear as much as anxieties, because fears can be primal and a survival instinct - anxieties can be unfounded fears and thus implanted by those who control the thoughts and images people are assaulted with 24/7. In her <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/worldeconomicforum/2016/11/10/shopping-i-cant-really-remember-what-that-is-or-how-differently-well-live-in-2030/?sh=23faa02e1735">article</a> for the World Economic Forum, "Welcome to 2030: I Own Nothing, Have No Privacy And Life Has Never Been Better", Danish leftist parliamentarian and ordained minister Ida Auken envisions "free space" apartments replacing personal dwellings:</div><div><br /></div><div> "My biggest concern is all the people who do not live in our city. Those we lost on the way. Those who decided that it became too much, all this technology. Those who felt obsolete and useless when robots and AI took over big parts of our jobs. Those who got upset with the political system and turned against it. They live different kind of lives outside of the city. Some have formed little self-supplying communities. Others just stayed in the empty and abandoned houses in small 19th century villages." </div><div><br /></div><div><div> There is to be no privacy, no satisfaction of tilling the soil or working hard, or using one's talents to create and produce something. The Great Reset promotes the idea of people cramming into and living into mega cities, while those outside that system, who refuse to submit to the "new normal", will live in "rustic villages" - this is far more appealing for those of us who embrace our souls and minds in a parallel society which is more real than their system of lies and deception. The year 2030 refers to their utopian Agenda 2030, where one will be "happy" to not own anything - their wealth and resources <i>will be owned</i> by these elites. There can be more central planning and control in these collectivized, hi-technocratic surveillance, mega "smart" cities. Easier to monitor people through the type of mass-surveillance technology instituted by the Chinese Communist Party and their corporations, now being exported by the Big Tech Oligarchs and the governments in their pockets.</div></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgh8Xp5FeauC4QUrUl_eNTx7b6fmmckKtjNCB2l1gL36azfCfSO5x22k4NgyC6wksTE81Scg5HALyR8vCVSbaBmem2b4ZwLbbkGWAjUV_1m9hZDCzpxdH3G4z0gOXcXygcJOVrmi3duGfucCuKg_bAWCzFfyOliqE8FHdavt_x1XPgwdxkra67dwwZi9Q=s1437" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1437" data-original-width="1188" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgh8Xp5FeauC4QUrUl_eNTx7b6fmmckKtjNCB2l1gL36azfCfSO5x22k4NgyC6wksTE81Scg5HALyR8vCVSbaBmem2b4ZwLbbkGWAjUV_1m9hZDCzpxdH3G4z0gOXcXygcJOVrmi3duGfucCuKg_bAWCzFfyOliqE8FHdavt_x1XPgwdxkra67dwwZi9Q=s320" width="265" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhjXf-PjHslmg6eTYMIqGkC5d61QLi9TbqjtSllPq-KDnldKQA-ahpsAQ7nZp13-7iHc7e7b3ke2MWldS7NmRFSHnFBQNI5ficktoMLOV-yfDgm26q14_5TUMAXscr1_lSkx2MVfgr5_yAWdn0qeXDGgqbDTcZs4r2mfDbSAKFm-1FNerPp2A_GUjqLKw=s628" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="519" data-original-width="628" height="264" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhjXf-PjHslmg6eTYMIqGkC5d61QLi9TbqjtSllPq-KDnldKQA-ahpsAQ7nZp13-7iHc7e7b3ke2MWldS7NmRFSHnFBQNI5ficktoMLOV-yfDgm26q14_5TUMAXscr1_lSkx2MVfgr5_yAWdn0qeXDGgqbDTcZs4r2mfDbSAKFm-1FNerPp2A_GUjqLKw=s320" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Covidianism's true believers wish death upon us heretics on <br />behalf of their mind-masters. Notice the hammer and sickle flag</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><div><b>Jabs and Digital IDs Hallmarks of the Technocracy</b></div></div><div><br /></div><div> In an <a href="https://sjobst.blogspot.com/2021/12/sanguine-gnosis-vs-transubstantiation.html">article</a> last December, I referred to the symbolic <i>transubstantiation</i> this experimental treatment - which uses mRNA technology, not even a traditional vaccine - represents and its foundations within superstition masquerading as "science". Many vaccine mandates are now being relaxed and walked back, but they will merely change their tactics into more of a gradual stealth effort. Millions have been jabbed now with multiple jabs every six months in guaranteed <a href="https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/pfizer-raises-covid-19-vaccine-sales-forecast-36-billion-2021-11-02/">profits</a> for Big Pharma in years to come. The World Economic Forum has flouted the idea of a COVID-19 "health passport" requiring mandatory giving of blood to travel and go to many social events. Their blood would be screened at a "covid-approved laboratory" and if approved, it will give you a QC barcode on your phone. It uses blockchain technology, no doubt connected to Unit 8200-linked firms and Big Tech oligarchs. Just to give one example: Fulgent Genetics, a DNA testing firm contracted by many state and local governments to conduct COVID-19 tests, was founded by two businessmen with <a href="https://www.theepochtimes.com/is-beijing-weaponizing-your-dna_4134462.html">close ties</a> to the Chinese government. </div><div><br /></div><div> Vaccine mandates are an example of the Chinese Social Credit Score, as indeed the Technocrats want to emulate Communist China with its merger of mass surveillance and technology as <a href="https://sjobst.blogspot.com/2021/01/the-rona-global-surveillance-and-great.html">their model</a> for the world. It will be the <i>carrot</i> to <a href="https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/04/coronavirus-covid19-vaccine-passports-travel/">ease</a> the <i>stick</i> of lockdowns they know have mentally conditioned so many people for more control but nevertheless made others more awakened if they push it too much more. This is a Neuro-Linguistic Programming that "rights" can be <a href="https://sjobst.blogspot.com/2021/11/addendum-20-on-death-pathology-neuro.html">taken or given away</a> at their mercy, so one only has to bend to their will and cede their powers to them. Demoralization by mentally wearing down a target population, making life more difficult for them through social pressures. This was openly admitted by a Rockefeller Foundation report in 2010, which projected these last two years:</div><div><br /></div><div> "During the Pandemic, national leaders around the world flexed their authority and imposed airtight rules and restrictions, from the mandatory wearing of face masks to body-temperature checks at the entries to communal spaces like train stations and supermarkets. Even after the pandemic faded, this more authoritarian control and oversight of citizens and their activities stuck and even intensified. In order to protect themselves from the spread of increasingly global problems - from pandemics and transnational terrorism to environmental crises and rising poverty - leaders around the world took a firmer grip on power. At first, the notion of a more controlled world gained wide acceptance and approval. Citizens willingly gave up some of their sovereignty - and their privacy - to more paternalistic states in exchange for greater safety and stability. Citizens were more tolerant, and even eager, for top-down direction and oversight, and national leaders had more latitude to impose order in the ways they saw fit. In developed countries, this heightened oversight took many forms: biometric IDs for all citizens, for example, and tighter regulation of key industries whose stability was deemed vital to national interests." (Rockefeller Foundation, "<a href="https://www.nommeraadio.ee/meedia/pdf/RRS/Rockefeller%20Foundation.pdf">Scenarios For The Future of Technology and International Development</a>," p. 19)</div><div><br /></div><div> These vaccines have been tied up with Digital IDs in this technocratic agenda, as was admitted by a program <a href="https://www.biometricupdate.com/201909/id2020-and-partners-launch-program-to-provide-digital-id-with-vaccines">jointly instituted</a> by GAVI, The Vaccine Alliance, the Rockefeller Foundation-funded NGO ID2020, and Government of Bangladesh in 2019: "Digital identity is a computerized record of who a person is, stored in a registry. It is used, in this case, to keep track of who has received vaccination." That it was instituted the year they admit now the Rona started, and it specifically mentioned 2020 as its crucial year, says much about its role within this agenda. ID2020 openly admits it uses blockchain and other crypto-technology for Agenda 2030. Gates himself <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2020/03/18/bill-gates-addresses-coronavirus-fears-and-hopes-in-ama/">admitted</a> in a Reddit Q&A Session in March 2020: "Eventually we will have some digital certificates to show who has recovered or been tested recently, or when we have a vaccine, who has received it." He followed this up with an <a href="https://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/bill-gates-coronavirus-outbreak-vaccine-pandemic">interview</a> that April: "It is fair to say that things won't go back to truly normal until we have a vaccine that we've gotten out to basically the entire world." </div><div><br /></div><div>These people are miserable beings whose "normal" should be rejected for what it truly is: An abnormal illusion and a desperate spell placed upon populations who merely need to reassert their innate FREEDOM and SOVEREIGNTY - and TRUE POWER - to realize their agenda only has the "power" it has upon those who have given in to confusing their "normal" as the only "reality". It starts with being vigilant to their agenda, and celebrating what makes us human rather than giving in to any despair, doom or gloom. Ours is a life-affirming, pro-human message while theirs is the epitome of sickness, even when they're claiming its about an apocalyptic virus rather than their own control and manipulation. </div></span></div>Sean Jobsthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17351165299354431339noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-907444223262019258.post-1857435183362619482022-03-08T14:22:00.006-06:002022-03-08T14:25:00.822-06:00The Wild Hunt: Symbolisms, Meanings, and Folklore (Part 5)<p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Part 5: Supernatural spectres, Honoring Lugus, Celtic and Iberian traditions of the Wild Hunt</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">by Sean Jobst</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">8 March 2022</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjgHzPnjfRMHVj4euEyVVWKPia57tMpFvn4K_R4X3Ajmqt5HV6uWxWw1bnu5Za4iUFLFO-Kx7FKO8rMgtCBtVEAckc2CbTuhxNzAd4Wqo_EQ5-LTUo2K4HLcEe3dvl2mJHP01KbQ2uLHi_5nwXb6EGxGsGS0gRetR8pSIRalx2c1Drs8_jmAZRJhrcdqQ=s850" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="850" height="151" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjgHzPnjfRMHVj4euEyVVWKPia57tMpFvn4K_R4X3Ajmqt5HV6uWxWw1bnu5Za4iUFLFO-Kx7FKO8rMgtCBtVEAckc2CbTuhxNzAd4Wqo_EQ5-LTUo2K4HLcEe3dvl2mJHP01KbQ2uLHi_5nwXb6EGxGsGS0gRetR8pSIRalx2c1Drs8_jmAZRJhrcdqQ=s320" width="320" /></a></div><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> The Fates have shaped my being a descendant of regions where the Keltoi and Germanen blended. I can recount reminders of this double heritage long before awakening to the truly spiritual path of what it means to be descended from specific tribes tied to specific landscapes. Just one example: While my father was born in Germany (Schwaben), he was also conscious of a Celtic lineage and used to cite it for why he wanted to be cremated. There are innumerable ancestral memories remaining latent within one's Unconscious, withstanding any tests of time and space. Writing this series has been a journey of its own. Like a wandering huntsman, I gather wisdom and experiences walking through the forests of my own monomyth, writing my own story which is also the accumulated memories from generations of ancestors. This current article will focus more on the specifically Celtic and Iberian traditions of the Wild Hunt touched upon in <a href="https://sjobst.blogspot.com/2020/12/the-wild-hunt-symbolisms-meanings-and.html">Part 1</a> which have developed alongside the more well-known Germanic traditions of the Wild Hunt. </span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> At the heart of all indigenous and tribal traditions is Animism, centered as it is to specific landscapes. This was certainly true of native peoples of Europe before we were converted; there are many remnants of this ancient animism despite the turning of centuries. Even the words for "life", "breath" and "soul" reflect this, as in the Latin <i>animus</i> and Irish <i>anam</i>. These convey an airy quality, a sacred mysteriousness that animates all life which has no sharp distinction between spiritual and material. Indeed, the term "nebulous" which describes the esoteric and mysterious, <a href="https://www.etymonline.com/word/nebulous">stems from words</a> related to the sky, clouds, fog, and mist. Animism is a worldview of complex interactions between different beings and powers, so its no surprise earth and sky, land and sea, would be linked even through etymology.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> Celtic cosmology describes a rich tapestry of realms. The Otherworld contains a celestial, middle, and underworld realm, mirroring the three worlds of shamanic traditions. The middle is similar to the Germanic <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/middangeard">Mittilgart</a> and Norse Midgard, which is the specific realm of human beings whereas the earth broadly contains other realms and dimensions "beyond" one's senses and perceptions but accessed through natural "openings" (Heide). Such cosmology could be an </span><a href="https://seanjobst.substack.com/p/tolkien-and-the-creation-of-a-new" style="font-family: georgia;">inspiration for middle earth</a><span style="font-family: georgia;"> in J.R.R. Tolkien's works. "In Celtic mythology, 'middle' was a three-dimensional term. It referred not only to the earth that lies between the upper and the lower worlds, but also to the intersection of lines based on the cardinal points" (Robb, 41). Its a symbolic center that cannot be pinned down to a specific place, conveyed in the Gauls' </span><i style="font-family: georgia;">mediolanum</i><span style="font-family: georgia;">, "a term of sacred geography; a holy center....perhaps a central point of reference on the vertical axis of the three worlds - upper, middle and lower" (Delamarre, 221-222). </span></p><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> The underworld is a lower realm, associated with liminal places - where the veil between realms is very thin - such as the seas. Mist itself results from a mixture of the sky with water, so that one perceives the mist as encompassing one's vision upon the earth so that walking towards it would mean to "disappear" into another world, outside one's immediate vision. Such thoughts fueled the imagination of ancient peoples like the Celts, which I felt when meditating at Cabo da Roca, the windiest and one of the darkest places I've ever encountered yet strangely most vibrant with life. This along with Finisterre "end of land" north in Galicia, are the western-most points where the great continental land-mass meets vast expanses of the Atlantic Ocean. No wonder that ancient Iberians and Lusitanians viewed such points as the conduit through which souls entered into the underworld to ultimately be reincarnated back into our middle realm. For the Irish, the otherworld of <i>Tír na nÓg</i> "land of the young" could be arrived at through two ways - one was through water, beneath a lake or the ocean west of Ireland; and the other through an underground passage, such as a <i>sidhe</i> (mound) or cave. These influenced the Celtic-inspired Avalon of the Arthurian legends.</span></div><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjHEcJwKu1UjVNWjCxGe35kB8ZpBCo1WSJwT3ne6nQm-WYbN1Tt_hFzHaWolOv4CrDsKVbB5DosJY93famJ6gqI36H5SeLMPJ0UZ9PM807XN84rhG_AnPOV03DgZb-NUybfi2qvglVgLAiIOvDjCCuDSXp1z9pjPBpNaYzTWaCmfmO5RXTyF8k3DoVLIw=s960" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="960" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjHEcJwKu1UjVNWjCxGe35kB8ZpBCo1WSJwT3ne6nQm-WYbN1Tt_hFzHaWolOv4CrDsKVbB5DosJY93famJ6gqI36H5SeLMPJ0UZ9PM807XN84rhG_AnPOV03DgZb-NUybfi2qvglVgLAiIOvDjCCuDSXp1z9pjPBpNaYzTWaCmfmO5RXTyF8k3DoVLIw=s320" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgYjhuPe8fQv9kFviVy5Hp7gk54w-H6KoARSjgdVO3owObtbzrWj9b1hKiVrhaF9T_5BbOl-peEX8_4AVjOXN_MB-Hbxxsl2zfWH-Zn6PiuwIQbWyKyIPhAO_GpLBK_4YScYvKZdCReWviOHMM9BNVNk7imfRlOLBxynaNlW-hvnklr28CQbf6PjpxcBQ=s960" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="960" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgYjhuPe8fQv9kFviVy5Hp7gk54w-H6KoARSjgdVO3owObtbzrWj9b1hKiVrhaF9T_5BbOl-peEX8_4AVjOXN_MB-Hbxxsl2zfWH-Zn6PiuwIQbWyKyIPhAO_GpLBK_4YScYvKZdCReWviOHMM9BNVNk7imfRlOLBxynaNlW-hvnklr28CQbf6PjpxcBQ=s320" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgxV62lADhI-ACJnioM7S4aoEC_Xutjh-wioMwARNxt2E7Atcj8PgST-UiG_23hQO2mpZ_b8i5H_nCSseRlRm0Bgyex7ebwdWzwI-jSf20BwXJUeGNSaRsJvhFOc4Q2_f2ArIyXm4xMgKMEKQdWt4Oe4MlNrl5EhxrM_qlCTb7H7F-Wa22WSt6bclgV3A=s960" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="960" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgxV62lADhI-ACJnioM7S4aoEC_Xutjh-wioMwARNxt2E7Atcj8PgST-UiG_23hQO2mpZ_b8i5H_nCSseRlRm0Bgyex7ebwdWzwI-jSf20BwXJUeGNSaRsJvhFOc4Q2_f2ArIyXm4xMgKMEKQdWt4Oe4MlNrl5EhxrM_qlCTb7H7F-Wa22WSt6bclgV3A=s320" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjNV0xKGWZRHm3O9dvKagiXuTmcjH9Dsjboaa96-bju2pstQh-0Oof05nLRpl-dc8QE1sox1DdKchprJ0IazlN-8sWG31sRGaTDbYUr7LfLJ3M8DAwyuC2OI8uNpHXa_oLq9fZERxAaU0Xt_IgRS-DVcBYpSnHdBeLW0znmM4_Sk-hob5OOXfBKb94-zA=s960" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="960" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjNV0xKGWZRHm3O9dvKagiXuTmcjH9Dsjboaa96-bju2pstQh-0Oof05nLRpl-dc8QE1sox1DdKchprJ0IazlN-8sWG31sRGaTDbYUr7LfLJ3M8DAwyuC2OI8uNpHXa_oLq9fZERxAaU0Xt_IgRS-DVcBYpSnHdBeLW0znmM4_Sk-hob5OOXfBKb94-zA=s320" width="320" /></a></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgSrja5wd0QdyWxr4uCa9nIBSnOrSZV4MQt_-HBK5ZOtNlAjT1bZ16pC-15ydgSvBSgJWaWr6eoCSAdO-R1hvS-MEU9xzKZr-BsMTKsnY2DXuELgsnKBsFByrm2pUjP9Dg2-qgOCYDYrwn3bSypyRU__VYvaDMqaXri0QfL3Kn0yhE43aeQR3drsWdHgA=s960" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="960" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgSrja5wd0QdyWxr4uCa9nIBSnOrSZV4MQt_-HBK5ZOtNlAjT1bZ16pC-15ydgSvBSgJWaWr6eoCSAdO-R1hvS-MEU9xzKZr-BsMTKsnY2DXuELgsnKBsFByrm2pUjP9Dg2-qgOCYDYrwn3bSypyRU__VYvaDMqaXri0QfL3Kn0yhE43aeQR3drsWdHgA=s320" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Some pictures from my visit to Cabo da Roca,<br />Portugal, 30th June 2017. Meditating upon <br />the sunset, a liminal time at a liminal place.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> <b><i>The Rise of Supernatural Spectres.</i></b> Beyond such liminal places as water, mounds and caves were other realms teeming with an "exuberant life and immortality", despite appearing gloomy: "This aspect of a subterranean land presented no difficulty to the Celt, who had many tales of an underworld or under-water region more beautiful and blissful than anything on earth. Such a subterranean world must have been that of the Celtic Dispater, a god of fertility and growth, the roots of things being nourished from his kingdom. From him men had descended, probably a myth of their coming forth from his subterranean kingdom, and to him they returned after death to a blissful life" (MacCulloch, 341). This primal understanding led to the various traditions that describe riders of the Wild Hunt as resembling the various land spirits and beings of folklore, themselves often linked to the dead (Lecouteux, 191-192), such as the <i>sidhe</i> of Ireland or the <i>buena gente</i> "good folk" of Asturias. "The Wild Hunt fell into the vast complex of ancestor worship, the cult of the dead, who are the go-betweens between men and the gods" (ibid., 199). This link is also seen in etymology, <i>sidhe</i> descending from the Proto-Indo-European word *<i>sed</i> "to sit, rest".</span></p><div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> As noted by the Scottish Celticist John Arnott MacCulloch (1868-1950), these are the mysterious <i>sidhe</i> or faeries of Gaelic folk-lore, whose various qualities often blur distinctions between deities, human beings, and elemental spirits. He theorized that the <i>sidhe</i> arose out of the Tuatha Dé Danaan ("People of Danu"), one of whose members An Dagda became "king of the sidhe" (MacCulloch, 65). Danu could be connected to the mysterious "Diana" whom Martin of Braga cited as riding at the head of the Wild Hunt in northwest Iberian traditions, with medieval missionaries conflating all with their own Roman bias. "Commingled here are Diana of antiquity and Di Ana, a Celtic goddess who is also called Anu. The existence of a god Dianum speaks to this hypothesis. This deity, who was perhaps the Asturian Dianu, no doubt came from Di Anu, who was taken to be a masculine figure" (Lecouteux, 11). </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">Anu or Danu is mother goddess of Celtic peoples (Sjoestedt, 24-25), lending her name to the Danube and other rivers along which some of the earliest Celtic cultures thrived.</span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> The Tuatha defeated the Fomorians at the Second Battle of <i>Maige Tuired</i> ("plain of the standing stones"), whose allegories of internal conflict transposed upon a battlefield parallel Krishna's dialogue with Arjuna in the <i>Bhagavad-Gita</i>. Their order contrasts to the Fomorians as "powers of nature in its hostile aspect" (MacCulloch, 60), like the <i>jötnar</i> and winter spirits left behind with the new year. Chaos is necessary for balance - it only needs to be checked, so the Fomorians were driven into the sea and not eradicated. The goddess Badb (whose name means "crow") appeared in the battle as a crow and made an <a href="https://mythus.fandom.com/wiki/Badb_Catha">astounding prophecy</a>. Corvids carry symbolism of transformation and immortality, such that the hallucinogenic drink she gives to Cú Chulainn inspires him to engage in heroic deeds to "live" beyond the confines of his mortal existence (Sheridan, 147-149). He overcomes his past to be initiated to his hero's journey. Badb, who personifies sovereignty and life, makes up the triad <i>Morrígna</i> along with Macha and Morrighan. This is the Maiden-Mother-Crone motif, seen also in the continental <i>Matronae</i>. The Morrighan corresponds to the <i>valkyries</i>, not bringers of death but only appearing to the war fallen. Badb lends her name to "supernatural beings who haunt the battlefield (<i>Badba</i>)" (Sjoestedt, 32), as souls and trauma linger over the landscape.</span></div></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> In the Irish mythological cycle, the Tuatha were followed by the Milesians, ancestors of the modern Irish. The Milesians allowed the Tuatha to recede back into the earth, residing in the hills, mounds, and other liminal places (MacCulloch, 63). "The concept of the Sidhe being still present within the Irish landscape - albeit, within a different reality - ties in well with the legend of the Tuatha De Danaan being banished into the otherworld following their defeat at the hands of the Milesian Gaels" (Sheridan, 168). Their agreement to divide Ireland between the world above and below, could refer to the division between consciousness and the subconscious (ibid., 110-111). The link to the <i>sidhe</i> persisted long after Christianization, such that even many saints and bishops became known as <i>fir side</i> "men of the sidhe" after their deaths (MacCulloch, 64). "Other mounds or hills had also a sacred character. Hence gods worshipped at mounds, dwelling or revealing themselves there, still lingered in the haunted spots; they became fairies, or were associated with the dead buried in the mounds, as fairies also have been, or were themselves thought to have died and been buried there" (ibid., 66).</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhUD0AeJuRP3zGAGUMnzMOpI9vQVMi0hm90shdseROL8xTJeWiJ2elDpxvgmIlcHEQN00sp77aVbsLg82AORE7XaLf2J6bQJyYh26R3XB9m2GqJIyoHTf-WFYrfet_pGgsU_kyz7JRe5tSy_YWVfujkwdXdszad-8f4dQhgTFI7kEeVhp7j2eBIfZ9RHQ=s1200" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="784" data-original-width="1200" height="209" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhUD0AeJuRP3zGAGUMnzMOpI9vQVMi0hm90shdseROL8xTJeWiJ2elDpxvgmIlcHEQN00sp77aVbsLg82AORE7XaLf2J6bQJyYh26R3XB9m2GqJIyoHTf-WFYrfet_pGgsU_kyz7JRe5tSy_YWVfujkwdXdszad-8f4dQhgTFI7kEeVhp7j2eBIfZ9RHQ=s320" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Riders of the Sidhe" (1911), by the Scottish<br />Symbolist painter John Duncan, who was inspired <br />by Celtic folklore and the Arthurian Mythos</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> <b><i>The Sidhe, Elves, and Trolls.</i></b> The <i>sidhe</i> inhabited different liminal places as mounds, thus their other title <i>Aos Sí</i> "people of the mounds". The mound's chambers were important, channeling the sunlight on solstices and equinoxes, to which they were often aligned. They channeled the wind, being a passage between this "breath" of life and the Underworld of deceased souls, part of an eternal cycle where life and death operate on the same continuum. As elemental spirits, the <i>sidhe</i> were thought to move through the Air, with such natural phenomena as leaves carried up in spiral wind patterns seen as among their signs. One of the ground-breaking studies of <i>sidhe</i> folklore was <i>The Secret Commonwealth</i> (1691), by the Scottish minister and Gaelic scholar Robert Kirk (1644-1692), who collected Highlands folklore and personal experiences about fairies (how the <i>sidhe</i> were known across the Irish Sea), witchcraft, and other paranormal phenomena. Kirk <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkDfahZBlAQ">described</a> fairies as astral-body beings similar to congealed air, paralleling beings in other cultures. Despite his Christianity, he was not dismissive of this folklore, but promoted it as proof of the supernatural against the rigid, reductionist scientism increasingly in vogue. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> One of these parallels are the elves of Germanic and Norse folklore. Like the <i>sidhe</i>, these complex beings were associated with the Otherworld, inhabited liminal places, and were turned into grotesque creatures after Christianization. The two sometimes overlapped, such as in the Scottish Lowlands where "witchcraft" trials of the 1570s and 1580s often described journeys to Elfame, realm of the elves. Old English medical texts ascribe various ailments to elves, to be cured through incantations. The legendary elf Alberich was identified with various magical exploits in the Continental poems <i>Nibelungenlied</i> and <i>Ortnit</i>. One incantation identified them with deception: "<i>die elben trieget mich</i>" (<i>the elves are deceiving me</i>), but like the <i>sidhe</i> they weren't necessarily "evil" and all beings existed for balance. The separation between "light" and "dark" elves was Snorri transposing his own Christianity upon Norse lore (Edwards). Some traditions identify the elves with ancestors, although Old High German and Old Saxon compared elves to land <i>wights</i>, having separate words for ancestors (Sass). </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> Given their own link to burial mounds and the Underworld, they came to be identified with ancestors similar to how the <i>sidhe</i> lore evolved. In Welsh folklore, Gwyn ap Nudd, the underworld god who became "king of the fairies", rides alongside his hounds and the night crone Matilda, chasing lost souls into the underworld (Annwn) in his Wild Hunt (Trevelyan, 49). Folk traditions speak of the elves leaving the mounds to interact through nature, perhaps to remain in the memory of the living, and a reminder that elementals persist through the Earth's energetic fields. These "memories" persist in Yule traditions where elves are evoked to "banish" the trolls, or the winter "spirits" of the old year. The Scottish New Year's Hogmanay, which was originally tied to the Winter Solstice and not the current New Year's, as reflected in its possible roots from the Norman French <i>hoguinane</i> "last day of the year". Yet there is a play-on words here, reflected in the Old English <i>hoghmen</i> and Icelandic <i>haugmenn</i> "hill-men", referring to the supernatural beings personifying the spirits of winter.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> A rhyme spoken on that day states: "Hogmanay, Trollolay, give us of your white bread and none of your gray." This is an incantation asking the elves to drive the trolls into the sea, olay "to the sea" and "away" (Repp). Could this relate to Gaelic lore of "away with the fairies" and the Fomorians being driven into the sea? <i>Beowulf</i> portrays trolls as residing under the water, paralleling the Fomorians and thus the <i>sidhe</i>. A similar English invocation goes: "Trolle on away, trolle on awaye, Synge heave and howe rombelowe trolle on away" (Percy). These can be allegories for coming prosperity, free from trolls who personify forces of blemish and must be balanced. The Gaelic storm goddess Cailleach or Beira determines winter's harshness and length similar to Frau Holle or Perchta in Germany. Cailleach "captured" Brigid, making her clean a fleece all winter long until she is "saved" by Father Winter, who represented positive forces of Winter. She could be the Gaelic Earth Mother Degom, making her consort An Dagda, a sky father who became chthonic when "deposed" from his sovereign position. He was later personified as a "Father Winter" archetype. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgLUN8u3JARu8jd9U38ub3Pdd7YSLfnMCyQU8gKV0HdLtItYvKw-BOd68JEzCrTHGSwqMh6U4Fj38EHn8Sc43OC63XGbirDG1BXNDCGsX9v1owKxTILSe3tT2rj3NCW7CftQxbOCCy8cmHycPt6QlohfKo4JXdJRWQ29k2gDL0A-ltfyWE-5CrtDxmxpA=s720" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="540" data-original-width="720" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgLUN8u3JARu8jd9U38ub3Pdd7YSLfnMCyQU8gKV0HdLtItYvKw-BOd68JEzCrTHGSwqMh6U4Fj38EHn8Sc43OC63XGbirDG1BXNDCGsX9v1owKxTILSe3tT2rj3NCW7CftQxbOCCy8cmHycPt6QlohfKo4JXdJRWQ29k2gDL0A-ltfyWE-5CrtDxmxpA=s320" width="320" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> <b><i>Honoring Lugus. </i></b></span><span style="font-family: georgia;">The most widely revered Celtic deity was Lugus, known as Lugh in the Gaelic lands. His name means "lightning flash", "bright", and "shining one" (Green, 135), symbolized by his spear. As a deity of oaths and contracts, he ensures order through the sworn word (Olmstead, 110, 117). His mythic "killing" of some even while forgiving them is an allegory for our being subject to the natural order no matter how much we try to escape our fate. Yet its not static, as Lugh inspires Cú Chulainn to connect with his subconscious intention in engaging with the outer world (Sheridan, 208). Lugus is a "mysterious figure linked with fertility, seasonal change, and the underworld." After the Roman conquest, his shared traits with Mercury included "one-eyedness, raven as cult animal, spear-bearing prophet stabbed by a spear, sacrifice by hanging and stabbing, disguised appearance, dedication of a hostile force by spear-throw, leadership of a band of warriors sworn to die for him, association with a prophetess with ties to a cult of the dead" (Enright), all close associations with Wodan. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> He led "riders of the sidhe" in the Wild Hunt in a common link to initiatory <a href="https://sjobst.blogspot.com/2022/01/the-wild-hunt-symbolisms-meanings-and.html">warrior brotherhoods</a>. One of his Gaelic epithets was "raging fury", as his shamanic dance inflamed the fire of battle and inspired the same type of war frenzy as Wodan. Other shared qualities include an ordeal involving the World Tree and symbolic loss of an eye. In Welsh sources, Lugh was killed with a special spear, returned to the World Tree in the form of an eagle, and Gwydion (another manifestation of him) resurrected him to be king. In Gaul and Celtiberia, Lugus was called <i>Solutamaros</i> "the great seer", portrayed with wide eyes to symbolize the extent of his perception. Celtiberian inscriptions show his eyes turned towards his enemies, perhaps an example of sympathetic magic or averting back the evil eye. Similar Gaelic myths describe Lugh closing one eye to do battlefield magic, perhaps to change his perspective of the battle. Conversely, Lugh killed the one-eyed Balor at <i>Maige Tuired</i> - a possible allegory for overcoming one's own limited perception. </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">Some identify Lugus with the </span><a href="http://polytheist.com/segomaros/2015/07/13/lugus/" style="font-family: georgia;">Wind Wolf</a><span style="font-family: georgia;">, a Proto-Indo-European archetype associated with wind, storms, the harvest, wolves (whose howling simulated the wind), and leadership of the war band. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> Animism ties in through Irish and Welsh myths of Lugh "animating" trees to "fight" alongside him; the wind also being symbolic of the divine "breath" or consciousness that resides within all Nature. </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">Lugh was "born" beyond the sea and adopted by the "three mothers" of Earth, relating him to the same motif as the Matronae. The sea could be an allegory for the subconscious, while being born of the earth subjects him to the same natural cycles as all other living beings. He was fostered by an Irish queen and goddess named Tailtiu; a Celtiberian euphemism for the Underworld was </span><i style="font-family: georgia;">Taltiu</i><span style="font-family: georgia;">. He began Lughnasadh "assembly of Lugh" by remembering Tailtiu, who died from exhaustion after clearing the lands for sowing. This is a mid-August harvest festival, marking an auspicious lunisolar mid-point between the Summer Solstice and Autumn Equinox. Although Gaelic, there are attestations to Lughnasadh throughout the Celtic world. A Celtiberian inscription from Peñalba de Villastar thanks Lugus for fruits harvested at a festival held in the month of Equos, which according to the Gaullish Coligny Calendar extended from mid-July to mid-August. The term </span><i style="font-family: georgia;">nasadh</i><span style="font-family: georgia;"> or </span><i style="font-family: georgia;">eenach</i><span style="font-family: georgia;"> relates to two of Lugus' Celtiberian epithets, </span><i style="font-family: georgia;">Unaeco</i><span style="font-family: georgia;"> and </span><i style="font-family: georgia;">Cossus Beneaco</i><span style="font-family: georgia;">.</span></div></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> Lugus was a triune god whose three Gaullish forms were Esus, Toutatis and Taranis, each undergoing a specific death ordeal. Such aspects could have been moulded into the Proto-Germanic *<i>Wodanaz</i> via the lands where Celts and Germanic tribes interacted (Rübekeil), with Wodan undergoing his own symbolic death that is also an initiation. Lugh alluded to an esoteric "death" when he said in the <i>Conn Cetchathach</i>: "Some have said that I died, but here I am - I am not dead." </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">The Celts subdivided a deity most often in three forms, while retaining the deity's name. It could be an allegory for the different parts of the psyche that together shape the personality. The sacred triune, such as Lugus' frequent symbolism of three faces transposed upon one head, was used by Christian missionaries to explain their trinity, but is an esoteric theme deeply embedded within native European cultures. Other shared traits of Lugus and Wodan included being psychopomps, wandering across multiple worlds, and shamanic, magical abilities. One historian theorized that the legendary Merlin was based on a historical priest of either Lugh or Wodan in the Scottish Lowlands (Tolstoy).</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhgWLPwOavvfv8YTwI9KodEWEhRN9MPmV40GYQyQLlkzdRjrqBA-_beLFuDdP-_u4IwLy7HYvBxt8WtmTney64ntH-g43rXHcbGl2q-yfS9GcIIPRult8rP5oBRrcXM-kELFoZt_7-Q1_TnLd-2fOoXKOgAPNLW6vTvrhWD6tK4FoEPOQw61C_jw6H5ag=s554" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="554" data-original-width="386" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhgWLPwOavvfv8YTwI9KodEWEhRN9MPmV40GYQyQLlkzdRjrqBA-_beLFuDdP-_u4IwLy7HYvBxt8WtmTney64ntH-g43rXHcbGl2q-yfS9GcIIPRult8rP5oBRrcXM-kELFoZt_7-Q1_TnLd-2fOoXKOgAPNLW6vTvrhWD6tK4FoEPOQw61C_jw6H5ag=s320" width="223" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lugus image discovered at Reims, France</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgBOuccrxELeqU-FUqOdYkQNZC7IBJnX4voEFsLLv6aSWQm_OUA_TyCRXbl_Od8hr6I-yEP4ixGHFV5RNFsAGMbPnFSxJ-_qU6sWkm3i-SSp7ADMrF-tL_pdeTD77ZUCowO9KXHiE-19Rmc3KUc7N-4A164jyMdZdQ6nEp4Xl5jxLCNW0noKNxnq_FsMw=s917" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="917" data-original-width="720" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgBOuccrxELeqU-FUqOdYkQNZC7IBJnX4voEFsLLv6aSWQm_OUA_TyCRXbl_Od8hr6I-yEP4ixGHFV5RNFsAGMbPnFSxJ-_qU6sWkm3i-SSp7ADMrF-tL_pdeTD77ZUCowO9KXHiE-19Rmc3KUc7N-4A164jyMdZdQ6nEp4Xl5jxLCNW0noKNxnq_FsMw=s320" width="251" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Morrigan Ravens" tapestry by <br />the Welsh artist Jen Delyth</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> The raven is a shared symbol of their shamanic and divinatory abilities. "In his Gaulish form, Lugos sent ravens to guide his people to found the city of Lugdunensis (Lyon)" (Paxson, 11). In the medieval Irish </span><i style="font-family: georgia;">Lebor Laignech</i><span style="font-family: georgia;">, the mysterious figure </span><i style="font-family: georgia;">Fitheach</i><span style="font-family: georgia;"> "raven" encountered by Laegaire Mac Crimtham during his visit to the </span><i style="font-family: georgia;">sidhe</i><span style="font-family: georgia;"> realm, seems to be Lugh: Appearing in "the mist of morning", wearing a mantle of five holds, and carrying two "barbed darts" much like Lugh's five-pronged spear. Lugh is the "master of death" whose "eyes" are the raven, much like Wodan's two ravens personify "memory" and "thought". Lugdunum came from the Gaullish </span><i style="font-family: georgia;">Lugdunons</i><span style="font-family: georgia;"> "fortified hill of Lugus", containing a sacred "hill of the crows" that was a place of battling warrior initiates and observing omens. His reverence included processions to a mountaintop (Meid, 11-12) and festivals have been found there corresponding to Lughnasadh (MacNeill). Extensive inscriptions to Lugus have been found throughout the Auvergne-Rhone-Alpes region (Koch, 2-3), and the </span><a href="https://www.celticahispana.com/el-dios-lugh-en-la-peninsula-iberica/" style="font-family: georgia;">Iberian Peninsula</a><span style="font-family: georgia;">. </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">Aside from Lyon, his name survives in such far-flung toponyms as Lugo (Galicia), Lugones (Asturias), Luton (England), and Lucerne (Switzerland).</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> Lugus is "master of all the arts", associated with skill and mastery in multiple disciplines (Monaghan, 296-297). These are magical symbolisms: manifesting will and imagination to create something in the physical world. One of Lugh's epithets is <i>samildánach</i> ("skilled in all arts"), whose functions were listed by the <i>Cath Maige Tuired</i>: "bricklayer, blacksmith, champion, harpist, warrior, poet, historian, sorcerer, doctor, cupbearer, bracerer." The Romans compared Lugus to Mercury, whom they called "inventor of the arts"; inscriptions of both were often interchangeable in Gaul and Celtiberia. One of his local forms was the smith god Gobniu or Gobbanus, who shaped fire and other elements into physical form. Gaullic coins from the 3rd century name Lugus as <i>Sutur Augustus</i> "Divine Shoemaker", and inscriptions in France and Spain associate him with the guilds of shoemakers. Shoes are a metaphor for crossing the boundaries between different worlds (such as with Hermes); and their creative process was elaborate, binding multiple elements together. Some theories suggest that leprechauns - often represented as shoemakers - derive from the same etymology as Lugh (Hemmi); Christianized perceptions of various beings were very different from how they were viewed in Pagan times. Under the Welsh name Lleu, he was described in the Welsh Triads as one of the "three golden shoemakers of Britain".</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> As <i>Lugh Lámfada</i> ("Lugh of the long arm"), he represents sovereignty and priestly kingship, as seen in his many functions and leading the <i>sidhe</i> in the Wild Hunt. In Roman Gaul, Lugus was portrayed with the consort Rosmerta ("great provider"), a fertility goddess who bore the ritual drink conferring such kingship. This is the same esoteric symbol as the mead through which Odin uncovered the Runes; the magical drink he shared with Saga (Odin's feminine counterpart in the poem) in <i>Grímnismál</i>; or the elixir of immortality in different mythologies. As an "immortal" youth, the Tuatha Lugh defeated his Fomorian grandfather, the monstrous Balor, whose venomous eye represents primal energies that must be checked and averted lest they overtake the balance; he is the generative force with Nature which has gotten out of control. Lugh personifies this duality as a Tuatha descended from the Fomorians. Within Irish folklore thunderstorms were seen as a "battle" between these two opposing forces. These are all interpretations and as with all the other myths, it would be as much a mistake to see them as only allegories of Nature as to read them literally. There are multiple layers of meaning, both esoteric and exoteric.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> His spear is another symbol of his sovereignty as well as celestial meanings. Irish mythology names the Spear of Lugh as one of the four magical treasures brought by the Tuatha to Ireland, the others being the Stone of Fál, Núada's Stone of Light, and Cauldron of An Dagda. The spear may have inspired the legend of the Celtiberian war chief Olyndicus receiving a silver lance sent to him from the sky, as recounted by the Roman poet Florus. An ancestral memory of this past could have inspired medieval legends of El Cid's two magical swords, <i>Tizona</i> and <i>Colada</i>. His spear may also represent the lightning bolt, with the Gaullic thunder god Taranis likely one of Lugus' forms. These are the storms of Autumn, ending the heat of Summer in time for the harvest represented by Lughnasadh. His killing of Balor could be an allegory of "winning" the harvest from control of chaotic nature spirits. Although the Celts personified the Sun itself as feminine, its brightness and heat was controlled by a masculine force such as Lugh/Lugus. One of his names in Roman Gaul was <i>Apollo Belenos</i>, with <i>belenos</i> meaning "the bright, brilliant". Balor describes Lugh as looking down from behind his "cloak" of the sky, the clouds. Lugh also means "small, diminishing" in Gaelic, symbolic of solar decline in Autumn.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><br /></div><div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiQDdp2cDNmQ5q_0MA5sNDBFp0HLHvNcRAvDPtvtGsadT6ISTOqZ7rVcsjgvKmGIyOCGGVPg0k9BAcxX6fdr5LPGmUNxIRNuR_dmL0x0eo_1toDHWQw5g_rk2_P3yvvFHI07zqGcZw_xSqW-AcVMIdJc5U-LKQKWDx9xEtmdZljs_9_Xyp8P2Bz4yVAQA=s640" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="640" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiQDdp2cDNmQ5q_0MA5sNDBFp0HLHvNcRAvDPtvtGsadT6ISTOqZ7rVcsjgvKmGIyOCGGVPg0k9BAcxX6fdr5LPGmUNxIRNuR_dmL0x0eo_1toDHWQw5g_rk2_P3yvvFHI07zqGcZw_xSqW-AcVMIdJc5U-LKQKWDx9xEtmdZljs_9_Xyp8P2Bz4yVAQA=s320" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Triskele stone from ancient Coeliobriga,<br />modern Castromao in Galicia</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhZw37daqhHKjojqr_-ydGyfvMzmuS1Ku3oXeR2ksRExIQhkMouGQg1kBW_x_92BGPolYbHhFOQTmf_768KiZ7RB7-pOeDjVITi8_HjA-6puT0156LzT0x6k4z0vUvp1FKGX3eFcAZCv2YTflZ2BHTduK9uGz33J7XeYIoies2mMrcLz5SZhqZDgAdrDg=s567" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="144" data-original-width="567" height="101" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhZw37daqhHKjojqr_-ydGyfvMzmuS1Ku3oXeR2ksRExIQhkMouGQg1kBW_x_92BGPolYbHhFOQTmf_768KiZ7RB7-pOeDjVITi8_HjA-6puT0156LzT0x6k4z0vUvp1FKGX3eFcAZCv2YTflZ2BHTduK9uGz33J7XeYIoies2mMrcLz5SZhqZDgAdrDg=w400-h101" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Celtiberian alphabet</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /><br /><div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> <b><i>Iberian Traditions</i></b>. One of my bloodlines is Spanish, through my paternal <i>bisabuela</i> who was descended from a family that settled in Ellwangen sometime in the 1800s and blended with my Swabian line from nearby Baldern (Bopfingen). From the fragments of family lore I was told by both my <i>oma</i> and father, tracing the Germanized surname of that line (Vaas) back to its original Spanish (Vázquez), and the <i>mantilla</i> in one of my oldest family pictures (my great-great-great grandmother of whom I know very little), I've traced this bloodline to northwest Spain, either Castilla y León or Galicia - the surname is of Galician origin, which further explains why I feel a Celtic blood connection as much as Germanic. It was in that region where the Suebi founded a kingdom, so as with Swabia the history of the Suebi is intertwined with the Celts. My trip to Stuttgart and Madrid in 2016 was the main catalyst that started my <a href="https://sjobst.blogspot.com/2018/09/a-spiritual-transformation-my-journey.html">spiritual journey</a>, as I put the Abrahamic religions behind me and realized we had our own rich, indigenous tradition and spiritual worldview tied to our landscape. Since then reconstructing Celtiberian Paganism has been an interest of mine alongside continental Germanic Heathenry - and the way both survive within folklore even to this day.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> The Wild Hunt is known by various names in Spanish regions: Galician <i>Estantiga</i> or <i>Hoste Antiga</i> ("the old army"), <i>Hostia</i>, <i>Santa Compaña</i> ("holy troop"); Asturian <i>Güestia</i> ("host"); Leónese <i>Hueste de Ánimas</i> ("troop of ghosts"); Castilian <i>Estantigua</i> ("apparition"); and the <i>Hueste de Guerra</i> ("war company") or <i>Cortejo de Gente de Muerte</i> ("deadly retinue") of Extremadura (Risco, 389-395). Some of these words derive from Latin <i>hostis antiquus</i> but the imagery and traditions are indigenous to exactly these regions that retain the strongest Celtic roots. Other folkloric names in Northwest Iberia include the <i>Rolda</i>, <i>As da nuite</i> ("the night ones"), <i>Pantalla</i>, <i>Avisóns</i>, and <i>Pantaruxada</i>. All of these terms express the thin boundaries between the worlds of the dead and living. The beings associated with these traditions closely parallel the Irish <i>banshee</i> and Breton <i>ankou</i> (Paredes). Such parallels led Ramón Otero Pedrayo (1888-1976) and other Galician thinkers to link Galicia with the Atlantic Celtic cultures more than the Mediterranean. This is backed by the <i>castro</i> culture, local folklore, etymology, and origin myths of the Irish. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> Our knowledge of pre-Christian Iberian traditions have expanded since then and should most include awareness of the pre-Roman. The Church expanded through the earlier Roman institutions that conquered and occupied the Peninsula. Contrary to the centralist narrative, it was a gradual process especially in the Northwest regions where move survived longer due to remnants of the Celts and Suebi. Throughout the 6th century, the bishop and missionary Martin of Braga lamented the Pagan traditions stubbornly surviving in the countryside. One Catholic source admits that in the 580s, the "<i>Pauci</i>" - as the Christian faithful were called - were exceeded by the "<i>idolatriae sacrilegium</i>" that spread throughout the Peninsula (McKenna, 112). In 681, Church canons recommended death sentences for recalcitrant peasants. "By then, most of the Peninsula had long reverted to Paganism" (MacMullen, 68). I contend that the Islamic Moorish <a href="https://sjobst.blogspot.com/2016/12/europeans-jews-muslims-and-legacy-of.html">invasion</a>, the Church and central authorities exploiting the natural yearning for liberation (<i>Reconquista</i>) from a foreign occupation for their own power, and the social and economic <a href="https://sjobst.blogspot.com/2017/02/europeans-jews-muslims-and-legacy-of.html">infiltration</a> by Jewish <i>Conversos</i>, together solidified Abrahamism within the Peninsula and further eroded Iberian Pagan traditions that nevertheless survived as fragments in rural folklore that could only outwardly present a Christian veneer. </span></div></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> <i>La Reconquista</i> and the following centuries forged a common Spanish identity that nevertheless preserved unique regional distinctions. Great works of art, literature, and other aspects of higher culture were produced, despite what advocates of the <i>hispanophobic</i> Black Legend, apologists for the Moorish occupation, or false claims about the effects of the 1492 expulsions may assert. A consistent theme in many of these works is the ghostly processions of the Wild Hunt. Celtic Samhain traditions survived in the Leónese <i>Hueste de Animas</i>, described in the <i>Auto de los Esposorios de Moysen</i>, written in Salamanca around 1570. This <i>güeste</i> was also expressed by Francisco López de Úbeda (1560-1606) in <i>La Pícara Justina</i> (1605). One expression of the genius of Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616) was his portrayal of real life and use of common speech instead of the "vain and empty" chivalric romances (Close, 39), including the reality of folklore. Don Quixote and Sancho mistook the twelve men they saw accompanying a coffin on the night road from Baeza to Segovia, as ghosts; their large candles for the axes of Grim Reapers. In his novel <i>El Buscón</i> (1626), Francisco de Quevedo (1580-1645) personifies <i>Estantigua</i> as an apparition who dresses in mourning and hides his face with a cape. This same figure is the feminine <i>La Estadea</i> in Zamora region. The <i>Cortejo</i> of Extremadura are two ghostly horsemen who cause panic at the liminal time of dawn.</span></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEglLnqFQDtkN1_7JoM72WX4pRExsnWTIqG1rm0wyK6DQv228kHrBaNXCwwJY4SV3ojRnzhlnmPqJxOmmgfkzcBea0acUPo3exbiBwldo9P0B95_xRAFUtyb0nfgAdsd5p2nCv8S7nutdgZHhA3g9crgjSsUbLjpXlBc1EcXAp3dsliiTyQ8dTBZlPXWFA=s860" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="645" data-original-width="860" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEglLnqFQDtkN1_7JoM72WX4pRExsnWTIqG1rm0wyK6DQv228kHrBaNXCwwJY4SV3ojRnzhlnmPqJxOmmgfkzcBea0acUPo3exbiBwldo9P0B95_xRAFUtyb0nfgAdsd5p2nCv8S7nutdgZHhA3g9crgjSsUbLjpXlBc1EcXAp3dsliiTyQ8dTBZlPXWFA=s320" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"No saben el camino" (1813-1814), Francisco Goya</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> <b><i>Camino, </i></b></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><i>Compaña,</i></b></span><b style="font-family: georgia;"><i> and Purgatory</i></b><span style="font-family: georgia;">. The mists of this magical landscape meeting the vast expanses of the Atlantic led to its name </span><i style="font-family: georgia;">Costa da Morte</i><span style="font-family: georgia;"> "Coast of Death", where </span><i style="font-family: georgia;">finisterre</i><span style="font-family: georgia;"> is only the end of one landscape and beginning of an </span><i style="font-family: georgia;">imaginal</i><span style="font-family: georgia;"> world. Its inclusion in the Camino pilgrimage harkens back to Celtic processions of the dead who traveled to the symbolic edge of the world, as was the tradition in both Galicia and Brittany. The pilgrimage routes are symbolic of following the stars back into the cosmos: "Santiago is associated with the Milky Way as the road of the dead" (Lecouteux, 138). Similar processions whose stations align with the Great Bear constellation exist in the Languedoc and northern Catalonia, historical regions of the Cathars. Like the Irish morrigan and Germanic valkyries, the Celtiberians believed in excarnation - souls of slain warriors would be carried up to the skies by vultures rather than ravens, while all others were cremated (Freeman, 74). Could the Camino be re-enacting this soul journey through its cosmic symbolism?</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> Finisterre follows the mysterious place where the Sun set, possibly related to the <a href="https://sjobst.blogspot.com/2020/04/ostara-germanic-goddess-of-spring-and.html">Dawn Goddess</a> whose Iberian form is Ataecina. Compostela could originate from a word-play between <i>campus stellae</i> "field of stars" and a burial place, <i>compositum</i>. This city and other stations of the Camino contained pre-Christian sites like the <i>Crouga</i>, stone mounds and cairns containing the bones of excarnated warriors and other elevated ancestors. There were ancient processions to these stone structures, and these places were associated with supernatural beings called the <i>Fes</i>, night spirits similar to the <i>sidhe</i>. These are likely a holdover from the earlier Megalithic past, where beings such as the <i>mouras encantadas</i> of Portugal are associated with stone circles. Churches were built upon earlier sites, because the Church knew the power of their sacred energy. The veneration of Santiago reveals more roots within the local landscape than a religion originated from the Middle East and based in Rome. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> The Camino is the setting of one of the earliest works of nocturnal horror, Julián de Medrano's <i>Silva Curiosa</i> (1583). Medrano refers to <i>desierto</i>, a barren world devoid of the Christian god's "divine presence", where prevailed instead beings of the animistic, Pagan past - whose existence wasn't denied but simply recast as "demonic": </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">"Even the relics of Saint James, which were supposed to mark the end-goal of the pilgrimage, the place where the spiritual quest of the protagonists would be satisfied, are revealed as a carcass devoid of miracles; nothing but an empty crypt, another curious epitaph. Julio continues his journey beyond the sacred tomb (now just a ruin of antiquity) to the very end of the ancient world, the Northwest region of the Iberian Peninsula known as Finis Terrae (today Finisterre, Galicia) where an undead witch, who sustains herself on the blood of innocent children, lays dormant deep inside the bowels of the Earth. Unlike the relics of Saint James, which are no longer significant (they have no miracles left in them), the undead witch reveals herself as a real presence in the world, capable of inflicting suffering and pain, and even causing the death of unsuspecting travelers" (Castillo and Egginton, 122).</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> Anthropologist Carmelo Lisón Tolosana (1929-2020) traced the Compaña to the Church's introduction of Purgatory in the 13th century, because it embraced the notion that most souls remain in a liminal realm between Heaven and Hell for an indeterminate period of time. This realm is closer to our own, allowing those souls to interact with the living - fitting ancient traditions about the Otherworld and that the souls of people who met traumatic deaths (battlefield and suicides) would linger on earth, suspended between worlds (Pérez Cuervo). This is a remnant of animism, the complex tapestry of souls and beings interacting through all levels of Nature, expressed in two traditions: </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">The estantigua, estadea and güestia where ghostly riders hunt souls as prey to be snatched into the Otherworld; and the Compaña where grieving spirits wander for living souls to assist. </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">The latter rode in search of a dying person's spirit to merge it into the community of the parish dead (Pérez de Castro). </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">Not only is dying just another cycle of life, but this theme of the parish dead is part of the natural inclination towards venerating the tribe's ancestors; regional expressions of a "folk Catholicism" at odds with the official Church which ultimately incorporated it through Purgatory. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> Generally, the Compaña is any mass and procession in honor of the deceased, whose souls are in Purgatory but nevertheless able to attend those gatherings - perhaps an homage to ancient views about astral traveling where the soul and body are in two different places. Its traditions were described by the Galician folklorist Xesús Rodríguez López (1859-1917): "The company is the gathering of souls in Purgatory for a specific purpose. At twelve o'clock at night the deceased get up, go out in procession through the main door, a living person goes ahead with the cross and the cauldron of holy water, and cannot, under any pretext, turn his head. Each deceased carries a light that cannot be seen, but the smell of burning wax is clearly perceived. The procession can not be seen either, but the air that its passage produces is perceived. The unfortunate director can only dispense with such a gloomy task by finding another person and giving him the cross and the cauldron, before he makes a circle on the ground, thus leaving him free to direct the company" (Rodríguez López, 224).</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjNF4fmy8-kekEiKgRNMtpz_x0YIynZEMpPWGocQ3DC_I04TuHXv2fWPKkssrOHy64fmK6Wpb_IE_nK60f7G7ItQHlTwAPrGb-Bq6i5Mfd8sQOfjPfOWbMhG2SHwHTYSm_w8WvD2jg2nBuTSnwlVHCGHuLVquyvyz6hcydJNtSgRDfX824-wD7NU7V8yQ=s1280" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="662" data-original-width="1280" height="166" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjNF4fmy8-kekEiKgRNMtpz_x0YIynZEMpPWGocQ3DC_I04TuHXv2fWPKkssrOHy64fmK6Wpb_IE_nK60f7G7ItQHlTwAPrGb-Bq6i5Mfd8sQOfjPfOWbMhG2SHwHTYSm_w8WvD2jg2nBuTSnwlVHCGHuLVquyvyz6hcydJNtSgRDfX824-wD7NU7V8yQ=s320" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Santa Compaña graffiti in Pontevedra, Galicia. <br />Photo not taken by me. Despite the Christian cross, <br />the Compaña is a remnant of the Iberian Wild Hunt.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span><b style="font-family: georgia;"><i>Timing and Boundaries.</i></b><span style="font-family: georgia;"> These processions of souls appear variously in October, from December to March, or on certain days such as Saturday between midnight and 1am (Lecouteux, 144). These are </span><a href="https://sjobst.blogspot.com/2020/04/walpurgisnacht-journey-across-time.html" style="font-family: georgia;">liminal times</a><span style="font-family: georgia;"> where boundaries between worlds are thinnest, such as Bealtaine (around May 1st) and Samhain (early November). Certain people are more sensitive to these experiences, those already having the second sight or those who were accidentally rubbed with consecrated oil for anointing the sick instead of holy water during their baptism (Lisón Tolosana). Others lacking psychic abilities will see it when the procession comes to take them to the Otherworld, revealing its secret on their deathbeds (Pérez Cuervo), a liminal time whose effects are similar to that between wakefulness and sleep (</span><i style="font-family: georgia;">hypnagogia</i><span style="font-family: georgia;">) when more lucid and shamanic experiences are recorded. Many can detect the scent of wax through the breeze, feel a shiver or shudder as the Compaña passes, or otherwise detect the light of their candles through certain images, a possible recognition of certain primal symbols that were the original form of human communication before elaborate speech developed. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> Midnight often starts these processions, that "twilight" time when one is less affected by the Earth's magnetic field, thus making one more open to deeper perceptions beyond the brain's typical cognition. Stepping outside normal consciousness is expressed in traditions that the living leader cursed to walk with these night processions has no conscious memory of it during the day. The procession warns the living: "<i>Andad de día, que la noche es mía</i>" ("Walk in the daytime, for the night is mine") (Llano Roza de Ampudia), similar to the German Wild Hunt whose leader warns people to stay in the middle of the road: "<i>Mitte den Weg!</i>" (Pérez Cuervo). This is a recognition of the liminal importance of crossroads, and stressing how both worlds are supposed to be separate by Nature. The legend of the <i>Misa de las Ánimas</i> ("mass of the souls") underscores how one should not speak with or interact with these spectres, lest they never return to the living world (Pérez Cuervo). There is a trickster element, as the Compaña entices the living with food or drink; one should reject it or only pretend to accept (Vaqueiro).</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><div> <b><i>Curses, Protection, and Other Magical Elements.</i></b> Called Bearer of the Cross, the living leader can only be released from the procession by passing it on to another living soul on its route (Lecouteux, 144-145). Unless he does so, his health will rapidly deteriorate and only upon his death can the curse be passed on. Nor should the living person turn around to face the dead souls, similar to Orpheus losing the living Eurydice forever when he glanced back at the last crucial moment. The living soul loses their own mortality staring death in the face. The ghostly procession offers anyone it encounters a candle; accepting means one's flesh will decay and be turned into a skeleton, forever condemned to follow them (Pérez Cuervo). Children were advised to carry some breadcrumbs in their pockets to offer them to these spirits, with bread being symbolic of life in Celtic tradition (ibid.). Bread being "a sacred life-sustaining staple" through which "the gods and spirits passed their blessings" when it was consecrated on certain days and occasions (Storl, 274), a tradition surviving in the Catholic Eucharist. The allegory here is that by offering something back to the animistic cycle, one can ensure that such spirits will remain in their balance.</div><div><br /></div><div> The Compaña is active at unprotected crossroads, "traditionally regarded as thresholds where the Otherworld encounters the physical world just as the roads meet" (Pérez Cuervo). For that purpose, many <i>cruceiros</i> - stone or wooden cross signs - were constructed throughout the countryside. Folklore holds that one can escape the procession by stepping onto the base of a <i>cruceiro</i>. This tradition of wayside shrines is common throughout rural Europe, a mainstay of folk Catholicism present in many of my family pictures. These were constructed on the groves and sanctuaries (<i>nemetons</i>) of our Pagan ancestors, fulfilling something in our Unconscious that instinctively knew the sacredness of such sites. Another protective measure from the Compaña is drawing a circle or sigil like a cross, and then step into it until it passes. In the Asturian Güestia, "the spirits walk three times around the house of the doomed, who will become ill and die shortly afterwards" (ibid.). Protective circles and walking around three times are common magical rituals throughout many cultures, innate to the natural cycle. One can ward off the procession with hand gestures like the horns or "fig" sign, two gestures now viewed as vulgar but traditionally protective signs to ward off bad luck and the evil eye. </div><div><br /></div><div> </div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgCm0LPrGY4zebODeimPyK6coY0erP0vFHrh1DUbBm18vj439FJwLSb6eoNjOZt6yWwSD7JbWLyXsloqGLDrvBtPuM3haX_r0PdnpH8QUQIt4bYGn8QH7Im3IBNx1zVu2nognKUyJE9OHZJaYocRgblZinlFff1I2OerjqvTtO9-doto_1a8XuEe8HiIg=s640" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgCm0LPrGY4zebODeimPyK6coY0erP0vFHrh1DUbBm18vj439FJwLSb6eoNjOZt6yWwSD7JbWLyXsloqGLDrvBtPuM3haX_r0PdnpH8QUQIt4bYGn8QH7Im3IBNx1zVu2nognKUyJE9OHZJaYocRgblZinlFff1I2OerjqvTtO9-doto_1a8XuEe8HiIg=s320" width="320" /></a></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><br /></div><div> <b><i>Initiation and Society of the Bone.</i></b> As I expressed in a <a href="https://sjobst.blogspot.com/2021/04/walpurgisnacht-2021.html">writing</a> last year, initiation is an innate bond within all cultures that has been lost in many of our modern societies to much detriment. The Compaña and other Wild Hunt traditions served such an initiatory ritual between life and death: "The living and the dead help each other in the transit to the great beyond: the living pray for the dead to find their way, the dead come back to guide the dying. The underlying concept is clear: the journey to the Otherworld is not easy, and we must be prepared for it" (Pérez Cuervo). Dismissal of the paranormal and folk traditions as "superstitious" are mere symptoms of our "modern" world being disenchanted; its myths such as "progress" and happiness through consumerism furtively filling the void of deeper initiation rites. Yet true Myths are profound truths expressed in words beyond the senses. Its seen in the traditional Galician saying: "<i>Eu non creo nas meigas, pero habelas, hainas</i>" - "I don't believe in witches but they do surely exist" (ibid.). </div><div><br /></div><div><div> Having crossed the threshold of death, the riders possess secrets that cannot be revealed to the living, except those few more sensitive to other worlds or who undergo shamanic journeys. The word "shamanic" is used here as a process, knowing the specific word is Siberian whereas they are known under various cultural names. All cultures worldwide had such a shamanic tradition - including European cultures. The shamanic journey is not a pleasant experience of "love and light" but one grounded in traumas, descending to the lowest depths of one's own psyche and soul, and confronting and integrating one's Shadow to obtain the deepest spiritual truth. Its to cut through the lies and bullshit not only of society, but the personas adopted to deceive oneself. Unable to explain their experiences that modern society dismisses as "insanity", in alter centuries many people with such experiences coalesced in initiatory groups. One such group is the Galician <i>Società do Oso</i> (Society of the Bone), masked members whose processions acted out their astral travels during which their souls left their physical bodies:</div><div><br /></div><div> "This gathering of souls into a group, often the dead of a parish, ancestors, and relatives, transformed into a secret society made up of living individuals, a society whose functions appear to be similar to that of any other pious fraternity or brotherhood....All the members of this society possess the ability to foresee the death of individuals and announce them with certainty. This death premonition seems to be the privilege of those who are members of the Società do Oso" (Risco, 423-425).</div></div><div><br /></div><div> The members' divinatory premonitions could be the living transmission of Galician Druids whose practices would have been similar to what has been recorded of Druids in other regions. This meditation of living individuals upon death is also a reminder of their own mortality, and a recognition that death itself can be transitory in the cycles of life. Going to the precipice of death, if even only mentally, can be a profound rite of spiritual transformation. People as varied as the Stoic philosophers of ancient Rome advised <i>Momento Mori</i> - reflection upon death - to better appreciate life and not take our every moment for granted. Modern society's refusal to confront and integrate their Shadow on both the individual and collective levels, has resulted in many inversions. The unhealthy attitude towards death, to be shut away as a taboo and not seen properly within the holistic cycle of life, has only projected itself into death cults - various "doomsday" fears and hysterias manipulated by the same elites who have a sick desire to "transcend" the humanity (and their own human-ness) they so despise. That will be a theme in some upcoming articles as I take a break from the final conclusion of this Wild Hunt series.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjJVp4jK9_NTqnk6f0MrLdXLwzWEFD0fPkykxmfEmNsBSPAxtKhvmbFKTgXD3WU4C3dDhx0in7XC7DOkGf8ZZHmy5VhyR5YGjxAqk3xCrlTq_niRY29YrMrJxB-YN1AkBP1Wze2eDOqfoOAdiLjNSRy6wc3Qv5qEZCsN-MiOB1H_4__2tYBMqR3J8tQ6w=s900" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="896" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjJVp4jK9_NTqnk6f0MrLdXLwzWEFD0fPkykxmfEmNsBSPAxtKhvmbFKTgXD3WU4C3dDhx0in7XC7DOkGf8ZZHmy5VhyR5YGjxAqk3xCrlTq_niRY29YrMrJxB-YN1AkBP1Wze2eDOqfoOAdiLjNSRy6wc3Qv5qEZCsN-MiOB1H_4__2tYBMqR3J8tQ6w=s320" width="319" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Time and the Old Women" (1810), by Francisco<br />Goya. 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I ended </span><a href="https://sjobst.blogspot.com/2021/01/the-wild-hunt-symbolisms-meanings-and.html" style="font-family: georgia;">Part 3</a><span style="font-family: georgia;"> with some insights from Carl Jung on the Wild Hunt and fairy-tales like the Pied-Piper of Hamelin as allegories for "ecstasy" and "going berserk" that connected to Wotan. He connected that fairy-tale to Wotan as the "unleasher of frenzy and passions" (</span><i style="font-family: georgia;">Entfeßler von Rausch und Leidenschaften</i><span style="font-family: georgia;">), whose "essence is ecstasy" (</span><i style="font-family: georgia;">Sein Wesen ist Ekstase</i><span style="font-family: georgia;">)(Jung, 75). We now know from anthropologists and folklorists that fairy tales have </span><a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-35358487" style="font-family: georgia;">ancient origins</a><span style="font-family: georgia;"> going back thousands of years, so its only natural they preserve those traditions. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> Such is the Wild Hunt, whose furious sounds and supernatural spectres could be symbolic of the primeval forest of the Unconscious as much as the physical forests. I maintain that myths have multiple layers of meaning, preserved within folk traditions long after conversion. Underlying meanings of the Wild Hunt carried over into the winter processions throughout various towns and villages of Europe, up to the present. These have common elements of figures wearing masks and costumes, representing various animal-men hybrids or demonic beings, accompanied by noise-making and other festivities, such that we have to wonder about a single origin. All the elements are interwoven with the various holidays throughout Winter, forming certain patterns that speak to our psyche as much as tell us about our past.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> We are in the <i>rauhnächte</i> ("rough nights"; "smoke nights"), a <a href="https://sjobst.blogspot.com/2020/04/walpurgisnacht-journey-across-time.html">liminal time</a> between 24th December and 6th January (Epiphany) during which various ghostly and "demonic" figures appear. Each of the twelve days are symbolic of a month, so there is alot of reflection and shadow work that was to be done. "Smoke nights" because herbs were burned to cleanse the house, symbolically casting out the "bad spirits" of winter as much as the bad parts of your own personality or habits. The riders of the Wild Hunt are said to hunt for such spirits but sometimes living people. Yet, the <a href="https://sjobst.blogspot.com/2021/08/rise-of-wotanic-energy-and-fall-of.html">Wotanic energy</a> of the Wild Hunt is of no harm to those who don't stand in its way, which could be symbolic of not going against cycles, accepting their place within this world vis a vis the otherworld.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> These processions date back to ancient initiations around the Winter Solstice, "some of which allowed the participants to go into a trance, leave their bodies, and transform into the entities whose masks they wore - in other words, the dead" (Lecouteux, 204). It was a healthy reflection on death and awakening to your true self: "The theories of German scholars can be summed up in a few key words: beliefs connected to the soul and ancestor worship, to the elements, and to dreams are the source of what initially appeared as a myth, then as a legend (Sage). They were crystallized in the form of rites of which processions of masked men would be one form. Two essential elements emerge from all this: the importance of the dead for the well-being of human societies, and the role of ecstatic practices that carry with them vestiges of shamanism" (ibid., 206).</span></p><p><br /></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjxh4QefNiyqAm_a_YPNLLVbSicCOlwLmkOrjXvXIM__riO5Ana_R2FAVgn8TwH03jqwsaq65mld-gepRNpNuMUQHZesumtBh82pNKfYj3iZSqd6z8sf7Ff1NehBmgi2x8s1Z95337TLJT7Qs8LPDZjzCino8XQ8Gj9xQhxERSEnPebrmRY2Pzn83DYmA=s267" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="189" data-original-width="267" height="226" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjxh4QefNiyqAm_a_YPNLLVbSicCOlwLmkOrjXvXIM__riO5Ana_R2FAVgn8TwH03jqwsaq65mld-gepRNpNuMUQHZesumtBh82pNKfYj3iZSqd6z8sf7Ff1NehBmgi2x8s1Z95337TLJT7Qs8LPDZjzCino8XQ8Gj9xQhxERSEnPebrmRY2Pzn83DYmA=w320-h226" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Berchtengehen" ('Going as Perchten') from <br /><i>Illustrierte Chronik der Zeit</i> (1890)</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><i>Perchta and the Perchtenlauf</i></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> Frau Perchta is a uniquely South Germanic Goddess whom I discussed in <a href="https://sjobst.blogspot.com/2020/12/the-wild-hunt-symbolisms-meanings-and_31.html">Part 2</a>, so I will only touch upon some of her symbolisms. Given both her <a href="https://www.boneandsickle.com/2019/12/09/frau-perchta-the-belly-slitter/">direct link</a> to Old High German <i>giberahta naht</i> ("night of shining forth") and her earliest representations being medieval, I think she is a later Christianized folkloric personification of Frau Holle, reflecting certain uniquely Alpine traditions from both the Celts and Germanic tribes. The "bright" connotations proposed by Jakob Grimm were also seen in her association with "witches' brooms", often made from birch bark which crackles and pops when burned and creates a "brightness" even during the darkness of Winter. The Rune Berkano "birch" is symbolic of rebirth of both the year's cycle and the individual's growth for the coming year.</span></div></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> She is only one of the many <a href="https://steelthistles.blogspot.com/2019/10/women-leaders-of-wild-hunt.html">female leaders</a> of the Wild Hunt in various regions, giving rise to the female witches' counterpart to the male warrior-initiates who underwent shamanic journeys. "If the initiation is a rite of rebirth, the female aspect would clearly be missing from a cult practice limited to the all male Männerbund. The solution to this gap will probably lay in the witch phenomenon of the late medieval and early modern era" (Iwobrand). Both the Perchtenlauf processions and Wild Hunt have connections to agriculture: Ghostly figures that roam the fields making a lot of noise, preparing the soil for a good harvest in the coming year in a fertility magic rite according to the Austrian ethnologist Lily Weiser (ibid.). Perchtenlauf processions were regarded as Pagan, so that even up until the 18th century, participants had to do penitence afterwards, and those who died during such processions would not be buried by the Church in their hallowed grounds.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> Perchta is dualistic in her appearance: appearing like a beautiful young maiden in the front, but an ugly "hag" in the back. Symbolisms of the closeness of life and death being part of the same cycle in our traditional worldview. In regions like the Austrian Pongau, alongside the <i>Schiachperchten</i> ("ugly perchten") whose masks are worn to drive away bad spirits, are the <i>Schönperchten</i> ("beautiful perchten"), who encourage prosperity in the upcoming year (Gallon). These <i>Schönperchten</i> appear dressed in red and white (two colors with their own shamanic connotations as will be discussed in a future part of this series), performing festive dances. The Austrian philologist Richard Wolfram, a member of the Vienna Ritualists group of the early 20th century whose leading members (Lily Weiser and Otto Höfler) will be cited throughout, linked such folkloric dances to ancient warrior-shaman brotherhoods (Corrsin). </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><div> Alemannic Switzerland has a tradition of the <i>Totageigl</i> ("fiddler of the dead"), a passing of the dead accompanied by music. Violins accompany the Wild Hunt throughout South Germany and Switzerland, while the musical cacophony of the French <i>Charivari</i> likewise "emphasizes the demonic aspect of the troop, whose only thought is to misbehave" (Lecouteux, 173). Bells worn by the Perchten are symbolic of "cleansing" negativity, sending out a certain vibration that could ward off bad "spirits" or energy. There is the <i>Aperschalze</i> "cracking in the spring" tradition of Salzburg in Austria and Goaßlschalzen in Bavaria, whereby such spirits are chased by clinking on pots and pans. There are also folk traditions of people going across the fields, their whips symbolic of the harvest being released from the frozen death of winter. Such rituals have broader social connotations: "This type of cultic amplification of existence did not signify debauched gratification but a duty for the dead. In this ecstasy the boundaries of the individual are broken down - but not to detach it from boundaries of order; rather, it should take part in the meta-individual community of confederation with the dead" (Höfler). </div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgiF8fE1O6ZGGLbbaqcmI1AVcbH3a1iou7oP4LkLSdJhCGpdkfQUxs9P_lsUAjHOhAcgf0MLWzaJJoQg8e-jJExsDuMWRW-AWUwQ_7SmTCtQGyFNBFpKR8LbqG4NguYPE1wRYy7iblLibUEo5WGyRs8g99YRHr4enEocMYOyTLeyNMH1JusBNTFc1Fi9A=s255" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="255" data-original-width="198" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgiF8fE1O6ZGGLbbaqcmI1AVcbH3a1iou7oP4LkLSdJhCGpdkfQUxs9P_lsUAjHOhAcgf0MLWzaJJoQg8e-jJExsDuMWRW-AWUwQ_7SmTCtQGyFNBFpKR8LbqG4NguYPE1wRYy7iblLibUEo5WGyRs8g99YRHr4enEocMYOyTLeyNMH1JusBNTFc1Fi9A=w311-h400" width="311" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"The Werewolf or the Cannibal" woodcut <br />by Lucas Cranach the Elder, 1512</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /><div><br /></div><div><div><b><i>Krampus and Werewolf Traditions of the Perchtenlauf</i></b></div></div><div><br /></div><div> Krampus is the ferocious goat-man counterpart to the generous fatherly figure of Christmas, Saint Nicholas or Father Winter (about whom there will be more in Part 6), who delivers gifts while Krampus carries a stick to hit naughty children and a large sack to capture them into the Underworld. Krampen means "claw" and he was viewed as son of Hel, the Germanic Goddess who presided over the Underworld (Peterson, 125-126). Krampusnacht is celebrated overnight on 5th/6th December, on the eve of St. Nicholas Day, and during the processions Nicholas lets Krampus loose on the streets (ibid., 7, 47). In Jungian terms, Krampus represents his Shadow side - integrating his darker aspects lest they go unresolved; the processions could be part of a collective ritual to process the aspects of one's Unconscious "untamed" by the Conscious, to bring what is hidden into the light. Nicholas as the Conscious side, uses this wild surrogate so as to not get his hands "dirty" while achieving a healthy balance. </div><div><br /></div><div> Both are later traditions: St. Nicholas only became popular in Germany around the 11th century (Honigmann, 264). Ethnologist Hans Schuhladen demonstrated that Krampus' earliest origin was with the processions in Diessen (Bavaria) in 1582, even though these referred to "hunting the Percht" (Schuhladen). From these Perchten - male villagers exploring their "wild" side, wearing furs, bells and horns during this liminal time of the year - the personified Krampus was born. His name comes from Austrian postcards that originated in 1897 and were sent the weeks leading up to Christmas, often depicting him as a goat-man hybrid with scantily-clad women. And from Vienna, it spread across Austria into Southern Germany (Rest and Seiser, 45). Krampus has parallels throughout Europe, with folkloric figures such as Zwarte Piet (Dutch and Flemish), Père Fouettard (French and Walloon), and Kallikantzaros (Greek), fawn and satyr figures associated with the winter. </div><div><br /></div><div> Despite his late origins, Krampus could exhibit some deep residue of ancient Germanic shamanism via the story of Donar restoring sacrificed goats to life. Donar has been identified as one of the leaders of the Furious Army in many folk traditions (Wolf, 135). There are Alpine legends of a night feast involving a resuscitated bull, which is sacrificed and eaten after which the hide is placed over correctly-arranged bones, and the troop leader restores the bull to life (Lecouteux, 221). Could Krampus be related to these traditions? "Metamorphoses, cavalcades, ecstasies, followed by the egress of the soul in the shape of an animal—these are different paths to a single goal. Between animals and souls, animals and the dead, animals and the beyond, there exists a profound connection" (Ginzburg, 1990, 263). </div><div><br /></div><div> Such traditions could be a source for many werewolf legends: "In the Perchten, the werewolf culture of pagan antiquity, the pagan Dark Ages, could survive into the modern world. The adults recognized who were behind the masks, and yet there was a sinister suspicion that the neighborhood boy, whom they thought they knew well in everyday life, became another person when wearing the specter's disguise" (Hellstatt). They are closely identified with this season: "The time favored by the werewolves for their forays in the Germanic, Baltic and Slavic countries - the twelve nights between Christmas and Epiphany - corresponds to that in which the souls of the dead went roaming" (Ginzburg and Lincoln, 74). Within Flemish folklore, donning such furs was an astral body initiation: "In ancient times there were many young men who had to put on the magic fur at special times to become a werewolf. Usually they were like all the others, maybe even better; they were good and friendly and harmed no one. But if they were werewolves one had to beware of them. Many of these poor men wished to get rid of this disastrous fur" (Goyert and Wolter, 129).</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiNH2vJ_NCscWP_U89YJBIWvwVzwwFBpbnyU-qi-9xwKnS6t0c1b5AXNeLfZ3us9Ntw26khHSRlaVqjY2sb6p7q5ejkIB64BsViXExQjnfBCuboPtCc3eqMcD5fFYPQqT4lVyKbieGlYMbxgXT7x--2rtZhGrQIM_zuSOXLdgDBIWAQ7IxMOE1iBCEB_w=s640" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="360" data-original-width="640" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiNH2vJ_NCscWP_U89YJBIWvwVzwwFBpbnyU-qi-9xwKnS6t0c1b5AXNeLfZ3us9Ntw26khHSRlaVqjY2sb6p7q5ejkIB64BsViXExQjnfBCuboPtCc3eqMcD5fFYPQqT4lVyKbieGlYMbxgXT7x--2rtZhGrQIM_zuSOXLdgDBIWAQ7IxMOE1iBCEB_w=w400-h225" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A popular painting about reincarnation. Artist unknown</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><div><b><i>Initiatory and Rebirth Rites</i></b></div><div><br /></div><div> The various processions portraying the Wild Hunt are initiation rites involving a symbolic death of the physical body, followed by rebirth into one's true self. Its an appreciation of life coming from a healthy reflection upon death. Fifteenth and sixteenth century accounts of the Schembartlauf in Nuremberg show remnants of ancient Germanic views about reincarnation. "Some of the young men taking part in this public Carnival procession were also dressed up as wolf-men. One of their floats was called ‘hell’ and had the shape of a ship. Since the sun ship is often seen as a symbol for the descent and rise of the sun from the underworld, we are reminded of the stone ships and ship burials of northern Europe, as well as the mythical ship Skíðblaðnir, belonging to the Norse fertility god Freyr. Direct links are hard to make, but all these things seem to tap into the same archetype: Going into the underworld, in order to retrieve the solar powers that allow both the sun and man to be reborn with the coming new year" (Iwobrand). </div><div><br /></div><div> The ship-float called "Hell" could be an ancestral memory of Helheim, with solar elements based on the Germanic word Sunna relating to the Soul as much as the personified Sun. Even though they share a similar name, Hel has absolutely no relation to the Abrahamic hell which only developed later: Its a place for reflection and waiting for one's next incarnation, not any kind of "punishment" although there is a lowest level where souls do not reincarnate. While South Germanic traditions did not include ship burials, we would have seen rivers, lakes and other water sources as conduits into the Underworld, a view shared with our earlier Celtic ancestors. This recognition of the cycles of life, death and rebirth, of being one with ancestors, is an important theme within various initiatory traditions. As noted by the Dutch folklorist and occultist Frans Farwerck: "The initiant by life became a member of the community of the dead. He became one with his deceased forefathers" (Farwerck, 15). </div><div><br /></div></div><div> Lily Weiser was a member of the Vienna Ritualists, students of the University of Vienna Germanist Rudolf Much, who advocated a Germanic Continuity Theory where ancient traditions survived within modern folklore. In her book, <i>Altgermanische Jünglingsweihen und Männerbünde</i> (1927), she began studying the most primal rites of passage among tribes and how these later matured into complex initiatory rites. "After reading Theodor Reik on puberty rites among primitive peoples, she identified the 'conflict between two generations' behind the initiation ceremonies. Oedipal tensions charge relationships between fathers and sons with ambivalent feelings, a combination of hate and love; the initiation expresses symbolically, through terrifying rituals, the bridling of youthful energies" (Ginzburg, 1989, 122). These rituals involved a period of separation from the tribe and asceticism, leading to a changed psyche that involved a memory loss of persona, waking up to true personality.</div><div><br /></div><div> In <i>Kultische Geheimbünde der Germanen</i> (1934), Höfler concluded that "legends about the wild army are not simply nature allegories, but are mainly reflections of the ancient cult of secret societies" transmitted through initiation. These played out in processions where initiates dressed up and had ecstatic experiences. He postulated "the priority of the ecstatic worship over the mythic legend" while the Furious Army "is the reflection of secret German ecstatic cults." Initiates challenged themselves through courage, camaraderie, ambition, and discipline. They were reborn into a "stronger" and "truer" life than when they were uninitiated. He drew parallels with the Mithras cult where initiates of certain degrees wore masks of ravens and lions. Donning masks are symbolic of changing your identity, whether its for <a href="https://sjobst.blogspot.com/2021/11/addendum-20-on-death-pathology-neuro.html">dark reasons</a>, or in this case positively for one's own growth. Another part of these rites involved the taking of psychoactive substances to induce <i>furor teautonicus</i>, an ecstatic state shared with similar initiatory traditions elsewhere.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhM3ph-4gX8XVyhwCaBrKTXyzPxne3W79G9jKb1E9dhlDBOhS-6KM4ZbOxN1yQH7n3mh0qKZIYFTdA-cf9x0SrgfqX4epDFazRw3Ujxa7tWfHbDCAp0NXQ0cdf0jM-2cmV9LRADygWkJYHzNUJNsGeXMKy_oajAh_TtxsscVmRhMN__cx1hdr5NxJuvWA=s800" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="611" data-original-width="800" height="244" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhM3ph-4gX8XVyhwCaBrKTXyzPxne3W79G9jKb1E9dhlDBOhS-6KM4ZbOxN1yQH7n3mh0qKZIYFTdA-cf9x0SrgfqX4epDFazRw3Ujxa7tWfHbDCAp0NXQ0cdf0jM-2cmV9LRADygWkJYHzNUJNsGeXMKy_oajAh_TtxsscVmRhMN__cx1hdr5NxJuvWA=s320" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Sorcerers" (1905), a painting by the Russian<br />mystic and archaeologist Nicholas Roerich</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><div><b><i>Indo-European Warrior Brotherhoods and Ecstatic Rites</i></b></div><div><br /></div><div> Long after these real initiatory brotherhoods ceased, mock initiations survived within various folk traditions associated with the Wild Hunt and winter processions, which will be discussed in Part 6 with an emphasis on Dutch and Flemish folklore and the <i>Männerbunde</i>. While Höfler drew parallels with the masks of Mithraism, Weiser pointed to the presence of female leaders of the Wild Hunt to suggest a link between the Germanic Perchta and Hellenic Artemis, with their initiations including a literal hunt in the woods. Through a heightened consciousness, warrior initiates would reach <i>ekstasis</i>, dissociation of spirit and body, as a precondition for shamanic metempsychosis, as seen with the Germanic Berserker (bear-skin) and Ulfhedinn (wolf-skin) warriors (Iwobrand). Their unbridled ecstasies (<i>raserei</i>) can be compared to that of Eurasian shamans to suggest a common Indo-European origin. "The existence of secret male societies of a ritual type, accepted by many scholars of Germanic areas, has also been discovered elsewhere, for example in Iran" (Ginzburg, 1989, 124).</div></div><div><br /></div><div><div> Associated with the Proto-Iranian Srubnaya Culture (1900-1700BCE), a winter initiation ritual site was found at Krasnosamarskoe on the Volga Steppes, involving taking on the qualities of wolves and dogs by consuming them; we must not be influenced by modern sensibilities, as it was an animistic respect of the animal within the broader cycle of life. "It was a place of inversion, as is the eating of wolves, animal symbolic of anti-culture (a murderer 'has become like a wolf' in Hittite law; 'wolf' was used to refer to brigands and outlaws, people who stand outside the law, in many other Indo-European languages)" (Anthony and Brown, 100). Another element of developing werewolf mythos. Wolf warriors appear within Indo-European, Turkic, Mongol, and Native American cultures (Speidel, 10), with the <i>Hotamétaneo'o</i> ("Dog Men/Soldier") warrior society of the Cheyenne being just one famous example. Iranian elite warriors were called <i>mairyos</i> "wolves" following their initiation.</div></div><div><br /></div><div> Among the Ossetes, wolf warriors formed a <i>k'war</i> "herd" after an initiatory spring feast (styr Tutyr) dedicated to Wastyrgi, god of wolves and warriors (later Christianized as St. George) during Varkazana "month of men-wolves" (mid October-mid November) (Ivančik, 314, 319). In the Vedic tradition, special warriors were initiated during Winter Solstice rituals (<i>ekastaka</i>) presided over by <i>vratyas</i> "dog-priests", during which they went into states of ecstasy to be reborn as "dogs of war" and unleashed into the forests to live for themselves (Kershaw, 203-210, 231). The initiation of the Hellenic <i>ephebos</i>, young men aged 17 to 20, included isolation in the forests, having to hunt and rely upon their senses before being reintroduced to their families and society. They were seen as under the personal patronage of the god Apollo, associated in many myths with wolves and carrying the epithet <i>Lykeios</i> (Cebrián, 352).</div><div><br /></div><div> The Irish Fenian Cycle describes <i>fianna</i>, warrior bands who lived outside in the woods and hills from May to October, returning to their family farms from November to April (Sergent, 15). During his initiation, the Irish hero and son of the god Lugh, Cúchulainn, changed his youthful name from Setantae to "hound (cu) of Culainn" (Ivančik, 313). The Proto-European *<i>kóryos</i> "army, people under arms, detachment, war party" survived in Old Iranian <i>kāra</i> "people, army"; Lithuanian <i>karias</i> "war, army, regiment"; Latvian <i>kars</i> "war, army"; and Greek <i>hybristes</i>. Through Proto-Celtic *<i>koryos</i> "troop, tribe", there derived Gaullic <i>corios</i> "troop, army"; Middle Irish <i>cuire</i> "troop, host"; and Welsh <i>cordd</i> "tribe, clan" (Matasović, 218). Through Proto-Germanic *<i>harjaz</i> "host, troop, army, raiding party", there derived Old High German <i>hari</i> "army, crowd"; Gothic <i>harjis</i> "army"; Old Saxon <i>heri</i> "army"; and Old Norse <i>herr</i> "army" (Kershaw, 22). Long after these initiatory warrior societies ceased, they survived in folk traditions about ghostly riders of the Wild Hunt, such as in the archaic Dutch words <i>Wilde Heir</i> "wild army" and <i>Dodenheir</i> "army of the dead" (Farwerck, 112).</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjKrA8AUrGvdrN4ajQ4w4h82FS2DYSBCEzi3Wt6uIBwDnPU1lk88DSs3TYCJt23I4dVdy95gkDIC_jntu9Mx2ujr_9p7Eb7etdiAPGEOWd_RBJhTNuYPu6v7b6D6pA9oCiRn5lXzAA7Stg3IwwsAGx9sGC3gRkVchWp25ZqD938GH0j5bqkgu-ZSud0HA=s960" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="598" data-original-width="960" height="199" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjKrA8AUrGvdrN4ajQ4w4h82FS2DYSBCEzi3Wt6uIBwDnPU1lk88DSs3TYCJt23I4dVdy95gkDIC_jntu9Mx2ujr_9p7Eb7etdiAPGEOWd_RBJhTNuYPu6v7b6D6pA9oCiRn5lXzAA7Stg3IwwsAGx9sGC3gRkVchWp25ZqD938GH0j5bqkgu-ZSud0HA=s320" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Representation of the Suebi Gutenstein Scabbard.<br />Picture taken during my visit to Landesmuseum<br />Württemberg, Stuttgart, 8 July 2016. The original<br />scabbard was looted by the Soviets and displayed <br />in Moscow. It shows a warrior wearing wolf skins.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><b><i>Continental Germanic warrior societies</i></b></div><div><br /></div><div> Germanic Berserkers and Ulfheddin originated from hunting magic and took the form of three animal cults: the bear, wolf, and wild boar (Jones and Pennick, 154-156). The wild boar was closely linked to fertility, going back to the Proto-Celtic funerary gifts during the Hallstatt and La Tène cultures. In Norse mythology, the Vanir goddess of fertility Freyja often appeared atop her boar, <i>Hildisvini</i> "battle swine". Freyja's name meaning "lady, mistress", coming from Proto-Germanic *<i>frawjon</i> "lady, mistress", reveals hers was an epithet: She was the Mother Goddess variously known among our Continental tribes as Frija and Holle. Perhaps she was unconsciously portrayed by Lucas Cranach the Elder in his painting "Melancholy" (1532), which shows a wild boar ridden by an emaciated naked woman who carries a spear, a ram mounted by a Landsknecht (pikes-man), and a cow carrying a naked man and woman (Lecouteux, 215-216).</div></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><div><br /></div><div><div> Both Hellenic and Roman sources referred to warriors known for their battle fury and ecstatic rites among Celtic and Germanic tribes, often semi-naked and armed with light weapons (Cebrián, 344). These harkened back to the ancient Indo-European past, with the Yamnaya culture's Kernosovsky idol from the mid-3rd millennium BCE, showing a "power belt" and similar elements as later Celtic findings. These included the 6th century "Warrior of Hischlanden", found in Ditzingen (Württemberg); and Celtiberian statuettes from the 5th-3rd centuries discovered in Spain. Continental Germanic wolf-warriors are portrayed on Relief 36 of Trajan's Column in Rome, left their traces by captured shields and standards displayed in the Roman <i>armilustrium</i>, and as late as the 10th century, Gothic wolf warriors were described by the Emperor Constantine VII at Constantinople (Speidel, 15). </div></div><div><br /></div><div><div> Whether lupine (wolf-like) or ursine (bear-like), elite warriors donned its skins in battle to symbolize merging its power with his own. Both Germanic and Celtic lore gave the bear solar connotations based around hibernation, allegorized as a rebirth. Warriors wearing their skins carried the Germanic concept of inherited luck (Norse: <i>hamingja</i>) and the guardian spirit (Norse: <i>fylgja</i>) which was often a totem animal (Simek, 129). The 7th-century Gutenstein Scabbard, discovered inside a grave during construction work at the St. Gallus Church in Gutenstein (Württemberg), shows an Alemanni warrior wearing a wolf skin, holding a large sword and spear. His Vendel-style helmet reveals trade links between the Alemanni and the Norse in Sweden. As with the closely-related Bavarians, wolf-based names were common among the Alemanni and these warriors dedicated themselves to Wodan; indeed "Gutenstein" means "Wodanstone" given the <a href="https://sjobst.blogspot.com/2020/02/roots-of-proto-celticgermanic-mythos.html">linguistic shift</a> from "g" to "w", so this could have been an initiation site to Wodan. As noted by the German military historian Michael Speidel: </div><div><br /></div><div> "A clue to the meaning of the Gutenstein scenes is the right-facing wolf-warrior who bows his head, drops his spear, and (with outsize thumb) offers his sword to Woden. The god, if one may judge from the way he holds the spear, dances the war dance, spurring on the warrior....It is nevertheless unlikely that the Gutenstein wolf-warrior following Woden and offering his sword is a fallen warrior who joins the god of death, for it seems untoward for a leader to advertise on his helmet that death is in store for his men. Self-dedication to Woden by no means meant imminent death....However they moved, one may say, with Mircea Eliade, that 'he who...could rightly imitate the behavior of animals - their gait, breathing, cries, and so on - found a new dimension of life: spontaneity, freedom, 'sympathy' with all the cosmic rhythms...ecstasy could...well be obtained by choreographic imitation of an animal.' This may be one roof of the wolf war dance, the other being representation of wolf-warrior ancestors. From such twin ecstasy it is but a small step to mad attacks" (Speidel, vii-ix).</div></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh6H3ypJNmghQMbrWRrlcfSpJ63RZjD3jM8ehAIB35SB0uFqMDDojH_lfm2CJCpKZ-tCd9znmXxbLhhBLCpHx3g2yY11gEQkDKJXW5AHfDG9SACmBm2-WI_RCHoSyqyzGyGAOsj2VIfWjNJBoryV3OLKNMFqGJQcTlugfMbUxtHazeFB1EuUDE1c7aBvA=s378" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="344" data-original-width="378" height="291" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh6H3ypJNmghQMbrWRrlcfSpJ63RZjD3jM8ehAIB35SB0uFqMDDojH_lfm2CJCpKZ-tCd9znmXxbLhhBLCpHx3g2yY11gEQkDKJXW5AHfDG9SACmBm2-WI_RCHoSyqyzGyGAOsj2VIfWjNJBoryV3OLKNMFqGJQcTlugfMbUxtHazeFB1EuUDE1c7aBvA=s320" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Illustration of Iron Age Alemanni warrior<br />by Frithjof Spangenberg, based upon <br />archaeological reconstructions.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><i>Bibliography:</i></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">Anthony, David W. and Dorcas R. 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Göttingen: 1852.</span></div></div>Sean Jobsthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17351165299354431339noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-907444223262019258.post-63944568350002785102021-12-24T22:42:00.003-06:002021-12-24T22:42:38.060-06:00Sanguine Gnosis vs. Transubstantiation of the Needle<p><span style="font-family: georgia;">by Sean Jobst</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">24 December 2021</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhm7KNDK7I9xN6FOM11a4ooZRTecxsUETHofIQ8zL9GYvB091IF0fBw4ya9EtXngFnRNiv0PxlWR1qegUtbGE60N6MjQU5XRSgbOLT62GSahYLyZyQOQXrc12wSdFPrlDlzkS3AXryD9QUbg4YCGdi2PlByL5xhU0_to1eZWeQdNZZiA6J7deJ0NstZjg=s300" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="168" data-original-width="300" height="168" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhm7KNDK7I9xN6FOM11a4ooZRTecxsUETHofIQ8zL9GYvB091IF0fBw4ya9EtXngFnRNiv0PxlWR1qegUtbGE60N6MjQU5XRSgbOLT62GSahYLyZyQOQXrc12wSdFPrlDlzkS3AXryD9QUbg4YCGdi2PlByL5xhU0_to1eZWeQdNZZiA6J7deJ0NstZjg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> One of my inspirations these past three years has been the Irish artist, writer and Pagan bard Thomas Sheridan, who eloquently declared a <a href="https://odysee.com/@MirrorsForRandomClips:6/Sanguine-Gnosis--bsMBWtxnIzc-:4">Sanguine Gnosis</a> to describe the spiritual impulse of millions of us worldwide who refuse this Transubstantiation of the Needle. I use that ritualistic phrase - alluding to the Catholic sacrament where one takes the body and blood of Christ into themselves, altered into such through ritual(1) - since the jab is absolutely being treated with religious fervor by its proponents, who treat it as a penance to ward off the "demonic" virus and bring "salvation" out of this "apocalypse". That these proponents pride themselves on their "science" does not change the fact they exhibit all the same features of medieval fundamentalists.</span></p><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> Sanguine <a href="https://www.etymonline.com/word/sanguine">means</a> both "blood" and "cheerful, vivacious, hopeful", since it was believed those positive qualities correlated to the level of one's blood. Gnosis is the "knowing of things divine" and "the preeminent human tool for ultimate discernment of reality"(2). Sheridan thus defines Sanguine Gnosis as "the belief that the Creator, regardless of your spiritual tradition, created your blood as a spiritual life-force, and no human being has the right to interfere in that beyond medical treatments such as transfusions. You're still getting the blood of another person, not getting tainted blood."(3) The current jab is an unhuman force that employs technical elements, what he <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6J6uVVmKvo">termed</a> "an RNA augmentation experiential treatment, to actually fundamentally change your essence as a person, as a biological unit."</span> </div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><i>Sacredness of Blood</i></b></span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> Blood is understood as connecting us to the Divine. The sacredness of blood does not refer to a "purity" of one specific bloodline, because its been a war declared upon <i>all</i> bloodlines - to alter the DNA and ancestral integrity of <i>all</i> the tribes and nations. Gnostic texts referred to how the Archons infect the human mind out of jealousy and envy; Algonquin nations used various terms like <i>wetiko</i> to describe the mind-virus that destroys tribes and possesses individuals, all in the name of "civilization"(4); and various traditions worldwide warned of "possession" by other beings called by different names. What we are seeing now with Transhumanism is this same mind-virus in technological form, structurally more insidious than even past vaccines. RNA augmentation seeks to alter human beings down to the cellular level, changing the very structure of DNA and manifesting out to personality (what makes each of us uniquely individual) to subsume in the collective "Great" Reset of false persona. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> Blood's importance within the world's spiritual traditions cannot be understated. Inheritance from ancestors, including one's blood, is essential to the various tribal-based faiths under the broad category Pagan. A woman's menstrual cycle is a sacred parallel to the self-purifying qualities of the Earth, and linked to Moon cycles as well. Christianity is founded upon the redemptive blood sacrifice of Christ, whose blood is believed to be ritually transformed in the Catholic <i>transubstantiation</i> and Orthodox <i>metousiosis</i>. Blood is important within many occult and magical traditions, including its use in certain Dark Occult practices (defined as focusing one's will and intention on anything other than one's own spiritual and psychic development). For the Anthroposophist Rudolf Steiner, blood was viewed as the "glue" between the physical and ethereal self; the functions of the soul is found within human blood. Sanguine Gnosis is thus about meditating on these deeper spiritual realities whilst celebrating the sovereignty of one's body - indeed, an elevation of all that truly makes us human.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg3IrPqF5YijsYpxBJQMwu1gr-MyfKYQ7YfVcAbHMtDd9t8KG8bt0AFOWp3vqXHh8ixRoEioMhTB-ZDLwFtKgRauJq_udSdVQNNMdWCFSjsrqqsVd4ih3qYEgEeXgC51v10DA7HwHvBqFEARqs5vt5Txr6uk4tCmTKpzjhv9sBcoYucI91G9JMhlNoKMw=s944" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="944" data-original-width="564" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg3IrPqF5YijsYpxBJQMwu1gr-MyfKYQ7YfVcAbHMtDd9t8KG8bt0AFOWp3vqXHh8ixRoEioMhTB-ZDLwFtKgRauJq_udSdVQNNMdWCFSjsrqqsVd4ih3qYEgEeXgC51v10DA7HwHvBqFEARqs5vt5Txr6uk4tCmTKpzjhv9sBcoYucI91G9JMhlNoKMw=s320" width="191" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">An illustration of the circulatory<br />system by Andreas Vesalius, 1543</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><div><i><b>Scientific Importance of Blood and the Heart</b></i></div><div><br /></div><div> We owe our lives to the heart as our central organ, and the blood coursing throughout our veins with life energy. Although traditionally viewed as a pump, several medical specialists have been coming around to the view that the heart operates more like a hydraulic ram, on the grounds that it uses suction rather than force to build the blood's momentum.(5) While the body contains only a little over a gallon of blood, the heart pulsates 2,000 gallons of blood which travel the equivalent of 12,000 miles (19,000 km) daily. Long encoded within mythology and folk remedies, the spiritual importance of blood via its elemental qualities and their broader link to the cosmos, is now affirmed within science:</div><div><br /></div><div> "Some of the red blood cells in your plasma are delivering life-giving oxygen from your lungs to the rest of your tissues, while others are transporting carbon dioxide back to your lungs in order to be expelled."(6)</div><div><br /></div><div> "There is nothing like it. It is stardust and the sea. The iron in our blood comes from the death of supernovas, like all iron on our planet. This bright red liquid....contains salt and water, like the sea we possibly came from."(7)</div><div><br /></div></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjec6-_Yq4oDhpik0iKXVxiDHoeGOWXT7-R15SewSaLFxKvsCrFMIb_W0olnj66d-_jXlwXZeBScUAUjjTd6dxPU37qQSHDWkl5Dmcbrso9zk1QBQXdWdZq8exiBCOqZfifEhulVo4aAcie8Qor9vNwEjPaktB9VRz05q5F8FmSqm-wwylRshIYr5VDHw=s678" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="678" data-original-width="640" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjec6-_Yq4oDhpik0iKXVxiDHoeGOWXT7-R15SewSaLFxKvsCrFMIb_W0olnj66d-_jXlwXZeBScUAUjjTd6dxPU37qQSHDWkl5Dmcbrso9zk1QBQXdWdZq8exiBCOqZfifEhulVo4aAcie8Qor9vNwEjPaktB9VRz05q5F8FmSqm-wwylRshIYr5VDHw=s320" width="302" /></a></div><div><br /></div><br /><div><br /></div><div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><i>New Normal of Jab Mandates and Biophobic Alchemy</i></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> Their dogmatic faith in the Needlecraft is such that, contrary to basic Virology historical and scientific, they admitted from the beginning their goal to push out the Big Pharma jabs before any testing phase, at the height of a pandemic they proclaim with apocalyptic fervor. This forced the virus to rapidly mutate in variants rather than die out through herd immunity. Because of their <a href="https://sjobst.blogspot.com/2021/12/30-on-mind-viruses-and-lies-of-humanity.html">salvationism</a>, they instituted it even while admitting its ineffective with variants nor does it make one more protected from the Rona itself than those who refuse the jab. And even while evidence abounds of nothing being more effective than Natural Immunity - data from the <a href="https://www.nih.gov/news-events/nih-research-matters/lasting-immunity-found-after-recovery-covid-19">National Institutes of Health</a>, <a href="https://www.news-medical.net/amp/news/20210608/No-point-vaccinating-those-whoe28099ve-had-COVID-19-Findings-of-Cleveland-Clinic-study.aspx">Cleveland Clinic</a>, <a href="https://www.bmj.com/content/374/bmj.n2101">British Medical Association</a>, <a href="https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.04.20.21255670v1.full.pdf">Israel</a>, and the journal <i><a href="https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abf4063">Science</a></i>. Any good news that proves the healing powers of nature and resilience of the human body is ignored by the Establishment which feeds off fear and eschatological delusions. </span></div></div><div><br /></div><div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> It has nothing to do with stopping the virus, and everything to do with transubstantiation of through the needle as their desired "salvation". Robot Zero Bill Gates <a href="https://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/bill-gates-coronavirus-outbreak-vaccine-pandemic">admitted</a> in April 2020: "It is fair to say that things won't go back to truly normal until we have a vaccine that we've gotten out to basically the entire world." He admitted the agenda includes <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2020/03/18/bill-gates-addresses-coronavirus-fears-and-hopes-in-ama/">digital IDs</a>: "Eventually we will have some digital certificates to show who has recovered or been tested recently, or when we have a vaccine, who has received it." These Technocrats have been planning this for some time, with Gates' GAVI, the Rockefeller Foundation-funded ID2020, and Government of Bangladesh <a href="https://www.biometricupdate.com/201909/id2020-and-partners-launch-program-to-provide-digital-id-with-vaccines">jointly instituting</a> a digital identity program in 2019: "Digital identity is a computerized record of who a person is, stored in a registry. It is used, in this case, to keep track of who has received vaccination." That the title was ID2020 indicates they envisioned 2020 as a crucial year for their agenda. Indeed, ID2020 is an NGO that openly admits it uses blockchain and other crypto-technology for Agenda 2030. </span></div></div><div><br /></div><div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> Definitions of the new heretics have been <a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/anti-vaxxer">expanded</a> to include any "person who opposes vaccination or laws that mandate vaccination." This is now a reality in several countries, the only deterrence in others being people's innate freedom and sovereignty to act upon that freedom. Globalism means that policies in one country may eventually be instituted in other countries, albeit with some modifications as to the methods. Although they have been unable to do so in most of these United States, its not for lack of intention - and they have devised insane ways to force this ritual. "Go to the unvaccinated and blow dart it into them," the FDA economist Taylor Lee was <a href="https://www.projectveritas.com/news/fda-official-blow-dart-african-americans-with-covid-vaccine-is-where-were/">caught ranting</a> on videotape. "Census goes door-to-door if you don't respond. So, we have the infrastructure to do it [forced vaccinations]. I mean, it'll cost a ton of money. But I think, at that point, I think there needs to be a registry of people who aren't vaccinated." He then advocated putting "every anti-vaxxer, like sheep, into like Texas and you closed off Texas from the rest of the world." Peter Daszak, the British researcher who worked closely with the Wuhan Institute for Virology, sought funding for a <a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2021/10/05/wuhan-us-scientists-planned-create-new-coronaviruses-funding/">2018 project</a> that involved the release of enhanced airborne coronavirus particles into Chinese bat populations, ostensibly to "inoculate" them. Its an insane plan to weaponize even the air against all organic life-forms.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> Their perverse biophobic alchemy was also illustrated when Covidian High Priest Anthony Fauci's National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases <a href="https://www.onegreenplanet.org/animalsandnature/360-beagle-puppies-bred-for-experiments-found-dead-at-breeding-mill/">funded experiments</a> </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">where beagle puppies were eaten alive by sandflies, ravenous insects carrying the disease <a href="https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/leishmaniasis">Leishmaniasis</a> spread by protozoan parasites transmitted by their bite. Although denying it when it came under scrutiny, they tacitly admitted it by claiming to follow "federal guidelines" on humane treatment of animals - a mere appeal to authority meant to obscure more than it is to inform. As publicized by the watchdog group White Coat Waste Project in December 2019, Fauci also <a href="https://blog.whitecoatwaste.org/2021/11/17/bigger-than-beaglegate-dr-faucis-monkey-island-of-death/">funded studies</a> used to destroy portions of monkey's brains that would magnify terror where they can scare them, including with acid and toy snakes. Its well known that psychological and medical experiments often begin with animals before they then turn them towards human beings. Their cruelty to animals manifests to how they also treat human beings, who are "useless eaters" to be culled.</span></div></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhfti2jsf6jgGLRIZg6OlsStM7K0c5pycgP1SqGMpGUWdfupIqckhOEbHBXs8qBk46YUyEMhIlSYZKt9WiiLzvLUmSHYk1ULOC-QPV63qHjwY3p1jr8lnEseQJdi3AOWHk8DdEWN1dGg4cNmEZAkJyGcCinb4v8a74qtFiqqjp1dvSJxJzK_FZHRso_-g=s745" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="745" data-original-width="720" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhfti2jsf6jgGLRIZg6OlsStM7K0c5pycgP1SqGMpGUWdfupIqckhOEbHBXs8qBk46YUyEMhIlSYZKt9WiiLzvLUmSHYk1ULOC-QPV63qHjwY3p1jr8lnEseQJdi3AOWHk8DdEWN1dGg4cNmEZAkJyGcCinb4v8a74qtFiqqjp1dvSJxJzK_FZHRso_-g=s320" width="309" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><i>An Experimental Treatment to Infect Minds and Alter Personalities?</i></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> At the very least, this is an experimental treatment that hasn't been tried and tested properly but still presented to people as their salvation. At its worst, there are questions raised about the effects of its technology upon human DNA and personality. Transhumanists openly muse about wanting to create "inorganic" life-forms (which can only be cheap simulations of life)</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">, so its not a stretch they would plan technological-based vaccines with that intention. Elana Freeland suggests that nanotechnology implanted in people through the vaccines might lay dormant until technology is rolled out that would "charge" those implanted towards whatever objective they want.(8) So the effects may not be immediate and we have to start thinking of things in the long-term; part of broader cycles.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> Although dogmatic for the needlecraft, even mainstream media has admitted there are certain medicines developed that <i>do</i> alter human DNA: "Some laboratory studies suggest that molnupiravir can insert errors in DNA, which could in theory harm a developing fetus, sperm cells or children."(9) In his lecture entitled "The Fallen Spirits' Influence in the World," delivered at Dornach on Oct. 27, 1917, Rudolf Steiner predicted a vaccine that would be created to alter and ultimately eradicate the human being's inclination towards anything spiritual - indeed, removing any connection to the ethereal body would be a boon for Transhumanists' denial of the soul and consciousness:</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> "It will be the main concern of these spirits of darkness to bring confusion into the rightful elements which are now spreading on earth, and need to spread in such a way that the spirits of light can continue to be active in them. They will seek to push these in the wrong direction....while human bodies will develop in such a way that certain spiritualities can find room in them, the materialistic bent, which will spread more and more under the guidance of the spirits of darkness, will work against this and combat it by physical means.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> "I have told you that the spirits of darkness are going to inspire their human hosts, in whom they will be dwelling, to find a vaccine that will drive all inclination towards spirituality out of people's souls when they are still very young, and this will happen in a roundabout way through the living body. Today, bodies are vaccinated against one thing and another; in future, children will be vaccinated with a substance which it will certainly be possible to produce, and this will make them immune, so that they do not develop foolish inclinations connected with spiritual life — ‘foolish’ here, of course, in the eyes of materialists.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> "The whole trend goes in a direction where a way will finally be found to vaccinate bodies so that these bodies will not allow the inclination towards spiritual ideas to develop and all their lives people will believe only in the physical world they perceive with the senses. out of impulses which the medical profession gained from presumption - oh, I beg your pardon, from the consumption they themselves suffered - people are now vaccinated against consumption, and in the same way they will be vaccinated against any inclination towards spirituality."(10) </span></div></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi86fremqgrBHt1azDmQen4A-DpX1gTuiQTeZ2QhfQR3-eQQWUsYS3FjGGBh0a5ptJ8U_qLmVmqVfUr7cojn0IdbxVWAysLvmiBOB2Y30rL8VP-Y5X857zHdi1o7SpSpaTXJArOiQKljd1KnrMEJY7Qi1aLbG-41aoLXTdq6YbQHtpx3YdekrmIXWPEyQ=s720" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="552" data-original-width="720" height="245" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi86fremqgrBHt1azDmQen4A-DpX1gTuiQTeZ2QhfQR3-eQQWUsYS3FjGGBh0a5ptJ8U_qLmVmqVfUr7cojn0IdbxVWAysLvmiBOB2Y30rL8VP-Y5X857zHdi1o7SpSpaTXJArOiQKljd1KnrMEJY7Qi1aLbG-41aoLXTdq6YbQHtpx3YdekrmIXWPEyQ=s320" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> In his lecture of May 13, 1921, entitled "Materialism and the Task of Anthroposophy", </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">Steiner seemed to foreshadow the rise of the Internet Of Things and World Wide Web when he used imagery of "a web of terrible spiders...enormous wisdom" that "will interlock with each other, which will imitate in their movements all that which humanity has thought of with their shadowlike intellect that was not inspired by a new imagination." These "spider" beings "in their character stand between the mineral kingdom and the plant kingdom as automative beings with a super-natural intellect." And that there would be a rise of certain people </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">"who are quite consciously allies of the intention to enweb human existence," their goal being for humans "to unite with these terrible mineral-plant like spider creatures."(11)</span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> What is the technology behind this medium we are now using but minerals "diverted into machines"? Meant to simulate and mimic the processes of the natural world, such as fire and light becoming electricity; the components of computers needing minerals - an increasing <a href="https://sjobst.blogspot.com/2020/03/is-globalist-surveillance-state.html">source of contention</a> in warfare and geopolitics. This power is neutral and has great potential, as with the rise of alternative means of information outside the elite gatekeepers. Yet we should be more aware of the danger it represents within such Technocratic hands. To those who dismiss the "plant-like spiders" imagery, I suggest its a metaphor that goes into whatever way we may choose to perceive something. As orthopedic surgeon and anti-electromagnetic radiation activist Robert O. Becker observed: "And if some savage told us of a magical worm that built a little windowless house, slept there a season, then one day emerged and flew away as a jeweled bird, we'd laugh at such superstition if we'd never seen a butterfly."(12)</span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgLDlISKi6a1-E1dypNe8vyA4r8MsIXYXjgmM99KzfsscNr8NKLyfOYEQU4XMqMd9u2z2EycAUa8fEZ4dtrwMDP4m4BtdXorCGReFa-dTx1j_GObsB4FGZ1OK4Z9uSSJMLn8X5ypFfOB62V1_XQ2suTTh16xA-g_XDfydQYZjDbBD4N4pWHGup1j1gJ_g=s658" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="658" data-original-width="640" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgLDlISKi6a1-E1dypNe8vyA4r8MsIXYXjgmM99KzfsscNr8NKLyfOYEQU4XMqMd9u2z2EycAUa8fEZ4dtrwMDP4m4BtdXorCGReFa-dTx1j_GObsB4FGZ1OK4Z9uSSJMLn8X5ypFfOB62V1_XQ2suTTh16xA-g_XDfydQYZjDbBD4N4pWHGup1j1gJ_g=s320" width="311" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">16th century Scottish illustration of specially-<br />designed needles used to prick "witches". A<br />prototype for the modern vaccine?</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><b><i>Pricking the Witches: Scienticism Rooted in Past Superstitions</i></b></div><div><b><i><br /></i></b></div><div> In a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NhThDQV19Q">recent talk</a>, independent writer James True observed striking parallels between modern faith in needles and past hysteria about witches. He notes how vaccination was <i>belief</i> before it was <i>science</i>, and often treated as a religious cleansing ritual. One of the earliest vaccine mandates was instituted by the Puritan fanatic and witch-hunter Cotton Mather, in Boston in 1721. True makes the brilliant point that what King James of Scotland was criticizing in his book on "demonology" was the herbalists and wise healers who promoted trust in one's own immune system outside his own establishment. Treating them as "witches" is really no different from how Big Tech colludes with Big Pharma and the media gatekeepers - and the financial interests behind them all - to brand any paradigm outside their own dogmas as "disinformation". Anyone skeptical of this current needle ritual is a new pariah class of heretics, the new "witches" to be hunted.</div><div><br /></div><div> Even the needles as the physical instrument of "salvation" are similar. Witch-hunters believed that witches and sorcerers bore a special "witch's mark" that would not bleed when pricked, with elaborate witch-pricking needles being specially designed for that purpose.(13) Free-lance writer and lecturer Walene James, known for her works on vaccinations and other aspects of modern medicine, suggests the needles inject much the same ingredients as what was believed "witches" brewed: "Is it too imprudent to suggest that man has long had a love affair with decomposing animal proteins, noxious potions that ward off the demons of ill fortune?"(14) Both history and its superstitions repeat themselves in cycles, no matter how "progressive" such modern sensibilities claim to be.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi5HPKr6sDStWuYOWkvHWCulLSf9JhVvGnEhLPbdvELkFYPKWCMPeBTq-AAhdid6WR1vNEfyNi49TCkuml8jYC9DnkpSQw7WoUcpLS16Wl1tLsfQ_Ft25JEIHsqW7lhg6wX8ppp-a7XPZOuah4dNY-O31gggq7zN-tDlC40oO18YauPkcycoGMpyjoX_A=s249" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="249" data-original-width="202" height="249" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi5HPKr6sDStWuYOWkvHWCulLSf9JhVvGnEhLPbdvELkFYPKWCMPeBTq-AAhdid6WR1vNEfyNi49TCkuml8jYC9DnkpSQw7WoUcpLS16Wl1tLsfQ_Ft25JEIHsqW7lhg6wX8ppp-a7XPZOuah4dNY-O31gggq7zN-tDlC40oO18YauPkcycoGMpyjoX_A" width="202" /></a></div><br /><div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><b><i>A New Salvationist Religion</i></b></div><div><br /></div><div> The Rona has been treated like a new religion, with its own dogmas, authority figures, apocalyptism, and heretics. Salvationism, one of the <a href="https://sjobst.blogspot.com/2021/12/30-on-mind-viruses-and-lies-of-humanity.html">mind-viruses</a> that has infected much of humanity for over 2,000 years, is on full display with the absolute faith in Big Pharma's experimental treatment to "ward off" the virus that would kill us off as a species lest we offer up our bloodstream as a sacrifice. People who otherwise pride themselves on their "logic" suspend any critical thinking when it comes to whatever they're told by The Authorities. "The Vaccine Religion is a 21st century Mass Mind Virus marketed by a multi-billion dollar hospital, drug, and insurance racket and reinforced by the World Health Organization, the United States Government and mainstream media."(15) </div><div><br /></div><div> Its one expression of the Cult of Statism, resulting from the same salvationist and centralist delusions, inculcated into people's minds through various institutions vested with symbolic Authority. Perhaps because they recognize similar features as their own religions, several religious writers and figures have drawn parallels with the Needlecraft. "If something may not be questioned, however, it is a religion and not science", writes the Calvinist pastor and theologian R. Scott Clark.(16) The Romanian Orthodox Elder Julian of Mount Athos warned of "the change in human nature occurring in the people who have accepted the vaccine, will lead to the destruction of the image in which we were created."(17) Perhaps the best insight has been provided by the Italian Catholic Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, who has been outspoken about the Great Reset and the increased authoritarianism using the Rona as its excuse, and its complete acceptance by the Pope and other prelates of the official Church:</div><div><br /></div><div> "Covid crosses the line into superstition. Those who believe in Covid thus find themselves in the position of having to give proof of their submission to its sacred ministers, even in the face of concepts that are repugnant to medical science and common sense: the use of masks is obligatory even if they do not protect against contagion; the vaccine is imposed even if it does not give immunity, treatments not approved by the Health Sanhedrin are prohibited even if their effectiveness is obvious. And we should add: the more absurd the order that is given, the more the disciple feels that he is a member of the sect precisely by the very act of obeying."(18)</div></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgqqxYSnSe7VbFnYnPxWCpWn8FoKDj4y19kvrRGvyHW5s5nv0Rnre1Xkw6E7IvM0j4ZplDUKTgB9n7vnyg9wUY97-tyiJtprfTLwbvJaRS-DKkk-IKflGIJbzEohrWgQs2Fz4JxBaRITJKA7T-tTyWoMibbc2P1C7-GXUWwxI0ZwA99RxvYjof04WiobA=s296" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="296" data-original-width="170" height="296" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgqqxYSnSe7VbFnYnPxWCpWn8FoKDj4y19kvrRGvyHW5s5nv0Rnre1Xkw6E7IvM0j4ZplDUKTgB9n7vnyg9wUY97-tyiJtprfTLwbvJaRS-DKkk-IKflGIJbzEohrWgQs2Fz4JxBaRITJKA7T-tTyWoMibbc2P1C7-GXUWwxI0ZwA99RxvYjof04WiobA" width="170" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><i>Relation to Wetiko and Archontic Infections?</i></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> Lately, I have been researching how Indigenous cultures worldwide described mind infections like we see today. Different cultures had similar lore about beings (remarkably similar despite their varying names) infecting minds and leading to self-destructive human behavior; both literal beings and archetypes of the human psyche. Tibetan Buddhists, who preserve an ancient shamanic tradition predating the Buddha, warned of <i>krol’pa</i> "thoughts that lead astray". Tribal cultures cast out or even killed anyone who exhibited the slightest signs of what we now refer to as Psychopathy. An example would be the bog bodies found throughout Europe, considered to have been people who had done such heinous crimes against the tribe to warrant such a treatment - cutting them off from future reincarnation. We should be open to what the ancients knew instinctively: The existence of mind viruses. Could these not be injected through needles, especially given the links between Big Pharma and Globalist think-tanks known for devising mind-control techniques?</span></div></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> Gnostic texts describe methods Archons use to "infect" the human mind through various mind viruses and false beliefs, with the agenda of making those people act more Archontically. This is because Archons cannot exist within this world and actually feel envious of human beings, so their methods are to "intrude" the human mind. Modern Gnostic teacher John Lamb Lash, who has done more than anyone else to publicize the Gnostic warnings about the Archons (properly restoring Gnosticism to its roots in the Pagan Mystery Schools and its Sophianic Animism), refers to the jab as the "<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zhki2ATZHfw">Archontic Eucharist</a>" whose real purpose is to maim and kill, not to heal, protect, or save. He has mentioned how many of the same materials built into the needles, are those described as part of the bodily composition of Archons (and thus other beings in the world's mythologies): </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> "Moderna openly states that their product is not a vaccine but an 'operating system' intended for mRNA-directed genetic modification, not to mention track and trace capabilities. Planet-wide vaccination is the ritual of the Archontic eucharist. The transhumanist psychopaths intend to run the social order on a data operating system that cancels and overrides the operation of natural human intelligence."(19)</span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> Algonquin nations of the Northeast and Great Lakes call it <i>wétiko</i>, "a diabolically wicked person or spirit who terrorizes others by means of evil acts."(20) Infected by <i>wétiko</i>, the elites have used the Rona as their excuse to grab more authoritarian controls and preside over the largest transfer of wealth in history. Through such symbolic gestures as masks and social distancing, meant to evoke visceral responses from people who then alter their personality accordingly, they have replaced primal fears (normal part of our human survival instincts) with unhealthy anxieties that only reinforce their own authority: "The contagion of fear - the fuel for the wetiko mind-virus that is being inflamed by Covid-19 - spreads faster than any physical virus is able to."(21) Similar to Steiner's suggestion of physical illnesses arising from mental "lies of humanity", the virus operates on different levels internal and external. Martin Winiecki, head of the Institute for Global Peacework, makes some valuable insights:</span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> "What if Covid-19 weren't a danger independent from our minds and souls....[something] we've collectively summoned into existence? An embodiment of something buried deeply in the realms of the collective subconscious that we haven't, so far, been able to comprehend? A living symbol of a much deeper infection?...How has the specter of Covid-19 been able to haunt 7.5 billion people and bring the world to a stand-still in no time at all? Because the narrative massively resonates with something latent that is both teeming and deeply suppressed in people's subconscious."(22)</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiksMf7xG3xGyr-pOcsI_Ht5BzQuu8WasfWOl8HNjUstgnTC_37h0a77B-vCxuvCfR0E2MEK4f5uyOz_ArJ6Szb3hIzM2OkRE_v7zWQ_VVkdGk4MWWDkCf2vPYDkWUyWshv3Ba1NU9rDM1hN-xKkb_pA22cgt7fDAJQyibIe2HNvoa3Th-XRV8vZHJIYg=s599" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="599" data-original-width="393" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiksMf7xG3xGyr-pOcsI_Ht5BzQuu8WasfWOl8HNjUstgnTC_37h0a77B-vCxuvCfR0E2MEK4f5uyOz_ArJ6Szb3hIzM2OkRE_v7zWQ_VVkdGk4MWWDkCf2vPYDkWUyWshv3Ba1NU9rDM1hN-xKkb_pA22cgt7fDAJQyibIe2HNvoa3Th-XRV8vZHJIYg=s320" width="210" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Gustave Doré's illustration in Edgar <br />Allan Poe's <i>The Raven</i> (1884)</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><div><b><i>Concluding Thoughts</i></b></div><div><br /></div><div> We are at an auspicious time. At the end of the Solstice, with its connotations of descending darkness but also the potential of light. Today (December 24th) happens to be my birthday, so these are some symbols I often reflect upon. To be vigilant about such dark agendas does not mean to give into gloom and doom; this is what they want - they rely on demoralization as much as fear in imposing their agenda. Rather, its foremost a celebration of the life - of the beauty all around us and within ourselves. To know we are the product of "a thousand loves and a million struggles", in the bardic words of Sheridan. </div><div><br /></div><div> I invoke Sanguine Gnosis, in honor of the gift of life continuous generations of Ancestors bestowed upon me; the memories within my blood, and the qualities inherited. To refuse any efforts to infect or alter me, so that I am any thing other than a sovereign human being. As an Animist, I know we are part of Nature and its Beauty; even down to our flaws we reflect that Beauty. We are also connected to a Divine Intelligence that extends outward to the Cosmos. Why would anyone in their right mind <i>want</i> to "transcend" what is actually <i>the most</i> beautiful and sublime? I pity such miserable Transhumanist automatons and what they devise to simulate what they cannot even comprehend, much less appreciate. </div><div><br /></div></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhHPd_VT56GtbuUXNhuKVz-48OR6Y7zeqS6KWt1CmLVVQaysVr5gsKmfK2ynmiYoNEodC9L5vZbwmr7I64E4IB5sAaKudiJG7avptCLei0E8E_afzwAQHU1atp-Jt9IHqRnCuUkFLTYUGbHVTffYtQVBGWAH9NWEnC5bHvda3BsHiQLMGVy_TL1aKH96w=s432" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="432" data-original-width="324" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhHPd_VT56GtbuUXNhuKVz-48OR6Y7zeqS6KWt1CmLVVQaysVr5gsKmfK2ynmiYoNEodC9L5vZbwmr7I64E4IB5sAaKudiJG7avptCLei0E8E_afzwAQHU1atp-Jt9IHqRnCuUkFLTYUGbHVTffYtQVBGWAH9NWEnC5bHvda3BsHiQLMGVy_TL1aKH96w=s320" width="240" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A panel from Flemish painter Hieronymous Bosch's<br />"The Garden of Earthly Delights". To me, an excellent <br />symbolism of the delusions of Transhumanism. </td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><i>Notes and Sources:</i></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">(1) Coming from a Catholic background, I know that Catholic theologians and the Church fathers long taught that an Antichrist system would include a mockery of the Church's own rituals and sacraments. "He will set up a counter Church which will be the ape of the Church because, he the devil, is the ape of God," as Archbishop Fulton Sheen said in his program "<a href="https://www.virgosacrata.com/antichrist-signs-of-our-times.html">Signs of Our Times</a>" on Jan. 26, 1947. "It will be the mystical body of the anti-Christ that will in all externals resemble the church as the mystical body of Christ."</span></div></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">(2) John Lamb Lash. <i>Not In His Image: Gnostic Vision, Sacred Ecology, and the Future of Belief</i>, 15th Anniversary Edition. White River Junction, VT: Chelsea Green Publishing, 2021, pp. 293, 394.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">(3) 'Creator' need not be a singular force as in monotheism, but simply the awareness that some greater creative force nurtured and shaped us as human beings. Its a principle of Balance, such as chaos and order, the formative role of the various elements and biospheres upon human beings, and the interaction of stellar forces with the Earth. </span></div></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><div>(4) For an in-depth analysis of this mind-virus, see the late American Indian (Renapé/Lenape) writer and activist Jack D. Forbes' book, <i>Columbus and Other Cannibals: The Wétiko Disease of Exploitation, Imperialism, and Terrorism</i>. New York: Seven Stories Press, 2008.</div><div><br /></div><div>(5) See Branko Furst, <i>The Heart and Circulation: An Integrative Model</i>, London: Springer-Verlag, 2014; and Thomas Cowan, <i>Human Heart, Cosmic Heart: A Doctor's Quest to Understand, Treat, and Prevent Cardiovascular Disease</i>, White River Junction, VT: Chelsea Green Publishing, 2016.</div><div><br /></div><div><div>(6) Willow Defebaugh, "Sanguine and Sacred," <i>Atmos</i>, Oct. 8, 2021, <<a href="https://atmos.earth/sanguine-and-sacred-functions-of-blood/">https://atmos.earth/sanguine-and-sacred-functions-of-blood/</a>>.</div><div><br /></div><div>(7) Rose George. <i>Nine Pints: A Journey Through the Money, Medicine, and Mysteries of Blood</i>. New York: Metropolitan Books, 2018.</div></div><div><br /></div><div><div>(8) Elana Freeland. <i>Geoengineered Transhumanism: How the Environment Has Been Weaponized by Chemicals, Electromagnetism & Nanotechnology For Synthetic Biology</i>, 2021.</div><div><br /></div><div>(9) Benjamin Mueller, "Merck's Covid Pill Might Pose Risks for Pregnant Women," <i>New York Times</i>, Dec. 13, 2021, <<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/13/health/merck-covid-pill-pregnancy-risk.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/13/health/merck-covid-pill-pregnancy-risk.html</a>>.</div><div><br /></div><div>(10) Rudolf Steiner. <i>The Fall of the Spirits of Darkness</i>. Hillside House, Forest Row, England: Rudolf Steiner Press, 1993, pp. 199-200.</div></div><div><br /></div><div><div>(11) "Materialism and the Task of Anthroposophy," <i>Collected Works of Rudolf Steiner, 204</i>, trans. Maria St. Goar, Steiner Books, 1987.</div><div><br /></div><div>(12) Robert O. Becker. <i>The Body Electric: Electromagnetism and the Foundation of Life</i>. New York: Morrow, 1985.</div></div><div><br /></div><div><div>(13) Brian P. Levack. <i>The Witch-Hunt in Early Modern Europe</i>. London: Pearson, 2006, p. 52; and W.N. Neill, "The Professional Pricker and His Test for Witchcraft," <i>The Scottish Historical Review</i>, 1922, Vol. 19, No. 75, pp. 205-213.</div><div><br /></div><div>(14) Walene James. <i>Immunization: The Reality Behind the Myth</i>. Westport, CT: Bergin & Garvey, 1995, p. xiii.</div></div><div><br /></div><div><div>(15) Walene James. <i>The Vaccine Religion: Mass Mind & the Struggle for Human Freedom</i>. Dandelion Enterprises, 2012.</div><div><br /></div><div>(16) R. Scott Clark, "A New Religion With A New Sacrament?," The Heidelblog, Oct. 2021, <<a href="https://heidelblog.net/2021/10/a-new-religion-with-a-new-sacrament/">https://heidelblog.net/2021/10/a-new-religion-with-a-new-sacrament/</a>>.</div><div><br /></div><div>(17) In his warning from 13th August 2021, <<a href="https://www.orthodoxtalks.com/elder-julian-of-prodromos-skete-mount-athos/">https://www.orthodoxtalks.com/elder-julian-of-prodromos-skete-mount-athos/</a>>.</div><div><br /></div><div>(18) Interview with <i>Kultur-Magazin</i>, 19 May 2021, <<a href="https://www.lifesitenews.com/blogs/new-interview-archbishop-vigano-discusses-the-great-reset-gives-hope-in-light-of-our-lady-of-fatima/">https://www.lifesitenews.com/blogs/new-interview-archbishop-vigano-discusses-the-great-reset-gives-hope-in-light-of-our-lady-of-fatima/</a>>.</div></div><div><br /></div><div>(19) Lash, <i>op. cit.</i>, p. xiii.</div><div><br /></div><div><div>(20) Paul Levy. <i>Dispelling Wetiko: Breaking The Curse of Evil</i>. Berkeley, CA: North Atlantic Books, 2013, p. 3.</div><div><br /></div><div>(21) Paul Levy, "Covid-19 is a Symbol of a Much Deeper Infection," <i>Kosmos Journal</i>, Summer 2020, <<a href="https://www.kosmosjournal.org/kj_article/covid-19-is-a-a-symbol-of-a-much-deeper-infection-the-wetiko-mind-virus/">https://www.kosmosjournal.org/kj_article/covid-19-is-a-a-symbol-of-a-much-deeper-infection-the-wetiko-mind-virus/</a>>.</div><div><br /></div><div>(22) Martin Winiecki, "Searching for the Anti-Virus: Covid-19 as Quantum Phenomenon," <i>Kosmos Journal</i>, Spring 2020, <<a href="https://www.kosmosjournal.org/kj_article/searching-for-the-anti-virus-covid-19-as-quantum-phenomenon/">https://www.kosmosjournal.org/kj_article/searching-for-the-anti-virus-covid-19-as-quantum-phenomenon/</a>>.</div></div></span></div>Sean Jobsthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17351165299354431339noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-907444223262019258.post-14906283438260676102021-12-13T14:27:00.005-06:002021-12-29T16:57:45.475-06:00Addendum 3.0: On Mind-Viruses and the Lies of Humanity<p><span style="font-family: georgia;">by Sean Jobst</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">13 December 2021</span></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjBqk9CAxKNHlnGayafGwXGaExF-XYdbunrywVPpFdhEnxA26J71F72P3AC4-7Dl_s1Y5wtIcGgkYZvflNduZObqYpHo1Tg4Km_AX8rN118yHAU4j7Hgp5IysrUEzIUksKOIuFCb9ejX15IWp49u_W4XPA1vKU9__gORL6jueqhCMpIbTG0cAy_R18dnQ=s600" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="323" data-original-width="600" height="172" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjBqk9CAxKNHlnGayafGwXGaExF-XYdbunrywVPpFdhEnxA26J71F72P3AC4-7Dl_s1Y5wtIcGgkYZvflNduZObqYpHo1Tg4Km_AX8rN118yHAU4j7Hgp5IysrUEzIUksKOIuFCb9ejX15IWp49u_W4XPA1vKU9__gORL6jueqhCMpIbTG0cAy_R18dnQ=s320" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> A chapter I wrote for an upcoming book re-acquainted me with the Austrian philosopher Rudolf Steiner, whom I first became aware of during online correspondences with one of his modern students around 2011. Although I find many areas of disagreements with Steiner, I find several profound areas of genius. One such genius observation is that illness is rooted in some "lie" held by an individual, what we can then extrapolate is held on the Unconscious level. A collective illness like a virus stems from "lies of humanity", as expressed in his lecture of 30 May 1907.(1) These separate human beings from the spiritual world and hinder spiritual healing:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> "Health is a condition that has its origin in the etheric organism. Healing must thus consist in treating the etheric organism.(2) .... An external view of states of health and sickness must be augmented by what we can also know about the inner, spiritual reality within the human being."(3)</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> Every aspect of life has its own vibration. All life is about energy, from the inner workings of the universe beyond our comprehension down to the microscopic level of atoms. Even our hearts pulsate different vibrations depending on our emotions, which are in constant change according to our interactions with people, events and concepts with their own varying energies. That vibrations and energies pervade life is a deeper reality affirmed in all the world's mythologies and traditions, which even many of the most reductionist physicists are unable to deny. For example, what is electricity and other technology but the attempt to replicate the most ancient power-source of heat and fire? The pioneering scientist Nikola Tesla's observation from 1891 is more pertinent than ever, following the same basic instincts as ancient man:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> "We are whirling through the endless space with inconceivable speed; all around us everything is spinning, everything is moving, everywhere is energy. There must be some way of availing ourselves of this energy more directly. Then, with the light obtained from the medium, with the power derived from it, with every form of energy obtained without effort, from the store forever inexhaustible, humanity will advance with giant strides. The mere contemplation of these magnificent possibilities expands our minds, strengthens our hopes, and fills our hearts with supreme delight."(4)</span></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjroQos4dN-MXnudnJIxb6XiwILYMklnNZmikFZOQAh0rf56EZherYQNKLwBpQWIvUzb8pGYw5S2FT27Bhqd6Rda80mxsoF874reZIfxDhMdupcN_YE8tEg8xvrrR0BDjjkmy4i-SnHUX-IPo23UF-4yk7b1AuFiTCFhT6KSIV-SP-azmW_fkh-wAVYdQ=s265" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="190" data-original-width="265" height="190" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjroQos4dN-MXnudnJIxb6XiwILYMklnNZmikFZOQAh0rf56EZherYQNKLwBpQWIvUzb8pGYw5S2FT27Bhqd6Rda80mxsoF874reZIfxDhMdupcN_YE8tEg8xvrrR0BDjjkmy4i-SnHUX-IPo23UF-4yk7b1AuFiTCFhT6KSIV-SP-azmW_fkh-wAVYdQ" width="265" /></a></div><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> Both lies and truths have their own resonance, so what we have been experiencing these past two years is an energetic battle, including an attack upon the human soul which is denied by the same cult that embraces the most superstitious virus apocalypse. Steiner's blunt prediction from 1917 is more prescient with the new Transubstantiation of the Jab: "Materialistic doctors will be entrusted with the task of driving souls out of humanity."(5) Practitioners of this cult openly deny the soul and consciousness, cocooned within the miserable shell of their own faint human-ness. Even while dismissing anything etheric as "superstition", unable to be quantified by their own limited science (a misnomer since they are enemies of free inquiry and the scientific method), they absolutely embrace the sentience of a virus as harbinger of a looming apocalypse that serves their fear-reaping agenda.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> Its a mistake to presume stark distinction between the spiritual and material; the two are linked and both are necessary for balance. Steiner presciently used the term "Ahrimanic" to describe this current that sees only the material, that views technology not as a neutral force but as a sentient force they desire to transcend humanity. It would likewise be wrong to only embrace the spiritual realm - I as an Animist and Pagan know the necessary balance: We are part of a Nature that is material, so that similar natural processes should be part of an observation of health, both inner and outer factors for our wholeness of Being. Paradoxically, while denying this spiritual realm the Covidians possess a Biophobia ignorant of how the material body works, including how coronaviruses and various categories of viruses already exist within our bodies:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> "The human genome contains billions of pieces of information and around 22,000 genes, but not all of it is, strictly speaking, human. Eight percent of our DNA consists of remnants of ancient viruses, and another 40 percent is made up of repetitive strings of genetic letters that is also thought to have a viral origin."(6) </span></p><p><br /></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiC687SSrjXMpCUbmdWDoLOMnG0i6wsRJn3lMpsGldx_T5j_elEM8mqL4dPgaUM8mySv51UO88H2QfmVReF8dINsCiukY_h0e89FyIPsb4hJrenDgNYYcA-B-b4dY4E8aVNJSulEYK9jFILGPC3XaSl3BkkOaCZWgM__KT7fw95Lqr5BMf1mdpA29lb6w=s1400" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="350" data-original-width="1400" height="100" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiC687SSrjXMpCUbmdWDoLOMnG0i6wsRJn3lMpsGldx_T5j_elEM8mqL4dPgaUM8mySv51UO88H2QfmVReF8dINsCiukY_h0e89FyIPsb4hJrenDgNYYcA-B-b4dY4E8aVNJSulEYK9jFILGPC3XaSl3BkkOaCZWgM__KT7fw95Lqr5BMf1mdpA29lb6w=w400-h100" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Humanity as envisioned by the Transhumanist Technocrats.<br />Photo credit from the "Genealogies of Modernity" website.</td></tr></tbody></table><div><br /></div><br /><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> Such recognition opposes their fear-based agenda - the reality of natural immunity, much like the Earth has withered so much damage and catastrophes throughout history, exposes any "need" for their Transubstantiation of the Jab (the topic of the next article) which is nothing but the "salvation" to the Rona "end times". These Transhumanist enemies of <i>all</i> human bloodlines want to alter the DNA we carry from millions of Ancestors, including ancient viruses we have long overcome through our blood. The latest diseases and neuroses, related to more "progression" of technologies meant to simulate(7) and replace the Natural frequencies, are elevated to new dogmas and deities, as noted by the great psychologist-mystic Carl Jung:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> "We think we can congratulate ourselves on having already reached such a pinnacle of clarity, imagining that we have left all these phantasmal gods far behind. But what we have left behind are only verbal specters, not the psychic facts that were responsible for the birth of the gods. We are still as much possessed today by autonomous psychic contents as if they were Olympians. Today they are called phobias, obsessions, and so forth; in a word, neurotic symptoms. The gods have become diseases; Zeus no longer rules Olympus but rather the solar plexus, and produces curious specimens for the doctor's consulting room, or disorders the brains of politicians and journalists who unwittingly let loose psychic epidemics on the world."(8)</span></p><p><br /></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjuuY7xpWEQq5dRO_JT-MmD3uCqPlqBlVF0WO-ZKSLKZ_SebcO4pVUnq4LH631MEikseMEqWZrzX5Cph7tDcWDza7HXg1qEHT1gBRqnBFF1MRsacm5o663KlK8wftwFkgCYrUgh-QBnH2MTLbwUjWTleZTOMBIVPrMwS8jnmi9hnoMusblYikWjUp_pkg=s660" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="360" data-original-width="660" height="175" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjuuY7xpWEQq5dRO_JT-MmD3uCqPlqBlVF0WO-ZKSLKZ_SebcO4pVUnq4LH631MEikseMEqWZrzX5Cph7tDcWDza7HXg1qEHT1gBRqnBFF1MRsacm5o663KlK8wftwFkgCYrUgh-QBnH2MTLbwUjWTleZTOMBIVPrMwS8jnmi9hnoMusblYikWjUp_pkg=s320" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Alien" meaning outside the body. There is a supernatural <br />agenda although its not in the extraterrestrial psyop of the<br />elites' "disclosures". Gnostic texts foreshadow modern mind-<br />control techniques in their warnings of how the Archons<br />infect people's minds. Scientific-minded people who discount <br />parasites affecting minds should look up "Toxoplasmosis".</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> When Rome was struck with the Antonine Plague during the 2nd century, Emperor Marcus Aurelius, most known for his Stoic philosophy, refused to leave the city; the crisis actually led him to reflect deeper on the more insidious <i>mental</i> plagues: "An infected mind is a far more dangerous pestilence than any plague - one only threatens your life, the other destroys your character."(9) Could there not be psychological and emotional causes of many diseases and illnesses, stemming from emotions, thoughts and actions giving life to those diseases?(10) Are we to reject the "superstitions" of our Ancestors, who have collectively gifted us our lives, only to make room for the latest whims and delusions of self-exalted authorities? </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> The impulse to do so is only because people have tacitly stopped thinking for themselves, so out of laziness they would rather submit to this current Priest class, vested as they are with titles and symbolisms of such "authority" (literal meaning of Archon). The lab coats this priestly class don for their photo-ops and fawning media rituals, and the surgical masks ritually donned by the frightened masses, are perverse simulations of what truly constitutes holistic health. We have seen the rise of a new collectivism, as part of the Great Reset Technocrats who assure the people "you will own nothing" while <a href="https://sjobst.blogspot.com/2021/01/the-rona-global-surveillance-and-great.html">transferring wealth</a> into their own hands, all in the name of pandemic. Fear is used for people to cede their own responsibility to the State and its elites. That a virus would be used as an excuse to "implant" certain beliefs into people was admitted by William Sargant, a British psychiatrist who was once awarded by the Rockefellers and worked closely with CIA-funded Donald Ewen Cameron:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> "Various types of belief can be implanted in many people, after brain function has been sufficiently disturbed by accidentally or deliberately induced fear, anger, or excitement. Of the results caused by such disturbances, the most common one is temporarily impaired judgement and heightened suggestibility. It's various group manifestations are sometimes classed under the heading of 'herd instinct,' and appear most spectacularly in wartime, during severe epidemics, and in all similar periods of common danger, which increase anxiety and so individual and mass suggestibility."(11)</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> Such mind-viruses are described throughout the world's indigenous traditions; the characteristics and means of infection are very similar - only the cultural names were different. Speaking from his own Algonquin tradition, Jack Forbes termed it <i>wétiko</i>: "For several thousands of years human beings have suffered from a plague, a disease worse than leprosy, a sickness worse than malaria, a malady much more terrible than smallpox....Whatever we call it, this disease, this <i>wétiko</i> (cannibal) psychosis, is the greatest epidemic sickness known to man....Brutality knows no boundaries. Greed knows no limits. Perversion knows no borders. Arrogance knows no frontiers. Deceit knows no edges. These characteristics all tend to push towards an extreme, always moving forward once the initial infection sets in....the <i>wétiko</i> disease, the sickness of exploitation, has been spreading as a contagion for the past several thousand years. And as a contagion unchecked by most vaccines it tends to become worse rather than better with time."(12)</span></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgBWhsanwvgX9Zk8f9fUfh2ICNLRvg-3OojrrRFd6CnAH_ZsiRI9NvCc8N_Awm8Vmm5e_iR_BCNsFNur9O1ZraYEDxC0EDugU-ToIhQNIOO3-HKGD4NMTTSXBNnR99wVaT73EVBm2i0ySReEQtTZRWz6_CvlHyl4EwlA5V2MwxGnjjUmGvN3_Z6j9iX6Q=s1600" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgBWhsanwvgX9Zk8f9fUfh2ICNLRvg-3OojrrRFd6CnAH_ZsiRI9NvCc8N_Awm8Vmm5e_iR_BCNsFNur9O1ZraYEDxC0EDugU-ToIhQNIOO3-HKGD4NMTTSXBNnR99wVaT73EVBm2i0ySReEQtTZRWz6_CvlHyl4EwlA5V2MwxGnjjUmGvN3_Z6j9iX6Q=s320" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> The first Hermetic principle is that everything first stems from the mind, so Consciousness itself is a thought speaking itself into existence. One of the main <a href="https://sjobst.blogspot.com/2021/11/addendum-20-on-death-pathology-neuro.html">dangers of the current</a> Neuro-Linguistic Programming is to get us to believe every thought that infiltrates our mind, often subliminally, as coming from us. Confusing thoughts which are constantly in flux, with the intuition that would ground us rather than being binded into this fear spell. Among the side effects (intentionally in design?) experienced by many who have taken the Jab, are neurological problems(13), so there's a direct relation with mind control - not so much directly tell people what to think as much as put them in an altered state to then make them more susceptible to those "implanted" beliefs afterwards. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> What are the specific "lies of humanity" that nurtured this pestilence? Referring to the Jupiter-Saturn conjunction of 2020, John Lamb Lash cites the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74r9Pa0-kSQ">challenges</a> in two realms. In ecology, its challenging the psyop of man-made climate change, its demonization of the very building block of life (Carbon) which is regarded as a "sin" to be taxed and eliminated. Its no accident the same elites behind virus apocalypse are the same promoting climate end times, for these biophobic psychopaths envision a post-human future. These jet-setting elites are the biggest polluters, obscuring the <i>real</i> ecological damage such as polluting the world's rivers and other water systems and desertification, to <i>project</i> upon the masses who are to be shamed into crowded, suffocating "Smart Cities" to "own nothing and be happy" in their Post-Industrialist Neo-Feudalist Technocratic future. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> In education, its challenging the various dogmas surrounding medicine - how contagions are spread and eliminated, not looking within Nature and a deeper plant knowledge, and a trust in the drugs rolled out by Big Pharma. "Trust the experts" because you are not to think for yourselves. A general disconnect from and ignorance of mind, body and spirit; our place within Nature and the beauty and awe of what it means to be human. We are to be cut off from the timeless wisdom of all our tribes, of the plant teachers and herbs, and from knowing the spiritual causes of certain ailments.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> Underneath all these lies are two fundamental illusions that have been used by the State and its Authorities for all its worth. One is that its about "rights" that come from them, to be either given or taken by them at whim. We see this in the "carrot-and-stick" method of the lockdowns and the jabs, how they will ramp up or relax restrictions according to whatever serves their own interests at the time - all while the people are implanted to blame the Rona and not real flesh and blood (albeit anti-human) elites. Rather, its about the <i>innate</i> freedom we <i>already</i> have and the action upon that freedom. Second, the mind-virus of Salvationism which has been a real plague upon humanity for thousands of years, allowing various elites to kill, rob, maim, and manipulate people in the name of being their "saviors". Achieving complete "immunity" by jabbing the masses, doing penance for the "sin" of carbon by "zero emissions", etc. are just the latest forms of salvationism, founded upon the same lies.</span></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgcqFu8oc4gX1g194OV9sH_yvs-v2C790QB330fll1oF7rNW7khPCNluuBMUOtXtve3rPkaaUeiDKA2SQxBmcEssGIHudp52OOYLY30KR_1xfiNBYLXsS9cU0ri-zUdAuMusThhGIrS6DWfU6tVtAMByID9lwNobc19H5x-9RRjmKn7svEAp_xWkH1hMA=s327" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="154" data-original-width="327" height="151" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgcqFu8oc4gX1g194OV9sH_yvs-v2C790QB330fll1oF7rNW7khPCNluuBMUOtXtve3rPkaaUeiDKA2SQxBmcEssGIHudp52OOYLY30KR_1xfiNBYLXsS9cU0ri-zUdAuMusThhGIrS6DWfU6tVtAMByID9lwNobc19H5x-9RRjmKn7svEAp_xWkH1hMA=s320" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Notes:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">(1) <i>Rosicrucian Wisdom: An Introduction</i>, Collected Works Vol. 99, trans. Johanna Collis. Hillside House, East Sussex, England: Rudolf Steiner Press, 2000. Collected Works is hereafter abbreviated as "CW".</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">(2) <i>Extending Practical Medicine (Fundamentals of Therapy)</i>, CW Vol. 27, trans. E.A. Frommer and J. Josephson. London: Rudolf Steiner Press, 1983.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">(3) <i>Illness and Therapy: Spiritual-Scientific Aspects of Healing</i>, CW Vol. 313, trans. Matthew Barton. Forest Row: Rudolf Steiner Press, 2013.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">(4) Nikola Tesla, What Is Electricity?", <i>The Literary Digest</i>, July 18, 1891, Vol. III, No. 12, p. 12.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">(5) <i>The Fall of the Spirits of Darkness</i>, CW 177, trans. Anna Meuss. Hillside House: Rudolf Steiner Press, 2008.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">(6) Carrie Arnold, "The non-human living inside of you," 9 Jan. 2020, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, <https://www.cshl.edu/the-non-human-living-inside-of-you/>.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">(7) I have been inspired by John Lamb Lash's reading of the Nag Hammadi Gnostic texts, that speak of a "simulation" (Coptic: <i>Hal</i>) by Archons who are jealous of humanity because we have abilities and qualities they are unable to possess, but which they can only simulate. Those texts' descriptions parallel exactly the perverse thinking behind Transhumanism, their A.I. which is but a cheap simulation of the humanity they despise, and even their mind control techniques.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">(8) "Commentary on 'The Secret of the Golden Flower,'" <i>Collected Works of C.G. Jung</i>, Vol. 13, Para. 54, p. 37; cited by James Hollis. <i>Finding Meaning in the Second Half of Life: How to Finally, Really Grow Up</i>. New York: Gotham Books, 2005, p. 161.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">(9) Marcus Aurelius, <i>Meditations</i>, 9.2.1.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">(10) This is the methodology the late Flemish psychologist and philosopher Christiane Beerlandt applied in her book, <i>The Key to Self-Liberation - Encyclopedia of Psychosomatics</i>, 1993. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">(11) William Sargant. <i>Battle For The Mind: A Physiology of Conversion and Brain-Washing</i>. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1957, p. 131.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">(12) Jack D. Forbes. <i>Columbus and Other Cannibals: The Wétiko Disease of Exploitation, Imperialism, and Terrorism</i>. New York: Seven Stories Press, 2008, pp. xv-xix.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">(13) Documented on the website <https://www.c19vaxreactions.com>, which stresses: "We are pro-vaccine", thus cannot be dismissed as "anti-vaxxer".</span></p>Sean Jobsthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17351165299354431339noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-907444223262019258.post-40279899399302690902021-11-06T12:24:00.006-05:002021-12-14T15:32:10.820-06:00Addendum 2.0: On Death Pathology, Neuro-Linguistic Programming, Occult Truths, and the Masks of Authorities<p><span style="font-family: georgia;">by Sean Jobst</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">6 November 2021</span></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-uS_ZwK0jgdA/YYa2qk9HgXI/AAAAAAAAGQ4/rgc28X_Ti2krYUhBVi7jw3PK6xwy81g7wCLcBGAsYHQ/s689/DIQtl78W0AAKGzL.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="689" data-original-width="626" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-uS_ZwK0jgdA/YYa2qk9HgXI/AAAAAAAAGQ4/rgc28X_Ti2krYUhBVi7jw3PK6xwy81g7wCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/DIQtl78W0AAKGzL.jpg" width="291" /></a></div><br /><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> This is an addendum to my <a href="https://sjobst.blogspot.com/2021/08/rise-of-wotanic-energy-and-fall-of.html">previous article</a>: "Rise of Wotanic Energy and Fall of the Empire of False Pestilence: Interpreting the Astrological Weather, Needlecraft, and Revelation of the Method" .... with many thoughts and musings that add to this conversation. Perhaps seemingly random at times, but I've learned that there are ultimately no "coincidences" in life. A denial or derision of the unknown naturally lends itself to a miserable worldview founded on fear and envy - and such is with that false "reality" instituted by the elites and imposed only through force and propaganda.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> As I am writing these words, people have recently put away the masks and costumes they had donned to celebrate a holiday (Halloween) based upon Samhain, the ancient Celtic commemoration of the dead and remembrance of our own mortality. We have simultaneously passed Dia de los Muertos, with its own remnants of Mesoamerican meditations upon death. Overshadowing all of this is a physical and mental regime worldwide founded upon a pathological fear of death, exploiting an ignorance of how viruses have operated historically and scientifically, but also in what is actually projection of their own Biophobia - hatred of life and its cycles, which include a balanced awareness of death. All the fears of life stem ultimately from unbalanced pathologies about death.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> The end goal unfolding before us I have documented in several articles - increased mass-surveillance, massive transfer of wealth and power into even fewer hands, Transhumanism, and various planks of Agenda 2030 and the Great Reset. These actually exist and we cannot ignore them. As with the previous article, I think there are deeper meanings of a more "spiritual" nature - accepting that the "material" cannot be easily separated from that nature, either. That the Rona has been treated like a new religion, with its sacred vestments, rituals, priesthoods, and witch-hunts of heretics, is obvious to the discerning mind and many figures have elaborated on the elements which make it a religion. The Vaccine is a new transubstantiation ritual meant to alter people's DNA and personality into a new persona, and cut off one's ancestral memories (the importance of which we shall see).</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> I have recently delved into the works of John Lamb Lash, who has provided a ground-breaking revival of the Sophianic narrative and true Gnosis distinguished from the insidious dualistic and Christianized aberrations that others have built upon it. I endorse his view that true Gnostic origins are in the Pagan Mystery Schools and their shamanic practices, and that claims about their anti-world dualism are Patristic strawman invented by its Christian detractors. He has two other observations very pertinent to this current article. First, that its not about "rights" which are an illusion - but the innate Freedom we already have and the <i>action</i> in accordance with that freedom. The authorities (literal meaning of Archons) - indeed Statism in general - want to get us into this mindset of "rights" that come from them, either to be given or taken away by their whims. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> An example of this is with their openly evoking a "<a href="https://www.smerconish.com/exclusive-content/is-our-vaccination-strategy-correct">carrot-and-stick</a>" method to the Needlecraft. (I use terms discernable to any organic, free-thinking human individual, but beyond the abilities of the A.I. algorithms we are led to believe is "superior" to our limitless consciousness). These authorities like to speak in such coded words as "<a href="https://sjobst.blogspot.com/2020/11/building-back-better-to-great-reset.html">building back better</a>" and invent new terms such as "<a href="https://www.gavi.org/vaccineswork/understanding-vaccine-hesitancy">vaccine hesitancy</a>" whilst proclaiming a "new normal", so its time we de-mystify language. Its not always what words tell us but often what those words are designed to hide based on the intention of the one using such words. As well as their inherent power in establishing new social classes (including the latest heretics and pariahs) and paradigms.</span></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-aaZlThWMCQI/YYa5WWlLZJI/AAAAAAAAGRQ/sc9fe34bInAsBhSwE8r0hXCa0eGXz4E0gCLcBGAsYHQ/s1500/persona-the-mask-or-image-we-present-to-the-world-.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1000" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-aaZlThWMCQI/YYa5WWlLZJI/AAAAAAAAGRQ/sc9fe34bInAsBhSwE8r0hXCa0eGXz4E0gCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/persona-the-mask-or-image-we-present-to-the-world-.jpg" width="213" /></a></div><div><br /></div><br /><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> Second, Lash makes the point that what invests these authorities with the illusion of "power" are their masks and costumes. This is the Persona - the image a person projects to the outer world instead of their true identity. It originated with the masks worn in the Greek Mystery plays, so were forms of initiation. In his account of a coming-of-age ritual in Papua New Guinea, the great mythologist Joseph Campbell wrote: "The mask represents the power that is shaping the society, and has shaped you, and now you are a representative of that power." He observed the mystique and fear intended by those masks, where the adult men wearing them discipline an unruly kid and, when coming of age, are allowed to "fight" and "win" symbolically over such men whom, it is led them to believe, are "gods". </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> So it is with the mystique of the virus masks - we are dealing with the deeper meanings behind these symbols rather than just the symbol itself. The Papuan ritual was designed to give the child his own power so he may be equipped for the next stage of his life. While that ritual is a coming-of-age ritual, the one that has been imposed worldwide by the Authorities is darker and intended to bind rather than protect. This is a Dark Occult ritual, simply meaning using what's hidden to manipulate. These Authorities demonize the Occult for the masses since the same knowledge they use to control can also be used to empower and enlighten within the "right" hands; all those who simplistically dismiss everything Occult are useful idiots to these elites. True Occult silence is wisdom, whereas the Dark Occult inverts this into secrecy which is deceptive.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> As expressed by Mark Passio, the Occult is simply "a body of science which is not widely known to the general population, consisting of human knowledge about the Human Psyche and the Laws of Nature, both seen and unseen." Its an obscuring of the individual from even knowing about their own selves, whereas government, advertisers, and other financial interests perfect techniques in using people's own psyche against them. At the same time they make magic seem ridiculous and childish; the Occult is regarded as either superstitious, used by larpers for profane and selfish ends, or evil. "Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business," as Tom Robbins mused in his 1976 novel, <i>Even Cowgirls Get the Blues</i>. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> We return again to the "occult" nature of words and their multiple meanings. Proto-Germanic *grimo "mask" originated the Old English grima "mask, helmet" and Old Norse gríma "mask, helmet" and grímr "person wearing a mask, helmet". Through Gothic derived Spanish grima "disgust, uneasiness", Gallego grimo "fear, creeps, uneasiness", and Portuguese grima "aversion, disgust, antipathy". The English grim "fierce, cruel, savage, severe, dire, painful" and French grimace "grotesque face, ugly mug" are other derivatives of this word for "mask". All stem from Proto-Indo-European *ghrey "to paint, streak, smear" and *gher "to rub, stroke", with their ritualistic connotations of anointing; and *ghremno "angry", with social masks used to manipulate through fear and hysteria. </span></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ALUXc1_v0Fg/YYa6MWU4yRI/AAAAAAAAGRY/wCN4esjV9ZAyNAuNjewd5YC8YUUir_fCwCLcBGAsYHQ/s1200/97myn4dp1yx61.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1103" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ALUXc1_v0Fg/YYa6MWU4yRI/AAAAAAAAGRY/wCN4esjV9ZAyNAuNjewd5YC8YUUir_fCwCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/97myn4dp1yx61.jpg" width="294" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> Ultimately, their own actions are founded upon fear of human potential and their own human nature which they want to "transcend", hence anger mixed with fear. They invert it for the masses where they suppress people's natural rage that might be turned against them in constructive forms - for the impulse to destroy the bad ideas and negative institutions of thought, is also the impulse to create anew - and just condition them to fear. Death is just another form of Consciousness, and is different from the state of being "dead". As noted by Passio in a recent <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DJY1qFh0cg">interview</a> by Sethikus Boza, Dark Occultists refer to the masses as being "the dead", part of their own Transhumanist inversion of life, viewing only their own select few as having consciousness. The reality is <i>they</i> are the unconscious ones who deny their own humanness and are foolish to think they can escape the cycles of life that bound us all.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> The standard surgical mask looks very similar to the masks worn by Zoroastrian priests because of their belief that the magical flame would be contaminated by human breath. What we have been seeing is an attack upon the energy associated with speech, communication, and free flow of the human breath. That the Zoroastrian view saw an imbalance between the elements of Air and Fire, demonizing that which is innate and divine within humans much like the current mentality, is not surprising given its influence upon Abrahamism. The Jewish Kabbalah identifies each <i>sephirah</i> (emanation) on their Tree of Life as representing a different "face" of their Archontic desert demon-masquerading-as-a-god, Yahweh. Kether or the "Crown" (literal meaning of "Corona"), which the Kabbalists regard as "reunion with the source," represents "the mask that keeps hidden from view all that exists behind it." </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> This deceptive element of secrecy can be seen in the Greek khristos "the anointed", connoting the hidden as can be expected with a mythologized figure made not only into a "messiah" but a "savior" for all humanity. Lash makes the compelling case that the Archons are a primary source of such mind-viruses, making several associations with a shadowy Biblical figure named Melchizedek: "Declared by Saint Paul to be the anointer of the anointed, the Christ; hence the hidden power behind the Redeemer" (John Lamb Lash. <i>Not In His Image: Gnostic Vision, Sacred Ecology, and the Future of Belief</i>, 15th Anniversary Edition. White River Junction, VT: Chelsea Green Publishing, 2021, p. 397). I made a comment on one of his <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O87x6e0wd1c">videos</a> about this mind-virus of salvationism that can easily apply to the Covidiot Cult:</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> "Their salvationism and deification of sacrifice, coming from this scapegoat ritual, is a desperate attempt to replace the void filled by their desacralization of the world, demonizing its beauty, and loss of a meaningful Initiation and Myth from modern society. So replacing the Gods and Goddesses with a deification of sacrificed saviors (whether 'Christ', 'martyrs', or those of Abrahamism's modern 'secular' political offshoot ideologies), a Cult of Victimology where one is considered more sacred based on the level of oppression. But it also requires a witch-hunt of others who are to be the negative sacrifices so as to bind the rest of society to salvation. What is the social media culture, obsession about celebrities and the royals, virtue-signaling, and Cancel Culture but examples of this same salvationist, sacrificial perversion? Its an inversion of actual Pagan sacrifice, which had this element of gratitude combined with an exchange of energies with the Deities, not always a literal, physical 'sacrifice' of blood and body as falsely presented as. The Archontic effort to replace Animism with this resolves itself in removing divinity from this world in some ritualistic sacrifice so that the savior/martyr/victim can then 'ascend' off this planet. They replace the healthy, balanced awareness and reflection upon death, with a disjointed deification of death itself which still maintains it as a taboo. So its about the 'sacrifice' element of it rather than natural part of the cycles of life." </span></div></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-OekZFQnaMbk/YYa3j2VX5CI/AAAAAAAAGRA/3k7udbOLCn8R8LHn7Ex_1_n1bpRj-AdewCLcBGAsYHQ/s1721/1_S3mSYzCVmlmL9BJ87Pcn4A.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1721" data-original-width="1400" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-OekZFQnaMbk/YYa3j2VX5CI/AAAAAAAAGRA/3k7udbOLCn8R8LHn7Ex_1_n1bpRj-AdewCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/1_S3mSYzCVmlmL9BJ87Pcn4A.jpeg" width="260" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"The Great Red Dragon and the Woman <br />Clothed in Sun", William Blake's allegory <br />of tyranny seeking to devour life itself</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> By my non-compliance with this Cult and its Dogmas, I assert my own Sovereignty and proudly proclaim my heresy - a word derived from the Greek <i>hairesis</i> "choice, system of principles" and <i>haireomai</i> "to take for oneself, to choose". What is decried by this Cult are exactly those things that imply freedom, free choice, and critical thinking. Neuro-Linguistic Programming is most about how words are used, changing language at the most fundamental level. That Ronaspeak is merely the latest phase of Newspeak, was made abundantly clear when Merriam-Webster officially altered the definition of those heretics called "<a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/anti-vaxxer">anti-vaxxers</a>": "a person who opposes the use of vaccines or regulations mandating vaccination." So not merely those who oppose the practice of vaccines, but even those who reject any movement to coerce and pressure. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> Perfected by totalitarian ideologies and funded by the Authorities, the rise of various mind-control institutes and think-tanks devised new techniques to control both language and thought. We can see their esoteric implications by a passage from the <i>Grímnismál</i>, wherein Óðinn/Wotan/Wodan says he fears that his ravens, Hugin ("Thought") and Munin ("Memory"), may not return - but especially that Memory will not return....Our thoughts are constant and we should not trust every thought, especially since so many are implanted there by the barrage of propaganda (and indeed as ancient Gnostic texts say about the Archons "implanting" deceptive thoughts). We could be guided and grounded by the Memory deep within us, which could see us through this barrage with great clarity.</span></div></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> The imposition of this regime with its Globalist monoculture response to such "crises" is partly designed to prevent people from awakening to their ancestral memories and connection to their landscape that would provide freedom and guidance in a time when they want people confused with their own implanted thoughts. These are the primary tactics of Fourth Generational Warfare meant to demoralize the enemy which to them are an awakened people. The Vedic traditions speak of everything containing memory, down to the smallest atom within the body upwards to the vast workings of the Cosmos. They refer to happenings or "roarings", so called because of vibrations within an ever-expansive universe. There have been 84 such "roarings" and there will be 28 more for a total of 112, after which the cycle will start again. This is part of the cyclical worldview of every tribal, earth-based tradition (including our own ancestral), which spoke in allegory and myth about an expanding universe and the role of vibrations and sounds within the cosmos only recently "discovered" by science. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> Our cosmologies also speak of creation not as an event but as an unfolding process, held in conventional wisdom by those who speak of history "repeating" itself and that past events shape and reflect current happenings. Each of these processes carry their own memory, which is information and an accumulated past. Memory can inspire us and give a sense of belonging, but turned negatively it can also be used to bind us and keep us from growth. The hold of physical memories within the body can be cleansed through the elements, perhaps why the Covidiot regime and Carbon-demonizers alike want to cut people off from the element of Air. They use this knowledge against the people, ultimately to keep them from awakening to themselves. We look at the political agendas of the Authorities, but these mirror simultaneous happenings in the spiritual, "occulted" realm which constantly merges with our own perceivable world. What <i>is</i> reality is <i>not</i> what these Authorities want to define and impose as the "reality", but they only succeed insofar as people's minds and memories continue to be under their spell.</span></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-jmbBcnCaeJ0/YYa1jISWkXI/AAAAAAAAGQw/EX5TFrnC97sPy2KKvwFcY8xP-n7eWgKoACLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/Gnosticism-513959489-d4da4602972c4de29308b482d2296dfc.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2048" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-jmbBcnCaeJ0/YYa1jISWkXI/AAAAAAAAGQw/EX5TFrnC97sPy2KKvwFcY8xP-n7eWgKoACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Gnosticism-513959489-d4da4602972c4de29308b482d2296dfc.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Unknown artist. "bestdesigns/Getty Images"</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div><br /></div>Sean Jobsthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17351165299354431339noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-907444223262019258.post-8467865439655831322021-08-20T15:01:00.011-05:002021-12-16T11:44:53.585-06:00Rise of Wotanic Energy and Fall of the Empire of False Pestilence<p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Interpreting the Astrological Weather, Needlecraft, and Revelation of the Method</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">by Sean Jobst</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">20 August 2021</span></p><p><br /></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-zBBcybyVZv4/YRqxqdNJzZI/AAAAAAAAGKw/SLDHOCjwzXA3opEb2V2huVaY1s-k4xfcgCLcBGAsYHQ/s1018/7k8pb8qesj861.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1018" data-original-width="960" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-zBBcybyVZv4/YRqxqdNJzZI/AAAAAAAAGKw/SLDHOCjwzXA3opEb2V2huVaY1s-k4xfcgCLcBGAsYHQ/w302-h320/7k8pb8qesj861.jpg" width="302" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Illustration of "Ragnarok and the Psyche" <br />from a Jungian Reddit thread</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> We can live a more lively, enriching experience when we learn to see the world in myth and allegories. Doing so we can also pick up on certain auguries, making sense of trends, people, and events in a way the brain alone cannot. Just as we can often effect changes in reality through our individual will, auguries can be seen as the will of Nature projecting itself upon the present and future. Its upon us to read and reflect upon these signs; natural and cosmic phenomena mirror the human psyche and events. Seeing Nature and the Cosmos as cyclical, applying these lessons to our psyche, and then seeing it work its way through social changes. This is certainly true of the global events this past year, being an <a href="https://sjobst.blogspot.com/2020/03/coronavirus-reflections-and-advice.html">education of a lifetime</a> with clarity and opportunities even amidst the tyrannies.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> One powerful idea proposed by two leading Irish Pagans, the writer and magician Thomas Sheridan and astrologer Fiona Aedgar, is that there is arising now a Wotanic energy from the Arctic North, which they identify with the Wild Hunt. This is something many of us tapped into without even being conscious, and perhaps explains why I found myself drawn to write a <a href="https://sjobst.blogspot.com/2020/12/the-wild-hunt-symbolisms-meanings-and.html">series about the Wild Hunt</a> beginning last December. This coincided with a chain of events in my own life as I entered this year with time appearing to speed up. I found a strengthened immunity after getting over the virus. I'm sure others can say the same about their own lives around that time. These realities have a psychological, mythological, and scientific dimension at one and the same time. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> "Wotan or Wodan is a multifaceted god we can relate to and emulate in many different ways as varied as individuals," as I wrote on <a href="https://sjobst.blogspot.com/2020/08/tribute-to-carl-jung-ii-on-german.html">Jung and the Wotan Archetype</a>. "His ordeal on the World Tree was truly about 'killing' himself to himself so as to discover the enlightenment within, the immortal command to 'Know Thyself'. The Runes are not only letters and symbols but each laden with deep esoteric meanings about the psyche, cosmos, nature and memories - thus related to the Unconscious. His great 'shamanic' abilities offer general ways to sense there is more than just one physical reality; his leadership over the Wild Hunt in some folklore showing the 'veils' between life and death, physical and spirit worlds, can be thin and obscure within the overall cycle of life, death and rebirth. Like the Unconscious, Wotan represents the repository of ancestral memories across lifetimes of both an individual and people - and similar Archetypes of other peoples convey that same principle in other names and realities." </span></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-pEsiYLuSwM0/YR03QwO6bpI/AAAAAAAAGLg/EUdKsdQKkaEZYWiZktV0q6ZTk0JvEqJngCLcBGAsYHQ/s1920/polar-vortex.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="1920" height="160" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-pEsiYLuSwM0/YR03QwO6bpI/AAAAAAAAGLg/EUdKsdQKkaEZYWiZktV0q6ZTk0JvEqJngCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/polar-vortex.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p><i><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">A scientific basis behind this phenomenon</span></b></i></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> Rejection of the appeal-to-(selective) authority Cult of Scientism, elevated to both a religion (with its various dogmas, sacred vestments, and denunciations of "heretics") and a medical tyranny financed by the deep pockets of billionaire technocrats, should not be confused with a rejection of science itself, despite the false dichotomy placed before the people. Science has proven events such as <a href="https://earthsky.org/earth/study-magnetic-field-reversals-happen-faster-than-thought/">magnetic pole flips</a> linked to solar flares, so there could be a link with this changing polar energy. They noticed <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-00007-1">erratic motions</a> of the north magnetic pole in 2019. In January 2021, scientists and meteorologists noted what they termed a "sudden stratospheric warming event": Cold air is coming forth from the North, caused by a dramatic spike in temperatures occurring at high altitudes above the North Pole. There is thus a scientific basis behind the Wotanic Energy thesis, as explained by the relevant <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2021/01/05/polar-vortex-split-cold-snow/">article</a> from <i>The Washington Post</i>:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> "While occurring about 18 miles high in the sky and disconnected from the weather on the ground, stratospheric warming events can affect the polar vortex, which is a circulation of air around low pressure that acts as a repository for some of the coldest air on the planet. If the polar vortex is strong and stable, as it was last winter, that cold air will stay bottled up over the Arctic, and snow chances may be few and far between for regions such as the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast. But when the polar vortex weakens and wobbles off the pole, pieces of it can split off and swirl southward, affecting the United States, Europe and Asia. And that's exactly what's begun to happen, due in large part to this stratospheric temperature spike." (Andrew Freedman, "The polar vortex is splitting in two, which may lead to weeks of wild winter weather," <i>The Washington Post</i>, Jan. 5, 2021)</span></p><p><br /></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-nTlIjgEhAZE/YR03wGs6hGI/AAAAAAAAGLs/RCsH5BBB8D84CPApDVL4NEl95QpVFof7wCLcBGAsYHQ/s800/800px-La_caza_salvaje_de_Od%25C3%25ADn%252C_por_Peter_Nicolai_Arbo.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="547" data-original-width="800" height="219" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-nTlIjgEhAZE/YR03wGs6hGI/AAAAAAAAGLs/RCsH5BBB8D84CPApDVL4NEl95QpVFof7wCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/800px-La_caza_salvaje_de_Od%25C3%25ADn%252C_por_Peter_Nicolai_Arbo.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"The Wild Hunt of Odin" (1872) by Norwegian<br />painter Peter Nicolai Arbo (1831-1892)</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p><b><i><span style="font-family: georgia;">How the Wild Hunt allegory relates to our current realities</span></i></b></p><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> The Wild Hunt is a European-wide motif that is generally a symbolic "army" of the dead, to be understood as sweeping up anyone who dares stand in its way. You can either step aside to live or stand in its way and die - i.e., a metaphor for going against historic cycles. This is about your own choices, not being tied to one static fate in life. Its an opportunity given to people in real time, to either follow the mass media-manufactured herd, or think and act for themselves as free human beings. Its an energy unleashed when people become too weak and cowardly, ultimately due to their own volition. It may be known as "Wotanic" in a Germanic context, but there are parallels with different names in other cultures, just as the Wild Hunt has its parallels in various mythologies. The point is to see our world as consisting of various energies.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> An <a href="https://moderndaywizards.org/the-ace-of-blades-star-fire-from-the-north/">insightful discussion</a> of this reality was held between Sheridan and the occult teacher Sethikus Boza, entitled "The Ace of Blades - Star Fire from the North" (May 16, 2021). They described this time as the release of all the ancestral energies the elites are trying to keep locked away from the people so we may remain tied to their own false reality. The fear they instilled in the masses is a projection of their own internal fears: The fear of the descendants of all tribes and bloodlines coming to truly remember and know themselves. They have distorted and turned the Masculine and Feminine energies against each other, knowing this is the balance that would truly heal societies. The lockdowns were meant to keep us from being social, much less knowing our purposes in the world. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> Mask mandates were a dark occult ritual imposed to disconnect people from the non-verbal expressions that form most human communication. A whole generation growing in this era will be less sensitive to these expressions, and indeed even mainstream media sources admit the "<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jun/02/a-sacrificed-generation-psychological-scars-of-covid-on-young-may-have-lasting-impact">psychological scars</a>" of this increased inability to relate to others and themselves. Its no accident even the term "mask" has long been synonymous with persona - the outer image people project outwardly "to conceal the true nature of the individual" in the words of Jung. We can also meditate on the effects of cutting off people from their throat chakras and the basic understanding of breath as one's life-force energy, as well as the effects of a weakened immune system from people breathing their own oxygen. An October 2020 study attempting to prove masks decreased hospitalization, was <a href="https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.10.21.20208728v2">withdrawn</a> after the number of Rona cases increased in many areas with mask mandates.</span></div></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> We can see the institutions behind this tyranny as an archetypal "demon" or false "god" who demands compliance, harvesting people's energies who give in to manufactured fears and illusions. This is about basic energy described through allegory - it doesn't need to be dismissed as "supernatural". Their agenda is complete control and micromanaging. They have used the Rona with all its accompanied fears and hysterias towards this end with their proposed "solutions" that have only increased their powers and transferred trillions of people's tangible resources into the hands and pockets of a financial elite, whose collection agency are the various governments. Two weeks to "flatten the curve" turned into extended government-imposed lockdowns and other "solutions" milked for all their worth. The Rona then morphed into various "variants" as the new plagues, turning the "unvaccinated" into The Bogeyman Other who bring the "pestilence" upon the "saved" ones' doorsteps by their stubborn insistence of control over their own bodies. More on the implications of the "sacred" needlecraft jabs later.</span></div></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-DRoD_LrhA-Y/YR00jex0uRI/AAAAAAAAGLU/ts2SxqUsslA8GzLFT0w-RVwM1qZnydfwACLcBGAsYHQ/s903/The%2BTower_thoth%2B%25282%2529.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="903" data-original-width="582" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-DRoD_LrhA-Y/YR00jex0uRI/AAAAAAAAGLU/ts2SxqUsslA8GzLFT0w-RVwM1qZnydfwACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/The%2BTower_thoth%2B%25282%2529.jpg" width="206" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div><b><i><span style="font-family: georgia;">Revelation of the Method</span></i></b></div><div><b><i><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></i></b></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> The archetypal energies of the Wild Hunt have been striking down the self-styled authorities most associated with the false pestilence (not to be confused with the reality of the virus itself). Examples abound: The politicians <a href="https://sjobst.blogspot.com/2020/11/biden-and-dark-winter-rona-as-excuse.html">caught violating</a> their own lockdown orders, such as a <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/dc-mayor-bowser-attends-maskless-indoor-wedding-after-reinstated-mask-mandate">recent example</a> in Washington, D.C.. The disclosures from Anthony Fauci's <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9648457/Emails-reveal-Dr-Faucis-private-statements-versus-public-ones.html">emails</a>, his personal statements versus his public persona. The private jet-setting elites who revel in lecturing the public about vaccine and mask mandates, attending Obama's <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9872643/No-fly-zone-set-Obamas-12M-Marthas-Vineyard-mansion-Alicia-Keys-sing-Happy-Birthday.html">birthday party</a> at the peak of fear-mongering for the masses to shut-in and shut-up. The scandals of Bill Gates and his links to Epstein (no need to rely on the QAnon psy-op). The hypocritical sexual escapades of <a href="https://thehill.com/policy/international/496366-top-uk-health-adviser-quits-after-report-of-visits-from-girlfriend">Neill Ferguson</a> and <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-57625508">Matt Hancock</a>, two leading architects of the UK's lockdown. Big Tech <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9712997/Google-funded-research-carried-Wuhan-linked-scientist-Peter-Daszaks-charity.html">financial links</a> to scientists tied to the Wuhan Institute of Virology. A Mumbai doctor treating Rona patients <a href="https://indianexpress.com/article/india/mumbai-doctor-booked-sexual-assault-coronavirus-patient-6392530/">exposed</a> using his work as a cover for his pedophilia. Internal emails <a href="https://apnews.com/article/united-nations-europe-ebola-virus-entertainment-coronavirus-pandemic-d14715ba3653753d7c1f122f8aea79de">revealing</a> this year that the World Health Organization covered up rape and sex abuse right under its auspices in the Congo. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> All of these point to those imposing their own false system built upon fear and hysteria, now being trampled under Sleipnir's hooves, because they have gone against the historical cycles and indeed Natural Law itself. Their reactions to the virus and rolling out a vaccination campaign at the height of a presumed pandemic, go against all historical precedence for how far-deadlier viruses were handled in the past. The vaccine passports are being sold as "freedom", whereas it's only the "freedom" allowed to those who obediently comply. These revelations are a recognition they allow some information to leak out so they can spin and control the narrative, willing to <i>apparently</i> sacrifice some of their elite to serve the broader agenda. It also has a deeper psychological element, where they are mocking the masses:</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> "The alchemical principle of the Revelation of the Method has as its chief component, a clown-like, grinning mockery of the victim(s) as a show of power and macabre arrogance. When this is performed in a veiled manner, accompanied by certain occult signs and symbolic words and elicits no meaningful response of opposition or resistance from the target(s), it is one of the most efficacious techniques of psychological warfare and mind-rape." (Michael A. Hoffman II, <i>Secret Societies and Psychological Warfare</i>, Dresden, NY: Wiswell Ruffin House, 1992, p. 89)</span></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-VOsHyFN2mG0/YR1D7fv-q7I/AAAAAAAAGMY/IWVaN0gHPvkc5rXLh111LlAx82n1R8BCgCLcBGAsYHQ/s890/MW-FO566_witcht_20170615124814_ZH.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="501" data-original-width="890" height="180" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-VOsHyFN2mG0/YR1D7fv-q7I/AAAAAAAAGMY/IWVaN0gHPvkc5rXLh111LlAx82n1R8BCgCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/MW-FO566_witcht_20170615124814_ZH.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Every witch-hunt needs its witches, its compliant<br />witch-hunters, and a hysteria backed up by power<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><div><b><i><span style="font-family: georgia;">Natural Law and the Sacred Needlecraft</span></i></b></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> The "needlecraft" of the (rushed and untested) vaccine by which they want to skewer the masses, is being met by their own "skewing" through them overplaying their hands, revealing the limitations of their own power. They only have the power that others feed to them, which is why they have to resort to propaganda means since their "truths" aren't so self-evident. The handlers of <a href="https://time.com/5936036/secret-2020-election-campaign/">asterisk president</a> Biden lectured people to receive the jab so they can "live without fear". They are openly evoking a <a href="https://www.smerconish.com/exclusive-content/is-our-vaccination-strategy-correct">carrot-and-stick</a> method: "But without a better carrot or a bigger stick, many Americans won't get vaccinated and we will suffer more death and dislocation." Gavi, The Vaccine Alliance, openly funded by bankers and billionaire technocrats, advocated "<a href="https://www.gavi.org/vaccineswork/understanding-vaccine-hesitancy">building vaccine confidence</a>" through propaganda. They invented terms like "vaccine hesitancy", which the elitist Global Citizens NGO declares as the bogeyman to "<a href="https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/what-is-vaccine-hesitancy/">fight</a>", and the Merriam Webster entry for "<a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/anti-vaxxer">anti-vaxxer</a>" has been expanded to those opposing laws compulsing such vaccination: "a person who opposes vaccination or laws that mandate vaccination."</span></div></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> There is a scrambling of the class system to justify the apartheid under this medical tyranny. What was the "essentials" vs. "non-essentials" is now morphed into the "unvaccinated" as the new "profane, unwashed masses" who must be viewed as carriers of filth and disease. This is seen with mandates and legislation in various places, giving special privileges to the vaccinated over the unvaccinated people. Yet, the unvaccinated are needed by the elites to exist so they can blame The Other as the bogeyman to be feared by the compliant. Even from a scientific view, the "herd immunity" they allegedly want with this sacred needlework needs at least 20-30% non-vaccination rates to work:</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> "Once a population reaches a point of collective immunity where the disease is no longer likely to spread, it reaches the herd immunity threshold. The estimate for COVID-19 is that roughly 70% to 85% of the population will need to be vaccinated to reach the herd immunity threshold, although this will likely be a moving target as we move into different stages of the pandemic. (In contrast, the flu needs between 33% and 44% vaccinated to reach the herd immunity threshold.)" (Serpil Erzurum, "How Much of the Population Will Need to Be Vaccinated Until the Pandemic Is Over?," <a href="https://health.clevelandclinic.org/how-much-of-the-population-will-need-to-be-vaccinated-until-the-pandemic-is-over/">Cleveland Health Clinic</a>, May 5, 2021)</span></div></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> This specific figure appears theoretical, laid out in a July 2015 article by <a href="https://ourworldindata.org/vaccination">Our World In Data</a> that just happened to be revised in December 2019, when all signs point to when the Rona currently appeared in the world. Aside from their need for an unvaccinated bogeyman, they know there is no magical charge from compulsion but that there is when they manufacture people's consent willingly, who then give away energy through the ritual itself. The amount of skepticism means they have to increase the percentage of people submitting to the jab, but nevertheless such manufactured consent is important to the elites: "It is an ancient rule of both the moral and common law that silence connotes consent - silence and a lack of meaningful action constitute consent in the face of these crimes. They brag to us about what they've gotten away with and we're thrilled by it. That's our only significant response, that and the anticipation of the next thrill" (Hoffman, <i>op. cit.</i>, p. 90). </span></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0o55G5SVHOg/YR04EMpB9EI/AAAAAAAAGL0/mnjgYwjU7k46qQGuZD_RsD8SgPHRzTSdACLcBGAsYHQ/s249/download.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="249" data-original-width="202" height="249" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0o55G5SVHOg/YR04EMpB9EI/AAAAAAAAGL0/mnjgYwjU7k46qQGuZD_RsD8SgPHRzTSdACLcBGAsYHQ/s0/download.jpg" width="202" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div><b><i><span style="font-family: georgia;">Occulting the Rona's Origins and Harmful Jabbing</span></i></b></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> The word "occult" used throughout this article needs to be demystified. It simply means that which is "hidden", most often through rituals. We saw this with the massive propaganda campaign against the Wuhab lab origin thesis solely for <a href="https://thehill.com/changing-america/well-being/prevention-cures/559050-harvard-scientist-says-trump-hatred-motivated">political reasons</a>, whereas those same outlets are now coming around to concede its at least plausible. Scientific studies have recently <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-91470-2">proven</a> the Rona could not have originated from the Wuhan wet markets since no bats were traded there at the time. Whatever its origins, the fear of a mass-destructive pandemic was incanted as a means of control and manipulation on a global scale. Harvesting viruses of the mind and psyche for all their worth, as they have always done for their power agenda.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> Such rituals often have neither a purpose nor an end-goal, so it is with the vaccine about which scientists have <a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/08/10/delta-variant-has-wrecked-hopes-herd-immunity-warn-scientists/">warned</a> doesn't stop or prevent the Delta "variant" anymore than among those who refuse the jab. Both the <a href="https://www.nih.gov/news-events/nih-research-matters/lasting-immunity-found-after-recovery-covid-19">National Institutes of Health</a> and <a href="https://www.news-medical.net/amp/news/20210608/No-point-vaccinating-those-whoe28099ve-had-COVID-19-Findings-of-Cleveland-Clinic-study.aspx">Cleveland Clinic</a> admitted the lasting immunity from a natural recovery from the Rona. That's how viruses have always worked, but they have been deliberately occulted and mystified in the public imagination. Not merely a litmus test, one's vaccine status is turned into an "<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/27/arts/covid-vaccine-tiktok-content.html">internet personality test</a>" with its own branding and corporate idolization. The magical numbers of "cases" are arbitrary (and kept vague on what that entails), with the CDC admitting it <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-9884193/CDC-adjusts-Floridas-weekend-Covid-numbers-state-accused-agency-overcounting-cases.html">inflated thousands</a> of cases, to promote their agenda that places with less restrictions and lower vaccine rates were somehow more deadly. </span></div></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> One of these occulted facts is the nature of vaccines. Most vaccines are produced using weakened forms of a virus. The Moderna and Pfizer C-19 vaccines use mRNA technology, which is injected into the body where it enters cells and tells them to create antigens recognizable to the immune system. Even the inventor of mRNA technology, Dr. Robert Malone, has <a href="https://trialsitenews.com/dr-robert-malone-inventor-of-mrna-technology-discusses-the-spike-protein-interview/">warned</a> about the harmful effects from the spike protein incorporated by the vaccines. Dr. Peter McCullough, a consultant cardiologist and Vice Chief of Medicine at Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas, <a href="https://vimeo.com/553518199">explains</a> how this spike protein ramps up risks of blood clotting and deplete immune response. Such uncomfortable realities embarrass the power agenda of the governments and the profit margins of the Big Pharma companies converging together in the massive media psycho-propaganda campaign. The goal-post has been extended where not only a third jab but also boosters is expected - a boon for Big Pharma's <a href="https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/vaccine-treadmill-covid-booster-shots/">projected profits</a> in years to come. Pfizer Chief Financial Officer, Frank D'Amelio, boasted of a "<a href="https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/20514141/pfe-usq_transcript_2021-03-11.pdf">significant opportunity</a>" for profits once the "need" for annual boosters to the vaccines is manufactured in the (un-free) market. The CDC admits the <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/18/health/covid-cdc-boosters-elderly.html">inefficacy of the vaccines</a>, creating the "need" for the next fix.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> I respect people's free-will and individual sovereignty. Those who take the jab have chosen to cross the metaphoric threshold of all that entails, for whatever reasons they make their decision. We do not celebrate deaths even though the "other side" loves to <a href="https://sports.yahoo.com/doctor-dont-mock-vaccine-hesitant-110048329.html">gloat</a> about deaths that fit in with their political narrative (for they love the collective and hate the individual). In February, Italian researchers submitted a <a href="https://www.onlinecjc.ca/article/S0828-282X(21)00286-5/fulltext">case-study</a> of a newly-vaccinated 30-year-old, showing that myocarditis - a serious inflammation of the heart muscle - resulted after the vaccine. In June, 19-year-old Northwestern University student Simone Scott died after <a href="https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/coronavirus/heart-problems-vaccinated-students-trigger-medical-legal-scrutiny">receiving</a> her second Moderna shot. She needed an emergency heart transplant, based on what an epidemiologist who reviewed her case called a "vaccine-induced myocarditis". Italy <a href="https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/italy-bans-astrazeneca-covid-vaccine-under-60s-death-vl6rzd8xx">banned</a> the AstraZeneca vaccine in June after 18-year-old Camilla Canepa died from blood clotting, despite no known health problems before taking the vaccine.</span></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-H6V5rVsDmvQ/YR0_qQRI50I/AAAAAAAAGL8/G3-Ru7sIY-0Yc1gn9AEAilLxHzssCS_BQCLcBGAsYHQ/s600/27VACCINE-CONTENT-articleLarge.jpg"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="600" height="213" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-H6V5rVsDmvQ/YR0_qQRI50I/AAAAAAAAGL8/G3-Ru7sIY-0Yc1gn9AEAilLxHzssCS_BQCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/27VACCINE-CONTENT-articleLarge.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> In their presentation on June 23rd, the COVID-19 Vaccine Safety Technical (VaST) Work Group concluded a "<a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/health-coronavirus-usa-vaccines-idCNL2N2O51OW">likely link</a>" between the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines, and nearly 500 cases of myocarditis in vaccinated adults under age 30. Even the CDC and its media lackeys were forced to <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/over-300-cases-heart-issue-after-covid-vaccination-reported-young-n1271200">report</a> on the connection, although they put their usual spin on it - when confronted with truth that can no longer be hidden, control the narrative until such a time the story can be "killed". A CDC presentation on June 10 revealed that although they accounted for only 9% of administered mRNA vaccines, people within the 12-24 age range who received a second dose <a href="https://www.aappublications.org/news/2021/06/10/covid-vaccine-myocarditis-rates-061021">represented 53%</a> of all myocarditis and pericarditis reports through May 31st, three times the high end of the "expected" report rate. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> Epidemiologists Martin Kulldorff of Harvard Medical School and Jay Bhattacharya of Stanford <a href="https://thehill.com/opinion/healthcare/558757-the-ill-advised-push-to-vaccinate-the-young">wrote an op-ed</a> demonstrating more risks than benefits for children and younger adults to take the vaccine. As we have seen, scientists are clear that the vaccine does not safeguard against the Delta and other "variants" than being unvaccinated. Even a CDC study <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7031e2.htm">admitted</a> the vaccinated can transmit this variant just as easily. I will be even more blunt: The lockdowns and needlecraft campaigns not only weakened many people's immune systems in the short-term, but nurtured the rise of "<a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/covid-variants-called-escape-mutants-could-throw-us-back-into-lockdown-2021-5">escape mutants</a>" now being used to impose more draconian measures. According to <i><a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-95025-3">Scientific Reports</a></i>, vaccine-resistant mutants like Delta spread through a population faster when a greater number of people are vaccinated. </span></div><div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> Many noted virologists and doctors have publicly warned about how the vaccines "feed the virus" by creating stronger, more transmittable, mutant variants of the virus. Among these voices are <a href="https://planetes360.fr/pr-luc-montagnier-les-variants-viennent-des-vaccinations/">Luc Montagnier</a>, the French virologist who received the 2008 Nobel Prize in Medicine for his discovery of the HIV; <a href="https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/vaccinated-covid-mutations-immune-response/">Joseph Mercola</a>, best-selling author and natural health physician; <a href="https://www.anhinternational.org/news/think-like-a-doctor-scientist-ecologist-and-economist-then-become-a-conscientious-objector/">Rob Verkerk</a>, founder and scientific director of the Alliance for Natural Health International; and <a href="https://dryburgh.com/geert-vanden-bossche-open-letter-to-who-halt-all-covid-19-mass-vaccination/">Geert Vanden Bossche</a>, a vaccinologist who has previously worked with various Big Pharma companies and Globalist institutions, but now warns of an "uncontrollable monster" that could be unleashed by these campaigns. This basic reality was explained in a <a href="https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-vaccines-can-drive-pathogens-to-evolve-20180510/">2018 article</a>: "Just as antibiotics breed resistance in bacteria, vaccines can incite changes that enable diseases to escape their control." </span></div></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0JAlKXE316k/YR1CSRiIvrI/AAAAAAAAGME/fYVbS-wjcyUsSoruoUrgPKW6GBXlUJ89QCLcBGAsYHQ/s1024/Marcus-Aurelis-Quote-1024x576.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="576" data-original-width="1024" height="180" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0JAlKXE316k/YR1CSRiIvrI/AAAAAAAAGME/fYVbS-wjcyUsSoruoUrgPKW6GBXlUJ89QCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Marcus-Aurelis-Quote-1024x576.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div><b><i><span style="font-family: georgia;">Astrology 2021: As Above, So Below. As Within, So Without</span></i></b></div><div><b><i><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></i></b></div><div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> Astrology is the recognition that stars and other celestial bodies have some impact on human events and the psyche, represented by various symbols and archetypes with qualities mirroring human qualities. This is through the relation between various energies of the Cosmos and the Individual. As I am not an astrologer, I will defer to what certain trained astrologers have been observing about our current world. Throughout 2020, Jupiter, Pluto and Saturn were within Capricorn (my astrological sign). Pluto was briefly in Sagittarius from June 2020 until returning to Capricorn in December 2020. Whereas Sagittarius <a href="https://www.timelineastrology.com/pluto-saturn-and-jupiter-in-capricorn.html">symbolizes</a> subjective reality, Capricorn represents objective reality - viewed as an unveiling of more clarity and discernment. From April 27th, 2021 to October 6th, 2021, Pluto is 24 degrees retrograde Capricorn, to <a href="https://www.shape.com/lifestyle/mind-and-body/pluto-retrograde-2021">remain</a> in that sign until January 21st, 2024. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> Meanwhile, from 15th August to 18th October, Aries and Pluto are in an almost exact square - Jung referred to symbols that "represented the combining of the four elements into the wholeness at the centre of the four quadrants, or paths, at the focal point of their meeting" (Thomas Sheridan, <i>The Druid Code</i>, 2017, p. 44). Could this not represent things coming full circle through a convergence of energies? At the end of 2021, Jupiter will enter Pisces. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDEu6IJto70">According</a> to Fiona Aedgar, this era coincides with the Age of Pisces, whose negative qualities include illusion and deception. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> Many people lost sense of themselves, their routines, and worldviews. But its only a time of panic for those who willingly give in to those illusions - much like those who do not step aside from the Wild Hunt. Jupiter will enter Aries on 11th May 2022, becoming more harmonized with its fellow fire sign. In Greek Mythology, Jupiter <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCzgoYAhINo">related</a> to the fire of the "Divine Mind" (<i>Nous</i>) - an allegory pre-dating the discovery that Jupiter contains deposits of phosphorus, the alchemical "fire" energy that fires our DNA. This will follow a Jupiter and Pluto square around the liminal <a href="https://sjobst.blogspot.com/2020/04/walpurgisnacht-journey-across-time.html">auspicious time</a> of Walpurgisnacht or Bealtaine. </span></div></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> In <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtElIt4nNeQ">several lectures</a> between 2017 and 2019, astrologer David Palmer aka "The Leo King", predicted based on the Saturn-Pluto-Jupiter conjunction, that 2020 would be a year of control by "hexing" people into not being their true selves. The beginning was to be a period of "revealing", but develop afterwards into a test to either go with the cyclical flow, or lose oneself and succumb to illusions (like what we've connected with the Wild Hunt). He saw the end-result as more technological control through Big Tech censorship and the move towards Artificial Intelligence. Psychically, people would project their own beliefs upon others on a greater scale than before. Palmer drew parallels with the same occult elements combined with resulting authoritarian controls present with 9/11. Indeed the esoteric writer Richard Smoley predicted such results based on Mars being so prevalent earlier in 2001 (Smoley, <i>The Truth About Magic</i>, 2021). All of this indeed has come to past as we are living with the results now.</span></div></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-h4rkJj2HZ44/YR6m_ci4TUI/AAAAAAAAGMg/2TsJNszeYPE_q35ba3h5_pBc7OrgJx2mgCLcBGAsYHQ/s720/23d28bcd594316f0ffc6b8f1201d5dea.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="440" data-original-width="720" height="196" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-h4rkJj2HZ44/YR6m_ci4TUI/AAAAAAAAGMg/2TsJNszeYPE_q35ba3h5_pBc7OrgJx2mgCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/23d28bcd594316f0ffc6b8f1201d5dea.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> History repeats itself through cycles. Prior to 2020, the last time the three planets were in conjunction in Capricorn <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFjh2aSVuzI">coincided with the Black Plague</a>, with its same elements of a control system dominating information combined with a plague. Palmer noted how many of the deaths from the Plague were from people living inside confined out of fear, breathing in the soot and weakened their immune systems. I am reminded of the H.P. Lovecraft quote: "Fear is our deepest and strongest emotion, and the one which best lends itself to the creation of nature-defying illusions" (<i>Notes on Writing Weird Fiction</i>, 1934). </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> Palmer compared such deaths to the increased suicides, depression, relapses, denial of life-saving medical treatments, and other deaths caused by the government-imposed lockdowns worldwide using the Rona as their excuse. Saturn in Capricorn represented a "dark secret, an illusion" and "plague to control people", harnessing fear and paranoia for the most deadly results. What you fear is most often worse for you than the object or illusion you fear. This is because you suppress your ability to be happy and grateful, directly affecting your immune system and ability to think clearly. </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">The trend of this era is a scientism which denies spirituality or deeper metaphysical realities, designed to squash individuality. Palmer warned: "People who don't follow their destinies are going to be the ones who fall victim to their plague." </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> I suggest we can now say the same with the needlecraft. Its a negative energy where those who follow such illusions will only double-down on their assumptions, allowing themselves to be taken backwards into the same divisive trends and paradigms. Others have noted the similarities these trends have to a new religion, with its own rituals for "purification", its own sacred vestments (the mask, etc.), and castigating the "heretics" and "disbelievers". The needlecraft is taken as the new "salvation". The control system knows it can exploit the modern lack of a <i>true</i> myth and initiation ritual by inverting the human psyche with their own illusions, filling this instinctual need with their own manipulation. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> Some esotericists identify our times with the Age of Hermes, identified with illusions of the mind, with Hermes being regarded as both a god of the mind and a trickster archetype. The <a href="https://www.republicworld.com/entertainment-news/whats-viral/greek-gods-bust-found-in-athens-while-clearing-sewage-depicts-hermes-at-a-mature-age.html">discovery</a> of his bust in the Athens sewage line last November could be a synchronicity reminding us of these negative energies. What we can be certain of is that t</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">he elites will continue to overplay their hands, just as Saturn or Chronos was ultimately defeated in the Greek Myths. We are seeing this now with the fall of many of their leading figures through a revelation of the method backfiring. Balance is needed and will always surface. In the meantime, what this time calls for the rest of us is re-evaluate our own bad habits and qualities; confront and integrate those lower aspects of us called the Shadow; and foremost it requires abandoning any notion of evangelism - people have the dignity to come to their own decisions and individual sovereignty should be respected.</span></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-x8aMqF6DD1Q/YR6wkrcwS7I/AAAAAAAAGMo/5ohHtU6TI4ga3KsCyX9J9lFLUOvFiNH5ACLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_20210819_141525.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="240" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-x8aMqF6DD1Q/YR6wkrcwS7I/AAAAAAAAGMo/5ohHtU6TI4ga3KsCyX9J9lFLUOvFiNH5ACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/IMG_20210819_141525.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div><div><b><i><span style="font-family: georgia;">Applying the Symbolisms of Tarot</span></i></b></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> If we apply the Tarot to this Wotanic energy, then we can look at the Ace of Swords. This is the "sword" of determination pointing down from the symbolic North, which can also lead to some distortion if not used correctly. This card represents dynamic actions and moving forward, so it requires a cold calculation that gives the best opportunities the more its not weighed down by emotions. This "coldness" is symbolic of current polar weather cycles, just as Wotan was associated with the wind energy swept up by the Wild Hunt. Taking a longer view of the situation; observing and not obsessing over these passing trends; and not giving in to merely reacting, but thinking and acting outside its paradigm on your own terms.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> A second card we can look at is The Tower, which employs many archetypes from Mythology. As eloquently expressed by Sheridan, the lightning bolt striking the Tower is Donar's Hammer smashing through the illusions represented by the giants, and that of Indra smashing the clouds and bringing rains down to wash away the filth of falsehoods. Its also the phosphorus subjecting the darkness of falsehood and deception into the blinding light of pure Truth - indeed, the occult Revelation of the Method. Its a card to be prepared for what will naturally follow after the Tower falls - i.e., after the trends and illusions of this era fall along with the figures who promote this control system. Rebirth naturally follows death, so there is no need to fear and see the situation as "hopeless". Internal flaws will be exposed to the light.</span></div></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-eE6Nwkk5A7I/YSNPetNT_TI/AAAAAAAAGNs/nEldtjXaWtk15QuO6rtOsYc8w_onyWHygCLcBGAsYHQ/s267/download%2B%25282%2529.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="189" data-original-width="267" height="189" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-eE6Nwkk5A7I/YSNPetNT_TI/AAAAAAAAGNs/nEldtjXaWtk15QuO6rtOsYc8w_onyWHygCLcBGAsYHQ/s0/download%2B%25282%2529.jpg" width="267" /></a></div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><div><i><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Cathar Prophecy to be Fulfilled 21st August 2021?</span></b></i></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> Moments before his burning on 21st August 1321 at 8 am, the Occitan mystic and last perfect of the Gnostic sect of the Cathars, Guilhem Belibasta - known to his French persecutors as Guillaume Belibaste - uttered these cryptic words: "In 700 years the laurel will become green again. The good people shall return." This would make their fulfillment....21st August 2021! The laurel being worn by the god Apollo, was taken by the Greeks as symbolic of eternal youth and immortality. It became a symbol for poets and musicians well into the medieval world, such as the Troubadours whom some scholars have seen as secret carriers of the wisdom of ancient Gaullic Druids through allegories of song. There are theories linking the Cathars to descendants of the Goths and other tribes who left their mark in Occitania and the Pyrenees, combining their indigenous streams into a spirituality "heretical" to the Roman Church. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> The "greening" predicted by Belibasta could be symbolic of a return to nature and respecting its cycles; a "greening of the spirit" or renewal of values such as Love and Wisdom. Could it also not relate to potential ecological changes from the pole shifts? One of the unintended consequences of Kontrol-19 is that the lockdowns reversed some ecological damage. Examples included <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s43017-020-0079-1">air quality improving</a> worldwide, <a href="https://www.insider.com/satellite-images-venice-canals-clear-coronavirus-lockdown-2020-4">Venice's canals clearing</a></span><span style="font-family: georgia;">, and megaliths going back to their pristine energetic properties free from the harms of tourism and New Age rituals. Unintended because the same elites promoting a climate change psy-op ignorant of Nature's cycles and self-healing are the biggest violators of the environment. Balance means their inversion had to be met by Nature being restored, timeless while their illusions are passing.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> The "good people" was the term used by the Cathars for themselves, upholders of those timeless values. </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">Several Gnostics have said that this current time is transitioning into the Age of Sophia. Not merely the feminine embodiment of Wisdom, Sophia also represented the same type of energy as the various archetypes present with The Tower card. For she "strikes down" the lies and illusions of the era with the blinding, illuminating light of pure Gnosis. She is the archetype whom mirrors human beings in all their descents and ascensions, "falling" into the world to experience and know herself. This Gnosis has been conveyed in many modern terms - Jung would call it Individuation, Joseph Campbell the Monomyth or Hero's Journey. </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">Its the life-long goal of The Fool going on his journey through the Tarot.</span></div></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> Its the ultimate instinct of the human soul to know itself. Its fulfilling one's unique destiny or purpose, what the Vedic tradition would call Dharma. Belibasta's prediction also fits the parallel reality breaking down the false hierarchies of the control system, not from confronting it but merely by setting up its own Truth alongside the House of Cards built upon illusions. Just as the Cathars set up their own spirituality alongside the official Church and attracted converts not by evangelism but through its values. One modern Church prelate observes the <a href="https://www.lifesitenews.com/blogs/new-interview-archbishop-vigano-discusses-the-great-reset-gives-hope-in-light-of-our-lady-of-fatima/">mockery and imitation</a> the Rona religion makes of the Roman Church, so its no surprise that cult has its own crusades and heretics. The prediction means a return to more esoteric and decentralized forms of spirituality, as indeed occurred with many who underwent introspection during these times. Local languages such as the Cathars' <a href="http://www.ogmios.org/blog/occitan-in-the-time-of-covid-19-creating-connections-through-minoritized-languages-under-crisis-conditions/">Occitan thrived</a> throughout 2020. </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">Even if the prediction is apocryphal, its relevance is symbolic. Its wording is not one event but marks the start of an ongoing process.</span></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-9HTniCMTlLQ/YR8jfCCepLI/AAAAAAAAGNA/rc9IWyESHpAB63BtbLjJQD8yf09zLg-MgCLcBGAsYHQ/s248/images%2B%25282%2529.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="248" data-original-width="203" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-9HTniCMTlLQ/YR8jfCCepLI/AAAAAAAAGNA/rc9IWyESHpAB63BtbLjJQD8yf09zLg-MgCLcBGAsYHQ/s16000/images%2B%25282%2529.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Krishna advising the despondent <br />Arjuna, in a story of the Bhagavad-<br />Gita with psychological allegories</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><i>Significance of 2025 and End of the Kali Yuga?</i></b><br /><br /> This is a time of Consciousness shining over the darkness of the control system's dogmas and illusions. Astrologers observe the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1ywvLXb6qE">change</a> in how institutions and the ways of society are viewed by people, specifically naming Pluto within Capricorn until the year 2025. The energy of Capricorn is one that discerns what souls do not want to truly follow and live their purpose, while the energy of Pluto discerns those who truly do want to follow their inner authority and purpose. The two combined represent a massive clarity and discernment as was present with 2020. There are certain Hindu sages and Vedic astrologers who believe that the Kali Yuga cycle will occur until 2025, coinciding with our current astrological cycles. There is no final "end", just the ending of one cycle and beginning of another cycle, much like The Tower card represents building anew upon the crumbled tower.<br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> Indian independent researcher Bibhu Dev Misra wrote an <a href="https://www.bibhudevmisra.com/2012/07/end-of-kali-yuga-in-2025-unraveling.html">interesting article</a> in 2012: "The End of the Kali Yuga in 2025: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Yuga Cycle". He pointed out how modern astronomical simulations determined the previously-accepted dating of Kali Yuga from the year 3102 BCE is erroneous, since the necessary conjunction of the five visible planets with Aries did not occur then. Plus the <i>Surya Siddhanta</i> identified this as a sign of the ending Golden Age (Satya/Krita Yuga), not the Kali Yuga. A complete yuga cycle takes 24,000 years, divided into an ascending and descending cycle of 12,000 years each. The Saptarshi calendar has a cycle of 2,700 years, followed by a transitional period of 300 years. Misra applied these calculations as follows: The <i>Mahabharata</i> describes events in the Dwapara Yuga (Bronze Age), whose beginning in 6676 BCE + 2,700 years = ending 3976 BCE. Adding the 300-year transition, the beginning of Kali Yuga was 3676 BCE. So its descent ended 976 BCE + 300-year transition = ascent beginning 676 BCE, to end in 2025 CE. </span><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> Whatever meaning we read into this information and how we interpret it is up to the individual, but its a fact that certain elite institutions view 2025 with some significance. For example, this year is <a href="https://www.cgdev.org/sites/default/files/horizon-2025-end-beginning-development-cooperation-pandemic-age.pdf">invoked in a report</a> by the Center for Global Development: "Horizon 2025 - End of the Beginning: Development Cooperation in the Pandemic Age". After openly stating its funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation, it states: "The focus of our analysis is on the 'intelligent reconstruction' phase of 2022-2030, once the immediate stabilization of economies and the health pandemic have taken place." It labels 2020-2022 the "COVID-19 transition world", and 2022-2030 the "intelligent reconstruction phase". This admits its intent to structurally destroy so as to move into the next, more draconian phase of control. The report announces its context within Agenda 2030 and the SDG "Sustainable Development Goals". </span></div><div><br /><div><br /></div></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Go3qj4fbQhw/YSAAJS8k2JI/AAAAAAAAGNM/_4Fic4bpdc8ieFWHxTuOAcZrwywc6b6MQCLcBGAsYHQ/s250/download%2B%25281%2529.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="202" data-original-width="250" height="202" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Go3qj4fbQhw/YSAAJS8k2JI/AAAAAAAAGNM/_4Fic4bpdc8ieFWHxTuOAcZrwywc6b6MQCLcBGAsYHQ/s0/download%2B%25281%2529.jpg" width="250" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Flammarion engraving by an unknown<br />artist, from Camille Flammarion's 1888 <br />work "L'atmosphère: météorologie populaire"</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div><br /></div><div><div><b><i><span style="font-family: georgia;">Conclusion</span></i></b></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> The preceding speaks for itself. Its strands of astrology, psychology and mythology weave into it effortlessly, creating the rich tapestry of our reality. What masquerades as "reality" is not what it appears to be. Neither are its proponents the omnipotent and omniscient power-brokers either themselves or some who give in to doom and gloom feed into their illusions. We are all subject to the same cycles; going against those are ultimately doomed to failure. Could the sudden trend of billionaires wanting to travel to space like a temporary escape relate to this? Or generally the transhumanism of technocrats who want to transcend those aspects of them that remain human. They should be pitied as the miserable beings they are, more than feared by we who celebrate our individual humanity. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> Many of the elites' plans are made up as they go, exactly because it has limitations. For example, Agenda 21 was re-named Agenda 2030 because their projected goals with 2021 never panned out. Their moving the goal-post with the Rona also illustrates they are dealing with a force they may have unleashed but cannot fully control themselves. They are overplaying their hands out of desperation. We have to still know about their plans and remain vigilant, but ultimately we are psychically strong whereas they project "power" from their inner weaknesses. "We have to understand who we are and where we fit in the natural order of the world because our oppressor deals in illusions," <a href="https://airwalker.tumblr.com/post/69013049722/john-trudells-1980-thanksgiving-day-address">observed</a> the Native American poet and activist John Trudell, who stressed how everyone is descended from tribes and the same "civilizing" process. "They tell us that it is power, but it is not power. These are imitations of power and they are only 'power' because in our minds we allow it to be power."</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> As I have expressed it, the occult merely means "hidden" knowledge; what one does with it depends on the intention and will invested into it. Demonizing occult knowledge as "evil" is <i>exactly</i> what the elites want, because they can continue to hoard it for themselves and apply it towards dark ends, i.e. to control and manipulate others rather than develop themselves and grow. Accepting the classic definition of Magic as to cause changes in consciousness in accordance with will, reveals just how much exactly that can apply to governments, media, corporations, advertising, and the banking system. As the novelist Tom Robbins put it bluntly: "Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business" (Even Cowgirls Get the Blues, 1976). Either use it yourself or it will be used against you.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span> One of the basic Natural Laws is that of Correspondence: what happens above mirrors below; what happens within mirrors without. Cultivating a strong psyche is the ultimate answer to their efforts at virus manipulation, as Sheridan presciently <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSOms3GO2C4">observed</a> in 2019: "You have to decontaminate, isolate, and quarantine your psyche, in the same way if there was a serious virus outside in the street you stay indoors." At the height of a plague in Rome, the Emperor and Stoic philosopher Marcus Aurelius observed: "An infected mind is a far more dangerous pestilence than any plague - one only threatens your life, the other destroys your character." </span><span>The truest form of "vaccine" is the </span><a href="https://news.stanford.edu/2015/05/07/stress-embrace-mcgonigal-050715/">internal inoculation</a><span> against stress, as psychologists refer to the brain's ability to learn and grow from difficult experiences. There can be no ascent without descent; no growth without failures.</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> We should avoid reacting to what we cannot control, and acting in ways that only feeds our energy to them. They have always invoked the specter of bogeymen as providing the excuse for starting wars and increasing authoritarian controls. We merely have to continue setting up the parallel reality and refuse to play their game. Some examples I would recommend is the Counter-Economics approach of the late Canadian political theorist Samuel Konkin III; and a return to tribes and communities as local controls over their centralized power structures that seek to bind our bodies and minds and kill our souls. Tribes need not only be genetic, but are the natural, instinctive state of human beings. The approaches are as multi-faceted as we are as individuals. To know ourselves and our place in the world we just have to know and appreciate our energies and potentials. May it be so!</span></div></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-pEeYSOhT1Lo/YSKXOxEeIpI/AAAAAAAAGNc/Ou-jqGQnUk4y44usT9j-tlwGNWvthxtKgCLcBGAsYHQ/s852/jiddu-krishnamurti-1457687%2B%25281%2529.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="852" data-original-width="640" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-pEeYSOhT1Lo/YSKXOxEeIpI/AAAAAAAAGNc/Ou-jqGQnUk4y44usT9j-tlwGNWvthxtKgCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/jiddu-krishnamurti-1457687%2B%25281%2529.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-jPYolUKkV94/YSKXiPojcBI/AAAAAAAAGNk/6wKSz7tfqxkmuKCLzUQ-Hyyi9cGai9kSgCLcBGAsYHQ/s700/jiddu-krishnamurti-820%2B%25281%2529.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="360" data-original-width="700" height="165" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-jPYolUKkV94/YSKXiPojcBI/AAAAAAAAGNk/6wKSz7tfqxkmuKCLzUQ-Hyyi9cGai9kSgCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/jiddu-krishnamurti-820%2B%25281%2529.jpg" width="320" /></a></div></div>Sean Jobsthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17351165299354431339noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-907444223262019258.post-86053189854563462972021-06-16T16:59:00.002-05:002021-06-16T17:01:09.072-05:00Birth Anniversary of a Heroic Poet: Lessons for Ourselves and Our Current Realities<p>by Sean Jobst</p><p>16 June 2021</p><p><br /></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_9Wa8w76wh0/YMY2QRFAHOI/AAAAAAAAGBo/U3vFc0EblLIwgrsN4SlfMvR0LRk1dJIDACLcBGAsYHQ/s669/b9.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="446" data-original-width="669" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_9Wa8w76wh0/YMY2QRFAHOI/AAAAAAAAGBo/U3vFc0EblLIwgrsN4SlfMvR0LRk1dJIDACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/b9.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Fernando Pessoa</td></tr></tbody></table><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><p>June 13th was the 133th anniversary of the birth of the great Portuguese poet and writer, Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935). I wrote a three-part series of tributes to his life and work last year, but its time to highlight some new insights and information.... </p><p>I. "His Metapolitics and Philosophy": <a href="https://sjobst.blogspot.com/2020/06/tribute-to-fernando-pessoa-1888-1935-1.html">https://sjobst.blogspot.com/2020/06/tribute-to-fernando-pessoa-1888-1935-1.html</a></p><p>II. "Psychological Lessons from Pessoa's Work and Life": <a href="https://sjobst.blogspot.com/2020/06/tribute-to-fernando-pessoa-1888-1935-2.html">https://sjobst.blogspot.com/2020/06/tribute-to-fernando-pessoa-1888-1935-2.html</a></p><p>III. "Paganism and Occultism of Pessoa (& His Heteronyms)": <a href="https://sjobst.blogspot.com/2020/06/tribute-to-fernando-pessoa-1888-1935-3.html">https://sjobst.blogspot.com/2020/06/tribute-to-fernando-pessoa-1888-1935-3.html</a></p><p>As I wrote at the time: "On 13 June 1888, the watchful eyes of the Dioscuri welcomed into this world a man whose words bounded him to his homeland while also admitting him amongst the immaterial. He was the Portuguese poet and writer Fernando Pessoa, whose interests ran from philosophy and metapolitics, to the esoteric and occult. Far more than a typical man of letters, he gave life to dormant aspects within himself and, doing so, can serve as a model for individual spiritual and psychological growth. From his writings we can also glean observations about his own time and place that can extend to our current realities."</p><div>Its no coincidence we are currently under Mercury retrograde in Gemini, from the end of May until after the Summer Solstice. This alignment presents to us many opportunities on a personal level which can then be manifested outwards. Whereas Mercury is about uncovering the specific issues that need to be addressed in someone's own life, Gemini is about the broader environment around us and how to go with the natural flow. Indeed, Mercury as the "planet of literature" was the common element of all seventy of Pessoa's heteronyms. It was not lost on him that the Mercury Archetype (and his equivalent in other cultures, such as Wodan and Lugus) is also associated with arts and crafts, and a shamanic, "traveling" one that is limitless in its abilities to traverse our current time-space realm. </div><div><br /></div><div>Its especially a time to double-down on higher spiritual truths, vis-a-vis the false belief paradigms imposed by the elites, accelerating with the lockdowns and shutdowns they imposed on a global scale this last year. Much has been uncovered, as we were presented with the <a href="https://sjobst.blogspot.com/2020/03/coronavirus-reflections-and-advice.html">education of a lifetime</a> with the Rona. It was never about the virus itself (with its 99% non-fatality rate, and I had it myself at the end of 2020 and beginning of 2021), but how governments and other self-imposed "authorities" would use it for their own purposes. I've uncovered some of these aspects in my six-part series about "The Rona and the Global Surveillance State", but that's merely scratching the outer surface. Its also about our reaction to these events, which is entirely within our area of control and not theirs despite their illusion of "power". The opportunities to know who we are, take responsibility so we can come into alignment with our destiny, and see various people for whom they revealed themselves to be this last year.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-l_-nTTNHlGg/YMYz6JZXlVI/AAAAAAAAGBg/vsJtbKKdXGYSB34lWb_tEUFo_BbiCnwzgCLcBGAsYHQ/s560/1364497498_588366_1364497738_noticia_normal%2B%25282%2529.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="417" data-original-width="560" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-l_-nTTNHlGg/YMYz6JZXlVI/AAAAAAAAGBg/vsJtbKKdXGYSB34lWb_tEUFo_BbiCnwzgCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/1364497498_588366_1364497738_noticia_normal%2B%25282%2529.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Diagram by Spanish artist Fernando Vicente</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div><br /></div><div>"What relationship can an age like this one have with a spiritual heir to the race of constructors, with a soul inspired by paganism’s glorious truths? None, except one of instinctive rejection and automatic scorn. We, the only dissenters from decadence, are thus forced to assume an attitude that, by its nature is likewise decadent. An attitude of indifference is a decadent attitude, and our inability to adapt to the current milieu forces us to just such an attitude. We don’t adapt, because healthy people cannot adapt to a sick milieu, and since we don’t adapt, it is we who are sick. This is the paradox in which those of us who are pagans live." - Fernando Pessoa / "António Mora"(1)</div><div><br /></div><div><div>The "sicknesses" of this current milieu are varied, far more penetrative through Technik(2) and its subtle (hence more insidious) mass-propaganda techniques since Pessoa's era, but his forecast is even more pertinent now. Through Bernardo Soares, the most autobiographical of Pessoa's heteronyms as the introspective, melancholy office worker, he lamented the loss of spirituality for the same reason religious dogmas were previously followed: "without knowing why".(3) This natural yearning for the spiritual and mysterious is being misdirected to various illusions, a mass-binding ritual to increase their own control system and its paradigms rather than allow people to know themselves and their potential. </div><div><br /></div><div>The same governments that created the social and economic conditions present themselves as the "saviors" with the alleged "solutions" - the "cures" which have proved themselves far more deadly and lasting than the virus itself.(4) The Scientism of this age is a worship of false "authority" figures masquerading as "science" but actually selective, suppressing all dissenting scientists and upholding dogmas over the traditional scientific method. That these are all illusions is shown by the fact that it has relied on an unprecedented level of Big Tech censorship since their "truth" is clearly not self-evident. That they feed upon a consent manipulated by them through fear and using people's own psychology against them, to mask their own internal weaknesses is seen by the quick fall of several of their worshipped idols through recent scandals and revelations to the public.</div></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Dhr0aMIdCuk/YMZUohEbsfI/AAAAAAAAGBw/F2GjfiMVhJ01jNyZi0R7YskAMjjmAB2PACLcBGAsYHQ/s1280/1_v3-1.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="1280" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Dhr0aMIdCuk/YMZUohEbsfI/AAAAAAAAGBw/F2GjfiMVhJ01jNyZi0R7YskAMjjmAB2PACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/1_v3-1.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Work by the Colombian illustrator Carolina Zambrano</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div><br /></div><div>In one short passage, Pessoa condemned all the tendencies towards leveling, conformity, and centralism that sums up the illusory "reality" and its false paradigms: "Reality, when it first appears to us, is multiple. By referring all received sensations to our individual consciousness, we impose a false unity (false to our experience) on the original multiplicity of things."(5) In his essay "The Return of the Gods", António Mora - the disciple of his other heteronym Alberto Caiero, who represented the humble animist Pessoa who yearned for deeper realities beyond his own urban life - considered how four spiritual views perceive objects. The Christian thinks only of its creation by God; the materialist reduces it to "a screen through which he atomistically peers"; the pantheist as a "window for perceiving the Whole"; but only the Pagan is capable of fully perceiving and appreciating it for itself.(6) </div><div><br /></div><div>One of these false paradigms is the delusion that everything can be quantified, nothing left to the mysterious. Many "mainstream" academics want to apply this to Pessoa's heteronyms, assigning various materialist causes to these heteronyms, but the reality is Pessoa reached the pinnacle of his own humanity by exploring various aspects of his Psyche and Personality. In Jungian terms, exploring his Subconscious and engaging in deep Shadow Work which was often hard, depressing and melancholic, but necessary for the growth that produced his great creative works. Indeed, Pessoa defined their creation as an "act of intellectual magic, a magnum opus of the impersonal creative power."(7) This going within himself was his Hero's Journey, his Initiation that brought repressed thoughts and personality traits into the light - the central goal of his own esoteric studies:</div><div><br /></div><div>"What seems to have impressed him, in those books as well as in his spiritualistic experiences, was the 'evidence' of a hidden reality, more real than the daily and visible one. This leads us to appreciate the most characteristic aspect of Pessoa's thought: his strong dualism, which evidently verges on a sort of idealism. In Pessoa's view, reality is always composed of two opposite sides. This is reflected on any and all of its levels: the duality spirit-matter is just a mirror for other dualities, such as imagination-actuality, darkness-light, invisible-visible, unknown-known. The first term of these dualities represents for Pessoa the positive side, while the second one represents the negative side. In a sort of reversal, what is normally seen as real and concrete becomes illusory, whereas only what is hidden and invisible can be 'real.' Between these two poles of reality we find symbols that act like signs: they remind us of the existence of another dimension, which hides the real side of things, and push us towards it. Furthermore, if the symbol is a sign towards the hidden side of things, initiation is the path to reach it."(8)</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-GpfDjas_wmU/YMbToLXv4eI/AAAAAAAAGCI/f15ySAIOCdMAevk92K3EHpEHO3sSDmJ2gCLcBGAsYHQ/s1000/1060_Jose-de-Almada-Negreiros_64P66-_Retrato-de-Fernando-Pessoa_--1.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="1000" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-GpfDjas_wmU/YMbToLXv4eI/AAAAAAAAGCI/f15ySAIOCdMAevk92K3EHpEHO3sSDmJ2gCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/1060_Jose-de-Almada-Negreiros_64P66-_Retrato-de-Fernando-Pessoa_--1.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Painting of Pessoa (1964) by his friend, <br />the painter José de Almada Negreiros</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>Aware of the magical properties of Words, taking the classic definition of magic as causing changes in Consciousness in accordance with one's Will, Pessoa saw his vocation as foremost spiritual: "I was a poet animated by philosophy, not a philosopher with poetic faculties."(9) He viewed the poet as an initiate, whose mastery of words replaced all "normal" routes of initiation.(10) Pessoa was influenced by the Scottish historian Thomas Carlyle's concept of the "hero as poet" (1841). He embodied the words of the German philosopher Ernst Jünger whose "Anarch" concept closely parallels Pessoa's worldview: "There is only one freedom, which can put all this under checkmate: the freedom of the poet. It is for this reason that there isn't any space for it in Plato's State."(11) <div><br /></div><div>Pessoa's was the ultimate freedom achieved by the Hermit who withdrew within to achieve that inner freedom, knowing he must then manifest his own creativity outside himself: "Yet, in his lifetime, Pessoa seemed to have found a way to finally reach the state of an 'infinite Being' able to create itself. By giving life to his army of heteronyms, while at the same time remarking that 'Pessoa, properly speaking, doesn't exist', the Portuguese poet established within himself a space in which creation - and thus free will - could finally be possible."(12) The Hermit withdrew into his inner world to work on himself, knowing that at some point he would return to the outer world with more psychological and spiritual tools to deal with life's challenges. Caeiro never confused his outer persona for his inner purpose: "I have no ambitions nor desires. To be a poet is not my ambition; it is my way of being alone."(13)<div><div><br /></div><div>Pessoa resolved his existential anxieties through Caeiro, who asserted his Sovereignty through an unmediated contact with Nature, finding himself in the process. "As for me, I write out the prose of my verses," Caiero writes in 'The Keeper of Sheep'. "And I am satisfied, because I know all I can understand is Nature from the outside; I don't understand it from inside because Nature hasn't any inside; it wouldn't be Nature otherwise."(14) His was a return to the intuitive, at a time of false over-rationalizing and denying whatever cannot be quantified: "If you want me to have a mysticism, then fine, I have one. I'm a mystic, but only with my body. My soul is simple and doesn't think. My mysticism is not wanting to know. It's living and not thinking about it. I don't know what Nature is: I sing it."(15)</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-FL4b_JRb8Zg/YMjWd9NucPI/AAAAAAAAGCY/XkLX_6LDxtYJVaYo2tdEYPEy8rw-CNZewCLcBGAsYHQ/s689/fernando-pessoa.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="580" data-original-width="689" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-FL4b_JRb8Zg/YMjWd9NucPI/AAAAAAAAGCY/XkLX_6LDxtYJVaYo2tdEYPEy8rw-CNZewCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/fernando-pessoa.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Because Caiero's withdrawal sometimes leads to an escapism that simply runs from the world's challenges and isn't always possible due to personal obligations, Pessoa found another outlet through the Baron of Teive, who channeled his despair and disillusion by cultivating the detached attitude of the Stoic (as did his Epicurean heteronym Ricardo Reis). He was acutely aware of his own position within society, burdening him with certain expectations: "What made me furious at myself was the disproportionate weight of the social factor in my decision. I was never able to overcome the influence of heredity and my upbringing. I could pooh-pooh the sterile concepts of nobility and social rank, but I never succeeded in forgetting them. They're like an inborn cowardice, which I loathe and struggle against but which binds my mind and my will with inscrutable ties."(16) He dealt with this by knowing he controlled his reaction to the external factors, so it could never change his inner condition unless he allowed them to. </div><br /><div><div>Despair is a natural reaction when dealing with these human conditions. To remedy this we can draw on the insights of the German philosopher Max Stirner, who advocated a "positive freedom" of Ownness - unleashing the potential of the Ego, those factors which make the individual truly unique. The Ego has been demonized by the "Love and Light" delusion (which is merely another unbalance that denies The Shadow), but a healthy Ego is necessary for growth - the key is to tame and control it rather than suppress it entirely. Pessoa's rejection of the dogmas and trends of society, prone as they are to being manipulated by the elites, was never a selfishness: "My egoism is the surface of my commitment. My spirit constantly lives in the study and the care of Truth, and in the concern of leaving once I will have dismissed the clothes that bind me to this world, an opus which will be useful to the progress and the good of Humanity."(17) </div><div><br /></div><div>We can resolve this by accepting people as they are, focused more on those directly around us while seeing that people come in and out of our lives for reasons, and squashing any impulse or desire to be "saviors" which is most often a mask to control and manipulate. "How to reform society? It is simple: with a non-collective movement, that is with a purely individual impulse," Pessoa observes. "All social reforms have always originated from one man of genius. From this man of genius, they pass to a small minority, from this small minority to a larger minority, and finally to the whole of society."(18) The Individual is a private being closed in his own world, whereas Individualism is nothing but a symptom of the same rampant Nihilism the Individual rejects. Even the Anarch has a social component, willing to join with others who have the same inclination, but he is not necessitated or dependent upon this - so strong is his internal nature.(19)</div></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-v0ArU1q5A7g/YMjkzTienzI/AAAAAAAAGCg/OCJC60bc2OoXrmKDxjXGIA9inPNLH5LsQCLcBGAsYHQ/s400/2808645_full-pagan-wisdom-quotes-orbis-catholicus-secundus-wisdom-of-the-pagan-greeks.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="320" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-v0ArU1q5A7g/YMjkzTienzI/AAAAAAAAGCg/OCJC60bc2OoXrmKDxjXGIA9inPNLH5LsQCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/2808645_full-pagan-wisdom-quotes-orbis-catholicus-secundus-wisdom-of-the-pagan-greeks.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div>I am convinced one of the purposes of the global lockdowns is to cut us off from this social element, which is just as necessary for an individual's growth as looking within - both aspects have their time and place in balance. Learning to see things in allegory and metaphor, and how much is occultic and ritualistic in society. For example, the mask - its no accident "mask" is a metaphor for the personas people project onto the world. Most communication is non-verbal, so masks covering these cues ensures less people will be able to relate to each other. The negative effect upon the psyche means people are more suspicious of each other, seeing each other as potential threats even when misplaced. This also makes people less sensitive to those non-verbal cues and behavior that actually would align them more with their natural instincts. On an individual level, masks cut off the throat chakra and the breath which was regarded as a divine life-breath, being the essential source of energy. We can also consider the implications of forcing people (although it was so often with their willful consent through manipulating their fears) to breathe their own oxygen rather than being connected to that of Earth. All of this qualifies as a Dark Occult ritual - changing people's Consciousness in accordance with the will of the elites.</div><div><br /></div></div></div></div><div>Whenever we delve into the occult, we encounter all sorts of misconceptions from various people bringing their own preconceived biases and misunderstandings into it. Dismissing it all as "evil" or "dark" does not change the fact that occult knowledge is being used against us by the same elites who would demonize it for the masses, but it can also be harnessed by ourselves for the "good" of self-knowledge, growth, and true freedom of mind, body and spirit. Its about seeing the world as it truly is, opening up a world of opportunities. Pessoa delved into various occult topics, collecting and translating many esoteric works throughout his life, infusing his various heteronyms with different aspects of that worldview. Because he achieved the ultimate individuation through integrating the multiplicity within his psyche and personality, its not always clear what outer form his spirituality took. The Portuguese philosopher António Quadros distinguished between an earlier "pagan" stage and a later "gnostic" stage in Pessoa's intellectual development.(20) I suggest it was likely a combination of the two, some of his heteronyms tending more towards the other.(21) </div><div><br /></div><div>Pessoa cultivated a friendship with the English occultist Aleister Crowley, which began with his interest in astrology but quickly extended to the occult generally. Crowley is a controversial figure since much of what he did in his lifetime was purely for shock value. And his ideas infused too many Kabbalistic concepts for my liking. But other ideas of Crowley were empowering: That every man and woman is like a "star," carrying out their individual wills and following their own paths but ensuring it doesn't conflict with the will of another (similar to the <a href="https://wiki.mises.org/wiki/Principle_of_non-aggression">Non-Aggression Principle</a>). The two met when Crowley <a href="https://sjobst.blogspot.com/2020/06/tribute-to-fernando-pessoa-1888-1935-3.html">came to Portugal</a> in September 1930. Pedro Monteiro, the son of Quinta da Regaleira proprietor António Augusto Carvalho Monteiro, received both men at that incredible spiritual place in Sintra, where the three performed a magical-occult ritual.(22) In a brilliant move that foreshadowed the powerfully-charged memes of recent Chaos Magicians, Pessoa helped Crowley stage a fake suicide stunt at the Boca do Inferno in Cascais, seeking to "recharge" his declining publicity. The two differed on how Initiation plays out in people's lives: "Being all, or rather feeling all in all possible ways seems to be for Pessoa the real path to initiation. This was by no means far from Crowley's views, with the difference that, for Crowley, the initiate was to have experiences in material, daily life as well, whereas for Pessoa everything happens on an intellectual and imaginative level."(23)</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-t8W-aF1G5_A/YMpAbo_azwI/AAAAAAAAGCo/DyVcFTalSgc8LQjOzBnPgnMlX396Uh6SACLcBGAsYHQ/s960/20479486_10209361234139132_7563649288794563623_n.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="720" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-t8W-aF1G5_A/YMpAbo_azwI/AAAAAAAAGCo/DyVcFTalSgc8LQjOzBnPgnMlX396Uh6SACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/20479486_10209361234139132_7563649288794563623_n.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-1S_bMCMK6jI/YMpBQswMMsI/AAAAAAAAGCw/X_updEH8MxoriqFXIwR2EKoD0O_uOWRdACLcBGAsYHQ/s960/20375904_10209345410103541_8804296410263897573_n.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="960" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-1S_bMCMK6jI/YMpBQswMMsI/AAAAAAAAGCw/X_updEH8MxoriqFXIwR2EKoD0O_uOWRdACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/20375904_10209345410103541_8804296410263897573_n.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-looCHIqFCCI/YMpB1wcz97I/AAAAAAAAGC4/l8SdFL8Weo42pZnzIucFIpSnmeiNQ4v2wCLcBGAsYHQ/s960/20525379_10209354848019483_7751784192426875857_n.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="960" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-looCHIqFCCI/YMpB1wcz97I/AAAAAAAAGC4/l8SdFL8Weo42pZnzIucFIpSnmeiNQ4v2wCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/20525379_10209354848019483_7751784192426875857_n.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Just a few of nearly 150 pictures from my own trip<br />to Quinta da Regaleira, 30 June 2017. I planned to <br />return last summer, now possessing a deeper awareness<br />and knowledge, but the lockdowns interrupted that <br />trip to this and other destinations. </td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>The poet advises us to be "gravely attentive to the mysterious importance of existing."(24) Knowing ourselves and our potential so that we may truly grow as individuals, in tandem with the similar growth of others around us. We have been cut off from knowing ourselves - and what it truly means to be human - by keeping us less sensitive of the deeper mysteries of this world. Using subtle means like increased energetic "noise" and various stimuli to keep us within false perceptions that are easier to manipulate. Pessoa stressed the importance of accepting a spiritual existence, no matter by what name one attempted to conceptualize: "We can only be responsible and free if we are responsible for that brain being as it is. That is to say to be responsible for our state, to be free we must have created our own [self] ourselves. But to create oneself is nonsense....Free-Will is the mode of existence of an Infinite Being (if such there be). It may, with incoherence or absurdity attributed to God. To man, only absurd and unthinkably."(25) <br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>Pessoa identified the Anarchist as the natural outgrowth of a Statist society, especially one that has extended its modes of control even into aspects of daily life and the psyche: "The anarchist is a product of civilization. Very much as smoke is the product of fire."(26) At times one must withdraw further from the sicknesses of society through apparently submitting to its outer demands which however never changed one's internal condition. Thus was created the figure of the "Anarchist Banker", an apparent oxymoron: "I had established that, in the true anarchism, each person had to create freedom and to combat social fictions by his own efforts....I couldn't destroy all social fictions; that could only be carried out by a social revolution....I would have to subjugate them, I would have to overcome them by subjugation, by rendering them powerless....The most important [social fiction], at least in our day and age, is money. How could I subjugate money, or to be more precise, the power and tyranny of money? There was only one way forward, I would have to acquire money, I would have to acquire money, I would have to acquire enough of it not to feel its influence, and the more I acquired the freer I would be from that influence."(27) <div><br /></div><div>His aspects of an anguish over past mistakes and a life not truly lived to its potential found its reflection in the character of Álvaro de Campos, who continued to give life to this anguish despite all his travels and Futurist art. Traveling has a paradox - it can help you to discover more about yourself, but in the process also causes you to confront harsh truths about your own life. Except for his formative decade in South Africa, Pessoa never left Portugal although he had such a yearning. I can relate personally to this as one whose own detailed travel plans last summer were disrupted by the lockdowns. Yet this forced many of us to look further within ourselves and manifest it without to our environments, just as it forced Pessoa to find the creativity within and likewise to explore the <i>alma portuguesa</i> (something a Lusophile like myself can respect). Cultivating that appreciation for the mysterious in life, to develop feelings of "<i>Saudade</i>", a life that can learn not only from past mistakes but also lost opportunities, and becoming more grateful for what we have despite life's challenges - perhaps Pessoa ultimately reminds us to look within before anything else.<br /><div><br /></div></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-NCir7bwGjfs/YMpuRelD63I/AAAAAAAAGDA/VQXeZsFSh18aksRUOI5X5X_5uAOocdibgCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/1988712-Anthony-De-Sa-Quote-The-Portuguese-call-it-saudade-a-longing-for.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1152" data-original-width="2048" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-NCir7bwGjfs/YMpuRelD63I/AAAAAAAAGDA/VQXeZsFSh18aksRUOI5X5X_5uAOocdibgCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/1988712-Anthony-De-Sa-Quote-The-Portuguese-call-it-saudade-a-longing-for.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><div>Footnotes and Sources:</div><div><br /></div><div>(1) António Mora, "The Return of the Gods"; quoted in <i>The Selected Prose of Fernando Pessoa</i>, trans. Richard Zenith. New York: Grove Atlantic, 2001, p. 150.</div><div><br /></div><div>(2) I refer to the coded term for this modern age and its basic assumptions, that have been used to control and bind the masses using various psychological and other techniques. See the writings of Martin Heidegger, Ernst Jünger, and Jacques Ellul on this issue of Technik. Not to be confused with technology itself, which is neutral and depends on the intent.</div><div><br /></div><div>(3) <i>Livro do desassossego</i> (<i>The Book of Disquiet</i>). Lisboa: Edições Atica, 1982, p. 192.</div><div><br /></div><div>(4) The deaths from despair, suicides, and relapses, resulting directly from the lockdowns. Deaths from starvation on a global scale, people being denied access to essential food resources due to the shutdowns. People with cancer and heart diseases denied life-saving treatment because so many resources were redirected to a virus with a 99% non-fatality rate. All of this blood is on the hands of the governments, the sanctimonious civil servants and celebrities whose own jobs were safe and secure, the hypocrite politicians who violated their own orders, the dancing Tik-Tok nurses and doctors, and all appeal-to-authority cultists.</div><div><br /></div><div>(5) <i>The Selected Prose of Fernando Pessoa</i>, p. 148.</div><div><br /></div><div>(6) <i>ibid.</i>, p. 152.</div><div><br /></div><div>(7) <i>Poemas Completos de Alberto Caeiro</i>, ed. Teresa Sobral Cunha. Lisboa: 1994, p. 292.</div><div><br /></div><div>(8) Marco Pasi, "The Influence of Aleister Crowley on Fernando Pessoa's Esoteric Writings," <i>The Magical Link</i> (O.T.O. Ordo Templi Orientis), Fall-Winter 2002-2003, p. 5; reprinted from <i>Ésotérisme, Gnoses et Imaginaire Symbolique: Mélanges offerts à Antoine Faivre</i>, eds. Richard Caron, Joscelyn Godwin, Wouter J. Hanegraaff and Jean-Louis Vieillard-Baron. Leuven, Belgium: Peeters, 2001, pp. 693-711.</div><div><br /></div><div>(9) Pessoa. <i>Páginas Íntimas e de Auto-Interpretação</i>, eds. Georg Rudolf Lind and Jacinto do Prado Coelho. Lisboa: Edições Atica, 1966, p. 13.</div><div><br /></div><div>(10) Pasi, <i>op. cit.</i>, p. 6.</div><div><br /></div><div>(11) Ernst Jünger. <i>An der Zeitmauer</i>. Stuttgart: Ernst Klett, 1981.</div><div><br /></div><div>(12) Federico Campagna, "Beyond the Anarch - Stirner, Pessoa, Junger," <i>Anarchist Studies</i> (London: Lawrence & Wishart), Vol. 21, No. 2, Autumn-Winter 2013, p. 16.</div><div><br /></div><div>(13) <i>The Collected Poems of Alberto Caeiro</i>, trans. Chris Daniels. Exeter: Shearsman Books, 2007, p. 15.</div><div><br /></div><div>(14) Cited in K. David Jackson. <i>Adverse Genres in Fernando Pessoa</i>. New York: Oxford University Press, 2010, p. 122.</div><div><br /></div><div>(15) Pessoa. <i>A Little Larger Than the Entire Universe: Selected Poems</i>, ed. and trans. Richard Zenith. New York: Penguin Books, 2006, p. 33. </div><div><br /></div><div>(16) <i>The Education of the Stoic - the only manuscript of the Baron of Teive</i>, ed. Richard Zenith. Cambridge: 2005, p. 10.</div><div><br /></div><div>(17) <i>Páginas Íntimas e de Auto-Interpretação</i>, p. 68.</div><div><br /></div><div>(18) <i>Pessoa Por Conhecer</i>, Vol. II, ed. Teresa Rita Lopes. Lisboa: Editorial Estampa, 1990, p. 72.</div><div><br /></div><div>(19) Abdalbarr Braun, "Warrior, Waldgaenger, Anarch: An essay on Ernst Jünger's concept of the sovereign individual," 7 March 2002, <https://web.archive.org/web/20090604101629/http://www.fluxeuropa.com/juenger-anarch.htm>.</div><div><br /></div><div>(20) António Quadros, "Prefácio," in <i>A Procura de Verdade Oculta: Textos Filosóficos e Esotéricos</i>. Algueirão-Mem Martins, Portugal: Publicações Europa-América, 1986, pp. 15-19.</div><div><br /></div><div>(21) Although Paganism is world-affirming and Gnosticism generally associates the world with the "Deluge", there are many aspects of Gnosticism which could be seen as a transition point that carried over Germanic and Celtic Paganism in a Christianized veneer. I refer to writers who have explored this in depth: Otto Rahn who identified the Cathars as Germanic; Julius Evola who found Indo-European roots to the Grail mysteries; Guido von List who placed the origins of the Minnesänger within pre-Christian Germany; and contemporary writers who identify the medieval Troubadours as continuation of the Celtic Druids. </div><div><br /></div><div>(22) Vitor Manuel Adrião, "A Quinta da Regaleira e António Augusto Carvalho Monteiro," June 3, 2018, <https://lusophia.wordpress.com/2018/06/03/a-quinta-da-regaleira-e-antonio-augusto-carvalho-monteiro-por-vitor-manuel-adriao/>.</div><div><br /></div><div>(23) Pasi, <i>op. cit.</i>, p. 6.</div><div><br /></div><div>(24) A passage from Pessoa's letter to the writer and ethnographer Armando Côrtes-Rodrigues, 19 January 1915, <http://arquivopessoa.net/textos/3510>.</div><div><br /></div><div>(25) Pessoa. <i>Philosophical Essays</i>, ed. Nuno Ribeiro. New York: Contra Mundum Press, 2012, p. 41.</div><div><br /></div><div>(26) <i>ibid.</i>, p. 35.</div><div><br /></div><div>(27) Pessoa, "O Banqueiro Anarquista," <i>Contemporanea</i>, May 1922; in <i>The Anarchist Banker and Other Portuguese Stories</i>, Vol. 1, ed. Eugenio Lisboa. Manchester: Carcanet Press, 1997, pp. 107-110.</div></div>Sean Jobsthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17351165299354431339noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-907444223262019258.post-39026777332197146012021-06-04T14:56:00.008-05:002022-03-16T14:03:16.716-05:00Essays on Anarchism, the State, Usury, and Economics (2008-2011)<p> by Sean Jobst</p><p>4 June 2021</p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Uut3Jt1NDN8/YLezanxootI/AAAAAAAAF7c/s5PY4vAJdXkiRBsBtXA0ZleT3snNO1KlQCLcBGAsYHQ/s850/quote-for-the-anarchist-freedom-is-not-an-abstract-philosophical-concept-but-the-vital-concrete-rudolf-rocker-71-78-17.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="850" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Uut3Jt1NDN8/YLezanxootI/AAAAAAAAF7c/s5PY4vAJdXkiRBsBtXA0ZleT3snNO1KlQCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/quote-for-the-anarchist-freedom-is-not-an-abstract-philosophical-concept-but-the-vital-concrete-rudolf-rocker-71-78-17.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: right;"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">I am a philosophical Anarchist. For as long as I've thought politically, it was always outside the "mainstream" left-right paradigm. I've instinctively known that paradigm is founded upon a series of wrong assumptions elevated to dogmas, related to the very nature of the State, economics, and those mortal (psychopathic and power-crazed for sure, but too often idiotic and short-sighted) elites worshipped as "authority" by a manipulated public. Although I have been influenced by one or another specific school of Anarchism, I use the broad adjective "philosophical" here because for me its foremost about metaphysics, metapolitics and spirituality more than politics and economics.</span></div><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">I previously blogged about both my <a href="https://sjobst.blogspot.com/2017/06/gathering-of-globalists-some.html">anarchist</a> and <a href="https://sjobst.blogspot.com/2018/09/a-spiritual-transformation-my-journey.html">spiritual</a> journeys, the two often intertwining as indeed all disciplines should be approached holistically so we may truly know ourselves. So it is that aside from my work during that time (2008-2011) on foreign policy/interventionism, Native American issues, and historical preservation, I was firmly opposed to usury and the rigged banking system - coming as it was at the height of the Neoliberal Obama administration bailing out Big Banks and Big Business with the stolen wealth ("taxes") of the working- and middle- classes; and nurtured as I was by the higher consciousness sparked by the Ron Paul campaign.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Around that same time, I became a Sufi and was initiated into the Shadhili-Darqawi Tariqa of the Murabitun movement through its American branch. Even now as a Germanic/Celtiberian Pagan who has rejected the entire Abrahamic paradigm (having drank from my own deeper ancestral well-spring), I look back at that experience with pride and contentment. It was a spiritual transition within Islam, but it was no accident their movement against riba (usury) and the bankers, and for decentralized communities, guilds, and currencies backed by tangible metals (rather than the artificial fiat currency), meshed well with my own Anarchism. They provided a truly-spiritual framework against the State and banking system, allowing us to see Statism and Economics as a new religion or cult.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">I was and continue to be inspired by the Mutualist tradition of Joseph-Pierre Proudhon, the American Individualist Anarchism of Lysander Spooner and Benjamin Tucker, the radical Libertarian writings of Murray Rothbard....which I further melded with those alternative European thinkers (such as Julius Evola and Ernst Jünger) whose thinking is best conceived as metapolitical/metaphysical....and coming full circle with the tribal, community-based perspective of the National Anarchist movement. The latter has especially intensified with my Paganism - in hindsight, my thinking and spirituality was headed towards that direction and there were elements of it even then, because it is most innate and natural. (Such as with the article below about “Indigenous traditions”).</span></p><p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-60HmqBvWTt4/YLez1VRUfXI/AAAAAAAAF7k/qIaprmz9iGcIrJCbZI7GQbzFNHbTsOo5wCLcBGAsYHQ/s1024/anarchism_to_me_means_not_only_the_denial_of_authority_not_only_a_new_economy_but_a_revision_of_the_principles_of_morality._it_means_the_development_of_the_individual_as_well_as_the_assertion_of_the_individual._.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="1024" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-60HmqBvWTt4/YLez1VRUfXI/AAAAAAAAF7k/qIaprmz9iGcIrJCbZI7GQbzFNHbTsOo5wCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/anarchism_to_me_means_not_only_the_denial_of_authority_not_only_a_new_economy_but_a_revision_of_the_principles_of_morality._it_means_the_development_of_the_individual_as_well_as_the_assertion_of_the_individual._.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">So it is that I republish my articles from 2008-2011, on various aspects of Anarchism, usury, and economics. My efforts to give a <a href="https://www.scribd.com/document/152916151/Islamic-Anarchism-Zine">Sufi interpretation</a> of Anarchism worked for me then, although I obviously reject it now - while still respecting those people who read a decentralist, anti-Statist perspective into their various religions. For example, the <a href="https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/confronting-the-technological-society">insights</a> on "technique" by the Christian Anarchist Jacques Ellul are brilliant and essential. Individuals will always bring their own distinctive personalities and worldview to their belief systems. Still its undeniable that the tribal foundations of Pagan faiths are <a href="https://sjobst.blogspot.com/2021/04/walpurgisnacht-2021.html">most compatible</a> with Anarchism (or, rather, anarchism is the political view most compatible to a tribal, Pagan worldview).</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">The distinction between "Capitalism" and <a href="http://www.libertarian.co.uk/lapubs/econn/econn112.htm">free-market</a> is still something I grapple with, because in our own American context (in contrast to the European) the term itself is closely-related with individual rights and the free-market, but also used by the Banking and Big Business <a href="https://mises.org/library/wall-street-banks-and-american-foreign-policy-0">beneficiaries</a> of Statism. At the other end is the necessity to differentiate from the Marxist critique of free-markets and individual rights under the name "Capitalism", whereas the same financial interests have always been behind that dialectic as well (coalescing now with the <a href="https://www.michaelrectenwald.com/essays/woke-capitalism-blm">Woke Capitalism</a> of corporations). When I look at what Rothbard and the Anarcho-Capitalists advocate, I find more areas to agree than disagree, so perhaps the difference is only semantic. Aside from these two points, the following articles need no commentary....</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">- A Brief Explanation of Proudhon</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">- Sufic Notes on Proudhon, Rothbard, and Anarchism</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">- A Brief Tribute of Ezra Pound</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">- A Basic Introduction to the Four Monopolies</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">- An organic understanding of money</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">- Indigenous traditions around the world oppose usury </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">- Capitalism is a religion</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">-----------------------------------</span></p><div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">A Brief Explanation of Proudhon </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">April 25, 2009</span></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-JEkQv43ErLM/YLabjwxPUoI/AAAAAAAAF6o/78AuRC2zhUg57ioqQyYtfcw-QT43YbuBwCLcBGAsYHQ/s500/artworks-si8cfkxXgCLK54mc-01mA8g-t500x500.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="500" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-JEkQv43ErLM/YLabjwxPUoI/AAAAAAAAF6o/78AuRC2zhUg57ioqQyYtfcw-QT43YbuBwCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/artworks-si8cfkxXgCLK54mc-01mA8g-t500x500.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Joseph Pierre Proudhon</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">Pierre Joseph Proudhon (1809-1865) was a leading French intellectual, one of the early precursors of anarchism. He coined the slogans "Anarchy is Order" and "Property is theft." The movement which grew from his writings is Mutualism. The mutualists are anarchists who propose individualist means to build a new non-Statist society as opposed to the communitarian means proposed by Mikhail Bakunin, Peter Kropotkin, and the majority of campus or single-cause anarchists: those who have bowed to political correctness, adopted Marxist rhetoric, and who are mostly spoiled rich kids living in ivory towers without knowing what it means to sweat. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">The difference here is key: Proudhon was consistently anti-Marxist, and Marx wrote a criticism of Proudhon entitled <i>The Poverty of Philosophy</i>, to which he had initially wanted to respond but was sidetracked by the revolutions in Paris in 1848. Proudhon knew that the Marxists were merely opposing one form of authoritarianism to replace with their own authoritarianism. He saw that they worshipped violence for the sake of violence, or nihilism. He also opposed their theory of dialectical socialism. Unlike the capitalists Marx and Engels, Proudhon came from a peasant background and actually had to spend the rest of his life struggling. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">Proudhon has had a remarkable influence on those who consider themselves Mutualists/left-libertarians/individualist anarchists/market anarchists (these terms are often used interchangeably by its adherents). The works of Proudhon were brought to America and influenced the individualist anarchist tradition which served as an important inspiration to Murray Rothbard's thought. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">These trends make a sharp distinction between Capitalism and the free-market, pointing out how the former has always practiced state intervention in the markets to secure or perpetuate the monopolies of a certain corporate/financial elite. This is an important distinction which is especially lacking here in America, where the conservatives/Republicans and right-wing "libertarians" pay lip-service to "laissez faire" and "the free market", but are nothing but apologists for the big corporations and financial interests. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">The only difference between the economic policies of American liberals and conservatives is that the former disguise their state-intervention in terms of helping the disadvantaged and pursuing social welfare programs, while the latter pursue their state-intervention to secure corporate monopolies in the name of "the free market". But the idea is the same: more state intervention from which only the corporations, financiers and professional political elite can profit. </span></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Osdu4pOr-z4/YLevDMMD0wI/AAAAAAAAF64/ux1_KE0wbgIgJjhS1U46yLzqKeQTm74egCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/6474713-Will-Durant-Quote-The-older-Romans-used-temples-as-their-banks-as.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1152" data-original-width="2048" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Osdu4pOr-z4/YLevDMMD0wI/AAAAAAAAF64/ux1_KE0wbgIgJjhS1U46yLzqKeQTm74egCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/6474713-Will-Durant-Quote-The-older-Romans-used-temples-as-their-banks-as.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">Proudhon's maxim that "Anarchy is Order" brings to the surface a deep metaphysical reality latent until then. For he recognized that economics was a new religion and that economic ideas would become deified on an altar of ritualistic servitude. The masses are conditioned to believe that usury and taxation are two necessities of life (i.e., the old adage that nothing is certain except for death and taxes, and the fact that the Federal Reserve's manipulation of interest rates is accepted as a gospel truth by those in awe of the economists). </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">In his book <i>The Esoteric Deviation in Islam</i> (CapeTown: Madinah Press, 2003), Umar Ibrahim Vadillo has pointed out that the deification of economics has an esoteric underpinning. The rise of the State cannot be divorced from the rise of the modern bank. The two have a symbiotic relation, as both derive from esoteric origins. The State serves to perpetuate Finance, and vice versa. To increase their hold upon the society, they have reduced the temporal power of religions so that the latter serve to provide theological justification for the State: </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">"The economic idea of capitalism, the politics of government or of authority, and the theological idea of the Church are three identical ideas, linked in various ways. To attack one of them is equivalent to attacking all of them....What capital does to labor, and the State to liberty, the Church does to the spirit. This trinity of absolutism is as baneful in practice as it is in philosophy. The most effective means for oppressing the people would be simultaneously to enslave its body, its will and its reason" (Proudhon, <i>Les confessions d'un revolutionnaire</i>, Paris: Garnier, 1851, p. 271). </span></div></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">-----------------------------------</span></div><div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">Sufic Notes on Proudhon, Rothbard, and Anarchism</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">Originally published on <a href="http://attackthesystem.com/2008/08/22/sufic-notes-on-proudhon-rothbard-and-anarchism/">Attack the System</a>, August 21, 2008</span></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-pmohEwqdxLE/YLe4IVKRb6I/AAAAAAAAF7s/ptb6SX1QA8wx04sM1ABP_lLozfwaMt5iACLcBGAsYHQ/s1200/3kvxkl220t501.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="948" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-pmohEwqdxLE/YLe4IVKRb6I/AAAAAAAAF7s/ptb6SX1QA8wx04sM1ABP_lLozfwaMt5iACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/3kvxkl220t501.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">1911 cartoon by American Socialists, <br />although what the Marxists advocate<br />only solidifies the same exact structure<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">We must disavow ourselves from the false dialectic of Left and Right. We have transcended beyond that limited spectrum and have arrived at a Third Position, one which seeks a comprehensive solution outside the dominant framework. We should not remain conditioned to this evolutionist dialectic which views everything based upon an ill-defined spectrum of "right" and "left". Shaykh Abdalqadir as-Sufi has written on this matter under his Scottish birth-name:</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">"The false dialectic of capital and communism, right and left, has for decades veiled from thinking people the possibility of grasping that what happened after 1945 was not only the collapse of the final phase of christian culture but the rise of a syncretic pseudo-culture, grafted onto the ruins of the old. A juden-kultur disguised as the previous model, but replacing it with a set of new values and expression whose unique driving force was the thrust of the market economy in its moments of expansion" (Ian Dallas, <i>Oedipus and Dionysus</i>, Freibourg Books, 1992).</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">True anarchism is the anarchism of the Syndicalists, Mutualists, Individualists, and other anti-Statist trends and not the Cultural Marxists who have hijacked the movement to promote "alternative lifestyles" and the Cult of Political Correctness. It is a harmless nuisance which the elite tolerates since it does nothing to disrupt their power-structures.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">Economics the Enemy of Anarchists</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">Proudhon's maxim that "Anarchy is Order" brings to the surface a deep metaphysical reality latent until then. For he recognized that economics was a new religion and that economic ideas would become deified on an altar of ritualistic servitude. The masses are conditioned to believe that usury and taxation are two necessities of life (i.e., the old adage that nothing is certain except for death and taxes, and the fact that the Federal Reserve's manipulation of interest rates is accepted as a gospel truth by those in awe of the economists).</span></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-P6Bl1hoplEs/YLfCG6Hp89I/AAAAAAAAF70/jZd_5XgMm4A7SFBvXVWFe9lvCrBJmi-bACLcBGAsYHQ/s400/b0bff2f2947c92f2edcd110ae56d91ae_400x400.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="400" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-P6Bl1hoplEs/YLfCG6Hp89I/AAAAAAAAF70/jZd_5XgMm4A7SFBvXVWFe9lvCrBJmi-bACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/b0bff2f2947c92f2edcd110ae56d91ae_400x400.jpeg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Umar Vadillo</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">Umar Ibrahim Vadillo has pointed out that the deification of economics has an esoteric underpinning. The rise of the State cannot be divorced from the rise of the modern bank. The two have a symbiotic relation, as both derive from esoteric origins. The State serves to perpetuate Finance, and vice versa. To increase their hold upon the society, they have reduced the temporal power of religions so that the latter serve to provide theological justification for the State: </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">"The economic idea of capitalism, the politics of government or of authority, and the theological idea of the Church are three identical ideas, linked in various ways. To attack one of them is equivalent to attacking all of them....What capital does to labor, and the State to liberty, the Church does to the spirit. This trinity of absolutism is as baneful in practice as it is in philosophy. The most effective means for oppressing the people would be simultaneously to enslave its body, its will and its reason" (Proudhon, <i>Les confessions d'un revolutionnaire</i>, Paris: Garnier, 1851, p. 271). </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">Nihilism and Violence for its own Sake</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">Proudhon shunned nihilism, warning in no uncertain terms about the need for political movements to adopt a political agenda. He was reluctant to support the revolutionaries of 1848 at first, due to their violence. He came to oppose the new revolutionary regime, since it sacrificed socio-economic reforms for political reform. History demonstrates that revolutions have always succeeded when they had a clear program outlined and failed when they worshipped violence. Proudhon understood this danger of political movements: </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">"He saw that their intellectual paralysis was the cause of helpless nihilist terrorism. Political idealism, once put in place, enforces an increasing separation between the outside world and the membership. In order to create a sense of progress among the membership, the critique of the outside world, seen as part of education, has to aggressively increase in magnitude week after week. This tendency, once adopted, leads inevitably to an absurd dualism consisting of an utterly demonised outside world and an undeserved assumption of pure goodness on their own part. This is what Carl Schmitt (d. 1985) defined as political theology. One side of this nihilistic philosophy produces helpless terrorism and suicidal strategies" (Vadillo, <i>The Esoteric Deviation in Islam</i>, CapeTown: Madinah Press, 2003, pp. 534-535).</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">Proudhon understood clearly that the socio-economic reforms were more pertinent than the political reform, as reforms at this realm would naturally lead to those at the political realm. In this regard, it is quite interesting that all those screaming for "change" in this country likewise talk merely in political terms, ignoring any consideration for monetary reform or changing the economic structures at a fundamental level. Rather, they all serve to perpetuate the State just like their alleged opposite. </span></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-5RAiWBTFCwA/YLfDBL_XvlI/AAAAAAAAF78/hYmWF3el2dc_7BdK-9GzNJ1jw2oQIjBKwCLcBGAsYHQ/s850/quote-i-build-no-system-i-ask-an-end-to-privilege-the-abolition-of-slavery-equality-of-rights-pierre-joseph-proudhon-23-68-78.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="850" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-5RAiWBTFCwA/YLfDBL_XvlI/AAAAAAAAF78/hYmWF3el2dc_7BdK-9GzNJ1jw2oQIjBKwCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/quote-i-build-no-system-i-ask-an-end-to-privilege-the-abolition-of-slavery-equality-of-rights-pierre-joseph-proudhon-23-68-78.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">Usury and Wage-Labor </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">Proudhon opposed anyone who earned their income from rent, interest, and wage labor. He recognized that the workers create a productive capacity greater than their individual sum, but they don't come to benefit from their own labor. Here the materialist device of "freedom" comes to play: Exercise your "freedom" to enter into a subservient work position or your "freedom" to not work, at which case the conditions of the society will ensure that you lose the basic human freedoms. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">This is why successive opponents of the State have called for a return to the Guild-System, which they now understood was the only structure which could transform the society and eliminate the State. The workers of the Guilds were far more "free" (to use the modern rhetoric) than the workers in this age of "rights", where employment is the new framework of relations and wages become the only fruits of labor. This fact has been expressed by Vadillo:</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">"The slave is now called the employee. This employee belongs to a class of employees. Freedom, as understood by medieval guilds which upheld a social ethos in which the master/apprentice relationship dominated the degrading employer/employee relationship of today, was already superior to what was being aimed at under the banner of ‘rights’. But guilds became viewed as centres of resistance to the centralisation of the power of the state and therefore in their view an impediment to progress. The words liberté, égalité, fraternité meant very little more than the paper they were written on. In their name the guilds that dominated the Middle Ages were abolished giving way to the capitalist wage system. We have accepted the idea that employment is a decent goal for the unemployed, without confronting the fact that employment is the lowest form of economic activity: that is, a man reduced to mechanical functions, deprived of the capacity to fully enjoy the fruits of his work. This fact is today ignored, neither understood nor realised by the modern analysts within the new economic ethos. And yet this man, who is a slave by most standards of the past, is considered free because it says so in the constitution" (Vadillo, <i>op. cit.</i>, pp. 142-143).</span></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2rXBPfa9tXA/YLfEKWMMymI/AAAAAAAAF8E/nn_qIq5If6gnRcjJXy6Zr9tu_bKiFanoACLcBGAsYHQ/s474/42884ae31930bfb3a3bd3b6546ed4734.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="309" data-original-width="474" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2rXBPfa9tXA/YLfEKWMMymI/AAAAAAAAF8E/nn_qIq5If6gnRcjJXy6Zr9tu_bKiFanoACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/42884ae31930bfb3a3bd3b6546ed4734.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">Private Property or Possession? </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">The "property" that was condemned by Proudhon was solely the type that was used and abused according to the whims of the one holding it, while true private ownership of land possesses it so as to maintain economic independence. He championed the rights of the small landowners against the State, for which he was criticized by Marx (who actually sought to increase the power of the State against the workers). Proudhon recognized "property is the only power that can act as a counterweight to the State" (<i>Theory of Property</i>). </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">Viewing the land broadly as a trust and holding to this anti-Statist view of property, could also be seen in the Guilds, which ensured a social network of welfare for the members and through which they could find their livelihood. We recognize that any elimination of the State means the evolution (excuse the word) of decentralized Guilds and communities as the new structure of our societies. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">Rothbard as a Complement to Proudhon </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">The importance of private property as a protection of individual rights at the expense of the State was studied by Murray Rothbard. He was in many senses a complement to Proudhon, providing further intellectual framework for anarchism in a mass-industrialized society. I have serious issues with the concept of "anarcho"-capitalism in both theory and practice, however I appreciate some of Rothbard's contributions in libertarian (with a lower-case "l") thought. </span></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-GKPUxkMCV60/YLfFToB0LYI/AAAAAAAAF8M/h1Qe8TN38aofcWW3fMRN6fJdOlv9wiSSQCLcBGAsYHQ/s225/download.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="225" data-original-width="225" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-GKPUxkMCV60/YLfFToB0LYI/AAAAAAAAF8M/h1Qe8TN38aofcWW3fMRN6fJdOlv9wiSSQCLcBGAsYHQ/s0/download.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">Rothbard defined property as that which is acquired and transferred without any interference from the State. It should only be acquired through voluntary trade, gift, or labor-based original appropriation, rather than through aggression or fraud. He defined the self-ownership principle:</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">"The basic axiom of libertarian political theory holds that every man is a self-owner, having absolute jurisdiction over his own body. In effect, this means that no one else may justly invade, or aggress against, another's person. It follows then that each person justly owns whatever previously unowned resources he appropriates or 'mixes his labor with'. From these twin axioms - self ownership and 'homesteading' - stem the justification for the entire system of property rights titles in a free-market society. This system establishes the right of every man to his own person, the right of donation, of bequest (and, concomitantly, the right to receive the bequest or inheritance), and the right of contractual exchange of property titles" (Rothbard, "Law, Property Rights, and Air Pollution," <i>Cato Journal</i>, Spring 1982, Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 55-99). </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">This matter of property represents the fundamental difference between the modern Cultural Marxist, PC form of "anarchism" and the pure anti-Statism of the individualist anarchists. The former propose the abolition of private property, which would certainly increase the authority of the State and make people vulnerable to its inherent excesses. On the other hand, Anarchism by its very nature is voluntarist. In true nihilist fashion, the anarcho-communists advocated the abolition of money (see Rothbard, "The Death Wish of the Anarcho-Communists," <i>The Libertarian Forum</i>, January 1, 1970), but this is another matter entirely. What is the meaning behind anarchism?</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">"I define anarchist society as one where there is no legal possibility for coercive aggression against the person or property of any individual. Anarchists oppose the State because it has its very being in such aggression, namely, the expropriation of private property through taxation, the coercive exclusion of other providers of defense service from its territory, and all of the other depredations and coercions that are built upon these twin foci of invasions of individual rights" (Rothbard, <i>Society and State</i>). </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">-----------------------------------</span></div><div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">A Brief Tribute of Ezra Pound</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">Adapted from two posts I wrote on the now-defunct Marifah Forum, 10 June 2009. Then uploaded as a Facebook post: "Ezra Pound, Usury, and Tasawwuf". In the process, it reveals how much of an American metapolitical tradition there is we can draw inspiration from....</span></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-4m4tCPkffRU/YLfJsjKgwDI/AAAAAAAAF8w/3qPAALS9kfY91CKYLItoSSLEmoSqJw7qQCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/Ezra_Pound_by_Alvin_Langdon_Coburn%252C_1913.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1580" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-4m4tCPkffRU/YLfJsjKgwDI/AAAAAAAAF8w/3qPAALS9kfY91CKYLItoSSLEmoSqJw7qQCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Ezra_Pound_by_Alvin_Langdon_Coburn%252C_1913.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ezra Pound</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">"With usura hath no man a house of good stone</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">each block cut smooth and well fitting</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">that design might cover their face,</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">with usura" - Ezra Pound, <i>CANTO XLV</i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">"They have brought whores for Eleusis</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">Corpses are set to banquet</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">at behest of usura." - Ezra Pound, <i>CANTO XLV</i> </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">"Metal is durable, but it does not reproduce itself. If you sow gold you will not be able to reap a harvest many times greater than the gold." - Ezra Pound, <i>Gold and Work</i>, 1944, p. 12. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">"Most social evils are at root economic. I, personally, know of no social evil that cannot be cured, or very largely cured, economically." - Ezra Pound, "Essay: Murder By Capital," from <i>Selected Prose, 1909-1965</i>, New Directions, 1973, p. 229.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">Ezra Pound was an outspoken opponent of this economic system which is based upon usury and a social system where the "art" of economics has been raised to the level of a religion, with the words of an elite called "economists" taken as written in stone. What he seems to highlight here is the need to re-evaluate our monetary structure, or rather the way economics is generally considered. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">For example, in the U.S. successive governments and the corporate mainstream media seem to be in awe of whatever the Federal Reserve chairman says or does, as if he possesses some sort of higher wisdom that is not to be called into question. One can easily posit the question: how often is it exactly those who create the conditions, who then plead ignorance about the effects of these conditions - and are then believed to hold the solutions to the very same problems they created! </span></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-5rBRroB4BUM/YLfJ782_iNI/AAAAAAAAF84/kNua7cIXnlEtLrntJ7vwF7SDU_gA2t_8wCLcBGAsYHQ/s1280/BN-ML877_BKRVpo_M_20160205102717.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="853" data-original-width="1280" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-5rBRroB4BUM/YLfJ782_iNI/AAAAAAAAF84/kNua7cIXnlEtLrntJ7vwF7SDU_gA2t_8wCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/BN-ML877_BKRVpo_M_20160205102717.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The wise sage in Venice, 1963</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">Pound belonged to a small but vocal element within the English-speaking world who criticized the usurocratic banking order; "right in the belly of the beast", given that the financial houses and global monetary order really received the utmost of their growth in America and Britain. Although the Federal Reserve is accepted as fact today, most Americans forget the earliest historical tradition against the central banks in this country. Thomas Jefferson, John Adams and Andrew Jackson were some of the most vocal opponents of banking.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">In the literary field the tradition was passed on to the Transcendentalists, Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau. While the power of the banking order was growing in ascendency, another vocal group called the Individualist Anarchists spoke out against it and their leading representative, Benjamin Tucker, condemned usury as one of the four monopolies on which the statist-capitalist system rests. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">There was the advocates of the Silver Standard, led by William Jennings Bryan. As the Federal Reserve was solidifying its hold upon the monetary order, helped in this by a gradual effort to literally steal the people's gold, two other Americans took up the mantle: Thorstein Veblen and Ezra Pound. During his residence in Italy, the latter wrote: </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">"In the bosom of the usurocracy, William Morris, Ruskin, the Pre-Raphaelites and all the other useful and fertile groups of London and Paris formed a loose coalition to struggle for artistic autarchy. Although never clearly foreseeing that the arts could be fully incorporated in the body public, they fought against the usurocracy, against the hierarchy of filthy and fetid values in the mercantile century" (<i>Meridiano di Roma</i>, 2 June 1940; quoted in Pound, I<i>dee fondamentali</i>, ed. Caterina Ricciardi, Roma: Lucarini, 1991, p. 39). </span></div></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">-----------------------------------</span></div><div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">A Basic Introduction to the Four Monopolies</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">11 January 2011</span></div></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_jtm8DuFVUs/YLfMBc4GG2I/AAAAAAAAF9E/bkjI_kYtAfItd1EvNX6m30XxCGrljsmXACLcBGAsYHQ/s341/BenjaminTucker.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="341" data-original-width="256" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_jtm8DuFVUs/YLfMBc4GG2I/AAAAAAAAF9E/bkjI_kYtAfItd1EvNX6m30XxCGrljsmXACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/BenjaminTucker.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Benjamin Tucker</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Usury is not merely an economic procedure, but a fundamental feature of its operation. There is perhaps no better way to describe modern economics than its result: a concentration of wealth into the hands of a few, who enjoy their privileges due to extensive state intervention in the market. Politics has been subverted by economic interests, such that it is not possible for politicians to operate except with the blessing of their financial backers and others who operate the economy. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">One of the leading observers of this political economy was the American individualist anarchist Benjamin Tucker. He further developed the Mutualism of the French anarchist Joseph Proudhon, who had recognized the Economists were a new sect and Economics a modern religion, and combined it with the work of an early American anarchist thinker named Josiah Warren, to create a new form of Market Anarchism that was uniquely American. Examining the nature of the state and the development of its economic procedures, Tucker was able to identify four distinct monopolies that had developed.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">The first is the land monopoly, "the enforcement by government of land titles which do not rest upon personal occupancy and cultivation." (1) Capitalism is certainly unthinkable without two actions of the feudal classes: the abolition of the guild and replacing it with the corporation, and the enclosure of the commons. The latter was founded on artificial "property rights" of the landed aristocracy, so "the landed classes were given full legal title, and the peasants were transformed into tenants at will with no customary restriction on the rents that could be charged."(2) </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-hR9vKnbrF-k/YLfTpw-3_sI/AAAAAAAAF9M/yE_bOsthXtsgyzMMORDo25xrGU2JvOOfwCLcBGAsYHQ/s720/image-30.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="540" data-original-width="720" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-hR9vKnbrF-k/YLfTpw-3_sI/AAAAAAAAF9M/yE_bOsthXtsgyzMMORDo25xrGU2JvOOfwCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/image-30.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">In this historical sense, Proudhon made an important distinction between the idea of "property," certainly as it exists now has derived from an artificial basis, and "possessions," an organic view of land based on actual use and occupancy. This is the only just notion of land, one that is actually used and occupied through one's labor. Yet in the capitalist West there are large areas of land set aside for absentee owners, whether it is the government or big corporations. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Ironically, it has allowed for the land to be ecologically abused by these big corporations, which have polluted the land and air, even while the government has confiscated much land under the cover of "conservation." This keeps the resources artificially scarce and confers a monopolistic privilege on those who control the land.(3) In practice, this withholding land from production means "the state gives favored capitalists preferential access to it."(4) The land monopoly is the first to have occurred, as "economic exploitation is impracticable until expropriation from the land has taken place."(5) </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Leading to such economic exploitation, this led to the second monopoly upon which all other monopolies rest, and this is the money monopoly. It is the privileged ability of some to issue and circulate the medium of exchange, denying the right of people to choose their own medium of exchange. Although initially vested within the government, this has been given to a cartel of private banks which then make up the central bank; laws are further passed making it a criminal offense for one to choose a medium of exchange other than the one issued by the central bank. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">This monopoly more than anything else demonstrates how the state is really the merger of government and banking, just as the other monopolies demonstrate the further merger of the state with the corporation. In actuality, the bank doesn't loan anything since the financier "invests little or no capital of his own, and therefore, lends none to his customers, since the security which they furnish him constitutes the capital upon which he operates."(6) At the same time, the government intervenes with laws called capitalization requirements, that restrict this "service" to only those with enough available capital, so that the bankers are able to charge usurious prices on the loan.(7) </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-tAXwoNQ-ZQY/YLfUMS7o-hI/AAAAAAAAF9U/IIY9dWvDrNQ4VVtsj0NNvP-yZjEF_LIDgCLcBGAsYHQ/s620/it-is-not-competition-but-monopoly-that-deprives-labor-of-its-product.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="620" data-original-width="620" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-tAXwoNQ-ZQY/YLfUMS7o-hI/AAAAAAAAF9U/IIY9dWvDrNQ4VVtsj0NNvP-yZjEF_LIDgCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/it-is-not-competition-but-monopoly-that-deprives-labor-of-its-product.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">The money monopoly is central to understand, for it has reinforced the monopoly of land and capital. The key to ending this unnatural privilege called usury, is to give back to people the ability to choose their own medium of exchange. "I expect lending and borrowing to disappear, but not by any denial of the right to lend and borrow. On the contrary, I expect them to disappear by virtue of the affirmation and exercise of a right that is now denied, - namely, the right to use one's own credit, or to exchange it freely for another's, in such a way that one or the other of these credits may perform the function of a circulating medium, without the payment of any tax for the privilege."(8) </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">The third monopoly is that of tariffs, "fostering production at high prices and under unfavourable conditions by visiting with the penalty of taxation those who patronize production at low prices and under favourable conditions."(9) Tariffs are the result of the cartelization of labor. The late nineteenth century saw the rise of large corporations, which through the state privileges they enjoyed were able to have such an unfair advantage over smaller competitors that were more efficient. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">The result has been "an economic system in which industry cartelizes behind the protection of tariff barriers; sells its output domestically for a monopoly price significantly higher than market-clearing level, in order to obtain super-profits at the consumer's expense; and disposes of its unsellable product abroad, by dumping it below cost if necessary."(10) It is nothing but the impetus behind more wars to guarantee corporate interests. Politically, this is the prerogative of both the neo-liberal Democratic Party and the neo-conservative Republican Party. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">In practice, this is the reality behind the so-called "free trade" agreements that are anything but either "free" or "trade," relying on state-guaranteed privileges of select multinational corporations to exploit cheap labor abroad and then dump products on the domestic market, that could otherwise have been made cheaper and more efficiently. With the privilege they enjoy from these treaties not between the peoples from the bottom, but rather the capitalist-ridden governments at the top, these corporations are free to exploit labor by paying less, so that their own profits can rise. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2oz6g5GfnSg/YLfU7g3_xoI/AAAAAAAAF9c/11ua63eL9WI1uoJ_8tGz2SoTE_YXmhBDwCLcBGAsYHQ/s720/image-7.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="540" data-original-width="720" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2oz6g5GfnSg/YLfU7g3_xoI/AAAAAAAAF9c/11ua63eL9WI1uoJ_8tGz2SoTE_YXmhBDwCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/image-7.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">The fourth monopoly is that of patents, which along with tariffs and transportation subsidies, developed monopoly capitalism as exists currently. "The patent privilege has been used on a massive scale to promote concentration of capital, erect entry barriers, and maintain a monopoly of advanced technology in the hands of western corporations."(11) To enforce these "intellectual property" laws, or the notion of "property rights" in ideas, naturally requires the invasion of the natural rights of those independent discoverers of an idea or an invention who made the discovery after the patentee.(12)</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Like so-called "free trade" agreements, these patents have been enforced by the governments of the world, through global agreements such as GATT, to ensure more monopolies of the multinational corporations over what should be natural rights of health, medical care, and technology. It actually prevents a free market from operating to its full potential, because it suppresses innovation and imposes barriers on free competition. It is imperialistic, as for example it has prevented the natural right to health for people throughout the world, particularly sub-Saharan Africa, by allowing the multinational corporations to control the medicine and resources. Usury exists because the state stifles free competition. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">This economic imperialism operates likewise through the usurious loans the International Monetary Fund (IMF) levies on the "third world" nations. Rather than attracting investors as part of the capitalist phantom of "development," it actually cripples those nations with an interest that far exceeds the amount borrowed. This is surely part of the emerging Global State, with an even greater concentration of wealth into the hands of a few yet extrapolated on a global scale. These internationalist institutions make important decisions behind closed doors, yet their policy decisions are implemented by governments. It is no longer about the "first world" nations lending to the "third world" nations. "The IMF is now in the position of dictating policy to the governments of debtor nations and not just in the third world."(13) </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-MAi9_Oqz_20/YLfVpNFRXaI/AAAAAAAAF9k/ymc60bJ3u0cL0BUaIc0ovBi7EQM3SdFkgCLcBGAsYHQ/s800/imf_and_loans___mahmoud_rifai.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="800" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-MAi9_Oqz_20/YLfVpNFRXaI/AAAAAAAAF9k/ymc60bJ3u0cL0BUaIc0ovBi7EQM3SdFkgCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/imf_and_loans___mahmoud_rifai.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-gSHX1xWiBQY/YLfVu8XRGqI/AAAAAAAAF9o/k7logIYmwKo1BiCfoLxYhvzIvOqv_VrYACLcBGAsYHQ/s800/imf_and_the_poor_countries___abdelghani_dahdouh.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="800" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-gSHX1xWiBQY/YLfVu8XRGqI/AAAAAAAAF9o/k7logIYmwKo1BiCfoLxYhvzIvOqv_VrYACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/imf_and_the_poor_countries___abdelghani_dahdouh.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-w_lPMD9Fvak/YLfVzpF_l5I/AAAAAAAAF9s/IKpbs3v8oQY13pfYnxw3D_5mWDtaQxALwCLcBGAsYHQ/s562/1_FApufRLMxPNBwcZ7raykpw.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="338" data-original-width="562" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-w_lPMD9Fvak/YLfVzpF_l5I/AAAAAAAAF9s/IKpbs3v8oQY13pfYnxw3D_5mWDtaQxALwCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/1_FApufRLMxPNBwcZ7raykpw.png" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Impressive accomplishments have occurred in the so-called "third world" nations, even while poverty remains. The causes of this poverty is not through any inherent fault of the people themselves, but rather a collusion of the governments at the top with multinational corporations and Western banking interests. And this phantom of "aid" has merely led to proliferation of government corruption and compounds the economic problems of those nations, whether it is usurious loans or grants which nevertheless always have strings attached. "Aid is defined as the sum total of both concessional loans and grants. It is these billions that have hampered, stifled and retarded Africa's development."(14) Western liberal humanitarian do-gooders are inherently paternalistic, and they promote policies that can only be described as economic imperialism. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">There has been a massive centralization of the power of the state, which historically occurred with the transformation of government by merging with banking, which created the modern state, as well as its transformation of the subject into a citizen. This process is also closely intertwined with usurious economics. It also created a new administrative apparatus based on budgets and regularity created by covering the deficits with paper-money. Indeed, the creation of money out of nothing has been crucial to the state's centralization of wealth.(15) </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">The problem of these monopolies is naturally founded upon the money monopoly, and it is opposing the money monopoly that must be our first consideration. As Proudhon noted, this monopoly has created a false scarcity of money, so that if other monopolies are addressed before tackling the rule of usury, it would only intensify this scarcity by leading to an excess of imports over exports. Likewise, without first ensuring the free trade in money at home - or the right to choose one's medium of exchange - it would force workers adrift to face starvation.(16) Usury is at the root of economic exploitation. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">In conclusion, the centralization of wealth into a class hierarchy is due to state intervention in the market - which is the very antithesis of a free market - to protect the ruling class, through the following means: using a money monopoly of usury and the central banks controlling the right to issue and circulate the only allowable medium of exchange; granting patents and subsidies to favored corporations; imposing discriminatory taxation; and intervening militarily in order to gain access to international markets.(17) </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-PfqbCmtqjcc/YLfWE0VVV_I/AAAAAAAAF98/QG2MMY356lcAu7E4FvcKSzvicbbF8MZlACLcBGAsYHQ/s860/bt.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="522" data-original-width="860" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-PfqbCmtqjcc/YLfWE0VVV_I/AAAAAAAAF98/QG2MMY356lcAu7E4FvcKSzvicbbF8MZlACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/bt.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">NOTES: </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">(1) Benjamin Tucker, "State Socialism and Anarchism: How Far They Agree & Wherein They Differ," <i>Liberty</i>, March 10, 1888.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">(2) Kevin Carson, "The Subsidy of History," <i>The Freeman</i>, Vol. 58, No. 5, June 2008. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">(3) Murray Rothbard, <i>Power and Market: Government and the Economy</i>, Kansas City, MO: Sheed Andrews and Mcmeel, Inc., 1970, p. 68. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">(4) Kevin Carson, <i>Studies in Mutualist Political Economy</i>, Fayetteville, AR: 2004, p. 205.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">(5) Albert Jay Nock, <i>Our Enemy, the State</i>, Delevan, WI: Hallberg Publishing Corp., 1983, p. 41n.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">(6) Benjamin Tucker, "Economic Hodge-Podge," <i>Liberty</i>, October 8, 1887. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">(7) Carson, <i>op. cit.</i>, p. 220.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">(8) Benjamin Tucker, <i>State Socialism and Anarchism And Other Essays</i>, Colorado Springs, CO: Ralph Myles Publisher, 1972, p. 6. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">(9) <i>ibid.</i>, p. 19.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">(10) Carson, <i>op. cit.</i>, p. 230.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">(11) <i>ibid.</i>, p. 224.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">(12) Rothbard, <i>op. cit.</i>, p. 71.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">(13) Ibrahim Lawson, "Economic Imperialism," in <i>Banking: The root cause of the injustices of our time</i>, eds. Abdalhalim Orr and Abdassamad Clarke, London: Diwan Press, 2009, p. 124.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">(14) Dambisa Moyo, <i>Dead Aid: Why Aid Is Not Working And How There Is A Better Way For Africa</i>, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, p. 9. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">(15) Umar Vadillo, <i>The Esoteric Deviation in Islam</i>, Cape Town, South Africa: Madinah Press, 2003, pp. 164, 326. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">(16) Tucker, "State Socialism and Anarchism," <i>op. cit. </i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">(17) Kevin Carson, "The Iron Fist Behind The Invisible Hand," <www.liberalia.com/htm/kc_iron_fist.htm>.</span></div></div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span><div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">-----------------------------------</span></div></div><div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">An organic understanding of money </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">6 January 2011</span></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-4bvqNX7Pg6k/YLqBv08y43I/AAAAAAAAGAE/BcyFXHxdtjMFsIR-9FGX5CHfAUtF-69_wCLcBGAsYHQ/s444/Aristotle-usury-quote.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="258" data-original-width="444" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-4bvqNX7Pg6k/YLqBv08y43I/AAAAAAAAGAE/BcyFXHxdtjMFsIR-9FGX5CHfAUtF-69_wCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Aristotle-usury-quote.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">Human beings are interconnected to their surrounding environment. From the very moment one human being produced something that the others wanted, some means of exchange was devised. In every culture the medium was something tangible that existed within nature, whether it was precious metals or tangible goods, such as grain. Money was always understood necessarily as being intrinsic in value; something that could be held with the hands or viewed with the eyes. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">There was free access to these productive resources, so that labor became the activating factor. The amount of one's money was determined by the amount of labor they produced. Likewise, there was a sharing of the products of these labor according to need. This organic freedom that was instilled in the earliest human beings, is a natural yearning whose implications are becoming more evident to those who lack this essential freedom, which is free access to the market and the right to choose one's medium of exchange freely. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">"The history of humanity has been largely one long and gradual discovery of the fact that the individual is the gainer by society exactly in proportion as society is free, and of the law that the condition of a permanent and harmonious society is the greatest amount of individual liberty compatible with equality of liberty." (1) </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">All transactions among these earliest societies were thus based on equality of opportunity and liberty to choose the medium of exchange. Hence, in every sense of the word it was a free market where everyone had equal access to the the market and its tangible resources, with only their hard work or labor determining the nature of its transactions. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">History reveals that exploitation only arose in those societies where slavery was instituted. The labor of slaves created a surplus that supported a ruling class. This often created an unnatural disparity of wealth versus labor, so that labor no longer became the deciding factor of wealth, and there was a reverse trend: labor was shared by a greater number of people, while wealth became concentrated into the hands of an ever-decreasing number. </span></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-lyaBS38Pu_0/YLfY6GG1JkI/AAAAAAAAF-M/NyEkg5Bm_hot1OHbOw-eQ_ZUrbFpFLj-gCLcBGAsYHQ/s850/quote-so-long-as-the-system-of-competition-in-the-production-and-exchange-of-the-means-of-william-morris-20-65-66.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="850" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-lyaBS38Pu_0/YLfY6GG1JkI/AAAAAAAAF-M/NyEkg5Bm_hot1OHbOw-eQ_ZUrbFpFLj-gCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/quote-so-long-as-the-system-of-competition-in-the-production-and-exchange-of-the-means-of-william-morris-20-65-66.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">The earliest thinkers recognized that the nature of money was "barren," as the Greek philosopher Aristotle put it, because it produces nothing of its own. Rather, it cannot be separated from labor which is productive. No matter how much capital one may possess, it will be of no avail without labor to continuously activate it. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">However, the reciprocal is very different. Without capital, the laborer would soon be able to produce all their needs by its production. And so our interconnectedness with nature is made even more clear here, for money cannot "mix" with the earth but can only be found from its precious metals, or the crops yielded, or even, in the form of the artificial notion that currently passes for money, the paper that comes from trees. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">This is very different with labor, with tilling the soil and planting the crops, where sweat mixes with the earth. It follows then that using the same understanding, with no laborers to consume it capital will remain useless and rot back into the earth. It is through honest labor that wealth becomes activated, in so much as we are stewards of this earth; we depend on it for our livelihood and we should give back to it productively. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">And it should be no coincidence that the basis of modern economics is exploitation of real things by artificial entities or concepts. So it is the exploitation of the earth's actual resources, by denying free access to all which would be justice and would ensure true balance, which is being done by artificial entities called the multinational corporations. </span></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-5bqUTW6EfeA/YLfZYdMaWzI/AAAAAAAAF-U/oV2S1ZasG5sBajBM3XuTzT4M3L3PEJHCwCLcBGAsYHQ/s800/3dc4687907a74d48c97feaedff52de8b.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="560" data-original-width="800" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-5bqUTW6EfeA/YLfZYdMaWzI/AAAAAAAAF-U/oV2S1ZasG5sBajBM3XuTzT4M3L3PEJHCwCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/3dc4687907a74d48c97feaedff52de8b.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">Likewise, the other component of this false structure are the financiers who cannot produce anything of their own but still they take from the tangible labor of others, and burden them with debt - and this is all guaranteed by another artificial entity, the State with its coercive powers, which perpetuates this because it is truly nothing but the merger of government with banking. The politicians are merely the outer wall shielding the real power of the financiers. Yet without the State creating these false hierarchies of wealth, the money masters' usury would surely crumble. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">"Capital is essentially unproductive, and therefore rent and interest are robbery; rent and interest violate the law of fraternity, and cannot do otherwise; the natural increase of wealth tends to their diminution and ultimate disappearance, as is evident from history." (2) </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">(1) Benjamin Tucker, <i>Instead of A Book, By A Man Too Busy To Write One</i>, New York: Haskell House Publishers, 1969, p. 24. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">(2) Charles A. Dana, <i>Proudhon & His "Bank of the People"</i>, New York: Benjamin R. Tucker Publisher, 1896, p. 34.</span></div></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">-----------------------------------</span></div><div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">Indigenous traditions around the world oppose usury </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">6 January 2011 (with some editing)</span></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-L_DJjE7NphI/YLk9vGihcGI/AAAAAAAAF-k/L3pjpd7OHW0ZCeLsQbVMyKGe2opd9iNGwCLcBGAsYHQ/s850/quote-tribalism-is-a-social-form-which-can-exist-at-any-level-of-technology-it-s-a-complete-terence-mckenna-141-76-16.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="850" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-L_DJjE7NphI/YLk9vGihcGI/AAAAAAAAF-k/L3pjpd7OHW0ZCeLsQbVMyKGe2opd9iNGwCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/quote-tribalism-is-a-social-form-which-can-exist-at-any-level-of-technology-it-s-a-complete-terence-mckenna-141-76-16.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-JT45d3WtJEk/YLk-GRpz3pI/AAAAAAAAF-0/ZzbTb60dKGAYRfhmqaif5YzEIdMpliBgACLcBGAsYHQ/s624/trudell-truth.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="469" data-original-width="624" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-JT45d3WtJEk/YLk-GRpz3pI/AAAAAAAAF-0/ZzbTb60dKGAYRfhmqaif5YzEIdMpliBgACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/trudell-truth.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Another powerful insight from the late John Trudell</td></tr></tbody></table><div><br /><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">It should be no surprise that usury was unknown throughout the world, as it came later and was not part of organic human nature. And in those places where it did become introduced, it was universally condemned. The current writer advises each person to research the culture and traditions of their ancestors, so they can better understand themselves and also truly "come to know each other" in mutual respect and understanding. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">The current writer has done exactly this with his own ancestors, who include the Suevi-Alemanni, Belgae and Celtiberian tribes that inhabited what are now southwest Germany, Flanders, and Spain. Among both nations, usury was entirely unknown until it came with the Roman conquest. The Suevi-Alemanni were actually the first Germanic tribe with whom the Romans came into contact, so that they now referred to all the various tribes with the term 'Alemanni'. They were a people of oral traditions, rather than written records. Most of what is known about them comes from the Roman historian Tacitus, who writes: </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">"26. Lending money upon interest, and increasing it by usury, is unknown among them; and this ignorance more effectively prevents the practice than a prohibition would do." (1) </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">Even while the Romans might have had more "glories" than my ancestors when measured by modern standards, their harmonious living with nature and the inherent justice of their social transactions earned the admiration of this Roman historian and senator. Tacitus lamented how usury had become a reality in Rome, where it was "an ancient evil, and a perpetual source of sedition and discord." (2) </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">The Celtiberians were the inhabitants of the Iberian Peninsula at the time of the Romans. They were the descendants of the indigenous pre-Indo-European inhabitants of the Peninsula, who intermarried with the Celts who migrated there around the 6th century BC. Usury was likewise unknown to them and when they came in contact with people who had usury, they condemned it as one of the sixteen branches of avarice, since they recognized it as "taking more than what is due by selling the time." (3) </span></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-rAViugwMYKw/YLfgMlhVT4I/AAAAAAAAF-c/piwKQiWfL3IStds6ehhgbLUwjWdgCTEwACLcBGAsYHQ/s700/73b82e054ea5f0a336885bd02bb73600.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="700" data-original-width="700" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-rAViugwMYKw/YLfgMlhVT4I/AAAAAAAAF-c/piwKQiWfL3IStds6ehhgbLUwjWdgCTEwACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/73b82e054ea5f0a336885bd02bb73600.png" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">Economic exploitation has always come on the backs of a political domination. As the rule of Rome became entangled with that of its usurious economy, so too did it stamp out indigenous opposition to usury throughout Europe, and this became law with the rise of the central banks in the last few centuries. Such a false monopoly has been guaranteed with actions of the State, through the full weight of its laws which institutionalize usury and debt. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">It is no accident that most of the leading financiers have come from Jewish backgrounds, a fact that is undeniable. It's an important example of how the creation of a false religious hierarchy (Pharisees) and their dogmas backed by political power, is so intricately connected to that of a false economic hierarchy. But usury is not endemic only to Jewish financiers, as we should also condemn the Gentile financiers who overturned their own traditional prohibition of usury with the rise of the Calvinist ethics and the modern State. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">At the same time, usury was also unknown to indigenous peoples throughout the world, including nations throughout Africa, Australia(4), and Turtle Island, the continent known as "North America."(5) But the reality is that usury only came to the shores of those lands with the conquests of imperialist nations, where the rule of the financial elites often became the determining factor behind imperialist endeavors, particularly in Britain and France. And so it is that now the international monetary system that stifles traditional cultures around the world, has as its cornerstone the taking of interest on loans. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">(1) Tacitus, <i>A Treatise on the Situation, Manners and Inhabitants of Germania</i>, Part 3.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">(2) Tacitus, <i>Annals</i>, vi, 16.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">(3) Oliver Davies and Thomas O'Loughlin, <i>Celtic Spirituality</i>, Mahwah, New Jersey: Paulist Press, 1999, pp. 434-435.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">(4) Aboriginal activist Denis Walker opposes usury and fractional banking: <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2DInuKclk4>.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">(5) See my previous article, "The sovereign Lakota people declare their monetary freedom, institute silver-based currency," <https://sjobst.blogspot.com/2021/05/reflections-of-wasicu-on-pine-ridge-rez.html>.</span></div></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">-----------------------------------</span></div><div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">Capitalism is a religion </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">16 January 2011 (with some minor editing 3 June 2021)</span></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-OvgbbbCQOdc/YLlJ8PN_1KI/AAAAAAAAF_A/xY2j_6i13Pghy9kBAIdI1GyhF-35fc9zQCLcBGAsYHQ/s895/S0xYjiMsLszOOkG-OVqSv5FdXyX9cHT3HaiUPzRl_2A.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="895" data-original-width="602" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-OvgbbbCQOdc/YLlJ8PN_1KI/AAAAAAAAF_A/xY2j_6i13Pghy9kBAIdI1GyhF-35fc9zQCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/S0xYjiMsLszOOkG-OVqSv5FdXyX9cHT3HaiUPzRl_2A.png" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">Under finance capitalism, usury has allowed the financiers and economists to transform the very nature of money. Through interest it becomes artificially productive, whereas through fiat money it becomes artificially valuable. Interest and fiat money are closely linked as part of its cultic dimension of capital. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">Through interest money becomes an end in itself, compromising the organic view of honest unexploited labor and free exchange of services as the only legitimate sources of income. It elevates money to a self-perpetuating power in itself rather than a mediating agent of power as has been traditionally understood. "The love of money is the root of all evil."(1) </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">Capitalism is not the free market, but rather its antithesis. For state intervention on behalf of the financial powers have given life to this false god of Mammon. Joseph Proudhon traced all current injustices to this root cause. "Credit is the canonization of money, the declaration of its royalty over all products whatsoever."(2) He then referred to "the sect of economists."(3) </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">The economists are the apologists of this religion, whose high priests are the financiers. The words of the financiers are made the gospel truth, whereas those of the economic apologists are odes to the glories of these high priests. The various factions of politicians are religious orders, each serving the dogma in their own way without accepting any other orthodoxy. The financiers reward the most subservient among them, with notable mention in their decrees which is favorable publicity through their mass media. </span></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-RsG88oF9MAE/YLlKsc2GSzI/AAAAAAAAF_I/TNRQL3y-gT0BmrH3Nr0zqkbdPsmusQLagCLcBGAsYHQ/s798/magician.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="591" data-original-width="798" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-RsG88oF9MAE/YLlKsc2GSzI/AAAAAAAAF_I/TNRQL3y-gT0BmrH3Nr0zqkbdPsmusQLagCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/magician.png" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"The Conjurer" (1502) by the Dutch painter<br />Hieronymous Bosch. Such use of parlor tricks to <br />profit can be seen in the Flemish proverb: "He who <br />lets himself be fooled by conjuring tricks loses his <br />money and becomes the laughing stock of children."<br />An allegory for economists as modern sorcerers?</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">Economic priests maintain their artificial privileges through obscuring their religion's true nature. Just as each clerical class derives power from keeping people ignorant of the faith and thus dependent upon them, so too have the economists buried its reality through a matrix of false principles and meaningless distinctions. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">Tyranny starts with the abuse of language, as George Orwell informed us in his classic work on totalitarianism. Usury has been made synonymous with trade, so that a nation is not considered "prosperous" until it has a debt it can call its own. Hence, the materialistic myth of "progress" is measured in how much is borrowed from the financiers. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">Usury and taxes are then held up as being necessary for such "prosperity," such that without them is only "backwardness." In practice, this has buttressed economic imperialism along with its accompanied cultural subversion, which "purifies", in an almost spiritual sense, all distinct cultural traditions and mores that may prevent spread of the creed. The West is held up as the supreme model for the world, but what this really proves is to what extent the West itself has been subverted to the rule of the financiers. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">On its false altar of materialism, these high-priests of economics sacrifice the livelihood and real labor of the people, and have them serve their false god of Mammon through them - the rabbinical/priestly class of economists - as intermediaries. This new religion redefines Grace, so that through material "grace", it seeks to deliver spiritual hopelessness.</span></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-m9uBVtvUqIA/YLlPv3r2CqI/AAAAAAAAF_Y/JDc-l7_tj2ItNIX-bNwfsqMtNc5NAbENgCLcBGAsYHQ/s1280/slide_51.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1280" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-m9uBVtvUqIA/YLlPv3r2CqI/AAAAAAAAF_Y/JDc-l7_tj2ItNIX-bNwfsqMtNc5NAbENgCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/slide_51.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The new school of "Utilitarianism" justified the <br />profits of a few usurers, by the sorcery that it<br />allegedly benefited the good of the many, ignoring<br />the deception and coercion inherent in usury. <br /><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">Capitalism seeks to address the same worries and anxieties as spirituality. It is "a pure religious cult" in which "utilitarianism gains its religious coloring."(4) It is no coincidence that a group of philosophers called the utilitarians provided much of the basis behind the acceptance of usury in the West, redefining it from an absolute evil to one that looked only to immediate "pragmatism", to be measured in material terms. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">This is perhaps the first instance of a religion based solely on guilt rather than repentance. In other words, it seeks not to repent for this guilt but "to make it universal, to hammer it into consciousness and finally and above all to include God himself in this guilt, in order to finally interest him in repentance."(5) </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">The growth of capitalism has only been possible because other religions transformed into capitalism. That is, they were reduced to mere private questions of "morals" without social obligations. "The economic issues have been carefully kept out of the religious discourse, so that the person who wants justice for the world finds no tools among what is left of religious morals. He needs to look elsewhere."(6) </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">The spiritual dimension of economics was a new esotericism, whereby religion was reduced to common grounds that could be acceptable to the majority; erasing religious identities so as to create a new identity based on "citizens" as taxpayers and clientele of the state. This predominant identity was then elevated to the realm of the unquestionable and became the orthodoxies of usury and taxation.(7) Under the name of "tolerance," the state does not tolerate anyone who refuses to pay taxes to the state or debt to the banks! </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">Capitalism is founded on a new trinity, an inversion of the previous sacral and its replacing by a new myth. The three primary forms of deriving income from other than honest labor, are interest, rent and profit. "These three constitute the trinity of usury, and are simply different methods of levying tribute for the use of capital."(8) </span></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ymKgYxB0gK4/YLlO3cbvTbI/AAAAAAAAF_Q/llxj-Zej2B8hV5IaGg4Wcl4bctwqU8ujwCLcBGAsYHQ/s460/unnamed.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="460" data-original-width="288" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ymKgYxB0gK4/YLlO3cbvTbI/AAAAAAAAF_Q/llxj-Zej2B8hV5IaGg4Wcl4bctwqU8ujwCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/unnamed.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">In fact, the state which is based on taxation, central banks and paper money, replaces it with its own morality, which includes those highlighted by Joseph Proudhon in "<i>General Idea of the Revolution of the Nineteenth Century</i>": </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">"Thou shalt respect thy representatives and thy officials, which the hazard of the ballot or the good pleasure of the State shall have given you. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">"Thou shalt obey the laws which they in their wisdom shall have made. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">"Thou shalt pay thy taxes faithfully. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">"And thou shalt love the Government, thy Lord and thy God, with all thy heart and with all thy soul and with all thy mind, because the Government knows better than thou what thou art, what thou art worth, what is good for thee, and because it has the power to chastise those who disobey its commandments, as well as to reward unto the fourth generation those who make themselves agreeable to it." </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">There is no actual "separation of church and state": this was merely a rhetorical tool by which a new religion called economics replaced the power of the other religions and penetrated into every aspect of society. Politics is a charade, a spectacle that is subverted by corporate wealth and operating under the watchful eyes of the financiers; indeed, all "elections" are merely exercises in who will lead the bankers' service industry called the state! </span></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-oSsXxK2__AU/YLlTT2uu98I/AAAAAAAAF_g/NhqE-t0PdJY-4xZVFTwjot0fkR36YcrVgCLcBGAsYHQ/s930/c1a4af710025591f5a56aeb64157fbb1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="930" data-original-width="628" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-oSsXxK2__AU/YLlTT2uu98I/AAAAAAAAF_g/NhqE-t0PdJY-4xZVFTwjot0fkR36YcrVgCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/c1a4af710025591f5a56aeb64157fbb1.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">Under "privatization," it has subverted science and information, so that through the patents monopoly - upheld by the statist legal fiction of "intellectual property" laws - such basic needs as medicines have become corporate property, with its beneficiaries expected to pay tribute to financiers who allow it to them out of the kindness of their hearts, expecting only to be paid in debt! Likewise, under such "privatization" more land and resources can be gobbled up by financiers and the state, leading to the land monopoly that denies the basic understanding of stewardship of the earth and possessions as based solely on use and occupancy. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">The real purpose of economics is to promulgate the new myth of the "invisible hand," accompanied by a dogmatic acceptance of usury, so that "if one seeks first the kingdom of Mammon, everything else (social compassion, individual freedom, universal wellbeing) will be given to you, as well as the by-products of the free market (the expression free-market itself being as unfaithful to reality as calling prostitution true love)."(9) </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">The old feudalist order justified itself as serving "the will of God" through the clerical class, whereas the succeeding mercantilist order replaced it with "the will of the people." This alleged "will" is merely an instrument of coercion: the state creates monopolies that would otherwise be punished (i.e. theft is redefined as "taxation," kidnapping as "conscription," etc.), but are considered legitimate as long as its done by the state. This provides the capitalist elites with endless legal justifications. In the succinct words of Benjamin Tucker: "interest is theft, rent robbery, and profit only another name for plunder."(10) </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">The cult of capitalism has permanence; it not merely rationalizes the sacred, but makes everyday a "feast day," or a celebration of this religion. It has become so connected with technology that if normal transactions do not occur for a day (or even the mere possibility they won't), the system collapses. This is what occurred with the stock market crash in 1929 and with the Y2K craze leading up to the year 2000. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">Similarly, philanthropists can be more accurately understood as those who derive their wealth from crippling the people with debt, and then who "give back" to them on special feast days - with the same media they control holding them up as idols of adoration by the people! The banker George Soros cripples the economies of entire nations, and then gives a fraction of this stolen capital as "charity." In a most "esoteric" manner, crucial decisions facing entire nations are made behind closed doors by privileged elites through globalist bodies like Bilderberg, Club of Rome, and the Council on Foreign Relations, with no accountability or even publicity - and we're supposed to accept them as mere philanthropists! </span></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-tnlBjETywtY/YLlVWRhoPaI/AAAAAAAAF_o/3BwRkHPqznozaPKZ-xflvOFaw5Ce0zLAwCLcBGAsYHQ/s260/images.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="194" data-original-width="260" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-tnlBjETywtY/YLlVWRhoPaI/AAAAAAAAF_o/3BwRkHPqznozaPKZ-xflvOFaw5Ce0zLAwCLcBGAsYHQ/s0/images.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">Capitalism being the expansion of despair, and in such despair can also be found its salvation, manifests in notions such as "creative destruction" and bringing "order out of chaos." In true fashion of clerical hierarchies, this is filled with self-fulfilling prophecies meant to elevate the priestly class as the upholders of knowledge. The same individuals who back in the 1990s created the same policies that led to the collapse of the economy, such as Ben Bernanke, Larry Summers and Timothy Geithner, were then brought forward to propose the "solutions" to what was merely the bankers robbing the people! </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">The banks are temples in which people pay homage to Mammon. The analogy given earlier of a clerical hierarchy has a basis, as the ancient disdain towards usury was overturned by the Pharisees, who gave their temple over to the money-changing tables. "Jesus entered the temple precincts and drove out all those engaged there in buying and selling. He overturned the money changers' tables and the stalls of the dove-sellers, saying to them: 'Scripture has it, 'My house shall be called a house of prayer,' but you are turning it into a den of thieves.'"(11) </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">Modern finance derived much of its formative elements from aspects peculiar to these Pharisees, whose successors later included such banking families as the Rothschilds. "Judaism....Pharisaism became Talmudism, Talmudism became Medieval Rabbinism, and Medieval Rabbinism became Modern Rabbinism. But throughout these changes in name....the spirit of the ancient Pharisees survives, unaltered....From Palestine to Babylonia; from Babylonia to North Africa, Italy, Spain, France and Germany; from these to Poland, Russia, and eastern Europe generally, ancient Pharisaism has wandered....demonstrates the enduring importance which attaches to Pharisaism as a religious movement.”(12)</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">At the same time, modern finance capitalism wouldn't have been able to expand to the level it has historically if not for the rebellion of several Christian theologians against the traditional prohibition against usury. The new religion of capitalism made money a myth, "until it could draw from Christianity enough mythical elements in order to constitute its own myth."(13) In a very religious sense, capitalism was born from "the spirit that speaks from the ornamentation of banknotes."(14) </span></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-FFdlUQdHbt8/YLpgn9ZpvaI/AAAAAAAAF_w/xoHsio0yePMs19Ehr4gVONQSz-4AfUfCwCLcBGAsYHQ/s271/Christ_drives_the_Usurers_out_of_the_Temple.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="271" data-original-width="220" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-FFdlUQdHbt8/YLpgn9ZpvaI/AAAAAAAAF_w/xoHsio0yePMs19Ehr4gVONQSz-4AfUfCwCLcBGAsYHQ/s0/Christ_drives_the_Usurers_out_of_the_Temple.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Christ drives the Usurers out of the <br />Temple", woodcut by the German artist <br />Lucas Cranach the Elder</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">The same process as the other Abrahamic religions occurred with the rise of a modernist school within Islam, seeking to overturn the explicit, uncategorical prohibition of riba by re-defining terms. This was their view of Islam as a system of principles and symbols - key to understanding the game of the bankers. The creation of these "principles" mean that neither the bankers nor their theologians will be principled except in a false utilitarian sense, as one "Islamic" banker revealed: </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">"We create the same type of products that we do for the conventional markets. We then phone up a Sharia scholar for a Fatwa. If he doesn't give it to us, we phone up another scholar, offer him a sum of money for his services and ask him for a Fatwa. We do this until we get Sharia compliance. Then we are free to distribute the product as Islamic."(15) </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">The problem has been identified as an outgrowth of the new philosophy of modernity, but the solution cannot be found in the very theism and philosophy that gave birth to the new religion. Rather, the only viable solution is to transcend such theisms and transcending all these illusionary foundations of modern anti-thought. Once this is achieved, then the way forward will appear to those with enough fortitude to seize the initiative. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">"The whole problem of economics in general is the underlying presumption of collectivism. The individual's life and stored labor are viewed as the 'medium of exchange', the collective supply of 'society's' labor is to be found in the 'money supply' which must be manipulated by those in power on behalf of the collective in order to protect the all important bee hive that the economists call the 'economy'. These false assumptions have led to grave errors on an enormous scale. The question is not one of which school of economics is the most accurate, but rather, is the endeavor of economics valid? Is economics the new alchemy? This is a question of great importance."(16) </span></div></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-w2L_ElelFdY/YLpoWVdGJCI/AAAAAAAAF_4/e6rT9ZIXpUc5Mm4A_sZZw95uki-AEJCUQCLcBGAsYHQ/s850/quote-i-believe-that-banking-institutions-are-more-dangerous-to-our-liberties-than-standing-armies-if-thomas-jefferson-283953.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="474" data-original-width="850" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-w2L_ElelFdY/YLpoWVdGJCI/AAAAAAAAF_4/e6rT9ZIXpUc5Mm4A_sZZw95uki-AEJCUQCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/quote-i-believe-that-banking-institutions-are-more-dangerous-to-our-liberties-than-standing-armies-if-thomas-jefferson-283953.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">NOTES: </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">(1) The New Testament, Timothy 6:10. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">(2) Joseph Proudhon, <i>Proudhon's Solution of the Social Problem</i>, New York: Vanguard Press, 1927, p. 53. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">(3) <i>ibid.</i>, p. 54. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">(4) Walter Benjamin, "Fragment 74: Capitalism as Religion," in Eduardo Mendieta, ed., <i>Religion as Critique: The Frankfurt School's Critique of Religion</i>, New York: Routledge, 2005, p. 259. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">(5) <i>ibid.</i> </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">(6) Umar Vadillo, <i>The Esoteric Deviation in Islam</i>, Cape Town: Madinah Press, 2003, p. 182. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">(7) <i>ibid.</i>, pp. 20-21. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">(8) Benjamin Tucker, "State Socialism and Anarchism: How Far They Agree & Wherein They Differ," <i>Liberty</i>, March 10, 1888.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">(9) Vadillo, <i>op. cit.</i>, p. 7. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">(10) <i>Benjamin R. Tucker and the Champions of Liberty</i>, eds. Michael Coughlin, Charles Hamilton and Mark Sullivan, 1975, p. 29. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">(11) The New Testament, Matthew 21:12-13. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">(12) Rabbi Louis Finkelstein, <i>The Pharisees, The Sociological Background of Their Faith</i>, Philadelphia: The Jewish Publication Society of America, 1938, vol. 1, p. xxi. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">(13) Benjamin, <i>op. cit.</i>, p. 261.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">(14) <i>ibid.</i> </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">(15) John Foster, "How Sharia-compliant is Islamic banking?," BBC, December 11, 2009, http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/8401421.stm. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">(16) Hugh A. Thomas, <i>Stored Labor: A New Theory of Money</i>, 1991, pp. 80-81.</span></div></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">-----------------------------------</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">Addendum</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">Aside from the above articles, I wrote a <a href="https://seanjobst.substack.com/p/ivan-agueli-the-unity-of-art-in-mysticism">biographical profile</a> of the Swedish anarchist, mystic and artist Ivan Aguéli in 2014....More recently, after <a href="https://sjobst.blogspot.com/2017/07/my-spain-conference-speech-on-zionism.html">attending and speaking</a> at the First International National-Anarchist Conference in June 2017, I wrote an article entitled "Anarchism Without Adjectives: National-Anarchism and the Diversity of Communities" for <a href="https://attackthesystem.com/2018/06/26/tribes-magazine-now-available/"><i>Tribes</i> Magazine</a>. So it is that I look back at my past writings towards the future.</span></div></div>Sean Jobsthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17351165299354431339noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-907444223262019258.post-45173150857542648602021-05-13T11:35:00.003-05:002021-05-13T11:35:43.154-05:00Reflections of a Wašíču on the Pine Ridge Rez<p> by Sean Jobst</p><p>12 May 2021</p><p>The following is a compendium of four articles I wrote after my two weeks as a guest on the Oglala Lakota reservation - one social, one political-economic, two spiritual - in late June/early July 2010. That experience was invaluable to my own development and, although I didn't recognize it at the time, set in motion the chain of events that would culminate in the discovery of my own indigenous European heritage - that we were all descendants of tribes and still carry that within ourselves, ready to be tapped into. </p><p>As part of my respect and solidarity with the Lakota people, I offer this publicly as I will not profit from Indigenous suffering. Its also a public vow to live up to the promises I made to my hosts at the time, to publicize the issues specifically facing the Oglala Lakota and the exploitation that continues to occur amidst our "bread and circuses" charade. There will be more articles in the future....</p><p>——————————————————————</p><p data-pm-context="[]">Whiteclay: Genocide by the Bottle</p><p>July 17, 2010</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-gOBvYG8oyB8/YJwVILp-NHI/AAAAAAAAF14/DgmptHGmI1YsM24sF7DIGD2sN4XS2EFgwCLcBGAsYHQ/s720/37541_1303184150991_2939002_n.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="540" data-original-width="720" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-gOBvYG8oyB8/YJwVILp-NHI/AAAAAAAAF14/DgmptHGmI1YsM24sF7DIGD2sN4XS2EFgwCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/37541_1303184150991_2939002_n.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-yuSlcok8dBU/YJwVO9NPG5I/AAAAAAAAF18/ilomaqpHxf4f4T7Tj76Kf9QNnH79VctpgCLcBGAsYHQ/35270_1303181110915_2546270_n.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="540" data-original-width="720" height="240" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-yuSlcok8dBU/YJwVO9NPG5I/AAAAAAAAF18/ilomaqpHxf4f4T7Tj76Kf9QNnH79VctpgCLcBGAsYHQ/35270_1303181110915_2546270_n.jpg" width="320" /></a></div></div><p><br /><br /></p><p>Imagine a town dedicated to selling alcohol, such that the town exists for no other purpose. Think about seeing drunks passed out on both sides of the street. Now, imagine drunks having sex out in the open. And imagine the police doing absolutely nothing about it, not to mention media ignoring the problem.</p><p>A figment of the imagination? No, it’s a very real fact of life – and it’s an everyday occurrence in the Nebraska border town of Whiteclay. The reasons this isn’t being addressed like it should be will be made quite apparent.</p><p>Ordinance 88.01 bans the sale and distribution of alcohol in the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. Yet, neither the tribal government nor police enforce their own laws. Since the law is being violated in plain sight, there is no other explanation but that the tribal government and police exist solely to perpetuate the same old colonial dictates upon the necks of the poor Lakota Oyate (people).</p><p><br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-rZGtumSwZQA/YJwWyLOftsI/AAAAAAAAF2c/xacR5B0VzKMllp4iTAR23UepGWPdJZcqQCLcBGAsYHQ/35270_1303181070914_1815685_n.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="540" data-original-width="720" height="240" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-rZGtumSwZQA/YJwWyLOftsI/AAAAAAAAF2c/xacR5B0VzKMllp4iTAR23UepGWPdJZcqQCLcBGAsYHQ/35270_1303181070914_1815685_n.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /><p></p><p>They choose to ignore their own laws, because they have neither the will nor the intention to enforce Lakota sovereignty. For to do so would mean an abrupt end to their cashflow. For this reason they are willing partners in the federal government’s colonial policies which continue to destroy, rob and plunder First Nations people.</p><p>Whiteclay exists within the sovereign treaty lands of the Lakota. Initially called Doings, Lakota ranchers used to trade their goods with white farmers who lacked those goods of such quality. However, it wasn’t long before unscrupulous peddlers arrived to sell whiskey to the Lakota. This would soon be followed by peddlers selling other types of alcohol.</p><p>This was all in flagrant violation of the Fort Laramie Treaty made between the United States government and the sovereign Lakota Nation on April 29, 1868. The “bad man” clause of Article I leaves no room for ambiguity:</p><p>“If bad men among the whites, or among other people subject to the authority of the United States, shall commit any wrong upon the person or property of the Indians, the United States will, upon proof made to the agent and forwarded to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs at Washington City, proceed at once to cause the offender to be arrested and punished according to the laws of the United States, and also reimburse the injured person for the loss sustained.”</p><p>In 1882, U.S. President Chester A. Arthur established the Whiteclay Extension as a 50-square-mile buffer zone, south of and adjacent to the Lakota reservations. Since alcohol was forbidden on the reservations, so too was it prohibited in this buffer zone. </p><p>In 1889, the U.S. Congress enacted legislation that incorporated the entire buffer zone within the boundaries of the reservation. Yet all this changed in 1904, when President Theodore Roosevelt signed an Executive Order that reduced the boundaries of the reservation and effectively abolished the buffer zone.</p><p>The measure was unconstitutional, for Article VI of the U.S. Constitution recognizes treaties made with sovereign nations as being the law of the land. This man was later honored by having his bust carved into Mt. Rushmore, deep in the heart of the Black Hills, an area sacred to the Lakota and several other nations. Just another reprehensible case of in-your-face colonial dehumanization policies.</p><p><br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-AOg3UXcpkz8/YJwVdFNMMNI/AAAAAAAAF2I/yHU6UXhcu849Ukm3oklGNwAnjjQ3iR8ugCLcBGAsYHQ/34676_1303182510950_998335_n.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="540" data-original-width="720" height="240" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-AOg3UXcpkz8/YJwVdFNMMNI/AAAAAAAAF2I/yHU6UXhcu849Ukm3oklGNwAnjjQ3iR8ugCLcBGAsYHQ/34676_1303182510950_998335_n.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-Df4w_8RdZ6U/YJwVgpWf3KI/AAAAAAAAF2Q/eQGz8Rnz1K4MeTAtnDrgKl_ZunOx1X6PgCLcBGAsYHQ/34676_1303182470949_2562063_n.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="540" data-original-width="720" height="240" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-Df4w_8RdZ6U/YJwVgpWf3KI/AAAAAAAAF2Q/eQGz8Rnz1K4MeTAtnDrgKl_ZunOx1X6PgCLcBGAsYHQ/34676_1303182470949_2562063_n.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /></div><p></p><p>Today, Whiteclay is an unincorporated town of only seven. There are four liquor stores – Mike’s Pioneer Liquor, State Line Inn, Arrow Head Inn and Jumping Eagle Inn – and the nonprofit 555 Whiteclay ministry operated by Rev. Bruce Bonflour, who also runs an associated soup kitchen.</p><p>Each of these enterprises operate for solely one purpose: to profit from the Lakota people who purchase alcohol. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to see if establishments are formed right outside the borders of an area that prohibits their specific industry, that it is set up for this purpose. And given the poverty and corruption rampant in the Pine Ridge reservation, there is no other word to describe Whiteclay except for exploitation.</p><p>These are words that come from my heart, for I personally walked through Whiteclay twice and came into direct contact with the issues highlighted in this article. I personally saw the effects of alcoholism with my own two eyes. What I witnessed was genocide by chemical means, a modern version of smallpox-laced blankets.</p><p><br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-faeIS98bktM/YJwXO-EchEI/AAAAAAAAF2k/LNhmZJjGIiAx42cTyBWaDXuVrcQ2fBprgCLcBGAsYHQ/34676_1303182590952_468508_n.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="540" data-original-width="720" height="240" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-faeIS98bktM/YJwXO-EchEI/AAAAAAAAF2k/LNhmZJjGIiAx42cTyBWaDXuVrcQ2fBprgCLcBGAsYHQ/34676_1303182590952_468508_n.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-QeTye_eODBE/YJwXRGKE5vI/AAAAAAAAF2o/Qds15vuGy7InxKPy_micFExQM5rZmhK4ACLcBGAsYHQ/34676_1303182630953_6073411_n.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="540" data-original-width="720" height="240" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-QeTye_eODBE/YJwXRGKE5vI/AAAAAAAAF2o/Qds15vuGy7InxKPy_micFExQM5rZmhK4ACLcBGAsYHQ/34676_1303182630953_6073411_n.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /><p></p><p>There is an annual blockade led by the Stronghearts Civil Rights Movement of Duane Martin, Sr., since 1999. The purpose is to prevent the illegal flow of alcohol and drugs onto the Pine Ridge rez. This year’s blockade also brought participation from the leaders of the Alabama-based Stronghearts Preservation Movement, who are also councilors of the League of Indian Nations of North America. Other participants included organizers of the 500-mile Sacred Hoop Run, children and one of the grandmother elders.</p><p>The police ostensibly cooperated this year, admitting on camera that they confiscated 52 cases of alcohol. Yet no one was arrested for alcohol possession and the police were unable to account for the confiscated cases. The police later changed their story and the <i>Rapid City Journal</i> relied on a statement from the police chief who wasn’t even present at the blockade. Just another example of a profit-driven corporate media that connives to whitewash those with power and privilege.</p><p>Why aren't the tribal police "protecting and serving" the Lakota Oyate by consistently preventing the illegal flow of alcohol and drugs? Why did the police chief give testimony that openly ran contrary to what his officers said ON CAMERA?!Why aren't the tribal police "protecting and serving" the Lakota Oyate by consistently preventing the illegal flow of alcohol and drugs? Why did the police chief give testimony that openly ran contrary to what his officers said ON CAMERA?!You may sit from afar, in the comforts of your own home, and ignore what happens. But you are only deluding yourself, for buying into a system that leaves no stone unturned to destroying culture, history and nature for profit.</p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-04wco4hhqX8/YJ1AvIpRR5I/AAAAAAAAF4A/3G6Jw0s5A34ZEF6klhyiNki7f-MjCefbQCLcBGAsYHQ/s512/indianland.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="512" data-original-width="400" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-04wco4hhqX8/YJ1AvIpRR5I/AAAAAAAAF4A/3G6Jw0s5A34ZEF6klhyiNki7f-MjCefbQCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/indianland.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p>You are just as responsible for the problem, since you enable the entire greed mechanism. Even if you arrogantly proclaim this is not your problem, you’re only deceiving yourself. For you are enabling the greedy business elites to line their pockets from the labor and livelihood of others.</p><p>And likewise you further empower a government that has increasingly become indistinguishable from the big corporations and special interests. So not only are you empowering their greed and corruption, but you are enabling them to take away your liberties and expand at your expense.</p><p>Colonialism dehumanizes the people who are being colonized, this much is evident. But it also dehumanizes the people in whose name these policies are being implemented. For such a people to tolerate these policies means they have lost their conscience.</p><p>The purpose of this article is merely to inform and empower the individual, not to dictate a course of action. Such a task would be unnecessary, for anyone with an open mind and conscientious heart can already find the answer within their self of what to do. When are you going to stand up and remove the blinders from your eyes? When are YOU going to stand up and do something about this problem?</p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-H6JEKV-73Bo/YJ1B156MpXI/AAAAAAAAF4I/JKPRjCYFlecUNlpGQKsTazXLY-6-rhTXQCLcBGAsYHQ/s400/s-l400.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="300" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-H6JEKV-73Bo/YJ1B156MpXI/AAAAAAAAF4I/JKPRjCYFlecUNlpGQKsTazXLY-6-rhTXQCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/s-l400.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p>——————————————————————</p><p>The sovereign Lakota people declare their monetary freedom, institute silver-based currency</p><p>December 12, 2010</p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-S7hOwo9NMCY/YJw5cOKK-WI/AAAAAAAAF3g/zbmfWL9V1-o-HSJC85vtb0TnMK9y_hrigCLcBGAsYHQ/s1200/image.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="628" data-original-width="1200" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-S7hOwo9NMCY/YJw5cOKK-WI/AAAAAAAAF3g/zbmfWL9V1-o-HSJC85vtb0TnMK9y_hrigCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/image.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p>The U.S. Dollar is declining at an astonishing rate. The debt continues to rise and so do prices. It’s simply becoming more expensive to live, yet goods are actually becoming qualitatively less valuable. The cruel reality of a monetary system based literally on creating something of no value out of thin air and calling it money, has become obvious to an increasing number of people.</p><p>To finance their operations, governments have been borrowing money from the bankers. It can be said with complete accuracy the financial elites possess real power, for they have control over the circulation of money. Governments are in debt to the bankers, but the bill is passed down to the real producers of a society, who are the citizens. It is the common people who suffer through rising prices, paying more taxes, and losing their jobs and homes.</p><p>So it should come as no surprise that an increasing number of people are rejecting this orthodoxy of paper money, and are recognizing in contrast to the inherent pitfalls of paper money, the innumerable advantages of gold and silver. For those are resources existing naturally and have inherent value.</p><p>Even while more Americans are becoming awake to this reality, the bi-metallic currency is actually being instituted in many places throughout the world. Yet the most significant change here is not to be found in its larger cities, but rather in the Plains. This is the phenomenon of a Lakota indigenous tribe that is reclaiming their sovereignty – and instituting a silver-based monetary system.</p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-hjZyVBKrlkc/YJw57xnp0YI/AAAAAAAAF3o/82FecUKI9CEBzssEwmSjRTv99ZZe7zZuQCLcBGAsYHQ/s624/img3.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="393" data-original-width="624" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-hjZyVBKrlkc/YJw57xnp0YI/AAAAAAAAF3o/82FecUKI9CEBzssEwmSjRTv99ZZe7zZuQCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/img3.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p>Who are the Lakota?</p><p>The Lakota are one division of the Sioux nation, the others being the Nakota and Dakota. The Lakota are a confederation of seven sub-tribes. The largest are the Oglala, who inhabit the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation of southwest South Dakota.</p><p>This current writer visited the Pine Ridge reservation and saw a society that has been impoverished by a continued colonial enforcement against them, as well as a federal government that continues to violate its own treaties and a local government who’s corruption knows no shame.</p><p>Yet this is unlike many other colonized peoples, for the Lakota were never defeated militarily. In all actuality, they successfully resisted all efforts by the U.S. to subjugate them. After the Lakota, along with the Northern Cheyenne and Arapaho, defeated the U.S. Army at Little Big Horn in 1876, the government then resorted to other means to subjugate the Lakota.</p><p>These included massacres such as the slaughter of over 150 Lakota at Wounded Knee in 1890; chemical warfare such as alcoholism, drug abuse and contaminating the water through uranium mining in the sacred Black Hills; and repeatedly violating its treaties with the Lakota, such as the Treaty of Ft. Laramie that was signed in 1868.</p><p><br /></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-bXh8SOULO1A/YJw7EmNqsmI/AAAAAAAAF3w/-SW4mgAj-Z0cX_2V9ZX1z0xzNLiDecihQCLcBGAsYHQ/s1500/1549595348-bf44e329-fcc4-41ee-898e-222fc18581da.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1174" data-original-width="1500" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-bXh8SOULO1A/YJw7EmNqsmI/AAAAAAAAF3w/-SW4mgAj-Z0cX_2V9ZX1z0xzNLiDecihQCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/1549595348-bf44e329-fcc4-41ee-898e-222fc18581da.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><figcaption class="image-caption" data-pm-context="["captionedImage",null]">A painting of the Wounded Knee Massacre by a Lakota artist</figcaption></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p><br /></p><p>A sovereign people declare monetary freedom</p><p>Tired of this colonial enforcement and the U.S. government’s blatant violation of its own treaties, on December 17, 2007, a Lakota delegation went to Washington, D.C. and declared the treaties to be null and void, and due to this reasserted the freedom and sovereignty of the Lakota <em>Oyate</em> (people).</p><p>It gradually became more and more clear the key to actual freedom, in our society based so much on power and wealth talking, was to institute a monetary system of inherent value. On November 24, 2008, Lakota freedom activists announced the introduction of the world’s first non-reserve, non-fractional bank that would accept only silver and gold currency for deposit: The Free Lakota Bank.</p><p>“Today is a great day for us, a day that we begin to exercise our rights as a sovereign people with strength and pride,” said Canupa Gluha Mani (Duane Martin, Sr.), Tetuwan Council Judicial Member of the 2500-member Cante Tenza (Strong Heart) Civil Rights Movement.</p><p>“We invite people of any creed, faith or heritage to unite in an effort to reclaim control of wealth. It is our hope that other tribal nations and American citizens recognize the importance of silver and gold as currency and decide to mirror our system of honest trade.”</p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-b18A4lS_Rr8/YJw9FdeXCsI/AAAAAAAAF34/OBz5vvyYLLgTyD6HF1tlbW50PD2rrxywQCLcBGAsYHQ/s412/image1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="232" data-original-width="412" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-b18A4lS_Rr8/YJw9FdeXCsI/AAAAAAAAF34/OBz5vvyYLLgTyD6HF1tlbW50PD2rrxywQCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/image1.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p>Structure of the Bank of Lakota</p><p>The Bank of Lakota is part of the American Open Currency System of Dallas-based Rob Gray. The pure-silver Lakota Dollar is available through currency officers or “bulk orders.” This is designed to avoid their receiving worthless paper money in exchange for selling real wealth. A bulk order means 20 ounces (566.99 grams) of silver plus $5.25 is either to be physically delivered to the purchaser or left in deposit in their account with the Bank.</p><p>All deposits at the Bank of Lakota are liquid, which means it can be withdrawn at any time in minted rounds. The whole process is anonymous, as the Bank doesn’t track the names of its clients or the movements of their money. Duane Martin Sr. has rejected Social Security numbers as “prisoner numbers” and hence the Bank is committed to respecting the privacy of its clients unlike what occurs in the current financial structure. “Since we deal only in real money, we do not participate in any central bank looting schemes,” says the Bank’s website [now defunct].</p><p>There is a two-tiered security. First a SSL Online username using a strong keystroke encryption program, and second an automatic phone call for the user to enter a PIN number. There is a preliminary period where the Federal Reserve notes are converted into metal. There is an inexpensive monthly fee for account maintenance, a 0.00005 service fee or 5 cents per thousand. Furthermore, there is a General Investment Fund that allows a waiver of investors’ maintenance fees and earns a current annual rate of return for the Fund of 7.24%.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-poHGTH7h5nE/YJ1Dfy46d6I/AAAAAAAAF4Q/nFbC_rtA7ZYMQbZG1lyUiq70hizXlNJ8wCLcBGAsYHQ/s225/download.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="225" data-original-width="225" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-poHGTH7h5nE/YJ1Dfy46d6I/AAAAAAAAF4Q/nFbC_rtA7ZYMQbZG1lyUiq70hizXlNJ8wCLcBGAsYHQ/s0/download.jpg" /></a></div><br /><p>Microloans and the “American Dream”</p><p>Although firmly rooted among the sovereign Lakota people, who have a living attachment to their land and their ancestors through language, the Bank of Lakota nevertheless exemplifies a worldwide trend towards micro-loans and separation from the fractional reserve banking system, which merely dwindles wealth through inflation and has meant giving away power to a small super-wealthy financial elite.</p><p>Microcredit is the extension of small microloans to poor people in order to spur an independent source of income through entrepreneurship and start-up businesses. It is a revolutionary idea perhaps first proposed by the American individualist anarchist Lysander Spooner for poor people to escape the clutches of the State and those financial interests that use it to exercise their money monopoly. In recent years the most well-known – and successful – microloan program is the Grameen Bank that was founded by Muhammad Yunus in Bangladesh.</p><p>The Bank of Lakota is a model designed to empower people into exercising their inherent power as free beings, by rejecting this paper that is merely a mortgage on wealth which doesn’t even exist and is then backed by the combined weight of State power and the monopoly of what American founding fathers and successive thinkers called “the moneyed interests.”</p><p>“We hope that someday the rest of the world will awaken from the American Dream: the dream that a person can sustain life by consuming more than producing,” the website continues.</p><p>“We call it the American Dream because you must be asleep to believe it. Well, that dream now has a silver lining; as people discover the dream is really a nightmare, the only solution is a return to value; value that comes from production and honest trade.”</p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-hiyx6HjJb8M/YJ1FNU7iDCI/AAAAAAAAF4Y/U96w7UeZnPgURVGP4ocffpc4dfobxBurwCLcBGAsYHQ/s519/8d32a8b05ddc965115ccd994f87783bb.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="519" data-original-width="397" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-hiyx6HjJb8M/YJ1FNU7iDCI/AAAAAAAAF4Y/U96w7UeZnPgURVGP4ocffpc4dfobxBurwCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/8d32a8b05ddc965115ccd994f87783bb.jpg" /></a></div><br /><p>A history of Indigenous money and trade</p><p>On July 2, 2010, the current writer had a lengthy conversation with Duane Martin, Sr. with the history and various facets of trade and money when it comes to the Indigenous nations of Turtle Island, the land now called by the colonial-derived term “North America.”</p><p>From the beginning, the European colonists relied on the knowledge of Native people to survive on this land. This included everything from their knowledge of plants and herbs for medicinal purposes to the use of Native forms of trade. The most well known was wampum, a clam shell money that due to being found within nature was not susceptible to inflation.</p><p>Both because it could be found locally and to avoid the costs of importing from Europe, many colonists adopted Indigenous trading practices. The Dutch colonial governor Peter Stuyvesant paid his workers in <em>wampum</em>. And indeed Manhattan was purchased with <em>wampum</em>.</p><p>The most widespread medium of exchange on Turtle Island was <em>wampum</em>, however it was not the only one. The Lakota primarily used their food-stuffs for exchange. It was something of a barter economy, in which commerce was a trade enterprise and not a value system.</p><p><br /></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-HcO8-ate8js/YJw3XyqqoRI/AAAAAAAAF3Y/k7pRALOqXt0EodwyxfhHeW90tiqf3HYjQCLcBGAsYHQ/s751/maquinna.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="751" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-HcO8-ate8js/YJw3XyqqoRI/AAAAAAAAF3Y/k7pRALOqXt0EodwyxfhHeW90tiqf3HYjQCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/maquinna.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Maquinna</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p>However, the colonists became ever more greedy in their search for gold, including in the lands of the Lakota Oyate. This became a justification to further exploit their fellow human beings, to exterminate nations and destroy the land. This was a way that only knew exploitation and not charity, as was noted in a speech by Maquinna, chief of the Nuu-chah-nulth (later Mowachalit) people of Nootka Sound near modern-day Vancouver, in the late 1700s:</p><p>“Once I was in Victoria, and I saw a very large house. They told me it was a bank and that the white men place their money there to be taken care of, and that by and by they got it back with interest. We are Indians and we have no such bank; but when we have plenty of money or blankets, we give them away to other chiefs and people, and by and by they return them with interest, and our hearts feel good. Our way of giving is our bank.”</p><p>Currently the Lakota Dollar is not merely put away and store as a savings for future generation. Rather, it is being used to pay for necessities such as utilities. And the Lakota have a historical basis for modern entrepreneurship, through crafts that are then exchanged. In fact, Cante Tenza has even helped finance its struggle for freedom partially through manufacturing its own lotion from local plants and herbs.</p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-5LigS0P7JEI/YJ1FtGa-RsI/AAAAAAAAF4g/Pn6RrzpHCZ0biiZT2H4n0fQ9aYNFF35mACLcBGAsYHQ/s2000/327282401-c69cf59c400d52fc3176b9979c21ba74.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2000" data-original-width="2000" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-5LigS0P7JEI/YJ1FtGa-RsI/AAAAAAAAF4g/Pn6RrzpHCZ0biiZT2H4n0fQ9aYNFF35mACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/327282401-c69cf59c400d52fc3176b9979c21ba74.jpg" /></a></div><p>Conclusion</p><p>The exploitation wrought by colonial enforcement has continued even as wealth has gone from tangible gold and silver, to worthless paper, and finally nowadays to mere numbers on a screen that nevertheless are used to impoverish entire nations.</p><p>This is the Age of the Financiers. The State borrows from the Big Bankers to finance its own operations, as the distinction between government and corporation continues to be blurred daily. Yet more people are awakening to the cruel reality that we are like cogs in a machine, and that everything is part of this Technique of the Bankers. Yet we can escape their clutches by reasserting our sovereignty, like a brave number of Lakota freedom activists have done despite the odds.</p><p>Any change must come from within ourselves, from a consciousness within, that sees how value rests not with money but that money is merely a means of exchange – and it shouldn’t define us. Maybe only then can we avert the crisis described in the prophecy of the Cree people of Canada:</p><p>“Only after the last tree has been cut down; only after the last fish has been caught; only after the last river has been poisoned; only then will you realize that money cannot be eaten.”</p><p>——————————————————————</p><p>A Narrative of the Lakota Sacred Hoop Run</p><p>by Sean Jobst</p><p>Written for a Sociology of Religion university course in Fall 2014….</p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-sYUXeJsrfwM/YJ1GNO9n6wI/AAAAAAAAF4o/8SN5Xn8o-1c_tzPE2RFFSfpBZ94HnHPOQCLcBGAsYHQ/s720/38219_1303191191167_3156414_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="540" data-original-width="720" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-sYUXeJsrfwM/YJ1GNO9n6wI/AAAAAAAAF4o/8SN5Xn8o-1c_tzPE2RFFSfpBZ94HnHPOQCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/38219_1303191191167_3156414_n.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p>For two weeks spanning late June and early July 2010, I stayed as a guest on the Oglala Lakota Pine Ridge reservation in South Dakota. The opportunity came after my work with some local activists fighting the destruction of Native American mounds in Oxford for the sake of consumerism. Some Lakota activists came to assist our cause and from those meetings I visited Pine Ridge as the guest of a traditional Lakota activist. During those two weeks, I spoke with many traditional Lakota people and learned more about their spirituality than other outsiders.</p><p>The Oglala are one of the seven bands of the Lakota people, who along with the Natoka and Dakota make up the Oceti Sakowin (Seven Council Fires), labelled as "Sioux" by the French who could not pronounce the Ojibwa term for these people, "Nadewisou."(1) Lakota stress how one cannot learn about their traditions from books, because they are passed down through oral tradition. Lakota spirituality is not religion, so any study should not be viewed through Abrahamic lens of "religion." Among the Lakota, there is no separation between the sacred or profane, spiritual or physical. There is one spiritual path based on an interconnectedness of all life. </p><p>Out of deep respect of the Lakota people who honored me by telling me about their traditions, which were passed down orally while I wrote them down in typical <em>wasichu</em>(2) manner, this narrative will focus on one aspect of Lakota spirituality. This aspect connects both their spirituality and their current plight as an oppressed people, no contradiction as there is no sharp distinction between past, present and future in Lakota traditions.</p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-edNiQwnirzM/YJ1GtA5LBTI/AAAAAAAAF4w/bganhPaC5SU-DO3Utozg3LV88F39KkmqwCLcBGAsYHQ/s720/35220_1302399131366_7488434_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="540" data-original-width="720" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-edNiQwnirzM/YJ1GtA5LBTI/AAAAAAAAF4w/bganhPaC5SU-DO3Utozg3LV88F39KkmqwCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/35220_1302399131366_7488434_n.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p>Lakota spirituality is linked to the sacredness of the Black Hills, an area I was blessed to visit but which has also been desecrated by the <em>wasichu</em> authorities such as through uranium mining, tacky tourist traps and the unsightly carvings on the mountain called "Rushmore." This narrative is the story of the Sacred Hoop Run, an annual event into the Black Hills that connects the primordial heritage of their ancestors to their own current struggles against the social problems faced by the Lakota <em>oyate</em> (people). Lakota tradition holds that creation began in the sacred Black Hills, so the solution to their problems can be found by a literal return to their sacred tradition through the sacred site of creation. A traditional teacher named Randy Lays Bad recounted the story to me:</p><p>"Oral history states that the Black Hills used to be a vast prairie, no trees at all, until on the advice of an owl the animals held a race to see who would be the dominant species. He called on the four-legged and winged animals. When they gathered together they had a race around the Black Hills, in a hoop. That is also why we call that place a race-track, because it formed a hoop.</p><p>"These animals raced, their hooves and paws bled. Even though it bled, they continued to race on the advice of the owl. And they formed a groove in the form of a circle. As that happened, the center rose and formed a mountain. Trees rose, plants of all kinds rose, waters came about. The blood that was spilt around that race-track, soaked into the mountain and turned the mountain black. And that is why we call it the Black Hills.</p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-qK-dMPd-PeY/YJ1I_LNtC7I/AAAAAAAAF5A/l2894YcXOJYs6HKEWyCa8u05uLocpBPDwCLcBGAsYHQ/s720/34516_1302402611453_3376520_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="540" data-original-width="720" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-qK-dMPd-PeY/YJ1I_LNtC7I/AAAAAAAAF5A/l2894YcXOJYs6HKEWyCa8u05uLocpBPDwCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/34516_1302402611453_3376520_n.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p>"So the race in oral history is that the animals had three laps around the Black Hills. As they came to the finish line, the buffalo was near the finish line and the magpie was on buffalo. Throughout the whole race, he just sat back and watched. But then he flew off and crossed the finish line, winning it for the two-legged animals, the human species of the Lakota people. He was rewarded the colors of the rainbow by Tunkasila, or the Great Spirit. It is takuskan-skan, something that moves rapidly or swift. Takuwakan, something sacred, something very powerful beyond our imagination.</p><p>"From this point on, the first pioneers when they started Manifest Destiny into the plains and as they became Western, the race stopped for the animals because of railroads, fences and the Westerners. So from that point on, our race was conceived to recapture the spirit or identity of the Lakota people, to bring back what was lost and to empower the future generations so they can understand the Sacred Hoop and be able to survive in the future.</p><p>"And that is why we tackle many issues, such as the 1851 Treaty, the 1868 Treaty, mineral rights, water rights, grazing rights and timber rights. In other words, treaty rights. Also, fishing and hunting without license. There are many things that we want to give back to the people. Other things that we've added on was drugs, alcohol, domestic violence, gang violence and teenage pregnancy.</p><p>"Since we tackle these issues, cultural awareness or explaining to non-Indians that this is not a protest run. It is to let the non-Indians and the United States government know that the Black Hills and the land are not for sale. We try to give back the traditional understanding to the kids so they can use it in today's world. Throughout this run, we teach language, culture and history. Like wolakota, a spiritual balance within yourself, and wowahunkiye, or teachings that are passed on from generation to generation - social skills or values."(3)</p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-1hEjIgTUpBU/YJ1HcbsxpjI/AAAAAAAAF44/nCbzsLLiWFsXaPSzI6CS_bIn554oLUu0wCLcBGAsYHQ/s450/Four-Directions.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="321" data-original-width="450" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-1hEjIgTUpBU/YJ1HcbsxpjI/AAAAAAAAF44/nCbzsLLiWFsXaPSzI6CS_bIn554oLUu0wCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Four-Directions.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p>The Black Hills (He'Sapa in Lakota) is considered the center of the universe, the most sacred area where holy-men pray and receive powers from Tunkasila. One of the most well-known Lakota holy-men, Black Elk, prayed on top of Harney Peak in the Black Hills for Tunkasila and the spirit of the Lakota <em>oyate</em> to mend the Sacred Hoop, make the Lakota nation strong again, and for them to respect each other, the land and all life. The Lakota believe that by going back to the Sacred Hoop, they will go back to their ancestral way where everyone knows their purpose.</p><p>The creation story versions vary slightly according to sub-tribe of the Oceti Sakowin, but the main details are the same. It was in the Black Hills where the <em>ikce wicasa</em> (common man) was given the intellect and responsibility to care for the land. The land became sacred after the animals sanctified it by spilling their blood. The Lakota thus look at animals for their knowledge of Tunkasila. Learning from the animals helps them to survive into the future.</p><p>The annual Sacred Hoop Run was established in 1982 and started in July 1983, initially as a way to bring publicity to the violation of Lakota treaty rights. Simultaneously, it was also designed to restore pride in Lakota youth for their tradition, to recapture the spirit of understanding and bound the Lakota <em>oyate</em> together by reuniting them with their <em>unci maka</em> (grandmother earth). It carries on the Lakota tradition of endurance, where young men are trained to carry messages across vast plains to neighboring nations. Spiritually, they are challenged to prove their worthiness before Tunkasila:</p><p>"The Sacred Hoop 500 continues on to let the people know the sacred hoop still exists and the Black Hills belong in their hearts. We enable and empower Lakota people of all ages to continue and participate. We run to gain strength, wisdom, and knowledge of the Creator and the sacred hoop."(4)</p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ziwaugc8-d0/YJ1JUQOorQI/AAAAAAAAF5I/2VeYyA1xQ8I4FPjb8QP1pwG9iq0jq1OZwCLcBGAsYHQ/s720/35220_1302399091365_7688500_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="540" data-original-width="720" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ziwaugc8-d0/YJ1JUQOorQI/AAAAAAAAF5I/2VeYyA1xQ8I4FPjb8QP1pwG9iq0jq1OZwCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/35220_1302399091365_7688500_n.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p>During my two weeks on the reservation, I also met with Gary Lays Bad, the brother of Randy Lays Bad, who is also a traditional teacher and an organizer of the Run. In one interview with the media, he spoke of responsibility as another objective:</p><p>"It is up to Lakota Oyate to make change and make a difference for the future of our young ones because we need to understand that not only is the Black Hills involved in what we do, it is a big part of us. We talk about getting the Black Hills back and that the Black Hills are not for sale. We have been making that challenge for 27 years now. We've been telling them that this land belongs to our people, our young ones, and future generations."(5)</p><p>In his personal conversation with me, Randy Lays Bad described the structure of the Run. The race runs 500 miles through the Black Hills, through parts of four states in late June. The first day is a gathering at Bear Butte campground near Bear Butte, South Dakota. The first leg of the run is from Bear Butte to Pine Ridge (128 miles). The second is from Pine Ridge, through Nebraska to Lusk, Wyoming (112 miles). The third is from Lusk to Four Corners, Wyoming (109 miles). The fourth is from Four Corners to Alzada, Montana (99 miles). The fifth and final leg is from Alzada back to Bear Butte (89 miles), ending with a prayer ceremony and a picnic. Consisting of three to four teams of 15-40 runners, the Run is designed to stimulate the spiritual and physical needs of Lakota.</p><p><br /></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-IbS3VRnVF7k/YJ1KA5Ar__I/AAAAAAAAF5Q/CAK1WeOYanMqFVO9Vx5ZyzKyjGi4K3ajACLcBGAsYHQ/s915/Devils-Tower.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="610" data-original-width="915" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-IbS3VRnVF7k/YJ1KA5Ar__I/AAAAAAAAF5Q/CAK1WeOYanMqFVO9Vx5ZyzKyjGi4K3ajACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Devils-Tower.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The mountain in Wyoming called "Devil's Tower", sacred to <br />the Lakota and other nations. Picture not taken by me.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p><br /></p><p>Sociologically, oppressed people often have to endure social problems either due to a lack of more positive opportunities, or organized efforts of oppressors to weaken them - or both. In this way, the Run is also designed to direct the anger about poverty and that is exacerbated by drug and alcohol abuse, and turn it into a positive awareness. It is also designed to end domestic violence, restoring the traditional Lakota understanding of women as firekeepers in the center of the sacred hoop, with a noble honor of protecting the household and nourishing children that was given them by Tunkasila. </p><p>So this is just a glimpse into one Lakota spiritual event and the ways it binds people of all aspects of Lakota society, to know their respective and shared responsibilities. We - generally, non-Native people - can learn alot from them.</p><p>NOTES:</p><p>(1) Russell Means, Where White Men Fear to Tread: The Autobiography of Russell Means, New York: St. Martin's Griffin, 1995, p. 9; and Stacy Makes Good, "Sioux is not even a word," <em>Lakota Country Times</em>, March 12, 2009, <http://www.lakotacountrytimes.com/news/2009-03-12/guest/021.html>.</p><p>(2) "Setting the Record Straight About Native Languages: Wasichu," <http://www.native-languages.org/iaq20.htm>.</p><p>(3) Conversation with Randy Lays Bad, in the home of Duane Martin, Sr. (Canupa Gluha Mani), Sharp's Corner, South Dakota, early July 2010.</p><p>(4) Randy Lays Bad, "Sacred Hoop 500-mile Run....Nineteen years and still going strong," <em>Well Nations Magazine</em>, May-June 2001, pp. 17-18.</p><p>(5) Roseanna Renaud, "Sacred Hoop Runners Carry on Twenty-Seven Year Tradition," <em>Lakota Country Times</em>, July 1, 2009, <http://www.lakotacountrytimes.com/news/2009-07-01/local_news/009.html>.</p><p>——————————————————————</p><p>[A slightly-edited reflection originally written for the Sociology of Religion course, keeping the same general observations but taking out the parts where I was seeing things from my Abrahamic worldview at the time. - SJ]….</p><p>General Reflections on Lakota (and Tribal) Spirituality</p><p>My experience among the Lakota Oyate (Lakota people) was a reminder of my own ancient background, and indeed on several occasions my Lakota host reminded me of the importance of knowing and keeping one's own identity as a connection to one's ancestors; without this connection, there is nothing but confusion and one is less than human as it were. He stressed to me it extended far back in time, which in my case was even before my own ancestors accepted Catholic Christianity through the power of the Roman empire and based on the medieval principle that a people followed the religion of their king. </p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-1lBLKnDP7b0/YJ1K3JWGtfI/AAAAAAAAF5Y/31Vw_odIhzAu09ZMCki0tenEF0XiacNLgCLcBGAsYHQ/s510/trudeau510.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="320" data-original-width="510" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-1lBLKnDP7b0/YJ1K3JWGtfI/AAAAAAAAF5Y/31Vw_odIhzAu09ZMCki0tenEF0XiacNLgCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/trudeau510.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The late John Trudell (February 15, 1946 – December 8, 2015)</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p>John Trudell notes how everyone is a descendant of a tribe at some point in time. This tribal heritage is part of their collective genetic memory encoded in an individual's DNA. This is a knowledge of the experience of one's ancestors, what the Lakota call <em>mitakuye oyasin</em> ("all our relations"), that we are each made up of elements of the earth and connected to it. The reason for being is balance with the earth and all other beings, to borrow for today both for the past and future. In the case of the tribes of Europe, detachment from the tribal heritage occurred by what Trudell calls a religious perception of reality replacing a spiritual perception of reality by force over generations.(1)</p><p>Based on the common elements of myths and primordial images, this collective genetic memory can be connected to what Swiss psychologist Carl Jung has called the collective unconscious, which can be studied in both the mythology of a people or in analysis of an individual.(2) Indigenous peoples are particularly sensitive to the ways white people have so often appropriated their culture and traditions. Joseph Epes Brown was an American scholar of religion known for his devotion to studying Native American traditions and spirituality. He notes how many whites have wrongly perceived the Lakota phrase <em>mitakuye oyasin</em> to be a greeting, rather than a prayer of oneness with all life forms.(3) </p><p>One of the distinguishing factors of the tribes was that they did not pray to human form, according to John Trudell. The closest they came to it was praying to spirits called ancestors for guidance, but this was still not to the human form. Indigenous traditions of the Americas and even ancient Europe can be best classified with the sociological term animism. Edward Tylor defined this as faith in the individual soul of all things. I feel one of the valuable contributions Tylor made to the field of sociology of religion is to note how the human mind is the same globally among each stage of development, so this should end the bigoted short-sightedness of monotheists who reject indigenous spiritual traditions as "primitive." </p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-PNMC7aMiG7o/YJ1LmPrvYeI/AAAAAAAAF5g/Lsp8wVn0nhs0fN5ECE8EZSyjG3Yjf6RKwCLcBGAsYHQ/s278/images.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="181" data-original-width="278" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-PNMC7aMiG7o/YJ1LmPrvYeI/AAAAAAAAF5g/Lsp8wVn0nhs0fN5ECE8EZSyjG3Yjf6RKwCLcBGAsYHQ/s0/images.jpg" /></a></div><br /><p>Another way Native American traditions generally and Lakota ("Sioux") traditions particularly have been misappropriated by many whites, is confusing the view of Wakan Tanka with the monotheistic view of God, by whatever name one chooses to call whom one regards as the Supreme Being. Lakota spirituality is not henotheistic, meaning there is no hierarchy of deities with one superior over others. Wakan Tanka means "the Great Mystery," referring to the power or sacredness residing in everything.(4) From a sociological standpoint, this can be understood as a diffused incorporeal power. This is also reflected in the sacredness of lands, which is common to various faith-traditions but as Lakota lawyer, scholar and activist Vine Deloria, Jr. indicates, among traditional Native Americans its an integral part of their collective experience which individuals "feel" even without personally visiting the sites.(5)</p><p>I went to Pine Ridge with an open-mind and already sympathetic to Native Americans, but it made me even more sensitive to the misunderstandings often made by followers of organized religions against those whose traditions are more spiritual than "religious." In my opinion, every religion has capacities for both these perceptions of reality; it depends on the individual to focus on one more than the other. An example is the way that many mystics of a faith-tradition may look more at the "spirit" of the law without entirely rejecting the letter, whereas many who are more rigid and reduced religion to "rituals" tend to focus more on the "letter" of the law.</p><p>So I observed these Lakota traditions without going to extremes. Many non-Natives approach them with two different extremes. One is to reject their way as "primitive", assuming an aura of superiority over them and seeing their traditions in the narrow lens of Western views. The other extreme is a New Age-type tendency to "share" or universalize their traditions, taking them out of the spiritual and ancestral frame of reference that nurtured it to begin with, to be misappropriated by whites for their own purposes. The latter approach pretends to be "friendly" towards the Native Americans, but is still inherently arrogant and paternalistic, assuming white people somehow know best for Native Americans and have some "right" to take and commercialize others' traditions.</p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-E5Fp-kpT4Yw/YJ1MH4V6-yI/AAAAAAAAF5o/hl1z-vQ6V8Y9hV8vBc6Y5QSQh6Yo9lPeQCLcBGAsYHQ/s1280/maxresdefault.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1280" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-E5Fp-kpT4Yw/YJ1MH4V6-yI/AAAAAAAAF5o/hl1z-vQ6V8Y9hV8vBc6Y5QSQh6Yo9lPeQCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/maxresdefault.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p>Trudell identifies two perceptions of reality: the religious is theory, while the spiritual is practice. The religious is based on guilt, shame and blame. The spiritual is based on people being responsible, not "guilty." The religious is based on dominance and subservience, following male authoritarian figures. The spiritual is about responsibility, respect and life.(6)</p><p>The Lakota taught me to look more into my own spirituality, to celebrate life without any guilt or shame. I found a deep respect for the Lakota, who do not set aside a specific time for "worship". They "walk" the spiritual path everyday, in whatever they do. I have a deepened respect for the Lakota people and culture, so much that I can humble myself to learning about both my own ancestral traditions and spiritual path through these reminders that "reflect" into my perspective. </p><p>NOTES:</p><p>(1) John Trudell, "What Happened to the Tribes of Europe," <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2wGOlVDsRw>.</p><div class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{"videoId":"K2wGOlVDsRw","startTime":null,"endTime":null}" id="youtube2-K2wGOlVDsRw">(2) <em>The Structure of the Psyche, The Collected Works of C.G. Jung</em>, Vol. 8, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1970, paragraph 325.</div><p>(3) Mary Jane Lupton, <em>James Welch: A Critical Companion</em>, Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2004, pp. 23-24.</p><p>(4) Julian Rice, <em>Before the Great Spirit: The Many Faces of Sioux Spirituality</em>, Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 1998.</p><p>(5) Vine Deloria, Jr., <em>God Is Red: A Native View of Religion</em>, Golden, CO: Fulcrum Publishing, 1994, p. 271.</p><p>(6) John Trudell, "Religious vs. Spiritual Perception of Reality," <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xbjzujo1Qx8>.</p><p>——————————————————————</p><p>ADDENDUM:</p><p>I also elaborated on John Trudell and a spiritual-tribal worldview in my "<a href="https://sjobst.blogspot.com/2020/08/tribute-to-carl-jung-ii-on-german.html">Tribute to Carl Jung - II. On German Identity, Ethnic/Folk Faith, and the Wotan Archetype</a>", written 17 August 2020, from which I take these excerpts....</p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-FlIrVN2ghuQ/YJ1T6F5bJfI/AAAAAAAAF5w/KewJcbcLG24USivcBmiFHCesdQbXuewnQCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/Carl-Jung.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1178" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-FlIrVN2ghuQ/YJ1T6F5bJfI/AAAAAAAAF5w/KewJcbcLG24USivcBmiFHCesdQbXuewnQCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Carl-Jung.jpg" /></a></div><br /><p>On 26 May 1923, Jung wrote in a letter to the German author Oskar A.H. Schmitz (1873-1931): "We cannot possibly get beyond our present level of culture unless we receive a powerful impetus from our primitive roots. But we shall receive it only if we go back behind our cultural level, thus giving the suppressed primitive man in ourselves a chance to develop. How this is to be done is a problem I have been trying to solve for years....The existing edifice is rotten. We need some new foundations. We must dig down to the primitive in us, for only out of the conflict between civilized man and the Germanic barbarian will there come what we need: a new experience of God." He touched upon the unbridgeable gulf between native Germanic spirituality and the new conquering faith that was a hybridization of Semitic religion with the imperial Roman cult: "The Germanic tribes, when they collided only the day before yesterday with Roman Christianity, were still in the initial state of a poly-demonism with polytheistic buds. There was as yet no proper priesthood and no proper ritual. Like Wotan's oaks, the gods were felled and a wholly incongruous Christianity, born of monotheism. The Germanic man is still suffering from this mutilation." Attempts to fill this void by turning to Eastern spiritual paths were "a morbid sign" that would only "make the original injury worse."(11)</p><p>This passage contains a remarkable insight despite some of the verbiage used that on the surface may seem influenced by classical and monotheist ideas about the native peoples of central and northern Europe - i.e. "civilized" vs. "barbarian". This is resolved when we realize the "primitive" Jung meant as the most primal ways of the unconscious, stripped down to the most real and authentic self, especially since he seemed to be lamenting what modern society had become. The "new experience" was not monotheistic, as even the word "God" has Germanic origins conveying multiplicity not "oneness". Jung recognized surviving "polytheistic buds" within the Christianity accepted by the Germans, creating a hybrid bowing to a foreign god while holding to many indigenous folk traditions. It was "poly-demonism" because the Christians turned the gods of the peoples they were conquering either into saints or as "demons", depending on expediency. The gods were "felled" symbolically by the Christian missionaries' destruction of oaks and other sacred trees, such as Donar's Oak or the Irminsul. But as the divine could not be destroyed, these deities remained latent within the unconscious and the landscape itself. Jung warned against trends to fill this yearning through Eastern traditions rather than one's heritage.</p><p>His was not a unique perspective but rather one held by indigenous peoples the world over, including many Native American elders and thinkers who have similarly spoken on the need for all peoples, including those of European descent, to look back into their tribal ways to truly know and heal themselves. During my stay on the Oglala Lakota Pine Ridge reservation in summer 2010, I received such advice to reconnect to the spirituality of my own European tribal heritage but beholden to Abrahamism I wasn't having any of it then - much as it took Jung years to fully appreciate the Unconscious (as the repository of one's ancestral memories and qualities) and its Archetypes which are highly cultural specific. There are certain symbols recurring on a universal level, but ultimately the Archetypes are tied to how a tribe or people relate to their surrounding landscape and themselves.</p><p>The Santee Dakota poet and musician John Trudell seemed to hold a similar definition of "civilized" as Jung, when he said about "the tribes of Europe": "I would suggest every person of European descendancy, that you go and you study – you want to know more about who, your reality? Go and study your tribal ancestry and see how you got civilized. Alright? See how you got civilized. Because terrible things happened. And these terrible things, these are what altered the perceptional reality."(12) Trudell described "spiritual" vs. "religious" perceptions of reality, mirroring Jung's distinction between the Unconscious and Conscious. This monotheistic view that reduces divinity to one, psychologically obscures the multiplicity of one's self and socially breeds leveling political monoliths. Such a "monadic" worldview seeks by its very nature to uproot, convert and universalize all human diversity into a juggernaut of its own distorted image. The Dakota historian and writer Vine Deloria Jr. observed: </p><p>"If the propensity of whites during the summer of 1971 to grasp some bit of authenticity by locating, excavating, and embracing Indian skeletal remains can be interpreted as a frantic attempt to discard their own physical, cultural, and spiritual heritage, then the collective psyche of white America was indeed in deep trouble."(13) "A religious universality cannot be successfully maintained across racial and ethnic lines...instead of the message of universal salvation and/or fellowship, ethnicity will almost always triumph....Most likely religions do not in fact cross national and ethnic lines without losing their power and identity. It is probably more in the nature of things to have different groups with different religions....The past history of the West is eloquent testimony to the fact that a universal religion crossing ethnic lines does not lessen wars; it tends to increase them until one particular ethnic group comes to dominate the religious beliefs of the whole group with its own cultural values. Besides the importance of land in religion, the existence of a specific religion among a distinct group of people is probably a fundamental element of human experience."(14) </p><p>NOTES:</p><p>(11) <i>C.G. Jung Letters</i>, Vol. 1, 1906-1950, eds. Gerhard Adler and Aniela Jaffé, Princeton University Press, 1973.</p><p>(12) From a speech by John Trudell, "What It Means To Be A Human Being," given in San Francisco, 15 March 2001. Transcript: <https://ratical.org/many_worlds/JohnTrudell/HumanBeing.html#keep_the_balance>. The specific points about people of European heritage were recorded and available online under "The Tribes of Europe".</p><p>(13) Vine Deloria, Jr. <i>God Is Red: A Native View of Religion</i>. Golden, CO: Fulcrum Publishing, 1994, p. 18.</p><p>(14) <i>ibid.</i>, pp. 210, 289.</p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-R8LkkfzmGew/YJ1VPdeMrXI/AAAAAAAAF54/FfouNkNF8I44lu09RjHDg_iuX0oLaiCrwCLcBGAsYHQ/s243/download.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="243" data-original-width="208" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-R8LkkfzmGew/YJ1VPdeMrXI/AAAAAAAAF54/FfouNkNF8I44lu09RjHDg_iuX0oLaiCrwCLcBGAsYHQ/s0/download.png" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-DdbXJjOpA14/YJ1VT_-siQI/AAAAAAAAF58/tT48Jgx3Z5wBPgdiK___GlUPP2UfC0OrACLcBGAsYHQ/s300/download%2B%25281%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="168" data-original-width="300" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-DdbXJjOpA14/YJ1VT_-siQI/AAAAAAAAF58/tT48Jgx3Z5wBPgdiK___GlUPP2UfC0OrACLcBGAsYHQ/s0/download%2B%25281%2529.jpg" /></a></div>Sean Jobsthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17351165299354431339noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-907444223262019258.post-43447976183253145022021-05-12T11:12:00.004-05:002021-05-12T11:12:59.280-05:00Launching my author website - My future as a writer<p> by Sean Jobst</p><p>12 May 2021</p><p>I recently launched my author website on Substack, inviting subscribers to read some of my articles and essays from throughout this last decade, that aren't available publicly on this blog. Check it out because there are many more uploads to come there....</p><p><a href="https://seanjobst.substack.com/">https://seanjobst.substack.com/</a></p>Sean Jobsthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17351165299354431339noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-907444223262019258.post-71288557790598363842021-04-30T12:19:00.006-05:002022-03-07T14:16:03.257-06:00Walpurgisnacht 2021<p><span style="font-family: georgia;">by Sean Jobst</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">30 April 2021</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> It has been awhile since I've last posted. First, due to several big events in my personal life which are definitely positive and keeping me enjoying this beautiful life. Second, the need to walk away from the news-cycle charade from time to time into my own reality rather than the false illusions that past for the "reality" they want to impose upon us and normalize. More of those writings will follow in the future, in the same vein as last year's postings and those in January. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> Those of us who assert our sovereignty have come to know and appreciate those things that are more real than what passes for it. Its a parallel reality centered around all the actual priorities in life, those things which are truly eternal or more lasting than the fleeting political charades, ideologies and cultural trends or schemes. Our task is to observe but not obsess; have a certain detachment so that we can withdraw internally from time to time as The Hermit archetype. We then act in the world around us as "The Anarch" - a deeper subject I also intend to write about in the future.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> I continue to journal and research my ultimate passions which are spiritual and philosophical. A couple of online encounters have reminded me of the need for putting more work out there on a Continental Germanic spiritual tradition (and specifically Swabian) which is largely lacking but requires more work to uncover. It exists and was never fully stamped out, but merely obscured. More broadly, the need for me to work within my own indigenous Germanic, Celtic and Iberian traditions - and how this ties into the ultimate parallel reality which is a return to tribes and devolution down to communities. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> This is the need for everyone to truly know themselves and then manifest that self-knowledge into truly knowing others and our environment. In any case, I am contributing to the latest title put out by <a href="https://blackfrontpress.wordpress.com/">Black Front Press</a> - a publishing house I have collaborated with so often in the past - entitled <i>Evola: Thoughts & Perspectives, Volume Two</i>. (See "Updated" below). The title of my contribution is "Evola: Initiation and Transcendence of the Pagan Anarch". A decade after I contributed to the first volume (2011) when my spiritual journey was far different and I tried to fit Evola within that framework rather than working within my own <a href="https://sjobst.blogspot.com/2020/08/tribute-to-carl-jung-ii-on-german.html">indigenous</a> traditions.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> Since then I have written another <a href="https://sjobst.blogspot.com/2017/07/in-defense-of-evola-geopolitical.html">article on Evola</a> when certain political forces on both Right and Left were publicly distorting his philosophy albeit for different purposes. This latest contribution is my assertion of the inherent Paganism of Evola's philosophy (and Tradition more broadly), and a development of a spiritual-metapolitical view I call the Pagan Anarch. For I am also an Anarchist who recognizes the ultimate reality against the Globalist State is in a return to the Tribes and Communities. I incorporate free-market forms of Anarchism (more specific to the American context) with National-Anarchism which recognizes the instinctive tribal nature of people (not merely in the genetic sense). Just as my Paganism is a homage to all three aspects of my heritage (Suebi/Alemanni, Belgae, and Celtiberians) so cannot be limited to only Germanic or Celtic, but with appreciation for <a href="http://thomassheridanofficialblog.blogspot.com/2019/11/at-altar-of-nothing-and-everything.html">Chaos Paganism</a> as a reflection of my occult interests.</span></p><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> Some of my research for that contribution synchronizes with my series about the Wild Hunt (such as the Männerbunde), so stay tuned for more about that. Tonight is an auspicious time known in parts of Germany as Walpurgisnacht and leading up to the Celtic festival of Bealtaine. One of the articles I am proud about is one I wrote last year which I now re-link to in honor of this night:</span></div><p><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: #333333; color: #cccccc; font-family: georgia; font-size: 22px;"><a href="https://sjobst.blogspot.com/2020/04/walpurgisnacht-journey-across-time.html">"Walpurgisnacht - A Journey Across Time, Space, and Darkness"</a> </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> It lays out my theories about this night - and I don't claim my opinions are the only valid theories - which is that despite the later elements added on to it, including the character of Walpurga (whom I regard as fictional - the key is in the name as I document in the article), this is remnant of an ancient Germanic and Celtic festival. I research the symbolism, allegories, folklore and motifs surrounding Walpurgisnacht - and how it can apply to our own physical and psychological growth. Meanwhile, here is my votive poem and invocation in honor of this night:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> "Wodan, lord of wisdom. Honor my workings, and awaken my word-skills. Manifest my will and project my power around me so that I may be the master of my own Fate and control my destiny. I reclaim those controls that I had given to others so that I may live freely and honorably. In the process, I sacrifice to you any resentments and angers that may keep me bound to that control.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> "Mutter Holle, you who traverse sky and underworld with your Wilde Jagd. Hallowed Huntress, may I discern the mysteries of this Wild Hunt and not be swept up with the ghosts of the wind whether within or without. As you ride forth this auspicious night, look kindly upon my workings.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> "Perchta, wondrous seeress of the wheel. Spin for me good workings tonight and every night. As I descend into the darkness within, allow me to come forth to the light within so I may be reborn to myself. May I come to know myself more fully in the process and achieve future growth. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> "Frau Holle, allow me to traverse all aspects of myself - within and without, darkness and light, higher and lower self - so I may break down the veils which keep me from my internal vision and my external potential. As I traverse this between-time, bless my endeavors. Favor me in my dreams and give me your wise counsel. As the flame is purified by smoke, so purify my mind and soul. And even if they rob us of our ancient traditions, who can take your light away from us?" </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">----------------------------</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">UPDATED, 3rd May 2021:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-nMn_-X8KRGc/YJApzsAMlEI/AAAAAAAAF1Y/EkpA6aEmRMolBeHZMECoHcXwWAP6WiTgwCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/181283763_158107749579553_4924548705062407286_n.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1441" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-nMn_-X8KRGc/YJApzsAMlEI/AAAAAAAAF1Y/EkpA6aEmRMolBeHZMECoHcXwWAP6WiTgwCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/181283763_158107749579553_4924548705062407286_n.jpg" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> The name of the upcoming book is actually <i>Protector of the Sacred Flame: Essays on the Life and Thought of Julius Evola</i>. More information and details can be found on Black Front Press' <a href="https://www.facebook.com/BlackFrontPress/photos/a.106283881428607/158107742912887/">public Facebook page</a>. I recommend checking out their titles, which delve into various aspects of philosophy, culture, metapolitics, literature, metaphysics, and alternative political trends. This represents the eighth time I've contributed to a Black Front Press book, as I look forward to future writings.</span></p>Sean Jobsthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17351165299354431339noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-907444223262019258.post-20443935072423840442021-02-14T02:20:00.005-06:002021-02-15T00:04:33.131-06:00Asterisk Presidency Ramps up National Security State through "Domestic Terrorist" Psyop<p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span>by Sean Jobst</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">13 February 2021</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-x3fv8pmGCXQ/YCL064moERI/AAAAAAAAFwc/e7NFhkQxaPkEi5eCdLpT6o2vUddLHE3NwCLcBGAsYHQ/s512/6007980425988.image.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="341" data-original-width="512" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-x3fv8pmGCXQ/YCL064moERI/AAAAAAAAFwc/e7NFhkQxaPkEi5eCdLpT6o2vUddLHE3NwCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/6007980425988.image.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-HHFagJugQpM/YCL0gAubBVI/AAAAAAAAFwU/P8Qqqqp-zRYs1GJpFFC61hvnwQA707_CACLcBGAsYHQ/s850/biden_dc.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="478" data-original-width="850" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-HHFagJugQpM/YCL0gAubBVI/AAAAAAAAFwU/P8Qqqqp-zRYs1GJpFFC61hvnwQA707_CACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/biden_dc.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">All are expected to wave the white flag of surrender<br />before the Biden/Harris National Security State</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> It has barely been three weeks since his inauguration and Biden has already </span><a href="https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/verify/verify-yes-biden-signed-more-executive-orders-in-his-first-week-than-any-past-president/65-06d6cad9-3027-41ef-96be-654216ad81e3" style="font-family: georgia;">signed a record number</a><span style="font-family: georgia;"> of Executive Orders, benefiting from a precedence set by his predecessors while setting the tone for a regime of even-greater executive powers. Its an authoritarianism not solely of his own making, but those of his Wall Street/Corporatist puppet-masters only too willing to exploit his dementia. This absurdist tragicomedy was on full display the very day of his anointing, when he said over a stack of imperial decrees sitting on the Oval Office desk: "I don't know what I'm signing", with Kamala </span><a href="https://www.ibtimes.sg/biden-caught-saying-i-dont-know-what-im-signing-before-signing-executive-order-video-55157" style="font-family: georgia;">commanding him</a><span style="font-family: georgia;">: "Sign it anyway." This career politician has a decades-long ambition to extend his power and profits through office, which remains despite his cognitive decline and no matter how much the media covers for him.</span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> Meanwhile, all the typical Deep State talking-heads made the rounds on the newspeak shows, including former CIA director John Brennan who <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/news/john-brennan-says-biden-admin-moving-in-laser-like-fashion-against-pro-trump-insurgency/">told MSNBC</a>: "The members of the Biden team who have been nominated or have been appointed are now moving in laser-like fashion, to try to uncover as much as they can about what looks very similar to insurgency movements that we've seen overseas, where they germinate in different parts of the country and they gain strength, and it brings together an unholy alliance frequently of religious extremists - so authoritarians, fascists, bigots, racists, nativists, and even libertarians." </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> How these disparate groups - and the inclusion of "religious extremists" is especially ironic given the religious fervor with which these same elites have venerated Biden and Harris - are somehow related he failed to explain. What is happening here is the establishment setting up its latest bogeyman so the government can keep extending its powers and infringe more on basic liberties. Whether its done by setting up monsters to slay abroad, or a shadowy enemy lurking domestically, it serves the same purpose: Expansion of the State in the name of "national security". Patriot Act/NDAA 2.0 updated to modern technology, to squash emergent network societies (as opposed to the technocratic mass-society they want to rigidly maintain) and ensure all submit to the Imperial Cult.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-V0tFJrrt4m0/YCF5n4ZEOOI/AAAAAAAAFwE/I_A_i5ITkB0rlrUfu84pfBOVUoccFPchwCLcBGAsYHQ/s665/rennan.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="389" data-original-width="665" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-V0tFJrrt4m0/YCF5n4ZEOOI/AAAAAAAAFwE/I_A_i5ITkB0rlrUfu84pfBOVUoccFPchwCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/rennan.png" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Biden and Brennan: Manufacturing Consent</span></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> Brennan's mention of "authoritarians" is projection, given his own role as "</span><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/27/magazine/john-brennan-president-trump-national-security-state.html" style="font-family: georgia;">principal architect</a><span style="font-family: georgia;">" of the Obama/Biden administration's </span><a href="https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2013-01-09/new-questions-over-cia-nominee-brennans-denial-of-civilian-drone-deaths" style="font-family: georgia;">drone terrorism</a><span style="font-family: georgia;"> - the changing face of war through "</span><a href="https://mronline.org/2020/11/24/how-joe-biden-plans-to-make-the-american-empire-great-again/" style="font-family: georgia;">counterinsurgency</a><span style="font-family: georgia;">", pioneered by such swamp creatures around Biden as Blinken and Flournoy; his support for the Bush/Cheney administration's </span><a href="https://www.salon.com/2013/01/08/5_terrifying_facts_about_john_brennan/" style="font-family: georgia;">warrantless wiretapping</a><span style="font-family: georgia;"> of Americans' conversations; abusing his powers by </span><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/cia-director-john-brennan-apologizes-for-search-of-senate-computers/2014/07/31/28004b18-18c6-11e4-9349-84d4a85be981_story.html" style="font-family: georgia;">lying</a><span style="font-family: georgia;"> about having spied on Senate staffers probing the CIA's torture program; his </span><a href="https://www.cnn.com/2016/09/15/politics/john-brennan-cia-communist-vote/index.html" style="font-family: georgia;">past support</a><span style="font-family: georgia;"> for the Communist Party alongside his assorted Corporatist ties; and his 1980 </span><a href="https://www.scribd.com/document/121759580/John-Brennan-MA-thesis-at-UT-Austin" style="font-family: georgia;">graduate thesis</a><span style="font-family: georgia;"> calling for government gatekeeping of thought: "Since the press can play such an influential role in determining the perceptions of the masses, I am in favor of some degree of government censorship. Inflamatory [sic] articles can provoke mass opposition and possible violence, especially in developing political systems."</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> The Fourth Estate of Corporate Media has been a revolving door for assorted CIA spooks and other "national security" apparatchiks, because the same interests stand behind both. This media has consistently served as their propaganda wing, manipulating and lying to the public to serve as the conveyor belt delivering up blood and treasure to the Empire. Propaganda for more wars, meddling in other countries' affairs while demonizing "isolationist" America First and populist policies at odds with the establishment, waging false flag and disinformation operations by oligarchs who see themselves as anointed gatekeepers protecting the "profane" masses from themselves. Behind the Fourth Estate and the National Security Apparatus are the myriad of military-industrial-complex, warmongering elite think tanks, and Globalist NGOs that simultaneously served as underlings and puppet masters for the Asterisk President, as I will document throughout future articles. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> These "experts" openly flout ideas of using the same tactics the Empire used against its foreign enemies, against the "domestic terrorist" bogeyman. One of Brennan's colleagues is Robert Grenier, who served as the CIA's station chief for Pakistan and Afghanistan in 2001, then its Iraq mission manager, and finally director of the CIA Counterterrorism Center from 2004 to 2006. In an approving <a href="https://www.npr.org/2021/02/02/963343896/former-cia-officer-treat-domestic-extremism-as-an-insurgency">interview by NPR</a> on February 2nd, Grenier fear-mongered about "the dawn of a sustained wave of violent insurgency within our own country perpetrated by our own countrymen." He advocated using the "counterinsurgency" measures he presided over in Iraq and Afghanistan, against domestic "extremists who seek a social apocalypse". </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-zypnfL1cnfA/YCgoOfEUl8I/AAAAAAAAFxY/BowcxKrmuOYATepnrswQh65ralvfykqCgCLcBGAsYHQ/s800/07-23-2018_Commentary_700x210-800x240.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="240" data-original-width="800" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-zypnfL1cnfA/YCgoOfEUl8I/AAAAAAAAFxY/BowcxKrmuOYATepnrswQh65ralvfykqCgCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/07-23-2018_Commentary_700x210-800x240.png" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><p></p><p style="text-align: left;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"> Who these vague "extremists" are were bluntly defined in a nationwide "terror" alert the Department of Homeland Security released on January 27th, to be in effect at least until the auspicious date of April 30th. Entitled "National Terrorism Advisory System Bulletin", it warned of potential terrorist attacks from "ideologically motivated" Americans who have "objections to the exercise of government authority and the presidential transition, as well as other perceived grievances fueled by false narratives." No evidence of any plans, the means or even the intent to carry out such an attack, but declaring them terrorists for the "crime" of peacefully thinking that this regime and its directives are built on illegitimate grounds. Have not millions of people disputed the legitimacy of a president they didn't vote for in past elections? </span></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> This was certainly the norm after the 2016 election, as anyone familiar with the 24/7 news-derangement cycle and conspiracy claims by the political establishment can attest. But those who dispute the 2020 election - even after such stunning admissions as those by <i>Time</i> about a "<a href="https://time.com/5936036/secret-2020-election-campaign/">shadow campaign</a>" of Big Business and Leftist activists - are shamed as pariahs, beyond the pale of the Oligarchs' presumed "Democracy". Although a small number of principled leftists have <a href="https://www.jacobinmag.com/2021/01/joe-biden-domestic-terrorism-bill-capitol-building">spoken against</a> Biden's National Security State, the vast majority have lauded it with their own <a href="https://www.news-mail.com.au/news/we-have-a-list-backlash-to-trump-allies/4137751/">calls for blacklists</a> and witch-hunts, the media to be overseen by "<a href="https://twitter.com/aaronjmate/status/1328541267073114112">trusted gatekeepers</a>" prohibiting all thought ("disinformation") going against Dogma, and <a href="https://www.thenation.com/article/society/prison-abolition-capitol-riot/">Capitol Hill "insurrectionists"</a> to "be arrested and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law" while simultaneously calling for abolishing police. They love to enlarge the State and enable its powers so long as it champions their favored causes and agenda.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> The DHS bulletin was greeted by MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace's suggestion of <a href="https://www.theblaze.com/news/msnbc-host-drone-strike-kill-americans">killing "domestic terrorists" with drones</a>, drawing direct parallels between them and Anwar al-Awlaki, the Yemeni-American killed by drone in 2011. As <a href="http://www.brookings.edu/events/anwar-al-awlaki-yemen-and-american-counterterrorism-policy/">noted</a> by the Brookings Institute, Awlaki's was "the first extra-judicial killing by the United States government against a U.S. citizen." Without her or anyone on the panel batting an eyelid, Wallace defined the crime that would warrant such a punishment to be "the ideology and around this belief that the election was fraudulent". This followed a similar call by MSNBC contributor and former FBI agent Clint Watts on her show two weeks earlier, evoking "a drone strike overseas" as a punishment worthy of those who dared challenge Biden's anointing. This is despite his own vocal career <a href="https://edition.cnn.com/2016/12/02/politics/russia-fake-news-reality/">denying the legitimacy</a> of the 2016 election.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-iJs4N170jBw/YCi_ETV0X-I/AAAAAAAAFyA/786IvQBydLEsFX_uEh4zGHuRGPTdxu0DwCLcBGAsYHQ/s850/quote-the-ministry-of-truth-which-concerned-itself-with-news-entertainment-education-and-fine-george-orwell-59-87-62.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="850" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-iJs4N170jBw/YCi_ETV0X-I/AAAAAAAAFyA/786IvQBydLEsFX_uEh4zGHuRGPTdxu0DwCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/quote-the-ministry-of-truth-which-concerned-itself-with-news-entertainment-education-and-fine-george-orwell-59-87-62.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"> All would be rewarded or punished based on the dictates of this Biden Ministry of Truth. On February 2nd, the <i>New York Times</i> - notorious stenographer of the establishment's dictates and war propaganda - published an <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/02/technology/biden-reality-crisis-misinformation.html">opinion piece</a> by its technology columnist, Kevin Roose. He advocated for a federal "reality czar" who would determine truth with sweeping powers to censor and suppress information: "Several experts I spoke with recommended that the Biden administration put together a cross-agency task force to tackle disinformation and domestic extremism, which would be led by something like a 'reality czar.' It sounds a little dystopian, I'll grant. But let's hear them out." One of these "experts" he cited is the Harvard academic Joan Donovan, who called for a "truth commission" whereby the federal government "audits" Big Tech algorithms to ensure "accountability" against all those spreading "disinformation."</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"> Not merely the ravings of champagne elitists from their isolated newspeak offices or Ivory Towers, Biden has proposed an <a href="https://fortune.com/2020/11/09/president-elect-joe-biden-national-task-force-online-harassment-abuse-hate-speech/">internet "extremist task force"</a> managed by the government. In a Q&A event on November 16, 2020, Obama <a href="https://www.vox.com/recode/2020/11/16/21570072/obama-internet-threat-democracy-facebook-fox-atlantic">called the Internet</a> "the single biggest threat to our democracy". Never have Big Tech Oligarchs enjoyed such a level of collusion from the State as now. Biden received <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/michelatindera/2020/10/24/biden-receives-more-than-twice-as-much-money-from-billionaires-as-trump-in-final-push/?sh=2a8756177b55">more than twice the support</a> from billionaires than Trump, especially from Silicon Valley and other centers of Big Tech. He received the vast majority of the "<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/27/politics/dark-money-democrats-joe-biden/index.html">dark money</a>" from anonymous wealthy donors this last election. Aside from the various Wall Street hedge fund managers, warmonger think-tank fellows, and other Corporatists staffing his agencies, Biden <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/big-tech-alums-prop-up-biden-team-after-frosty-relationship-with-trump">appointed</a> four Facebook or Google high-level employees to his Transition Team. A Facebook insider revealed how the company <a href="https://techstartups.com/2020/10/20/facebook-hired-six-chinese-nationals-hate-speech-engineering-team-censor-american-citizens-former-facebook-insider-says/">hired six Chinese citizens</a> for its "hate speech engineering team", using techniques they learned as <a href="https://nypost.com/2020/10/20/meet-your-chinese-facebook-censors/amp/">censors</a> on behalf of the Chinese Communist regime.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"> Their common tendency is towards centralism - the drive to enlarge their power is both institutional and instinctive to their very nature. They do not want free debate, but to criminalize free speech that goes against the acceptable bounds of discourse as defined by their deep pockets. I remember in the early 2000s, there was a trend towards building one's own online platforms and websites. This effectively died for the most part with the rise of social media, herding online presences into central units for which they can be more easily monitored and censored, their trends and opinions manufactured. They hate competition from upstarts outside their exclusive club, which was also on full display with how Wall Street and their political prostitutes reacted to the GameStop rebellion. Not surprisingly, the MSM has pushed the line that the latter were also "extremists" lurking in the shadows, to be demonized for having dared shook up the safe, secure profits of Oligarchs whom they ensure us have the best interests of society in mind.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-u4s48Nptdd8/YCi9RjOIJxI/AAAAAAAAFx0/s5J4hVEFt9gXA0TzCEiXKCPxBDgYzOoBgCLcBGAsYHQ/s1280/wi6rCbobbmnYaKuQLfwkcSakKiem1LwiFDd5kxv1QzVKSiQ1gwy41S4EVNCzgoemxvKbx5zpiNmPpXSiLRJ8mHdmw7Xco9jNqgkx3BD96vDgeDkDrbEUvJdAicd7KqDTFxaAbctGz3RjQsReYgz6noLY4MxGbCPk2VqE5FyFyw6LgRcjBzxqLwJsD9RBYpAVN6fBUfwEk6.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="833" data-original-width="1280" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-u4s48Nptdd8/YCi9RjOIJxI/AAAAAAAAFx0/s5J4hVEFt9gXA0TzCEiXKCPxBDgYzOoBgCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/wi6rCbobbmnYaKuQLfwkcSakKiem1LwiFDd5kxv1QzVKSiQ1gwy41S4EVNCzgoemxvKbx5zpiNmPpXSiLRJ8mHdmw7Xco9jNqgkx3BD96vDgeDkDrbEUvJdAicd7KqDTFxaAbctGz3RjQsReYgz6noLY4MxGbCPk2VqE5FyFyw6LgRcjBzxqLwJsD9RBYpAVN6fBUfwEk6.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"> This oligarchic system of Woke Capitalism + Corporate Socialism is openly blessed in the Statist Cathedral, surrounded now with barricades and other symbols of militarization. I have previously written about <a href="https://sjobst.blogspot.com/2020/11/emboldened-biden-neocons-and-war.html">political infiltration</a> of the military and its recent "<a href="https://sjobst.blogspot.com/2021/01/an-overview-of-recent-american.html">loyalty tests</a>", which coalesced with the Pentagon's <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-biden-pentagon-extremism/pentagon-stumped-by-extremism-in-ranks-orders-stand-down-in-next-60-days-idUSKBN2A335W">recent order</a> for the military to be purged of "racists and extremists" - the definition of those terms to be at the whim of the government. Far from being merely there for "security" at the Inauguration, the Pentagon - presided over by <a href="https://theintercept.com/2020/12/08/biden-defense-secretary-lloyd-austin-raytheon/">Raytheon board member</a> and partner of private equity firm <a href="https://www.axios.com/pine-island-private-equity-biden-54e8cbf3-d07f-4193-925f-0520c4260e97.html">Pine Island Capital</a>, General Lloyd Austin - announced that 5,000 National Guard troops would <a href="https://www.stripes.com/news/us/5-000-national-guard-troops-will-remain-in-dc-beyond-mid-march-1.659837">remain in Washington</a> "indefinitely" past March. We can expect no different from a Pentagon long defined by its connections with war-profiteer firms and Wall Street bankers. Yet the same activists and talking-heads who fear-mongered about Trump's "fascism" are mum with Biden's militaristic over-reaches.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> None of this should be surprising given Biden's consistent boasts of being primary architect of the Patriot Act, via his authoring the <a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/104th-congress/senate-bill/390">Omnibus Counterterrorism Act</a> in 1994-1995. As he recounted to the <i><a href="https://newrepublic.com/article/61756/rhetorical-question">New Republic</a></i> in 2001: "I drafted a terrorism bill after the Oklahoma City bombing. And the bill John Ashcroft sent up was my bill." He said in a <a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4876107/user-clip-joe-biden-wrote-patriot-act">Senate hearing</a> on June 6, 2002: "Civil libertarians were opposed to it. Right after 1994, and you can ask the Attorney General [John Ashcroft] this, because I got a call when he introduced the Patriot Act. He said, 'Joe, I'm introducing the Act basically as you wrote it in 1994.' It was defeated then not by any liberals. It was defeated then by the folks who were worried we'd have the Minutemen, would get in trouble. By the Mr. Barrs of the world, who were worried about the right-wing, not anything else. That has nothing to do with you all, but just to set the record straight. Almost the same thing that got passed, the Patriot Act, was introduced by me in 1994, and it was the right-wing that defeated it. You guys tried to help get it passed, including the wiretap changes and the rest."</span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> Voices have already compared the Capitol Hill "insurrection" to 9/11, leading one to wonder about the Police State legislation that will be rolled out. This includes many calls for a <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/house/535482-calls-grow-for-9-11-style-panel-to-probe-capitol-attack">9/11-style commission</a> to "investigate" the Capitol Hill event, and the most absurd comparisons with 9/11 uttered by various politicians and media lemmings. University of Texas-Austin Global Affairs professor Jeremi Suri <a href="https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2021/01/07/historians-and-political-scientists-react-wednesdays-siege-capitol">termed</a> the Capitol Hill event "another 9/11 attack on the U.S. government by terrorists". The Statist Cathedral was attacked in an embarrassing breach of its sanctity. Never mind that Capitol Hill has constantly been staffed by innumerable political terrorists who have attacked Americans by their endless wars sacrificing the people's blood and treasure, policies robbing the people while benefiting Wall Street and Big Business, enlarging their own powers while infringing on the people's liberties. The Empire has come full circle, turning the same tactics it used abroad in search of <a href="https://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/jqadams.htm">monsters to destroy</a>, into the latest "domestic terrorist" bogeyman in this age of Fourth-Generational Warfare.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> I previously touched upon the Capitol Hill <a href="https://sjobst.blogspot.com/2021/01/an-overview-of-recent-american.html">event as a psyop</a> but its worth expanding. I am convinced it was a mix of QAnon dupes and Federal agent provocateurs, including certain Leftist agitators posing as Trump supporters. The QAnon dupes were fooled by their own delusions into "trusting in the plan" and with Capitol Hill police reportedly opening the doors to them, it appeared to be the eleventh hour they kept hoping for despite previous let-downs. Aside from this entrapment, the events have been used as a witch-hunt to go after anyone who was merely at the rally that day and not only those who entered Capitol Hill. From this they extrapolate it to those "guilty" by association, then <a href="https://heated.world/p/cancelling-election-deniers-isnt">cancelling all "election deniers"</a>, and generally all who won't bend the knee or close their mind to whatever dictates the current regime in Washington sends out. They hate that there is an organic transition to a network society which is more natural and autonomous, so they want to bind people even more tightly to their artificial mass-society. Even a month later the MSM and political establishment is fear-mongering ad nauseum about an event they never truly saw as an "insurrection" but such is the nature of psyops and false flags - its about public perception more than truth. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-cFuU18POu9Q/YCjdM6Op68I/AAAAAAAAFyM/mZUZTWxnwUc_oWpo3PlSoSWc5g1uyIzxQCLcBGAsYHQ/s564/you-live-in-a-police-state-70724199.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="564" data-original-width="500" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-cFuU18POu9Q/YCjdM6Op68I/AAAAAAAAFyM/mZUZTWxnwUc_oWpo3PlSoSWc5g1uyIzxQCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/you-live-in-a-police-state-70724199.png" /></a></div></div>Sean Jobsthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17351165299354431339noreply@blogger.com0