11-17-99
Tonight the Leonid Meteor Shower will occur.
Under ideal conditions, and from some parts of the globe, it may be possible
to see over 1000 shooting stars per hour tonight. I hope it is clear.
The last few nights have been clear, or with just enough clouds to set
off just how clear the clear parts are.
Monday was the first day of gun season.
But it seems my set of home-made posted signs with the heavily armed psychotic
maniac theme have had the desired effect. My neighbors did not take
it personally: apparently last year some of the local road hunters shot
two does right in my neighbor's front yard, and left them there.
Even the enthusiastic hunters are pissed at the primordial scum that creeps
up to the mountains this time of year.
My
earnest prayer is that the Horned One Himself will pay a visit this year
to everyone who kills a deer, probably in a dream, and will teach the lucky
hunter whatever he or she needs to be taught.
Bear
on the other hand are a different matter.
They are the Goddess' creatures, her warriors. Every year when bear
season starts I feel the bears dying, in pain and humiliation, having been
run to exhaustion by "humans" and the dogs they keep and abuse all year
for just this purpose. The bears that die, in my opinion, have about
a hundred times the grace, nobility, beauty, and all-round worthiness as
the "men and women" who kill them. Bear hunting is recreational cruelty,
pure and simple. It's a rung below cock fighting, and lacks the sophistication
of pimping.
I do not believe in restricting anyone else's
freedom, except within what I consider my own territory, my home.
If someone's soul is so tiny that they get their rocks off by hunting down
and murdering a noble animal, well an activity so abominable has got to
have its own built-in punishments. Let them choke on it, and maybe learn
something. They wrestle demons I know nothing of ... and most likely
LOSE an awful lot of the time.
Maybe
a visit from the Bear Spirit would do them
good, if it did not turn them into drooling basket cases for life ... but
even that might be good.
By the way, Arcadia means Place of the Bear Goddess, Arcas.
BAAR SARK
The most feared Viking warriors were the
Berserkers. These men entered a trance state in which they possessed
incredible strength and would kill anyone they saw, friend or foe. They
were kept chained, literally, until the moment they were released into
battle, where they would kill like crazed demons.
The word berserker comes from the old Nordic
words Baar Sark, which means bear shirt. Apparently, wearing a shirt
made of bear skin was one of the symbols of the cult. It seems reasonable
to conclude that the Berserker energy is at least an aspect of the Bear
Spirit energy, and that the trance state the Berserkers entered was at
least in part a heavy identification with the Bear Spirit, thus receiving
the strength and desperation with which a bear will fight.
This is a feminine thing, and not a masculine
one. The masculine spirit of combat, whether among dogs, lions, humans,
whatever, is filled with symbols and gestures and territorial drama.
There is a lot of sniffing and poking and seeing who can pee higher up
the tree, but usually nobody gets hurt. The feminine spirit of combat
in all mammals kicks in mainly when the young are threatened. Then the
mama dog, wolf, bear, human, or mouse goes into battle like a fury. She
has no thought for survival, since her survival instinct is all about species
survival: protecting the young.
The
most powerful drives we or any other animal
have are connected with species preservation: reproduction and safe nurture
of the young. That is why there is so much energy invested in sexual taboo,
and why the money system is so powerful. When one focuses and channels
that crazed mama critter energy, one taps this most basic energy source.
It can be overwhelming.
What's that about the money system? Am I about to start spouting my pinko stuff instead of my shamanic stuff? No, here's where they meet. I believe the money system is the product of a cult which has sought to take the basic human drive to support and nurture the self and the young, and to place a yoke or harness on that energy and use it for their own purposes. People believe that their survival is dependent on small green pieces of paper. And it is so. But it is only so because they believe it, just like any con game. It's all faith. If you think religion is nothing without faith, consider what money would be worth if you could not be certain that the NEXT mark would accept these damned papers in exchange for something of real value, like human time and effort.
Another way of looking at it: Money is a service provided by banks and governments, in exchange for a fee. You can enjoy the ease and convenience of money, and even electronic money, but you have got to pay the fee. The fee takes many forms, such as interest, rent, and taxes (and the taxes levied to pay interest, and the interest levied to pay taxes.) Since on average an American pays around 50% of his or her income in taxes of some sort, and we'll guess another 30% in either interest or rent of some sort, we are talking about 80% of the wealth you produce (after the boss takes his cut) goes either to buy off the government so they won't put you in jail, or is paid to rich people for doing very little except having more money than they knew what to do with.
80%
That means that Monday through Thursday all of your work is either for the bank, the land lord, or the government. Friday morning you work to pay for the food and transportation you used to do your work all week, and Friday afternoon you can work to pay your health insurance, and if you put in some overtime (taxed even more,) you can live a little.
What do you get for your 80%?
Well, you get the security of knowing the
government and the banks will not collapse due to lack of cash: a load
off your mind, unless they collapse due to sheer hubris, blindness, and
incompetence. And there's the satisfaction of knowing your rent check
is covering the landlord's mortgage payment check for the place you live,
and his own as well. And you get all the things the government does,
after 25% is taken off the top to hand to the bankers as "interest on the
national debt." The government builds roads, buys weapons, hires
armies and cops, builds prisons and schools, and hires about a thousand
of the most over paid clowns in the world to appear non-stop on c-span,
where it's like watching the 3 Stooges on Ultra Slow Play on the VCR.
And of course there's plenty of gummint pork to go around, provided you
are willing to play the insider game and there's no danger you might actually
solve a problem ... because if a problem were ever solved, how could you
justify next year's grant? So a cop's worst nightmare is that crime
would disappear. That's why when crime levels drop, cops start asking for
"tougher laws" to enforce so the crime rate can be kept up. The Orwellian
"Criminal Justice System" is a demonic monster that feeds on crushed humans,
mainly Black ones.
And the banks, what do they give us? Well, like the government, they make sure there is cash available for stuff, but instead of prisons and missiles and schools, it's strip malls, gated communities of identical half million dollar 'McMansions' squatting on acre plots, Whitewater, the Great S&L Rip-Off, followed by the gummint "bail out" of only the rich who got screwed, for which we all paid. They will help you get a house in the suburbs, if you mortgage your future. They will provide you with credit cards, to help you forget how much you are spending and just relax into Consumption Mode, anesthetizing moral agency until a person can shop all day for clothes made by child slaves and then complain that someone said fuck in a movie.
80%
What would George Washington say?
What would Thomas Jefferson say?
What would Benjamin Franklin say?
12-25-99
1:54 am
Went forth
unto snowy Arcadia on the Santa
Watch, Luna riding high and plump like a scoop of luminous peach ice
cream in the pin-pricked magician's tent of night spawning Characters dancing
momentary on the edge of sight as Mama Luna's moonbeams transfix me.
12 29 99 and 12 30 99
Well, here we are. The big moment is almost here. The banks say everything is going to be OK, provided nobody tries to get their money. The gummint says it has everything well in hand, but has given stern warning that no one must panic ... or else. Anyone who appears to be panicking is liable to cause some sleep deprived National Guard or police thug to panic also. And when those guys panic, their training takes over and they start hurting people. William S Burroughs was right:
Those in control are controlled by the need to control.
When common rabble such as ourselves start threatening their sense of
control, the Big Cheeses freak out and start smacking folks around until
they get the respect they "deserve." Of course, any respect which
is extracted by force is not real respect, anyway. It's only the respect
afforded the playground bully: ritual obedience masking a secret desire
to smash his head with a crowbar. Heh, heh. The only thing
those people care about is the only thing they cannot get: the real respect
and esteem of those they consider "beneath" them.
The same behavior by the "leaders" is observable in wolves, whales,
caribou, and baboons. Why should humans be any different? Humanity
had millions of years of evolution by natural selection as animals unburdened
with "civilization." That's when we developed most of what I consider
to be noble and beautiful in human nature. It has been down hill
since then, as we have gotten farther and farther from our primal "realness."
With the coming
first of agriculture and then of iron, there began the systematic enslavement
of all of humanity by a series of "empires," based on organizing the bulk
of humanity into groups of slaves to produce ever more and more decadence
for the elites, until in every case, these "empires" have choked on their
own rot. Ours is but the latest one, no less in hypocrisy and brutality
than the Roman or British empires, of which it is a self-conscious imitation.
At the biological level, these empires have amounted to a period of
evolution by Artificial Selection,
in
which whole human gene pools which had survived by strength and bravery
and cunning were mowed down and replaced with people who would accept the
yoke of slavery. This process continues as the last remaining bands
of Free People are hunted down in the wilderness to be Christianized, consumerized,
and set to either work for some land lord or fight for some General. And
then for thousands of years, wherever the infection of "civilization" spread,
any slave who disobeyed was killed, as were most who showed signs of intelligence,
initiative, or independence. Those who believed their own senses
over official orthodoxy were killed, systematically, for thousands of years.
This was true in every "civilization," whenever and wherever it happened.
So
it is no wonder that so few people think for themselves. We are all
the result of a centuries-long breeding experiment in which the masters
aimed to create the perfect peasant: dull, loyal, hard-working, and then
fast-dying once too old to work.
The Empire Builders discovered early on that the easiest way to break the spirit of an enemy was to humiliate the women, thus driving a wedge of guilt and shame between the male and female parts of the enemy, and causing the children, upon maturity, to feel shame over the love they bore their mothers. Once conquered, it helped build the empire and enslave the humans to keep the women in a constant state of humiliation, thus keeping the peasant culture as a whole ripe for easy exploitation.
Most Western "religion" is actually just an institutionalized accretion of all the ways past conquerors have kept a boot on the throat of those they conquered, the most important technique being the humiliation of the women.
Those who thrived were those able to adapt to slavery, who learned
to mouth the words of orthodoxy but still to think for themselves.
They learned to be sneaky, and to conceal their power, so as not to frighten
the masters. Even today, if you stop and think about it, each of
us is allowed to live only on the condition that we do not frighten those
who govern us.
The open practice of Magick
is legal now, pretty much for the first time in history, but that is
only because the powers that be are sure that Magick does not work.
They don't burn Witches, to paraphrase CS Lewis, because they don't Believe
in Witches. They think we're just a bunch of lunatics. If they
thought we might actually have some power, then they would feel compelled
to control that power, and if they could not control that power, they would
torture and burn us just like they did before. When they were scared.
Imperial Destiny as Decreed in the Beginning by the Lord of Hosts:
One Church
One Garrison
One Plantation
Forever and Ever
Amen
NOT.
Christianity is about learning to like slavery.
Free Thought is about learning to resist slavery.
Any Questions?