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 AlteredAgain
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 It Came From Beyond Language! [Re: AlteredAgain]
#7586095 - 11/01/07 10:20 PM (4 years, 6 months ago) |
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The idea of a mutant generation rising up across the world is an appealing one, a largely accurate metaphor drawn from comic books and movies; though one should not forget that the original source of the "coming mutant species" idea is in Nineteenth Century occult writers like Helana Blavatsky and Edward Bulwer-Lytton. The idea has also proliferated across New Age circles of late, as what has been observed as the "Indigo Children" phenomenon:
"An Indigo Child is one who displays a new and unusual set of psychological attributes and shows a pattern of behavior generally undocumented before . . . They come into the world with a feeling of royality (and often act like it). They have a feeling of 'deserving to be here,' and are surprised when others don't share that. Self-worth is not a big issue. They often tell the parents 'who they are.' They have difficulty with absolute authority (authority without explanation or choice). They simply will not do certain things; for example, waiting in line is difficult for them. They get frustrated with systems that are ritual-oriented and don't require creative thought. They often see better ways of doing things, both at home and in school, which makes them seem like 'system busters' (nonconforming to any system). They seem antisocial unless they are with their own kind. If there are no others of like consciousness around them, they often turn inward, feeling like no other human understands them. School is often extremely difficult for them socially. They will not respond to 'guilt' discipline . . . They are not shy in letting you know what they need."
The "Indigo Children," the "Coming Race" - these are conveniences for describing the sea changes in our culture, once one gets past the Nietzschean overtones.
It's easy to see.
What magic "is" has been, significantly, described elsewhere in the language of hard physics, which is likely the best way to communicate it outside of the language of symbol, metaphor, aphorisms, Zen koans and, of course, practical demonstration; the subject of magic is too gargantuan to fully discuss here, although tastes of it are given throughout. If it can be boiled down to anything, magic is the assumption that the visible is the manifestation of the invisible, and the technique of manifesting the visible from the invisible. In this respect it closely resembles many other human activities - art, language, reproduction - all of which are concerned with playing God and pulling something out of nothing (rabbits out of hats). It is no wonder then that magic so often overlaps with these activities. It might even be said to exist just beyond these, in the realm of pure concept, form, light. It is a creative process that dwells beneath all art and dream.
Yet it should be made clear - magic cannot be boiled down to anything; it is not "just" anything. If it could be defined, it wouldn't be magic. It cannot be proved or quantified. Magic can only exist because one decides it does.
Its face is usually too much to bear. Its face is always the same, if we are audacious enough to look that deeply within; the revelation of pure freedom. That one can do absolutely anything. That one is already divine. That's enough to make anyone into somebody else's idea of a "magician," to bury themselves in study, books, training systems to try to convince themselves of the reality of what is already theirs. To build a box, however mysteriously and arcanely labeled, for their freedom. So that it need not terrify them so much anymore. Yet it is alive, growing, evolving, blossoming with revelation after revelation, stretching out tendrils of desire in search of the others.
Magic can never be contained. Never named. Because it is us.
The goal of the stage magician or the low sorcerer is to produce illusion. The goal of a true magician is to dispel illusion, and the process of becoming a magician is the process of shredding every illusion you can find. One realizes that this reality we have all agreed on is nothing save pure will and imagination, pure consciousness, pure bullshit. The quest then becomes to stop believing in everyone else's bullshit and develop your own. It is no small task to decondition oneself, yet one must banish the magic spells that have been cast upon you before you can perform your own.
From beyond our queasy Twenty-First Century world of old Gods and new Crusades, of mass self-induced hypnosis, the vital life forces that we have struggled so hard to deny are chewing their way back in. The Ultraculture is being born, a spore settlement from our collectively awakened future.
The initiates of this period are a group of people who would rather work for a sustainable, magical, creative future for the species than an extinction, and who have access to tools and avenues of communication that no other generation has had. Rather than the counterculture that previous generations have created in opposition to the status quo, Generation Hex is creating an ultraculture - using the techniques of magic to build a wholly new vision of how the world should be, a more humane upgrade for the human condition.
It's too easy to rely on external enemies, Imperialism, terrorism, abusive corporations, religious fundamentalism, environmental degradation - these are all symptoms of the real problem, stupidity and a lack of the will and imagination to make something better than a world based on violence and coercion. We've come a long way as a species, but we can't throw the game now. We all need to accept responsibility for evolution, for creating solutions, and magic is going to play a large hand in that process. You could even say that it's the process itself which is the real magic.
For if there is anybody on this planet that needs to undergo initiation, who needs to awaken, then it is all of us. For the Great Magician that creates this reality is all of us.
Do you remember what we spell?
"The kingdom of God is within man," as Charlie Chaplin said in The Great Dictator. "Not one man, nor a group of men - but in all men."
Magic is a living tapestry, a living history, and it falls to each generation to renew it. Ultimately, magic is a kind of life that you live. Magicians are artists who use their lives, their culture and the fabric of reality itself as their implements. That's where it ends up. It starts slow but the learning curve's as steep as it gets. It means defining your life exactly how you want, turning it into gold. Learning about hidden things. Making things happen that shouldn't happen. Setting up residence in the impossible. Talking directly to the universe and finding out that it talks back, that it loves you, that it will make your dreams real because it put them there for you to find in the first place, that if your heart is pure it will show you incredible things. Finding the other ones that have dived into the same slipstream as you and trading style and meanings. Finding out that there have been people as nutty and blissed as you for as long as the human species has existed and looking to those ancestors for a bit of guidance and validation. Getting your invitation to the best and only party that has ever existed. The unveiling of another scene, our passport into the noumenon, the pure and violent mentation of the All. A chittering clacking dance of lust underneath a black sun with witches all night. Breathing lightening. Fornication and lashing tongues of fire in the dusk, around the bonfire, breathing lightening into the darkness. Speaking upside-down language to God. It's a vibration in your heart. In your longing. And all alone in the chamber of sex and stars you realize where the story's going.
It's the life worth living, all right.
This tapestry's been woven since the beginning - "what it means to be alive" - and now this media-frazzled, inane, utterly conformist and cosmically electronically enlightened generation is getting its chance to weave its part.
So what's it gonna be?
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"I don't do drugs. I am drugs. Take me, I am the drug; take me, I am hallucinogenic." Dali
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 eve69
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 Re: It Came From Beyond Language! [Re: AlteredAgain]
#7589414 - 11/02/07 07:44 PM (4 years, 6 months ago) |
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I was given 5=6 portal initiation by Regardie's GD when I was young. I went into Eastern spirituality of Hindu Tantrics and then later, Buddhist. I can honestly tell you that the Theosophists and their extravagant channelled thinking contained no honest diksha or abhishekam of any note. However, due to such potentiates as the Dalai Lama giving Kalachakra to hundreds and thousands and also all of the other Tibetans, as well as millions of others doing Hindu techniques of meditation of one sort or another, what youo say is true. But it has fuck-all nothing to do with Blavatsky, et all, Besant, Bailey, yada. One should consider who the Three Secret Cheifs of the Theosophists really were (channelled Tibetan masters - most likely the Three Kontruls.)
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eve69
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Re: It Came From Beyond Language! [Re: eve69]
#7589424 - 11/02/07 07:49 PM (4 years, 6 months ago) |
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But I do have a soft spot for Crowley who I think pegged as well as anyone in history the coming human changes in ideology regarding the fall of patriarchal and matriarchical thoughts giving way to those of the Child.
Ultimate reality is the Night of Nut, and the light of the Child Sun. As represented by the first word of Rig Veda Agnim - the fire god who starts with Ah - fullness to the point of G, and NI - negation of the point, and M. Continuum. Thus the continuum of life is fullness and a point continuing .
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 Re: It Came From Beyond Language! [Re: eve69]
#7590366 - 11/03/07 07:00 AM (4 years, 6 months ago) |
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YES! And the Child is good at Math, and tells the Truth, for he bears the Feathers of Maat. 
I spy with my little eye... Why, my oh my, it's Gemini!
Outstanding post AA...
A is going to B, glowing two me.
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elbisivni
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Some poignant assertions you make there. Write thee well.
I especially like this paragraph:
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American youth, in particular, have grown up in a cultural landscape dominated first by the suicidal self-loathing we recognized in Kurt Cobain's Ritalin gaze, the retreat into infantilism and willful ignorance personified by the bubble-gum teen acts of the late 1990s and, after September 11, a new dark age of youth culture so reactionary, McCarthyist and utterly devoid of meaning or humanity that its faceless and barren "stars" are no longer distinguishable from the corporate concerns that support them. The Abyss is our congenital state.
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From dust you are made and to dust you shall return.
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Clean
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Re: It Came From Beyond Language! [Re: AlteredAgain]
#7591603 - 11/03/07 02:57 PM (4 years, 6 months ago) |
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eye smile at this thread
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leery11
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Re: It Came From Beyond Language! [Re: Clean]
#7648766 - 11/17/07 06:50 PM (4 years, 6 months ago) |
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Quote:
It's the life worth living, all right.
speaketh a yokel door to door salesman
with the knowledge i am
what separates omniscient i am
from trendy i am devoid of substance
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Om bhur bhuvaha swaha tat savitur varenyam bhargo devasya dhimahi, dhiyo yonah prachodyat.
We meditate upon that supreme light , the source of all creation, may it illumine our intellects and bring us eternal life.
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