In the open

 There are many appealing things about introducing Eastern concepts to your practice. The philosophies and methods of consciousness change are interesting subjects for scrutiny. Then eventually practice. Crowley was very attracted to Buddhism for a while. I grew up with Buddhism in my life as a child. My Mother belongs to nichiren daishonin buddhism. I have been listening to the mantra Nam Myoho Renge Kyo since being in the womb. It is still a very powerful mantra to me today. I keep an Omamori Gohonzon in with me in my pocket.

. The appeal of the East is strong. Most who encounter it are seduced by it's logic or simplistic tenants. The truth of the matter is that it is riddled with superstition and other non-sense just like other religious memes. Christopher Hitchens made a good point of observing the Eastern philosophies with condemnation for some of their practices. In terms of cultural appropriation, one is left not feeling sorry for it after reading his essay. 

Samsara is also called Chapel Perilous. A Dark Night of the soul. A portion of a natural cycle. The Black Sun in Alchemy. Not that all life is suffering like many translate the First Noble Truth. 

 "...puts  the  sensory  spiritual appetites  to
 
           sleep, deadens them,  and deprives them of the ability  to find pleas-
 
           ure in  anything.  It binds the imagination, and impeeds it from doing
 
           any  good  discursive work.  It makes the  memory cease, the intellect
 
           become   dark and unable to  understand anything, and hence  it causes
 
           the will to become arrid and constrained, and all  the faculties empty
 
           and useless. And over this hangs  a dense and burdensome cloud,  which
 
           afflicts the soul, and keeps it withdrawn from the good."  

I rarely quote from the Saints but this one was good. It is the stage in the cycle preceding great transformation. Christianity and Buddhism are both dead currents. The next stage is to evolve beyond. One of the reasons I am not on board with Buddhism and fine with Transhumanism. The Ten worlds call the lowest realm Hell. It is a state of life condition where one is in misery. In Western Occult medicine and alchemy, we would try to establish the characteristics of the situation and treat it accordingly. 

Instead of detaching from it we become one with it in Western practices. This is similar to the rituals constructed by Chöd Buddhism. There are exceptions to the rule in both polarities, but the general attitudes and mores withstanding. Letting go of the "thirst" is part of the Noble Truths. In Thelema this isn't necessary. This thirst is a primal drive and should persist as long as the magickian fights to survive. At the end he or she or they will have a last standing with Death. 

“If a dying warrior has limited power, his dance is short; if his power is grandiose, his dance is magnificent. But regardless of whether his power is small or magnificent, death must stop to witness his last stand on earth. Death cannot overtake the warrior who is recounting the toil of his life for the last time until he has finished his dance.” -Don Juan Matus

A thirst is a good thing. Just don't drink from the River Lathe. 

"And in your last dance you will tell of your struggle, of the battles you have won and of those you have lost; you will tell of your joys and bewilderment upon encountering personal power. Your dance will tell about the secrets and about the marvels you have stored. And your death will sit here and watch you."

The Eight Trigrams. The Eightfold Path lost interest after discovering the Eight Limbs of Yoga. I admit the Path never really held any connection for me. Yoga I found much more attractive and interesting. I have come to finally understand, from age, that I am not suited for Yoga. I am better suited for Tantra. This portal into Eastern methods has opened numerous opportunities for mysticism and growth. With Hindu memes, I fall into the category of Aghori. Avadhuta Gita. With Chinese influence you can over come the nature of duality also. 

The I Ching in particular encodes a great deal of information. I am interested in reading this book to gather more ideas. Also I have some books I want to read on Chinese hand analysis. Western Palmistry is not that interesting so far. 

I Ching is written just like the genetic code. Thinking along these lines leads to a post terrestrial circuit activation on the Eight Circuit model. This unity in binary is expressed physically as well as psychically. 

First 52 blocks, now 64 postures. Looks fun. 

Martial arts books are hit and miss. Some have elegant descriptions but lack illustration. 

I forgot to cover this one in the metric post. "It doesn’t take years to learn real self defense. It takes days. When it comes to learning everything you need to know about punching and blocking with your hands and arms it only takes hours using the Jim Wagner Metric Arm Striking & Blocking system, then it is up to the student to perfect and maintain their skills. What does it mean “Metric System” when referring to self-defense? We all know that the mathematical metric system is based on the number 10, such as 10 millimeters in one centimeter. In the Reality-Based Personal Protection there are only 10 ways to strike a person, 10 blocking angles, 10 directions in which the human body can move from one point to another, and this rule holds true whether you are a housewife protecting yourself with a knife against an intruder or a counterterrorist operator moving in on a target. The 10 primary directions are forward, backward, horizontal, vertical, and diagonal. Jim Wagner takes you step-by-step through all 10 strikes and blocks. For those in traditional-based and sport-based systems Jim Wagner’s discovery is liberating, and you come to realize that there are not “thousands” of blocks and punches. It all boils down to 10. "

This one is a video. Which I will get. I discovered Wagner's metric system in one of my books and watched him demonstrate online. He is easy to follow. That's the thing. If you can follow the appropriate gestures you can assemble a sort of dance. 

Jeet Kune Do had a definite impact on me. I first encountered it while in the Army. In terms of flow and movement it has a great deal to say. More of an esoteric work really. Eastern influence none the less.

The opposite of katas is espoused. 

 

These are the Ten Non-Virtues of Buddhism:

1. taking life
2. taking what is not given
3. sexual misconduct
4. lying
5. sowing discord
6. harsh speech
7. idle gossip (or worthless chatter)
8. covetousness
9. ill will (or wishing harm on others)
10. wrong views

They form a view for deeds and mirror the Ten Virtues. I can see instances of my behavior that come up when reading these. They correlate to the tree of life just as their listed. Jim Wagner also has a background in JKD. 

There are a couple of JKD books that are of interest. Dealing mainly with trapping and grappling range. This is a very rough territory and can be tackled with further exploration. I Introduce the Devil's Handshake:

It gets the message across. Sometimes you can turn a passive gesture into intimidation and compliance. A Dark Art. 

There are several yogic practices that I find unsuited for my lifestyle. I have adopted Tantra instead. I smoke. I drink. I fuck. I like these things and Tantra embraces them. So does the Aghori path. 

This is an excellent manual for Tantra. 

This last one I haven't read.

There is a passage from the Avadhut Gita that says: "34. Some there be that prize non-dualism, others hold to dualism. They know not the truth, which is above both. "

To make the first rank you have to master some fundamentals. There are four rituals to get down. Liber Resh vel Helios. The Star Ruby ritual. The Star Sapphire ritual. Then Liber Samekh. Then you can open the doorways to Daath, Choronzon, and Aethyrs. Additionally, the prayer to the moon. Lunar Yonic Solar Phallic. 

This small booklet is what I recite from. It is different from Liber Samekh in a good way. It just suits me better.

I recite The Bornless One after Resh just to memorize. "this is thy true name handed down to the prophets of ALBION" Albion could mean humanity according to Blake. I do the Star Ruby and Star Sapphire from Future Ritual. I have never read the book, I just find it conveniently has both rituals in there. I have been writing in this blog but not in my journal. I admit much of the information would be the same contained within. The practice begins today. I have a journal that I have set down that I can use to write smoke letters and write in again. 

It is three days in to the New Moon.  It is a good time. I will get to it. 

Hands, movements, and the Ten Worlds

movements 

" Yea, my adept, the Black Pilgrimage. Thou shalt be accursed, and this is the nature of the curse. Thou shalt publish the secret matter of the adepts thou knowest, witholding [sic] no word of it, in an appendix to this my Book. So they shall cry fool, liar, sot, traducer, betrayer. Thou art not glad thou meddled with magick?"

"Yang magick for the left brain mostly, rather than Yin magik for the right."

Liber 49

The actual distance of the Black Pilgrimage is approximately 45 - 48 miles, this distance taking into account the miles of ascent. 20 miles in a day. Two days of travel and one day of rest. 3 days. 72 hours. Have a pick up point near the destination. It is a risk but you will be able to take it. You don't have to travel like this for the Black Pilgrimage; you can travel, rest, then return the third day.

A 72 hour pack. 3 Day Assault Pack. Why doesn't everyone have one of these? I have been adding to my S.E.R.E. shopping list. I lived out of a 3 Day Pack and I am still learning more about it. Water purification is so important. The technology with it changes rapidly. Many of these pieces of gear do. Finding yourself with obsolete kit is a non-issue usually if you replace and deliberate. 

A sonnet is a fourteen line poem.

A sonnet has a strict rhyme structure.

Each line contains ten syllables.

“'The Devil' is, historically, the God of any people that one personally dislikes. This has led to so much confusion of thought that THE BEAST 666 has preferred to let names stand as they are, and to proclaim simply that AIWAZ, the solar-phallic-hermetic 'Lucifer,' is His own Holy Guardian Angel, and 'The Devil' SATAN or HADIT, the Supreme Soul behind RA-HOOR-KHUIT the Sun, the Lord of our particular unit of the Starry Universe. This serpent, SATAN, is not the enemy of Man, but He who made Gods of our race, knowing Good and Evil; He bade 'Know Thyself!' and taught Initiation. He is 'the Devil' of the Book of Thoth, and His emblem is BAPHOMET, the Androgyne who is the hieroglyph of arcane perfection.” - Magick in Theory and Practice

14 Days correlate to the Moon. There are Fourteen Traps mentioned by Harry Brown in How I found Freedom in an Unfree World. Set cut up the body of Osiris into fourteen parts. 

Ovulation  occurs on the Fourteenth day.

14 gematria = ID (Hand)

Best Calendar I have found to keep with me. 

There are Ten Worlds in the Buddhist teachings.

There are Ten Sephiroth of the Tree of life. 

So far I am free to correlate them as there isn't any information pertaining to that coming forward at this time. 

The Ten Worlds

Hell (Jap. Jigoku).

Hunger or Hungry Ghosts (Jap. Gaki).

Animality or Animals (Jap. Chikusho).

Anger or Asuras (Jap. Shura).

Humanity or Human Beings (also called Tranquility, Jap. Nin).

Rapture or Heavenly Beings (Jap. Ten).

Learning or Voice Hearers (Jap. Shomon).

Realization or Cause-Awakened Ones (Jap. Engaku).

Bodhisattva (Jap. Bodhisattva).

Buddhahood or Buddha (Jap. Butsu).

My Mom speaks of the ten worlds. 

Learning to assigned the Ten Worlds to the Sephiroth will help me further develop the Crowley Chinese Tree of Life.

There appears no elemental pictures worthy of posting depicted on the tree of life.

Kether is the Root of Air

Chokmah is the Root of Fire

Binah is the Root of Water

Chesed is Water

Geburah is Fire

Tiphareth is Air

Netzach is Fire

Hod is Water

Yesod is Air

Malkuth is Earth

A lycanthropic rhythm of fourteen days along with the tides. 

Full transformation in 28 days. 

Ra
bbitry numbers.

"During the new moon, 22% of the babies were bucks and 78% were does, while 76% bucks were born during the full moon breedings with only 24% does. When breeding during any other time, the buck percentage was 55% and 45% does. This shows that my hypothesis proved to be correct. If these results can be reproduced, the possibility of controlling the gender in a positive way could allow farmers and breeders to save time and money by not having to cull unwanted animals. In the field of show rabbit, males can be shown much longer. When producing food, maximum number of does will produce more meat. The benefit of this investigation is important to anyone needing a particular gender of rabbit. This experiment was successful as completed and I feel it also has the potential for further investigation."

3 Does, 1 Buck initially. 

Gestation is 28-31 days. The production of eggs by does is stimulated by intercourse. Three nights under the full moon would be a good experiment to follow through with for bucks. New moon for does. 

We can relate the hands to the clock. 

 "To measure time we use what is called the imperial base 12/60 counting system or the Sexagesimal system. This system first came into effect, according to record, in ancient Sumeria. This system is ideal for quick computations using your fingers because we have 3 knuckles on each finger that we can count with our thumb. 3 x 4 giving us 12, 12 x our 5 fingers gives us 60. As it turns out the base 12/60 provides us with a system that gives us the maximum number of divisors possible. It has 12 divisors; 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 10, 12, 15, 20, 30, and 60, 3 of which are prime."

Interesting. 

P-CALS / Psychocalisthenics®

This might be something.

Osho's Dynamic Meditation is something else I have wanted to experiment with. It would be great as a warm up.

Methods of exploring the body and subtle states. 

Or even Magical Passes by Casteneda.

Or the Gurdjieff movements. 

Crowley had movements in Liber Vel Reguli.

Stanislavski's method could be applied to the motivations of a ritualist. Note the similarity between this and Alfred Korzybski's diagram. 

That all has to do with the Word Virus though. We were talking about tactile things. Methods of getting into the body. There is a system of 52 Blocks that go nicely with cartomancy. 

Generally you want to see what number of forms you want to memorize. As far as timing, the Star Ruby could be done then the Osho Dynamic Meditation. That is an hour and ten minutes. The Psychocalisthenics takes sixteen minutes. Not sure about Casteneda's method. Apparently an hour and ten minutes. A good daily physical hygiene and auric charging technique is available. The more advanced feature of the Magickian, is to move the energy brought into the circle. 

"The magic of the movements," he went on, "is a subtle change that the practitioners experience on executing them. It is an ephemeral quality that the movement brings to their physical and mental states, a kind of shine, a light in the eyes. This subtle change is a touch of the spirit. It is as if the practitioners, through the movements, re-establish an unused link with the life force that sustains them."

From Magical Passes

This ritual only takes about five minutes and is suitable for channeling the energies of the four quarters. 

It keeps eternal whisperings around
Desolate shores, and with its mighty swell
Gluts twice ten thousand caverns, till the spell
Of Hecate leaves them their old shadowy sound.
Often ’tis in such gentle temper found,
That scarcely will the very smallest shell
Be moved for days from where it sometime fell,
When last the winds of heaven were unbound.
O ye! who have your eyeballs vexed and tired,
Feast them upon the wideness of the Sea;
O ye! whose ears are dinn’d with uproar rude,
Or fed too much with cloying melody, –
Sit ye near some old cavern’s mouth, and brood
Until ye start, as if the sea-nymphs quired!

Cryosleep and Polyphasic sleep

 

Pyramid Necropolis they have built in the American Desert

This is an excellent and sometimes humorous book that breaks down polyphasic sleep cycles. Aligning your system to a clock is useful. You can be ultimately more productive with less sleep and a discipline. I have experimented with these methods and find them greatly useful. Practicing Liber Resh vel Helios with the four quarters of the clock divided can implement well with Dymaxion polyphasic sleep. The dreams are much more vivid for work on that level of consciousness.

A schedule like this will alter your consciousness and change your reality. I find that the adjustment period is discussed well in the book. When a 24 hour period is opened up like this you can have a really magickal life. Filled with ritual, mantra, pranayama, movies, and other exercises designed to facilitate higher dimensions of awareness. You will do well to read and write to occupy your time. As well as physical exercise to shrug off the sleep adjustment feelings. 

Cryosleep or suspension upon death is something that still interests me. The idea that a revived body could be recovered by nanotechnology is still something I would like to read more on. Moron. I have looked into the process of Bio-stasis and contacted a company for more information. It requires a life insurance policy that would pay for the costs acquired through suspension. They had a list of several companies to call and a list of lawyers. I might look into it again. I contacted Alcor.

I was first made aware of the potentials of Bio-stasis via Timothy Leary in my Son's copy of Design for Dying. As a transhumanist it aligns with my point of view. Also the ideas expressed in parallel worlds theories still haunts me. I don't know if I am capable of doing it but I want to know more before deciding. The Frankenstein story comes to mind and it would be like inventing Mikhale Rogers the Third. Transhumanism started with the interaction of mankind with a more advanced race of beings.

I currently take a posthuman injection that puts me into a base line of dharana. These drugs are still in development but are getting better. At best they are posthuman but the modification could be a beginning for A.I. nanotech in the future. Transhuman. In one direction the topic was sleep and now it is another direction of cryonics. I have taken my Lovecraft compilation to bed for night reading. It talks of Sleep.

As I commune with Nature and commune with the cycles, I can use devices to stabilize my own orbit. Can you regenerate a star? The imagination says yes. The Egyptian mummification process is evidently a precursor to the cryonics premise. I have always had a fondness for the treating of the corpse by the Egyptians. The necromancy involved fascinates me. Skulls are significant trophies for the Necromancer. A head can be preserved if you do not mind seperating it from the body. 

Go full body. After my time spent in sensory deprivation tanks I feel fine enclosed in a chamber. The idea of being frozen in one as opposed to being filled with toxic chemicals and buried in the Earth is certainly more attractive. I signed onto the mailing list for the City of Pyramids, which I am calling it. I am looking more into the Sirius star system. There is a book by Robert Temple which Kenneth Grant references. Other than that I am not coming up with much. 

I recall Grant Morrison had an experience with Alpha centauri. The closest star system to Earth I read.He was approached by chrome liquid like being. Not unlike the image above. Making an establishing contact is desirable on some levels. To Sirius I mean. I need to revist Cosmic Trigger 1 and listen to what R.A.W. has to say. It has been a while. As I look over now at the copy of Design for Dying I read "With R.U. Sirius". Yes I am. I will look up the Goetic spirit assigned to Sirius. 

From the Stellas Daemonium. It took some time to find something, but I found it. Seere. The Man and his Dog. Should be easy enough to recognize. Orion is one I am familiar with. Moving into Winter I will be able to see them.

Orion is always in close proximity to a very useful, navigable star - the dog star, which is the brightest star in the night sky (It’s other name, Sirius, is appropriately derived from the ancient Greek for “Glowing” or “Scorcher”).

Sirius can be located by extending an imaginary line, left of Orion’s belt, for about 6 times the length of Orion’s belt. Eventually your imaginary line will hit a very bright star - Sirius.

  

This quote from Kenneth Grant, and Aleister Crowley in the Hidden God describes what had occurred in the 6th Age and in 1776 under the veil of the goddess with ten thousand names – “Horus is thus Hrumachis, son of the Star, Sirius… Sirius, Sothis or Set-An, thus represents the supreme, the eternal light. Sirius is therefore the key to the present Aeon of Horus, for it represents the Energy of Satan that will permeate the Earth during the present cycle.”

Sirius is a place Masons wish to ascend unto. Somehow this has something to do with the currency conspiracies. I wander into the stranger areas of the interwebs.

“Sirius, or Set, was the original “headless one” – the light of the lower region (the south) who was known (in Egypt) as An (the dog), hence Set-An (Satan), Lord of the infernal regions, the place of heat, later interpreted in a moral sense as “hell”

the hell notes take me back to my childhood and seeing them in Asian grocery stores. Satan. Iblis. Samyaza.