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Manifest of Hermetic Ifá
Be Aware: here, like everywhere, everything is of dual nature, everything is non-permanent, everything is not-yourself.
PLUS, always keep in mind that according to the law of Entropy there is more trash around you every minute!
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A Quote I like:
"There is no reality except the one contained within us. That is why so many people live such an unreal life. They take the images outside of them for reality and never allow the world within to assert itself." (Herman Hesse)
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 9 Jan 2007 @ 05:48
The following is the preface and first chapter of a book written in 1950 by John Whiteside Parsons. It is quote shocking to read what was said already back then and how things haven't changed a bit today... in the contrary..
Jack Parsons (Frater Belarion)
full text at [link]
Author's preface:
Since I first wrote this essay in 1946, some of the more ominous predictions have been fulfilled. Public employees have been subjected to the indignity of "loyalty" oaths and the ignominy of loyalty purges. Members of the United States Senate, moving under the cloak of immunity and the excuse of emergency, have made a joke of justice and a mockery of privacy. Constitutional immunity and legal procedure have been consistently violated and that which once would have been an outrage in America is today refused even a review by the Supreme Court.
The golden voice of social security, of socialized "this" and socialized "that", with its attendant confiscatory taxation and intrusion on individual liberty, is everywhere raised and everywhere heeded. England has crept under the aegis of a regime synonymous with total regimentation. Austria, Hungary, Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia have fallen victims to communism while the United States makes deals with the corrupt dictatorships of Argentina and Spain.
As I write, the United States Senate is pursuing a burlesque investigation into the sphere of private sexual morals, which will accomplish nothing except to bring pain and sorrow to many innocent persons.
The inertia and acquiescence which allows the suspension of our liberties would once have been unthinkable. The present ignorance and indifference is appalling. The little that is worthwhile in our civilization and culture is made possible by the few who are capable of creative thinking and independent action, grudgingly assisted by the rest. When the majority of men surrender their freedom, barbarism is near but when the creative minority surrender it, the Dark Age has arrived. Even the word liberalism has now become a front for a new social form of Christian morality. Science, that was going to save the world back in H.G. Wells' time, is regimented, strait-jacketed and scared; its universal language is diminished to one word, security.
In this 1950 view some of my more hopeful utterances may appear almost naive... More >
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 1 Jan 2007 @ 20:06
The past years we joined 3 million people in Rio (twice), 1.5 million in Santos, and an unknown crowd in Berlin for the New Years party.
This year we stayed in the forest. In that little place now known as the Sandorian Grove. More meditating than celebrating.
Lentil soup and champagne (the Brazilian version that is).
My better half (the link to her new BLOG will be added soon, stay tuned!), noted that Jose Arguelles stated that Pope Gregor had some evil intentions when he decreed the 1. of January to be the beginning of a New Year. To break the spiritual rhythm of the masses, to be precise. Hmmm, to me, his alternative of July 28th doesn't seem more intelligent to me than Jan. 1st.
For the spirits of the forest all of this is crap, they assured me. December 21st has the shortest daylight time on the Northern hemisphere, the longest on the Southern. Near the equator nobody cares less.
Life goes on. Round and round. 24/7. No break. Only modern civilization has the illusion of having a new start, a new chance perhaps.
Game's up. Let's play again.
Let's forgive everyone for their evil deeds during the past year! They will certainly change for the better. Or will they? Fat chance. Whoever screwed you in 2006. will continue to screw you in 2007, new game or not.
So we shared our lentil soup, champagne (and lots of acaraje, of course) with the spirits of the forest and were grateful for a wonderful 2006, leaving hope'n'hype to the rest of the civilized world.
And, certainly, as in 2006 we continue to wish well for our friends all over the world. Thank you for your love, we love YOU!
Max & Helo More >
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 10 Dec 2006 @ 14:30
While we were contemplating to take two rotties of friends into our little farm in the jungle, one of the newborn kittens (see earlier BLOG entry), stepped forward to confront the male rottie of the handsome couple (name: Zeus, age: 3.5 yrs, weight, 52 kilo, 100 pounds approx.). His name is Ed, or Edward the Fearless.
Kind of an analogon to the US and Venezuela these days. More >
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 14 Nov 2006 @ 15:56
Just as I was reading an interview of Dare with Robert Anton Wilson Man Bites Dogma, a cat-ma snuck into the house and our bed to give birth to five kittens.
Dog-ma or Cat-ma, that's the question...
We called the newborns Roberta, Antonia, Wilson, and Ed (like Edward), and IVy, the list I was just writing to.
IVy stands for International Viewpoints, a super-interesting magazine for everyone who is interested in the things they are talking about.
In any case, RA Wilson's article contains a perfect definition of where we (I) are standing these days, with Skywork, Fa, Inner Planetary Cosmology, Mind Processing, Gunas & Girapoli: More >
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 5 Nov 2006 @ 13:41
Lots of interesting videos out there these days.
One of the projects I like the most is Gerald de Jong's "Darwin at Home"
and his latest videos .
More than 10 years ago we spent countless hours discussing the Mayan Time Star as a minimal 4D Object, all things tetrahedron, and many more, on the Bucky and Synergetics lists.
In violation of all Korzybskian rules, one might claim "Geometry is everything" and in reality all these strange things on this BLOG ultimately boil down to tetra-based geometries with push-or-pull nodes.
Bucky, in the introduction to his monumental "Synergetics" book, muses about life being born out of geometric structures of energies. Here, deep in the Brazilian jungle (well, not that deep, hehe), I don't have the book and thus the exact quote(s). Maybe someone can furnish a bit of it in the commentary.
In the past weeks in Italy, we have once more demonstrated in group work that emotions are determined by the geometries of basic internal polarities and duplicated the results many times.
Gerald goes more along the "pure" mathematical way and I wish this great project of his many participants and contributors!!!! More >
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 31 Oct 2006 @ 15:51
Christopher Columbus discovered America when the Squaring of Saturn and Jupiter NEARLY happened.. after all he was looking for a India...
There are too many examples to ignore the coincidences...
The next time it will happen is in 2015..
so, who has an idea what was the great thing that happened this fall(exact on October 25th) ?????? More >
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 14 Sep 2006 @ 13:06
The ProtoMeme of the Universe - The Cosmic Byte.
Or,
How do we create our present and future reality via the Cosmic Byte?
Or,
another attempt to put the outline of the system of Fá on one page.
Definition: Inner vs Outer Disposition:
If that what one feels as emotion or sensation via the corporal senses is
being called the "outer disposition". the attitude (extra-sensational) within the inner Being
could be called the "inner disposition".
The latter is what we are EXPECTING NEXT, the former is what we assume to
EXIST NOW. Therefore the inner disposition controls one's next positions
within the hologram of life ("the matrix"), the outer disposition represents
where we are located right now within the same.
Using the system of Fá, we can differentiate 16 basic dispositions or poles in 8
pairs (polarities/odu):
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 14 Sep 2006 @ 01:27
these days a great Babalawo departed: Afolabi Epega.
Forwarded from Ed:
"I just heard from Philip Neimark that Afolabi Epega is dead, sometime this month. It is a great loss. He and his line of babalawos, particularly his grandfather, were the ones who brought African Ifa to the West. Afolabi taught Philip Neimark; his grandfather taught William Bascom. Without their actions we would not have the depth of knowledge of the universe that we possess."
The only links I know of are in Spanish and Portuguese:
the Brazilian line (Sandra Epega) (the photo is from that website) and the laudatio in Spanish.
For those who are interested, there may be more information soon at Philip Neimark's site Ifa Foundation.
Personally indebted to his work I wish a grand "Odabo!" for the transition!
We are reminded that life aiye (here and now) is transient and it is wise to use the chance of the moment to progress.
Oluwo Agbaoye Olori-Ire Ekunle (Baba Ire) More >
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 13 Sep 2006 @ 09:31
While working on a new "rundown", for now called "Meme Stripping", I feel it necessary to outline a circumstance typically not clearly mentioned by many authors when writing about memes:
1. Two Sides of a Meme
A meme, like everything in this world, has TWO sides: one is the bare concept, the Platonic "ideal", the other one is an emotion attached to it.
Thus we can see the synergy of "soul PLUS spirit" concept also valid for memes.
To assess the value and function of an existing meme, we need to determine WHERE both ends are on the "tone scale", the scale of emotions.
It sounds like a contradiction, of course, to talk of the emotion of a spirit. Let's remember though, that, as in the Tao symbol, every side has to contain a part of its opposite in itself in order to persist. Only through this "lie" can the construct survive.
It can be observed that an individual meme can be controlled solely through manipulation of the fields of emotion of both its sides.
2. Plato: the model and its instantiation
During our new look at things in the past days, we have also seen more clearly the circumstance that without a model of the Universe close to Plato's view it would seem impossible to perform basic manipulations of one's own memes.
In other words, ONLY by seperating the "ideals" (the memes of course) from its material manifestations (the mirror of reality) is it possible to gain a perspective on same.
There is a lot of discussion: what is "really real": the model or its instantiation? Methinks that this is a fruitless discussion: BOTH sides are needed to make a game. It is certainly not true that only the "ideal" controls the manifestations (like in OOP, object-oriented programming). In the "real" world, a "feedback" from the instantiation to the "ideals" is possible BUT it acts in a REVERSE way than expected. This is the principle of "ebo" in Ifa.
An example: ... More >
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 4 Sep 2006 @ 10:33
(see also the congenial BLOG entry of Gunter under the same heading at http://zensory.com/. Coincidence??? NOT!!!
Even though there were no public comments to my previous BLOG entry, I received a number of interesting and very thoughtful e-mail messages. The majority of them were pointing to my remark that it is necessary to be able to permeate ones space not only with affinity (Otura) but also be able to do so with all the other 15 prime principles of life, notably the principle of Responsibility (Oturupon). Some of these messages called out the polarity otura-tuupon outright and a few words on this dichotomy right here and now.
Nietzsche coined the words "Wille zur Macht", usually translated as "will to power", and very often his formulation was used to push him into the corner of Machiavelli who, in turn, is usually equated with the thirst for political/economic power over people and countries.
Nothing could be further from the truth: in the contrary, Nietzsche called for the fundamental shift of the individual person from a slave-mind to a person that takes responsibility for himself and his environment. This is an inner process, independent of the status of a person in the chains (sic!) of political powers. Other thinkers called this going from "being effect" to "being cause" or, from "irresponsibility" towards "responsibility" for one's own state of being and one's actions. In New Age speak we can hear the label "Personal Power" and, indeed, entering this state of "Personal Power" is a great acomplishment and the most positive aspect of many self-help authors and "motivational speakers".
A brief comment to Nietsche's "Wille zur Macht": ... More >
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