The quite lovable Phil Hine, author of Condensed Chaos and man of many interests has a new piece up on his Enfolding site title “Occult gender regimes: Polarity and the body electric,” which is just a grand ole read. Hine has been going just where I’d like to see chaots headed these days: identity politics. [...]
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NEW DANIEL HIGGS DOUBLE LP: “Say God”
Posted in All That is Sacred, New Old Traditions, News, tagged daniel higgs, say god, thrill jockey, lungfish on June 1, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Daniel “Nomo” Higgs, along with a number of other notable travelers, is probably the biggest influence behind my willing participation in these things we call New Old Traditions. So, lucky for me, he’s got a new double album out on Thrill Jockey Records. Here’s what I believe to be the first track.
THE MINISTRY OF THE NOW EMERGENCY: An emergency of the highest order
Posted in All That is Sacred, Features, tagged deranged mind, jubilee, loafing, unworking on May 24, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Ordinary time demands our attention to keep the clocks going. Those for whom time has stopped, we are blessed with immortality. We join the universe in its waiting, waiting, waiting…for what? We wait for the Deranged Mind and the disparate members of the human experience to awaken and cognize, to incarnate spiritually and psychically, to [...]
TO YOU, THE MOST BELOVED: Misunderstandings of “crazy” (part 2)
Posted in All That is Sacred, Features, tagged robert anton wilson, pkd, valis, shaman, ayahuasca, dmt, fasting, whirling, jung, peyote, bear heart, Dale pendell, pharmako/gnosis, paracelsus, the red book, cavalli, philo stone, synchronicity, hamatsa on May 19, 2010 | 5 Comments »
Traditionally, a culture’s shaman is the neurotechnician of a tribe. A shaman is the bridge between the physical world and the spiritual world, the psychopomp of mystical journeys. Often a shaman will induce a trance, either through the use of psychoactive drugs (traditionally this means anything from ayahuasca, to marijuana, to DMT, and to the [...]
TO YOU, THE MOST BELOVED: Misunderstandings of “crazy” (part 1)
Posted in All That is Sacred, Features, tagged aleister crowley, hakim bey, hga, holy guardian angel, horselover fat, Paul Watzlawick, pkd, valis, voices in your head on May 17, 2010 | 4 Comments »
In America, we have words to describe the experience of hearing voices: wacko, delusional, crazy, schizoid, etc. To hear a voice speaking to you, whether out loud or in one’s mind, is not allowed. Hearing voices, especially those of God, is viewed as insanity within the rational paradigm that provides the framework for everyday life. [...]
WE ARE GODS
Posted in All That is Sacred, tagged consciousness, oneness, reality on April 29, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Take heed, pyramid builders! The time is ripe!
HAPPY EARTH DAY: Derrick Jensen on spiritual and ecological death urges
Posted in All That is Sacred, Holidays, tagged anti-civilization, civilization, derrick jensen, john zerzan, earth day, environmentalism, green washing on April 22, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
MERRY IN THE EAST ON THIS EASTER OF RISING SUNS. HAIL! HAIL!
Posted in All That is Sacred, Holidays, tagged christian, easter, god, horus, jesus, oestre, pagan, sun god on April 4, 2010 | 3 Comments »
LITTLE BITS ON CHAOS MAGICK: “Prime Chaos” gets an updated intro by Phil Hine
Posted in All That is Sacred, Features, tagged diy, appropriation, chaos magick, phil hine, robert anton wilson, thelema, peter carroll, austin osman spare, reductionism, privilege, condensed chaos, prime chaos, eighties on March 22, 2010 | 7 Comments »
All that is currently pagan blog, The Wild Hunt, posted a nice piece on Chaos Magick by writer, anthropologist, and esotericist Amy Hale, which takes an honest look at some updated critiques of the DIY anarcho-magickal movement started in the 1980s. For those who may be unfamiliar with the movement: “When Chaos Magick sprung forth [...]
WHAT IS BIRTH ON THIS VERNAL EQUINOX? by Annie Reveler
Posted in All That is Sacred, Holidays, tagged anthropocene era, babies, birth, children, climate change, global warming, nature, pagan, spring equinox on March 21, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Children. The decision to bring them into the world. A world. This world. Our personal avatars into the future. Avatars, earthly incarnations of gods and goddesses. Or, virtual representations, or alter-ego. This world, the Anthropocene Era: systems beginning to fail, great die-out of species, climactic shifts, even the seasons, the great rhythm, put in chaos.
THE FESTIVAL OF LIFE IN THE CRACKS: Or, how the immediacy of the neighborhood keeps on keepin’ on
Posted in All That is Sacred, Features, Holidays, tagged fema, heraclitus, poverty, springfield, tornados, urban homesteading, vachal lindsay, welfare on March 16, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Weeds growing up through the cracks in the pavement is a fractal assertion of life revealing itself through the cracks of civilization. My neighborhood is indicative of that, and this year’s Festival of Life in the Cracks (March 10) coincided with a meteorologically beautiful day, one of the first of spring’s blessings of warmth and [...]
THE GOSPEL OF BEAUTY AND THE ART OF APPRECIATION
Posted in All That is Sacred, tagged love, wabi-sabi, vachel lindsay, francis bacon, beart heart, alcoholism, fundamentalism on March 7, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Springfield’s hobo poet Vachel Lindsay worshiped in the church of the open sky and lived the gospel of beauty. As I remember my outdoor self who greatly enjoys her time in the divine church of the open sky, I usually find myself (weather permitting) with my hands deep in the dirt on the Sabbath. Often [...]
MY WABI-SABI LIFE
Posted in All That is Sacred, tagged nature, springfield, wabi-sabi on February 23, 2010 | 6 Comments »
Wabi-sabi is a Japanese term that does not translate well to English, but using a thousand words, perhaps we shall begin to understand. Wabi originally referred to the loneliness of living in nature, but now reflects a meaning more of rustic simplicity, freshness, or quietness. Wabi also refers to the quirks and imperfections that arise [...]
QUIRKS IN THE MECHANISM
Posted in All That is Sacred, tagged bread and puppet, folk art, Peter Schumann, puppet, stilts on February 21, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
“The puppeteers’ only hope of mastering their puppets is to enter their puppets’ delicate and seemingly inexhaustible lives.” — Peter Schumann, The Radicality of the Puppet Theater The first time I operated a puppet it was from the inside of a giant skeleton head. The puppet had no eyes, and no jaw. My job was [...]
ON LOVE, ON BEING IN LOVE, ON SEX, ON ROMANCE
Posted in All That is Sacred, tagged Eros, love, orgasm, Robert Brenzy, Robet Anton Wilson, romance, sex, Starhawk, valentine's day on February 14, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Love. It makes the world go round. It causes as much pain and suffering as it does joy and elation. It’s a mythical beast, a concept that is difficult to wrap one’s arms around to put it lightly. Valentine’s Day is only good for massacres, says one good friend. Maybe he is right, but the [...]
QUR’AN 32:22—A meditation on the signs of God, by Baraka B
Posted in All That is Sacred, tagged chogyam trungpa, islam, muhammad on February 2, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
A short piece by friend of Revelers, Baraka B, on the signs of God in the Qur’an. Who is more wrong than s/he who is reminded of the signs of God but then turns away from them? We will take vengeance on the sinners. —Qur’an 32:22 Firstly, what (according to the Qur’an) are the “signs [...]
JODI LOVES PACO: The marriage of one person’s selves
Posted in All That is Sacred, tagged crossdressing, identity, marriage, transgender, zomba on January 23, 2010 | 2 Comments »
“This is normal in zomba,*” I said, beginning the wedding in my home a few weeks ago. The bride stood before me, my 46-year-old friend Paul (not his real name) as his cross-dressing persona Jodi. Paul explains it best: “Before I started cross-dressing, there were things I didn’t like about myself—things that I thought were [...]
What to do with a dead crow…
Posted in All That is Sacred, tagged crow, dark goddess, death, gifts, magic, ritual, witchcraft on January 7, 2010 | 1 Comment »
We Revelers have been getting in touch with our witchy side recently. For us, it’s been mostly about connecting to the phases of the moon and exploring the use of ritual. We’re pretty proud of our efforts and feel good about what we’ve done, but we have no illusions about what might be ahead. The [...]
FYAH BUN FYAH BUN: Seeing pain as an insight into our selves, by Baraka B
Posted in All That is Sacred, tagged advaita, islam, pain, qur'an, tantra on January 5, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Yesterday’s piece on menstruation by Abby Roan challenged the pharmaceutical practice of numbing (read: sweeping under the rug) the uncomfortable bits of a woman’s moon cycle. Today we bring you a piece by semio-mystic explorer, Baraka B, who looks at pain as an opportunity to expose the blind spots of the self. —We Revelers If [...]
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