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- Discussion Type
- discussion topicThe LRP According to an Initiate
- Since the discussion of the LRP is moving beyond the Archangels, I've decided to start a new thread.
  Gypsy Lantern:In the LBRP and LIRP, are you banishing and invoking the ...
- Category Theory
- Started by derekhenry
- Comments 45
- Last comment by EmberLeo
- Last Active 4 hours ago
- Tags ritual | LBRP | Golden Dawn | LRP | LIRP | Archangels
- Discussion Type
- discussion topicFour Archangels
- So I was doing the LBRP this morning, and I got wondering about the origins of the four Archangels section. Does anyone know where this idea of four presences, relating to the four elements and positi ...
- Category Theory
- Started by Gypsy Lantern
- Comments 26
- Last comment by Princess
- Last Active 7 days ago
- Tags LBRP | angels | quarters | Golden Dawn | Mathers
- Discussion Type
- discussion topicHypersigils and permaculture
- So I guess my first question is what is a hypersigil? What makes one *hyper*? I have a vague notion that they can be audio (music), visual (video) or more, but since the only example I can think of ...
- Category Theory
- Started by shaggy
- Comments 7
- Last comment by XK
- Last Active Aug 25th 2010
- Tags permaculture | ethics | sigils
- Discussion Type
- discussion topicAnalysing 2012
- So I'm trying to write an article on historical perspectives on 2012 (that is, on the idea that this particular year will mark the radical transformation of life on earth in some manner), and I was ho ...
- Category Theory
- Started by al gremlin
- Comments 17
- Last comment by grant
- Last Active Aug 23rd 2010
- Tags apocalypse | Eschatology | 2012 | millenarianism | Teh End Ov Dayz | new age | modern mythology
- Discussion Type
- discussion topicSleep, my darling...I said SLEEP
- I've been hearing about Sleep Paralysis a lot recently, and its link to alien abduction and the succubus/incubus experience. I suffer from t ...
- Category Theory
- Started by Tuna Ghost
- Comments 27
- Last comment by EmberLeo
- Last Active Aug 19th 2010
- Tags sleep | sleep paralysis | sleep phenomena | hypnagogia
- Discussion Type
- discussion topicTeaching the I Ching
- I've decided to make a proposal to a local college to do some sort of presentation on the I Ching. I've been working with the thing and reading around it for a few years (barely scratched the surface, ...
- Category Theory
- Started by grant
- Comments 11
- Last comment by grant
- Last Active Aug 11th 2010
- Tags divination | I Ching | taoism | Yijing | chinese | book of changes | confucianism
- Discussion Type
- discussion topicExploring Buddhism
- Opening up this thread after an important drift on the Dionysian thread. Do people agree with the generalities here? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhism ...
- Category Theory
- Started by Kao23
- Comments 188
- Last comment by XK
- Last Active Aug 4th 2010
- Tags Buddhism
- Discussion Type
- discussion topicEcclesiastes (Qoheleth) - a discussion.
- Anybody up for reading this one now? It's a book written by someone using the pen name Qoheleth, which means (my USCCB Bible tel ...
- Category Theory
- Started by grant
- Comments 56
- Last comment by grant
- Last Active Jul 22nd 2010
- Tags religion | | Bible | Christianity | Exegesis | Hermeneutics | judaism | mysticism | The Byrds
- Discussion Type
- discussion topictaboo on gnosis
- This morning I was paging through Robert Anton Wilson's Cosmic Trigger and happened on a page in which he describes a conversation with Grady McMurty, and McMurty asks his "$64,000 question": ...
- Category Theory
- Started by phord
- Comments 12
- Last comment by XK
- Last Active Jul 21st 2010
- Tags magic | Robert Anton Wilson | Gnosis | taboo
- Discussion Type
- discussion topicBhagavad Gita
- Hie there Liminal Nation, I have been recently studying various Indian books recently, particularly Ramana Maharishi and Nisaragadatta Maharaj. And have benefited a great amount from their dialog ...
- Category Theory
- Started by Porky
- Comments 6
- Last comment by Porky
- Last Active Jul 15th 2010
- Tags No Tags found
- Discussion Type
- discussion topicCharms - Modern Idea?
- So... Hi! Long (l-o-n-g) time lurker, not great poster, but I have a question. A while ago, the lovely XK made me the most beautiful charm for safety during travelling. It made me think; I'm not w ...
- Category Theory
- Started by Feverfew
- Comments 31
- Last comment by EmberLeo
- Last Active Jul 2nd 2010
- Tags video | Charms | Personalisation
- Discussion Type
- discussion topicInterplanetary exploration and colonization
- Musing, the other day, on Burroughs' axiom "we are here to go" and the Wu Tang 'Liquid Swords' tune "Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth", I started to ponder future space exploration progammes. ...
- Category Theory
- Started by Gef
- Comments 25
- Last comment by serapionskot
- Last Active Jul 2nd 2010
- Tags colonialism | post-colonialism | space programme | space exploration | overpopulation
- Discussion Type
- discussion topicMandalas (ideas, thoughts, projecty goodness)
- Hello! As you have perhaps surmised, this topic concerns mandalas, and starts with a brief anecdote. I was, like lots of kids, in one of the many poorly funded and ever changing "gifted" programs that ...
- Category Theory
- Started by clora
- Comments 3
- Last comment by Evan
- Last Active Jun 6th 2010
- Tags Meditation | art | creativity | sigil | discussion | mandala | symbol
- Discussion Type
- discussion topicThe Gospel of Mark - a discussion
- Mark! The earliest, shortest, and grimmest of the canonical Gospels. Attributed to Mark the Evangelist, a buddy of the disciple Peter. Probably written after 70 C.E., given certain references to ...
- Category Theory
- Started by Evan
- Comments 288
- Last comment by Evan
- Last Active May 25th 2010
- Tags Bible | Bible studies | Christianity | New Testament | Exegesis | Commentary | Hermeneutics
- Discussion Type
- discussion topicArs Chaotica
- What follows below is an article originally printed in Joel Biroco's Kaos magazine in the 80s sometime. It - and Kaos magazine in general - are a kind of "road less travelled" for Chaos magick, I thin ...
- Category Theory
- Started by DannyL
- Comments 17
- Last comment by philh
- Last Active May 24th 2010
- Tags chaos | Magick | taoism
- Discussion Type
- discussion topicWeird words, jarring jargon, language lectures
- This thread is for all those pedantic language discussions. Have opinions on the proper spelling of "Kether"? Trying to pronounce ancient names of Netjer? Can't tell Seidh from Sidhe? Bring it on! ...
- Category Theory
- Started by EmberLeo
- Comments 32
- Last comment by phord
- Last Active May 12th 2010
- Tags language | words | names | spelling | pronunciation | acronyms | definitions | glossary
- Discussion Type
- discussion topicConsider the meme.
- From yonder discussion on superstition and science comes a debate on the usefulness and meaningfulness of me ...
- Category Theory
- Started by grant
- Comments 33
- Last comment by aphilotus
- Last Active May 1st 2010
- Tags mind | epistemology | memes | ideology | dawkins | blackmore | dennett | thought | dualism | cultural evolution | ideaspace
- Discussion Type
- discussion topicReading The Book of Pleasure
- There seems to be some interest in a close-ish reading of The Book of Pleasure. I thought I'd spin this off into a seperate. Not really sure about "ground rules" etc - maybe simply don't post unless y ...
- Category Theory
- Started by DannyL
- Comments 26
- Last comment by al gremlin
- Last Active Apr 30th 2010
- Tags reading | books | Austin Osman Spare | Book of Pleasure
- Discussion Type
- discussion topicMass Market Magic
- From Dale Carnegie’s “How to Win Friends and Influence People” to Neuro Linguistic Programming; From Casteneda’s “Teachings of Don Juan” to Redfield’s “Celestine Prophesy”; from “W ...
- Category Theory
- Started by freektemple
- Comments 165
- Last comment by Nico
- Last Active Apr 24th 2010
- Tags Pop | charlatan | magic lite | bestsellers | watered-down
- Discussion Type
- discussion topicWilliam Burroughs on Magical Thinking
- I read a fantastic essay by Uncle Bill recently and thought I'd share it with the community. Its quite long but very readable. Its one of the best explanations of magical thinking I've come across. Th ...
- Category Theory
- Started by mardol
- Comments 39
- Last comment by BlaqSun93
- Last Active Apr 5th 2010
- Tags magical thinking | headspace | coincidence | synchronicity | patterns | 23 | William Burroughs
- Discussion Type
- discussion topic"Ye are gods"
- Just idly leafing through the Bible, came upon this - "Ye are gods" - rather startling and thought-provoking phrase from both the Old and New Testaments. From John 10:34 "Jesus answered them, is i ...
- Category Theory
- Started by Gef
- Comments 18
- Last comment by Enigmatica
- Last Active Mar 26th 2010
- Tags Bible | Exegesis | gods | Psalm 82 | John 10 | Yabby You | Hermeneutics
- Discussion Type
- discussion topicReading Spare
- I'm curious here as to who has read Spare in the original. Anyone? If so, what did you get out of it? Am sitting down with The Book of Pleasure again - I get so much out of it. What an incredible w ...
- Category Theory
- Started by DannyL
- Comments 9
- Last comment by mardol
- Last Active Mar 18th 2010
- Tags reading | Austin Osman Spare
- Discussion Type
- discussion topicMartial arts and passive resistance
- Over in yonder thread on curses, questions arose about Gandhi's passive resistance and the study of martial arts. ...
- Category Theory
- Started by grant
- Comments 88
- Last comment by I_Libertine
- Last Active Feb 25th 2010
- Tags satyagraha | non-violence | non-action | kung fu | wushu | capoeira
- Discussion Type
- discussion topicBeyond the Tarot?
- One of my favorite items in my possession are my tarot cards. They are special and important to me. When I first started observing tarot cards I always had that feeling of "I must have this item" and ...
- Category Theory
- Started by Foretold Soldier
- Comments 20
- Last comment by Hierax
- Last Active Feb 25th 2010
- Tags ritual | ritual suggestions | tarot
- Discussion Type
- discussion topicInvocation and Evocation
- Princess:...I will admit I find violence aimed at spirits quite unsettling.
  How about burying St. Joseph to get a house sold? Same basic ...
- Category Theory
- Started by Sekhmet
- Comments 52
- Last comment by serapionskot
- Last Active Feb 22nd 2010
- Tags ritual | magic | deity | worship | summoning
- Discussion Type
- discussion topicFemale magicians
- This is a general thread about the under-heard demograph of female-identified magicians, the potential reasons why this voice does not have the same cultural presence as its male-identified counterpar ...
- Category Theory
- Started by Gypsy Lantern
- Comments 119
- Last comment by EmberLeo
- Last Active Feb 19th 2010
- Tags gender | female | unheard | marginalised
- Discussion Type
- discussion topicFiguralist vs. Literalist
- Sekhmet Serapionskot, I'd actually like to see that idea - the contrast between poetry and narrative and the implications of adopting either as a primary personal interpretiv ...
- Category Theory
- Started by serapionskot
- Comments 9
- Last comment by serapionskot
- Last Active Feb 12th 2010
- Tags spirit | Poetry | Narrative | Line | Circle | Prose | Lyric | Mythic | Historic | Physical | Irrational/Surreal | Rational/Logical | Being | Sense
- Discussion Type
- discussion topiclow tech transhumanism and "madspace"
- After some years of studying somafera (long story short, somafera is a kind of Western yogic concentration practice, aimed at boosting human potential by altering body chemistry, mental function, spir ...
- Category Theory
- Started by Wayland_S
- Comments 4
- Last comment by LykeX
- Last Active Jan 18th 2010
- Tags somafera | transhumanism | madspace
- Discussion Type
- discussion topicAfrican Diasporic Traditions 101
- So, some people are interested in African Diasporic Traditions. Some people don't know much about ADTs. Somepeople fall right in the middle of that Venn diagram. This is the thread for asking question ...
- Category Theory
- Started by Princess
- Comments 288
- Last comment by EmberLeo
- Last Active Jan 6th 2010
- Tags Voodoo | Loa | santeria | candomble | orisha | umbanda | quimbanda
- Discussion Type
- discussion topic'Hoodoo' versus 'Voodoo'?
- Having just read some articles on the rather splendid Luckymojo site, I was interested to come across the argument that a distinction could be made between Hoodoo and (New Orleans) Voodoo, in that the ...
- Category Theory
- Started by Gef
- Comments 12
- Last comment by Gef
- Last Active Nov 26th 2009
- Tags Voodoo | hoodoo | luckymojo

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