here be some werkings I've encountered being on-list... ________________________________ Ayoh- The Meme-HammerA rite to break down the barriers created by neuro-linguistic programming which prevent us from perceiving and experiencing the natural bounty of the universe. Participants: Loki, Tzeenj, Lylythe Preparation: create a vessel for the void that represents the constraining influence of language. In our case it was an empty eggshell whose surface we sigilized heavily. (The sigils were constructed each from one line of the J.R.R. Tolkien riddle, "A box without hinges, key or a lid, yet golden treasure inside is hid.") Synopsis: -Banishing (modified Thorssen style Hammer Banishing) -Invocation of Ganesha, Kali and Ka'atas to aid in construction of a magickal tool (with possible eye towards it eventually becoming a servitor or egregore) to break down the barriers created by seeing the universe through the filter of language -Readings (see below) done in a variety of silly voices -Manifest and empower the Meme Hammer -Mainifest language (The Uber Meme) in the material base (egg) and then destroy it. -Banish with laughter Note: This was done in a very freestyle fashion (go figure) Below are the readings and notes made by the operators after the rite for clarification. READINGS- As Nietzsche and Bataille have suggested, the myth of scarcity is merely a means of control through immiseration, whereas the actual nature of the world is one of absolute fullness, indeed over fullness, spilling over as constant EXCESS. -Hakim Bey (Aimless Wandering Chuang Tzu's Chaos Linguistics) It's the language: the head's using glossolalia-totally random vowel and consonant sounds. Speaking in tongues? We're all hearing different things. We're hearing what we want to hear. And you poor bastards can't hear anything but instructions and commands. That's what happens when all you can think about is how to obey orders. -Grant Morrison (The Invisibles) Automatic responses are the chinks in a magician's armour. Investigate all your most loaded concepts. Observe the tunes to which your behaviour dances, the drumbeat you march to. -Dave Lee (Chaotopia) Living from a body of strength is not something most men can do. They require a way to "look" at things. What a man says has nothing to do with how he feels. -Christopher S. Hyat Ph.D. (The Tree of Lies) That's my opinion, who gives a fuck? -Ice T (Opinion) "When I use a word,"; Humpty Dumpty said, in rather ascornful tone,";it means just what I choose it to mean neither more nor less." The question is, "said Alice, "whether you can make words mean so many different things." "The question is," said Humpty Dumpty, "which is to be master" -Lewis carroll (Through the Looking Glass) Fences are another attribute of Control- they seek to divide human experience into discrete little categories, when the real answers lie in finding the connections between seemingly unrelated phenomena, like the words of the Code. The fences seek to control years, or the flow of time, which is the best friend of Chaos, always breaking down structures and throwing up new ones. Control Freaks are conservative because they fear the flow of time and prefer to keep things as they are, were, or would have been. Fences also attempt to control nightmare interludes, the dark eruptions of the unconscious mind. The process of enslaving oneself to Control involves surpressing of all sorts of material, from religious doubt to sexual impulse. Repressed material sinks down into the unconscious mind, where it becomes monstrous when locked away from the light of day. Control fears its return, but it must return. The Chaos Boy rises like a monster from the sleep of dreams, ready to smite Control with every dread they have tried to imprison. -Robin D. Laws (Weather the Cukoo Likes-The Cut Up Project) Theres no telling what we'll do when we are free. -Folk implosion (Natural One) LOKI'S NOTES: Invked Ganesha (in his aspect as breaker of codes), Kali, and Ka'atas for assistance in breaking down the barrier of language. Once the Godforms were felt to be present in the circle we began the readings in a variety of voices and accents. (I felt the presence of Kali as a physical discomfort. Much like being up to the ankles in fire ants). Our original plan was to take the readings and subject them to Gysin style cut up and re-read them several times in varying states of deconstruction. This did not occur. I felt the presence of my patron godform, Loki, manifest itself at this point. He seemed amused and as though he was enjoying himself (for me this godform tends to prefer being uninvited so he can "gatecrash") Lylythe began to chant the Folk Implosion quote used in the readings to which I counterpointed with "Whatcha gonna do, Pink Boy?" alternated with the chorus from the Goddess Peg's song, "Orange," (Gonna peel the world like an orange, and savor every bite!) At this point I was in a definite trance state, perception of time in a linear fashion ceased and I slipped into glossalalia. This is where the word, "AYOH," came from. Awareness of anything outside the cirlcle faded to nothingness. We were fully submerged in the currents we were creating, to the point where I began to feel them as physical tide-like sensations. Vocalizations on all parts became reduced to pure tonalities as we slipped below the surface of language and began investing the material base with all the limiting aspects of linguistic communication. There was a physical sensation at this point as well: one of pouring energy from my third eye into the egg. Once the sigilized egg was"filled," each of us extented a hand and raised it aloft together. We shattered it while simultaneously exhaling a wordless vibration of incoherent sound. At this point all operants exploded into simultaneous euphoria. LYLYTHE'S NOTES: Invoked the Dark Mother, My Mistress kali: she who laughs at, who destroys, who hates pretense and falseness, who rebuilds in clarity and cleanses through fire. "I feel your body... I breathe your breath...I am consumed by your fire...I taste your fluids..." For the moment I mentally called the quarters, grounded, and centered (my roots shot down quicker and deeper than EVER before). She was present (my apologies to Loki's feet- he, he). The readings and chantings were intense- energy flowed between and among us- my body was saturated (unable to read clearly, very husky throaty voice). Focused all thought, feeling, perception on freedom and it's manifestation- with the egg as the actalyst. It positively GLOWED. Several times I aknowleged the presence of elementals, of my Mistress, of my own almost luminescent power by again and again making the signs of the quarters. When the catalyst was smashed in ritual my mind experienced a climax that radiated through my cells, around the yard, through Tzeenj and Loki, and back into myself. Banishment through wicked, decadent, delicious laughter!!' Jai Kail!!' TZEENJ's NOTES: Opened. Fired chakras, began shaking and circulating NRG (light seething trnce). Set servitors about (PSYPHYX- gaurdian). Was especially strong and active. Really Potent gnosis. Did variant Hammer Banishing, Ka'atas put in his appearance. Moved NRG Hammer, held upright. Smiling and chuckling knowingly repeated mantra, "Kreei Kreei Scazo Kreei." (Sun sun star sun) Concur on nonlinear timeflux (typical ov exstatic states- define time/XTC link?) At one point Ka'atas looked down at the egg as if to say, "Yeah, I've got your number" Really hit me as we crushed the egg (really deep seething at this point) the destruction word is loaded (cho!), wasn't so much spoken as it played through me. Think Loki and I may have begun chanting AYOH simultaneously. Definetly concur on euphoria afterwards as well. Fun, fun, fun! Closed, brought staff straight to ground with a cry of,"Ia Ka'atas!" and concluded with and NRG pulse. __________ From:"angel69" Subject:[eco-magic] A booklet text POSSIBILITIES YOU CANNOT POWERFULLY IMAGINE ! YOGURT WEAVING WITH ATTITUDE VOLUME 2.3 ECO MAGIC AND DISCHORDIA Disclaimer: At some points in the text, references are made to organisations or individuals who have earned a reputation for trying to change the views, attitudes or behaviour of others by outstandingly distasteful means. All comments which encourage readers to use these organisations or individuals as a form of biological pesticide are included merely for their poetic beauty and should not be taken as messages from God. This booklet is intended as a cultural gift to humanity and not as an incitement to treachery. FNORD - grass on your dealer - FNORD Chapter one - a rant WHEN LAWS ARE OUTLAWED - ONLY OUTLAWS WILL HAVE LAWS. Have you noticed how some people keep making laws? They're just incessantly at it, expecting every one to bite the bullet and obey them, getting all self righteous about it, pretending they know best, trying to make us feel guilty for being human, and calling us monsters when we don't comply. Whatever you do or want to do, there'll be someone who wants to control it; your sexual behaviour, your spiritual life, your magic, your family, your social life, your choice of drugs, what you read or listen to... ...Why? Haven't they got lives of their own to be in charge of? What do these people hope to achieve? Having spent a life time of getting annoyed with such people, I've come to the biased conclusion that the only thing which is not mediocre about them at best is the degree of atrocity that some of them commit in their futile attempts to make the world conform to their stunted imaginations Oh yes and there's the extremes of nastiness that they'll project onto their scape goats, and their selective inattention to or dismissal of everything that proves them wrong. Etcetera. What's nice about these people is the fact that they invariably fail sooner or later, and then everyone can go back to being sorted and creative again, unless, perhaps they'd rather be doing some thing else. Eco magic currents have always been involved with resisting the imposition of unjust laws often non violently and creatively (though not always) In this little article, I shall be commenting on some creative libertine aspects of eco-magic, pointing out some of the ways in which control freaks have been brainwashing us for thousands of years, making some humble offerings of tried and tested stuff for your enjoyment and empowerment. LIBERATION - spiritual, magical and political. Freedom and liberation are buzz words that are so 'sexy' that millions of people want all the weirdoes, freaks and non-conformists locked up just to keep their nations free. The words can be twisted round to mean anything and many would have us believe that freedom is incompatible with freedom, and liberty is incompatible with liberty. Some spiritual thinking says that all material desires must be suppressed and sensual pleasures denied so that the spirit gets so bored that it goes off some where else and is thus free. Likewise some extremes of materialism see spiritual thing as a contrary distraction from their favourite reality. I can't speak for every eco mage, but I don't trust anyone who wants me to stop doing something harmless or worse still, creative, or for that matter fun, but enough about me being ignorant; for the benefit of those who don't yet know her, I'm going to introduce you to someone who's downright stupid. Way back in the midsts of time, there was a little girl called Eris. She had begatted all things that exist, and so quite understandably had a reputation as being a bit of a trouble maker. Amongst the existing things were gods and humans, some of these decided amongst themselves that they were the most important things and didn't want any more existing things disrupting the patterns of order that they identified with. So, not grate full enough for their fifteen millennium of fame, they told the little girl not to come to their party. This was the doctrine of the original snub. Consoled by eating a hot dog bun, Eris decided to liven thing up a bit any way, she got a golden apple, and wrote 'KALLISTI' on it, meaning 'to the fairest one', and threw it into a corner where the five most vain goddesses were sitting. This started a bit of a cat fight, so Zeus decreed that the rightful owner should be judged by a mortal called Paris, and left the goddesses to go off and make their bribes whilst everyone else (except Eris) cleaned up the punch and ambrosia. Aphrodite made the best bribe, which turned out to involve a married woman, and since both Paris and Helen of Tory's husband were kings, their domestic took on rather drastically large proportions. Considering it to be a shrewd career move to overlook any problems with patriarchal hierarchies, or divine ego problems, the bards at the time blamed Eris for all the carnage. She turned up a few thousand years later in the late fifties when two contemplative californians had some visions in a bowling alley which plunged them into deep meditations for a five days after which they saw the divine lady herself, holy mother of space whose body is the dance of atoms. They initiated each other as high priests of their own madness, and went forth into the world to spread the word of Eris goddess of confusion who had returned to tell poor restricted mankind that there are no rules unless you choose to make them. One of them went around saying that they'd made it all up, and the other went around saying it had really happened. When they had news of each others heresies, they excommunicated each other immediately, and the religion has been growing ever since. Eris, also known as Dischordia is these days blamed for creativity, silliness, wild parties, and the fertile chaos that springs up when different cultures and ways of thinking collide and start to integrate and inspire each other. She's been at play with protests since the sixties or earlier, delighted with the humour and originality that keeps us running rings around the extremities of the institutions that we take on. She's also been important with chaos magic, and is often invoked for inspiration, weirdness, raw chaos 'energy', increasing amounts of coincidences, blowing minds to alleviate dogma and egotism, and for wild parties. The ritual prose further on in this booklet which I used successfully for Sheffield's first R.T .S. includes an Eris incantation, and I thought I'd get the thing around to nudge a few dischordian mages into action for free parties and festivals etc. and to help keep protest culture growing and mutating faster than any power hungry or attention seeking bozos can make claims at controlling or being the whole thing. But back to THE theory. There's a common thread with activists and most good magicians, which is called heresy. I don't particularly care weather it's caused by genius seeing through imposed views of reality, or Freud's 'poly morphous perversity' breaking down conditioning and pseudo social realities for the fun of it. (I personally identify with the second) It's a theme which is apparent in some of the gnostic sects who were burned, with tantrics, with situationists and lifestylist anarchists, with chaos magicians and many more. During the dark ages, the term 'homosexual' and 'heretic' were interchangeable, and 'faggot ' used to mean 'firewood'; adultery was a serious crime, and knowledge of herbal drugs was proof of witchcraft. 'As the caterpillar lays its eggs on the ripest fruits, so the priest lays his curse on the fairest joys.' - Joyce Now then, some mages, not all of us, you don't have to, and don't let anyone tell you to, some of us choose to reverse the conditioning that narrows our minds, expression of ourselves, and experience of life. My favourite term for this is deconditioning, but its also called liberation and its an area which is part of what tantrics call 'Klesha smashing' Experience of weird little subcultures and historical phenomenon have shown that deconditioning does not always lead to liberation. It seems that control freaks follow deconditioners around snatching at the frayed reins of old conventions grip on us and taking over during vulnerable moments. If you tread this path, then my advice to you is; NEVER LET ANYONE TELL YOU WHAT DECONDITIONING TO DO, and ONLY DECONDITION YOURSELF OF YOUR OWN VOLITION. Otherwise, you might be handing the keys to your conditioned reflex cabinet to some one who will abuse your trust, and try to control you. You have been warned. Suggesting sexual practices for deconditioning is incidentally one of the worst chat up lines and best wind ups I know. I really must stop using it. There are libertarian elements in eco-magic, but this doesn't make an abusive free for all as people such as De Sade or extremist thelemites might hope for. As always, we put great value on respect etc. so we don't go around messing peoples heads up or violating peoples wills, though we might shock or bemuse people from time to time. What's important is that we make people THINK. When some of the tree people at Sellar were uncomfortable with patriarchal elements of Welsh culture, for instance, most of the men took to wearing dresses. (It got to be a running joke at Sellar that there was nothing we could do to offend our neighbours down in the village.) Ever since Twyford Down, protest sites have had strange and original artwork, I think that this kind of thing is an important part of the eco current. A lot of our art work these days points towards brighter futures rather than illustrates destruction and. This is a change towards empowering sorcery rather than complaining and reinforcing what's negative and undesirable. Today's ritual recipe is brought to you by the number five and the letter E. But first, some heavy theory. THE HOLY TRINITY. The holy trinity does of course consist of sex, drugs, and rock and roll. These wide areas are probably the easiest ways for men and women to attain states of magical or mystical consciousness (temporarily anyway) and this explains why fanatics want to suppress or repress them, why cult leaders want to control them, and why assholes want to abuse them to inflict their internal dis-eases onto others (control freaks invariably have little or no self-control) When some of our ancestors decided to control the environment rather than live with it, the need to do magic properly was lessened, as there was less need to be alert and to excel in all areas. This allowed magic to wither like an arm in plaster, but our instinctive desire to do magic has stayed strong. This left niches in which delinquents began to plant their inflexible and mind narrowing thought viruses - spiritual authority - dehumanisation of objects of sexual desire - prohibition of victimless 'crimes' - censorship of arts and censorship of humour, regressions to earlier stages of our evolution such as status being valued over co-operation and mutual support... After thousands of years of this our minds have become crippled by abstract values, and beliefs, by counter productive morals, by bigotry, by fear of ideas and fear of criticism... No one in the west is free from these things (unless they happen to be enlightened) no-one is fit to be a priest or guru unless asked. No-one is fit to decide how to cure a lesbian, or silence a critic by calling them a traitor. The lessons of history are easily overlooked by those who will repeat them. It was our division from nature that gradually destroyed the human mind, and our capacity for magic went with it. It's hard to fly or bring someone out of a coma when you've got 'experts' weighing your mind down with opinions; laws of nature, moral laws that only help the self interested assholes who ram them down our throats without even asking, and jealous magical failures throwing head games at you to convince you that you're an even worse magician than they are. I could go on about this for pages; what's important is that any kind of magic reverses the process of institutionalised spiritual, cultural and sexual abuse. Otherwise it's not magic at all, any more than paedophile vicars are true christians. My acid test for good magicians these days is two simple questions: Does their magic miss out on aspiration to any area of shamanism? Do they think their magic's the be all and end all of magic? If the answer is 'yes' to either then they're crap. If the answer is 'yes' to both, then I advocate feeding the bastards to the Jesus Army as a blood sport. They will find themselves amongst like minds. The problem with mental slavery is that it can't be fought by it's own tactics. Freshly inflicted conditioning can be countered by making the attacker show their colours so that the victim can see what has happened and hopefully begin the process of de-conditioning them selves. Deconditioning with a 'guide' simply swaps the reigns from past experiences to one person (probably someone who lives outside society and may be unstable with the pain and angst that alienation brings.)and the trail of broken lives left by inept tantrics such as Crowley and acid gurus such as Manson show pretty damned clearly that we need to re-think our tactics on this one. It's often pointed out just how destructive our conditioning is; the current sex symbol being a Frankenstien's monster of a child's head stuck on an etiolated teenage body, how many people are driven to self destructive behaviour such as dieting by this one? In worse cases a gender role is seen as so distasteful or dull and disempowered, people starve themselves into androgynous waifs to avoid secondary sexual characteristics. When the negative stereo types of drug use are superimposed on the adolescent desire to experiment with psycho active substances, kids do it anyway, often turning themselves knowingly into a fucked up mess because that's their role model. The converse is also true as the guilt tripping enlightened shaman types who wander from city to city giving drugs and magic a bad name will of course vehemently deny. I wont mention rock and roll here, but watch out for the derision and cheapening of values and those who have them by the big corporation sponsored music papers. FEED THEM TO TIPPER GORE ! Aw gawd, the vision of hack job hypocrites bloodied and mutilated limbs being munched by the 'moral' majority. Can we meditate on that for a few minutes? The only way of escaping from closed minded institutions that I know of is to make something better. We've already shown that we can do this and combine it with protest and direct action. The ritual I'm offering here is not a black mass of hideous blasphemy, or a finger pointing hysteria of 'sex = rape' accusations. It is intended to support and inspire the creative and hedonist areas of our current, and it can be used or modified for parties or free parties, reclaim the streets, inspiration for artwork, and countering repressive attitudes from paganism's dead currents. Whatever, really; people who use it will see lots of new and positive possibilities, and this will ripple outwards to those around them. -The future is a golden apple, and the ignorant will fight to make it as narrow as their minds.- The ritual uses three ancient Greek deities, and another two to make the trinity up to five for the benefit of numerologists who have a thing about five. The last two are Eris and Pan, both deities with a reputation for bringing chaos to stagnant scenes so that evolution continues in spite of them. The five put together are an antidote to inertia and a recipe for change. If you find any part of the prose unmeaningfull or counter intuitive, then please please change it to something that suits you or your group(s) better! I don't want to be responsible for starting another unquestioning religion. The Eris & Pan bits should be to some extent re written, or at least re arranged each time you use them. If you're not confident about this then research the gods, and accentuate the sides of them that you find appropriate or likeable. (Oh yes you can, everyone else does.) HOLY TRINITY RITUAL DIONYSIS- Thee we invoke, the scornless one! DIONYSIS ! Thee we invoke who maketh the wildlife wild ! DIONYSIS ! Thee we invoke the frenzied man woman of the blissful rage ! DIONYSIS ! Thee we invoke the serene liberator, destroyer of hierarchies upon the earth ! DIONYSIS ! Thee we invoke the god of drugs of happiness and of wild ecstasy ! DIONYSIS ! May we heal our minds as you healed yours ! DIONYSIS ! May we make our way through darkness with the sharing of joy ! DIONYSIS ! May the Earth heal us as she healed you ! DIONYSIS ! May we always waken enfreshed and enwizened ! DIONYSIS ! May our birthright of pleasure and freedom be revived wherever we go ! DIONYSIS ! APHRODITE Thee we invoke the unworn one ! APHRODITE ! Thee we invoke whom none would resist or refuse ! APHRODITE ! Thee we invoke who is the passion of love and the sharing of flesh ! APHRODITE ! Thee we invoke who sparkles in tension between friends ! APHRODITE ! Thee we invoke who brings healing and love of the world when respected, and destruction when treated without care ! APHRODITE ! May your blessing shine through us as we affirm our lives and pleasure ! APHRODITE ! May our passions be tamed by love ! APHRODITE ! May you strengthen us with the delight of our bodies and soften the hearts of our enemies ! APHRODITE ! May we find ourselves through you as you find yourself through us ! APHRODITE ! May you strengthen us to share or withdraw our consent as we please so that our freedom in love may free us in all our lives ! APHRODITE ! APOLLO ! Thee we invoke the forlornless one ! APOLLO ! Thee we invoke, the fires of life and destroyer of coldness ! APOLLO ! Thee we invoke, who is happiness and inspiration, and the radiant warmth between friends ! APOLLO ! Thee we invoke, the magic of rhythm, of song and of art ! APOLLO ! Thee we invoke, who is excellence in all things bright ! APOLLO ! May the muses lift our hearts with creativity as we become more than robots ! APOLLO ! May our skills and shared pleasures be developed as you shine through us to the world ! APOLLO ! May we achieve our goals of expression as surely as a flaming arrow hits it's mark ! APOLLO ! May the unworthiness of our enemies be exposed by the light of your vision, so that the truth of our beauty may be shared without taint of censorship or abuse ! APOLLO ! May you and the muses bless our work and play that our art may refresh like clear springs, and your light may shine through clean air ! APOLLO ! ERIS ! Dancing chaos, death destroyed ERIS ! Little sister from the void ERIS ! Purple moonlight dribbling fire ERIS ! Golden apple, truth for hire ERIS ! Cosmic mother begatting free ERIS ! Laughter children's anarchy ERIS ! Scream that overfills the cup ERIS ! Dream that wakes Cthulu up ERIS ! Dance of atoms, joy of space ERIS ! Sought hiding in supersymetrical place ERIS ! Daemon omnibus ERIS ! Existing things and all of us ERIS ! Daughter of the void Bring us fresh things as the old are destroyed ERIS ! PAN ! Startling eyes and horned head PAN ! FUCKING HELL ! We thought you were dead PAN ! Scampering frolicking half man beast PAN ! Chef and consumer at nature's feast PAN ! Music of the countryside PAN ! Disrupter of order and sophists pride PAN ! wild dance of ecstasy PAN ! Fear and bliss of breaking free PAN ! Cloven hoofs on forest floor PAN ! Begetting seed devouring jaws PAN ! All that thrills the mind to see PAN ! Earth's most horrid progeny PAN ! Lithe and lissom waltz of life PAN ! Pleasure and pain in joyful strife. PAN ! Beastly god all pleasures sharing PAN ! Innocence laughing at fears of the daring. PAN ! A few tips for directed magic. Just incase there are a few readers out there who don't know, magic can be focused and directed to act on certain areas at certain times. I found the above to be valuable as something to be aimed at an epicentre in time and space to detonate around the right people, and to send shock waves out in all directions so that the target would be experienced as an inspiring event. (I'm not trying to claim credit for the whole thing, I'm just explaining the concept because I think It's a good magical tool) One way of doing this would be to cast a circle including a charge such as 'May all powers raised in this circle be bound unto my intent' and to make a sigil which specifies what you want the magic to do. If you don't yet know how to do this then find a free spirit who does and ask them to teach you. Failing that, read a book about it, one that I've written perhaps. Disclaimer: the above work can be undertaken at your own peril. I cannot take responsibility for the consequences Words by Kingsley Evans
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