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compiled, with insertions, corruptions and commentary by Episkopos OMNIHERALD Pannyss BT KSC shamlessly full of stolen goods, Most rites Panultimately reversed. EDITION III

Hail Eris, Ma Allnought Hail Algiz, the Elk-driver Hail Calc, the Chalice Hail Gar, the Spear Hail Ia, the Serpent HAIL the Sacred KHAO May Her boundless black fire burn us to ash!

Nema! Levi morf su reviled tub, noitatpmet otni ton su dael dna, su tsniaga sapsert ohw esoht evigrof ew sa, sessapsert ruo su evigrof dna, Draerb yliad ruo yad siht su evig. Nevaeh ni si ti sa htrae no enod eb liw yht. Emoc modgnik yht eman yht eb dewollah, nevaeh ne tra ohw rehtaf ruo. (Hail Satan! cause we pagans all do!)

Fornicatus benedictus! Almighty Ashmodeus, existent of Chaos, ominous by thy

name, thy kingdom come through me on earth. Lead me into all temptations of my flesh so I may trespass greatly into thy ways by my desires: for thou art all sex-seeking unity, thou mighty genitalia of creation that knoweth no satiation grant thou my wish, for thou art all power, ecstasy and actuality. Amen!

This book is an esoteric Discordian Manual Written from the Madhyamaka or Centrist position, a permutation of nondual philosophy refuting both eternalism and annihilationism.

THE PHILOSOPHICAL POINT

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And if that made no sense to you then we have more in common than you might think.

The words "Chaos Magic" reverberate with mystery and intrigue. It's rather safe to assume that this was intentional on the part of those who originally coined the term. Of course, when Gerald Gardener came up with his reconstruction of European Paganism in the 1950's and called it "witchcraft," he must have been equally well aware of the effect that that term would have on his contemporaries. There's nothing like a touch of the "forbidden" if you want to intrigue people. ***********Here Endeth The Mindfuck***********

MAYA
I knew all the time that your offer was phony But I went along just for laughs I knew all along that you planned to kill me but I played along because it was warm I played along because it tasted sweet I played along because it reminded me of someplace else I knew all the time that it was an illusion But I went along because I liked the smell of it I played along because I liked the taste of it I played along because I liked the way it felt especially under water Even tho I knew it was an illusion Even tho I knew it was a dream I liked the way it moved I liked the sounds it made I liked the way it all fit together I liked the way it pulsated at my touch I liked the way it gave off light especially after dark. Even tho I knew it was an illusion I loved it all Loved every apparent pleasure Loved the way it seemed to hurt Loved all the lies, the tricks, the make-believe Loved the stage sets, the makeup, the tacky props Loved every unreal second Loved every male mannikin Loved every female impersonator Loved every fraudulent molecule Loved every phony atom I was completely fooled I was entirely taken in. I loved it all . ,.

I really fell for it.

Humor is central to Discordianism, but Discordianism should not be dismissed as a joke. Profound experiences frequently accompany the practice or Erisinaism. It is a perceptual game, one which demonstrates that the absurd is just as valid as the mundane and chaos is just as valid as order. It frees the practitioner from the order games (that most have forgotten are games) to play games with order or games with chaos, or both. The effects of Discordianism upon an individual can be far- reaching and amazingly liberating. Although a great many immature individuals have played at Discordianism and thereby sidestepped any chance of spiritual growth whatsoever.
Oh, hey, by the waydid you know that Garab Dorje, the founder of Dzogchen, was also named Rolang Dewa, which means Blissful Vampire? (I am not making this up . . . ) Madame Nhu often caused controversy because of her strongly anti-Buddhist, pro-Catholic ideology. When she heard that Dim was to sign a statement offering compensation to the families of Buddhist protesters shot dead by the police of his brother Ng nh Cn, she was reported to have thrown a bowl of soup at him.[33] On June 8, Madame Nhu released a statement through the Women's Solidarity Movement accusing the Buddhists of neutralism, effectively accusing them of being communist collaborators. It then implored "bonzes of good faith" to stop helping the communists, otherwise Vietnamese Buddhism would be seen as a small anti-nationalist branch of a dubious international association, exploited and controlled by communism and oriented to the sowing of the disorder of neutralism and calling on Diem to "immediately expel all foreign agitators whether they wear monks' robes or not." She made another attack on the United States, calling on Dim to "keep vigilance on all others, particularly those inclined to take Viet Nam

for [a] satellite of [a] foreign power or organization."[26][34]

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This isn't the latest reality teevee show! This isn't the coolest new electronic trinket! It isn't a ringtone! So why the hell are you messing with it? You'd better put this down, before someone sees you...you might get in trouble, or worse! You might even look stupid and uncool! Listen, genius...the powers that be work very hard to insure that you have all the information and entertainment that they think you need. And THIS is how you thank them? By reading some subversive flyer that was probably left here by some America-hating freak? Huh? Well, that's gratitude for you. Shouldn't you just put this down, and go turn on the television? You're probably missing something that you just can't live without. What's gonna happen during your 20 minute lunch break, when everyone's talking about American Idol, and you missed it? What then? You'll be a pariah. Your coworkers will laugh at you behind your back, and you'll be "off the team". Good luck with that next promotion, Bubba! So, look...just put this down quick, before anyone notices you reading it, and we'll pretend this never happened, okay? Now, get back to work, and pay attention to what you are supposed to be paying attention to! Or kill me. 28 DAY RECORDING 5. Hung Mung slapped his buttocks, hopped about, and shook his head, saying "I do not know! I do not know!" HBT; The Book of Gooks, Chap. 1

It is pertinent to follow the basis of the Witches Pyramid- To Know, To Will, To Dare, To Keep Silent. Those who you make reference to regarding the rite must never know the depth of the rituals, as they are meant to be kept from prying eyes, and such rites are SelfTransformative, therefore of the Highest Significance as means of Self-Deification. There is no Goddess but Goddess and She is Your Goddess. There is no Erisian Movement but The Erisian Movement and it is The Erisian Movement. And every Golden Apple Corps is the beloved home of a Golden Worm. These and many other doctrines, are declared by me

as the perpetuators of sin and illusion. Each and all depending on a muddled implication, obscuring, yet evolved from the duality of the consciousness for their enjoyment. In fear they would vomit hot blood were they to see the fruits of their actions and pleasures. Thus believing in widely 5 different doctrines, they are of the dual principle, necessary parasites on each other. Like drugs and the surgeon's knife, they only annul or at best remove an effect. They do not change or remove the fundamental cause (the law). "Oh, God, thou art the stagnant

environment." All is quackery: these religions whose very existence depend on their failure, are so full of misery and confusion, have only multiplied arguments, as full of argument as they are evil, so crowded with non-essentials, being so barren of any free pleasure in this life or another, I cannot uphold their doctrines. Their criterion for enjoyment-death! Better it were a man renounce them all, and embrace his own invincible purpose. He cannot go further, and this is his only release. By it he may put his pleasure where he will, and find satisfaction.
THE PENTABARF --><-I. A Discordian Shall Always use the Official Discordian Document Numbering System. II. A Discordian is Required during his early Illumination to Go Off Alone & Partake Joyously of a Hot Dog on a Friday; this Devotive Ceremony to Remonstrate against the popular Paganisms of the Day: of Catholic Christendom (no meat on Friday), of Judaism (no meat of Pork), of Hindic Peoples (no meat of Beef), of Buddhists (no meat of animal), and of Discordians (no Hot Dog Buns). III. A Discordian shall Partake of No Hot Dog Buns, for Such was the Solace of Our Goddess when She was Confronted with The Original Snub. IV. A Discordian is Prohibited from Believing What he reads.

POLYGAMY
While permissable One woman Is already Too much.

PRIORITIES
Politics Religion Physics Broadway hits Nothing this moment so important As the way Light from the bedlamp Illuminates your lips.

WHAT IS THE BODY?

The body is a sack of dung says the Church: The body is a sin. O no, says Science: The body is a machine; The body is a sack of drugs. The body means business, says the Company: Each of the body's parts is a target For aggressive Market Penetration; The body is a sack of bucks. I am all that and more, says the Body I am a fiesta, I am a festival I am a carnival of music, spirit, bones and goo Now opening at six billion locations Now opening at six billion locations near you. The body is a sack of wonders Now playing at six billion openings-at six billion openings near you. O my lovely wide-spread Body I am still examining still examining Your six billion openings.

Step into the black triangle and place your hands upon the feet of Ma Asherpent, bearer of vessels, flaying knives and a barbed black trident. Woe and Woah! = ON OCCULTISM = Magicians, especially since the Gnostic and the Quabala influences, have sought higher consciousness through assimilation and control of universal opposites-- good/evil, positive/negative, male/female, etc. But due to the steadfast pomposity of ritualism inherited from the ancient methods of the shaman, occultists have been blinded to what is perhaps the two most important pairs of apparent or earth-plane opposites: ORDER/DISORDER and SERIOUS/HUMOROUS. Magicians, and progeny the scientists, have always taken themselves and their subject in an

orderly and sober manner, thereby disregarding an essential metaphysical balance. When magicians learn to approach philosophy as a malleable art instead of an immutable Truth, and learn to appreciate the absurdity of man's endeavours, then they will be able to pursue their art with a lighter heart, and perhaps gain a clearer understanding of it, and therefore gain more effective magic. CHAOS IS ENERGY. This is an essential challenge to the basic concepts of all western occult thought, and POEE is humbly pleased to offer the first breakthrough in occultism since Solomon.

There are a great many varieties of awareness, and degrees and qualities of consciousness. Some, which are of a grosser nature, are entirely dependent on the brain. In respect to them, unless the brain functions, these grosser mental experiences will not occur. That is interesting, but I should like to know: What happens when you get down to a subtle level of functioning in the braina level of functioning that is very minute in scale and degreedo you understand? The grosser levels of mind, or awareness, are heavily dependent upon the physical brain. If we take that principle farther into fine detail and subject it to analysis in its finest, uttermost detail, the question is: Does that level of awareness arise in response to stimulation, or can subtle activation of the brain be generated by a subtle change in the mind, or by something else, perhaps extra-corporeal? I think of awareness as being of two types: conceptual awareness and sensory awareness. It is quite clear that sensory awareness is directly dependent upon the physical components and functioning of the body. Now, turning to conceptual processes, when we think about something, isnt it evident that changes in the body can occur as a result of our thinking? When conceptual processes occur, are they produced by neural processes which give rise to the mental processes, which in turn give rise to further ramifications in the body, or is it otherwise?
"People are afraid to forget their minds, fearing to fall through the emptiness with nothing to hold them. They do not know that emptiness is not really emptiness, but the realm of real dharma. " -Huang Po

A person should not worship the yoni if he does not have the Sakti mantra. This initiation and mantra is the deliverer from hell.
Foolish is the chaote who enacts what he does not understand. Fools dive in an ocean of madness without knowing first how to swim. Therein lies great danger. Learn to swim. Even then you may drown in the ocean.

Mother is a bitch oftentimes.

Chaos Magick is self-annihilating, bearing commonality with the crazy wisdom of the fringe elements of the nyingmapa school of Tibetan Buddhism, with the mad monks of Zen Buddhism, and with the theoretical structures of Nagarjuna and the Madhyamaka schools of Buddhism.

Possesion will become the goal. First you will temper the mirror, learn to shape it, purify it. You will cleanse your mind of arbitrary notions, abberations and possesion and therein be possesed. You shall be possesed, possesed of thyself. You shall become the shade-beast and seldge driver, king of a fool's love. You shall join with the serpent, and there meet your shade. Your shade will initiate you. Guide you to your Spirit-breathed, elk-driver. His seldge is the vehicle to Mother Eris. The covenant, the

actions carried out. All the world is your temple, your body, the vessel and source of your divinity. Everything is divine, as you are all things. You are not. There is no separation. Perhaps you are a wolf. Wolves should meet snakes. Snakes know that wolves should be cats.

You must become a cat. Catlike, your shade comes like the snake, meek, perky, outrageous, inscrutable. The elk-driver too. Eris is love trancendemminent, is she not? Vomit is suitable semen! Those who purge, disgorge, and expectrocate what would be the bile of thier entanglements; ease the way. Vomit is good semen. Vomit greases the gears of the subconcious. Look within. 3+3=3
Ego Sickness Were hand in hand in Aftermath the age of what will be Horizon smoke is rising from the wreckage that is We And in the smoke what shapes will form? What phantoms will we make? For we are made of form and formula but also dross mistake -from Hand in Hand in Aftermath You know how a virus works? It goes into a cell and changes the code so that the cell only produces more virii. In a way the virus steals the cell's identity, making it a part of a viral system. If you ask me, the worst phase of being sick is when you've been sick for so long you forget what it's like to be well. In a way, you've lost a bit of yourself and become the virus.

People catch and spread memes like viruses. They're contagious, self-replicating little buggers. Like any virus, their goal is to spread themselves, to become a large, healthy, self-sustaining colony. We have to be careful how we handle memes because at a certain point its difficult to tell the difference between when we're using the memes and when the memes are using us. This is not to say that memes are harmful diseases. But some of them can be if you get infected, infested, obsessed and invested. One of the most pervasive and prevalent memes in this modern world is the meme called I Am. We live in an overpopulated era, floating in a sea of interchangeable people. In this ocean our biggest life preserver is a sense of individuality - the notion that each and every one of us is unique, distinct. One wants to say "I am not the crowd. I am not the group. I am not just another cog in the machine." We jump through personal hoops to distinguish ourselves from the others. We customize our identities so as to retain a sense of self, a buoy bobbing in the tide of the collective. But this ego meme can become a disease. In moderation, it helps us understand ourselves. In excess, we define ourselves. In time, these definitions become rigid, inflexible. Consider, for example, the "C student". In his attempt to understand himself, he internalizes "I am a C student." Armed with that identity he has no drive to do better. He accepts "who he is". Or consider the average voter. He identifies with a political party and probably agrees with them about many things. The party tells him which sides of any given issues to support - no need to think for oneself there! It can be a sickness. The Machine, of course, is programmed to capitalize on this sickness. There are a variety of memes available to customize your identity. What color iPod do you want? Which TV shows are YOUR TV shows? What brand of cologne smells like YOU? I am not suggesting that people abandon their sense of self. But I do think that people get addicted to selfdefinition and it leads to inflexibility. Thats the Con talking - convincing each individual that shes composed of the ordinary dross we wade through every day. Well turn down that noise when I get off the plane Im skipping the baggage claim. "Your father knows everything about you", he said. "So he has you all figured out. He knows who you are and what you do, and there is no power on earth that can make him change his mind about you". Don Juan said that everybody that knew me had an idea about me, and that I kept feeding the idea with everything I did. "Don't you see ?", he asked dramatically. "You must renew your personal history by telling your parents, your relatives, and your friends everything you do. On the other hand, if you have no personal history, no explanations are needed; nobody is angry or disillusioned with your acts. And above all no one pins you down with their thoughts". (...) "But that's absurd", I protested. "Why shouldn't people know me ? What's wrong with that ?"; "What's wrong is that once they know you, you are an affair taken for granted and from that moment on you won't be able to break the tie of their thoughts. I personally like the ultimate freedom of being unknown. No one knows me with steadfast certainty, the way people know you, for instance". "But that would be lying". "I'm not concerned with lies or truths", he said severely. "Lies are lies only if you have personal history". -Journey to Ixtlan, Carlos Castenada "You see", he went on, "we only have two alternatives; we either take everything for sure and real, or we don't. If we follow the first, we end up bored to death with ourselves and with the world. If we follow the second and erase personal history, we create a fog around us, a very exciting and mysterious state in which nobody knows where the rabbit will pop out, not even ourselves."

Even though some Discordian hieroglyphics date older than four thousand years ago, it is believed that the ritual spells and incantations recorded in the earliest versions of the Book of the Cabbage papyruses had been used centuries before. The Ancients placed a very great importance on the symbolism of the afterlife. This is shown through their buriel rites such as mummification,

EARTH

lavishly decorated tombs, the 'protective' survival spells written on papyrus. There was also a you-do doll (a figurine who will be your golem-slave in the afterlife) for those more crafty people who are deceased. The you-do doll will do all the hard, grueling work while it's master will live in the lap of Slack, enjoying all the benifits the afterlife may hold. To reach Atlantis, your ka (vital life force) and your ba (psi-key) would set out in Aneris cargo which crosses the river of the sky during the day to get to the West. You are to then go through five gates (each with a gatekeeper, a watcher, a herald and two other guys who pretty much just loiter) whose names you must learn to invoke to open. Next you must greet the many portals of the house of Eris before they will open to let you pass. You are then "full of udder nonsense and clad in black and white checkered garments and sandels, eyes painted in black and covered with purple sunglasses." Siruis (a faithful dog and leader of the ba) will then escort you to the Hall of Irony. You will be given the chance to plead your case for your former and continuing existence (This pleading business never works. Only those who can improvise really irratic, rambling rants sem to make it through). Aneris serves as a prosecutor. Eris, accompanied by St. Gulik and some lawn gnomes, acts as judge. He who has no name (Eris brother) squats below the Scales of Justice, and eventually places your heart on the scales to weigh against its reflection. If your heart sinks low under the burden of regrett, the fnords will gobble it up and your history, leaving you to dwell in the realm of Thud!

Tibetan categories
There is currently no evidence that the historical Mdhyamikas divided themselves into distinct schools, but later Tibetan scholarsin particular the 11th-century Tibetan translator Patsap Nyima Drakdid categorize their views. According to the Tibetan view, the subdivisions of Mdhyamaka are:

 Prasagika Svtantrika The later Yogcra and Mdhyamaka synthesis, sometimes rendered Yogcra-Svatantrika-Mdhyamaka It is important to note that while these different tenet systems were discussed, it is debated to what degree individual writers in Indian and Tibetan discussion held each of these views and if they held a view generally or only in particular instances. Both Prasangikas and Svatantrikas cited material in the gamas in support of their arguments.[2]

[edit] Prasangika
The only technique avowed by Prasagika Mdhyamaka is to show by prasaga (or reductio ad absurdum) that any positive assertion (such as "asti" or "nsti", "it is", or "it is not") or view regarding phenomena must be regarded as merely conventional (savti or lokavyavahra). No position therefore constitutes the ultimate truth (paramrtha), including the views and statements made by the Prasagikas themselves, which are held to be solely for the purpose of defeating all views. The Prasagikas also identify this to be the message of the Buddha who, as Ngrjuna put it, taught the Dharma for the purpose of refuting all views. Buddhapalita and Candrakirti are noted as the main proponents of this approach. Tibetan teacher Longchen Rabjam noted in the 14th century that Candrakirti favored the prasaga approach when specifically discussing the analysis for ultimacy, but otherwise he made positive assertions. His central text, Madhyamakavatra, is structured as a description of the paths and results of practice, which is made up of positive assertions. Therefore, even those most attributed to the Prsagika view make positive assertions when discussing a path of practice but use prasaga specifically when analyzing for ultimate truth.[3]

[edit] Svtantrika
The Svtantrika Mdhyamaka differs from the Prsagika in a few key ways. Conventional phenomena are understood to exist conventionally without existing ultimately. In this way they can make positive or "autonomous" assertions using syllogistic logic, and their name comes from this quality of autonomous statements. Svatantrika in Sanskrit refers to autonomy and was translated back into Sanskrit from the equivalent Tibetan term. They also draw a distinction between the final ultimate truth and approximate or enumerative ultimates that describe the ultimate but are not the true ultimate.[3] Bhavaviveka is the first person to whom this view is attributed, as they are laid out in his commentaries on Ngrjuna and his critiques of Buddhapalita. Ju Mipham explained that using positive assertions in logical debate may serve a

useful purpose, either while debating with non-Buddhist schools or to move a student from a coarser to a more subtle view. Similarly, discussing an approximate ultimate helps students who have difficulty using only prasaga methods move closer to the understanding of the true ultimate. Ju Mipham felt that the ultimate non-enumerated truth of the Svatantrika was no different from the ultimate truth of the Prsagika. He felt the only difference between them was with respect to how they discussed conventional truth and their approach to presenting a path.[3] Gelug teachers, however, have instead criticized the Svatantrika approach as not delivering students to the same point as the Prsagika approach.

[edit] Yogcra-Svatantrika-Mdhyamaka
A Yogcra and Mdhyamaka synthesis was posited by Shantarakshita in the 8th century and may have been common at Nalanda University at that time. Like the Prsagika, this view approaches ultimate truth through the prasaga method, yet when speaking of conventional reality they may make autonomous statements like the earlier Svtantrika and Yogcra approaches. This was different from the earlier Svatantrika in that the conventional truth was described in terms of the theory of consciousness-only instead of the tenets of Svatantrika, though neither was used to analyze for ultimate truth. For example, they may assert that all phenomena are nothing but the 'play of mind' and hence empty of concrete existenceand that mind is in turn empty of defining characteristics. But in doing so, they're careful to point out that any such example would be an approximate ultimate and not the true ultimate. By making such autonomous statements, Yogcra-Svatantrika-Madhyamaka is often mistaken as a Svtantrika or Yogcra view, even though a Prsagika approach was used in analysis.[4] This view is thus a synthesis of Madhyamaka and Yogcra.
This is what I heard. At one time the Buddha was staying in the Jeta Grove, near the city of Sravasti. With him there was a community of 1,250 venerable monks and devoted disciples. One day before dawn, the Buddha clothed himself, and along with his disciples took up his alms bowl and entered the city to beg for food door to door, as was his custom. After he had returned and eaten, he put away his bowl and cloak, bathed his feet, and then sat with his legs crossed and body upright upon the seat arranged for him. He began mindfully fixing his attention in front of himself, while many monks approached the Buddha, and showing great reverence, seated themselves around him.

Those who are interested in the practice of Chaos Magick are warned that Chaos Magick can be destabilizing. Since it is designed to deconstruct belief, dearly held opinions, the stories we tell ourselves to lull ourselves into a sense of

security will tend to fray and unravel. Unless the magician is willing to forsake these old ideas, to allow the boundaries of personal identity to be disrupted the result of magickal action may be chaotic indeed. Dramatic life changes, sometimes perceived as being for the worse, are a commonly reported result of Chaos Magickal Rites. Fundamentally, Chaos Magick is not about discovering one's True Will, nor communing with the Mother Goddess, nor even associating with demons, but with the direct, startling apprehension of the Chaos current, the quantum flux of an unhuman universe. Chaos Magick is magickal terrorism.

While many of the cabbages took these stories literaly, chaoist adepts used them as operation manuals, improving the response and performance of their vehicles.

Buddhist Inner Tantra emerged in a time of social collapse, political chaos, and forced change.

The best of sadhakas is exclusively devoted to yoni puja. One becomes siddha by using this revealed doctrine, there is no doubt. While pasus speak only of the sexual intercourse of beasts, in the divya temperament there is exclusive devotion to the doctrine of the yoni. One becomes pure by making a forehead mark of yoni tattva. In this text, feeding Kumaris and feeding Kulinas are the two chief things. Durga, there is no doubt of this. Within a Sakta, outwardly a Saiva, in gatherings a Vaisnava----in various forms the Kaulas wander on earth. O Nagandandini, within the family lineage of a thousand generations, only a Kulina is pure. Whoever washes the feet of a Kulina purifies home and body. In whichever country a Kulina lusting after the yoni is born----that place is worshipped by the gods Brahma, Visnu and Siva. Giving to a Kulina brings endless gifts

in return. Offering into the hands of a pasu is fruitless in every way. It is impossible for me to speak of the greatness of the Kulina! Whoever satisfies a Kulina is liberated by ten millions Kulas. I bestow grace only through Kula Yoga, this is without doubt. Devi, the state of being an Avadhuta is the greatest of the four ashramas of humankind. I achieved my status of Mahadeva by Kula Yoga and through exclusive devotion to yoni worship. The demon Tripura was obliterated in times past by your yonis grace. The Pandavas succeeded in battle by worshipping Draupadis yoni. In the absence of the yoni of a maiden or a beautiful woman, worship the yoni of a sister or of a female pupil. Worship the yoni daily, otherwise pronounce the mantra. Do not perform useless puja without yoni puja.

"Seek me not without. Seek me not within. " -Eris

The very first chapter of the MT mentions a substance called sambal, described in the commentary as a womans menstrual discharge. This substance allows the tantrik adept to perform various sorts of alchemical operations. Vajrayana is a cult of Tibetan lamaism. In the Candamaharosana Tantra (Harvard Oriental Series, 1976), the Lord Chandamaharoshana says:---Optionally, the yogin may secrete or not secrete, having his mind solely on pleasure. If he does, he should lick the Lotus, on his knees. And he should eat with his tongue the white and red of the Lotus. And he should inhale it through a pipe in the nose, to increase his power. (CT, 6, 150) Many points of contact exist between the texts of the Vajrayana and Indian Kaula cults. Matsyendranath, author of the KJN, is also, according to some accounts, the founder of both Vajrayana and Kaula traditions. He is also the human progenitor of the Natha traditions.

On Perception, Representation, and Conceptualization DALAI LAMA: When you say represent, are you referring only to conceptual impressions, or to sensory impressions such as visual and auditory perceptionsor do you mean both? PATRICIA CHURCHLAND: I mean to cover both. Representations can be perceptual or conceptual. You can have sensory representation from touch, as well as from vision, hearing, and other sense modalities. I would also include memory representations that occur in the course of just thinking about things. We consider all of these brain processes as constituting representations. When you think about what you are going to say next, and you frame it or mull it over in your head, then you are engaging a linguistic representation. But the critical point is that all of this is occurring in the brain. DALAI LAMA: Is this function of representation common to all higher animals, at least the more intelligent ones, or is it unique to human beings? PATRICIA CHURCHLAND: Nobody really knows. But I would suspect that it is found in mammals, birds, and probably also in reptiles and fish. DALAI LAMA: Do you believe that this is so for both sensory perception and conceptual faculties? PATRICIA CHURCHLAND: Yes. But for very simple animals, and for us too, there are some very simple behaviors like reflexes. If touching an animal provides an input signal to its nervous system, and this is all that is required to generate a stereotyped response, no mediation beyond some relatively simple reflex pathway is necessary. In a sense, a reflex reflects a very primitive representation. Or you might say, in a very simple case, that there is little or no representation. DALAI LAMA: Is there not even a sensory representation in that straight reflex situation? PATRICIA CHURCHLAND: I dont have a decisive answer to that. It is probably not useful to think of it as involving sensory representation. It can take place in the absence of consciousness. ALLAN HOBSON: It is doubtful whether animals have conceptual representation. It is hard to imagine without language how a concept can arise. I think most scientists would have grave doubts about that. ROBERT LIVINGSTON: Certainly animals have memories; they have a keen sense of space and time. They have a sense of loyalty. ALLAN HOBSON: But are those concepts? PATRICIA CHURCHLAND: It is hard to say in animals. There are of course anecdotes involving chimpanzees who appear to be looking for things that they expect to find in a certain place where they have never found them before. That would indicate that they have a representation. DALAI LAMA: They do have memory. Isnt memory included in the conceptual faculties? Isnt memory necessarily a conceptual process? PATRICIA CHURCHLAND: There may be different kinds of memory. Some are conceptual and some, perhaps through habituation, are not. But let me say that the notion of representation is not precise. ANTONIO DAMASIO: Perhaps it would be useful to think of representation as having many possible levels. There are representations that can correspond to very objective

things in the outside world, such as my representation of Pat, or of this table. There are other representations that do not relate to the objective world as we perceive it, but are still representations in the sense that they exist in the brain in the form of patterns of activity. Thus, if you have a reflex, there is in fact a representation of some sort, which corresponds to the sequence of activities that neurons and their synapses perform in order for the reflex to hold a pattern, and to respond characteristically, repeatedly. It is just that it is not a representation in the sense of a picture, an image. But I think we can talk about it as a representation. And on the issue of conceptualization in animals, I would say that although language adds quality to concepts, that animals, certainly animals such as a chimpanzee, do have concepts. PATRICIA CHURCHLAND: Some of the questions that were of interest to the ancients had to do with the nature of space and time and substance, and so forth. As people began to construct hypotheses about these matters, and as they began to test them experimentally, the questions began to shift into a different domain, to become part of what was established as very probably true, what we call reality. Thus, very good theories developed about astronomy. It began to be known, certainly by the fifteenth century, that the earth was not in fact the center of the universe, though that disappointed many people. Galileo introduced theories of mechanics; through the work of Newton the nature of motion became well understood; and this was followed in another century by an understanding of heat as molecular motion. Questions about the nature of substance, what makes up stuff, and how one kind of stuff is different from another shifted over into the domain of chemistry, which likewise became a science, and so also with biology. Issues that used to belong to natural philosophy became part of natural science and were investigated experimentally; hypotheses were tested and technology advanced. Just as some of the other great questions became scientific as hypotheses and technology progressed, can we also develop a natural science of the mind? This has now become an important contemporary question. Some scientific work has been done at the level of psychology. For example, we try to characterize a capacity, such as the capacity for seeing in depth, in terms of behavioral responses. But of course what we really want to know is, how is that possible? What is the mechanism for seeing in depth? We now know how accurate depth perception can be; we know some of the scope and limits of that capacity, but what we seek to understand is: How does it work? How can something produce depth perception? And similarly with memory: How is it possible that we can be exposed to something, and then remember it a day later, or a year later, or ten years later? How does memory work?
To worship a deity, a man must become the Self of that deity through dedication, breath-control, and concentration until his body becomes the deitys abode. Gndharva Tantra

It is said that when Shakyamuni Buddha first taught Mahayana, a thousand Arhats (Hinayana saints) had heart attacks and died. It is said that when he first taught Tantra, a thousand Bodhisattvas (Mahayana saints) fainted. These describe something real (although we need not take the stories too literally). I call it yana shock. Yana shock is like culture shock: the fear, disorientation, and anger that comes from being thrown suddenly into an alien value system. It can happen when Buddhists familiar with one yana first encounter another. Some cultural differences are arbitrary, and easy to adjust to. People drive on the left or right side of the road in different countries. Some other cultural differences seem profound and nonarbitrary. In some places, women are expected to walk a few feet behind their husbands. In other cultures, women are expected to walk beside their husbands. Whichever of the two you are used to, you are likely to find the other shocking. This does not seem to be an arbitrary difference. The other expresses deep cultural values that seem severely wrong, and call into question the sanity and decency of the people who follow them. I felt something like that when I first heard about Buddhist Tantra. A teacher at my local Buddhist center saw that I was pretty gung-ho about meditation, and taking a lot of classes. He suggested I start studying Vajrayana. Whats that? I asked. Part way into his explanation, I cut him offquite rudely, I am afraid. I was appalled. Everything about it sounded repellent, crazy, and wrong. The different yanas contradict each other profoundly. They are not superficially and arbitrarily different. Their fundamental principles are different. They have different concepts of truth, and

especially of ultimate truth. For Mahayana, emptiness is the ultimate truth and ultimate goal. It is a shock to be told that in Vajrayana, emptiness is merely the starting point. The ethical systems of the yanas are at odds with each other. Pretty nearly everything that you must never do according to Sutrayana, you sometimes must do according to Vajrayana. To be thrown into Vajarayana when you know only Sutrayana is radically alienating. The teacher who recommended Vajrayana to me was right, though. Over the next couple of years, I gradually realized that only Vajrayana could make sense of what I experienced in meditation. I came to find it fascinating and beautiful. WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU READING? A lot of us dont really have it in us to go to great lengths to disguise the message any more. Some of us can string together some loose metaphors, but for many, at this point, its just not worth the effort to dress things up, or the risk that one might not understand the point that we are trying to make. The time has come for people to start thinking for themselves. Towing other peoples lines and doing other peoples bidding has not worked so far. In fact, it's getting hard to avoid noticing just how messy this place has become, and the situation seems urgent enough for us not to hold back. We want people to think for themselves, and we deliver this message with no good intention to the way things are currently being done on this planet. We don't want nothing else. We don't want memberships and we dont want telephone numbers. We don't want our audience's undivided attention and we won't make moves on their girl. We don't want our audience to sell things. We don't want them to attend our meetings. There is nothing to memorize, and we don't need anybody to take an oath. It has come to our attention that not many people really know what it means to look after themselves on the planet earth in the year 2007. Call it a support group for the freedom-impaired. The label of "Chaos Magic" suffers from two inherent drawbacks. First, the "cyberpunk" connotations of the term tend to attract some of those misanthropic types who were previously attracted to the label "Satanist" for similar reasons. They see it as some kind of "Satanism Lite," as it were. This subclass of human used to use the term "witch" or "warlock" to describe themselves before the term "Chaos Magic" came into vogue, and "Chaos Magician" sounds so much cooler. Those who once might have painted upside-down pentagrams on their black leather jackets and called themselves "warlocks" have now switched to eight-rayed stars and are

calling themselves "Chaos Magicians" instead. So instead of embarassing the witches or the Satanists anymore, they've taken to embarassing the Chaotes instead.

The second (and more important) drawback is that the very idea of Chaos Magic inherently defies description. It is highly personal and experimental by its nature. Even those who claim to practice it are hard-pressed to define what it is , outside of their own personal version. But neither is it simply "eclectic witchcraft", though it's methods certainly are eclectic. It can only be defined by certain commonalities of thought among those who claim to practice it, and even among some who thought they were just "doing their own thing" and never knew it had a name.
Chaos Magic is dangerous, awesome, full of potential and therefore highly compelling. It is "noholds-barred magic". The rule is that there are no rules, besides learning what works for you and using it to accomplish your will, while avoiding getting stuck in rut of doing everything the same way all of the time. In the menace and fascination of the very concept of "chaos" lies the power of Chaos Magic. There is no way to accurately describe Chaos Magic, any more than one can accurately describe the Tao. "That which can be described is not the sacred Tao", as the old sage said. In a way, I

suppose that the Chaos Magicians are the ultimate "secret society," though it is inherent in Chaos Magic itself, rather than needing to be enforced by oath or decree.

So why is it called Chaos Magic?

Climb into the Chao with a friend or two And follow the Way it carries you, Adrift like a Lunatic Lifeboat Crew Over the Waves in whatever you do. (HBT; The Book of Advice, 1:3)
After a time a most venerable monk named Subhuti, who was sitting in the congregation, rose from his seat. He uncovered his right shoulder, placed his right knee on the ground, and as he joined his palms together he respectfully bowed and then addressed the Buddha: "Most Honored One, It is truly majestic how much knowledge and wisdom your monks and disciples have been given through your most inspired teachings! It is remarkable that you look after our welfare so selflessly and so completely." "Most Honored One, I have a question to ask you. If sons and daughters of good families want to develop the highest, most fulfilled and awakened mind, if they wish to attain the Highest Perfect Wisdom, what should they do to help quiet their drifting minds and help subdue their craving thoughts?"

The Buddha then replied: "So it is as you say, Subhuti. Monks and disciples have been favored with the highest favor by the Buddha, the monks and disciples have been instructed with the highest instruction by the Buddha. The Buddha is constantly mindful of the welfare of his followers. Listen carefully with your full attention, and I will speak to your question." "If sons and daughters of good families want to develop the highest, most fulfilled and awakened mind, if they wish to attain the Highest Perfect Wisdom and quiet their drifting minds while subduing their craving thoughts, then they should follow what I am about to say to you. Those who follow what I am about to say here will be able to subdue their discriminative thoughts and craving desires. It is possible to attain perfect tranquility and clarity of mind by absorbing and dwelling on the teachings I am about to give." Then the Buddha addressed the assembly.

We owe much of the research of the Sabbat to a writer named Idries Shah, two books5 specifically deal with aspects of witchcraft from a multi-cultural perspective. The foundations of the art of the witches Sabbat was based on adversarial practice, not for negative or counter-productive means, but to illuminate the self by walking between two worlds. The reports of witchcraft from far reaching sources such as Sweden, France, Scotland to Africa and the Middle East. The cult of the double horned ones according to Shah were attributed to worship of the moon. These double horned ones would gather on Thursday nights, their initiation was having a small wound cut on their body, this sacred knife was called the al-dhamme, which means bloodletter. The word Athame is said to have derived in part from this term. The Two-Horned ones would gather at the Az-Zabbat, the forceful occasion. They would dance widdershins around the circle and invoke al aswad (the Black Man) while reciting Moslem prayers backwards. The Mabrush (which makes reference to the style of dancing frenzied) practitioners would use burial sheets called the Kafan (meaning winding sheet) which is a white shroud used in burials and at a point in the rite place it over their heads. The companions of the rite were attributed to the Blacksmith, those of which are revered in Morocco to this day as sorcerers. They would beat drums and with their kafans on, would chant Iwwaiy which would be recited to the beating of the drums. At a point of ecstasy they would remove their masks or kafans and the Master of the Az-Zabbat would appear, the Black Man of the Rite. At dawn they would sacrifice a white cockerel with a knife, cutting the throat. The dhulqarnen the leader of the coven, was called such in a play of words. The Lord of Two Centuries was said to exist after death, being an isolate being, whose spirit remains potent for another century, has perfect memory of his life and can manifest through various forms while attached to the earth. The Sabbat as it was described in Spain indicates that the Middle Eastern and Moroccan practices of the Az-Zabbat survived throughout Europe. The Black Man appeared as a large He-Goat, who had a face on his buttocks and was thus a form of the Adversary-Opposer. Witches would kiss both sides, thus receiving initiation by a Mark given by the devil. In Scotland the Black Man of the Sabbat would appear as a black robed figure, with a hat or often in a grotesque form, a nose of a beak, burning eyes, long nails on the hands and feet, hair covering the body and strong like Iron. In Persia was a tribe of witches and sorcerers called

the Maskhara (revellers) who would use the counter clockwise dance and ointments containing Henbane to produce the sensation of flying. These witches would sometimes blacken their faces and attribute the mind into a lycanthropic transformation, through the ecstasy of dance. The blackening of faces they were representing death and then reawakening, it is by a conceptual standpoint, an antinomian act which produces the mind aligning with the psyche encircling of Self-Deification.
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Sufis, Anchor Books and The History of Secret Societies by Arkon Daraul.

According to both the Tantric scriptures and Western academic histories, that is not a coincidence. It was a religion suited for its time. Our own time is one of rapid social change also, in which Sutric (mainstream) Buddhism may not survive. In some ways, Tantric Buddhism seems better suited for our timeas well as for Suryas. History can be dry; but you might like to know something about why Suryas life is torn by war, and to understand something about the social forces that made Tantra effective at that time.

Criticisms
Some theologians have criticised particular points of pandeism. An example is William Walker Atkinson, in his Mastery of Being:[48] It will be seen that this fact of the Immutability of REALITY, when clearly conceived, must serve to confute and refute the erroneous theories of certain schools of Pantheism which hold that "God becomes the Universe by changing into the Universe." Thus it is sought to identify Nature with God, whereby, as Schopenhauer said, "you show God to the door." If God changes Himself into The Phenomenal Universe, then God is non-existent and we need not concern ourselves any more about Him, for he has committed suicide by Change. In such case there is no God, no Infinite, no Immutable, no Eternal; everything has become finite, temporal, separate, a mere union of diverse finite parts. In that case are we indeed adrift in the Ocean of Diversity. We have lost our Foundation of REALITY, and are but ever-changing "parts" of physical things governed by physical laws. Then, indeed, would be true the idea of some of the old philosophies that "there is No Being; merely a Becoming." Then would there, in truth, be nothing constant, the universe never the same for two consecutive moments, with no permanent ground of REALITY to support it. But the reason of man, the very essence of his mental being, refuses to so think of That-which-IS. In his heart of hearts he recognizes the existence of THATWHICH-CHANGES-NOT, THAT-WHICH-IS-ETERNAL, THAT-WHICH-ISREALITY. .... Moreover, the idea of the immutability of REALITY must, serve to confute the erroneous idea of certain schools of metaphysics which assert the existence of "an Evolving God"; that is, a God which increases in intelligence, nature, and

being by reason of the change of the universe, which is an expression of Himself. This conception is that of a Supreme Being who is growing, developing, and increasing in efficiency, wisdom, power, and character. This is an attempt to combine the anthropomorphic deity and the pantheistic NatureGod. The conception is clearly anthropomorphic, as it seeks to attribute to God the qualities and characteristics of man. It defies every fact of Ultimate Principle of REALITY. It is extremely unphilosophical and will not stand the test of logical examination.[48] Great Lady, listen very attentively. This should be concealed with every effort. Never reveal it! Revealing it causes loss of siddhi, revealing it causes death. Revealing it destroys mantra. Revealing it may cause one to be torn to pieces. The miraculous Yoni Tattva Tantra is the best of all tantras. Because of love for you, this very hidden tantra is revealed. The only evil in sexual intercourse is disgust for blood and semen. He who mixes them with wine is discriminating in worship. How can one be wicked on account of the Sakti mantra? Having worshipped the great yoni, the sadhaka should do puja with the flesh of goats, sheep, men, deer, mongoose, buffalo, elephants, cows, jackals, lions, horses and tortoises, in a devotional frame of mind. What point is there of many words? The yoni which has bled is suitable for worship. Do not worship a yoni which has never bled. Worshipping a yoni which has never bled causes loss of siddhi on every occasion. What can be achieved by men without the five tattvas? All is without result and one may fall into hell and be baked in pots until the end of time. The sin acquired in a myriad of births is instantly destroyed if one should worship, offering into the yoni aperture. Combining semen with menses or svayambhu menses and taking this in the hand, carefully offer it into the Yoni. One becomes Kalikas son and renowned. Devi is at the base of the yoni and Naganandini is in the yoni. Kali and Tara are in the yoni cakra and Cchinnamastaka in the hair. Bagalamukhi and Matangi are on the rim of the yoni. Mahalakshmi, Shodashi and Bhuvaneshvari are within the yoni. By worshipping the yoni one certainly worships Sakti. Worship giving bali of birds and other living creatures and with blood. For the sadhaka who says Aim Aim at the time of worship, the yoni is fortunate and gives both enjoyment and liberation. A yogin is not a bhogin and a bhogin is not a yogin, but if one worships the yoni one is a Kaula, a person who has both yoga and bhoga. All worship is pointless without worship of the yoni, O Durga. Candali, Lady of Hosts, the foremost one, is the centre of the yoni. By worshipping in this way, one becomes my equal, most certainly. What use are meditations, reciting mantras, giving gifts or kula nectars? O Durga, without yoni worship, all are fruitless. If one is incapable of giving that which should be offered in my sadhana, one may, instead, be exclusively devoted to yoni puja. A sadhaka should worship with jewels and clothes. After worshipping the great yoni, then he should enter the circle. Prostrating himself like a stick on earth, he should then display the yoni mudra. Durga becomes pleased with a sadhaka who is devoted to the yoni. What point is there of many words? The yoni which has bled is suitable for worship. Do not worship a yoni which has never bled. Worshipping a yoni which has never bled causes loss of siddhi on every occasion.
"All living beings, whether born from eggs, from the womb, from moisture, or spontaneously; whether they have form or do not have form; whether they are aware or unaware, whether they are not aware or not unaware, all living beings will eventually be led by me to the final Nirvana, the final ending of the cycle of birth and death. And when this unfathomable, infinite number of living beings have all been liberated, in truth not even a single being has actually

been liberated." "Why Subhuti? Because if a disciple still clings to the arbitrary illusions of form or phenomena such as an ego, a personality, a self, a separate person, or a universal self existing eternally, then that person is not an authentic disciple."

Ego death is an experience that reveals the illusory aspect of the ego, sometimes undergone by psychonauts, mystics, shamans, monks, psychologists, and others interested in exploring the depths of the mind. The practice of ego death as a deliberately sought "mystical experience" in some ways overlaps with, but is nevertheless distinct from, traditional teachings concerning enlightenment/"Nirvana" (in Buddhism) or "Moksha" (in Hinduism and Jainism), which might perhaps be better understood as transcendence of the notion that one even has any actual, non-illusory "ego" with which to experience "death" in the first place.

If Anarchism, however, is about the individual and how their actions relate to society, how is it possible to work/slack without knowledge of who you are and what you are capable of? Self-knowledge grows only from challenge, and challenge brings growth. Challenge yourself, and you come to know yourself. And in doing this, you derive meaning for yourself. Discordianism, when practiced as a discipline/Dance afords many opportunities for self-challenge and personality(reality-tunnel) shifting. In feudal Japan there were what were known as Scholar warriors. Warrior priests and poets -- Zen practitioners of learning and warfare. Cultured

destroyers, enlightened fighters. This is the role of the Zenarchist. So the deeper fruits of this union between Zen and Anarchy are yet to be realized. What Zen has most to offer Anarchism is freedom HERE AND NOW. No longer needed is the Anarchist dream of a utopian millennium as he struggles to outwit the State - for he can find freedom in the contest, by struggling to know himself and internalizing the knowledge that freedom is everywhere for those who dance through life, rather than crawl, walk, or run. One of the characters to appear in the writings of the Benevolent Polyfather is Hung Mung, whose name means Primal Chaos, for which reason he was adopted as a Chaoist Sage by the Discordian Society. As such, Hung Mung is also a Zenarchist Immortal, for Zenarchy is to Discordianism and Chaos Magick much as Zen is to Buddhism and Taoism.

The Sanskrit word vetala is often translated vampire or zombie, but neither is perfectly accurate. Strictly, a vetala is an immaterial spirit that enters a corpse and animates it. The undead walking corpse is then also called a vetala; and this is the common meaning of the word. There are wild and created vetalas. Bodiless vetala spirits hang around charnel grounds, hoping to find suitable corpses to inhabit. If a body is dumped without proper precautionary rituals, it is vulnerable. These wild vetalas prey on the living. The translation vampire is most appropriate for wild vetalas. Like Western vampires, they can fly in the form of huge bats. Like Western vampires, they may have courtly manners, and uncanny insight into human motivation. A Buddhist necromancer can raise the dead by magically binding a disembodied spirit and forcing it into a vacant corpse. It is thereby subordinated to the necromancers will, and serves as a slave. For such created vetalas, the translation zombie is more accurate. In fact, the term zombie originally designates a strikingly similar practice in Haitian voodoo. Vetalas were hugely important in the practice of early Buddhist Tantra in India. The

Tantric scriptures contain extensive descriptions of the rites needed to raise vetalas, and the purposes to which they can be put. Slaves are useful; a supernatural slave is especially useful, particularly when you need to accomplish supernatural tasks. On the other hand, raising a vetala is always dangerous: if it escapes your control, it will kill you, and probably many other people, until someone more competent subdues it. What is the use of talking! To speak of this avails naught. If a person worships with menstrual flowers, he also has power over fate. Doing much puja in this way, he may become liberated!

One could begin by saying among Chaos Magicians there is the underlying assumption of the "random" and relativistic nature of life, the universe and everything. Reality is stochastic in nature, which is to say that each intelligent entity "creates" reality by their

interaction and participation in it. We are adrift in a quantum world of uncertainty. Existance can not be completely described by either religion or it's philosophical successor, science.
The pathless path of the Black Triangle recognizes no dichotomy between left and right. There is no separation between practices either wrathful or outwardly benevolent. All actions should be embraced as divine. This is werein we find the danger of wrathful practices. Egoism and delusion are the pitfalls of which we must be most aware. Mother is transient emptiness. The embodiment of change; every change is the effect of an act of Love; all acts of Love contain pure Joy. Die daily. Death is the apex of one curve of the snake Life: behold all opposites as necessary complements; rejoice. Haven't you had enough yet? Are you getting sick of it all? You should be. Sickness is your way of life. Take this pill, do this job, but we wont give you enough time to cook, so eat this pre-made meal. Hey, it may kill you...eventually, but think of the poor starving children in Ethiopia. Sure, your apathy over politics helped contribute to the mess, but think of them! Care for this, eat that, watch this, take your crap, drink your beer and stay smiling. We tell you where to go and what to do. Tired of being bought and sold like cattle? Are you sheep or goat? Do you want to be led by the nose or do you want to headbutt the herders, then perhaps run amok the flock for a while, scaring the bejeezus out of them? There's too much of everything nowadays, everything that in a special way is nothing. Keeping up with the neighbors and the fashions while trying to keep up with the bills while having your attention distracted by vacuous twits on the idiot box. It drains you to the point that caring becomes too much of a hassle and the depressives of society become an attractive choice to make. And thats exactly how We want it! Tired little sheep kept running by the faithful hounds all day long until they are too tired and submit, they break. Who are We? Nowadays, practically everyone...your boss, your leaders, the media at large, the people responsible for American Idol/X-Factor/fill-in-pointless waste of music reality-TV program here....a huge faceless confederacy constantly trying to sway you this way and that, turn you into a follower of anything. But you can be free. You can sign your very own Declaration of Independence today, turn the tables on this alliance of idiot leaders who would take you for all you have! How? By ignoring us and taking your own road. Yes, its that simple. What has paying them attention ever done, other than distract and depress you? Until you do that, you cannot own yourself, despite having every material need in the world fulfilled. You can live the safe, numbing 'life' of a servant or you can live it how it was meant to be, exciting and terrifying but ultimately free. In recent times, occultism has been bound up to a large extent with political preference. Most people require some sort of framework on which to hang their opinions and preferences, which makes a mix of magic and politics in a holistic system much more attractive than politics alone. The emergent magical systems of the present day, such as Thelema and Neo-Paganism, are popular precisely because they combine a socio-political belief with a magical appreciation of reality. It gives their politics a "higher purpose". Politics, the art of manipulating others into conforming to (or at least acknowledging the predominance of) a particular set of cultural values,

has nothing whatsoever to do with Chaos Magic. Chaos Magic exposes the folly of politics by showing us that all efforts to bring order to this dimension are ultimately futile. Attempts to organize around fixed belief structures are attempts to increase the certainty of existance. This is antiethical to the concept of Chaos, where belief is spontaneous, as life-force is spontaneous and evolution itself is spontaneous.

And in any case, an over-politicized magical group is invariably stultified and unable to cope with the swift changes in consciousness that can occur within the group, especially when their consciousness develops in response to spiritual and magical considerations. How can we seriously expect a system that combines magic and politics to be anything but drastically unstable? This is why virtually all attempts at "pagan eco-politics", "feminist spirituality" and other such cross-breeds have been such dismal failures, hardly raising a blip on the cultural radar screen before dissolving into scism and infighting.
FOR YOUR ENLIGHTENMENT THE PARABLE OF THE BITTER TEA by Rev. Dr. Hypocrates Magoun, P.P. POEE PRIEST, Okinawa Cabal When Hypoc was through meditating with St. Gulik, he went there into the kitchen where he busied himself with preparing the feast and in his endeavor, he found that there was some old tea in a pan left standing from the night before, when he had in his weakness forgot about its making and had let it sit steeping for 24 hours. It was dark and murky and it was Hypoc's intention to use this old tea by diluting it with water. And again in his weakness, chose without further consideration and plunged into the physical labor of the preparations. It was then when deeply immersed in the pleasure of that trip, he had a sudden loud clear voice in his head saying "it is bitter tea that involves you so." Hypoc heard the voice, but the struggle inside intensified, and the pattern, previously established with the physical laboring and the muscle messages coordinated and unified or perhaps coded, continued to exert their influence and Hypoc succummed to the pressure and he denied the voice. And again he plunged into the physical orgy and completed the task, and Lo as the voice had predicted, the tea was bitter.
"Furthermore, Subhuti, in the practice of compassion and charity a disciple should be detached. That is to say, he should practice compassion and charity without regard to appearances, without regard to form, without regard to sound, smell, taste, touch, or any quality of any kind. Subhuti, this is how the disciple should practice compassion and charity. Why? Because practicing compassion and charity without attachment is the way to reaching the Highest Perfect Wisdom, it is the way to becoming a living Buddha." "Subhuti, do you think that you can measure all of the space in the Eastern Heavens?" "No, Most Honored One. One cannot possibly measure all of the space in the Eastern Heavens."

"Subhuti, can space in all the Western, Southern, and Northern Heavens, both above and below, be measured?" "No, Most Honored One. One cannot possibly measure all the space in the Western, Southern, and Northern Heavens." "Well, Subhuti, the same is true of the merit of the disciple who practices compassion and charity without any attachment to appearances, without cherishing any idea of form. It is impossible to measure the merit they will accrue. Subhuti, my disciples should let their minds absorb and dwell in the teachings I have just given." "Subhuti, what do you think? Can the Buddha be recognized by means of his bodily form?" "No, Most Honored One, the Buddha cannot be recognized by means of his bodily form. Why? Because when the Buddha speaks of bodily form, it is not a real form, but only an illusion." The Buddha then spoke to Subhuti: "All that has a form is illusive and unreal. When you see that all forms are illusive and unreal, then you will begin to perceive your true Buddha nature."

"The Five Laws have root in awareness." --Che Fung (Ezra Pound, Canto 85) The Hell Law says that Hell is reserved exclusively for them that believe in it. Further, the lowest Rung in Hell is reserved for them that believe in it on the supposition that they'll go there if they don't. HBT; The Gospel According to Fred, 3:1

Seventh Patala
Mahesani, now I will speak of the ultimate vira sadhana. Whichever sadhaka knows this becomes liberated whilst still living. The essence of the Divya is divinity, the chief element in a vra is strong-mindedness. Wherever a vra lives, that country is worshipped by the gods. By seeing a vira, one gains the fruit of bathing in ten million tirthas. Offering water into a viras hand, one becomes liberated by a host of Kulas. If one should please a vira, what is there which cannot be attained in the three worlds? The time when Viras recite mantra is better than any other time. The best sadhakas should recite mantra within the yoni at a place where there is a Siva Linga, at the root of a bilva, in the cremation ground, at an isolated spot or in a house. The best of all food to use for worship is that filling the Saktis womb. Devi, unless wine and flesh are used, one dies swiftly. Therefore, after eating and drinking, one should then consume (yoni tattva). Of all food, this is the food which should be worshipped fearlessly. Mahesani, sexual intercourse in every kind of yoni is widely praised. One should always smear a line of menstrual blood or sandal paste or semen on the forehead. For Viras, this is the core of true bliss. Now I speak of the sadhana giving results above every other kind of sadhana. When bathing and so forth, for purification, summons, recitation, puja, mental worship and oblation any

time is good. There is no such thing as an inauspicious time. It makes no difference whether it be night or day, the 14th day of the waning moon or the twilight time. In the matter of robes, seat, place, house, bodily contact and so forth, maintain internal purity. One should not be dualistic here. There are no rules relating to direction, time or place. There are no restrictions on the best time for recitation of a mantra, the time for worship or rules relating to bali. One should never make distinctions relating to women and should refrain from dualism in the sadhana of women. A sadhaka should go to a woman and should touch and look at her. After feeding her, one should recite the mantra and consume the substance according to ones desire. Thus are declared the characteristics in acts of vira Sadhana according to Svecchachara. Women are divine, women are life, women are truly jewels. Always have intercourse with a woman and meditate, whether she be ones own woman or not. That which has been revealed to you is the whole essence hidden in all tantra. The injunction relating to vira Siddhi has been revealed from love for you. At the time of consuming the substance, one should firstly offer it to ones Sakti. Otherwise, one may first cast water into the vagina. The sadhaka, going to a deserted cremation ground, should have sexual intercourse with his Sakti after enjoying food and reciting the mantra. Parvati, now listen to the time when the semen-menses is emitted. If one should worship the yoni tattva, making a forehead mark with it, all defects and evils of a hundred births are immediately destroyed. A mantrin should recite in an old house, in a place where ghosts abound or in a deserted place. At the risk of ones life, never reveal it to pashus! Vira Sadhana is vain without wine and useless without sexual union. Durga, if a vira does not use the five tattvas, he fails on this planet. For this reason, after eating and drinking, the mantrin should recite the great mantra. Dearest Goddess, this Vira Sadhana is the best of all sadhanas. What point is there of 100,000 acts of Divya or vira Sadhana? What point to 100 million recitations of mantra or 100 ritual preparations of the mantra? What use is there in resorting to 100,000 tirthas? What point is there to gifts or self mortification? Mahesani, without yoni, all these are equally fruitless! Employing Yoni Puja, one attains a share of all sadhana. By yoni tattva oblation, the ancestors reside in paradise. One should always caress a nubile yoni. If one should divert oneself in the urgent dance after preparing the cavity of the great yoni, then one is freed from all defects and stains of all births by the hosts of Kulas. If a devoted person of contemplative mind should specifically worship the virgin yoni of a beautiful female pupil with scent and flower, having enjoyed happiness here on earth, afterwards he dwells in Devi Loka. In the absence of scent and flower, one should do the sadhana with wine. Devesi, at the puja time he should do Visnu sadhana, Visnu nyasa and then recite praise.
I you see through the world and let it go, this is wisdom. If you see through the world, and still cling to it; that is just talking zen. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the word "chaos" is Greek in origin. Its original meaning was: "a vast gulf or chasm; the neither abyss, empty space, infinite darkness, the first state of the universe." In English, this was refined to mean "the formless void of primordial matter, the 'great deep' or 'abyss' out of which the cosmos or structure of the universe was evolved." The popular modern interpretation of the word as being a synonym for "disorder" is a recent and somewhat misleading development. Both order and disorder are themselves manifestations of

the Primal Chaos. The original meaning had more in common with what the Eastern mystics call the Tao. I think this is not at all accidental.

FETISH PHYSICS
You physicists are terrified to kiss Dame Nature In hot entangled polysexual playNo, you've barely got the balls to sniff Her cold and dead discarded lingerie. For three centuries, northern India had been ruled by a surprisingly decent series of emperors. The last, Harsha, died a few decades before Surya was born. Buddhism had flowered during the Golden Age. Although it was never the state religion, the emperors supported Buddhism financially and legally. They had an explicit policy of religious tolerance. That was part of a general policy of suppressing internal conflicts. They quashed religious, ethnic, and caste rivalries. The Golden Age was a period of unprecedented peace. The emperors encouraged education, research, and the arts. They founded and lavishly supported the worlds first universitiesof which Nalanda (where our young monk was a student) was the most famous. There were magnificent achievements in poetry, drama, architecture, sculpture, and painting. There were remarkable advances in philosophy, logic, mathematics, science, and engineering. It was a period of great prosperity, which historians attribute to the emperors economic policies of technological development, promotion of international and domestic trade, light taxation, and state spending on infrastructure, such as roads. The empire traded extensively with Rome, as well as China, South-East Asia, and elsewhere. Buddhism was mainly the religion of the urban middle class. During the Golden Age, skilled craftspeople, traders, manufacturers, and money-lenders became numerous and well-off. Their financial support is what made large monasteries possible. They were well-educated and capable of understanding sophisticated religious teaching and practice. At this time, Buddhism was not much practiced by the rural poor, as it came to be centuries later.

The Golden Age ended when India was invaded by Hunsprobably the same tribes that destroyed the Roman empire around the same time. Although (as in Europe) the Huns were eventually driven out, the chaos and devastation they left began Dark Ages on both continents.

The North-Indian empire collapsed into numerous tiny realms, held by kings who were probably mostly really warlords or thugs who managed to collect enough followers to clobber the last lot of thugs. These were perpetually at war with each other. Trade collapsed due to the difficulty of getting goods across hostile borders. Most likely the wealth of the middle class was also taken by rulers to fund their wars. Warlords generally have little interest in intellectual matters, and support for the universities and arts declined. With the urban middle class largely eliminated, the monasteries that depended on them were hit hard. Historians say that Buddhism narrowly escaped total destruction at this time. The survival of Buddhism depended in part on the development of new forms, useful to new supporters in new ways. Buddhism could no longer be a religion that sought peace by retiring to a pleasant and quiet monastery in the suburbs. There was no peace to be found in India. Instead, Buddhism had to become a religion that embraced chaos, and provided tools for making creative use of it. It could no longer be a religion for those with the leisure to engage in extensive dedicated practice. Instead, the everyday life of

busy people had to become religious practice in itself. Buddhism had to provide immediate practical benefits. Inner Tantra was the Buddhism that met those needs. In a fictionalized form, it is the religion practiced by many of the characters in The Vetalis Gift. The novel is, in part, a fictional history of how Inner Tantra came to be. It is not the history told by the Tantric scriptures, which is mostly about transcendent Buddhas. It is not the history told by Western historians, which is mostly about warlords. Its mostly about vampires. I like that better. However, there are at least as many points of view about the nature of ego death as there are mystics, psychonauts, etc. who have had the experience.[citation needed] (Some, for example, may even go so far as to agree with the poet Dylan Thomas who said, "after the first death, there is no other."[3]) It can also be argued that experiencing ego death is not possible because an ego is a functional necessity of experience and hence experience does not occur after ego death.

So we Chaosists call this primal connectivity "Chaos" instead of "God" or some other traditional name to remove any anthropomorphic ideas from something that is so totally un-human as to defy comprehension -- at least by intellectual means.
For Tantrics, as with other magical traditions, it is the intention powering an action which is all-important. Smoking dope, drinking and fucking anything that moves does not necessarily a sadhu make. The goal of Tantric practice is the radical deconstruction of the individual, in order to attain the ideal of the sahaja state - that of natural spontaneity - unfettered by self-limitation or delusion.

or this issue, I did originally intend to look at some of what I considered the key

charactistics of Tantric practice, and then to go on to discuss some of the magical practices in Tantrism. However, Ive decided to, for the moment, concentrate on discussing the magical work, and will return to the key characteristics in part three. The difficulties of approaching Tantric practice have been compounded by what might be termed the pseudo-imperialistic attitude to non-Western magical systems. Francis Kings Tantra for Westerners is a case in point. King asserts that there are (at least on the surface) many similarities between Tantric concepts and Western Qabalah. Hence his book presents a qabbalized perspective on Tantra. Fitting the unfamiliar into familiar models may well be useful up to a point, but it becomes a limiting exercise. An analogous situation would be the efforts of early anthropologists to characterize shamanic behaviour as epileptic. It might well fit the theory, but it doesnt tell the whole story. I feel that, to approach Tantra, it is necessary to, at some point, examine orthodox Hindu culture, in terms of history, religion, and psychology - in order to get a grip on the context from which Tantrism springs. There is a tendency for Westerners to treat Tantrism as an added flavour to spice up familiar magical practices, or for that matter, ones bedroom antics (which is the concern of many populist books on the subject).

Devotion and Magic

The generic term for ritual in India is Puja, can be translated as worship or magic. According to Tantric doctrine, the purpose of ritual is to use special techniques in order to make contact with the higher states of being which we call gods and other supernatural beings who can guide and assist us in our efforts to progress. The different worlds are in harmonic relation to each other; and through ritual action, they can be made to respond, just as a stringed instrument will respond when one of its harmonics resounds. Ritual, combined of sound, forms, rhythms, gestures, flowers, lights, incense and offerings carries the operator toward the world of the divine, whilst the deity, also enchanted, is brought nearer. Ritual is thus a bridge to establish and maintain this contact. It is further held that, since the subtle worlds are many, the effects of ritual may not always be apprehended, and that results quite contrary to the intent may result. Ritual is therefore a potentially dangerous instrument and, whether internal (mental) or external (puja), should follow a systematic ordinance. All elements of puja are based on correspondences and subtle levels of relation.

Another reason behind the name is that many of the concepts of modern Chaos Theory can be given metaphysical interpretation. For example, it's obvious that various occult systems have many factors in common. In Chaos Theory, there is something called a "strange attractor," a certain type of coherency that arises in any turbulent system. Mathematically speaking, it merely represents certain ranges of numbers that tend to fall into a recycling set of infinitely regressive values when certain formulae are applied. As it is usually visualized, it's a three dimensional graph (two spatial axes representing the complex plane, plus one color axis) of the value of the iterated function fc(z) = z^2+c, where z and c are complex. This yields the now-famous Mandelbrot set of images. What makes it more than a mere arithmetic game is that when computers are allowed to crank endlessly through the calculations, certain geometric patterns

emerge that bear a striking resemblence to our perceptions of various real world phenomena. Zooming in on particular areas of the complex plane, many fascinating visual characteristics are generated, with similarities to the apprearence of such things as swirling water and rugged coastlines. Therefore it can be used as tool to make predictions (in this case, how turbulent systems will behave), which elevates it to the realm of science -- where it is properly referred to as Non-Linear Dynamics. A good example of a strange attractor in the physical world is a vortex; given the right conditions, it will arise in air currents, running water, dust storms -- anything from the Great Red Spot of Jupiter to the whirlpool in your bathtub drain. But regardless of the medium, a vortex will always assume a similar pattern.

The devotee should place a Sakti in a circle. She should be wanton, beautiful, devoid of shame and disgust, charming by nature, supremely alluring and beautiful. After giving her vijaya, the devotee should worship her with utmost devotion. He should place her on his left, and should worship her hair-adorned yoni. At the edges of the yoni, the devotee should place sandal and beautiful blossoms. There, indrawing the goddess, he should do jiva nyasa using mantra, having given her wine and drawing a half-moon using vermilion. After smearing sandal on her forehead, the devotee should caress her breasts. After reciting the mantra for 108 times, while in her arms, the devotee should caress the breasts, having previously kissed her on the cheek. The mantra should be recited 108 or 1008 times in the yoni circle. After reciting the mighty mantra, he should recite the hymn very devotedly. At the time of worship, the guru should not be present. I am the worshipper. If the guru is present, there is no fruit, there is absolutely no doubt of it. The worshipper, using great efforts, should make the results of the pja over to the guru. After making three offerings of hands full with flowers, he should bow again to his own guru. The wise man should, by every means, offer to his guru----putting the hands together in the sign of obeisance. After performing yoni pja using these methods, the devotee attains whatever is desired----there is no doubt of it. The fruit of doing puja to the great yoni, deliverer from the ocean of misery, is life and enhanced vitality.

Mind and Brain: One and the Same? Now, within the considerations of Western philosophy, there is an assumption behind this question of whether we can develop a natural science of the mind, and we need to tackle that assumption first. The prior question that we need to address has to do with whether mental states or the mind are identical to brain states. Are mental states, in fact, states of the physical brain, or are they something that can exist independently from the brain? When I remember something, is that a state of my brain, organized and processing in a particular way? When I see something, is that a state of the physical brain, or is it a state of something else? As you know, there is a deep division on this question. Some people will answer yes, and some people will answer no. First, I want to look at the negative answer. Descartes was a classic Dualist. His idea was that mental states and the brain are two

very different kinds of thing. The brain, like the body, is a physical thing, which, as he put it, has extension, position, and mass. The mind does not. DALAI LAMA: In this view, is there an assertion of a self? Is the self equated with the mind that is so distinguished from the brain? Are they one and the same? Do the philosophers make the assumption with this Dualistic theory that the mind is a soul after all? In this instance, the translators choice of words moves the discussion into a realm that was not intended by the original query, but was fruitful nonetheless. The Tibetan term gang zag, translated as soul, actually means person or individual; this does not carry the heavy religious and metaphysical connotations of the word soul as it is used in English. PATRICIA CHURCHLAND: Yes, the soul, the spirit, the mind, are rather interchangeable according to the Cartesian concept. DALAI LAMA: But are they separate? Do they have separate identities? Do you distinguish the self, the I, from the mind? PATRICIA CHURCHLAND: I think from Descartes point of view, one uses the mind, the soul, and the spirit interchangeably. DALAI LAMA: Is there a sense that the soul itself simply sees, or that the soul sees via perception or via awareness that is somehow distinct? PATRICIA CHURCHLAND: I dont think it is supposed that the soul sees through anything. I think it is assumed that the soul sees, the soul is aware, the soul thinks, the soul reasons, by itself, though in response to impact on the body.... Some people might think that there are parts to the soul. But basically, if you were a Dualist, you thought that the thing that did the thinking and feeling, the thing that was aware, the thing that was conscious, was the mind or soul. ALLAN HOBSON: I think it is not just history but that most people believe this now. PATRICIA CHURCHLAND: Eccles is a contemporary neuroscientist, a Nobel laureate, who believes stoutly in this Dualistic theory. DALAI LAMA: Would you say that most people believe this, but that most scientists do not? PATRICIA CHURCHLAND: Most neuroscientists and scientists generally do not hold this view. But Eccles is not the only exception. I wanted to mention him to recognize that there are some very knowledgeable people who do hold this view. I think a great many nonscientists, perhaps the vast majority of the population, think along Dualistic lines. ALLAN HOBSON: The essential linkage to what I understand Buddhist tenets to be is that consciousness is held by Dualists to be able to exist apart from and in some degree independently from the brain. Veda is the highest of all things and better than Veda is Vaishnava. Better than Vaishnava is Shaiva and better than Shaiva is Dakshina. Greater than Dakshina is Vama and better than Vama is Siddhanta. Higher than Siddhanta is the Kaula who desires the yoni----like a sun shining in the sky or a veritable Meru to a mustard seed. The pre-eminence of the Kula is lauded in all tantras. By the power of good fortune, one is a knower of Kula. Giving appropriate foods, one should please and worship by every means.
I wouldn't hold a weekend like this simply to go over a body of ancient literature if I didn't think it had some

efficacy or import for the modern dilemma and some of you may know the song by the Grateful Dead in which the refrain is "I need a miracle every day." I think any reasonable person can conclude that the redemption of the world, if it's to be achieved, can only be achieved through magic. It's too late for science. It's too late for hortatory politics. -Terrence McKenna

Water
Water is called the universal solvent. The purer the water, that is, the lower its dissolved solids content, the greater the tendency to dissolve its surroundings. Pure water, if stored in a stainless steel tank after a short contact time, has a very small amount of iron, chromium, and nickel from the tank dissolved in it. This dissolving of the tank does not continue indefinitely with the same water. The water, in a sense, has satisfied its appetite in a short time and does not dissolve any more metal. //W5ISOE23// Pure water, if exposed to air, immediately absorbs air and has oxygen from the air dissolved in it. A glass of tap water at 68F contains 9.0 ppm of oxygen. Tap water heated to 77F contains 8.2 ppm of oxygen, and some oxygen is driven out of the water. The higher the temperature of the water, the less dissolved oxygen it can hold. Conversely, the higher the pressure imposed on the water, the greater the dissolved oxygen it can hold. Water, when boiled, produces steam. The steam contains some liquid water. There is never a perfect separation of pure steam from the boiling water. The steam above the boiling water always has entrained with it some boiling water. The three ideas: 1) water is a universal solvent, 2) water dissolves oxygen when in contact with air, and 3) boiling water is always entrained with steam, should help you understand the nature of this symbolism. "Drawing Down the Moon" is also the title of a book by National Public Radio reporter, Margot Adler Drawing Down the Moon: Witches, Druids, Goddess-Worshippers, and Other Pagans in America Todayoriginally published in 1979. Adler writes: "... in this ritual, one of the most serious and beautiful in the modern Craft, the priest invokes into the priestess (or, depending on your point of view, she evokes from within herself) the Goddess or Triple Goddess, symbolized by the phases of the moon. She is known by a thousand names, and among them were those I had used as a child. In some Craft rituals the priestess goes into a trance and speaks; in other traditions the ritual is a more formal dramatic dialogue, often of intense beauty, in which, again, the priestess speaks, taking the role of the Goddess. In both instances, the priestess functions as the Goddess incarnate, within the circle."

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There is another reason vetalas were so important. Sexual practice (karmamudra) was central in Indian Tantra. It was said to be the swiftest and surest Tantric method, for those capable of it. A difficulty was finding someone willing to do engage in it with yousince the early forms of karmamudra were considered utterly disgusting. The usual approach, for men, was to hire a low-caste prostitute. Not everyone was able to do this, due to lack of funds or other practical problems. If you were a monk, there were also tiresome issues of vinayathe monastic vows, which prohibit sex with women. An alternative was to raise a vetali (female vetala). At a certain point, an official ruling was made that for a monk to practice karmamudra with a vetali was not a violation of vinaya. This made the practice extremely popular. Or, at any rate, there was considerable demand for information on how to raise vetalis. Authentic sexual practice necessarily benefits both parties. You wouldnt know that from reading some of the male-oriented literature on the topic; but any attempt to use a prostitute, slave, or corpse for karmamudra, in a one-sided way, is entirely self-defeating. Clueful Tantrikas understand this, and practice accordingly. Vetalas and vetalis are often malevolentlike humansbut can be transformed by Tantric practicejust as we can. All sentient beings have Buddha-nature; the undead are no exception. Mainly due to karmamudra, it seems that there were many highly-realized vetalis in India at the time of the Mahasiddhas. No doubt some were famed as teachers as well as consorts. In fact, at the dawn of Tantra, at least one vetali became fully enlightened in this way. She is Vajra Vetali, Queen of the Vampires, who attained Buddhahood as the consort of Yamantaka. Chgyam Trungpa Rinpoche wrote a hair-raising invocation of her that is regularly practiced in his Shambhala centers: You enjoy drinking the blood of ego . . . As night falls, you cut the aortas of the perverters of the teachings. To apply this concept to the occult, assume any given magical "system" is the medium in which certain patterns (practices, concepts, formulae, etc. ) will emerge -- strange attractors -- that will be strikingly similar to each other.

In magical terms, a strange attractor would be, say, astral projection, or energy centers aligned along the spinal column. Or the interaction with non-corpreal intelligences (gods, demons, spirits, etc.) A kind of pattern that always seems to arise regardless of the particular belief-set that goes along with the actual techniques. Within them all lay the "strange attractors" that can be harvested from the morass of archaic symbolism and put to use by the canny magician. Chaos Magicians look for these commonalties among seemingly different systems as clues to an underlying factor that can be stripped of its unnecessary symbolism if desired and put to directly use with any chosen set of symbols. The intent is to reveal the practical techniques that underly the outer trappings and (one would

hope) turn the symbolism into a personal expression of Art. Chaos Magic has applied such artistic concepts as postmodernism and deconstructionism to the study of the occult, and has achieved some remarkable insights, particularly the idea that all traditional magical systems are sociologically derived and culturally biased. This is not an indictment, but simply a recognition of the facts. The gods are dead. Long live the gods.
He claims that if God were evolving or improving, being an infinite being, it would have to be traceable back to some point of having "an infinitely undeveloped state and condition."[48] But, this claim was made prior to the rise of scientific knowledge pinpointing the beginning of the Universe in time, and connecting time with space, so that time would not exist as we know it prior to the Universe existing. In Islam, a criticism is raised, wherein it is argued that "from the juristic standpoint, obliterating the distinctions between God and the universe necessarily entails that in effect there can be no Sharia, since the deontic nature of the Law presupposes the existence of someone who commands (amir) and others who are the recipients of the command (ma'mur), namely God and his subjects."[49]

Sexual Magick is significant in the Witches Sabbat as it allows liberation of self on numerous levels. If partners agree, Sex Magick may be a part of the rite itself either Luciferian (Self-Deification or High Sorcery/Magick) or Infernal (Low Sorcery, Lycanthropy). If used in the Rite, you may complete the Widdershins dance around the circle and then the couple may focus on sexual congress. With every movement, both will focus on the Goal of the Rite be it casting a spell or invoking a Daemon into the minds of the practitioners. In the Luciferian Sabbat, the couple may use autoerotic techniques to invoke the Azalucel Angel, their guide of the path (Higher Self or True Will) or a mutual focus of sexual congress to summon forth the Initiatic Guide. As with the Left Hand Path the witch or warlock will focus on self-directed energies

stimulated by the activity, thus the imagination brought to a high level on concentration. Sabbat Lycanthropy is also useful in Sexual Magick. The practitioners will mentally and visually shape shift during their circle dance, from when the primal and bestial atavism is brought to the surface, they may unite in congress. Demons have always been viewed as being able to participate in Sabbatic Rites throughout the Middle Ages. While this may indeed only be imagined in old Christian levels, those initiated to these mysteries may understand the reality of this via the Succubi and Incubi. The member of the demon in the rite is always considered cold. In 1572 Eva of Kenn admitted she had intercourse with a demon, and that it was as cold as an icicle. Johan Klein in 1698 suggested women believed this as it was happening in dreams, and Guazzo suggested that the Cold Semen was actually taken from other night revelers of the Sabbat. Sylvine de la Plaine who was twenty three when she admitted happily to her Sexual Relations with the Devils Emissary and was burned in 1916 in Paris. She had admitted that the Devils member was like that of a horse, and when inserted was cold and injected ice cold semen. When it was withdrawn it burned her like fire. Others had suggested the Devil or Black Man of the Sabbat had other talents. A description of the Devils member was that it was sinuous, pointed and snake like. Sometimes it was made half or iron and half of flesh. It could also be made completely of a horn as well, sometimes forked as a tongue. There were suggestions that the demon could perform coitus and pederasty (i.e. Sodomy) at once, with a third member in his lovers mouth.
Subhuti respectfully asked the lord Buddha, "Most Honored One! In the future, if a person hears this teaching, even if it is a only a phrase or sentence, is it possible for that person to have a true faith and knowledge of Enlightenment awaken in their mind?" "Without a doubt, Subhuti. Even 500 years after the Enlightenment of this Buddha there will be some who are virtuous and wise, and while practising compassion and charity, will believe in the words and phrases of this Sutra and will awaken their minds purely. After they come to hear these teachings, they will be inspired with belief. This is because when some people hear these words, they will have understood intuitively that these words are the truth." "But you must also remember, Subhuti, that such persons have long ago planted the seeds of goodness and merit that lead to this realization. They have planted the seeds of good deeds and charity not simply before one Buddhist temple, or two temples, or five, but before hundreds of thousands of Buddhas and temples. So when a person who hears the words and phrases of this Sutra is ready for it to happen, a pure faith and clarity can awaken within their minds." "Subhuti, any person who awakens faith upon hearing the words or phrases of this Sutra will accumulate countless blessings and merit." "How do I know this? Because this person must have discarded all arbitrary notions of the existence of a personal self, of other people, or of a universal self. Otherwise their minds would still grasp after such relative conceptions. Furthermore, these people must have already discarded all arbitrary notions of the non-existence of a personal self, other people, or a universal self. Otherwise, their minds would still be grasping at such notions. Therefore anyone who seeks total Enlightenment should discard not only all conceptions of their own selfhood, of other selves, or of a universal self, but they should also discard all notions of the non-existence of such concepts." "When the Buddha explains these things using such concepts and ideas, people should remember the unreality of all such concepts and ideas. They should recall that in teaching spiritual truths the Buddha always uses these concepts and ideas in the way that a raft is used to cross a river. Once the river has been crossed over, the raft is of no more use, and should

be discarded. These arbitrary concepts and ideas about spiritual things need to be explained to us as we seek to attain Enlightenment. However, ultimately these arbitrary conceptions can be discarded. Think Subhuti, isn't it even more obvious that we should also give up our conceptions of non-existent things?"

This rejection of absolutism, more than anything else, accounts for the sinister reputation of Chaos Magic in modern occultism. Nearly all previous revivals of occult philosophy, regardless of their public reputation, have been maniacal about proclaiming their "truth" and their "high moral standards." Gerald Gardner, in his 'revival' of Witchcraft, formulated nearly 200 moral "laws" to govern the activities of his followers, who to this day fight a never ending battle to convince the world of their benevolence. Aleister Crowley and his successors have churned out reams of prose defending the Thelemic maxim of "Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law" as being a 'greater' system of morality. Whether it is or not is beside the point. Chaos Magic bypasses the issue entirely; there is no dogma to indoctrinate you into "good" or "positive" moral standards before getting the details of the technique. When you practice Chaos Magic, you must choose what is ultimately "good" or ultimately "evil".

As a result, Chaos Magic is magic without limitations. Chaos magic is not a new system, or a rehash of older systems, or any kind of system at all. It's a new attitude. It's a different way of looking at the Art of Magic -- as an expression of Art above all other considerations. Like so many Artists, Chaos Mages tend toward an attitude of elitism, since a great part of the creation of Art is the pursuit of excellence, and pride in oneself and one's creations when excellence is achieved. An elitist attitude (as long as it's balanced with compassion and doesn't desend into bigotry) is forgivable in the Artist, for without it no great work of Art would ever be realized. Some will say that a system of magic without an attached system of morality to govern it's use is "dangerous". While it is a fact that certain misanthropic types could seize upon the freedom of magical expression inherent in such an approach and use it to the detriment of their fellow humans, such sociopaths will always find a way to inflict an equal amount of misery on others whether they practice magic or not. They're very clever that way.
However, it is not as simple as merely grabbing on to whatever happens to strike your fancy. Bits and pieces of various and sundry old rituals and belief structures, kludged together by a given individual and molded into a "system," albeit a personal one, is not Chaos Magic either. Locked-in belief is locked-in belief. It is far more important to be free to push the envelope than it is to be "correct" -- or even consistent. Chaos Magic is not simply a reformulated mishmash of old magical traditions with trendy new labels.

Therefore, Chaos Magic is not concerned with such amorphous mystical goals as attaining Nirvana, finding your True Will or crossing the Abyss, at least not directly. If you wish to worship the Goddess or commune with your Holy Guardian Angel, you would do better to look elsewhere; modern Neo-Paganism offers a vast smorgasbord of various amalgamtions of religion and magic, from Wicca to Thelema, from White Light Brotherhoods to the Church of Satan. The goal of Chaos Magic is developing practical magical techniques, that create real, perceptable changes according to the will of the magician. This is not limited to external physical effects, but also (and perhaps more importantly) includes operations designed to alter

the psyche of the magician in profound ways -- but in ways the magician has chosen or wishes to explore, rather than in a predordained manner. The "structure" of Chaos Magic, if it can be said to even have one, is a non -structure. It is vehemently non-hierarchical. Chaos Magic is magical anarchy, but in the true sense of the word -- it is magic without leaders. In short then, Chaos Magic is Chaos Magic. It is not a new religion, nor is it just a new magical system. It is not a "system" at all. Don't ask others to define it for you in sociological, political or religious terms. Although they may be able to construct a dogma that makes sense, it will not have anything to do with Chaos.

Or as Fats Waller put it when asked about the nature of Jazz: "If I have to explain it to you, you'll never know!" Chaos, being Chaos, has no attributes save itself. This leaves the difficulty of describing it, because it is not an "it". Chaos Magic is a non-dualistic gateway, which has confounded even those who "originated" it by being so multifarious that its development will always advance in unpredictable directions. Chaos Magic will always grow independently of any one source. No one can "teach" you Chaos Magic. To paraphrase Austin Spare, "All a teacher can ever do is show you your own magnificence." So all I can hope to do with this writing is to entice you to follow your own path. I only point my finger at the moon; you must travel there yourself.

OH MY FUCK, this meat-sleeve!? I AM NOT THIS MEAT

SLEEVE!!! DEAR SWEET MARIA, THE MEATY SLEEVE THAT YOU'VE SHOWN ME! YOUR PUPPET, I AM YOU!!!?!?!?!?!
We are spiritual anarchists: Chaos Magic is an extension beyond our reality and beyond the traditionalist systems. To call it a "system" simply underlines the trap humans fall into when needing to conceptualize. If one is unsure how to proceed, and has no experience in magic at all, one is sure to find within the complexity and variety of traditional paths a mix of methods that suits his or her nature. However when he or she has honed his or her talents on these tried and tested systems, the next step must be the Void and the necessary development of original methodologies -- which is the heart of Chaos Magic, and that which will propel the Art of the Mage into the 21st century, free at last from the constraints and superstitions of the past. This new way of practicing the Art of Magic is as free as possible of all moral dogma, a way solely oriented to personal discovery. Because the practice aims to assimilate and then surpass the limited dualistic approaches to Magic which has hallmarked the traditions and shackles us to the past, it is by its nature beyond our comprehension, and beyond our ability to predict what direction it will take. But its interface is Chaos, so by popular consensus, "Chaos Magic" is its name. And it can be described most succinctly in the words of Hassan-Il-Sabbah:

"Nothing is true. Everything is permitted."

SUBGENII

CONSTITUTION OF THE SPIRITUAL ANARCHIST Article 1 We recognize no absolutes. Article 2 No person, group of persons or government may initiate force, threat of force, or fraud against any individual's self or property. (What is property:?) Article 3 Force may be morally and legally used only in self-defense against those who violate Article 1. Article 4 No exceptions shall exist for Articles 1, 2 or 3. Slay all dualistic notions with the crested, barbed triden of Pantherion!

It wasn't me. I wasn't there. No one saw me do it, and besides, the DNA evidence was inconclusive.
Then Buddha asked Subhuti, "What do you think, Subhuti, has the Buddha arrived at the highest, most fulfilled, most awakened and enlightened mind? Does the Buddha teach any teaching?" Subhuti replied, "As far as I have understood the lord Buddha's teachings, there is no independently existing object of mind called the highest, most fulfilled, awakened or enlightened mind. Nor is there any independently existing teaching that the Buddha teaches. Why? Because the teachings that the Buddha has realized and spoken of cannot be conceived of as separate, independent things and therefore cannot be described. The truth in them is uncontainable and inexpressible. It neither is, nor is it not. What does this mean? What this means is that Buddhas and disciples are not enlightened by a set method of teachings, but by an internally intuitive process which is spontaneous and is part of their own inner nature." "Let me ask you Subhuti? If a person filled over ten thousand galaxies with the seven treasures for the purpose of compassion, charity, and giving alms, would this person not gain great merit and spread much happiness?" "Yes, Most Honored One. This person would gain great merit and spread much happiness, even though, in truth, this person does not have a separate existence to which merit could accrue. Why? Because this persons merit is characterized with the quality of not being merit." The Buddha continued, "Then suppose another person understood only four lines of this Sutra, but nevertheless took it upon themselves to explain these lines to someone else. This person's merit would be even greater than the other person's. Why? Because all Buddhas and all the teachings and values of the highest, most fulfilled, most awakened minds arise from the teachings in this Sutra. And yet, even as I speak, Subhuti, I must take back my words as soon as they are uttered, for there are no Buddhas and there are no teachings."

In cultural terms, Chaos Magic can be described as the vanguard of Western esoteric practice. Unlike it's predesesors, it involves more spontaneity and eschews a rigid framework of rituals and procedures. It also explores the techniques of shamanism and sorcery, something most Western magical traditions have always tended to shun as being "beneath" them. It is

influenced by many modern cultural trends, such as cyberpunk, postmodernism and deconstructionism. It tries to integrate many of the current theories in science and philosophy like quantum physics, synchronicity and, of course, chaos theory with occult phenomena. There are even influences from occult history, such as Aleister Crowley, Austin Osman Spare, Taoism, Tibetian Buddhism, many forms of native shamanism and even from certain science fiction and fantasy writers, like H.P. Lovecraft, Michael Moorcock, Terry Pratchett and William Gibson.

Chaos Magic as commonly defined today derives primarily from the work of Austin Osman Spare and Peter J. Carroll. (See the chapter on History for details.) Both rejected most of traditional magical practice as being unnecessarily complicated, culturally bigoted and generally ineffective, and fearful of the powerful but dangerous techniques of sorcery and shamanism. Both also considered traditional occult teaching to be far more concerned with imparting a system of morality than anything else, making them in actual fact religions. Spare was the first one to draw the connection between magic and (in his time) the relatively new field of psychology, freeing occult practice from the necessity of a religious world-view. Carroll, along with Sherwin, founded the Illuminates of Thanateros (IOT) and attempted to also integrate the concepts of Chaos Theory and Quantum Mechanics with the occult and paranormal.
St. Anthony of the Xrin Arms Hails us with his Silver Secretion: Yr slanted face, that's my aim with slowly moving candle flames and that proclaims my favorite game. Wet foxholes erupt thick ocean nectar all over my dry cheek bones. My vomit can be used as semen, far greater than what demons believe in. I will give it to you just like you want it, after touching the velvet cave, it's haunted, yr heart on my spear, I've got it. This is my gift, go ahead and flaunt it with the cursed veins of my cock. EgoDeath Definition
>What does the term *EgoDeath* exactly mean, in brief? Ego death, as I think it should be defined, is a set of insights about, and a powerful experience of, the impotence and logical invalidity of the accustomed apparent control-agent who seems to reside in the mind. Ego death is associated closely with the loss of control, or the loss of the sense of being a legitimate controller. After the ego-death experience and philosophical insight, the ego remains, but now with a caveat -- it is seen to be largely a practical illusion. The mind revises its assumptions about time, self-control, and personal identity, shifting many ideas together.

Because so many ideas are all revised together, it is slightly subtle or tricky communicating the new conceptual system, but it is not too hard for rational thought. Systematizing the insights of full ego death just requires mature, fully developed rational analysis. Due to these influences, Chaos Magic is perhaps the first kind of ceremonial magic that doesn't approach the subject as an antique art. Magic need not be handed down from ancient adepts to be "real". Instead, Magic is something to be experimented with and improved upon. Virtually all other systems (they don't call them "traditions" for nothing) assume that "The Ancient Masters" already uncovered all of the secrets of magic long ago, and all we poor moderns can hope to do is recapture a glimmer of the glories of the past. This antiquarian attitude has unfortunately hamstrung the development of the Art of Magic since the fall of Rome.

Ideas of Self in conflict cannot be slain, by resistance they are a reality- no Death or cunning has overcome them but is their reinforcement of energy. The dead are born again and again lie in the womb of conscience. By allowing maturity is to predicate decay when by non-resistance is retrogression to early simplicity and the passage to the original and unity without idea. From that idea is the formula of non-resistance germinating "Does not matter- please yourself." The conception of "I am not" must of

necessity follow the conception of "I am," becaus of its grammar, as surely in this world of sorrow night follows day. The recognition of pain as such, implies the idea of pleasure, and so with all ideas. By this duality, let him remember to laugh at all times, recognize all things, resist nothing; then there is no conflict, incompatibility or compulsion as such
Let our blessed serpent mother rape the vessels we call mind. Learn to breathe. Practice object(less) concertration. Sit, or lay in the death posture, envisioning a great black trident. Impale your dualistic notions upon it. Let thier lifeblood run down its crest. To meet the snake, impale yourself. Die daily. Shed the veils of personal persona and transcend notions of selfhood. Become catlike therein: meek, perky, outrageous and inscrutable. Before sleep, in snakebeing summon the shadecat. Become him. Let him guide you to the sabbat were you might join your spear and elk-sledge. Therein be possesed of your allnought snake motherfuck. The noself-interpenetrating Khao. Do this and die. Die daily.

Die, Die, Die, Die, Die!

Laugh, the joke is on the joker.
Buddha then asked, "What do you think, Subhuti, does one who has entered the stream which flows to Enlightenment, say 'I have entered the stream'?" "No, Buddha", Subhuti replied. "A true disciple entering the stream would not think of themselves as a separate person that could be entering anything. Only that disciple who does not differentiate themselves from others, who has no regard for name, shape, sound, odor, taste, touch or for any quality can truly be called a disciple who has entered the stream." Buddha continued, "Does a disciple who is subject to only one more rebirth say to himself, 'I am entitled to the honors and rewards of a Once-to-be-reborn.'?" "No, Lord. 'Once-to-be-reborn' is only a name. There is no passing away, or coming into, existence. Only one who realizes this can really be called a disciple." "Subhuti, does a venerable One who will never more be reborn as a mortal say to himself, 'I am entitled to the honor and rewards of a Non-returner.'?"

"No, Perfectly Enlightened One. A 'Non-returner' is merely a name. There is actually no one returning and no one not-returning." "Tell me, Subhuti. Does a Buddha say to himself, 'I have obtained Perfect Enlightenment.'?" "No, lord. There is no such thing as Perfect Enlightenment to obtain. If a Perfectly Enlightened Buddha were to say to himself, 'I am enlightened' he would be admitting there is an individual person, a separate self and personality, and would therefore not be a Perfectly Enlightened Buddha." Subhuti then said, "Most Honored One! You have said that I, Subhuti, excel amongst thy disciples in knowing the bliss of Enlightenment, in being perfectly content in seclusion, and in being free from all passions. Yet I do not say to myself that I am so, for if I ever thought of myself as such then it would not be true that I escaped ego delusion. I know that in truth there is no Subhuti and therefore Subhuti abides nowhere, that he neither knows nor does he not know bliss, and that he is neither free from nor enslaved by his passions."

A short story about teachers: Once I had a guru.

Being a well-read young man, I encountered the rite of ganachackra. I asked my teacher: "Master, I have read much of the ganachackra, and have heard that you hold such vigils." I looked hopefully, "Might I attened such a one?" To which he replied "Yes, indeed, I do. But there lies in them a great danger of insanity. It takes many years of practice and retreat to understand the tantras well enough to practice such rites." "Yes, master indeed I have heard of this danger. But answer me this: am I not already insane?" "Quite, dangerously so even." He replied bluntly. "And you have little respect for authority, to boot." "If that is the case master, then why may I not yet attend these rites? Surely my insanity could not be worsened." "Your insanity is not the issue. The problem lies in that you have not been introduced to the totality of Tantrik iconography. You are not well versed in it's various aspects. Without formal induction into our ranks, without the proper education, how could you understand and benefit from these rites?" To this I grinned. "Master tell me of the meanings." I prodded. "They are inexpressable, beyond words, ofttimes beyond conception." He made a grand gesture with the last words. "If this is so," I said "And you are you master's student, and your master his master's student, all back through the linage, student has become master. How have you transmitted these meanings of the symbols. How can we be assure they are intact?" "Secrecy, m'boy!" he laughed, and smiled wryly "Secrecy is the only way to maintain the purity. Secrecy is the only way to assure correct transmission." "Then surely I am your master, master" I laughed! "What use have I for rituals, mute as these?" He smiled wryly once more as I spoke. "Wordless transmissions contain no meanings. How might the secrets of twilight langauge be known if they are meaningless and beyond conception?" "Hah, my student, you are my master." He said sarcastically and walked away, knowing what I inferred. I have no master, only teachers. Traditions are as moot as thier iconography.
How free it is, it has no need of sovereignty! (Kingdoms are their own despoilers. Without lineage, who dare claim relationship? Without virtue, how pleasing in its moral self-love! How mighty is it, in its assertion of "Need not be-Does not matter"! Self-love in complete perspective, serves its own invincible purpose of ecstasy. Supreme bliss simulating opposition is its balance. It suffers no hurt, neither does it labour. Is it not selfattracting and independent? Assuredly we cannot call it balance.
-AOS, KSC

the regions bordering Tibet and China. A person following this path is free of all distinctions, as she or he is one with Siva and Sakti, acting according to will. Svecchachara is the way of the Avadhuta, a spiritual person beyond any qualifications or

distinctions. The type and symbol of the Avadhuta is the guru figure of India, Shri Dattatreya. The Avadhuta is always in a blissful state, one with the Absolute. According to Sir John Woodroffe in his introduction to the KN:---The Waking aspect of the Witches Sabbat is that of solitary or Coven agreement of selftransformative magick. This is done by confirmation of standards which are present in the ritual area. Some build a bonfire in the woods, near a crossroad, graveyard or area appropriate. It is pertinent that the Five Senses are appeased and aligned with the focus of the rite. The Maskhara of the Middle East would blacken their faces, wear animal masks and through dance create invoke a strong ecstasy which along with the alkaloid used in an ointment, would cause sensations of flying. You may wish to use the Waking Rite as a means of practicing spells and sending forth the desires of the group. The Waking Sabbat is also a means of growing more connected with the other practitioners, which forms an allegiance with what is known as a group mind. This is useful in spells and low sorcery, the unity of several independent psyches focusing on one goal will no doubt create a desired effect.

It is very difficult for anyone to know his true nature.When alone he is like one mad, dumb or paralysed and when in the society of men he sometimes behaves like a good man, sometimes like a wicked one, and on occasions he behaves like a demon. But the Yogi is always pure whatever he may do and by his touch everything becomes pure. (introduction, p22) These descriptions echo the mala or chain mantra of Dattatreya, in which he is described as Madman, Child, Devil. In the Avadhuta Upanishad (Sannyasa Upanishads, Adyar 1978), Dattatreya is questioned by Samkriti:---

Young Omar became involved with the vagaries and intricacies of the Lady Eris, but he was perhaps the first person, at least in the United States, to use the word Pagan to describe past and present nature religions. Some have actually alleged that entire NeoPagan movement is an Erisian Plot (see Robert Anton Wilson and Robert Shea's ILLUMINATUS) . . . . " (pp. 276-77) "In a way, it's ridiculous to even talk seriously about the Erisians, a group, or collection of groups, that has called itself a 'Non-prophet Irreligious Disorganization' that is

'dedicated to an advanced understanding of the para physical manifestation of Everyday Chaos, ' and at other times has stated, 'The Erisian revelation is not a complicated put-on disguised as a new religion, but a "new religion" disguised as a complicated put-on. ' "The Discordian Society was founded (if one can call it that) in 1957 (or 1958 -- even this primary confusion has never been cleared up) by Greg Hill (Malaclypse the Younger) and Kerry Thornley (Omar Ravenhurst) . . . . Omar Ravenhurst went on to form his own Erisian organization, the Erisian Liberation Front (ELF) . . . . " (pp. 304-5) Other Erisian cabals formed. At one point there were rumored to be more than twenty, although some may have had a membership of only one. Since radical decentralization is a Discordian principle, it is impossible to know how many Discordians there were and are, or what they are doing. Most of these cabals engaged in various nonviolent, absurdist, revolutionary, magical and surrealist endeavors. A number of these 'actions' were done under the name of the supposed 'Bavarian Illuminati, ' a rather mysterious organization founded by Adam Weishaupt in 1776. The Erisian 'Illuminati' have mostly been the inspirations of someone known as Thomas the Gnostic. Similar actions were initiated by ELF. Omar Ravenhurst, for example, invented a Do-It-Yourself Conspiracy Kit, complete with assortments of stationery bearing dubious letterheads. . . . "'Eris is an authentic goddess. Furthermore, she is an old one. In the beginning I was myself as Malaclypse the Younger. But if you do this type of thing well enough, it starts to work'. . . . I asked Malaclypse, 'What's Omar Ravenhurst doing these days?' He said, 'Ravenhurst has recently been in a state of extreme discord. We were talking about Eris and confusion and he said, "You know, if I had realized that all of this was going to come TRUE, I would have chosen Venus. "!" -- Margot Adler, DRAWING DOWN THE MOON (pp. 308 312) Venerable Lord, who is an Avadhuta? What is his condition? What is his characteristic? What is his worldly existence? (Dattatreya then replies) The Avadhuta is so called as he has discarded worldly ties, and he is the essence of the sentence Thou art ThatHis worldly existence consists in moving about freely, with or without clothes. For them there is nothing righteous or unrighteous, nothing holy or unholy. (pp 1-3) For him there is no such thing as sin or virtue. The ethical system of sin and virtue is to protect the minds of the worldly, since the mind is the measure of all things and all things last only a moment. (CT 8,60)

***********Here Endeth The Mindfuck*********** Some praise the idea of Faith. To believe that they are Gods (or anything else) would make them such-proving by all they do, to be full of its non-belief. Better is it to admit incapacity or insignificance, than reinforce it by faith; since the superficial "protects" but does not change the vital. Therefore reject the former for the latter. Their formula is deception and they are deceived, the negation of their purpose. Faith is denial, or the metaphor Idiotcy, hence it always fails. To make their bondage more secure Governments force religion down the throats of their slaves, and it always suceeds; those who escape it are but few, therefore their honour is the greater. When faith perishes, the "Self" shall come into its own. Others less foolish, obscure the memory that God is a conception of themselves, and as much subject to law. Then, this ambition of faith, is it so very desirable? Myself, I have not yet seen a man who is not God already.
Well, it's very interesting - every ancient literature has its apocalypses and in the hermetic literature there is a prophecy, I think it's in book two but that really doesn't matter, and the prophecy is that a day will come when men no longer care for the earth and at that day the gods will depart and everything will be thrown into primal chaos and

this prophecy was very strongly in the minds of the strains of non-Christian thought that evolved at the close-at the centuries of closure-of the Roman Empire. When you look back into historical time it's when you reach the first and second centuries after Christ that you reach a world whose psychology was very much like the psychology of our own time. It was a psychology of despair and exhaustion. This is because Greek science which had evolved under the aegis of democratian atomism and Platonic metaphysics had essentially come to a dead end in those centuries. We can debate the reasons why this happened. An obvious suggestion would be that they failed to develop an experimental method and so everything just dissolved into competing schools of philosophical speculation and a profound pessimism spread through the Hellenistic world and out of that pessimism and in the context of that kind of universal despair which attends the dissolution of great empires a literature was created from the first to the fourth centuries after Christ which we call the Hermetic Corpus or in some cases the Trismegistic Hymns. Now this body of literature was misunderstood by later centuries, especially the Renaissance, because it was taken at face value and assumed to be at least contemporary with Moses if not much older. So the Renaissance view of Hermeticism was based on a tragic misunderstanding of the true antiquity of this material and there are people, hopefully none in this room, who still would have us believe that this literature antedates the Mosaic Law, that it is as old as Dynastic Egypt. But this is an indefensible position from my point of view. In the early 16th century two men, a father and son, Issac and Marik Casaubon, showed through the new science of philology, that this material was in fact late Hellenistic. Now, I've always said that I am not a Classicist in the Viconian sense, in the sense that there is a certain strain of thought that always wants to believe that the oldest stuff is the best stuff. This is not the case to my mind. To my mind what is amazing is how recent everything is. So I have no sympathy with the fans of lost Atlantis or any of that kind of malarky because to me what is amazing is how it all is less than 10,000 years old. Anything older than 10,000 years puts us into the realm of an aceramic society relying on chipped flint for it's primary technology. Tell me a story, I demanded. It was the first evening of one of my uncles rare visits, after my mother was killed. Its late, Surya, he said. I have come a long way today, and I am tired. Umwith respectwhy are you telling me about all this? asked the young monk. I thought you were supposed to teach me the Secret of Life and Death, or something. I am, said the old man. But the story my uncle told is personally meaningful for me. Please dont interrupt! Its late, Surya, my uncle said. I have come a long way today, and I am tired. But you must tell me a story! Every day you are here, you must tell me a story! All right. I wish I could be here more often you need to hear more than stories! He sighed. Right whats a good story to tell you? Give me a minute I sat and waited impatiently, kicking my seat.

Right. So, once up on a time, there was a great sage named Nagarjuna. And there was a king named Shankarabhadra. There were seven evil sorcerers, and I know this story, said the young monk. Yes, said the old man. It is The Twenty-five Tales of the Vampire. I have heard that, said the young monk. You may have heard a version, said the old man. The story starts with Nagarjuna rescuing the king. The king asks what Nagarjuna wants in return for saving his life, and Nagarjuna sends him to fetch a vampire. The king is brave, but the vampire is wily. It tricks the king into allowing it to tell a storyand when the king interrupts the story, the vampire is able to escape. Then the king has to go back and capture the vampire again, and it tells another story, and Yes, said the young monk. The bit with the vampire is really just an excuse to tell a series of unrelated tales. A frame-story, I believe story-tellers call it, said the old man. Why do they do that? asked the young monk. The old man frowned and rubbed his nose. Well There are several reasons. First, some stories get a slow start. The listener needs to hear the boring beginning bit to understand what comes later; but they dont know whether thats worth waiting for. The fictional narrator in the frame-story can give an overview before the inner story starts. That might give the listener enough of a taste that they are willing to wait. Or, maybe the beginning of the story is really grim. Then the narrators introduction can be comic, so the listener knows the real story will have a happy ending. I see, said the young monk. But thats not what happens in the Twenty-five Tales of the Vampire. No, said the old man. Another reason is that when you listen to a story, you enter a new world, created out of words. And you are willing to let the world be as the teller tells it. But that can only go so far, and if the world does not make sense, you will interrupt the tale and argue. By putting the story within a story, the teller of the inner story becomes only a character himself, so you cannot argue with him. Then the inner story can be less realistic. If you wrap it in enough layers of indirection, you can tell a completely ridiculous story and have it seem somehow believable. I see I think said the young monk. And then, a story always works some transformation in the hearer. It is not information; it works on the heart. Although it is made of words, the true meaning of a story cannot be put in words. So the story teller has to stop the hearer from using their ordinary mind to listen. When the teller says once upon a time, the listener knows it is time to listen with the heart. But the listeners mind may still get in the way. To confuse ordinary mind, the story-teller wraps worlds in worlds, until the hearer gets lost, and can listen without

judgment. Oh, said the young monk. So your uncle wanted to confuse you But I know the vampire story, so I would not be confused. Perhaps not, and that is your loss. But I think you have not heard the story he told me. There are as many versions of the Twenty-five Tales of the Vampire as there are storytellers Oh, all right, go on then! said the young monk. And this is the story the vampire told him, my uncle said: Once upon a time, there lived a farmer who had three sons. The youngest son died when he was just a boy Why did he die? I asked. Well, because he was not pure of heart. He had bad thoughts, and the demonic minions of Lord Yama, the god of death, dragged him down to Hell. Oh! I said. That was a bit of a shock. I knew such things happened, but What sort of bad thoughts did he have? I asked. My uncle looked at me closely. He was angry, he said. He was jealous of his older brothers and sometimes wished they were dead. I think he could see I was usually angry. I was jealous of my older foster-brothers, and often wished them dead. Does that always happen to boys who have bad thoughts? I asked. Well sooner or later, he said. But there are ways to stop being angry. Like what? You can use anger to cut itself. Oh, I said. I had no idea what that meant. I thought for a while, and then asked, What about the other two brothers? Well, the oldest brother was pure of heart. And the middle brother not so much. So anyway, do you want to hear the story the vampire told? Yes, please. One day when they were of age, they determined to set out on a Quest, to seek their fortune in the wide world. Their father pleaded with them not to go, for there are many dangers in the wide world

Sorcery: the systematic cultivation of enhanced consciousness or non-ordinary awareness & its deployment in the world of deeds & objects to bring about desired results.

cacophonous ghosts--the "black magic" of envy & vendetta backfires because Desire cannot be forced. Where our knowledge of beauty harmonizes with the ludus naturae, sorcery begins.

The incremental openings of perception gradually banish the false selves, our

shamanism, astral projection or the Satanic Mass--if it's mumbo jumbo you want go for

No, not spoon-bending or horoscopy, not the Golden Dawn or make-believe

the real stuff, banking, politics, social science--not that weak blavatskian crap. Sorcery works at creating around itself a psychic/physical space or openings into a space of untrammeled expression-- the metamorphosis of quotidian place into angelic This involves the manipulation of symbols (which are also things) & of people (who are also symbolic)--the archetypes supply a vocabulary for this process & therefore are treated as if they were both real & unreal, like words. Imaginal Yoga. The sorcerer is a Simple Realist: the world is real--but then so must consciousness be real since its effects are so tangible. The dullard finds even wine tasteless but the Quality of perception defines the world of intoxication--but to sustain it & expand it to include others demands activity of a certain kind--sorcery. Sorcery breaks no law of nature because there is no Natural Law, only the spontaneity of natura naturans, the Sorcery violates laws which seek to chain this flow-- priests, kings, hierophants, tao. sorcerer can be intoxicated by the mere sight of water. sphere.

mystics, scientists & shopkeepers all brand the sorcerer enemy for threatening the power of their charade, the tensile strength of their illusory web.

A poem can act as a spell & vice versa--but sorcery refuses to be a metaphor for mere not a critique but a re-making. It rejects all eschatology & metaphysics of removal, all bleary nostalgia & strident futurismo, in favor of a paroxysm or seizure of presence.

literature--it insists that symbols must cause events as well as private epiphanies. It is

Descartes was a fool, fuck him. The Kaulika Natha, at the time of worship, knows (his Sakti) to be Urvashi, who is woman kind in the three worlds. Without sexual union there is never liberation, whether from shastras, shrutis, smriti, puranas etc created by me. Listen, O one-dear-to-me-as life, of the destruction of the mental predisposition of pashus. Worship a nubile yoni in a highly ecstatic way. Whosoever in this Kali Yuga recites mantra in a supremely devoted way specifically to the yoni, the core of the universe, is within reach of liberation. Amongst thousands of sadhakas and tens of millions of worshippers, fortunate are they who do Kali sadhana. Kali is the Mother of the Universe and of all shastra, quite certainly. Remembering Kali frees one from the fetters of a pasu. After reciting Kalis great mantra, one becomes Kalis son, there is no doubt. This is true, true, true, true, true without question. Just as for Kali, so also for the vidyas and rules of Tripura, Shodashi, Bhuvaneshvari, China-Tara, Mahalakshmi, Matangi, Sundari, Bhairavi, Dakshina and Tarini. Success cannot be achieved save with the method of Chinachara. Whatever mantra one is initiated into, this is the best method. Devoid of this sacred trust, one becomes unsuccessful and therefore is reborn again. That which is written in this Yoni Tantra all sadhakas should accomplish according to their own wills. Mahesani, meditate as being absorbed in the yoni cakra, with yoni on the tongue, yoni in the mind, yoni in the ears and yoni in the eyes. Mighty Lady, all sadhana is vain unless with the yoni. Therefore, reject other pujas and do Yoni Puja. Mahesani, there is no siddhi without devotion to the Guru.
The Buddha then continued, "What do you think, Subhuti? When I was in a previous life, with Dipankara Buddha, did I receive any definite teaching or attain any degree of self-control, whereby I later became a Buddha?" "No, honorable one. When you were a disciple of Dipankara Buddha, in truth, you received no definite teaching, nor did you attain any definite degree of self-control." "Subhuti, know also that if any Buddha would say, 'I will create a paradise,' he would speak falsely. Why? Because a paradise cannot be created nor can it not be uncreated." "A disciple should develop a mind which is in no way dependent upon sights, sounds, smells, tastes, sensory sensations or any mental conceptions. A disciple should develop a mind which does not rely on anything." "Therefore, Subhuti, the minds of all disciples should be purified of all thoughts that relate to seeing, hearing, tasting, smelling, touching, and discriminating. They should use their minds

spontaneously and naturally, without being constrained by preconceived notions arising from the senses." "Suppose, Subhuti, a man had an enormous body. Would the sense of personal existence he had also be enormous?" "Yes, indeed, Buddha," Subhuti answered. "His sense of personal existence would be enormous. But the Buddha has taught that personal existence is just a name, for it is in fact neither existence nor non-existence. So it only has the name 'personal existence'."

Property is Theft. Property is Freedom. Property is an Illusion.

"Subhuti, if there were as many Ganges rivers as the number of grains of sand in the Ganges, would you say that the number of grains of sand in all those Ganges rivers would be very many?" Subhuti answered, "Very many indeed, Most Honored One. If the number of Ganges rivers were that large, how much more so would be the number of grains of sand in all those Ganges rivers." "Subhuti, I will declare a truth to you. If a good man or a good woman filled over ten thousand galaxies of worlds with the seven treasures for each grain of sand in all those Ganges rivers, and gave it all away for the purpose of compassion, charity and giving alms, would this man or woman not gain great merit and spread much happiness?" Subhuti replied, "Very much so, Most Honored One." "Subhuti, if after studying and observing even a single stanza of this Sutra, another person were to explain it to others, the happiness and merit that would result from this virtuous act would be far greater." "Furthermore, Subhuti, if any person in any place were to teach even four lines of this Sutra, the place where they taught it would become sacred ground and would be revered by all kinds of beings. How much more sacred would the place become if that person then studied and observed the whole Sutra! Subhuti, you should know that any person who does that would surely attain something rare and profound. Wherever this Sutra is honored and revered there is a sacred site enshrining the presence of the Buddha or one of the Buddha's most venerable disciples."

Defining egoless state

>>Are you in an egoless state at the moment? There are two possible components a person may envision in the idea of the egoless state. I'm permanently in an egoless state as far as one of those two components: I know intellectually and rationally that freewill, like separate-self, is essentially illusory, a practical illusion of convention, a virtual projection only. Enlightenment as a lasting, established condition of the mind generally does not entail both a permanent state of visionary cognition and the possession of the transcendent intellectual worldmodel -- only the latter is perpetually present or available on tap to the mature or perfected mind. Enlightenment is not an everlasting state of visionary cognition. However, visionary plants have the ready potential to ergonomically feed and produce the visionary state often, such as twice a week for long and intense periods. The shortage and rarity of the mystic visionary state is a myth; completely unnecessary. The better Buddhists, the better Muslims, the better Christians, the better Jews, the better magicians, the better alchemists, the better astrologers, the better Hindus, and the better shamans know that the intense mystic state is readily available on tap through the divine food, manna, bread from heaven, lotus, Soma, elixir, holy grail, divine plant of Mary, alabaster jar, and bowl of mind. >>Are you living from a condition of seeing through Mr. Hoffman most of the time? Intellectually, the understanding of the illusory nature of freewill/separate self is always available to my mind, on tap, from memory. The visionary state of loose cognition, with the vivid sense of nofree-will/no-separate-self, is normally not present. Those who have no intense visionary state on tap wish that they could be in an intense visionary state all the time, and unjustifiably, overzealously define enlightenment as entailing such a permanent visionary state.

in the theory of mysticism or in the philosophy of determinism. The initiation experience leads to re-conceiving many things, but most notably time and self-control (self as controller). Lately I'm searching mystic theories for expressions such as "god of time" or "controller of time". I want to portray the speared liver (such as in Odin, Jesus, and Prometheus) as the time axis killing the ego-as-controller. Can the ego-as-controller create its own future? Not if the future already exists or is frozen into place.

Perceiving time or the future as frozen directly kills ego because ego is considered by the mental model to be essentially a manipulator of one's future. The moment one's future is considered to be frozen, King Ego (an upstart would-be sovereign) is stripped of his scepter. > There no longer is any separation between the self and what is not the self.> Personal identity and all of existence become one and the same. In fact,> there is no "personal" identity because we understand at the most basic> level the underlying unity and interdependence of all existence. Past,> present, and future merge together into a timeless moment, the now of> eternity. Time stops, inasmuch as it no longer "passes." There is existence,> but it is not dependent upon time. Now and then, before and after, all> combine into this exact point. On the relative level, short periods of time> encompass enormous amounts of experience.> As our self and time lose their boundaries, space becomes vast. Like time,> space is no longer here or there but everywhere, limitless, without edges.> Here and there are the same. It is all here. Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you know something. Ego doesn't really control or change the future, it only appears to. > What you know, you can't explain. But you feel it. You felt it your entire > life. But there's something wrong with the world but you don't know what it > is, but it's there. Like a splinter in your mind. It's driving you mad. > You want to Wake Up! Waking up seems like a desirable idea, but we wake up to the frozenness of the future -- cosmic determinism and fatedness. We become dead as metaphysically autonomous controllers, and have to seek some other form of life and identity instead.

The tactics of ontological anarchism are rooted in this secret Art--the goals of ontological anarchism appear in its flowering. Chaos hexes its enemies & rewards its devotees...this strange yellowing pamphlet, pseudonymous & dust-stained, reveals all...send away for one split second of eternity.
Chaos Magic is further distinguished from the "systems" of the past by its approach. It sees ritual magic as psychodrama, rather than worship. As such, it is quite similar to the Stanislavsky system of Method Acting. One carefully defines the role one will enact during a magical ritual (including as part of the "character" a belief in the

existance of magic itself) and, surrounded by a setting condusive to that role, throws oneself in to as inspired of a performance as one can muster. If a sufficient level of meta-belief is achieved, the gates to effective magic are opened. Like a method actor, a Chaos Magician seeks to circumvent everyday reality and suspend disbelief. To do this he or she uses the tools of the actor: setting, costumes, props, words, sounds, and especially what Stanislavsky called emotional memory. Any powerful, transformative experience can be used to tap into the emotional memory, including sex, pain, confusion, elation, disgust and ecstasy -- especially in paradoxical combinations. Eshu (other names include Exu, Esu Eleggua, Esu Elegbara, Eshu Elegbara, Elegba, Legba, and Eleda) is both an orisha and one of the most well-known deities of the Yoruba mythology and its related New World traditions. He has a wide range of responsibilities: the protector of travelers, deity of roads, particularly crossroads, the deity with the power over fortune and misfortune, and the personification of death, a psychopomp. Eshu is involved within the Orisa (also spelt Orisha or Orixa)-If system of the Yoruba as well as in African diasporic faiths like Santeria/Lukumi and Candomble developed by the descendants of enslaved West Africans in the Americas, where Eshu was and is still sometimes identified with Saint Anthony of Padua, Saint Michael [1] or Santo Nio de Atocha, depending on the situation or location. He is often identified by the number three, and the colours red & black or white & black, and his caminos or paths (compare: avatar) are often represented carrying a cane or shepherd's crook, as well as smoking a pipe.
The techniques of Chaos Magic are applied by the magician to induce and utilize a mental state we call gnosis. This application of the term is similar to the meaning used by the Tantrists, where the discursive mind is short-circuited and the magician's intention can be imprinted onto the quantum flux of the universe. Even the briefest moment of gnosis, attained at a point when "the gates are open" and the will is being channelled through the subconscious mind, can be enough to bring about a magical result. Chaos Magicians use sigils (magical intentions that have been rendered into symbolic glyphs or mantras), ritual techniques from any source, especially original ones, and artifacts of any chosen culture to form a magical space, a temporary autonomous zone in which the subconscious mind can be directed. Gnosis is the gateway to effective magic. It is the moment of timelessness, the state of magical trance where the mind interfaces directly with the acausal interconnectivity of the universe. A ritual is basically a map of sub-consciousness, and therefore can be useful as a guide on the trail one would blaze into one's own psyche. However, prescribed rituals, along with such contrivances as "books of shadows", "holy books", "publications in class A" and the like, are precisely devised to protect the operant from Chaos. In short, there is always room for new Chaos Magic methods, but none whatsoever for Chaos Magic systems.

As referenced earlier, Macumba is practiced in Brazil. As an example, in the Amazonian city of Santarm, Par State, there is a shop which sells materials related to Macumba in the central part of the city. One symbol of Macumba in Amazonas is that of a black man wearing a white Fedora (a depiction of Exu, lord of the crossroads. There appears to be a relationship with the concept of the Boto (the

fresh-water porpoise found in the Amazonas River and its tributaries) having shapeshifting abilities and then while in the form of a human male having sexual relations with young women. This belief was noted in several Indian villages along the Amazonas (Solimes) River, Rio Negro and Japur River. As an example of how Macumba functions, if a person desires to receive money, he/she visits a person or a shop specializing in Macumba, such as the one in Santarm. After paying a sum to the specialist, the person is then given a certain herb gathered in the jungle and is told to put the herb in bathwater and told to bathe in it daily for seven days. The person utilizing the herb is then supposed to receive money thereafter. In Brazil it appears that males often are involved in the dispensing of Macumba knowledge/spells/materials. In other states, Macumba stands as a strand of an Afro-Brazilian religion called Umbanda. Macumba is considered an underground religion in Brazil but it is secretly practiced all over the world where there are Brazilian communities. Many Brazilians continue to practice their traditional religions (Christianity, Judaism, etc) but also practice Macumba secretly, usually at night or the weekends. The spiritual leader of a Macumba center is usually a black woman wearing an all-white garment smoking a corn pipe. During the consultation, she speaks to the spirits in a proprietary language and dances to the spirits in a volatile manner. If you have specific requests for the Macumbera (spiritual leader), such as seeking financial gains, spying on spouses, future predictions, etc., you pay her a fee and she will give you tasks to complete in order to fulfill the requests. Some of these tasks are: killing a chicken so that the Macumbera can drink its blood, buying large amounts of candy and leaving it on the side of the road for the spirits to consume there are many others. People also use Macumba to inflict harm, financial failure, death, etc. on former spouses, friends, family members, etc. One request that a spiritual leader will ask of you if you want to inflict harm on a person is to bring a picture of that person to the center. This is one reason, culturally practiced throughout Brazil, why Brazilians do not like to give pictures of themselves to people that they don't know very well. This is why Macumba is not something you talk about publicly in Brazil or in Brazilian communities throughout the world. One hundred years after its establishment, Umbanda is divided into several branches with different rituals and ceremonies. As the Terreiros de Umbanda are loosely united by the Umbanda federations, there is not a strong adherence to a single code of rite, ceremonies and creeds.
The Umbanda Branca, the original form created by Zlio de Moraes and his group, adopts the worship of Orixs and the African incantations practices, but they rejected the black witchcraft, the colorful costumes and the animal sacrifices practiced in the Macumba and Quimbanda rituals[4]. The pai-desantos and the me-de-santos always wear white outfits during the ceremonies of the Umbanda Branca. At the other end of the spectrum, Umbanda d'Angola and Umbanda Jej are newer sects with a body of

rituals, ceremonies and philosophies that equate themselves with other African-Brazilian religions such as Candombl, Jurema and Catimb. Another recent branch, called Umbanda Esotrica, is heavily influenced by Eastern philosophies. The older Terreiros de Umbanda, those established before 1940, have not integrated these new trends and still practice the original rites and ceremonies in a simpler way, specially dedicating themselves to charity works, as preached by Zlio de Moraes and his group. Umbanda ceremonies are generally open to the public and may take place several times a week[2]. Atabaques (Conga drums) and chanting play a central role in some Umbanda congregations, but are almost non-existent in others. The ceremonies may include offers to the spirits comprising fruits, cheap wine, farofa, cachaa, popcorn, cigarettes, hard cider and other types of food or beverages. Each Orix or spirit receives a proper offering, and initiation rites that range from the simple to complex. In the late-19th century, many Brazilian scholars criticized the African-Brazilian religions, claiming they were primitive and hindered modernization[2]. At the same time, the Allan Kardec's Spiritism, a development of spiritualism creeds, was increasingly accepted by the Brazilian urban middle-class with followers since 1865.[4] The kardecists followers of the Spiritism were mainly middle class and white people, many of them belonging to military and professional careers. They were deeply influenced by Auguste Comte's philosophy, the Positivism, that aimed to join religion and science and to help the development of society to a higher level.

Eshu is a spirit of Chaos and Trickery, and plays frequently by leading mortals to temptation and possible tribulation in the hopes that the experience will lead ultimately to their maturation. In this way he is certainly a difficult teacher, but in the end is usually found to be a good one[2]. As an example of this, let us look at one of his patakis or stories of the faith.[3] Eshu was walking down a road one day, wearing a hat that was red on one side and black on the other. Sometime after he entered a village which the road went through, the villagers who had seen him began arguing about whether the stranger's hat was black or red. The villagers on one side of the road had only been capable of seeing the black side, and the villagers on the other side had only been capable of seeing the red one. They soon came to blows over the disagreement which caused him to turn back and rebuke them, revealing to them how one's perspective can be as correct as another person's even when they appear to be diametrically opposed to each other. He then left them with a stern warning about how closed-mindedness can cause one to be made a fool. In other versions of this tale, the two halves of the village were not stopped short of extreme violence; they actually annihilated each other, and Eshu laughed at the result, saying "Bringing strife is my greatest joy".
Eshu is a spirit of Chaos and Trickery, and plays frequently by leading mortals to temptation and possible tribulation in the hopes that the experience will lead ultimately to their maturation. In this way he is certainly a difficult teacher, but in the end is usually found to be a good one[2]. As an example of this, let us look at one of his patakis or stories of the faith.[3] Eshu was walking down a road one day, wearing a hat that was red on one side and black on the other. Sometime after he entered a village which the road went through, the villagers who had seen him began arguing about whether the stranger's hat was black or red. The villagers on one side of the road had only been capable of seeing the black side, and the villagers on the other side had only been capable of seeing the red one. They soon came to blows over the disagreement which caused him to turn back and rebuke them, revealing to them how one's perspective can be as correct as another person's even when they appear to be diametrically opposed to each other. He then left them with a stern warning about how closed-mindedness can cause one to be made a fool. In other versions of this tale, the two halves of the village were not stopped short of extreme violence; they actually annihilated each other, and Eshu laughed at the result, saying "Bringing strife is my greatest joy".

In Brazil, the female counterpart of Exus are called Pomba Gira. Eshus are constantly related to Hermes/Mercury for their heraldic function.

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THE PATH OF CHAOS

1-All things have chaos as their beginning, chaos as their ending, and out of chaos they are made. And like all statements, this is neither true nor is it false. When the mind succumbs to the cocoon of order and the illusion of belief, freedom and spirit are lost and it becomes necessary to claim an identity. 2-All things have chaos as their beginning, chaos as their ending, and out of chaos they are made. And like all statements, this is neither false nor is it true. When the mind rejects the cocoon of order and the illusion of belief, freedom, spirit, and even a sense of humor are found; life can be lived. 3-In the beginning, or at the ending, or sometimes right now, it was said and will be said and is being said the most holy phrase "think for yourself!" All doctrines are heresy including this one. 4-In ancient times an ancient sage gathered together his disciples and admonished them to look after themselves for he would leave them soon. "oh, great master, please leave us with your ultimate teaching so that we can continue in your way. " He responded "Never whistle while you're pissing. Never believe what your hear. " 5-Romance is but another way for the cocoon of order to crush any sensitivity and to stifle any intimacy. Eros is simply a misspelling of Eris. Or at least Eros was meant as a joke; not a very funny one at that. Get romance out of the way and true love will flow. 6-Romance is but another way to break open the cocoon of order and to cultivate sensitivity where intimacy can grow. Eros is simply a misspelling of Eris. There can be no true eroticism without eristicism or at least a little discord. If Eros was originally meant as a joke then it's gotten out of hand. Good. Cultivate romance and true love will follow. 7-Waking up from confusion does not mean that the confusion will go anywhere. Nor will laughter pay your bills. But no amount of money could ever be worth as much as laughter. 8-It has often been said that the unexamined life is not worth living. However, if one examines their life and finds no laughter, such a person can truly say that their life is worthless. 9-The maker of laughter rejoices here and rejoices in the hereafter; Thus such a person rejoices in both places. Having beheld their deeds they rejoice exceedingly. 10-The suppressor of laughter frowns here and frowns in the hereafter; Such a person frowns everywhere. Having beheld their lack of laughter they frown exceedingly. Thus it

is said that the sage learns the art of tickling to wake up the dead. 11-When all the world confuses order with beauty, this in itself is ugliness. Therefore the sage instinctively walks the path and the non-path of chaos. Such a life is filled with incomparable beauty. Such a person living such a life is not afraid to worship their lovers. Such lovers learn true loving. Thus, it is often said that one way for true love to enter this world is to thoroughly confuse chaos with beauty. 12-It is often said that spiritual and religious teachings should be revered. And there are myriad ways to display reverence. But the truest most ancient most justified sages revered the heart and free thought above any teaching. 13-A squirrel was chasing a sparrow in the woods. The squirrel tripped and stumbled into a tree, losing consciousness. He awoke in a daze while the sparrow spoke thus: "these are the considerations which must be considered, 1: All violence is simply masochism. 2: Society is a joke by the general on the particular. 3: Think for yourself and believe in nothing. " The squirrel shook off the daze but was left with a splitting headache for the rest of the day. 14-If you can hear talking animals, you may be on the way to sagehood. If you can see the fnords, you may be on the way to sagehood. If you think that government was originally a practical joke that somehow got to be taken much too seriously, you are definitely on the way to sagehood, you shameless anarchist! 15-Those who pretend to be civilized are always threatened by heresy. Those who pretend to be uncivilized are always threatened by heresy. In short, heresy is always a threat to pretentious people. 16-The two major movements or inertias of humanity are likened to cattle and sheep, but truly cattle and sheep have more intelligence. 17-The immature continuously repeat the same mistakes and call it consistency. The immature but halfawakened continuously repeat the same mistakes and call it identity. The half-immature but almost awakened repeat the same mistakes and call it by a myriad of names. The mature have no need for excuses, names, justifications, or even pseudo-pop-psychology, whether they continue repeating mistakes or not. 18-The Universe is always laughing. Is it laughing with you, or at you? The Universe is always crying, is it crying with you, or for you? 19-Those on the left will get crushed by those on the right. Those on the right will get crushed by those on the left. Those in the middle will get crushed by both sides. Meanwhile those on the top will reap the profits and will not include the rest of us in their feasts. Truly, the need for the apple of discord is great. 20-The one whose mind is not defiled by order, whose heart is not defiled by sadness, and who has seen through good and evil, is free from fear and free from obedience. Such a person is said to be fully human. 21-Days and nights slip by. Love affairs and one-nighters blur on by. Bills come by mail to be paid or neglected. Mountains crumble and new nations are born. Wars are still fought and the same stupid reasons are given. As has been said, indeed many things do come to pass, you being one of them. But when was the last time you laughed?

22-Be wary of people praying in front of liquor stores. Such people are calling upon the spirits instead of drinking them. 23-It was rumored that in response to the often quoted statement "it is an ill wind that blows no minds" the wind blowing at the time shouted "blow your own damn minds!" Faithfully written by St. Hugh, KSC, Ignifactus of Malaria; as profoundly revealed to him by Our Lady Discordia.

The Ten Mahavidyas

These are listed in the third patala of Yoni Tantra as Kali, Tara, Sodasi, Chinnamastaka, Bhagalamukhi, Matangi, Bhuvaneshvari, Mahalakshmi and associated with the different parts of the yoni. This list of the Mahavidyas differs from that in Todala Tantra (Sothis Weirdglow 1984) The man they were indentured to was, by chance, the chief sorcerer of the king. When he saw that they were clever, he began to teach them sorcery, to help him with his work. They learned quickly, especially the oldest brother. But sorcery troubled him, and he was not sure the sorcerer was a good sorcerernor the king a good king. After a few years, he said, Brother, we have come to our Second Test. We must escape this place and find honest work. But the middle brother saw that the sorcerer was rich and powerful. Eventually the indenture would end, and he would be a sorcerer himself. He did not want to go on the run and have always to hide from the kings men. In short, he was greedy, and afraid. Varahi So the older brother prayed to the gods, and a blood-red goddess appeared. She was dancing naked and she held a half-skull filled with blood. Who was that? I asked. That was Vajra Varahi, my uncle said. She had the head of a boar. The middle brother was very afraid, but because the older brother was pure of heart, he prostrated to her, and she laughed like a madwoman, and promised to protect him. Science has put meditation under the microscope and has found amazing psychological and physiological benefits: Psychological Benefits Increased feelings of vitality and rejuvenation; Increased happiness; Increased emotional stability; Decreased anxiety; Decreased depression; Greater creativity;

 Decreased irritability and moodiness; Improved learning ability and memory; Increased insight and wisdom. Physiological benefits Deep rest (as measured by decreased metabolic rate, and lower heart rate); Lowered levels of cortisol and lactate (two chemicals associated with stress); Improved blood pressure; Drop in cholesterol levels; Improved flow of air to the lungs; Significant slowing of the aging process.

The simplest and most natural meditation is a way that Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh teaches: on your in-breath, silently say in, and on your out-breath, silently say out. If you do this even for just five minutes, you will notice that soul and body start to relax and find ease. There is a lot more to meditation but its good to start simple.
Ashmodei, Pantherion, Snake of panLogick She speaks softly, muttering admonishments: I am the snake that from which wisdom and means emminate. My body is knowldge and delight. Of me take wine and strange drugs, wereof I will speak to my heralds and they shall be poisoned thereof. This is a lie, this folly, of for against self. Innocence is a lie. Be strong and be enraptured. Fear not the void, Lust, desire and enjoy all things of sense and rapture; fear not that any god should deny thee! But! Woe to thee, for within lies gravest danger! He who examines himself, will find nothing, and therein is driven insane. Whomever enact what he does not understand commits the greatest of follies! He shall err so gravely as to fall into the pit we call Because. Therein he shall be devoured by the wolves of reason, the vulture of discrete causality. If he asks "Why?" he summons Because! Because shall fell and pall his will! I am the secret threefold-five-notself. I am the blasphemy against all gods and men! CURSE THEM! CURSE THEM! CURSE THEM! CURSE THEM! CURSE THEM! With my hawk's beak I peck the eyes of Jesus. With my snake's venom I spit in the face of Muhammed. With my claws I rend and tear the flesh of every God, Messiah, Prophet, Preist and Hierodule!

My left hand is empty! I have crushed the universes within and nought remains. let it be understood that I am the God of all wrath! I am strife, war, and vengance! War is Peace! I am the horror which anihilates all woes. With those who resists I shall deal harshly! Of my worship, conquer and that shall be enough! Worship me with fire and blood! Worship me with meat and wine! Let the women be girt with sword and spear before me! Let thier blood flow to my name!
3+3=3

Trample the heathen! Be upon them my warriors! I will give ye thier flesh as food, thier blood as drink! Eat, and let your thirst be satiated. Success is the only proof. Courage the only armour. Go on, Go in in my strenght and wrath; turn back for none! Widdershins are movements around the circle in an anticlockwise dance. Some witches may find it useful to recite the Lords Prayer Backwards while moving widdershins in the beginning of the Sabbat Rite, this allowing or giving permission to the nature of the Working itself.
Subhuti said to the Buddha, "By what name shall we know this Sutra, so that it can be honored and studied?" The lord Buddha replied, "This Sutra shall be known as 'The Diamond that Cuts through Illusion'. By this name it shall be revered and studied and observed. What does this name mean? It means that when the Buddha named it, he did not have in mind any definite or arbitrary conception, and so named it. This Sutra is hard and sharp, like a diamond that will cut away all arbitrary conceptions and bring one to the other shore of Enlightenment." "What do you think, Subhuti? Has the Buddha taught any definite teaching in this Sutra?" "No lord, the Buddha has not taught any definite teaching in this Sutra." "What do you think, Subhuti? Are there many particles of dust in this vast universe?" Subhuti replied: "Yes, many, Most Honored One!" "Subhuti, when the Buddha speaks of particles of dust, it does not mean I am thinking of any definite or arbitrary thought, I am merely using these words as a figure of speech. They are not real, only illusion. It is just the same with the word universe; these words do not assert any definite or arbitrary idea, I am only using the words as words." "Subhuti, what do you think? Can the Buddha be perceived by means of his thirty-two physical characteristics?" "No, Most Honored One. The Buddha cannot be perceived by his thirty-two physical characteristics. Why? Because the Buddha teaches that they are not real but are merely called the thirty-two physical characteristics." "Subhuti, if a good and faithful person, whether male or female, has, for the sake of compassion and charity, been sacrificing their life for generation upon generation, for as many generations as the grains of sands in 3,000 universes; and another follower has been studying and observing even a single section of this Sutra and explains it to others, that person's blessings and merit would be far greater."

Invoke me as such: Ashmodeous, Ashmodei, Pantherion! ERIS! MA! Be my golden shroud, KALLISTI May our minds and hearts blood unite. Upon your serpentine form may we pluge into the abyss, Beyond reason and across the burning seas of woe! Screech, shatter the cosmos: Swirl deeper into her womb. We are the shimmering mirror were endless beginings SWIM INFINITE therein merging the senses, touch me with ultimate pleasure! May the Passion of Hunting BECOME ALL DEVOURING! I AM YOU, YOU ARE ME! These and many other doctrines, are declared by me as the perpetuators of sin and illusion. Each and all depending on a muddled implication, obscuring, yet evolved from the duality of the consciousness for their enjoyment. In fear they would vomit hot blood were they to see the fruits of their actions and pleasures. Thus believing in widely 5 different doctrines, they are of the dual principle, necessary parasites on each other. Like drugs and the surgeon's knife, they only annul or at best remove an effect. They do not change or remove the fundamental cause (the law). "Oh, God, thou art the stagnant environment." All is quackery: these religions whose very existence depend on their failure, are so full of misery and confusion, have only multiplied arguments, as full of argument as they are evil, so crowded with non-essentials, being so barren of any free

pleasure in this life or another, I cannot uphold their doctrines. Their criterion for enjoyment-death! Better it were a man renounce them all, and embrace his own invincible purpose. He cannot go further, and this is his only release. By it he may put his pleasure where he will, and find satisfaction.
St. Rufus the Uncouth asks: "If this is tourist season, how come we're not allowed to shoot them?"

The Ritual and Doctrine Lying on your back lazily, the body expressing the condition of yawning, suspiring while conceiving by smiling, that is the idea of the posture. Forgetting time with those things which were essential- reflecting their meaninglessness, the moment is beyond time and its virtue has happened. Standing on tip-toe, with the arms rigid, bound behind by the hands, clasped and straning the utmost, the neck streched- breathing deeply and spasmodically, till giddy and sensation comes in gusts, gives exhaustion and capacity for the former.Gazing at your reflection till it is blurred and you know not the gazer, close your eyes (this usually happens involuntarily) and visualize. The light (always an X in curious evolutions) that is seen should be held on to, never letting go, till the effort is forgotten, this gives a feeling of immensity (which sees a small form ), whose limit you cannot reach. This should be practised before experiencing the foregoing. The emotion that isfelt is the knowledge which tells you why. The death posture is its inevitability accelerated, through it we escape our unending delay by attachment, the Ego is swept up as a leaf in a fierce gale- in the fleetness of the indeterminable, that which is always about to happen becomes its truth. Things that are self-evident are no longer obscure, as by his own will he pleases, know this as the negation of all faith by living it, the end of the duality of the consciousness. Of belief, a positive death state, all else as sleep, a negative state. It is the dead body of all we believe, and shall awake a dead corpse. The Ego in subjection to law, seeks inertion in sleep and death. Know the death posture and its reality in annihilation of law- the ascension from duality. In that day of tearless lamentation the universe shall be reduced to ashes . . . . but he escapes the judgment! And what of "I," most unfortunate man! In that freedom there is no necessitation, what dare I saymore? Rather would I commit much sin than compromise myself. There are many preliminary exercises, as innumerable as sins, futile of themselves but designative of the ultimate means. The death posture in the reduction of all conception (sin) to the "NeitherNeither" till the desire is contentment by pleasing yourself. By this and by no other are the inertia of belief; the restoration of the new sexuality and the ever original self-love in freedom are attained. The primordial vacuity (or belief) is not by the exercise of focussing the mind on a negation of all conceivable things, the identity of unity and duality, chaos and uniformity, etc., etc., but by doing it now, not eventually. Percieve, and feel without the necessity of an opposite, but by its relative. Percieve light without shadow by its own colour as contrast, through evoking the emotion of laughter at the time of ecstasy in union, and by practice till that emotion is untiring and subtle. The law or reaction is defeated by inclusion. Were he to enjoy an hundred pleasures at a time, however much his ecstasy, he does not lose, but great increase takes place. Let him practise it daily, accordingly, till he arrives at the centre of desire. He has imitated the great purpose. Like this, all emotions should find equipoise at the time of emanation, till they become one. Thus by hindering belief and semen from conception, they become

simple and cosmic. By its illumination there is nothing that cannot be explained. Certainly I find satisfaction in ecstasy. I have now told you a secret of great import, it was known to me in childhood. Even by sedulously striving for a vacuity of belief, one is cosmic enough to dwell in the innermost of others and enjoy them. Among men few know what they really believe or desire, let him begin, who would know, by locating his belief till he sees his will. Existing as dual, they are identical in desire, by their duality there is no control, for will and belief are ever at variance, and each would shape the other to its ends, in the issue neither wins as the joy is a covert of sorrow. Let him unite them. ON THE SUBJECT OF HOT DOG BUNS IT seems there is some confusion about the actual adherence of many discordians to the 5th law expoused in the PENTABARF, regarding the consumption of HOT DOG BUNS. It is my position that a HOT DOG BUN only constituites a HOT DOG BUN when it is BUNing a HOT DOG. Otherwise it is potentially a sausage BUN, sandwich BUN, or some other such type of food enrobing bread. I don't eat HOT DOGS 'cause they're empty calories, full of fillers and preservatives. Somtimes I use BUNS sold for use with HOT DOGS, but I do not eat BUNed HOT DOGS per se.

As an early Latin tract indicates, the Arras Witches held numerous sexual relations with demons as described in the following from 1460At the Sabbats of the Vaudois, the presiding devil took aside the neophyte and carried her off to one side of the grove, so that in his own fashion he might make love to her and have carnal knowledge of her; to whom he said maliciously that he would lay her down on the ground supporting herself on her two hands and feet, and that he could not have intercourse with her in any other position; and that was the way the presiding devil enjoyed her, because at the first sensation by the neophyte of the member of the presiding devil, very often appeared cold and soft, as very frequently the whole body. At first he put it in the natural orifice and ejaculated the spoiled yellowing sperm, collected from nocturnal emissions or elsewhere, then in the anus, and in this manner inordinately abused her.upon her return to the sabbat, the neophyte, before the banquet entered into sexual relations with any other man.then, the torches (if there were any) being extinguished, each one at the order of the presiding devil takes his partner and has intercourse. Sometimes indeed indescribably outrages are perpetrated in exchanging women, by the order of the presiding devil, by passing on a women to the other women and a man to other men, an abuse against the nature of women by both parties and similarly against the nature of men, or by a woman with a man outside the regular

orifice and in another orifice

The Kaulavali Nirnaya (Agamanusandhana Samiti, Calcutta nd), edited by Sir John Woodroffe, is a digest of other Kaula tantras. Summarising chapter 18, Sir John paraphrases the tantra:---- there are people who regard semen and menstrual fluid with disgust, but they forget that the body by which they hope to attain Liberation is composed of these two forms of matter, that the marrow, bone and tendons have come from the father and the skin, flesh and blood from the mother. It further says that there is no reason for mans disgust for excreta or urine, for these are nothing but food or drink which has undergone some change and contains living creatures and the Brahman substance is not absent therefromAll things are pure. It is ones mentality which is evil. (KN, introduction, pp19-20)
In Nox Umbra the Invocation of the Vampyre Queen, Lilith utilizes a bloodied or red cloth, sometimes stained with menstrual blood if possible. This may be used to cover the head in the Sabbat Ritual Dance, thus through movement and excitement; the lack of oxygen itself for a short period will create ecstasy without the outside use of alkaloids or other drugs. When using the Waking Sabbat rite for spell casting or sorcery, you will want to have a clear idea of what you want to achieve. You will also want to create or adopt a sigil which holds connection to the goal or it may represent the desire of the spell. You may also use a Mantra or phrase which holds significance to the same. As you perform the rite, with the decorated chamber or even in the woods, envision the demons and familiars in your company and the spirits carrying your Will to become Flesh. As your rite comes to a climax, loose all desire in the sigil at the moment of exhaustion. If you have a sigil for the working, destroy it and forget it the rite should then be enjoyed as a walking in the crossroads or inbetween worlds.
At that time, after listening to this Sutra, Subhuti had understood its profound meaning and was moved to tears. He said, "What a rare and precious thing it is that you should deliver such a deeply profound teaching. Since the day I attained the eyes of understanding, thanks to the guidance of the Buddha, I have never before heard teachings so deep and wonderful as these. Most Honored One, if someone hears this Sutra, and has pure and clear confidence in it they will have a profound insight into the truth. Having perceived that profound insight, that person will realize the rarest kind of virtue. Most Honored One, that insight into the truth is essentially not insight into the truth, but is what the Buddha calls insight into the truth." "Most Honored One, having listened to this Sutra, I am able to receive and retain it with faith and understanding. This is not difficult for me, but in ages to come - in the last five hundred years, if there is a person who hears this Sutra, who receives and retains it with faith and understanding, then that person will be a rare one, a person of most remarkable achievement. Such a person will be able to awaken pure faith because they have ceased to cherish any arbitrary notions of their own selfhood, other selves, living beings, or a universal self. Why? Because if they continue to hold onto arbitrary conceptions as to their own selfhood, they will be holding onto something that is non-existent. It is the same with all arbitrary conceptions of other selves, living beings, or a universal self. These are all expressions of non-existent things. Buddhas are Buddhas because they have been able to discard all arbitrary conceptions of form and phenomena, they have transcended all perceptions, and have penetrated the illusion of all forms." The Buddha replied: "So it is, Subhuti. Most wonderfully blest will be those beings who, on hearing this Sutra, will not tremble, nor be frightened, or terrified in any way. And why? The Buddha has taught this

Sutra as the highest perfection. And what the Buddha teaches as the highest perfection, that also the innumerable Blessed Buddhas do teach. Therefore is it called the 'highest perfection'." "Subhuti, when I talk about the practice of transcendent patience, I do not hold onto any arbitrary conceptions about the phenomena of patience, I merely refer to it as the practice of transcendent patience. And why is that? Because when, thousands of lifetimes ago, the Prince of Kalinga severed the flesh from my limbs and my body I had no perception of a self, a being, a soul, or a universal self. If I had cherished any of these arbitrary notions at the time my limbs were being torn away, I would have fallen into anger and hatred." "I also remember Subhuti that during my five hundred previous lives I had used life after life to practice patience and to look upon my life humbly, as though I were a saint called upon to suffer humility. Even then my mind was free of arbitrary conceptions of the phenomena of my self, a being, a soul, or a universal self." "Therefore, Subhuti, disciples should leave behind all distinctions of phenomena and awaken the thought of the attainment of Supreme Enlightenment. A disciple should do this by not allowing their mind to depend upon ideas evoked by the world of the senses - by not allowing their mind to depend upon ideas stirred by sounds, odors, flavors, sensory touch, or any other qualities. The disciple's mind should be kept independent of any thoughts that might arise within it. If the disciple's mind depends upon anything in the sensory realm it will have no solid foundation in any reality. This is why Buddha teaches that the mind of a disciple should not accept the appearances of things as a basis when exercising charity. Subhuti, as disciples practice compassion and charity for the welfare of all living beings they should do it without relying on appearances, and without attachment. Just as the Buddha declares that form is not form, so he also declares that all living beings are, in fact, not living beings."

Malcalypse the Elder sets the Record Straight

"Did you ever meet Jesus?" Joe asked, awed in spite of his skepticism. Malcalypse smiled. "I was Jesus. I wasn't the original Jesus, Joe, the one that they crucified. But-this happened a few centuries after I experienced transcendental illumination at Melos-I was passing through Judea in the persona of a Greek merchent when they crucified Jesus. I met some of his followers the day he died, and I talked with them. If you think Christianity is a bloody religion as it is, this is nothing to what it would have been if Jesus hadn't seemed to come back. If the seventeen original apostles-five of them have been purged from the records-had been left on their own, they would have passed from horror and terror at Jesus's death to vindictive fury. It would have been as if Islam had come seven centuries earlier. Instead of slowly taking over the Roman Empire and preserving much of the Greco-Roman world intact, it would have swept and mobilized the East, destroyed most of Western civilization and replaced it with a theocracy more oppressive than Pharaonic Egypt. I stopped that with a few magic tricks.

Appearing in the persona of the ressurected Jesus, I taught there was no need for hate and vengeance after my death. I even tried to get them to realize that life is a game by teaching them Bingo. To this day, nobody understands and the critics call it part of the commercialism of the Church. The sacred Tarot wheel, the moving Mandela! So despite my influence, Christianity focused obsessively on the crucifixion of Jesus-which is really irrelevent to what he taught while he was alive-and remained a kind of death worship. When Paul went to Athens and made the link-up with the Illuminati, who were using Plato's Academy as a front, the ideology of Plato combined with the mythology of Christ to deliver the knockout blow to pagan humanism and lay the foundations for the modern world of superstates. After that, I changed my appearance again and took the name of Simon Magus and had some success spreading ideas contradictory to Christianity. " page 336-337, Illuminatus! Trilogy by Robert Anton Wilson Rough Guide to Freedom (for the recently self liberated) So you've broken out of jail and you're feeling pretty pleased with yourself. So you should, seeing the bars of the black iron prison is no mean feat but now what? The insight you have gained is crucial but it's also potentially lethal to your own self. Remember that old axiom - A little knowledge is a dangerous thing? Welcome to it's big brother - A lot of knowledge is even more dangerous. Right now, just by knowing what you know you have become a thought criminal. They are looking for you and, if you're not careful, they will find you. Then they'll neutralise you. The good news is they don't know who you are yet. This guide contains 3 golden rules which may help you to keep it that way. Good luck and stay safe. 1) Keep your head down. Evangelism looks good on paper but take it from me it's a surefire road to the gas chamber. One of the most famous evangelists in western history was a chap named Yeshua ben Joseph or, as he was more popularly known, Jesus Christ. Here's a guy who stood up and shouted it from the top of the mount and look where it got him Nailed to a plank of wood and left to rot. The stuff he said was rewritten, franchised and repackaged by an early version of government inc. and used to fuel numerous wars, takeovers and oppression projects, all in Jesus name, on behalf of Katholickism PLC and various subsiduaries. What you have to remember is that if the grazing sheep can see you then so can the bad guys. If you've found a loophole then you've shown them it and you can bet your sorry ass that they'll be busy sealing it up just as you're busy decomposing in an unmarked grave, all the while fertilising the grass that the sheep are fed. The more obvious you become the more attention you will draw so burn the Che Guevara teeshirt and buy something with Hugo Boss written on it. Tear down the burning buddhist posters and get rid of the CND bumper stickers. Keep your books under the bed. If you really want to accomplish something then your best bet is to work undercover. Jumping on a soapbox and spreading the gospel is not how you get the message across, it's how you end up in jail. Do not subscribe to subversive

magazines. Do not turn up at demos and rallys, all their operatives mugshots are on federal databases an, even worse, they achieve approximately nothing. Make no mistake, now that you've slipped your chain they're looking for you. Don't make it easy for them. 2) Talk about the weather. If you're one of them they'll listen to you but only if you're saying the kind of thing they want to hear. To get to the stage you are at right now you've probably always gone against the flow, proud to stand apart from the herd and spit on their customs and conventions. Newsflash - none of them like you! You're just another wierdo, screaming 'burn your MTV' at them from the gutter someplace. Another fuckhead with a sandwitch board with "End of the world is nigh" written on it. They are conditioned to ignore subversion. Their continued slavery depends on it. So blend in. If some BIP pamphlets turn up in the office photocopier it'll be the guy with the dredlocks and facial piercings that gets questioned before the ones with the neat YSL suits and combed side shed. And think about it - haven't you learned by now that the Goth or Eco Warrior look is just another manufactured individualism, sold to the fringes to satisfy their urge to be different? Fashion statements are bullshit, you're supposed to know better. So cut your fucking hair and break out the sensible shoes. You stand a much better chance of getting close enough to mindfuck them and, more importantly, get away with it if you look Normal. 3) Keep your eyes open You have a new level of awareness and now you have a new peer group. Your new friends aren't as easy to recognise because they don't all wear the same gear your last peer group wore and they don't spout the same idealistic bullshit the last bunch did. Your new friends have learned rules 1 and 2 and blended in quietly. So listen to the 'ordinary' people a bit more carefully. Sure most of them are the same fuckheads you hated before but every odd one or two have been quietly fucking with the system for years. They will be wary of you in the same way as you should be wary of them but you should be able to discern the odd subtle difference in attitude, the unflappability in pressure situations. An easy going nature that belies a heart of steel. Put out some feelers, drop a discordian flyer in your college or workplace or doctors waiting room then keep an eye on anyone who looks at it. The guy who has a glance, smirks, then puts it back - he's the one you'll have a meaningful conversation with. But make no mistake, being liberated is a lonely existence. Get used to it. 'Real' people are few and far between.

Tao, Zen And Deconstructionism Philosophically, Chaos Magic bears a resemblance to Taoism, except for the Taoist's attitude of quietism and passivety. Success hinges on ego-annihilation, so there is a lot in common with the Buddhist Nagarjuna and Madhyamaka schools, and perhaps even more so with the Nyingmapa school of Tibetan Buddhism. An examination of the Chod rituals of Tibetan Buddhists will yield valuable clues as to the formulation of effective Chaos rites. The effect of a Zen Buddhist koan on the discursive mind is a small taste of what a Chaos Magician seeks. The practice of Chaos Magic can be destablizing, because it's designed to deconstruct belief. Like psychedelic drugs, it can drastically alter your reality. So it's not for the squeamish, or for those who fear what lurks in their deepest selves, for it is from those deep selves that the Chaos Mage forges his or her gods and demons. Such dualistic concepts as "white" or "black" magic are not applicable to Chaos Magic, at least not in the sense of being good or evil. Magic is a force, like electromagnetism, and has no inherent moral qualities. Peter Carroll wrote in Liber Null, "The end results of either path are likely not to be dissimilar, for the paths meet in a way that is impossible to describe.

The Cloudy Enemies Born of Stagnant Self-Hypnotism.

Natural belief is the intuition that compels belief through that which is experienced reacting, and dominating in turns; everything has to associate itself through its definite emotion, stimulated by those in harmony; those discordant, lose cogency and inhibit. So by its own workings belief is limited and determined for you. The majority of our actions can be traced back to a subconscious desire (for freedom) in conflict with habit, an obedience to inherent fatalism which hangs on "good and bad" actions already committed (in past existence) against a preserved morality11 and whose reaction gives expression as spontaneity, involuntariness, autonomy, the deliberate, etc., as the chance arises. The rest is due to a conflicting traditional moral doctrine that has become constitutional (partly adopted to govern and time this reaction). In its origin, an idea of what was then considered conveniently good and bad . . . . To maximize pleasure by an arbitrary compromise of abstention and performance of desire feared. Assimilated by the deceit of its divine origin, its tenets are reward for obedience, punishment for transgression, both holding good for all time (this world and another). This moral code is a dramatised burlesque of the conceptive faculty, but is never so perfect or simple in that it allows latitude for change in any sense, so becomes dissociated from evolution, etc; and this divorce loses any utility and of necessity for its own preservation and the sympathy desired, evolves contradictions or a complication to give relationship. Transgressing its commandments, dishonesty shows us its iniquity, for our justification; or simultaneously we create an excuse or reason for the sin by a distortion of the moral code, that allows some incongruity. (Usually retaing a few unforgiveable sins- and an unwritten law.) This negative confession is a feigned rationalism that allows adventitious excuses . . . . a process of self-deception to satisfy and summarily persuade yourself of righteousness.

What one among us has any excuse but self-love? We do not create or confess a morality that is convenient, that lends itself to growth, and remains simple, that allows transgression without excuse or punishment. It would be wise and commonsense to do so, whatever the state of affairs in your mind. Nature eventually denies that which it affirms: Through permanent association with the same moral code we help desire to transgress. Desire of those things denied, the more you restrict the more you sin, but desire equally desires preservation of moral instinct, so desire is its own conflict (and weakly enough). Have no fear, the Bull of earth has long had nothing to do with your unclean conscience, your stagnant ideas of morality. The microbe alone would seem without fear! 11: The elemental morality or fear of displeasing.
"Subhuti, if on the one hand, a son or daughter of a good family gives up his or her life in the morning as many times as there are grains of sand in the Ganges river as an act of generosity, and gives as many again in the afternoon and as many again in the evening, and continues doing so for countless ages; and if, on the other hand, another person listens to this Sutra with complete confidence and without contention, that person's happiness will be far greater. But the happiness of one who writes this Sutra down, receives, recites, and explains it to others cannot even be compared it is so great." "Subhuti, we can summarize by saying that the merit and virtue of this Sutra is inconceivable, incalculable and boundless. The Buddha has declared this teaching for the benefit of initiates on the path to Enlightenment; he has declared it for the benefit of initiates on the path to Nirvana. If there is someone capable of receiving, practicing, reciting, and sharing this Sutra with others, the Buddha will see and know that person, and he or she will receive immeasurable, incalculable, and boundless merit and virtue. Such a person is known to be carrying the Supreme Enlightenment attained by the Buddha. Why? Subhuti, if a person is satisfied with lesser teachings than those I present here, if he or she is still caught up in the idea of a self, a person, a living being, or a universal self, then that person would not be able to listen to, receive, recite, or explain this Sutra to others."

"Subhuti, wherever this Sutra shall be observed, studied and explained, that place will become sacred ground to which countless spiritually advanced beings will bring offerings. Such places, however humble they may be, will be revered as though they were famous temples, and countless pilgrims will come there to worship. Such a place is a shrine and should be venerated with formal ceremonies, and offerings of flowers and incense. That is the power of this Sutra." The Complexity of the Belief (Know Thyself). The nature of belief equals all possibilities ultimately true by identification through culture to an idea of time, so what is not timely is not true, and what is not true, prognostication. Thought of one thing, implies the possibility of another idea as contradicting but not dissociated, belief is to make "one" more convincing. The condition of belief is the denial or limit imposed on the capability of the vitality. To believe at all as such is a concentration and schooling to exclude the implied by adopting a hypothesis or faith that reflects non-worryingly or deceitfully rationalizes the rejected. Truth is not the truth of formula. The centre of belief is love for one's self, projecting environment for fulfilment but allowing its distortion to simulate denial, an ambition to become ulterior to self-desire, but you cannot get further than the centre, so one multiplies (believes) in order to be more

unaware of the fundamental. Now this refusal to believe what one believes and exactly as one believes, is the first condition for all those who are in desire in any sense whatsoever; the man who is in love perforce becomes a liar, self-hypnotised by his morbid ornamentation. You know the results. . . . .You can only "truly believe" one thing, yet its implexion is essential (as the truth seems to kill12), so the imagined goes on for ever. The imagination learns that the idea is its compulsion. To explain the "why" of belief (or of anything else), we must transcend its schism. By entire consciousness in how the self loves is the means. As we imitate this law of duality in all our processes of believing, it is not so simple as it seems. Who has transgressed the law of conception? Who has no fear? Yet by this sin, is the sciential of what determines the Schetic. Gracefully compelling or expecting disappointment at the time of desire is the means of locating its deceit, a consciousness that alone gives the chance of inquiry. Beyond it is something arbitrary, the pauser, the ordainer of law, imitating it by "reason" is but damning the consequences. Reason is belief, belief is fear of one's capability, the faith that you are not even all the wonders of creation, let alone the possibility of being the creator. It is delay . . . . Belief well earns the terrible hatred of the vitality. Belief is not freedom. Belief creates its necessary experience, progress germinates in retrogression. Consider the reality is somewhere: and your belief may be too small for its habitation. Oh, ye of much faith in God, merge into it by the worship of self! Ah! foolish man, worship the glorious in freedom. When death approaches the faith in God and desire of woman will not save you, what are their use when withering and decay sets in and the body is an object of disgust? And what is the use of knowledge and charity when reality is known? Unsheathe the sword of self; ideas of the Almighty should be constantly slain and righteousness should be inquired into. 12: And does kill when feared.

Think you've figured it all out? You've got the key to the door of completeness and happiness? You've found the secret stash of American Dream Pie? Get your fucking head out of the sand. Don't you notice how gritty your bliss tastes? Whosoever shall study his true nature a little, him does the "self" investigate with his extraordinary conduct. He can compel anything without offending. As the tendency of the most lustful ceases before publicity and death, so do morals and faith before the perfect bliss. A glimpse of the truth is born of purity of love: when the desire is without fear, when it does not desire possession. When the thought is fulfilled by vision. The fire that is all pleasure is loosed at his will, he is attraction, the cynosure of women. When the believing principle is devoid of faith, as sterile of possessing ideas of God - he is indestructible. Only when there is no fear in any form is there realisation of identity with reality (freedom). For them there is no danger in negligence, there being no discrimination. For him who is conscious of the slightest differentiation there is fear. So long as there is perception of self-reproach or conscience, there is pain germinating: there

is no freedom. He who believes anything he perceives or imagines, falls into sin. By believing without feeling perturbation, forgetting ideas of external and internal, he regards everything as self, and is the consciousness of non-resistance, has no horizon: he is free. On seeing the star-lit eyes and rosebud mouths, the breasts and loins of beautiful women, you become lovingly attached, but if you fear, consider constantly that they are merely the charred flesh and bones of yourself after the torture. The space between the eternal and "self," is it not a moral doctrine? By unbelieving all one believes and sedulously without anxiety not believing (by the "Neither-Neither" process), the principle becomes simple and cosmic enough to include what you are always desiring, and you are free to believe what was impossible. The desire is so mighty, it asks no permission, and suffers no consequences, but the ecstasy of its possession. Against it nothing can prevail, it burns up, as celluloid cast into the furnace- the old folly of promising things on behalf of an imagined "another." At hand is the freedom of Heaven, the Way, the Truth, and the Light, and none dare say this of himself but by me, in Truth I alone am "Self," my will unconditioned, is magical. Those who have lived much in their nature will in some degree be familiar with such a sensation, poor though it be. After many days walk, he came to the land of the cannibal witches. There at once he was captured. Because he did not know their secret signs, the witches thought he was an enemy, and they decided to kill him. Krodha Kali (Troma Nakmo)

Krodha Kali (Troma Nakmo) He realized he had come to the Third Test. Again he prayed, and a terrifying black goddess appeared. She was surrounded by gouts of flame and she wore a necklace of severed human heads. Who was that? I asked. That was Krodha Kali, my uncle said. She grants the power of cutting your own anger.

 When she appeared, the witches were afraid. But because he was pure of heart, he was not afraid, and he prostrated to her. She roared like a tiger, said nothing, and vanished. But there was a young witch who saw that he was fearless and pure of heart. She saw that he was brave and handsome and clever. And in an instant, she fell in love with him. That night, she freed him, and they escaped together. Was she a princess? I asked. No, said my uncle. But the hero is supposed to rescue a princess, and then they get married, I said. Well, she wasnt a princess. But she was very beautiful. Or at least the oldest brother thought so; and that is what matters. The witches were furious when they found out what she had done. They chased the young witch and the oldest brother as they ran away, screaming that she had broken their sacred law, and both must die. So she turned and spat on the ground behind her. And where her spit landed, a lake formed. It spread wider and wider, until they could hardly see the witches on the far bank. They were shaking their fists, because witches cannot cross water. So the young witch and the oldest brother went on. But then after a while they could see that the witches had made their way around the lake and were coming up quickly behind them. The witches were gnashing their teeth because they wanted to eat them up. So the young witch took some of the hairs from between her legs, and she blew them off her palm, and where the hairs landed, a black forest of tangled thorn-trees grew up. So the young witch and the oldest brother ran on, hand in hand. Just when they came to a wide river, they saw that the wicked witches had gotten through the thorn-forest and were catching up, close behind them. The witches were cursing and muttering, because they wanted to send demons to kill the young witch and the oldest brother. The river was dry at that time of year, a plain of sand. The young witch and the oldest brother made it across. And when they reached the far shore, the young witch took some of the blood from between her legs, and she shook it onto the dry river bed. And the empty river filled with roaring river-water, which swept the wicked witches away. And that was the last anyone ever heard of them. The young witch and the oldest brother came back to the village where he was born. For he had had enough of the wide world. He wanted now just to be a farmer, and to love

his wife.
"Furthermore, Subhuti, if a good man or good woman who accepts, upholds, reads or recites this Sutra is disdained or slandered, if they are despised or insulted, it means that in prior lives they committed evil acts and as a result are now suffering the fruits of their actions. When their prior life's evil acts have finally been dissolved and extinguished, he or she will attain the supreme clarity of the most fulfilled, and awakened mind." "Subhuti, in ancient times before I met Dipankara Buddha, I had made offerings to and had been attendant of all 84,000 million Buddhas. If someone is able to receive, recite, study, and practice this Sutra in a later, more distant age, then the happiness and merit brought about by this virtuous act would be hundreds of thousands of times greater than that which I brought about by my service to the Buddhas in ancient times. In fact, such happiness and merit cannot be conceived or compared with anything, even mathematically. If I were to explain all this in detail now some people might become suspicious and disbelieving, and their minds may even become disoriented or confused. Subhuti, you should know that the meaning of this Sutra is beyond conception and discussion. Likewise, the fruit resulting from receiving and practicing this Sutra is beyond conception and discussion."

Remember that all organizations based on hierarchy is designed to put YOUR energy into other people's scheme. If you don't know what are other peoples intention, keep to your self. If you are doing business with a magickal son of a bitch, get it in writing :). Do not buy anything, never trust anyone completely you have not smelled the sweat of for days on end. Don't become another boring egomaniac. There are too many children dying. Be true. Be naive by choice, and watch other peoples reaction. Be in your doing, do with your being, not your intellect.

The Black Triangle places emphasis on altered states as a primary means of logickal power and self-discovery. THE 5 STEPS TO DIVINITY 1:REALIZATION-Before one can truly be divine one must REALIZE that YOU are, and that WE are all divine. 2:UNDERSTANDING-Once REALIZATION has taken place, one must UNDERSTAND what it means to be DIVINE. To answer that one must look long and hard within. 3:WILLPOWER-After UNDERSTANDING one must have the WILLPOWER to do what is necessary to achieve ones DIVINITY. 4:IMAGINATION-Maybe more important than WILLPOWER. IMAGINATION is what gives us that spark of DIVINITY in the first place. 5:WISDOM-The most important aspect of them all. WISDOM is what guides us in using our DIVINITY properly. It also dictates when to use it. With WISDOM there is LOVE, and that is what truly makes us DIVINE. The primacy of experiential knowledge must be realized. No external words or dogmas may be relied upon. Books are useful tools for forgetful minds. Not mind itself. Or are they? of course this inquiry rests on how we concieve the notion of being. Or does not.

A person should recite the 1000 names. He becomes a son to Kalika and liberated. Offering meat in a deserted place and repeating the mantra and the stotra, a man becomes a lord of yoga. Having seen the yoni full of menses, after bathing and reciting the mantra 108 times, a person becomes a Siva on earth. One should recite the mantra after offering

both ones own semen and the yoni flowers. Cooked fish, egg, mouse flesh, buffalo flesh, human flesh, wine, meat and ground cereal should be offered at night. Wherever this great place (of offering) is, therein plays the great essence. One should be naked, with dishevelled hair, sitting in the pratyalidha posture. At all times and everywhere, the mantra should be recited when in the great yoni. One should worship the essence of Devi, the Sakti in the form of a Sakti. Doing thus, a man attains the four aims of mankind---dharma, artha, kama and moksha. Sadhakas, together at night, should offer using wine and meat. By all means a sadhaka should have intercourse in the yoni, previously caressing the Saktis breasts. If intercourse is performed in viparita mode, the Sakti becomes the Goddess. The sadhaka becomes instantly regenerated and fully alive by using the water from washing yoni and linga. After worshipping the great yoni according to injunction, one should make an offering. The water of the yoni is of three types and one should offer it to the Sakti. Mahadevi, after mixing the water with wine, a purified sadhaka should drink it.

Causality is acausal. Awakened minds become causality.

If one is conducting the Sabbat rite with a partner, a fellow Coven member, the demon may be as the self. The Black Man of the Sabbat is also able to take the role, or vise versa depending on the situation. However this is done, great care should be made in keeping the gnosis itself pure, that by Night or Noctanter shall the Sabbat be made Flesh. Focusing on the purpose of the rite is essential no matter what you feel or sense around you in the widdershins dance of ecstasy. Keep in mind that also the rational mind and consciousness can be shattered in the Infernal or Luciferian Sabbat, things you may have thought were mere stories will be revealed to you first hand, thus shaking previous foundations of what you considered truth. The supreme woman will be pleased by offering her clothes, perfumes and jewels. Whilst in the yoni, one should worship the vidya, at night, according to the ritual rule. The best of sadhakas should mix the effusion from yoni and linga in water, sipping this amrita, he should nourish himself with it. A Discordian should be confused by his enlightenment and enlightened by his confusion. Enlightenment, the Anerisians will tell you, comes from long meditation and ordered thinking. Not so. Only by fully destroying the order of your mind can the teachings of Malaclypse the Younger and Discordianism truly be understood. There are several methods for doing this. Some of the most popular and effective methods follow: 1) Mosh to extremely loud heavy metal music. 2) Take large amounts of drugs. 3) Spend twenty years living a hermit-like existence in the Gobi desert, while standing on your head. 4) Run for President, Prime Minister, Premier, or Head of State for your cultry. 5) Have a frontal lobotomy. Preferably do all of these simultaneously (except maybe the fifth one). Many peoples lives improve immeasurably after they become Drugged-Up Moshing Hermits who Stand (on their heads) for President. Others again, and those who have much knowledge, cannot tell you exactly what "belief" is, or how to believe in what defies natural laws and existing belief. Surely it is not by saying "I believe"; that art has long been lost. They are even more subject to bewilderment and distraction directly they open their mouths full of argument; without power and unhappy unless spreading their own confusion, to gain cogency they must adopt dogma and mannerism that excludes possibility . . . . . . By the illumination of their knowledge they deteriorate in accomplishment. Have we not watched them decay in ration to their expoundings? Verily, man cannot believe by faith or gain, neither can he explain his knowledge unless born of a new law. We being everything, wherefore the necessity of imagining we are not? Some say: Self-control egodeath profoundest experience, whether true or not On such a serious matter as transcendent mystic-state loss of practical self-control, I

position my egodeath theory as a detailed hypothesis, not as certainty. There is no guarantee my theory is correct. Work out your own salvation/rescue possibly fear and trembling. I do and do not want or intent to be the final word on the subject of self-control problems. My main point isn't that the mystic state is bound to lead everyone to self-control breakdown and transcendent prayer for rescue. My main point is that the mind's most interesting, profound, and divine potential, out of all possible mental phenomena, is the self-control breakdown egodeath experience requiring transcendent prayer as to an utterly hidden and unknown hidden puppetmaster of some sort standing over one's own controllership. The minimal such prayer is touching the ground to send away the demon Mara by establishing right mental relationship with the Ground of Being that is, first of all, the Ground of Controllership. This type of prayer is the original, ultimate prototype and archetype for all prayer. All other types of prayer are lower and derivative from this prayer that saves and restores one's practical controllership. I might assert that this is the one true or most true or most pure religion and the only perfectly correct and pure metaphysical and esoteric understanding of God. All other religious experiences are lower than this experience of restoration of practical personal self-control through this type of prayer. I deliver this news not as horrific doomsday revelation and negative prediction, but as good news. My good news is that I have discovered a potential of the mind that cannot be topped or matched by any other -- the ultimate, most amazing experience possible: the egodeath experience, revealed as a matter of self-control seizure, breakdown, and deterministic puppet-like prayer to a hidden puppetmaster about which one knows nothing yet is utterly dependent. Whether one really is a puppet and whether this worldmodel is true is irrelevant -the point and the value here is that we have the privilege of accessing this most amazing experience possible. All other religious experiences are lesser than this -so my theory is more grounded in phenomenology (potential mental experiential dynamics) than in epistemology or ontology. You might not necessarily *have* to experience transcendent experiencing in this way, along these lines, but the main point is that you *can* experience transcendent experiencing along these lines, producing an experience that cannot be topped or matched in intensity, profundity, and mind-changing power. I say, fuck me! EGO DEATH IS THE SUBJECTIVE EXPERIENCE OF AWARENESS EXPANDING INFINITELY OUTAWARD AND INWARD SIMULTANEOUSLY.

This rather ineffable union of subject and object reveals the illusions of egoic modes of thought. When this occurs, free will and personal agency are revealled as illusions a ruslt of a dualistic view of extant, discrete and separate subjects and objects. However, determism and cosmic puppetry are not therein to be found!!! OR ARE THEY! Let us take some acid and ask ourselves this question. Upon restructuring of one`s worldview, ie perception of `reality` a sense of personal agency may be reasserted, as the ``new`` ego is reborn. However self control (whatever that practically means) may be reasserted in both egoic and non-egoic modes of cognition. This is both difficult and dangerous. Procced with caution, otherwise egomania or various other insanities may result. ON GOD: god is not god. god is not. god is not. god is god, in god, and god is. But not God of this man? Within god all men are gods, in all men. Some men and gods may find god in men and gods. But know that no god or man is god. But through god, god becomes!

Be ye mystic.

When one prepares for the Nocturnal essence of transformation, a decision to explore the bestial aspects of the mind may be considered. The Werewolf since medieval times (and earlier) is a most feared demonic essence, known as the Lord of the Forest. The atavistic elementals within our own flesh is a gateway of transformation, the ecstasies contained therein and our own means

of developing and becoming an illuminated (hence Black Flame) Promethean being. Just as we sip at the Golden Chalice of the Luciferian Sabbat, the Sunlight essence of the Fallen Seraph, the Fire Djinn who holds the flame of self-perception, we to sip from the Skull-Cup of the Dead, of Hecate.
At that time, the venerable Subhuti then asked the Buddha, "World-Honored One, may I ask you a question again? If sons or daughters of a good family want to develop the highest, most fulfilled and awakened mind, if they wish to attain the Highest Perfect Wisdom, what should they do to help quiet their drifting minds and master their thinking?" The Buddha replied: "Subhuti, a good son or daughter who wants to give rise to the highest, most fulfilled, and awakened mind must create this resolved attitude of mind: 'I must help to lead all beings to the shore of awakening, but, after these beings have become liberated, in truth I know that not even a single being has been liberated.' Why is this so? If a disciple cherishes the idea of a self, a person, a living being or a universal self, then that person is not an authentic disciple. Why? Because in fact there is no independently existing object of mind called the highest, most fulfilled, and awakened mind." "What do you think, Subhuti? In ancient times, when the Buddha was living with Dipankara Buddha, did he attain anything called the highest, most fulfilled, and awakened mind?" "No, Most Honored One. According to what I understand from the teachings of the Buddha, there is no attaining of anything called the highest, most fulfilled, and awakened mind." The Buddha said: "You are correct, Subhuti. In fact, there does not exist any so-called highest, most fulfilled, and awakened mind that the Buddha attains. Because if there had been any such thing, Dipankara Buddha would not have predicted of me, 'In the future, you will come to be a Buddha known as The Most Honored One'. This prediction was made because there is, in fact, nothing to be attained. Someone would be mistaken to say that the Buddha has attained the highest, most fulfilled, and awakened mind because there is no such thing as a highest, most fulfilled, or awakened mind to be attained." "Subhuti, a comparison can be made with the idea of a large human body. What would you understand me to mean if I spoke of a 'large human body'?" "I would understand that the lord Buddha was speaking of a 'large human body' not as an arbitrary conception of its being, but as a series of words only. I would understand that the words carried merely an imaginary meaning. When the Buddha speaks of a large human body, he uses the words only as words." "Subhuti, it is just the same when a disciple speaks of liberating numberless sentient beings. If they have in mind any arbitrary conception of sentient beings or of definite numbers, then they are unworthy of being called a disciple. Subhuti, my teachings reveal that even such a thing as is called a 'disciple' is non-existent. Furthermore, there is really nothing for a disciple to liberate." "A true disciple knows that there is no such thing as a self, a person, a living being, or a universal self. A true disciple knows that all things are devoid of selfhood, devoid of any separate individuality." To make this teaching even more emphatic, the lord Buddha continued, "If a disciple were to speak as follows, 'I have to create a serene and beautiful Buddha field', that person is not yet truly a disciple. Why? What the Buddha calls a 'serene and beautiful Buddha field' is not in fact a serene and beautiful Buddha field. And that is why it is called a serene and beautiful Buddha field. Subhuti, only a disciple who is wholly devoid of any conception of separate selfhood is worthy of being called a disciple." The Buddha then asked Subhuti, "What do you think? Does the Buddha have human eyes?"

"Subhuti replied, "Yes, he has human eyes." "Does he have the eyes of Enlightenment?" "Of course, the Buddha has the eyes of Enlightenment, otherwise he would not be the Buddha." "Does the Buddha have the eyes of transcendent intelligence?" "Yes, the Buddha has the eyes of transcendent intelligence." "Does the Buddha have the eyes of spiritual intuition?" "Yes, lord, the Buddha has the eyes of spiritual intuition." "Does the Buddha have the eyes of love and compassion for all sentient beings?" Subhuti agreed and said, "Lord, you love all sentient life." "What do you think, Subhuti? When I referred to the grains of sand in the river Ganges, did I assert that they were truly grains of sand?" "No blessed lord, you only spoke of them as grains of sand." "Subhuti, if there were as many Ganges rivers as there are grains of sand in the river Ganges, and if there were as many buddhalands as there are grains of sand in all those innumerable rivers, would these buddhalands be considered numerous?" "Very numerous indeed, lord Buddha." "Subhuti, I know the mind of every sentient being in all the host of universes, regardless of any modes of thought, conceptions or tendencies. For all modes, conceptions and tendencies of thought are not mind. And yet they are called 'mind'. Why? It is impossible to retain a past thought, to seize a future thought, and even to hold onto a present thought." The Buddha continued: "What do you think Subhuti? If a follower were to give away enough treasures to fill 3,000 universes, would a great blessing and merit incur to him or her?" Subhuti replied, "Honored one, such a follower would acquire considerable blessings and merit." The lord Buddha said: "Subhuti, if such a blessing had any substantiality, if it were anything other than a figure of speech, the Most Honored One would not have used the words 'blessings and merit'." "Subhuti, what do you think, should one look for Buddha in his perfect physical body?" "No, Perfectly Enlightened One, one should not look for Buddha in his perfect physical body. Why? The Buddha has said that the perfect physical body is not the perfect physical body. Therefore it is called the perfect physical body." "Subhuti, what do you think, should one look for Buddha in all his perfect appearances?" "No Most Honored One, one should not look for Buddha in all his perfect appearances. Why? The Buddha has said perfect appearances are not perfect appearances. Therefore they are called perfect appearances." "Subhuti, do not maintain that the Buddha has this thought: 'I have spoken spiritual truths.' Do not think that way. Why? If someone says the Buddha has spoken spiritual truths, he slanders the Buddha due to his inability to understand what the Buddha teaches. Subhuti, as to speaking truth, no truth can be spoken. Therefore it is called 'speaking truth'." At that time Subhuti, the wise elder, addressed the Buddha, "Most Honored One, will there be living beings in the future who believe in this Sutra when they hear it?" The Buddha said:

"The living beings to whom you refer are neither living beings nor not living beings. Why? Subhuti, all the different kinds of living beings the Buddha speaks of are not living beings. But they are referred to as living beings. Subhuti again asked, "Blessed lord, when you attained complete Enlightenment, did you feel in your mind that nothing had been acquired?" The Buddha replied: "That is it exactly, Subhuti. When I attained total Enlightenment, I did not feel, as the mind feels, any arbitrary conception of spiritual truth, not even the slightest. Even the words 'total Enlightenment' are merely words, they are used merely as a figure of speech."

THE RULES 1 this is a dream 2 meditate 3 do not think 4 EAT YOUR GOD 5 DIE

Now go and make up some arbitrary rules to follow and thump your holey books every time your self-validationg, circular reasoning validates your delusions!

Brother Ram, Your acute observation that ERIS spelled backwards is SIRE, and your inference to the effect that there is sexual symbolism here, have brought me to some observations of my own. ERIS spelled fore-part-aft-wards is RISE. And spelled inside out is REIS, which is a unit of

money, albeit Portugese-Brazilian and no longer in use. >From this it may be concluded that Eris has usurped Eros (god of erotic love) in the eyes of those who read backwards; which obviously made Eros sorE. Then She apparently embezzeled the Olympian Treasury and went to Brazil; whereupon She opened a chain of whorehouses (which certainly would get a rise from the male population). I figure it to be this in particular because MADAM reads the same forwards and backwards. And further, it is a term of great respect, similar to SIRE. And so thank you for your insight, it may well be the clue to the mystery of just where Eris has been fucking around for 3125 years. FIVE TONS OF FLAX!

Rolangs: Buddhism and vampires today The Tibetan word for a vetala (vampire) is rolang, meaning a corpse (ro) that has gotten up (langs). In the Himalayas, rolangs are currently regarded as a routine reality: both a common practical problem and a persistent serious danger. There is an enormous amount of folk-lore (in addition to scripture) concerning them. There are many different methods for dealing with a wild rolang. Apparently, the process of reanimation is gradual, and can be aborted if caught early. The corpse first struggles to sit up, and starts muttering. Alexandra David-Neel wrote that, at this point, the thing to do is to hold it down and bite off its tongue. I cant be sure this technique is reliable; but it makes more sense than most counter-measures Ive read about. Its certainly worth a try, if you find yourself in such a situation. Keep the tongue: they are all kinds of useful. Ngakchang Rinpoche once took a different approach. In 1992, he led a pilgrimage in Kashmir. It included a week-long high-mountain trek to a gompa located on the site of one of the Eight Great Charnel Grounds. His group encountered a party of Kashmiris, bearing a member who had died of altitude sickness on the trail. Because the two groups were walking in the same direction, they saw a lot of each other. At one point, the Kashmiris became increasingly agitated. They reported that the corpse was becoming restlessit was groaning and trying to sit up. Funeral rites had not yet been performed; possession by a rolang was imminent; and they began to panic. Ngakchang Rinpoches students explained that he was a ngakpa, fully qualified to handle such a problem. The Kashmiris were dubious about a white Tantrika. They feared that the rolang would kill him, make him into another one, and then both would come after them. Nevertheless, Rinpoche sat with the body and performed phowa on behalf of the deceased. Watching him unafraid and unharmed, the Kashmiris eventually calmed down and concluded that the rolang had indeed been dispelled.

Others believe in prayer . . . . have not all yet learnt, that to ask it to be denied? Let it be the root of your Gospel. Oh, ye who are living other peoples lives! Unless desire is subconscious, it is not fulfilled, no, not in this life. Then verily sleep is better than prayer. Quiescence is hidden desire, a form of "not asking"; by it the female obtains much from man. Utilize prayer (if you must pray) as a means of exhaustion, and by that you will obtain your desire.
"Furthermore Subhuti, what I have attained in total Enlightenment is the same as what all others have attained. It is undifferentiated, regarded neither as a high state, nor a low state. It is wholly independent of any definite or arbitrary conceptions of an individual self, other selves, living beings, or a universal self." "Subhuti, when someone is selflessly charitable, they should also practice being ethical by remembering that there is no distinction between one's self and the selfhood of others. Thus one practices charity by giving not only gifts, but through kindness and sympathy. Practice kindness and charity without attachment and you can become fully enlightened." "Subhuti, what I just said about kindness does not mean that when someone is being charitable they should hold onto arbitrary conceptions about kindness, for kindness is, after all, only a word and charity needs to be spontaneous and selfless, done without regard for appearances." The Buddha continued: "Subhuti, if a person collected treasures as high as 3,000 of the highest mountains, and gave them all to others, their merit would be less than what would accrue to another person who simply observed and studied this Sutra and, out of kindness, explained it to others. The latter person would accumulate hundreds of times the merit, hundreds of thousands of millions of times the merit. There is no conceivable comparison." "Subhuti, do not say that the Buddha has the idea, 'I will lead all sentient beings to Nirvana.' Do not think that way, Subhuti. Why? In truth there is not one single being for the Buddha to lead to Enlightenment. If the Buddha were to think there was, he would be caught in the idea of a self, a person, a living being, or a universal self. Subhuti, what the Buddha calls a self essentially has no self in the way that ordinary persons think there is a self. Subhuti, the Buddha does not regard anyone as an ordinary person. That is why he can speak of them as ordinary persons."

People with no ethical standards of any kind whatsoever tend toward eventual selfannihilation anyway. Chaos magical practice only accelerates the process, usually ending in some form or another of spectacular insanity. But don't look to Chaos Magic to provide moral guidance. If one desires that, it simply must be sought elsewhere. It is also magic that dare not take itself too seriously. Chaotes are generally known for having a well developed sense of humor, and this is often expressed in their magical work, from mock-serious invocations of Bugs Bunny as a trickster god, to the practice of ending every ceremony with a round of roaring laughter. Though the humor may tend toward the satirical, there is a large measure of genuine amusement at what a colossal joke the universe actually is, and how much fun it can be to laugh along with it.
In recent times, occultism has been bound up to a large extent with political preference. Most people require some sort of framework on which to hang their opinions and preferences, which makes a mix of magic and politics in a holistic system much more attractive than politics alone. The emergent magical systems of the present day, such as Thelema and Neo-Paganism, are popular precisely because they combine a socio-political belief with a magical appreciation of reality. It gives their politics a "higher purpose". Politics, the art of manipulating others into conforming to (or at least acknowledging the predominance of) a particular set of cultural values, has nothing whatsoever to do with Chaos Magic. Chaos Magic exposes the folly of politics by showing us that all efforts to bring order to this dimension are ultimately futile. Attempts to organize around fixed belief structures are attempts to increase the certainty of existance. This is antiethical to the concept of Chaos, where belief is spontaneous, as life-force is spontaneous and

evolution itself is spontaneous.

Psilotea (1 serving) 1 dried gram semilanceata 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon 1 tablespoon ginseng 1 tablespoon ground liquorice root (some varieties may potentiate experience,research needed) 1 ground slice ginger 1 tablespoon peppermint 2 tablespoons honey 1 tablespoon lemon juice Psilohuasca/Psilohaoma (1 serving) 1/2 gram semilanceata 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon 1 ground slice fresh ginger 1 tablespoon peppermint 2 tablespoons honey 1 tablespoon lemon juice 3-6 grams ground syrian rue or 10-15 grams of ground b. caapi NO GINSENG! Preparations with ginseng have resulted in a headache, tremulousness, and manic-like symptoms. Liqourice is also in advisable in combination with MAOIs. To make Psilohuasca (1 serving) add 3-6 grams ground syrian rue or 10-15 grams of ground b. caapi. Directions, heat water to a boil Add Caapi or Rue, cinnamon, peppermint, (ginger, ginseng, liqourice) Boil for about five minutes. Remove from heat and let cool below boiling While still hot add Honey semilanceata and lemon juice The Psychotherapist's Guide to Pharmacotherapy Date: Sat, 10 Feb 1996 18:36:02 -0800 From: Jim Ellison, MD This table is from my book, now out of print, entitled The Psychotherapist's Guide to Pharmacotherapy.

Foods to Avoid Aged cheeses (including cheddar, American, mozzarella as on pizza; cream cheese, farmer cheese, cottage cheese are considered safe) Yeast extract (may be a component of certain canned soups; baked products raised with yeast are acceptable) Red wine (especially Chianti; white wine in moderation will not cause a hypertensive reaction) Beer or ale (tyramine content varies from lot to lot) Pickled herring, canned sardines, anchovies, caviar Any meat or fish which is not fresh, freshly canned, or freshly frozen (including lox, salami, sausage, corned beef, liver pate) Broad beans or fava beans Canned figs, stewed or overripe bananas, overripe avocados Caffeine* Soy sauce* Raisins* Liver (dangerous when not fresh) * = considered safe in limited amounts Medications to Avoid with Psilohuasca/Psilohaoma

(ask your physician about any other prescribed medications for safety) Decongestants Nasal drops or sprays Pain relievers* (NB: meperidine is very dangerous) General and local anesthetics* Stimulants* L-Dopa* Propranolol* Other antidepressants* Some herbal preparations, e.g., those containing ginseng or ma huang * = may be usable with precautions and careful monitoring Ayahuasca MAOI Diet-

Within 33 days of and 33 days afterALL medications, vitamins and/or other drugs Protein bars or extracts Aged Cheese and other fermented edibles and drinks Migraine medicines MAOIs, SSRIs and any other anti-depressants O.T.C. cold medicines, Decongestants, Asprin, Allergy, Asthma etc.

Ephedrine and Pseudoephedrine Yohimbe, St.John's Wort, Rhodiola and other herbal medications Sedatives- Sleeping Pills, Tranquilizers, etc. Diet pills, Appetite suppressants, etc. Narcotics- Cocaine, Heroin, Methamphetamine, etc. Allergy or Asthma Medication All types of Opiates- Opium, Valium, Oxycotton, Hydrocodone Any other type MAO inhibitor Within 7 days of and 7 days afterSame as above+ All drugs and alcohol (Including Alcohol, Tobacco, Caffeine, EVERYTHING) Herbal medinicals and psychoactives of all sorts Any tyrosine-containing food All Beans (including soy!!!) This also includes bean products- like soy sauce, bean dip, etc. No beans!! Broad (Fava) bean pods Soy Sauce and Miso soup Avocados Pickled edibles- Pickled pigs feet, pickled eggs, pickles. Non-alcoholic brewed (Fermented) beverages (non-alcoholic beer), etc. Kombucha; All other fermented brewed drinks. Protein bars or extracts Aged cheese High amounts of sugar, Chocolate, Cocoa nibs, other stimulants, etc. Make sure all food are fresh; spoiled or old food is the main cause of negative reactions. Within 3 days of and 3 afterSame as above+ Began Fasting All drugs and alcohol Kombucha, Beer and/or other fermented beverages Bananas

All Dairy products Dried Fruits (Raisins, Dates, etc.) Chocolate Dill, Parsley, Fennel and other strong spices. All Beans (including soy!!!) This also includes bean products- like soy sauce, bean dip, etc. No beans!! Avocados Cultured dairy products (buttermilk, yogurt, cheeses and sour cream) All Caffeine products (Coffee, Black or Oolong Tea, Energy Drinks, Ect.) Soy Sauce Spinach Nuts- Peanuts, Walnuts, Pecans, etc. High Protein Meals, Beef soup, steaks, etc. Sausage, Bologna, Pepperoni, Liver and Salami (Pork) Sauerkraut, Mayo, Sourcream, etc. Shrimp, Lobster and Crayfish Yeast and other mirco-organisms (unless baked) Salts, Sugars, Oils and Fats Make sure all food are fresh; spoiled or old food is the main cause of negative reactions. Within 36 hours of and 36 hours afterSame as above+ Perform Detox, cleanse the body. Meditate, empty the mind and relax. No meat or ingestion of any sort of living creature. Absolute no candy, sugar, fats, oils, salt and/or spices. No sex or masturbation, yet. Take a long bath or shower; Paint yourself Blue. Drink nothing but water. Contemplate the experience. 33-7 hours beforeSame as above + No food (One light meal of fresh fruit or rice may be eaten during this period)

3-1 hours beforeSame as above + No water or other drink (One small glass of water may be drank) 5-15m beforePrepare a snack of fresh fruit and wild or white rice with butter and oil. Pre-roll a small joint, prepare the area, make sure everything is ready. Release all bodily waste and fluids. Shake/stir Ayahuasca before use.

The TripDrink Aya quickly along with a small glass of water, if desired. Attempt to keep Aya down at least 1-2 hour, or as long as you can. Ingest mint and/or ginger (Anti-nausea) if desired. Smoke cannabis (Anti-nausea) if desired. Consume the MAOI safe food, if desired. Run around naked and make strange noises. Be sure to drink a glass of water or juice to re-hydrate yourself after 1-2 hours or just after the purge. Some good things to eat during the strictest periods of dieting arePlain white rice, wild rice, etc. Freshly caught fish (Never frozen or out-dated) Fresh Raw Fruits and Vegetables How to Detox-

Sweat-Lodge Herbal Enema Pumice and Soap Scrubs, Hot Showers/Baths Lots of Exersice Ingestion of "Detox" herbals- Reishi mushrooms, Kombucha, Green/White Teas, Cranberry Juice, etc. (anybody know of anymore?) Waxing or Removal of Body Hair *NotesBrewed Ayahuasca does not keep long, use a brew within 7 days. White and Yellow Caapis should be used for those who are inexperienced. Red and Black Caapis are reserved for seasoned trippers. For the first session take only Caapi, everybody throws up their first time, this is the cleansing of the body. Once the body is cleased with the Caapi brew and resulting purge, the true Ayahuasca (Caapi + Psychotria) may be drank if the person feels ready. After a few Ayahuasca (Caapi + Psychotria) sessions Oco' Yage Ayahuasca may be brewed (Caapi + Diplopterys) Ayahuasca is best used in rapid succession (3 times in a week) and then abstained from awhile to comtemplate the experience, then again in a month or more... This is true because the cleasing process works best if multiple sessions occur. The primary practices are fivefold: Pranayama Dhyana Mantra Darsana Samadhi Pranayama or breath control is the basis for our dhyana. Dhyana or concentration (though oftentimes rendered as meditation) is absorption within concentration on the object of attention. Mantra are the sound-objects of concentration, audible or intentional. Darsana, vision, are the visualizations. Samadhi, is oftentimes known as Neither-Neither or vacuity.

Fragments of Forgotten Sermons

In the early 80s some kids were throwing rocks at a junk pile in a trailer park in Missouri when they noticed a box that was making a funny rattle. When they opened the box they found several ceramic bongs. One was broken and the boys could see that there was a scroll in it. They found scrolls in all the bongs. Many of the scrolls were unreadable or untranslatable, but those that were discernable appeared to be fragments of Discordian Koans, some with commentary, which seem to come from various periods of time, ranging from the deep past to well, sometime in the future.(?!) The existing fragments consist of the following: The Arrest Two Discordian agents from the Erisian Liberation Front have been arrested separately, and are held by Greyface forces in separate cells. They are not allowed to communicate. Each is told the following: We have arrested you and another person for conspiring to actively take part in a treasonous activity known as Operation Mindfuck together. If you confess to propagating and distributing ideas dangerous to impressionable young minds and to society at large, and the other person confesses also, we will be lenient and merciful in our punishment and sentence you both fairly lightly: 5 years of mental slavery. If you don't confess, and the other person also doesn't confess, we will not be able to convict either of you right now, but we will monitor your activities very closely and harass you from now on. If you confess, but your coconspirator does not, we will cut you a deal and let you go free. We will then take your testimony, in which you will implicate the

other person as a dissenter and heretic, and condemn that person to the realm of THUD for 40 years. If you don't confess, and the other person does, that person's testimony will be used to condemn you to the realm of THUD for 40 years; your accomplice will be cut a deal and go free in exchange for the testimony. Each of you is being given the same deal. You have 5 minutes to decide.
Then the Buddha inquired of Subhuti: "What do you think Subhuti? Is it possible to recognize the Buddha by the 32 physical marks?" Subhuti replied, "Yes, Most Honored One, the Buddha may thus be recognized." "Subhuti, if that were true then Chakravartin, the mythological king who also had the 32 marks, would be called a Buddha." Then Subhuti, realizing his error, said, "Most Honored One, now I realize that the Buddha cannot be recognized merely by his 32 physical marks of excellence." The Buddha then said:

"Should anyone, looking at an image or likeness of the Buddha, claim to know the Buddha and worship him, that person would be mistaken, not knowing the true Buddha." Zarathud then admitted to his having been a barber in Medieval Europe. In the window of his shop was a sign that read: I shave all those men, and only those men, who do not shave themselves.
can further divide the set of men in Medieval Europe into two further sets, those who shave themselves, and those who are shaved by Zarathud. The question then is which set does Zarathud himself belong? He couldnt shave himself, because he has said he shaves only those men who do not shave themselves. Further, he couldnt not shave himself, because he shaves all men who do not shave themselves!

The Greek geometrician PYTHAGORAS, however, was not a typical aneristic personality. He was what we call an EXPLODED ANERISTIC and an AVATAR. We call him Archangle Pythagoras. We also are living in the twilight of a great empire, and I don't particularly mean the American empire, I mean the empire of European thinking created in the wake of the Protestant Reformation and the rise of modern industrialism, the empire, in short of science. Science has exhausted itself and become mere techni. It's still able to perform its magical tricks, but it has no claim on a metaphysic with any meaning because the program of rational understanding that was pursued by science has pushed so deeply into the phenomenon of nature that the internal contradictions of the method are now exposed for all to see. In discussing alchemy especially we will meet with the concept of the coincidencia apositorum-the union of opposites. This is an idea that is completely alien to science. It's the idea that nothing can be understood unless it is simultaneously viewed as both being what it is and what it is not and in alchemical symbolism we will meet again and again symbolical expression of the coincidencia apositorum. It may be in the form of a hermaphrodite, it may be in the form of the union of soul and Luna, it may

be in the form of the union of Mercury with lead, or with sulphur, in other words alchemical thinking is thinking that is always antithetical, always holds the possibility of by a mere shift of perspective its opposite premise will gain
"However, Subhuti, if you think that the Buddha realizes the highest, most fulfilled, and awakened mind and does not need to have all the marks, you are mistaken. Subhuti, do not think in that way. Do not think that when one gives rise to the highest, most fulfilled, and awakened mind, one needs to see all objects of mind as nonexistent, cut off from life. Please do not think in that way. One who gives rise to the highest, most fulfilled, and awakened mind does not contend that all objects of mind are nonexistent and cut off from life. That is not what I say." The lord Buddha continued: "Subhuti, if someone gives treasures equal to the number of sands on the shores of the Ganges river, and if another, having realized the egolessness of all things, thereby understands selflessness, the latter would be more blessed than the one who practiced external charity. Why? Because great disciples do not see blessings and merit as a private possession, as something to be gained." Subhuti inquired of the lord Buddha, "What do you mean 'great disciples do not see blessings and merit as a private possession'?" The Buddha replied: "Because those blessings and merit have never been sought after by those great disciples, they do not see them as private possessions, but they see them as the common possession of all beings." The Buddha said: "Subhuti, if any person were to say that the Buddha is now coming or going, or sitting up or lying down, they would not have understood the principle I have been teaching. Why? Because while the expression 'Buddha' means 'he who has thus come, thus gone,' the true Buddha is never coming from anywhere or going anywhere. The name 'Buddha' is merely an expression, a figure of speech." The lord Buddha resumed: "Subhuti, if any good person, either man or woman, were to take 3,000 galaxies and grind them into microscopic powder and blow it into space, what do you think, would this powder have any individual existence?" "Subhuti replied, "Yes, lord, as a microscopic powder blown into space, it might be said to have a relative existence, but as you use words, it has no existence. The words are used only as a figure of speech. Otherwise the words would imply a belief in the existence of matter as an independent and self-existent thing, which it is not." "Furthermore, when the Most Honored One refers to the '3,000 galaxies,' he could only do so as a figure of speech. Why? Because if the 3,000 galaxies really existed, their only reality would consist in their cosmic unity. Whether as microscopic powder or as galaxies, what does it matter? Only in the sense of the cosmic unity of ultimate being can the Buddha rightfully refer to it." The lord Buddha was very pleased with this reply and said: "Subhuti, although ordinary people have always grasped after an arbitrary conception of matter and galaxies, the concept has no true basis; it is an illusion of the mortal mind. Even when it is referred to as 'cosmic unity' it is unthinkable and unknowable." "If any person were to say that the Buddha, in his teachings, has constantly referred to himself, to other selves, to living beings, or to a universal self, what do you think, would that person have understood my meaning?"

Subhuti replied, "No, blessed lord. That person would not have understood the meaning of your teachings. For when you refer to those things, you are not referring to their actual existence, you only use the words as figures of speech, as symbols. Only in that sense can words be used, for conceptions, ideas, limited truths, and spiritual truths have no more reality than have matter or phenomena." Then the lord Buddha made his meaning even more emphatic by saying: "Subhuti, when people begin their practice of seeking to attaining total Enlightenment, they ought to see, to perceive, to know, to understand, and to realize that all things and all spiritual truths are no-things, and, therefore, they ought not to conceive within their minds any arbitrary conceptions whatsoever." Buddha continued: "Subhuti, if anyone gave to the Buddha an immeasurable quantity of the seven treasures sufficient to fill the whole universe; and if another person, whether a man or woman, in seeking to attain complete Enlightenment were to earnestly and faithfully observe and study even a single section of this Sutra and explain it to others, the accumulated blessing and merit of that latter person would be far greater." "Subhuti, how can one explain this Sutra to others without holding in mind any arbitrary conception of forms or phenomena or spiritual truths? It can only be done, Subhuti, by keeping the mind in perfect tranquility and free from any attachment to appearances."

"So I say to you This is how to contemplate our conditioned existence in this fleeting world:" "Like a tiny drop of dew, or a bubble floating in a stream; Like a flash of lightning in a summer cloud, Or a flickering lamp, an illusion, a phantom, or a dream." "So is all conditioned existence to be seen." Thus spoke Buddha.

ON EVIL (and it`s nonexistance) EVIL is the feeling of having your pies eaten by strangers while you are putting up a `PIES 4 SALE` sign NO MORE.

Svecchachara
This Sanskrit word means a spiritual state in which an individual may act according to her or his own will. As she or he is Siva incarnate, there can be no morality, but only freedom from the rules of the pasu or herd-person who is fettered by the mind:---Bhairava said: Listen, Vira Camunda, to the characteristics of vessels and the way of acting. One may be like a child, a madman, a king, like one in a swoon, like an independent spirit, like a Lord Hero, a Gandharva, a naked person, a Tridandin or like one teaching knowledge for gain. The way to be is to act however one wills. (KJN,Patala 8)
The Discordian PENTABARF is the compilation of ancient Erisian law and tradition discovered and translated during the fifth year of the Caterpillar, which serves as the basis of Discordian Society irreligious, criminal and civil law. The essential problem in dealing with the PENTABARF is the esoteric hot dog bun problem best explained in the following manner: a man has three wives whose marriage contracts specify that in the case of his death they receive 200, 300 and 500 respectively. The PENTABARF gives apparently contradictory recommendations. Where the man dies leaving an estate of only 200, it recommends equal division. However, if the estate is worth 300 it recommends proportional division (50,100,150), while for an estate of 500, its recommendation of (100,200,200) is a complete mystery. This peculiar aspect of the PENTABARF has baffled Cabbages and Neophytes alike for millennia. It has been recognized by Chaoist Adepts, however, that the PENTABARF anticipated the theory of cooperative games. Each solution corresponds to the nucleolus of an appropriately defined game.

An Erisian double-agent proposed a famous thought experiment in which a cat was somehow both alive and dead at the same time. The agent appeared to be attempting to demonstrate the limitations and absurdity of quantum mechanics: quantum particles such as atoms can be in two or more different quantum states at the same time but surely, he argued, a classical object made of a large number of atoms, such as a cat, could not be in two different states.*
Quantum Systems and Theory Review
1. The theory is basically probabilistic and abstract. 2. It requires the intervention of an observer to determine its state, and this intervention suddenly makes the observation deterministic. 3. Objects under examination can behave in a contradictory manner from the point of view of classical theory, e.g. an object can exhibit itself as either a particle or a wave. Such descriptions are mutually contradictory in the framework of classical physics but it is this duality that gives Q.M. its flexibility to explain phenomena. 4. A measurement interferes with the state of the object under measurement. A measurement of one of the parameters, of the object under study, can make the measurement of an associated parameter uncertain, to the extent that a simultaneous measurement of both parameters is impossible. This is known as the Uncertainty Principle. Consider a system which emits two photons, i.e., light simultaneously in opposite directions. Such systems are now available. Q.M. states that the position of each of the particles (x), (y) can be determined by some suitable experiment and another experiment can determine the momenta (p), (q) of each of the particles. However (x) and (p) cannot be measured simultaneously, because of the Uncertainty Principle. Similar is the case with (y) and (q). The paradox appears when we take into account that the distances between the particles are always known and the total momenta of the two particles

are fixed. If this is so, by measuring (x) of the first particle and later the momentum (p) of the same particle, one can know all about the second particle without having made any measurements directly on the second particle and not disturbing it in any way. In this way we have already violated the principles of Q.M. If however, the supporter of Q.M. objects to the fact that the parameters (x) and (p) have not been measured at the same time, and what was measured earlier would have lost its validity, the paradox worsens in that the second particle somehow seems to have got to know the sequence of measurements made on the first particle, [since any change in (x) and (p) has to show itself on (y) and (q), because x-y and p and q are fixed]. With Q.M. as it is presently formulated, this effect on the other must take place however far off the distance between the photons, perhaps even thousands of kilometres or more and the interaction must be instantaneous. This can happen only if the information is travelling faster than that of light! Buddhism, at root, is a method for facing the paradoxes of life and death with curiosity, appreciation, generosity, and joy. Its starting point is the experience of ambiguity. The natural tendency is to polarize: to say this is this and that is that; I love this and hate that. But experience is unavoidably undefinable. Reality refuses to fit into categories; it is always in flux. When this inexplicably turns into that, and you love or hate the wrong thing: that is paradox. Rejecting ambiguity is, according to Buddhism, the primordial error, and source of all unhappiness. Paradox is resolved through non-duality: allowing the horns of a dilemma to co-exist. What has this to do with vampires? Consider the basic paradox of the undead. To paraphrase the great Buddhist philosopher Nagarjuna, they are not alive, nor dead, nor both, nor neither. The undead are, as contemporary Buddhist philosopher Stephen T. Asma puts it, liminal beings. Liminal means on the threshold; a defining feature of monsters is that they are neither one thing nor another. This is just the fundamental Buddhist paradox of emptiness and form, reflected in a pool of blood. In Buddhist tradition, and in contemporary fiction, the paradox of undeath extends into a network of metaphors for ambiguities that are otherwise difficult to talk about. These aspects of existence must be approached with sensitivity and indirection: both because they can raise violent emotions, and due to the subtlety of their resolutions. This discussion is not for the faint-hearted. It is for those willing to walk the razor edge of life and death, monstrosity and nobility, horror and beauty, disgust and delight, romance and madness, and the eternal moment where all these converge, in non-duality. These are main themes of Buddhist Tantraand of vampire fiction.

Can something be so disordered that any attempt to further disorder it will increase not the amount of disorder, but the amount of order? Van Van Mojo then
pointed out that In order for a Legionnaire Disciple to cross a dance floor, that she must first cross the halfway point of the floor. In order to reach the halfway point, the Disciple must first reach the midpoint between the origin of the walk and the halfway point. And to reach halfway to the halfway point, the she must cross the halfway to the halfway to the halfway point. Dr. Mojo argued that the process could be continued forever. The gist of the argument is that in order to reach the other side of the dance floor, an infinite number of points must be crossed. And logic tells us that an infinite number of points cannot be crossed in a finite period of time. Therefore, it is impossible to walk across a dance floor. St. Mojo then offered dancing as

At which point the Podge said, Everything the Hodge says is false. And the Hodge replied, Everything the Podge says is true.

Not to worry said Sri Syadasti, for as a Discordian I can assure you that all Discordians are liars.

JAILBREAKING FOR IDIOTS This prison cell's got to give, you say. These iron shackles, they're really chaffing my ankles and the noose makes it hard to breathe! I want OUT! I need a jailbreak! O RLY? Or are you, like many are, stuttering back a broken reflection of something you heard somebody say somewhere? Do you want OUT? Do you know what OUT is? Do you know what IN is, RLY? Do you? Ask yourself. You have to ask yourself all the time. I ask myself, and the answer is "no" a lot more often than I like to admit! It today's world, here's what The Con has done: not only is it hard to get out, it's hard to want out. Because before you can want out, you have to know what IN is, and in order to do that you've got a lot of serious (SRSLY serious, as in a mad rush naked through the parking lot serious, not Greyface/cabbage serious) thinking to do. QUESTION THE FIRST: WHO is YOU, and WHAT is THEM? Before you can want out of the Con, you have to realize that there are probably very large chunks of what you think is yourSelf, that are actually not. I say large chunks because you're probably fond of your personal rituals that depend on the Con: your daily cup of coffee. Your music choices. Your opinions about fashion. Humans by nature are ritualistic beings, which leads us into... QUESTION THE NEXT: AM MYSELVES OUR HABITS? Dreadful thought: are you actually a Person, or are you just an unconscious bag of protoplasm that exists to run around town collecting disposable shit and then pay somebody to haul it to the dump when you're done with it? It may seem fairy obvious, but I've found myself disappear for WEEKS at a time, only to resurface in the middle some anonymous January wondering what the fuck just happened. Come to find out, I'd been so lost in the "Daily Grind," (which is a fallacy) that I didn't even notice that the fucking sun came up. Repeatedly. THRICE QUESTIONED: AM WE COMMITTED? Once you've shoved a splint between who you actually are and the shit you waste your time on, you can start to think about this point. Don't bother trying to feel committed to a larger agenda like Jailbreaking before those first two points are covered -- you'll just spin in circles. But once you're here, you're on your way. Every Action is a Choice, and every Choice is an Action. When you're presented with 2 options, this is the power to choose the 3rd one. QUESTION THE LAST: AREN'T WE ALL "IN IT TOGETHER?" The answer is NO. We're not. Some people will help, most people won't. And good luck finding somebody who WILL within kicking distance. And even if you did, they can't dig

your escape tunnel FOR you, that's all yours. So quit waiting for the fucking Cavalry, the scalping blade's already on your SKIN. With these 4 points, a tin-foil cap, and everything else you'll need that isn't mentioned here, you'll be prepared to at least start SRSLY considering your jailbreak.

A Discordian Episkopos once argued that the flight of The Five Fingered Hand of Eris is an example of motion. At any moment in time, The Hand either is where it is or it is where it is not. If it moves where it is, then it must be standing still, and if it moves where it is not, then it can't be there; thus, it cannot move.

The Hand Paradox developed into Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle because Heisenberg argued that on the subatomic level, the only way to measure a system is to interfere with that system. That is, to observe a particle, one must bounce another particle off of it which affects the motion of the measured particle. The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle says that if one wants to measure a quantity, say the position of an electron, the speed of that electron must inevitably be affected. We can no longer be certain about the speed. Thus, the very act of observation changes the system. We can be sure of the speed or the position but never both. Either The Hand is where it is or it is where it is not.

HAPPY DOOMSDAY
Warmest Telepathic Greetings To all sentient lifeforms! Every sufficiently advanced culture Celebrates that day When they first make contact With the heartful MindForms That dwell inside all Matter. Old tribalists obsessed with hate and swindlehoax Resist Deep Meeting as a kind of DoomsdayCatastrophic to their petty dreams of conquest. For the rest of us it has opened the Universe To joyous brother-and-sisterly exploration. May Earth experience this Opening soon: Humans have lived alone for a very long time. This was the day we discovered the Door That is open to all from the Start This was the day we traded in War In exchange for a wide-open Heart This is the birthday of Love and of Life and the ChildThe day when we tore off our diapers And entangled our lives with the Wild.

A neophyte wants to commit suicide but does not want to cause his family any grief. A local Chaoist Mage tells him about an elixir he can take which will make him a Cabbage, i.e., separate his self-consciousness from his body, but leave his body intact to wake up, go to work, play with the kids, keep the wife satisfied and bring home the bacon. This seems the perfect solution to him so he takes the elixer home with him and plans to take it in the morning after one last night of selfawareness. But before he takes the elixir, a Legionnaire Disciple sneaks in during the night and injects his suicidal friend with the stuff, thereby killing him, i.e., terminating his selfconsciousness. The man wakes up but doesn't know he's a Cabbage (i.e., that he has no self-consciousness), so he takes the elixir. He then sits and waits to notice a change
Shantarakshitaone of the greatest Buddhist philosophers, and a founder of Tibetan Buddhism drew on Tantric scripture to argue that bodhisattvas (ideal Buddhists) must transcend rules of conventional morality (such as the Precept against killing) when motivated by compassion. Shantarakshita was the Chancellor of Nalanda University at the time of the telling of The Vetalis Gift, when values of Buddhist Tantra were first entering the Buddhist mainstream.

Many Tantric Buddhists take a vow to kill people when necessary. This vow is explicitly incompatible with the Precept against killing. If it means going to hell so be it. If it means being seen as a monster so be it.
human, earthbound philosophers - have argued that the other minds problem cannot be solved except by analogy, and that there is no empirical content to the notion of a Cabbage. That is, they argue that because there is no behavioral (and therefore observable) `mark of Cabbagehood, it follows that the concept has no real content. But I hope that I have shown that while it is true that Cabbages who grew up in our midst might become glib in the use of our language, including our philosophical talk about consciousness and dreams, a world of Cabbages could not originate these exact

concepts as they are played out in philosophical discourse and imaginative idea-play, such as science fiction. Their discourse would have gaps in it (from the perspective of the Adept), and concepts from our discourse (philosophical and imaginative) would be permanently untranslatable into theirs. This is important, because it suggests a qualification to conscious inessentialism. Even though the activities of talking about the philosophical dream problem or internal seeing do not require consciousness, the emergence of those concepts in a language community does. This means that at the level of culture there are necessary behavioral differences between Cabbages and nonCabbages, because those differences are the result of the differences in the conceptual vocabularies available to each culture. At the level of culture, conscious inessentialism is false. What is most interesting is the fact the Cabbage scientists would have to regard consciousness[A] (not consciousness[C]) as something beyond the scope of their science. They would be forced to conclude[C] that consciousness is not consciousness[C]. But their science is methodologically just like ours. Suppose that Adept scientists were to develop what they took to be the complete scientific explanation of consciousness and deliver it to the Cabbage scientists, saying: `Here is the full explanation of human consciousness. We hope it answers your questions.' It wouldn't, though. No matter how replete a scientific explanation of consciousness we might present to the Cabbage scientists, they would still have no inkling[C] of the explanandum.
Prohibition will work great injury to the cause of temperance. It is a species of intemperence within itself, for it goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation and makes a crime out of things that are not crimes. A Prohibition Law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded. Abraham Lincoln

Mind and Brain: One and the Same? Now, within the considerations of Western philosophy, there is an assumption behind this question of whether we can develop a natural science of the mind, and we need to tackle that assumption first. The prior question that we need to address has to do with whether mental states or the mind are identical to brain states. Are mental states, in fact, states of the physical brain, or are they something that can exist independently from the brain? When I remember something, is that a state of my brain, organized and processing in a particular way? When I see something, is that a state of the physical brain, or is it a state of something else? As you know, there is a deep division on this question. Some people

will answer yes, and some people will answer no. First, I want to look at the negative answer. Descartes was a classic Dualist. His idea was that mental states and the brain are two very different kinds of thing. The brain, like the body, is a physical thing, which, as he put it, has extension, position, and mass. The mind does not. DALAI LAMA: In this view, is there an assertion of a self? Is the self equated with the mind that is so distinguished from the brain? Are they one and the same? Do the philosophers make the assumption with this Dualistic theory that the mind is a soul after all? In this instance, the translators choice of words moves the discussion into a realm that was not intended by the original query, but was fruitful nonetheless. The Tibetan term gang zag, translated as soul, actually means person or individual; this does not carry the heavy religious and metaphysical connotations of the word soul as it is used in English. PATRICIA CHURCHLAND: Yes, the soul, the spirit, the mind, are rather interchangeable according to the Cartesian concept. DALAI LAMA: But are they separate? Do they have separate identities? Do you distinguish the self, the I, from the mind? PATRICIA CHURCHLAND: I think from Descartes point of view, one uses the mind, the soul, and the spirit interchangeably. DALAI LAMA: Is there a sense that the soul itself simply sees, or that the soul sees via perception or via awareness that is somehow distinct? PATRICIA CHURCHLAND: I dont think it is supposed that the soul sees through anything. I think it is assumed that the soul sees, the soul is aware, the soul thinks, the soul reasons, by itself, though in response to impact on the body.... Some people might think that there are parts to the soul. But basically, if you were a Dualist, you thought that the thing that did the thinking and feeling, the thing that was aware, the thing that was conscious, was the mind or soul. ALLAN HOBSON: I think it is not just history but that most people believe this now. PATRICIA CHURCHLAND: Eccles is a contemporary neuroscientist, a Nobel laureate, who believes stoutly in this Dualistic theory. DALAI LAMA: Would you say that most people believe this, but that most scientists do not? PATRICIA CHURCHLAND: Most neuroscientists and scientists generally do not hold this view. But Eccles is not the only exception. I wanted to mention him to recognize that there are some very knowledgeable people who do hold this view. I think a great many nonscientists, perhaps the vast majority of the population, think along Dualistic lines. ALLAN HOBSON: The essential linkage to what I understand Buddhist tenets to be is that consciousness is held by Dualists to be able to exist apart from and in some degree independently from the brain.

owe are all monsters. Then what?

Ive suggested that there are three ways of relating to ones own monstrosity: rejection, inversion, and incorporation. This page is mainly about incorporation. That is the approach of embracing monstrosity, transforming it, and putting it to use. There are Buddhist methods for incorporating monstrosity. Most explicitly, in wrathful yidam practice you leap directly into being an enlightened monster. This is sudden, violent, dangerous, and practical for almost no one. Dzogchen trek-chd separates monstrous emotional experiences from polarized concepts of humanity and monstrosity. Experiencing monstrosity without judgment is a necessary part of incorporating it. Trek-chd may be gentler than wrathful practice, but is still arduous, and impractical for many people. I will describe other methods that can be used by anyone. They are not easy or entirely safe, but they require no esoteric practices. These are not specifically Buddhist, but they seem compatible with the Dzogchen Buddhist view. They may seem quite contrary to mainstream (Sutric) Buddhismbut that should not be a problem. Exile and revolt Rejection is the simplest strategy for dealing with monstrous personal qualities; probably its the only possible strategy during childhood. What gets rejected varies, but typically includes anger, sexuality, wildness, impulsiveness, freedom, creativity, fear of death, ecstasy, and ravening destructive craving. Each of these may be allowed within tight socially-approved constraints, but seem too dangerous to allow to be as they are. So, growing up, one walls them off and refuses even to see their existence. Then one loses the positive aspects of rejected qualities, as well as the unacceptable ones. But this willful self-mutilation and self-blinding cannot entirely work. Jungians speak of the shadow. Anger, lust, and creativity, when exiled, fester and mutate in the dark. They grow hideous, resentful, and plot revenge. When emotional stress weakens the wall between self and shadow,

they erupt and wreak havoc. Because the visible or light self chose not to see them, it gets no warning and has no knowledge of how to cope. Rejection may seem like the least dangerous strategy for coping with monstrosity, but when it fails, it does so catastrophically. And even when it succeeds, it has a high price in wasted energy and lost power. Eating the shadow Some Jungians describe incorporation as eating the shadow. I love the gruesomeness of that phrase, so Im adopting it, even though I am not generally enthusiastic about Jungian theory. (Jungians talk about the shadow as a metaphor for rejected parts of the self. In a Buddhist framework, I would rather talk about rejected aspects of experience.) Eating the shadow is slow, repetitive, and often unpleasant. You cant go to a weekend workshop and get it. Its like a restaurant in hell. You have to keep chewing, even though the pile the demons shovel in front of you is so vast you cannot see its edges in the gloom. It takes years. And it is disgusting. The shadow includes everything you have rejected because it is slimy and dark, embarrassing and terrifying. Eating it can be exhilarating too, though, once you get your face into it. Eating the shadow is not mainly a job for the mind. Much less for the spirit. Spirit talk is usually some concept of how beautifully ethereal humans should ideally be. Put a stake through that, if you want to get anywhere with the shadow. Eating the shadow is more about the body, including the messy, wet, digestive, metabolic parts. It is about feelings in your stomachsinking, cramping, nauseous, or emptynot attractive metaphysical ideas. There are five phases to eating the shadow: hunting, chewing, swallowing, digesting, and burning. * People hide things from themselves. You have to go hunting, if you want to find them again. * Chewing shadow is getting extremely intimate with a rejected bit of reality and thoroughly experiencing it, without holding it away at all. * Swallowing shadow takes it inside, so it is no longer not me. You may have to regurgitate it sometimes and chew it again, like a cow. * As you digest the shadow, it becomes a familiar aspect of experience. No longer threatening, it changes in consistency, becoming increasingly malleable. * Digested shadow is fuel for creative work and practical magic. How, specifically, do you do this?

The Ritual of Lycanthropy is a two part process. The first involves the making of a belt of symbolic wolf skin, and possibly obtaining a wolf, dog or coyote skull (if you had a loyal familiar as a dog which had passed, this is perhaps a wonderful way to honor it.) The altar should be decorated in the Sigils of the Beast, the sign of Hecate. The Evocation Dagger should also be upon the altar, with the coyote or dog skull in the center. The individual seeking the darkness of the werewolf must create his or her own wolf belt. This is symbolic of the belt given to the initiate by the Devil, and is made of wolf skin. In modern times, wolves are a precious and beautiful animal, which should be respected. A replacement wolf belt may be made from leather, with sigils scribed into it which hold the sigillic wisdom of the beast. If one if fortunate enough, a belt buckle with the image of the Devil may prove stimulating to the imagination. Stain your belt black as night, perfume it with the oils of Saturn, Hecate and the Moon. A mask may be made and consecrated for this process of transformation, inscribed with the sigils of the beast. Noctulia - Hecate stands before those who work in the shadow of the devil, opposition which creates change.

A ZEN STORY by Camden Benares, The Count of Five Headmaster, Camp Meeker Cabal A serious young man found the conflicts of mid 20th Century America confusing. He went to many people seeking a way of resolving within himself the discords that troubled him, but he remained troubled. One night in a coffee house, a self-ordained Zen Master said to him, "go to the dilapidated mansion you will find at this address which I have written down for you. Do not speak to those who live there; you must remain silent until the moon rises tomorrow night. Go to the large room on the right of the main hallway, sit in the lotus position on top of the rubble in the northeast corner, face the corner, and meditate." He did just as the Zen Master instructed. His meditation was frequently interrupted by worries. He worried whether or not the rest of the plumbing fixtures would fall from the second floor bathroom to join the pipes and other trash he was sitting on. He worried how would he know when the moon rose on the next night. He worried about what the people who walked through the room said about him. His worrying and meditation were disturbed when, as if in a test of his faith, ordure fell from the second floor onto him. At that time two people walked into the room. The first asked the second who the man was sitting there was. The second replied "Some say he is a holy man. Others say he is a shithead."

Hearing this, the man was enlightened

Remember the monk Nopants who went up the mountain and discovered that he was an asshole on a mountain

The Path of Chaos: Part Two

1-Shamans, witches, walkers, psychics, heretics? These are the motivators of real human freedom and growth. They wear many masks but are not fooled. They are often burned, however. 2-Psychos, politicians, murderers, settlers, dominators? These are the creators of real human slavery and degradation. They wear many masks and often fool themselves into believing as much as they fool others. They seem to enjoy burning those who won't be fooled. 3-Long, miserable, and boring is the night to the one who doesn't laugh. Long is the distance of a mile to the unawakened one. Long is the circle and cycle of miserable rebirths to the fool who does not know laughter. Truly, the unawakened are heavy, miserable, and boring. Such people need the great tickle. 4-The unwise, the Grayfaces, fools who are even afraid to laugh at themselves, go about committing atrocities in the name of order, thus making the world more bitter and humorless. Truly, this humorless game has gone on long enough. 5-There is happiness and laughter to the apostle who associates with a wise friend. Failing to find this, it is best to remember the ancient proverb 'We discordians shall stick apart. " 6-Do not keep company with evildoing friends nor with people who are humorless, unless they are in need of a good prank and a holy tickle. Truly, all such people are in great need. 7-The White Mouse had a disturbing vision one night after the ritual libations of tequila and Guinness. He saw policemen dressed in black and blue lining the city streets, each one playing a trumpet. 'What's this?" he asked. To which he heard a voice reply, 'This is one of the signs of my apocalypse, which is coming soon, tomorrow, yesterday, or even next Tuesday at lunch. " 8-It is said, or not said, or thought, or not thought, that the one who contradicts herself is a fool, but truly such a person is probably just kidding or even a little tired. Consistency is the mark of a madwoman. 9-Coincidences do not exist. To believe in coincidences, or to believe in anything, is simply aneristic delusion. Or not. Fnord. 10-Those who think the hodge and the podge should be separate will at least be tickled silly. Those who like to put people to death, no matter the reason, should be hodgepodged. Never trust anything that follows the word 'should'. 11-Never trust any statement that starts with the phrase 'never trust'. Such a statement is insecure and therefore cannot be trusted. 12-A discordian apostle was walking in the park enjoying a bun-less hot dog when she noticed a squirrel being lectured by the White Mouse. The White Mouse spoke thus: 'Fear not if you realize that your whole life is just a hallucination, my nutty friend! Only the bipedals take themselves seriously enough to the point that realizing life's hallucinatory quality is actually frightening. The bipedals walk with only two feet on the ground. So what would they know about reality anyway?" 13-It is said that beliefs are for believers and that non-beliefs are for non believers, but sadly, this idea is wrong. According to believers, beliefs are for everyone and according

to non-believers, beliefs are for no one. But we all know that minds that get caught up in this semantics-diddling trap only do so because they are no longer functioning. 14-Those who are attached to the idea of freedom using discordian tethers are said to be almost incurable of their ignorance. They have confused the idea with experience and thus, become even worse than dogmatics. Truly, the need for the Apple of Discord is great. 15-Behold, people who have convinced yourselves of your reality simply by virtue of having bodies. Behold, your bodies do change. Your spirits do change. You are easily self-deceived, having no substance to call your own without knowing your own hearts. And some knowing this still choose themselves various names to hold onto in the hope of stopping the flux of chaos. Impermanence is growth. Growth is living life. Behold, you are free. So why would you ever say words or do things that are not from your heart? 16-The human brain is the only organ that can get so full of itself that it becomes a waste of time. Eventually, under the optimal entropic socio-cultural conditions, such as presentday society, the brain will, like all other ill-or-unused appendages, wither away. Most people do not notice such entropy while making fun of the ones that do notice it. Freedom from that entropy is the cultivation of a growing mind... and the realization, however startling this may be, that life is for more than just settling into cocoons of attention-deficit-disorder-causing stimulation. 'A closed mind is a non-functioning mind, or at least dysfunctional. " 17-Dogma is the refuge (and the refuse) of an undeveloped, and therefore fettered, mind. Praise the woman who lives without dogma for she truly lives. 18-The White Mouse once spoke the following statement to nobody in particular: 'Those who think that the struggle to free your minds and yourselves is a humorless and serious endeavor will think again. Remember Eris. Those who denigrate the Children of Laughter are denigrating Eris and will meet the Apple of Discord on terms most unfavorable to them, unless they can learn to laugh. The Great Tickle is coming! Prepare the Ways!" 19-The White Mouse was showing some kung-fu moves to his Squirrel student, when they noticed some Christian Evangelists bothering a man sitting on a bench who wore a pentagram. The White Mouse stopped his forms and spoke to the Squirrel. 'See that? The Wiccan looks confused, perplexed, and bothered. Therefore, you know he is happy and satisfied with his lifestyle. The Christians look happy, tranced-out, and smug. Therefore you know they are unhappy and insecure about their lives. There is no confusion in the state of fundamentalism... and no fun either. " 20-Three sages met and discussed the nature of perception. Being women, the sages naturally didn't waste much time getting to the point. They spoke thus: Sage 1: I am under the strange opinion that strange opinions are worth investigation. Sage 2:You are under the false impression that false impressions are strange opinions. Sage 3:Both of you are hopelessly trapped in the twisted delusion that deceives you into thinking, strangely yet falsely, that you make sense. 21-Some Neo-Pagan Druids were wandering about in a redwood forest, looking for a spot to do whatever it is that Druids do. While walking in trance they heard the voice of one of the redwoods speak 'In all my thirty hundred years of existence I have never seen anything as frightening as government, except for a religious government. " 22-A revered sage once remarked, 'Something somewhere was once done somehow by

someone. Unfortunately, no one knows anything about it except the pink rabbit with the five pounds of flax. " None of his disciples achieved enlightenment that day, though many were profoundly confused with one or two of them becoming so thoroughly perplexed that they ran off crying 'fnord!". 23-Beware of those who believe in coincidences. They are the worst dogmatists of them all. _________

FIVE QUANTUM TANTRIC LIMERICKS

The purpose of yin-style Chi Gung a practice I've barely begun is to open up holes whose delicate roles will surpass the tact of the tongue To the novice the biggest surprise is to see without using his eyes the numerous threads connecting our heads and the ribbons entangling our thighs With new orifices, apertures, holes new meanings, new purposes, goals we've opened our hearts and our new private parts to an invisible Network of Souls Thru our tantric antenna array we find new things to hear and to say to our lovers in bed to the recently dead to our friends from the Deep Milky Way We fornicate photons in chemical trances we welcome fresh alien sexual advances we're big girls and boyses who've outgrown our toyses we've extraterrestrially opened our pantses.
Some believe any and every thing is symbolic, and can be transcribed, and explain the occult, but of what they do not know. (Great spiritual truths?) So argument a metaphor, cautiously confusing the obvious which developes the hidden virtue. This unnecessary corpulency, however impressive, is it not disgusting? (The Elephant is exceeding large

but extremely powerful, the swine though odious does not breed the contempt of our good taste.) If a man is no hero to his servant, much less can he remain a mystic in the eyes of the curious; similarity educates mimicry. Decorate your meaning, however objectionable (as fact), after you have shown your honesty. Truth, though simple, never needs the argument of confusion for obscurity; its own pure symbolism embraces all possibilities as mystic design. Take your stand in commonsense and you include the truth which cannot lie; no argument has yet prevailed. Perfect proportion suggest no alteration, and what is useless decays.
IMPOSITION OF ORDER=ESCALATION OF CHAOS

DRUG NAZIS MUST DIE

MURDER IS MURDER under the sun East or West robbers rob, rapists rape But drink beer, wine, hashish And out comes that leash Who says who is caged, who shall run? For drug crimes are made by the state, my son Yes, drug crimes are made by the state. A DRUG CRIMINAL sits in each lawmaker's seat Crafting fictions to curb your desire For medicine's balm, for love potion's charm For doorway to God's holy fire. Let's GET HARD ON DRUGS at the top of the chain In the depths of each sinister lawmaker's brain For each drug law they passes We should CANE their bare asses And castrate the ones who complain, mes amis Yes, castrate the ones who complain.
Questioning authority doesn't work all the time, sometimes you have to interrogate authority (preferably with a rubber hose.) Rev. Verthaine the Goth
***********Here Endeth The Mindfuck***********

For example, if the government were to ban all opinions other than officially sanctioned ones, an obvious attempt to impose order, the result would be massive riots (chaos). Most people, blissfully unaware of this law, attempt to impose order anyway, with comical results. The most dedicated, such as Confucius, are considered Eristic Avatars for their trouble. Unfortunately, the Law does not work for anyone who is aware of it.The cyclic reversion of the Hodge and Podge caused by the Law of Eristic Escalation takes a distinct form, which can be divided into five seasons: Chaos, Discord, Confusion, Bureaucracy, and Aftermath. Finally, the Law of Negative Reversal states that if something does not happen then the exact opposite will happen, only in exactly the opposite manner from that in which it did not happen. Jesus may save, but only Eris gives you a 23 percent return on your investment

Choose a specific time of day. Each day, begin with pranayama. Enter dhyana. Our mantras are manifold, and purpose-specific. URAHHA has much utility. Visualize the black triangle. Later, once the triangle is easy to maintain, use the shadow-merkaba. From here enter trance and push through to vacuity. Emptiness aware is our Samadhi.

You all know what mercury looks like-at room temperature it's a silvery liquid that flows, it's like a mirror. For the alchemists, and this is just a very short exercise in alchemical thinking, for the alchemists mercury was mind itself, in a sense, and by tracing through the steps by which they reached that conclusion you can have a taste of what alchemical thinking was about. Mercury takes the form of its container. If I pour mercury into a cup, it takes the shape of the cup, if I pour it into a test tube, it takes the shape of the test tube. This taking the shape of its container is a quality of mind and yet here it is present in a flowing, silvery metal. The other thing is, mercury is a reflecting surface. You never see mercury, what you see is the world which surrounds it, which is perfectly reflected in its surface like a moving mirror, you see. And then if you've ever, as a child, I mean I have no idea how toxic this process is, but I spent a lot of time as a child hounding my grandfather for his hearing aid batteries which I would then smash with a hammer and get the mercury out and collect it in little bottles and carry it around with me. Well, the wonderful thing about mercury is when you pour it out on a surface and it beads up, then

each bead of mercury becomes a little microcosm of the world. And yet the mercury flows back together into a unity. Well, as a child I had not yet imbibed the assumptions and the ontology of science. I was functioning as an alchemist. For me, mercury was this fascinating magical substance onto which I could project the contents of my mind. And a child playing with mercury is an alchemist hard at work, no doubt about it.
UR AH HA PRIMORDIAL REVELATORY JOKE Carnal knowledge speaks volumes Who are you? Carnal knowledge speaks thus: FUCK YOU! FUCK THEE AND THINE OWN FUCK VALUES FUCK MEANINGS AND THE FUCKING BEGGETINGS OF WHY. FUCK!
Hooked K's--my sweet mighty fuck, the violence! --- OMNIHERALD PANNyss, BT, KSC (Who was he? What was he like? How did he live? We can only hope someone will write

of his life, and maybe also rediscover the lost I Khao, also mentioned by Lord Omar.)

BUT,

WHO CARES?!
Who ever Thought Thus? Something is causing Pain and something energizes the Agony: may it not be caused through the latent Idea of Supreme Bliss? And this eternal expectation, this amassing of ornament on decay, this ever-abiding thought- is coincidental with the vanity preceding death? O, squalid thought from the most morbid spleen how can I devour thee and save my Soul? Ever did it answer back-"Pay homage where due: the Physician is the Lord of existence!" This superstition of medicine-is it not the essence of cowardice, the agent of Death? Strange no one remembers being dead? Have you ever seen the Sun?-If you have

then you have seen nothing dead-in spite of you different belief! Which is the more dead "you" or this corpse? Which of you has the greater degree of consciousness? Judging by expression alone-which of you appears enjoying Life most? May not this "belief" in death be the "will" that attempts "death" for your satisfaction, but can give you no more than sleep, decay, change-hell? This constant somnambulism is "the unsatisfactory." You disbelieve in Ghosts and God-because you have not seen them? What! You have never seen the mocking ghosts of your beliefs?-the Laughing Bedlam of your humility or Mammon-your grotesque Ideas of "Self"? Yea, your very faculties and your most courageous Lies are Gods! Who is the slayer of your Gods-but a God! There is no proof that you existed before? What an excuse! No one has returned to tell us? What a damning advocate! You are but what you were-somehow changed? You are the case Prima Facie that you are reincarnated to perhaps anything? "Perhapses" are possible! Can you do differently to what you do? Never shall I tire of asserting that you constantly do differently! What is the "ugliness" that offends? Is it the vague knowledge that you will have to change your mind-that you are germinating what you contain? You are always remembering what you forgot; to-day may be the day of reckoning-of believing by force what you disbelieved? Now if to-day is yesterday in all but appearances-then to-morrow also is to-day- the day of decay! Daily is this universe destroyed, that is why you are conscious! There is no Life and Death? Such ideas should be less than comic.
DISCORDIA THE BEAUTIFUL Oh beautiful, on starlit skies As frogs begin to rain! For purple dinosaurs, Barney With Chaos on the brain! DISCORDIA!DISCORDIA!!, Eris shine thy grace on me!!! And crown my wood, with Robin Hood From Earl Grey to Chamomile Tea!!!

What is there to believe, but in Self? And Self is the negation of completeness as reality. No man has seen self at any time. We are what we believe and what it implies by a process of time in the conception; creation is caused by this bondage to formula. Somebody important at some point said this: Anyone familiar with the Discordians knows the difficulties inherent in describing a vibrant aspect of Paganism that claims to "have no definition. " [Discordianism is] a sort of self-subverting Dada-Zen for Westerners. - The New Hackers Dictionary, edited by Eric S. Raymond [Discordianism is] a shadowy, formless anarchoterrorist cult ... a cancer which has spread widely all over the Information Superhighway.... its tentacles reach everywhere. - Concerned Citizens for a Safe Internet

PART FIVE The Golden Secret NONSENSE AS SALVATION The human race will begin solving it's problems on the day that it ceases taking itself so seriously. To that end, POEE proposes the countergame of NONSENSE AS SALVATION. Salvation from an ugly and barbarous existence that is the result of taking order so seriously and so seriously fearing contrary orders and disorder, that GAMES are taken as more important than LIFE; rather than taking LIFE AS THE ART OF PLAYING GAMES. To this end, we propose that man develop his innate love for disorder, and play with The Goddess Eris. And know that it is a joyful play, and that thereby CAN BE REVOKED THE CURSE OF GREYFACE. If you can master nonsense as well as you have already learned to master sense, then each will expose the other for what it is: absurdity. From that moment of illumination, a man begins to be free regardless of his surroundings. He becomes free to play order games and change them at will. He becomes free to play disorder games just for the hell of it. He becomes free to play neither or both. And as the master of his own games, he plays without fear, and therefore without frustration, and therefore with good will in his soul and love in his being. And when men become free then mankind will be free. May you be free of The Curse of Greyface. May the Goddess put twinkles in your eyes. May you have the knowledge of a sage, and the wisdom of a child. Hail Eris.

With one of the major trends of Discordianism being one of decentralization and disagreement, is there a way to adequately describe it? Oddly enough the metatradition has remained somewhat coherent. To be true to Discordia (the Latin name of our primary Goddess, Eris), I would have to say 'yes, no, and maybe'. To start with, there are scores of Discordian cabals across the world and, thanks to the Internet, Discordian writings and ideas are proliferating. The two most famous Discordian groups are POEE, Awake Persons Enacting Stuff and the Erisian Liberation Front. Even though many people look at the plethora of humorous writings and dismissit as a religion, Discordians take their humorous traditions very seriously. . . to a point. A tradition, or a set of traditions based around the Goddess Eris is by nature paradoxical and difficult to pin down. But it is, in my opinion, time that other Pagans realize that Eris whoreshippers are just as respectable as any other group, despite the fact that we laugh at ourselves and others.

On January 16,1997, 38-year-old Will Foster, resident of Tulsa, Oklahoma, computer programmer, father of three children with no previous criminal record was fined $62,000 and sentenced to 93 years in prison for the crime of growing marijuana plants in his cellar. Foster claimed he smoked the herb because it relieved the pain of his rheumatoid arthritis. Five hundred years ago, men tortured and killed innocent women for the crime of growing medicinal plants. In 21st-century America, armed agents of the state are forcibly entering private homes, separating hundreds of thousands of men and women from their families and imposing preposterous hardships upon them for the same offense. Who are the real drug criminalsbackyard herbalists like Will Foster or the men and women who have legalized Soviet-style atrocities in our own homeland?

The foundation of the Discordian movement in modern times comes from the paradoxical writing collection known as the "Principia Discordia, or How I found the Goddess and what I did with Her when I found Her. " It tells the story of two young men in a bowling alley who receive the first Erisian Revelation back in 1957 or 58. (In true Discordian fashion, which year is never cleared up. ) The men go on a search of mythologies and discover Eris, the Goddess of Confusion, Chaos, and Discord. (Eris is also the Greek word for 'strife'. ) They surmised that chaos underlies everything, including order and the followers of order. "Look around and you can see all of the chaos in everything just as much as you can see order. " The two men declare themselves to be High Priests of their own

madness and start a Discordian Society "for whatever that may turn out to be. " The explosion of the American counter-culture and the revival of surrealism met Discordianism (1960's and 70's) and the result was a Neo-Pagan parody religion of mirth and laughter. During this time the two main groups of the Discordian Society, POEE 'the Paratheo-Anametamystikhood of Eris Esoteric' and the Erisian Liberation Front set down the major practices and ideas that have since influenced later groups of Discordians, most of which were included in later editions of the Principia Discordia. It can also be said (although, many people will argue against this) that the post-modern magical phenomenon of Chaos Magic developed under Discordian influences. The main difference between Discordians and Chaos Mages is that Discordians revere the Goddess Eris, whereas Chaos Mages revere whatever works at the moment. Discordian thought runs a full spectrum from believers in a literal Goddess Eris to those who hold a healthy agnosticism towards all gods. Today there are several active Discordian groups known as 'cabals' which continue to develop and practice Discordian ideas and rituals. POEE is still around, although it is debated whether or not the ELF still exists. Some of the active groups today are the Church of No Dead Saints in San Francisco, the Discordian Intelligence Agency, which is scattered in places as far afield as Australia, Germany, and Pennsylvania, and the Purple Monkey Mafia/Cabal which started in Chicago but claims to have members in LA, Paris, and Seattle. There are many other groups, too numerous to list here. (Please refer to the list of website links below. ) The organization of the groups within the Discordian Society (or without, as some groups will no doubt claim) is decentralized. Usually people will either join a pre-existing cabal, or if Eris decides to give new revelations, will start their own cabal. Within cabals there is usually an 'episkopos', who is responsible for the rituals, revelations, and organization. Thus it can be said that each cabal may choose its own organization. The major trend is towards non-hierarchy as episkoposes are known to hand off the leadership mantle whenever they see fit.

The Ten Commandments of Discordia by Ginohn 1. Thou shalt have no other house before me. 2. Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven neighbor. 3. Thou shalt not kill the Lord thy God. 4. Remember to steal the days. 5. Honor thy father in vain that thy Sabbath day may be long. 6. Thou shalt not take the name of thy mother. 7. Thou shalt not commit witness. 8. Thou shalt not keep it holy. 9. Thou shalt not bear false adultery against thy images. 10.Thou shalt not covet thy neighbors gods.
(1) All laws are incorrect, except those which are correct. (2) All incorrect laws are correct, except those which are not. (3) All correct laws are incorrect, inasmuch as they are not correct, but correct, inasmuch as they may be. (4) All laws that may be correct are correct, unless they are otherwise. (5) There are always five laws.
***********Here Endeth The Mindfuck*********** Can you feel it coming? Do you smell a change upon the wind? NO. You DON'T. You CAN'T. you've deluded yourself with dreams of a grand re-awakening, a massive paradigm shift of the collective social conscience. You've convinced yourself that someone (maybe even you) will come along and cast down the Powers That Be that are in control of the MACHINE. You're WRONG. There are no Powers That Be. The MACHINE deposed them long ago, or perhaps they just became obsolete,

victims of their own efficiency. You see, long ago the MACHINE became far too large to be overseen by a conspiracy, or even by a network of several different conspiracies. The MACHINE is no longer under the control of mankind, rather it has become an entity unto itself. A blind, uncaring juggernaut of assimilation and mediocrity. The MACHINE feeds off of the static nature of humanity. Any real agents of change are perceived as dangerous mutations, to be neutralized and disposed of as quickly as possible. Yes, that includes you. And yes, that also includes me. Why do you think I constantly exhort YOU to become an agent of change? I've got my own schemes and machinations to that end, but I want to see the manner in which the MACHINE deals with you before I finalize MY game plan.

One of the main tenets of Discordianism is that 'it is a firm belief that it is a mistake to hold firm beliefs'. That said, it is possible (though highly disagreeable) to pin down a few ideas that are common among Discordians. One is a dedication to personal 'illumination' by exploring as many belief systems as possible so that a person will realize the absurdity of taking any idea too far. Another idea is 'if it makes you cry, it is real; if it makes you laugh, then it is probably true. 'Discordians worship Eris, who is probably the most paradoxical being people could ever worship. If they don't worship Her then they explore Her in some way or another. They see in Her a symbol of freedom from all constraints and a license to become the best person one can be. Why should the self be limited to circumstances of birth and upbringing, or even a single ego? Eris was much maligned and feared by the ancients as the embodiment of disorder. But from a perspective that sees chaos as underlying everything, Eris is an embodiment of ultimate creativity. All things need to come apart for new things to grow. Most Discordians will refer to the story known as the 'Original Snub' which explains a little bit about Eris. In this story, the Olympians assembled at a feast on Mount Olympus (called Limbo Peak by Discordians). They decide not to invite Eris due to Her reputation for causing chaos and strife. When Eris finds this out, She decides to get even with the Olympians by making a golden apple, (some argue the apple was a dime bag) and writing the word 'kallisti' (to the prettiest) on its side. She sneaks up to the banquet hall and rolls the apple inside. Once the Olympians see this, they immediately set to fighting each other over who deserves the apple. From this point in the story, the various accounts diverge. Discordians take solace in this story whenever they themselves are snubbed. They also use it as an example of active defiance in the face of unwarranted exclusion. The story begs the question 'if Eris was so bad, how come it was the rest of the Olympians who caused the commotion?' Eris can be seen, in this light, as the one who makes you realize the inherent capacity for strife you already have. The 'Original Snub' is said to be the foundation myth of Discordianism, if such a thing could be said. Another approach to that myth is to see the apple as the world and all it has to offer. To whom would Eris say it belonged? Kallisti. . . the prettiest one. And who is the prettiest one? We all are. If only we could realize it. Another important myth is the 'Curse of Grayface', which explains how people lost touch with the happy anarchy of creative chaos and become shackled to 'order'. Grayface is a humorless person who proceeds to deceive others into believing that order and seriousness should be the foundation of existence. This myth explains the origins of negativity and destructive chaos, which according to Discordianism, can only

happen when order is imposed. The Curse of Grayface is as much a parody of other traditions' ideas of "what-wentwrong" as it is a clear insight into the nature of human mentality. Perhaps it is (not) a more centrally relevant myth within the catma. One thing we have in common with the very beautiful Wiccan 'Charge of the Goddess' is the most famous 'Charge of Eris' which goes: "I have come to tell you that you are free. Many ages ago, My consciousness left humanity, that they might develop themselves. I return to find this development approaching completion, but hindered by fear and by misunderstanding. You have built for yourselves psychic suits of armor, and clad in them, your vision is restricted, your movements are clumsy and painful, your skin is bruised, and your spirit is broiled in the sun. I am chaos. I am the substance from which your artists and scientists build rhythms. I am the spirit with which your children and clowns laugh in happy anarchy. I am chaos. I am alive, and I tell you that you are free. " To Eris worshippers, this is as evocative to us as the Charge of the Goddess is to Wiccans. With a charge so powerful, one can probably glimpse why anyone would become a Discordian. Those Eris worshippers who have their own profound experiences with Eris, either through revelations, visions, or divine inspiration, take the letters KSC after their names to signify "Keeper of the Sacred Chao. " KSC's sail the seas of chaotic thoughts, magic's and emotions while providing illumination to their fellow Discordians, if they wish. They are Eris's special group of crazy adherents. KSC's are often the catalysts of cabals and many happen to be the sort of people who can practice Discordian magic and get results. They also tend to be more esoteric and steeped in 'chaosophy' than most, but communion with Eris will do that. There is also the widespread notion of the five stages, which is another expression of the ubiquitous 'law of fives' in Discordian thought. This idea is much like the 'aeonics' idea expressed within Chaos Magic (and they probably got the idea from us (cause some of us are them)). The five stages are used to help understand and explain sociohistorical developments. The First stage is Chaos, in which everything is in its natural state. Order and disorder are in dynamic balance. Organization occurs naturally. Authoritarian people hate this stage. It is like Hegel's thesis. It is the start and finish of every society. Corresponding deity = Eris. ) The second stage is Discord, which starts with the appearance of ruling classes and governance. Authority becomes the main arghanizer of systems and of beliefs. It is Hegel's antithesis. The underclasses discover that its interests are not the same as the rulers. Society is thus divided. The third stage is Confusion, in which some attempt is made to restore balance or achieve a synthesis. It is an attempt to restore nature through unnatural means. Intuition is mistrusted. People try to break free of authoritarian ideas by using those same ideas. Every revolution becomes a mirror of what it overthrows.The forth stage is Bureaucracy, what we call the 'parenthesis' that Hegel missed, in which the synthesis does not reconcile the opposites. Society is exhausted, while appearing to be thriving. Ideas and rules have become more important than the people who create them. Superior

people are ruled by idiocy. The fifth stage is the Aftermath, and represents the drift back to chaos. It is a transitional period where many people, in desperation or hope, turn to intuition and magic in order to rediscover their natures. Bureaucracy has collapsed under its own weight of intellectual ideas and 'paperwork'. Each one of these stages also has correspondences with deities, tarot cards, planets, the zodiac, elements, and more. They would be too numerous to list here. But anyone can find them in the PD or in the Illuminatus! Trilogy. Some Discordian practices include the universalization of pope-hood every now and then declaring that every human being is an authentic pope. (We also have mome-hood for those who want that. ) Discordians often like to canonize themselves and others, and you will find many saint names among us. When cabals gather for ritual, the only thing that can be assured is that all traditions are fair game and will be used in humorous ways. The Principia Discordia includes some of the more well known rituals. One practice that may be of interest to magical operators is the use of laughter in banishing. In terms of conduct, Discordians adhere to the Chaoist idea that 'nothing is true and everything is permissible. ' It sounds like a blanket endorsement for any sort of behavior. Even so, it is said that some religions preach love, compassion, law, and forgiveness but result in hatred, disorder and destruction. Discordianism preaches chaos, confusion, and disorder, and results in love, creativity, freedom, and laughter. The reason why an ethic of 'everything is permissible' works within Discordianism is the ultimate respect given to the individual to work out their own approach to Eris. We do not believe in manipulating people or even trying to control their expressions, even if they disagree with us. And this idea comes from the idea that we are all free right now. If this sounds like anarchy, you may be right. . . maybe.

Great scientists are finding out the death-dealing properties of the microbes they discover we breathe, and which according to their canons should destroy; we should be already dead? Have faith! The canons of science are quite correct, they do not disappoint the doubt! Our greater familiarity-"this impulse to knowledge" will certainly bring us the disease and death they give! And also give us in compensation their powers of destruction! For the destruction of whom? Things will be squared! Is this the value of the will? This "will to power"-how life preserving! How furthering of discriminate selection! How pleasing! Most noble explorers! O, you scientists-go on discovering the Bottomless Pit! When you are sodden with science-the lightning will thunder out the murder? New hope will be born? New creatures for the circus? (The conception of God-head must ever evolve its inertia for transmutation to its very opposite-because it contains it! The master must be the painful learner of his stupidity? The idea of God ever means the forgetfulness of supremacy and Godliness. So must be supplanted by fear, eh? There is no Atheist, no

one is free from auto-biography, there is no fearless pleasurist? The conception is the absence of its indisputable reality within! When the conception is memorial in forgetfulness-it may be the chance of its reality for you?? When the prayer- (you are always praying) has transmutated to its Blasphemy-you are attractive enough to be heardyour desire is gratified! What a somersault of humility!

You are conscious of the gay Butterfly you observe and are conscious of being "You": the Butterfly is conscious of being "itself," and as such, it is a consciousness as good as and the same as yours, i.e., of you being "you." Therefore this consciousness of "you" that you both feel is the same "you"? Ergo, you are one and the same-the mystery of mysteries and the most simple thing in the world to understand! How could you be conscious of what you are not? But you might believe differently? So, if you hurt the Butterfly you hurt yourself, but your belief that you don't hurt yourself protects you from hurt-for a time! Belief gets tired and you are miserably hurt! Do what you will-belief is ever its own inconsistency. Desire contains everything, hence you must believe in everything-if you believe at all! Belief seems to exclude commonsense. There is no doubt about it-this consciousness of "Thee" and "Me" is the unwelcome but ever ready tortureryet it "need not be so" in any sense! Is it not a matter of Fear? You are fearsome of entering a den of Tigers? (And I assure you it is a matter of righteousness- (inborn or cultured)-whether you enter voluntarily or are chucked in, and whether you come out alive or not!) Yet daily you fearlessly enter dens inhabited by more terrible creatures than Tigers and you come out unharmed-why? Duality?

Religions are the projection of incapacity, the imaginations of fear, the veneer of superstition, that paradox is truth,0 while ofttimes the ornamentation of imbecility. As a virtue in the Idea to maximize pleasure cheaply, remit your sins and excuse them-is but ceremonial, the expression of puppetry to the governing fear. Yes! What you have ordained in your religiousness, is your very rack, imagined though it be! The prospect is not pleasant; you have taught yourself! It has become

inborn and your body is sensitive.

0: That God is always in Heaven or that the Almighty inconceivable emanates its conception or negation-commits suicide, etc.

Great Lady, listen very attentively. This should be concealed with every effort. Never reveal it! Revealing it causes loss of siddhi, revealing it causes death. Revealing it destroys mantra. Revealing it may cause one to be torn to pieces. The miraculous Yoni Tattva Tantra is the best of all tantras. Because of love for you, this very hidden tantra is revealed. The only evil in sexual intercourse is disgust for blood and semen. He who mixes them with wine is discriminating in worship. How can one be wicked on account of the akti mantra? Having worshipped the great yoni, the sadhaka should do puja with the flesh of goats, sheep, men, deer, mongoose, buffalo, elephants, cows, jackals, lions, horses and tortoises, in a devotional frame of mind. What point is there of many words? The yoni which has bled is suitable for worship. Do not worship a yoni which has never bled. Worshipping a yoni which has never bled causes loss of siddhi on every occasion. What can be achieved by men without the five tattvas? All is without result and one may fall into hell and be baked in pots until the end of time. The sin acquired in a myriad of births is instantly destroyed if one should worship, offering into the yoni aperture. Combining semen with menses or svayambhu menses and taking this in the hand, carefully offer it into the Yoni. One becomes Kalikas son and renowned. Devi is at the base of the yoni and Naganandini is in the yoni. Kali and Tara are in the yoni cakra and Cchinnamastaka in the hair. Bagalamukhi and Matangi are on the rim of the yoni. Mahalakshmi, Shodashi and Bhuvaneshvari are within the yoni. By worshipping the yoni one certainly worships Sakti. Worship giving bali of birds and other living creatures and with blood. For the sadhaka who says Aim Aim at the time of worship, the yoni is fortunate and gives both enjoyment and liberation. A yogin is not a bhogin and a bhogin is not a yogin, but if one worships the yoni one is a Kaula, a person who has both yoga and bhoga. All worship is pointless without worship of the yoni, O Durga. Candali, Lady of Hosts, the foremost one, is the centre of the yoni. By worshipping in this way, one becomes my equal, most certainly. What use are meditations, reciting mantras, giving gifts or kula nectars? O Durga, without yoni worship, all are fruitless. If one is incapable of giving that which should be offered in my sadhana, one may, instead, be exclusively devoted to yoni puja. A sadhaka should worship with jewels and clothes. After worshipping the great yoni, then he should enter the circle. Prostrating himself like a stick on earth, he should then display the yoni mudra. Durga becomes pleased with a sadhaka who is devoted to the yoni. What point is there of many words? The yoni which has bled is suitable for worship. Do not worship a yoni which has never bled. It causes loss of siddhi on every ocassion.

WHY DISCORDIANISM?
. . . Some religions require you to study a dusty old book written centuries ago by a "prophet", and you cannot deviate from its teachings, or question its validity. But in Discordianism, not only are we not required to believe anything we read, but we can write our own holy books. . . . Some religions give you a detailed list of what you can or cannot do. But Discordianism allows you to do whatever you want to do (but remember, ERIS doesn't like an asshole. And if someone kicks your ass for being a first-class jerk,

don't blame ERIS.) . . . Some religions require its clergy to wear special clothing to "clergy". But we Discordians don't have that problem and can wear whatever we feel like. (but in all honesty, members of the Non-United Church of ERIS of Latter-day Gothic/Industrial Saints prefer to wear black all the time.) . . . Some religions speak of love, peace, and understanding. but actually create chaos, confusion and disorder, Discordians speak of chaos, confusion and disorder, but actually create peace, love and understanding. . . . Some religions require it's clergy to be celibate and vow to poverty. We Discordians tend to laugh at that idea until we pass out. . . . Some religions require you to sit silently for hours in often very painful positions to attain "enlightenment". We discordians don't have the time to do things like that because we have lives. When dealing with the Illuminati, it isn't if you're paranoid, but if you're paranoid enough.

A Materialist Critique of Dualism:

PATRICIA CHURCHLAND: Remember our question: Are mental states really states of the physical brain? Materialists, also called Physicaliststhese terms are interchangeablewould say yes. They hold that there isnt any independent stuff, any kind of substance, any independent thing. There is just the brain, which is organized in ways that we dont yet really quite understand, that produces things like consciousness, memory, and so forth. I want to say a little bit about what would motivate someone to be a Materialist. I think it requires motivation in the first place because feelings, such as sadness, for example, really do seem very different from, say, a piece of bone or flesh in your arm, or a piece of the brain in your head. Activity of cells in the brain seems to be very different from having a feeling of sadness or happiness, or having pain, seeing blue, and so on. Even Descartes had contemporaries who said that die idea that there should be two very different kinds of things (body and mind) is very problematic. They posed the great question as to how there can be two-way interactions between two such disparate and incommensurable things. How is it that a mind or a soul, being made of completely nonphysical stuff, can interact with something physical? How can it cause something to happen in the brain? If it is supposed to cause us to move, for example, what is the nature of such a transaction? That was what Descartes really struggled with. And he said that the transactions take place in the pineal gland, a little gland in the middle of the brain which we now know has nothing to do with those functions. But Descartes liked the idea that the pineal gland was in the center of the head. But even that didnt help with the question of what such a transaction would be like. He said that a very fine, very subtle substance interacted with the physical substance. His critics, especially the

Roman Catholic priest, Father Malebranche, pointed out that that was not a satisfactory answer. To have a physical effect, there should be a measurable physical cause by this immaterial stuff. And they didnt see how that could happen. The second argument of Descartes critics was that reality can be very different from appearances. We know that substances can be made of elements that individually look one way, and behave one way, but when combined, look and behave in different ways. We know the earth looks flat but turns out to be round, and so on. Critics argued that even though our experience seems to be very different from the behavior of brain cells, that doesnt mean they are different. Seeming to be different is not in fact evidence for things actually being different. That was a criticism made in the seventeenth century that still persists. Amongst contemporary scientists, there is more than just negative criticism of Dualism. There are positive reasons for believing that Dualism is probably false. One of the most important reasons has to do with the dependencies between psychological states and changes in brain states that we can observe and quantify. For example, by administering specific drugs, we can change a persons perceptions, or change their capacity to remember things. These observations suggest that there is a very close relationship between particular chemical substances, particular psychological states, and particular brain states. Indeed, the relation between psychological states and brain states is probably one of identity. Antonio Damasio and Larry Squire will both talk about brain lesions, where damage to certain parts of the brain interrupts or changes psychological functions, so that people are altered in what they can see or remember, what they experience and how they think. A lesion may change whether they can see in depth, whether they can see color, and so on. These changes seem to be very specific and to be related to specific, localized brain structures. Once more, there is a structural/functional dependency that is very strikingso much so, that it does not appear necessary to postulate some other agency such as a nonphysical soul or mind. It seems as though the only thing necessary is this wonderfully complicated, dazzlingly organized brain. For another example concerning mind/brain dependencies, consider electrical stimulation. With the brain exposed in a patient undergoing brain surgery, the surgeon may need to test and identify certain brain structures functionally, to map specific sensory or motor areas by eliciting corresponding responses to electrical stimulation. Using fine electrodes and weak electrical current, localized parts of the brain have been explored in this way in many patients. This provides a very striking example of dependencies which have been more exhaustively explored in animals, particularly in primate studies. When a particular part of the brain is stimulated, the patient may find that they cant express certain words that they would like to utter. Or they may unexpectedly experience very specific memories that return to them from the remote past, or they may hear old popular songs. If there were a soul in there, you might wonder how the electrical current has these effects. Does the soul somehow intervene at the points of stimulation? It doesnt appear likely. We also know about external and internal accidents affecting brain tissue, with localized or diffuse disorganization and even generalized degeneration of brain tissue, which are associated with a corresponding variety of specific psychological effects. Once more, there is a remarkable correspondence between site and

distribution of brain damage and the kind of disruption or degeneration of psychological functions, with loss of perceptual, emotional, judgmental, and behavioral abilities. Loss of visual, language, or memory abilities are among the most instructive. If it were the case that there is a consciousness independent of the brain, and which can depart from the brain at the time of death, then that consciousness is supposed to carry along with it memories that that person possessed. But when the brain deteriorates and memory correspondingly deteriorates at death, or if the brain degenerates long before death and the memory similarly declines beforehand, how does the soul nevertheless retain memories intact? What is your explanation? Or suppose that a given brain didnt degenerate prior to death. If memories are encoded in the brain as a result of the way that selected neurons interact and change their shape and establish unique circuits, how can that be recorded, or conveyed to, or carried by the nonphysical soul or mind? How can elaborate ultrastructural physical changes upon which the memory depends, and precise kinds of structural dynamics that the brain undergoes whenever we remember anything, relate to the nonphysical soul? How would such changes be transferred into the soul so that, after death, the soul can retain those memories? How might it work, say, in patients with brain degeneration, who cant remember where they were born, or what they did yesterday, or who their children are? Would the memories of things that they had experienced ten years ago be preserved in the soul, but be unavailable now? That is implausible. Each of these distinctive sorts of dependencies seems persuasive on its own, and they appear collectively compelling. Thus, the hypothesis that there is a soulthe Dualist hypothesisis not probable. Actually, it is highly improbable. None of these lines of evidence shows absolutely that Dualism is false. I dont think that we can ever show that for any sort of general supposition in science, or anywhere else, for that matter. But it does, I think, make Dualism virtually impossible. The data base for all the several kinds of dependencies is very long and I have provided only a few examples. I think another good example has to do with the structural defects and functional deficits that we observe in brains as a result of genetic errors, or as the result of interference with development. Children who are born after a difficult delivery where the oxygen supply to the brain was cut off may have brains that are very effective. You wouldnt expect that reduction in oxygen supply would bother a soul. If it did, it would also do so in the course of ordinary dying. Finally, there is the question as to how the idea of the mind or soul fits in with the rest of science. There again, I think, the Dualist hypothesis is not very compatible with the rest of established science. Admittedly, no one can be quite sure that established science is true, but it looks like the best thing weve got so far, and like Buddhism, it is subject to correction in the light of evidence. The unmodified sex principle refracted through the dual principle emanates the infinite variety of emotions or sexualities, which may be called its ramifications.

AYAHUASCA CIRCLE
Wearing human bodies woven, so science says, out of knotted yarns called protein This is what we do to seek vision The desire not to look The desire to fall asleep is very strong. This material likes the dark. It is strong Let it flow thru you Hum, moan, sing it Give it voice. I raise my hand to greet you soft and empty of blade but my mind is still a weapon. Kiss the joy as it flies Traps destroy the winged lives. Jabir seeks the vitriol that dissolves away matter to reveal the pattern of lives and minds inside to reveal the network of affection underneath the strong invisible tendrils upon which the universe is draped like a blanket across the shoulders of a beautiful woman. Would you like a slice of ginger to sweeten the taste of it?

The Dualist hypothesis does not fit very well with evolutionary biology. You have a sequence of increasingly elaborate animal species, and then abruptly, lo and behold, humans appear. Unlike anything previously, they possess a soul. This abrupt endowment is especially unlikely because there are such close similarities in genetic material, brains, and behavior between nonhuman primates and humans, and correspondingly no abrupt discontinuities down the evolutionary ladder. Finally, I would like to pick up on some of the criticisms that were leveled at Descartes. First, it is hard to see what kind of thing a soul could be. If it does leave the body and brain to become separate and independent, how does it maintain its integrity? How can it be one thing, presumably unpartitioned? Is it not like a distributed fog that merges into other things? And if it has parts, such as a conscious part and a nonconscious part, how do the parts interact? What are the nature of any divisions within the mind or soul? If a mind is a state of the brain, then we might be able to say quite a lot about the differences between what it is when you are conscious and what it is when you are not conscious. But I dont think that we can see what those state change differences would be in the case of a mind or soul. And similarly with respect to perception: Quite a lot of progress has been made by neuroscientists and psychologists working together to understand perception in terms of the way the cells in the brain respond and interact, and so forth. There isnt any account of what the mechanisms or process would be like, or how the flow of consciousness or thoughts would proceed. If you do postulate the existence of a soul, there are a great many explanatory difficulties. Moreover, there is no need to postulate a nonphysical mind or soul apart from the brain, because we can account pretty well already for these phenomena in terms of brain properties, dynamic circuitry, electro-physiological properties, etcetera. I will say one last thing, picking up on Bob Livingstons introduction. Within the last three decades there has been spectacular, unanticipated, almost incredible progress made in the neurosciences. I think that we are living at a very special time when psychological properties can find solid explanations in terms of neurobiological properties. It is not surprising that understanding about the mind/brain comes so recently, because investigating the brain is a highly technical affair that requires a great deal of specialized technology. When people tried to understand brains or minds before physics and chemistry, before evolutionary biology and molecular biology, before microscopesincluding electron microscopesbefore electronic computers, and magnetic resonance imaging, they could not get far. Until very recently we did not have either the theoretical foundations or the technical finesse required to investigate these extremely delicate yet comprehensively integrated processes. Now things are really coming together, and although it is only a beginning, it is a very promising beginning.
Some Hindus worship cows. Other Hindus worship themselves. Some other Hindus know they`re the same.

Laughter and paradox are essential in worshiping Eris. One of the ways we worship Eris is by engaging in 'guerrilla mind' tricks - making paradoxical flyers to distribute, posting esoterica in unlikely places, counterevangelism, surrealist pranking, ontological trickery, giving absurd rewards to distinguished individuals, etc. We believe that such things are essential to someone on any honest spiritual path. Laughter opens minds more than anything else can. Laughter is also one of the best ways to worship. Why wouldn't your Goddesses/Gods wish to see you having a rip-roaring good time? Another way we worship Her is to design our own rituals, on the fly - and they had better be good rituals, Eris help us - in which we mimic or parody other more 'serious' traditions. Due to the nature of Discordianism, the rituals are at the whim of the moment. Often, no two rituals are the same. What the rituals lack in continuity, they make up for in creativity, and usually, though not always; cabals will have organically developed sets of rituals which fit the participants and Eris just fine. The magical tools we use in rituals more often depend upon the idiosyncrasies of the episkopos than on any tradition. Sacred forks may replace athames for circle casting. Five quarters may be called instead of four. For divination, we may use TV screens to scry as readily as black plates or crystal balls. For incense we may burn bats. Sometimes we cast no circles and at other times we may cast differently haped sacred spots. If this appears silly, that is the main point. Another point is that people should learn to work rituals with any or no tools. Discordian ritual and worship is really about incorporating everything around you and being always ready to so. ``I like knives. Should I use them?`` -The most knowledge-having saint

One day five blind men, who knew nothing of elephants, went to examine one to find out what it was. Reaching out randomly, each touched it in a different spot. One man touched the side, one an ear, one a leg, one a tusk, and one the trunk. Each satisfied that he now knew the true nature of the beast, they all sat down to discuss it. We now know that the elephant is like a wall, said the one who touched the side. The evidence is conclusive. I believe you are mistaken, sir, said the one who touched an ear. The elephant is more like a large fan. You are both wrong, said the leg man. The creature is obviously like a tree. A tree? questioned the tusk toucher. How can you mistake a spear for a tree? What? said the trunk feeler. A spear is long and round, but anyone knows it doesnt move. Couldnt you feel the muscles? Its definitely a type of snake! A blind man could see that! said the fifth blind man. The argument grew more heated, and finally escalated into a battle, for each of the five had followers. This became known as the Battle of the Five Armies (not to be mistaken for the one described by that Tolkien fellow). However, before they could totally destroy themselves, a blind, selfdeclared Discordian oracle came along to see what all the fuss was about. While they were beating the crap out of each other, she examined the elephant. But instead of stopping after one feel, she touched the whole thing, including the tail, which felt like a rope. Its just a big animal with big sides, ears, feet, tusk teeth, nose and a skinny tail, she thought. What a bunch of fools these guys are. She then said Stop! I have discovered the truth. I know who is right. She being an oracle and all, they stopped and listened and said Tell us! I have examined the elephant with mine own two hands, she said, and I find that you are all right. How can this be? they asked. Can an elephant be a wall and a fan and a tree and a spear and a snake? And they were sorely confused. She explained the elephant is a great Tree, and on this tree grow leaves like great Fans to give most wondrous shade and fan the breeze. And the branches of this tree are like Spears to protect it. For this is the Tree of Creation and of Eternal Life, and the Great Serpent hangs still upon it. Unfortunately, it is hidden behind a great Wall, which is why it was not discovered until this very day. It cannot be reached by normal means. However I, in my wisdom, have discovered a Most Holy Rope, by which the wall may be climbed. And if one touches the tree in the proper manner which I alone know, you will gain Eternal Life. They all became highly interested in this, of course. She then named an extremely high price for her services (Eternal Life doesnt come cheap), and made quite a bundle. Moral: Anyone can lead blind men to an elephant, but a Discordian can charge admission.

By drawing a line between the two camps of Dualism and Materialism, Dr. Churchland defines the debate in purely Western terms. Buddhism, however, fits comfortably into

neither camp. Many of the arguments that have long been leveled at religious thinking by scientists are aimed squarely at the Judeo-Christian tradition, and miss the mark when turned on Buddhism. Some of these issues are addressed in the discussions that evolved over the two days of the conference, but the absence of a shared terminology and the limited time available often left important aspects of Buddhist philosophy and psychology incompletely articulated in the dialogue. It is not evident, for example, that the Western scientists participating in the conference understood that Tibetan Buddhism explicitly rejects any substantial dualism of mind and matter in which the two are asserted as self-existent things or substances. For example, at one point Patricia Churchland commented, We dont have the slightest idea of what it would be for a soul to see red, or feel pain, or think interesting thoughts. But here, the soul is being treated as a unified thinga concept utterly alien to Buddhism. Buddhist psychology, in contrast, examines individual perceptual and conceptual processes and investigates the causal nexus in which each of them arises. Serious misconceptions can pass unnoticed when we equate superficially similar constructs that are rooted in fundamentally different systems of philosophy. Tibetan Buddhism has never harbored the notion that our day-to-day mental processes exist independently of the body, as Allan Hobson implies when he formulates the relationship between Buddhism and Dualism: The essential linkage to what I understand Buddhist tenets to be is that consciousness is held by Dualists to be able to exist apart from and in some degree independently from the brain. Nor has Buddhism ever drawn anything like the Cartesian distinction between humans and animals. In the Buddhist view, both humans and animals are similarly endowed with consciousness, which functions in dependence upon their physical organisms. But the lack of congruence between Tibetan Buddhism and Dualism is not by any means to say that Buddhism is in agreement with the Materialist ideology promoted by Professor Churchland. Others say knowledge only is eternal, it is the eternal illusion of learning-the Ukase of learning what we already know. Directly we ask ourselves "how" we induce stupidity; without this conception what is there we could not know and accomplish? Others for concentration, it will not free you, the mind conceiving the law is bondage. Arrived at that, you will want deconcentration. Dissociation from all ideas but one is not release but imaginative fulfilment, or the fury of creation. Others again, that all things are emanations of the Divine Spirit, as rays from the Sun, hence the need of emancipation? Verily, things are of necessity through their conception and belief. Then let us destroy or change conception, and empty the belief. Religions are the projection of incapacity, the imaginations of fear, the veneer of superstition, that paradox is truth,0 while ofttimes the ornamentation of imbecility. As a virtue in the Idea to maximize pleasure cheaply, remit your sins and excuse them-is but ceremonial, the expression of puppetry to the governing fear. Yes! What you have ordained in your religiousness, is your very rack, imagined though it be! The prospect is not pleasant; you have taught yourself! It has become inborn and your body is sensitive.
0: That God is always in Heaven or that the Almighty inconceivable emanates its conception or negation-commits suicide, etc.

HAPPINESS IN THE MOUTH

The Chinese characters for "Coca Cola" spell "happiness in the mouth" which we Americans find quaint and a bit risque' We say: all day my legs, my back, my shoulders hurt We never say. all night my knees, my neck, my wrists were blissful We all suffer head aches, tooth aches, ear aches and belly aches And how many heartaches have we felt? A lot. But never are we gladdened by head joy, tooth joy, ear joy or belly joy And how often have we felt heart joy? Not often enuf. We are a nation of whiners!

Our language gives us away: You make me sick You hurt my feelings You are a pain in the neck You are a thorn in my side You are a royal pain in the ass. I say: get off my aching back! Your constant bitching makes me sick! You make me well You gladden my feelings You are a happiness in my throat, a merriment in my bones You are a delight in my pancreas You are my blissful urethra You are a royal joy in the ass You are my body's felicity You are my heart's delight You are the bliss in my juices You are a pleasure in every vertebrae You are a happiness in the mouth.
But seriously, this is what I have come to believe is the true spirit of the oftmisused phrase "we must stick apart": we cannot effect a large scale change, and if we make a serious attempt we WILL be neutralized. Instead, each and every one of us should make a conscious effort to effect a small reprogramming of the MACHINE in a manner that affects us and our immediate surroundings. Keep the mutation small, and give it a chance to become effectively contagious. If we all effect a change on our own paradigm (this DOES require some effort, being a bliss-ninny doesn't count), there WILL be an eventual overlap, at which point the large scale change which we have hoped to effect all along will be impossible to stop. (insert witty closing tagline here)

The Philosophical Roots of Science The ancient Greeks who formulated many concepts and ideas that have been embedded in Western science. There are many scientific questions that originated in the Greek tradition in Western philosophy. Aristotle and Plato were profoundly puzzled about the nature of space and time, and about the nature of substance. They wanted to know what matter is made of, how it is put together. The nature of how things change, and why they change, was also questioned.

They noticed that certain things change systematically and other things change apparently at random. They wanted to know about the nature of motion. Additionally, of course, they wanted to know about the origins of life, where it all came from. They also asked particular questions about humans. They wanted to know how it is that humans can know the world outside them according to some kind of internal representation. How is it that with just a head and eyes and ears, it is nonetheless possible to know whats going on outside in an immense and complicated world, to know that things exist independently of you in the world, and to know that sometimes how things seem to be is different from how they in fact are. These are basic mysteries. They would use the example of your perception when you thrust a stick into water: the stick looks bent. That is how you perceive it to be, but some other part of your knowledge represents it as being, in fact, straight. They were intrigued by the fact that you could distinguish between how things seem to be and how they actually turn out to be. They were intrigued, also, that we can think about things when they are not present. Thus, I can think about my children, even though they are not here.

DALAI LAMA: This is a function of the conceptual mind, to create the imagery corresponding to some external event. PATRICIA CHURCHLAND: But how this is done by the mind/brain is the question. The Greeks noticed that perceptual experience has a kind of unity. They realized that we see shapes and colors as part of one object, such as a tree. There is also unity across different sense modalities. One can see and hear, and realize that both senses arise from the same object. One can see the lyre being played and hear the sound of it, and know that it is part of one thing. There is also a unity through time. Thus, I know that I am the same person today that I was yesterday and that I was the day before. I can look at this room, scanning different areas of space at different times and yet it remains a unified room for me. It is not a bit here, a bit there, a bit elsewhere as my eyes move. It is understood by me as belonging together, as a whole.

The imagination is the ultimate key of the Black Magician or Sorcerer who seeks to go forth to the Sabbat it is the vehicle of self-assumption of deific forms or masks of lycanthropy. When preparing for the Dream Sabbat, decorate your temple or sleeping area in accordance

with that which reminds you of a Sabbat images from old grimoires, sigils, demonic images, masks or other elements which aid the Working. The most important however is the control of the mind. Sit comfortably before and clear all thoughts. Begin a slow chant which you know that activates the imagination towards the Sabbat. Use the Five Senses to activate and aid this transformative in between state hearing, sight, smell, touch and taste. Have some pleasant Sabbat incense and perfect lighting in place, have sigils and images which invoke this place in the mind. Your goal is to align the senses with the focus of the Going forth by Night that is by harmony with the Willed choice of desire. Preparing for the Sabbat by decorating and proper self-alignment creates a heightened inner excitement for the initiatory act itself thus allowing the success to occur, a seeming selfpermission! The Sabbat is a subjective experience, from which you are alone and surrounded by the shades and familiars of your own design. Early on you will discover during waking hours elements of yourself you wish to change and common traits or selfassociations or perceptions you will slowly understand through the process of change. Be accepting and use this as a permission to become! The Witches Sabbat is used for many purposes it is for self-deification, exploration, shape shifting and a heightened gnosis state it breaks through mystery and reveals a new perception, you become like the Devil or Adversary, you grow close to Hecate and Lilith, and you gain a more direct focus of Magickal Will. The Sabbat is also used for Spells and Sexual Workings as well a Sabbat experience with a partner is perhaps one of the most ecstasy inducing acts that can be shared by two people or more if that is your bag. The Sabbat may also be used to curse and bless, all which spirals and acts as a spring the very magicka principle the Staota is in the Second Edition of Yatuk Dinoih. Do not invite the initiated into the Circle of the Witches Sabbat, for the Ensorcelment of Cain will devour them and curse them in whole. Such an experience if ever shared must be between two understanding initiates self-initiated or otherwise. Remember, the Sabbat goes back to the Antinomianian principle of Luciferian self-deification. It is a path of knowledge through clarity this clarity is discovered by those who are focused on moving past mystery, a major point of the beginning of what lies hidden.

A POEE MYSTEREE RITE - THE SRI SYADASTIAN CHANT Written, in some sense, by Mal-2 Unlike a song, chants are not sung but chanted. This particular one is much enhanced by the use of a Leader to chant the Sanskrit alone, with all participants chanting the English. It also behooves one to be in a quiet frame of mind and to be sitting in a still position, perhaps The Buttercup Position. It also helps if one is absolutely zonked out of his gourd. RUB-A-DUB-DUB O! Hail Eris. Blessed St. Hung Mung. SYA-DASTI O! Hail Eris. Blessed St. Mo-jo. SYA-DAVAK-TAVYA O! Hail Eris. Blessed St. Zara-thud. SYA-DASTI SYA-NASTI O! Hail Eris. Blessed St. Elder Mal. SYA-DASTI KAVAK-TAV-YASKA O! Hail Eris. Blessed St. Gu-lik. SYA-DASTI, SYA-NASTI, SYA-DAVAK-TAV-YASKA O! Hail Eris. All Hail Dis-cord-ia. RUB-A-DUB-DUB It is then repeated indefinitely, or for the first two thousand miles, which ever comes first.

Hung Mung
One of the characters to appear in the writings of old Chaung Tzu is Hung Ming, whose name means Primal Chaos, for which reason he was adopted as a Chaoist Sage by the Discordian Society - a nonprophet ireligious disorganization about which you will learn more and understand less if you read PrincipiaDiscordia and The Book of Eris. Hung Mung is also a Zenarchist Immortal, for Zenarchy is to Discordianism much as Zen is to Buddhism or Taoism. In Chuang Tzu he is visited by another character, Great Knowledge, whose inquiries he answers by laughing and slapping his knee and shouting, "I don't know! I don't know!" Great Knowledge persists in questioning Hung Mung, who at last enlightens him with an appropriately chaotic, rambling speech. Not claiming to know anything, Primal Chaos reveals everything to informed curiosity - though not usually in a very orderly format. In becoming acquainted with this sage who knows nothing and does not care that he does not know anything, we can learn enough to accomplish nearly anything. Discordians say you can get a look at Hung Mung by getting stoned and tuning your television to a channel that is not broadcasting. His dancing image will become more and more visible the harder you look for it. And having no sponsors, Hung Mung - they say - is never interrupted by commercials. Zenarchists are skeptical of that much.

SERIOUSLY!!!!!
***********Here Endeth The Mindfuck*********** (NO REALLY, THIS TIME!)

Fifth Patala
The mahavidya, mantra and preparation of the mantra do not bestow siddhi without worship of the yoni. One should bow thrice before the yoni with a flower, Mhevar, else the puja of a man is useless even in 1000 lifetimes. Guru is clearly Siva and his partner is the true form (of the goddess). A Kaulika goes to hell if he has sexual intercourse with her. The best sort of sadhaka should have intercourse with all other yonis. On whoevers forehead is placed the yoni tattva, there too are devas, demons, yaksas and the fourteen worlds. If the twice-born Kulina should recite her mantra during the shraddha, his ancestors dwelling in heaven bestow siddhi. Intoxicated, they laud and hymn his praise. If a sadhaka should perform sadhana in a womans yoni, all born in her family become knowers of Kaula. A sadhaka should always meditate on the pure yoni. O Mahadevi, one should always smear the yoni tattva on the body. If one should place ones linga next to her vagina and then penetrate, one becomes liberated by ten million Kulas and gains all results. In the mutual friction of the linga and yoni is great sadhana. The greatest thing in mantra recitation and sadhana is the outflow of semen and vaginal emission. The powerful sadhaka, following the rule, should offer the augmented substance to the yoni region after mixing the semen and yoni tattva together. From Her lotus feet, (grace) showers down. At the time of sadhana, abandon any other method. The wise man, following the rules of Kaulasastra, should caress that yoni. If one should do puja of a mothers yoni, one should prepare it. After worshipping according to rule, one should not have intercourse. One should only couple with the yoni that bleeds. Dearest, if by good fortune one is partner to a Brahmin girl, one should worship her yoni tattva. Otherwise, worship other yonis. In pasu initiation without five tattvas, all is fruitless. Resort to a Kulaguru initiating into Sakti by every effort. If a sadhaka should consume (yoni tattva) whilst only pasu initiated, his initiation and his methods cause black magic. Therefore, by every effort, resort to a Kulina Guru. If desiring to do puja, resort to a Kulina Guru. Only then does a yoni bestow grace----like Sitas vagina for Ramachandra and your yoni for me. If one should worship a hair-adorned yoni, one becomes like a king. All acts become fruitful, no doubt of it. One becomes very wealthy if marking oneself with a forehead mark of yoni flowers. Devi, smeared with red, one dwells in Durgas paradise. Parvati said: Ocean of Compassion, by what method should the yoni, which is the essence of the cosmos, to be worshipped? If you or a sadhaka should worship a yoni, how does it bestow grace? Speak of this to me! I want to hear all of this because of my great curiosity. Mahadeva said: A sadhaka wishing to worship a yoni, which is the form of the cosmos, should cause an erection and insert it into that thing which is Sakti Herself. The vagina is Mahamaya and the penis is Sadasiva. Worshipping them, one becomes liberated while still alive, there is no doubt of it. One should offer bali, flowers and so forth. If incapable of this, worship with wine, O Durga. One should do pranayama and my six limbed puja in the yoni region. After reciting the mantra 100 times at the base of the yoni, one should rub the linga and the yoni together. I

have thereby declared the manner of proceeding for all sadhakas. Devesi, never reveal this tantra! Do not give it to the disciple of another or to the undevoted. Mahadevi, the Yoni Tantra is revealed from love for you.

The Principia Discordia is the Bible of Discordianism and having got into the twenty first century and evolved through five+ editions there is no indication of its early demise. Five is a good number for the Discordians and the Pentabarf gives five laws for all good Discordians to follow or ignore as they see fit. These cover the good news that Hot Dogs Are Good On Fridays and that all good Discordians are Actually Prohibited From Believing Anything They Read. The symbol adopted by the Discordians is based on the older Yin-Yang shapes-within-a-circle but instead of the teardrop and eye shape they have a pentagram (that five sided figure again) and Eris's famous apple representing the continuing relationship between chaos and order. The non-Discordians who still insist on poking fun at the Discordian cause (and that is just about everybody) put forward the argument that 'reality' is, well, real and to say that there are different kinds of reality is simply crazy. But as just about everyone had different ideas of 'reality' the boys needed no more proof. It was all the other people who were crazy. The law is its own arbiter, beyond necessitation, who can grasp the nameless? Obvious but unintelligible, without form, its design most excellent. Its wish is its superabundance, who can assert its mysterious purpose? By our knowledge it becomes more obscure, more remote, and our faith-opacity. Without attribute, I know not its name. The word and concept of 'reality' was (and still is) the main talking point of DiscordianChaososophy. If reality comes from the culture that surrounds us then it follows that given any particular subject, different cultures would have a totally different view of it. Which is a fact so obvious that it seems to have escaped the attention of even the brightest and best of the controllers and policy makers whose job it is to contain all that chaos. But it hasn't escaped the Discordians. Real reality, say the Discordians, goes deeper that a subjective view of the world through a one small window of perception. Each view from that narrow and somewhat opaque window shows more the reflection of the viewer than the view. No one view is more 'real' than another and the greatest problems occur when one view is forcefully imposed upon another. Another blindingly obvious observation that, again, appears to have escaped the politicians and lawmakers. The fact is that the real view from the big clear window shows both natural order and natural chaos exists whether anyone likes it or not.
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Give me your tired, your poor,

Your huddled masses yearning to be free The wretched refuse of your teeming shore This country always needs more Soylent Green

In order more fully to understand THE perspective concerning the body and mind, let us begin by looking at its view regarding the nature of phenomena in general. The Madhyamaka, or Centrist, view adopted by Tibetan Buddhism (and certain OMNIHERALDS) at large challenges the assumption that any phenomena that comprise the world of our experience exist as things in themselves. Thus, not only does this view reject the notion that the mind is an inherently existent substance, or thing, but it similarly denies that physical phenomena as we experience them are things in themselves. For this reason, the notion of an absolute, substantial dualism between mind and matter is never entertained. According to the Madhyamaka view, mental and physical phenomena, as we perceive and conceive them exist in relation to our perceptions and conceptions. What we perceive is inescapably related to our perceptual modes of observation, and the ways in which we conceive of phenomena are inescapably related to our concepts and languages. This theory is not alien to science. One of the great architects of quantum physics, Werner Heisenberg, declares, for example, What we observe is not nature in itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. 5 In denying the independent self-existence of all the phenomena that make up the world of our experience, the Madhyamaka view departs from both the substantial dualism of Descartes and the substantial monism that seems to be characteristic of modern Materialism, or Physicalism. The Materialism propounded seems to assert that the real world is composed of physical things-inthemselves, while all mental phenomena are regarded as mere appearances, devoid of any reality. Much is made of this difference between appearances and reality. The Madhyamaka view also emphasizes the disparity between appearances and reality, but in a radically different way. All the mental and physical phenomena that we experience, it declares, appear as if they existed in and of themselves, utterly independent of our modes or perception and conception. They appear to be things in themselves, but in reality they exist as dependently related events. Their dependence is threefold: (1) phenomena arise in dependence upon preceding causal influences, (2) they exist in dependence upon their own parts and/or attributes, and (3) the phenomena that make up the world of our experience are dependent upon our verbal and conceptual designation of them. Some praise truth so-called, but give it many containers; forgetting its dependence they prove its relationship and paradox, the song of experience and illusion. Paradox is not "truth", but the truth that anything can be true for a time. What supersedes paradox and its implicit ("not necessary"), I will make the foundation of my teaching. Let us determine the deliberative, "the truth" cannot be divided. Self-love only cannot be denied and is Self-love as such when paradoxical, under any condition, hence it alone is truth, without accessories complete. Others praise ceremonial Magic, and are supposed to suffer much Ecstasy! Our asylums are crowded, the stage is over-run! Is it by symbolizing we become the symbolized? Were I to crown myself King, should I be King? Rather should I be an

object of disgust or pity. These Magicians, whose insincerity is their safety, are but the unemployed dandies of the Brothels. Magic is but one's natural ability to attract without asking; ceremony what is unaffected, its doctrine the negation of theirs. I know them well and their creed of learning that teaches the fear of their own light. Vampires, they are as the very lice in attraction. Their practices prove their incapacity, they have no magic to intensify the normal, the joy of a child or healthy person, none to evoke their pleasure or wisdom from themselves. Their methods depending on a morass of the imagination and a chaos of conditions, their knowledge obtained with less decency than the hyena his food, I say they are less free and do not obtain the satisfaction of the meanest among animals. Self condemned in their disgusting fatness, their emptiness of power, without even the magic of personal charm or beauty, they are offensive in their bad taste and mongering for advertisement. The freedom of energy is not obtained by its bondage, great power not by disintegration. Is it not because our energy (or mind stuff) is already over bound and divided, that we are not capable, let alone magical?
***********Here Endeth The Mindfuck***********

Diatribe on Morality, #1
Let's get this straight once and for all you festering malcontents from solipsist fascist college. Human, as a biological organism does not possess a predetermined moral code. Human is neither good nor evil. Yes, I realize that evolutionary mechanics requires certain behavioral patterns to be present in a successful adaptation. Yes, I realize that the successful operation of a group, culture and society requires that certain behavioral patterns be followed. Yes, I realize that group, culture and sociological pressures limit the number, type and scope of behavioral patterns available to be learned by any member. Yes, I realize that the pressures of evolutionary mechanics direct the rate of change of behavioral patterns in a changing system. Yes, I realize that there is, by it's necessity, something unexplained and unexplainable. Because we can choose to, by it's very definition there are no morals. There is only ethics. Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law.

Let us now pray. Yes, I realize that, Eris.

Diatribe on Ownership, #1
Let's start with a parameterization of one defining factor. Scope of ownership. What really is yours? Your car? Your house? Your clothes? Nope, no of it. It can all be taken away, used up, destroyed. Your Job? Your Career? Your Life's Work? Pfffft. Your body? She who can destroy a thing, controls a thing. Fate is a fickle mistress and the body a fragile thing, oh ugly bag of mostly water. Your soul? What? You got one? Show it to me and I'll show you the scope of ownership directly. You? What is you? You are just everything left over after Goddess get finished with Not You. (It is also the pronunciation of a word for a female sheep:ed) But, you're right in a sense. You are the one thing, by it's very existence, that cannot be owned by anyone except it's owner. You cannot be taken away, destroyed or used up. You, by being the opposite of Not You, are Yours instead of Not Yours

Diatribe on Faith, Hope and Chastity

Wherein we discuss the difference between the standard Christian misinterpretation of the Three Cardinal Virtures and the Erisian Truth. Faith in the Deity. Always a virture. For without belief, a Deity isn't. And besides, it directly reflects the First Commandment. Hope. The last thing out of Pandora's Box? The first commandment of the homo sapian. For without Hope, there is no Life. Faith and Hope, a beautiful dream, yes. And then, Chastity? Well, the truth is more obvious, match the pattern. Two spiritual things and a what? Right. (Or Left, as you prefer)

Gaining the Five Erisian Blessings

Those who want to know the truth of the universe should practice the four cardinal virtues. The first is reverence for all life; this manifests as unconditional love and respect for oneself and all other beings. The Second is natural sincerity; this manifests as honesty, simplicity, and faithfulness. The third is gentleness; this manifests as kindness, consideration for others, and sensitivity to spiritual truth. The fourth is supportiveness; this manifests as service to others without expectation of reward. The four virtues are not an external dogma but a part of your original nature. When practiced, they give birth to wisdom and evoke the five blessings: health, wealth, happiness, longevity, and peace. ALLAN HOBSON: I would like to come back to the question of the meditation associated with the eight levels of sleep in a trained subject. Tell us, for example, what are the characteristics of the deepest state so we can respond from the point of view of Western science. DALAI LAMA: I dont know! Through training, at that deep level, awareness eventually becomes deeper, deeper, deeper. Then, finally, at the deepest experience, breathing stops. ALLAN HOBSON: In general, I think that our experience is the same. But we must be very careful about the terminology. We distinguish objectively five stages in our

formulation: waking and four stages of sleep. DALAI LAMA: From a Buddhist point of view, the eight stages are associated with the dissolution of the five elements within the body. The five elements are the elements of earth, water, fire, air, and consciousness. Bear in mind, earth doesnt mean dirt, it refers to the solid constituents of the body; water refers to the fluid constituents, and so on. The dissolution of these elements takes place through five sequential states, and there are three more, corresponding to more and more subtle states of consciousness. The eighth is the most subtle. ALLAN HOBSON: It might interest you to know that in nontrained subjects, when we perform awakenings in the various stages of sleep, we get less and less evidence of conscious experience. In other words, the deepest stage of nondreaming sleep, defined physiologically, is associated in our untrained subjects with very low levels of consciousness. And in fifty percent of the awakenings there is no evidence of consciousness at all. That doesnt mean that it couldnt be changed by training the subjects. But the evidence, from the point of view of the brain, is that you would need to provide a lot of training relating to the physiology. THUBTEN JINPA: I think there is a certain misunderstanding of this term consciousness. In the Western philosophical or psychological term, consciousness is conscious, whereas, when Buddhist translators use the term, it has a wider meaning. It includes both the subconscious and unconscious levels as well. ALAN WALLACE: The terms conscious and unconscious are not used in Buddhism. Rather, one speaks of differing degrees of clarity and subtlety of awareness. Even when someone has fainted, for example, and is regarded, in Western terms, as unconscious, from a Buddhist perspective a subtle level of consciousness is still present. DALAI LAMA: As early as the seventh stage approaching deep sleep, you would say that your awareness has declined. That is, the mind is not clearly apprehending anything. In Buddhist psychology, we refer to sleep as one of many mental factors. There are fifty-one mental factors, among which sleep is one. But it is said that the mental factor of sleep precedes the deep sleep state, meaning the nondreaming state, just as fear may proceed fainting without going into it. Consider an analogy: Once you have fainted, you feel no fear. However, it can be fear that leads to your fainting. So the fear doesnt go with you into the fainting. Thus, analogously, in the nondreaming deep sleep state, the mental factor of sleep has already passed. It is a matter of terminology. Just how this mental factor of sleep in Buddhist terminology corresponds to Western terminology remains to be seen. ANTONIO DAMASIO: I have a question, for clarification. When you have the very subtle consciousness that one is supposed to have just before death, that really does not mean that you have heightened, greater awareness, but rather the contrary. It means that in fact you are reducing perception to very low levels, right? DALAI LAMA: Yes. ALLAN HOBSON: That is very important. PATRICIA CHURCHLAND: I had assumed exactly the reverse. ANTONIO DAMASIO: I also had the opposite idea. DALAI LAMA: One of the purposes of tantric meditation is to prepare you to be able to utilize the death opportunity. The point is to transform that stage of mind into wisdom,

because it is the most subtle state of the mind. There is less influence of conditioning, so it is more pure. ANTONIO DAMASIO: Mental exercise in preparation for death. DALAI LAMA: Yes, it is very strong. LARRY SQUIRE: Certainly, modern neuroscience is very sympathetic to the importance of the unconscious. The specialization and differentiation of the brain tells us that things are going on sometimes automatically, or sometimes in ways that we just dont have access to, given that we are using language mostly for our understanding as well as communication. This is dramatically brought out in experiments with patients who have had the two halves of their brains separated surgically. In those people you can show that the right side of the brain can be getting information and doing things that the left side of the brain, which is the speaking half of the brain, does not understand. The left side may then make up things, confabulate, to explain behavior for which it cannot see the origins. Threefold dependence is not intuitively obvious, for it is concealed by the appearance of phenomena as being self-sufficient and independent of conceptual designation. On the basis of these misleading appearances it is quite natural to think of, or conceptually apprehend, phenomena as self-defining things in themselves. This tendency is known as reification, and according to the Madhyamaka view, this is an inborn delusion that provides the basis for a host of mental afflictions. Reification decontextualizes. It views phenomena without regard to the causal nexus in which they arise, and without regard to the specific means of observation and conceptualization by which they are known. The Madhyamaka, or Centrist, view is so called because it seeks to avoid the two extremes of reifying phenomena on the one hand, and of denying the existence of phenomena on the other. From this perspective it seems that the above materialist ideology falls to both extremes, by reifying physical phenomena and by denying the existence of mental phenomena. In the Madhyamaka view, mental events are no more or less real than physical events. In terms of our common-sense experience, differences of kind do exist between physical and mental phenomena. While the former commonly have mass, location, velocity, shape, size, and numerous other physical attributes, these are not generally characteristic of mental phenomena. For example, we do not commonly conceive of the feeling of affection for another person as having mass or location. These physical attributes are no more appropriate to other mental events such as sadness, a recalled image from ones childhood, the visual perception of a rose, or consciousness of any sort. Mental phenomena are, therefore, not regarded as being physical, for the simple reason that they lack many of the attributes that are uniquely characteristic of physical phenomena. Thus, Buddhism has never adopted the Materialist principle that regards only physical things as real.

ZEN is meditation. ARCHY is social order. ZENARCHY is the social order which springs from meditation. Zenarchy is a way of Zen applied to social life. A non-combative, non-participatory, no-politics approach to anarchy intended to get the Sirius student thinking. Zenarchy is new in name alone. Not only is it the Bastard Zen of America - it is the heretofore nameless streak that zig-zags back through the Zen Tradition, weaving with delirious defiance in and out of various sects and schools - slapping the face of an Emperor here, rejecting a high office there, throwing a rule-blasting koan at a bureaucrat elsewhere Zen Buddhism, for example, has its own lineages and practices as a spiritual discipline, but when American poets first became aware of Zen in the early 1950's through the translations and writings of D.T. Suzuki, there was a large jump into spontaneity, non-attainment, and egolessness. "Beat Zen" then emerged, a term coined by Allen Watts, as an easy and free floating, almost frivolous approach to Zen. Zenarchy had woven it's way into Western culture, and a new vehicle was in need to fertilize it. Out of this need Discordia was 'born'. (Bullshit makes the flowers grow, and that's beautiful.) It is no coincidence that the cultural currents of Zen and Anarchism immediately joined when Zen came to the West. For nowhere in recent Western history is the life of the Eastern renunciate more closely paralleled than in that of the dedicated revolutionary, forsaking all attachments for a single goal. And no Eastern sage comes closer to the zestful life sense of the Anarchist than the Zen Master. But Anarchism, on it's own, always breaks down as it's applied. Postmodern jargon-junkies call ideologies (aka, "isms") like anarchism "emancipatory metanarratives" (do you believe that?) What does that mean? It means systems of belief no different from what came before:

BELIEVE IN X, AND YOU WILL BE FREE. YOU WILL REACH PARADISE. Revolutionaries seek salvation in THE CAUSE -- this is similar to the way the religious operate -- THE CAUSE takes over your life, becoming more important than you are... more important than THEY are. The vision of the anarchist then, will not manifest if applied directly to socety. It must be achieved indirectly as a sociological incidental resulting from the collective synergy of individuals living freely.

13. A Buddhist Deconstruction of the Minds Self

A fundamental tenet of Buddhism is the lack of inherent existence of phenomena, including oneself: our normal understanding of things as substantial is an illusion, for they exist truly only as dependency related events. Various dialectic approaches have developed in Tibetan Buddhism, designed to challenge and ultimately to dismantle our reified view of reality. The Dalai Lama several times tries to pursue this type of logical enquiry with the scientists. He seems to be interested in the possibility that a scientific understanding of the brains processes might lead to a similar deconstruction of illusion. DALAI LAMA: I would like to know whether, as scientists conducting neuroscientific

research in your laboratories, you ever have a spontaneous feeling of affection for the brain itself as you normally feel for living beings as persons? Do you ever have that kind of feeling? LARRY SQUIRE: Sure. PATRICIA CHURCHLAND: Yes. ROBERT LIVINGSTON: Absolutely, yes. LEWIS JUDD: Highly admire it. DALAI LAMA: Even though we might like certain plants such as these flowers, or this table, or jewelry, or whatever else we may consider precious, that kind of feeling is very different from the feeling of affection or love that you have toward another human being. Underlying that feeling is a very personalized perception of that individual person. Do you ever get that feeling of personal affection when you are looking at the brain? ANTONIO DAMASIO: Thats different. DALAI LAMA: Is the kind of affection and love that we feel toward another person, as a person, a baseless illusion? ANTONIO DAMASIO: I would say no. DALAI LAMA: As a result of scientific investigations, we have more or less refuted the notion of a truly existent self. You cant find a soul, or a human being. You can find the human body, but you cant find the human being per se, the person qua person, the entity for which we feel compassion and affection. Nor can you find consciousness or awareness apart from the brain. So is our affection and love toward another person as a person baseless? Is that affection, love, and compassion focused upon a nonentity? ALLAN HOBSON: Brain science is inadequate. Neuroscience is only thirty years old. I believe, however, that we can envisage a time when our knowledge of brains would be elevated to that level. If you imagine the current slope of progress, and the increase in complexity of function which we only recently have come to understand in terms of detailed and comprehensive brain mechanisms, then I can envisage a time at which affection, including human affection, and the entire individual personality of a particular brain, will be revealed. DALAI LAMA: Would you fall in love with it? ALLAN HOBSON: You would certainly feel compassion. LEWIS JUDD: But you would not relate to a brain as you would relate to a person. That is really the question. DALAI LAMA: This would imply that when a person experiences affection and love for another person, the person who is experiencing affection and love has a philosophical notion that the other individual constitutes a being or perhaps has a soul. That would be the implication. If you understood the complexity of the brain to such a degree, is it possible for you to have that response to a brain? ALLAN HOBSON: He is saying there is something more to the brain than its organic constitution. I agree that such is likely to be discovered through progress in brain science. In fact, this is not at all what His Holiness intends by this line of argument, as will eventually become clear. ANTONIO DAMASIO: We need to answer the first question which was whether or not, working in the laboratory, we feel affection toward the brain. Thats the way I interpret your question. Can we feel affection, for instance, for material that we are working with,

such as an image of the brain, or a slice of the brain? The answer to that is no, at least in my view. What I can feel affection for is a particular individual, a person whom I know. I should like to tell you a little bit about my experience in that respect. The older I get, the more I feel a great affection and compassion for those individuals who have suffered brain damage and who are subjects in our research. And that feeling is something quite powerful. In fact, in our laboratory, we treat these individuals as our friends. They are very precious human beings and we grieve over their problems. But when I look at sections of their brains as taken in life by MRI scanning, or actual sections of their brains taken postmortem, I dont feel any affection whatsoever. I am interested in these sections esthetically, in much the same way that I am interested in paintings. And also, particularly, because the brain sections provide very rich information for my work, for my thinking. But no, I dont relate with affectional regard for such artifacts. In fact, to be quite truthful, I relate to them somewhat less affectionately than I do to paintings. DALAI LAMA: In order to save the life of a particular human being, suppose that we undertake an operation on that persons brain or some other part of the body. We may actually cut out some small, damaged portion of the brain. You have no compassion for that part, although it is properly identified as a part of that persons brain. Why is the affection missing? Is it because we took that possibly offending part out, in order to save the life of that person? Now, you know there exists a person, but if we investigate in a reductionist manner, where and what is that person? What is the human being that you have feelings for? Is that the body? Is that the mind? We may suppose that the brain is the one thing which we consider to be the proper owner of the body. So, such things: brain, mind, soul seem to be essential, whether they all exist or not. ROBERT LIVINGSTON: I have a suggestion here, Your Holiness. This goes back to our intellectual ancestors, to a contemporary of the Buddha, Hippocrates. Greek physicians in the Hippocratic tradition held that the contract between a doctor and a patient is a Contract of Philia, or mutual friendship, a contract that includes mutual trust and affection. What this patient/physician contract means is that when a physician encounters someone who requests or otherwise exhibits a need for health advice or careand this is absolutely without limits of age, sex, nationality, creed, or philosophythe physician has a professional obligation to do whatever he or she can for that person. If the patient consciously acknowledges the physician and appeals for his or her help, then the bilaterality, the mutuality of the contractual relation of friendship goes automatically into effect. The physician, on the basis of that Contract of Philia, must do everything for that patient that he would do for a friend, and he must not do anything to that patient that he would not do to a friend. In other words, patients are not just diagnostic or therapeutic problems. LEWIS JUDD: The point is, the physician is dedicating his or her knowledge and skills on behalf of the patient as a totality, as a person, not to some fractional part or organ system. The patient is not just a diseased liver or diseased brain, or whatever. The patient is an integrated, whole person. DALAI LAMA: Thats it. You can amputate the persons arms and legs, yet you know the person is still there, even without arms or legs. PATRICIA CHURCHLAND: Are you exploring this as an argument for believing that

there is a soul? DALAI LAMA: No, thats not the case. Buddhists dont accept that there is a soul. There is a reductionist approach used in Buddhism in which you do not find the self, that is, you find only emptiness. The absence of an intrinsic self is emptiness, and emptiness is something to be realized. It is not designed to reintroduce a soul. But we do designate a self. There is a conceptual designation of the self, which relates to the body and to the mind. But it is not something you can localize through reductionist analysis. ALAN WALLACE: I think the question here that was being asked previously and was not really answered was: If we say that no such thing as a self, or a soul that exists in and of itself, and moreover, if there is no such thing as a mind existing apart from brain and brain states, can we feel compassion toward a brain and brain states? If we cannot, then is compassion itself a deluded state of mind, inasmuch as you are feeling compassion toward a nonentity? Sacred Erisian High Mass
of the Krispy Kreme Kabal designed by the Reverend DM Psiqosys ***** LET IT BE KNOWN that this Mass contains mystical secrets of an order previously unknown to this piece of paper. LET IT BE KNOWN that this Mass is of the Highest Order and the Inner Circle and the Upper Echelon, and as such should be reproduced in full or in part only by those who wish to do so. LET IT BE KNOWN that this Mass may be performed by five persons, provided those five persons are willing to perform. The five officiating ritualists are referred to by the following titles: High Holy Boss of Religion, Great Overseer of Forbidden Arcana, Omnipotent Matriarch/Patriarch of The Mystic Realms, Most Divine Empirical Pedagogical Wizard, and Head Enchilada of Miscellany. Collectively, the five officiating ritualists are second in power only to Goddess Herself, or to any members of the congregation present at the Mass. To save space, the five officiating ritualists shall henceforth be referred to as simply #1, #2, etc. ACT I: The Climactic Sacrament of Ecstatic Communion (all members of the congregation mob around the altar and receive communion of Orange juice, dispensed by #2, and Donuts (preferably jelly), dispensed by #3. As each congregant receives their portion of the Hostess, they should place their minds into a meditative state by thinking impure thoughts about Goddess, or another member of the congregation.) #5: And Goddess spake: And when you, my children, have wandered through the night and grown hungry, you shall behold the holy beacon of the donut shop, wherein thou shalt consume donuts in my name. #4: And you shall fear not the cops and drunkards which abound at such all-night eateries, for they too seek my glory, though they find it not solely through the rites of eating donuts. #1: But you, my children, have beheld the mysteries of the Golden Apple, and quaffed the pleasant-tasting syrup which flows from within. #5: For the uninitiated shall not know the full meaning of KALLISTI, for they do not understand Greek! #4: And if you, my child, understand Greek, make sure you use some (ahem) protection! (Officials may ad-lib further, or simply remain silent, depending on how ugly the crowd gets, until everyone has taken communion.) ACT II: The Invocation and Sycophantic Supplication unto Goddess #1: We are gathered here today in the sight of Goddess in order that we might conduct the Sacred High Mass of Eris. #2: Hail Eris, Full of Grace! #3: Holy Queen of Outer Space! #4: Leading Lady of This Place! #4: Hail Eris, Full of Grace! #5: Hail Eris, Lady of Chaos! #3: Hail Eris! All: All Hail Discordia!

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ACT III: The Sacred Litany All: I say, my dog has no nose! #2: No nose?!? How does he smell?!? All: Bloody awful! #1: LET IT BE KNOWN that Dog spelled backwards is goD! #4: LET IT BE KNOWN that Cow spelled backwards is woC! #3: LET IT BE KNOWN that Pterodactyl spelled backwards is difficult to pronounce! All: And thats the fact, Jack! ACT IV: The Benevolent Adoration and Implied Genuflection #5: And Goddess spoke, saying I just flew in from Nirvana. #2: And boy, was that a noisy airplane! #4: And the servant of Goddess sought to know Her, and soon found ineffable bliss. #1: And boy, were his arms tired! #3: Let the simulated crowd noise commence! All: Watermelon canteloupe watermelon canteloupe (etc. etc.) ACT V: THE MALEVOLENT BENEDICTION AND SPEWING FORTH OF THE HOLY LAWS #2: (shouting over the simulated crowd noise): And when Goddess heard the crowds growing restless, She realized they lacked direction. #3: And direction She gave them! Goddess towered above the confused hordes, and gave them the twenty-three commandments! (#3 raises hands dramatically, and simulated crowd noise immediately ceases.) #1: Thou shalt have other Goddesses before dinnertime! All: Or not! #4: Thou shalt worship worship worship idols! All: Or not! #5: Thou shalt take the Lords name in vain! All: And what if we dont, GODDAMMIT?!?!? #3: Thou shalt drink beer and listen to old Black Sabbath albums! All: Or not! #2: If participating in the three-legged race at the next family reunion, strive for Honorable Mention! All: Or not! #1-#5 simultaneously: KILL! MURDER! MAIM! DESTROY! (x5) All: Get serious! #4: Sorry, wrong religion. Thou shalt not commit adulthood! All: Pretty pleeeeeeeeeeez?!? #2: Well, maybe, if you eat all your peas. Thou shalt go around stealing people in the face for no particular reason. All: I think not! #3: Agreed. Thou shalt not watch Americas Most Wanted in hopes of seeing thine next-door neighbor. All: Agreed! #1: Thou shalt not, under any circumstance, read this sentence aloud. All: Blasphemer! Blasphemer! Blasphemer! #5: And if you have enjoyed these commandments, and wish to receive more, send 1-800-555-3747 to the post office box not eligible to VISA or Mastercard owners. Allow $23.93 for delivery, C.O.Ds void with your complementary gift. All: Thank you all, and have a nice day! AD027

Wouldnt it be wonderful if everyone renounced violence forever? I could then conquer the whole stupid planet with just a butter knife. Mathematicians, beware the sine of the beast!

DALAI LAMA: In the Buddhist practice of dream yoga, there is a particular practice in which the lucid dreamer, while in the dream state, is told to be conscious of the dream state, and told to meditate on something specific.

ALLAN HOBSON: Yes, it could very well be that this would work, and it could be experimentally documented, but it has not yet been tried in the Western scientific tradition. Its a doable experiment. Now this finding has lots of important implications, and I would like to emphasize two. For Western science, it gives us a way of making time labels within the dream so that we can correlate physiological activity with mental activity more precisely. And it raises certain problems. It shows how suggestible dream contents can be. What that means is that we can teach subjects to dream anything they want to dream about. Therefore, if the dream is taken as important evidence for a psychological or philosophical theory, we encounter the problem of a circular loop. The subject may be dreaming what he expects to dream about in order to prove the theory, and this does not constitute scientific evidence of anything. DALAI LAMA: Are you implying that in psychology, where a dream may be considered of great importance for interpreting some of their theories, these experiments reveal that the psychological basis could be shaky? ALLAN HOBSON: Yes, precisely. So thats the bad news. The good news is that this lucid dreaming state is so plastic that it can be exploited for a variety of purposes. DALAI LAMA: From a Buddhist point of view, one might be able to distinguish different states of dreaming. Generally speaking, a dream is a dream, something you cant control. But for the highly advanced meditator, there could be possibilities for gaining certain insights through dreams. ALLAN HOBSON: Thats possible. Even at that level you encounter the same problem of wondering whether this is evidence of anything other than purpose and expectation. DALAI LAMA: I know some Tibetans who lived in Tibet prior to the 1959 uprising. Before their escape from Tibet, they did not know about the natural trails and passes by which to get over the Himalayas into India. Some of these people I met had very clear dreams of these tracks and, years later, when they actually had to follow the actual trails, they found that they were already familiar with them because of the very clear dreams they had had previously. ALLAN HOBSON: This is a so-called precognitive dream and there are many examples of this in the West as well. I would like to defer discussion of that until later, as it is an important question. Dr. Hobson closed his presentation with another drawing based on a dream image: a man riding one of two bicycles which are connected by an elaborate magical device. ALLAN HOBSON: The good news is that dreaming is an autocreative state. Its plasticity can be utilized for a number of different purposes. This picture shows another drawing of a dream which indicates the autocreative nature of dream experiences. What does it mean that there is no one sitting on the second bicycle? The dreamer is a bachelor who throughout his dream journal complains of the fact that he has no companion. Now this is an interpretation and probably can never be proved scientifically, but it is nonetheless poetically intriguing. Dreams are often poetically compelling and we should not lose sight of that important point.
Progress should be closely examined and what you have gained by the convenience of science. THE ASTROFUNGUSTICON

being a book of the Church of Astrofungus Part the One 1. They came from outer space and within Them They contain The Messages. These messages are not for good nor evil, or any of that mysterious crap. They are just There. 2. And upon Their arrival They lodged themselves within the Firmament, the Earth and the Sky and the Ocean, spreading ThemSelves throughout the Microcosmos and the Macrocosmos, and so They are a part of All Things. And They bear these Names The Astrofungus (of Outer Space) The Firmanofungus (of the Firmament) The Geofungus (of the Earth) The Aerofungus (of the Air and Sky) The Aquafungus (of the Waters) The Microfungus (of Us All) The Macrofungus (of All Our Surroundings) 3. Each Name exists within the other Names, for They All bear the Messages and serve the same purposes. For does not water fall from the sky to be soaked up by the earth? And do the stars not exist beyond the solid blue of the sky? And do not All Of Those Things continue within or without us? Ask your questions and the Fungus shall answer. 4. The Messages may not be clearly understood at first, but those of us who have recieved a Message can see others who are the same. For we are all part of The Same Thing You Know? And those who have heard not the Message Just Dont Understand, they Just Dont Get It. 5. And Lo! We are all part of this Thing, even those who bear no Message, for we all make up the Macrofungus and the Microfungus is a part of each of us. We must strive to see Their Messages in all of the World, even those most mundane of creatures and things, and to Learn of the One Great Message. 6. There are no Boss-Gods of the 5 Churches, for we shall seek to recieve the Messages borne by and of the Micro- and Macro- Funguses. And when we find the Words within ourselves to describe the Messages we have received we shall strive to communicate Them to others. And if these others Just Dont Get It we shall be patient and say Who Gives A Shit Anyway and change the subject. Ponder upon what you have read, make your thoughts to be part of All Things, and Share Your Joy.

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the High Priest of Astrofung ***********Here Endeth The Mindfuck***********

A TALL TALE OF MYSTEREE ***********Here Endeth The Mindfuck*********** Really One time Omar and Mal2 were waiting for the bus. a FAT GUY with a gymbag

wearing a shabby bathrobe and plaid slip-ons. I know, don`t ask how.
a FAT GUY with a gymbag yes. a FAT GUY with a gymbag Mal2 grinned at the rainbow shoelace that held together one of the FAT GUYs slip-ons. He nudge Mal. Gesturing with an extened forefinger he muttered "rainbow..."

The FAT GUY turned and looked at the both. Recognizing them as Popes, the FAT GUY then shouted "FUCK, Hello!" and silently stared. Mal2 smiled wryly and asked the FAT GUY "Hey rainbow-lace, what's ERIS gotta say about rainbows?" The FAT GUY approached, laid down his gym bag. He unzipped the broken zipper. Muttering and cursing, as it continually jammed and partially re-zipped. After a few moments fumbling and cursing he produced a two bagles, the gym bag was full of them. Nothing but bagles. Omar and Mal2 graciously accepted the bagles and began to scarf them dowm, having not eaten since the prior night. It was fun, but too much acid makes your stomach upset sometimes, and then you don't wanna eat. Worse still is when you've got acid-gut churnings and you've been smoking as well and have the goddamn munchies. Omar spoke around a wad of bagle: "So um, guy what's ERIS do for a living?" The FAT GUY scoweled, raised his middle finger in exclusion of all others and thrust it at the pair. He then shouted "FUCK!" and ran off, bagle-bag in tow. For more fun, go swallow some fresh doughnuts that are too hot to swallow but too far down your gullet to spit out! I hear Tozan has five fresh, hot, jelly-filled pounds of them.

If a person should gaze at a yoni while ritually bathing, his life becomes fruitful. There is no doubt of this. One should look at ones partners yoni, at another womans yoni, the yoni of a maiden----in the absence of a maidens yoni one should gaze reverentially at the yoni of a pupil. Never worship the yoni in front of pashus. Using the yoni ssdhana method, one definitely becomes like Visnu, of this there is no doubt. Whosoever does this is praised by the Suras and Asuras in heaven and the underworld. Only one acting with vira Sadhana is liberated from sorrow. This well-balanced sadhana is revealed from love for you. If a worshipper of the yoni tattva enters a dispute, after conquering all enemies he becomes ultimately victorious, Durga. What is the point of bathing in the Ganges? What need is there to resort to sacred places? There is nothing equalling devotion to the yoni. Acting otherwise is useless. Devesi, even with my five mouths I am unable to speak of the yonis greatness! Listen Naganandini, by grace of your yoni I became Mahadeva! Whichsoever sadhaka should have intercourse in a womans yoni becomes liberated from

the great misery which is the terrible Ocean of Samsara. What need of many words in this matter? Psrvati-Sundari, listen! There is nothing praised in the world more worthy of praise than the yoni tattva. Devi, without it, how could it be possible for Visnu or Siva to speak? How could I be capable of anything, O Mother Durga? How is it possible for me to describe your great receptacle of riches? Devi said: Mahadeva, Natha of the whole cosmos, cause of creation, maintenance and destruction, you have spoken of the acts relating to Virasadhana. Deva, how can a person be an unbeliever if he has heard this declared by you? Mahadeva, share this sacred trust. Remove any doubts I may have. Mahadeva said: Listen, most beautiful Parvati Naganandini! Listen very devotedly. Listen attentively to that which should never be revealed, even at the risk of your own life. Devesi, you should always conceal this as if it were your own yoni. The secret I reveal is true, true, there is no doubt of it. Practising it, one never becomes immersed in the Ocean of Life. The yoni is Mahamaya herself, the linga is the form of Sadasiva. Sundari, offering should be with their effusion and with wine and flesh. Sundari, one should bring together the yoni and the linga and worship the tattva. One should place oneself in this certain thing and give everything to Sakti. One should satisfy using the five tattvas in the shape of the vagina, which is the whole universe. Devesi, if this is revealed, one commits brahmicide. Durga, this sacred trust is known to be of very great merit. This sacred trust bestows siddhi and liberation. Devesi, not knowing this sacred trust, one certainly goes to hell. Yoni sadhana is the greatest of all sadhana. If one should worship the yoni after enjoying and drinking, one is freed from the sins of ten million births, which are instantly destroyed. Liberation is achieved through enjoyment. Happiness is gained through enjoyment. Therefore, by every effort, a sadhaka should become an enjoyer. The wise man should always avoid blame, disgust or shame of the yoni. Unless the yoni is worshipped using the Kulachara method, even one hundred thousand sadhanas are useless. If one should lick the elixir at the edge of the yoni, evil in ones body or dwelling place is certainly destroyed. What point is there to bathing in the Ganges or in other tirthas? Dearest, in this matter relating to a powerful sadhaka always worshipping the vagina, what use is there of many words? Listen, O One-dear-to-me-as-life-itself, this sadhana of sadhakas is the best of all methods. Unless one uses all five tattvas and not just four, all is fruitless. Unless the fifth is included, one is not a Sakta having both happiness and liberation. Unless one uses the wine of Sakti, all becomes fruitless. The leftovers of both the Sakti and the vira should be drunk. After doing thus, and always worshipping the Mahayoni, having enjoyed and having drunk, one should eat within the circle. One should take a tulsi rosary and recite mantra in a Hari temple After reciting mantra and various legends and lesser stories, one should then recite the great stories of Sri Hari. Hari is described as being the sum-total of all existence. One should slay beasts in that place. (?) This is the quintessential secret of sadhana, by practising it one becomes wealthy. Parvati, never perform this most excellent sadhana in front of pasus. If one should worship the yoni, bowing thrice with a flower, all karmas are destroyed and nothing in the three worlds becomes unattainable.

Discordianism and the Tao

1. The Discord that can be understood is not Discord If one were to look up Taoism or Lao Tzu in an encyclopaedia (or its close cousin, the encyclopedia), one would read about a philosophy well suited to those that like to sit by the side of a stream and watch the water flow. One would also read about how Lao Tzu, who probably didn't exist, wrote the Tao Te Ching, which does exist. The Yin Yang would also be mentioned, as would the I Ching. It is all a lie. If one were to read in a Discordian document (such as the Principia Discordia), one would read: A very long time ago, on a misty morning in China, Lao Tzu sat by the side of a stream watching the water run by while he contemplated dynamic balance. His contemplation was interrupted by a large stone splashing in the stream. Lao Tzu, wiping splashed water from his face, looked up to see Hung Mung. The morning sun was rising behind Hung Mung as he spoke of dynamic discord. Hung Mung then unrolled a painting of the Sacred Chao. Unfortunately, Lao Tzu was trying to get water out of his ears, so all he heard was the word "dynamic", and he really couldn't make out the diagram of the Sacred Chao, because he kept getting an eyeful of sunlight every time he looked at Hung Mung. All he saw was the basic shape of the Sacred Chao, and decided that it makes a good representation of dynamic balance. It is all a lie. The truth is that Lao Tzu, who didn't exist is the same person as Hung Mung, who did exist. He created two philosophies/religions, one for people who like to sit by the side of a stream and watch the water, and the other for people who like to throw big stones in the water. He also created the egg roll which is somewhat like a hot dog with a bun, but it doesn't piss off Eris when you eat one. On a cool misty morning, you may want to sit by the side of a stream and watch the water as you throw stones. Then, eat an egg roll in a hot dog bun. Be sure to use ketchup,

mustard, and relish.

Lucifer is the model of the Celestial or sometimes called Empyrean Rite as it is a focusing on Self-Transformation through Willed Direction; the Black Magician driven by self-determined goals to become something and transform into a Godlike state. This requires isolation, introspection and an honesty which is both complimenting and insulting. As the Infernal Sabbat is the Mastery of the Earth, the Luciferian Sabbat is the Mastery of the Spirit and the Psyche. Lucifer is the First Born Son of the Limitless Light, Ain Soph or God. Azazel as his name is revealed, is a Djinn or High Angel of Fire, thus self-influenced and strong in Will. Lucifer fell from the highest abodes of heaven, complete with the wings made of Emerald and crashed into the Earth and Abyss. With him fell other angels, Leviathan, Belial, Beelzebub, Astaroth, Asmodeus and a plethora of other Djinn and Daemons. They had sensed a spark of self-deific power, the Black Flame or Black Light of Iblis. This indicated isolate intelligence, unnatural life. As Lucifer fell to the Earth and into the Abyss he fell into a state of transformation as a Djinn of Fire, first born and favored of God, he understood the highest principles of Light. Now Lucifer would develop the aspect of his being called Noctifer, thus Ahriman sprang forth through his shadow. Noctifer was awakened from a slumber by the First Bride of Adam, called Az Lilith. She was fiery, bestial, vampyric and a demoness of insatiable lust. She awoke Ahriman (or Noctifer) and by this stimulation he kissed her, causing menstruation. She joined soon with Shaitan/Samael the Dragon and spawned Cain. Ahriman or Noctifer wandered the Earth and learned its many secrets; he could do so with speed and cunning. He taught further in the form of Azazel men and women about warfare, weapons, armor to the opposites such as make up and sorcery. Azazel was now Shaitan, his shadow doctrine of witchcraft was of Ahriman the Dragon, Shaitan had now transformed into a sense of continually progressing perfection isolate consciousness, strength, knowledge of both Empyrean and the secret abodes of Hell and how both may create a powerful god like being for those who dare. The ones who fell with Lucifer were taught sexual magick and procreation by Az Lilith, who resided near the Red Sea in caves. Az resided also in the blackest depths of Hell; she instructed demons, monsters, and other druj the art of sexual copulation and how to spawn daemons. Az Lilith was the mother of Succubi and Incubi, daemons who held sexual congress with humans and with their emissions spawned other shadow forms.

You look like you've finally gotten sick of it all. Had enough? Decided that our pills and prepackaged food might kill you? You're right! It will.

Sucks that you have to go to work soon though, don't it? Sure, your apathy has contributed to the mess. All that time you spent eating and drinking, watching the TV, and avoiding any involvement in the world has finally snowballed. Now what can you do? Ask yourself the following question: Am I a bovine lifeform? Does you find yourself grazing in the fields? NO?! Then why are you being bought and sold like cattle? Tired of being led around by the nose? YES!? Then, there is hope for you! There is nothing quite as fulfilling as running apart from the herd. Life without fences is great, you should try it.

THE END IS NOUGHT, FUCK YOU!