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Quick Notes: Ritual Killing, Burning Man, and Dominionist Debates
From Wildhunt
Just a few quick notes for you on this Tuesday. Animal Sacrifice, Factory Farming, and Palo Mayombe: Religion Dispatches has an excellent essay up by_Meera Subramanian, senior editor of_Killing the Buddha, on the recent case of_William Camacho,_a practitioner of Palo Mayombe whose barber shop was shut down after sacrificial chickens were found in the basement. [...]
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Just a few quick notes for you on this Tuesday. Animal Sacrifice, Factory Farming, and Palo Mayombe: Religion Dispatches has an excellent essay up by_Meera Subramanian, senior editor of_Killing the Buddha, on the recent case of_William Camacho,_a practitioner of Palo Mayombe whose barber shop was shut down after sacrificial chickens were found in the basement. [...]
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Back in April I put together an Etsy treasury showcasing Gothic…
Back in April I put together an Etsy treasury showcasing Gothic Wedding rings. I have been meaning to revisit that theme because I know that people are always planning weddings or planning to propose. After the jump are collections of wedding rings for men and women that I feel would fit many Gothic aesthetics. The price range is $250 and up, I’ll do a budget revisit of this in the near future.
Academic Publishers Are Out of Control
George Monbiot has a must-read article in The Guardian on academic publishers. Monbiot points out that academic publishers receive their content for essentially free (the papers are funded by universities, often with public money, and editing is often done on a volunteer basis) and then sold back to the public at exorbitant prices. Individual articles cost at least $30, and subscriptions cost university libraries thousands of dollars per journal per year. The publishers operate at margins of up to 40%. Monbiot writes:
What we see here is pure rentier capitalism: monopolising a public resource then charging exorbitant fees to use it. Another term for it is economic parasitism. To obtain the knowledge for which we have already paid, we must surrender our feu to the lairds of learning.
Monbiot’s solution:
In the short term, governments should refer the academic publishers to their competition watchdogs, and insist that all papers arising from publicly funded research are placed in a free public database. In the longer term, they should work with researchers to cut out the middleman altogether, creating – along the lines proposed by Björn Brembs of Berlin’s Freie Universität – a single global archive of academic literature and data. Peer-review would be overseen by an independent body. It could be funded by the library budgets which are currently being diverted into the hands of privateers.
The Guardian: Academic publishers make Murdoch look like a socialist
(via Brainsturbator)
Update: Matthew Ingram has a post that expands on the reasons why this system remains in place even as other media industries are being disrupted:
Academics who have tried to open up their research or bypass the journal industry say they often run into resistance from a number of sources. Among other things, appearing in a specific journal or publication is a key criteria for advancement at most universities, which means publishing in open-access formats could be a career-limiting move for an academic. Many publish their papers on their own websites, but most also go through the usual journal process as well, which reinforces the existing system. And since universities pay large sums to subscribe to those journals, they often feel compelled to justify those costs by requiring that all research be published through them.
Ingram also cites this post by sociologist and Microsoft researcher danah boyd, who calls for academics to boycott locked down publishers.
From http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Technoccult/~3/grdGYZR1lnc/
Reverse Placebo: People Wrongly Diagnosed with Alzheimer’s Go Senile
Psychologists in the Netherlands have documented the case of a 58-year-old woman who was misdiagnosed with Alzheimer’s Disease. Her condition deteriorated to the point where she became permanently confused, and at one point suicidal — before another doctor realized the diagnosis was incorrect.
What happens to people who are wrongly diagnosed with having cognitive difficulties? It turns out that even if your brain is perfectly healthy, you’ll start having more problems with concentration.
io9: What happens when you’re wrongly diagnosed with Alzheimer’s Disease
(Thanks Bill!)
See also: The placebo effect is real apparently even when you know it’s a placebo
From http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Technoccult/~3/sfvKHNEt7S0/
Thought Forms Vs Real Spirits
I have noticed most here have a different views on what a spirit actually is. I personally tend to error on the side of caution and view most of them as thoughtforms that are merely projections of the human mind. Mostly.
Then there is the other side of the debate who say all spirits are real, that have an objective existence that is not dependent on humanity's existence and are not creations of our own minds.
Then are a few here who have the view both are possible.
My question is towards those of the third camp.
How are you able to tell the difference between a real spirit and one produced by your own mind and expectations?
Then the second question is, if you do believe all spirits are thought forms, how are you able to tell the difference between the traditional egregore (say I was worshiping Ganesha and trying to get him to manifest) and one that is of your accidental creation. How do you avoid fooling your self?
Please not this is not a debate of if spirits are real or not (theory), but more a discussion of techniques on discernment (practical).
This is also not a thread asking how to figure out if a spirit called is an imposter. I think there already is a thread for that.
Then there is the other side of the debate who say all spirits are real, that have an objective existence that is not dependent on humanity's existence and are not creations of our own minds.
Then are a few here who have the view both are possible.
My question is towards those of the third camp.
How are you able to tell the difference between a real spirit and one produced by your own mind and expectations?
Then the second question is, if you do believe all spirits are thought forms, how are you able to tell the difference between the traditional egregore (say I was worshiping Ganesha and trying to get him to manifest) and one that is of your accidental creation. How do you avoid fooling your self?
Please not this is not a debate of if spirits are real or not (theory), but more a discussion of techniques on discernment (practical).
This is also not a thread asking how to figure out if a spirit called is an imposter. I think there already is a thread for that.
From http://www.occultcorpus.com/forum/showthread.php?13839-Thought-Forms-Vs-Real-Spirits&goto=newpost
Fanaticism and Family
First, I would like to give a basic definition what I mean by fanaticism within the context of this post. Feel free to ask me to clarify further on this, but I rather not dwell too long on it, for that is not the main focus, and I much rather get quickly to the point.
To me (and to be said briefly), fanaticism is the overwhelming desire to wanting to change the world in accordance to one's ideals and the overwhelming desire to do so by any means necessary, mostly through force and by acquiring coercive political power, in one way or another.
Now, before today, I've always wanted to exactly that. Take as much political power and force other people to accept my ideals, to change the world into what I think would make the world perfect. After, today I am no longer wishing to do this.
Why is this?
For about a week of so, I've been babysitting my brother's girlfriend's kids. This woman has known us since high school. So the warmth of one feels of knowing an old friend is there. The idea of all of us becoming one family, me playing father, helping each other out in any way, made that urge of wanting to change the world go away and accept it the way it is.
Now here is my main point and question.
It seems perhaps those who are willing to put every thing in their lives to realize some ideal (may it be religious or not) may be the urge of wanting to be part of a family, or start one. Has any one went through something similar? As in, when younger, were not part of any community or social group and had the attitude of "support your local revolution" went away when they became some part of a family, as least part of a group that made them feel as if they were family?
To me (and to be said briefly), fanaticism is the overwhelming desire to wanting to change the world in accordance to one's ideals and the overwhelming desire to do so by any means necessary, mostly through force and by acquiring coercive political power, in one way or another.
Now, before today, I've always wanted to exactly that. Take as much political power and force other people to accept my ideals, to change the world into what I think would make the world perfect. After, today I am no longer wishing to do this.
Why is this?
For about a week of so, I've been babysitting my brother's girlfriend's kids. This woman has known us since high school. So the warmth of one feels of knowing an old friend is there. The idea of all of us becoming one family, me playing father, helping each other out in any way, made that urge of wanting to change the world go away and accept it the way it is.
Now here is my main point and question.
It seems perhaps those who are willing to put every thing in their lives to realize some ideal (may it be religious or not) may be the urge of wanting to be part of a family, or start one. Has any one went through something similar? As in, when younger, were not part of any community or social group and had the attitude of "support your local revolution" went away when they became some part of a family, as least part of a group that made them feel as if they were family?
From http://www.occultcorpus.com/forum/showthread.php?13838-Fanaticism-and-Family&goto=newpost
Might as well
You might have seen me lurking about by now, but it's never too late for a brief introduction!
Names, you can call me 8-bit or Leigh if you'd prefer. I don't follow any particular path (paradigm?), I'm actually more of a hoarder of knowledge I don't use and aficionado of things that are magick-related but not really magickal themselves. For example, I'd rather learn about the culture of Elementals in their own right than call one for any... purposes, or whatever it is people normally like to do with them. What I've been doing, I've been doing most of my life, although it's only recently that I've accepted that magickal ability in itself isn't what I'm after. Count out the very, very basics, and I'm after things significantly more tedious and less useful.
Let's see... I'm a student, switching out of my previous major of culinary and into IT. If I had to pick three things I adore instead of going off on a tangent about various things that interest me, I'd say literature, dragonfruit vodka, and betta fish. I tend to have an unintentionally brash outward disposition and am prone to mischief, but I'm really one of the more harmless people you'll meet. Promise.
Names, you can call me 8-bit or Leigh if you'd prefer. I don't follow any particular path (paradigm?), I'm actually more of a hoarder of knowledge I don't use and aficionado of things that are magick-related but not really magickal themselves. For example, I'd rather learn about the culture of Elementals in their own right than call one for any... purposes, or whatever it is people normally like to do with them. What I've been doing, I've been doing most of my life, although it's only recently that I've accepted that magickal ability in itself isn't what I'm after. Count out the very, very basics, and I'm after things significantly more tedious and less useful.
Let's see... I'm a student, switching out of my previous major of culinary and into IT. If I had to pick three things I adore instead of going off on a tangent about various things that interest me, I'd say literature, dragonfruit vodka, and betta fish. I tend to have an unintentionally brash outward disposition and am prone to mischief, but I'm really one of the more harmless people you'll meet. Promise.
From http://www.occultcorpus.com/forum/showthread.php?13836-Might-as-well&goto=newpost
Might as well
You might have seen me lurking about by now, but it's never too late for a brief introduction!
Names, you can call me 8-bit or Leigh if you'd prefer. I don't follow any particular path (paradigm?), I'm actually more of a hoarder of knowledge I don't use and aficionado of things that are magick-related but not really magickal themselves. For example, I'd rather learn about the culture of Elementals in their own right than call one for any... purposes, or whatever it is people normally like to do with them. What I've been doing, I've been doing most of my life, although it's only recently that I've accepted that magickal ability in itself isn't what I'm after. Count out the very, very basics, and I'm after things significantly more tedious and less useful.
Let's see... I'm a student, switching out of my previous major of culinary and into IT. If I had to pick three things I adore instead of going off on a tangent about various things that interest me, I'd say literature, dragonfruit vodka, and betta fish. I tend to have an unintentionally brash outward disposition and am prone to mischief, but I'm really one of the more harmless people you'll meet. Promise.
Names, you can call me 8-bit or Leigh if you'd prefer. I don't follow any particular path (paradigm?), I'm actually more of a hoarder of knowledge I don't use and aficionado of things that are magick-related but not really magickal themselves. For example, I'd rather learn about the culture of Elementals in their own right than call one for any... purposes, or whatever it is people normally like to do with them. What I've been doing, I've been doing most of my life, although it's only recently that I've accepted that magickal ability in itself isn't what I'm after. Count out the very, very basics, and I'm after things significantly more tedious and less useful.
Let's see... I'm a student, switching out of my previous major of culinary and into IT. If I had to pick three things I adore instead of going off on a tangent about various things that interest me, I'd say literature, dragonfruit vodka, and betta fish. I tend to have an unintentionally brash outward disposition and am prone to mischief, but I'm really one of the more harmless people you'll meet. Promise.
From http://www.occultcorpus.com/forum/showthread.php?13836-Might-as-well&goto=newpost
Trailer For Rum Diary, Based on a Book by Hunter S. Thompson and Starring Johnny Depp
The film Rum Diary is based on Hunter S. Thompson‘s only published fictional novel* (though most of his works blur fact and fiction) and stars Johnny Depp.
(via Boing Boing)
*”Fictional novel” may seem redundant, but the New Journalism authors like Thompson, Truman Capote, Norman Mailer and Tom Wolfe called the notion that a novel must be fictional into question.
From http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Technoccult/~3/eYPjfqIibBQ/
Witchcraft and Television
From Wildhunt
Not since the 1990s has witchcraft been such a popular subject matter within pop-culture. Wicca and Brujería mingle with_more fantasy-oriented versions of witchcraft on the HBO series “True Blood,” while _the CW is set to launch “The Secret Circle” this Fall, a teen-oriented show based on a series of books that focuses on a coven [...]
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Not since the 1990s has witchcraft been such a popular subject matter within pop-culture. Wicca and Brujería mingle with_more fantasy-oriented versions of witchcraft on the HBO series “True Blood,” while _the CW is set to launch “The Secret Circle” this Fall, a teen-oriented show based on a series of books that focuses on a coven [...]
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From http://www.occultcorpus.com/forum/showthread.php?13834-Witchcraft-and-Television&goto=newpost
Evocation for Health of Another
Hi All:
I have lurked here a couple of weeks, and have decided to make my first post.
I'm moderately practiced in meditation (30-40 minutes daily for 2 years), and not thoroughly well-read, though not ignorant, on evocation. I stumbled upon this site while doing general evocation research, and this seems like a group of very friendly and knowledgeable folks.
I need help in knowing what I can do to improve the health of a loved one. My wife is stricken with a neurological disorder which is very painful. It stays in remission for, say, 2 months at a time, and then for a couple of weeks she suffers dire pain. If there are any angels/demons that I could consider evoking after proper research, I'd love to hear ideas and thoughts on the subject.
Thanks in advance.
I have lurked here a couple of weeks, and have decided to make my first post.
I'm moderately practiced in meditation (30-40 minutes daily for 2 years), and not thoroughly well-read, though not ignorant, on evocation. I stumbled upon this site while doing general evocation research, and this seems like a group of very friendly and knowledgeable folks.
I need help in knowing what I can do to improve the health of a loved one. My wife is stricken with a neurological disorder which is very painful. It stays in remission for, say, 2 months at a time, and then for a couple of weeks she suffers dire pain. If there are any angels/demons that I could consider evoking after proper research, I'd love to hear ideas and thoughts on the subject.
Thanks in advance.
omgthatdress: 1960s Pierre Cardin dress via 1stdibs.com
1960s Pierre Cardin dress via 1stdibs.com
Taking a near infinite walk.
Paralell universes co-exist side by side, and even science believes it. Each has it's own unique physics and so laws of how things act, to it, and some are impossible for a human form to venture too, but many are different but alike, following the over all cosmic law of harmony and simularity.
You are only a homo sapiens restricted to the land continents of planet earth, if you believe in newtonian science, which was proven wrong long ago by quantom science.
So next time you go out, take an near infinite walk and journey around not to expected earth habitats, but to anything the imagination can concieve.
I've been doing this lately, and although my psychic filter tries to get me to notice what's only familiar and keep me rooted in time and space to my own neighborhoods in my own town, I'm starting to notice really strange things. Thing is when I go to investigate them, it was shown to just be a trick of the eyes or shadows, or other illusions.
But I'm persistant, I won't stop till I start seeing some faeries, ancient gods, dinosaurs, dragons, elfs, monsters, and various alien species, walking among us, and find myself in enchanted forests, mystical lakes, and futuristic sections of town, and other wonders.
I know they are all there, existing side by side with consensual reality, in a gigantic near infinite (meaning biggest as possible), cosmos, in which we all inhabit.
You are only a homo sapiens restricted to the land continents of planet earth, if you believe in newtonian science, which was proven wrong long ago by quantom science.
So next time you go out, take an near infinite walk and journey around not to expected earth habitats, but to anything the imagination can concieve.
I've been doing this lately, and although my psychic filter tries to get me to notice what's only familiar and keep me rooted in time and space to my own neighborhoods in my own town, I'm starting to notice really strange things. Thing is when I go to investigate them, it was shown to just be a trick of the eyes or shadows, or other illusions.
But I'm persistant, I won't stop till I start seeing some faeries, ancient gods, dinosaurs, dragons, elfs, monsters, and various alien species, walking among us, and find myself in enchanted forests, mystical lakes, and futuristic sections of town, and other wonders.
I know they are all there, existing side by side with consensual reality, in a gigantic near infinite (meaning biggest as possible), cosmos, in which we all inhabit.
From http://www.occultcorpus.com/forum/showthread.php?13832-Taking-a-near-infinite-walk.&goto=newpost
victorian-fangs: Sasha Pivovarova by Greg Kadel.
Sasha Pivovarova by Greg Kadel.
Another Noob ? re: directions & banishings
Hey guys !
I'm getting closer to finishing my revision of my personal ritual set up & came across a sm. speed bump.
Q: Should banishings & ritual circles move in the same direction for consistancy of energy being dredged up ?
For example: If I were working a love ritual , I would do my LBRP & my ritual circle deosil(clockwise).
However, for a wk of banishing/removal of a rival, I would work widdershins(counterclockwise). In this case, should both my LBRP & ritual circle move widdershins?
Thank you all in advance for reading this , it's very appreciated :)
I'm getting closer to finishing my revision of my personal ritual set up & came across a sm. speed bump.
Q: Should banishings & ritual circles move in the same direction for consistancy of energy being dredged up ?
For example: If I were working a love ritual , I would do my LBRP & my ritual circle deosil(clockwise).
However, for a wk of banishing/removal of a rival, I would work widdershins(counterclockwise). In this case, should both my LBRP & ritual circle move widdershins?
Thank you all in advance for reading this , it's very appreciated :)