In the Words of Laurie Anderson

LET X=X

I met this guy - and he looked like might have been a hat check clerk at an ice rink. which, in fact, he turned out to be. and I said: oh boy. right again. let x=x. you know, it could be you. it Sky-blue sky. satellites are out tonight. let x=x. you know, I could write a book. and this book would be thick enough to stun an ox. cause I can see the future and it's a place - about 70 miles East of here. where it's lighter. linger on over here. got the time? let x=x. I got this postcard. and it read, it said: dear amigo - dear partner. listen, uh - I just want to say thanks. so...thank you Thanks for all the presents. thanks for introducing me to the chief. thanks for putting on the feedbag. thanks for going all out. thanks for showing me your swiss army knife. and uh - thanks for letting me autograph your cast. hug and kisses. xxxxoooo. oh yeah, p.s. I - feel - feel like - I am - in a burning building - and I gotta go. cause I - I feel - feel like - I am - in a burning building
I gotta go.


OH SUPERMAN

O Superman. O judge. O Mom and Dad. Mom and Dad.
O Superman. O judge. O Mom and Dad. Mom and Dad.
Hi. I'm not home right now. But if you want to leave a
message, just start talking at the sound of the tone.
Hello? This is your Mother. Are you there? Are you
coming home?
Hello? Is anybody home? Well, you don't know me,
but I know you.
And I've got a message to give to you.
Here come the planes.
So you better get ready. Ready to go. You can come
as you are, but pay as you go. Pay as you go.

And I said: OK. Who is this really? And the voice said:
This is the hand, the hand that takes. This is the
hand, the hand that takes.
This is the hand, the hand that takes.
Here come the planes.
They're American planes. Made in America.
Smoking or non-smoking?
And the voice said: Neither snow nor rain nor gloom
of night shall stay these couriers from the swift
completion of their appointed rounds.

'Cause when love is gone, there's always justice.
And when justive is gone, there's always force.
And when force is gone, there's always Mom. Hi Mom!

So hold me, Mom, in your long arms. So hold me,
Mom, in your long arms.
In your automatic arms. Your electronic arms.
In your arms.
So hold me, Mom, in your long arms.
Your petrochemical arms. Your military arms.
In your electronic arms.


FROM THE AIR

Good evening.
This is your Captain.
We are about to attempt a crash landing.
Please extinuish all cigarettes.
Place your tray tables in their upright, locked position.
Your Captain says: Put your head on your knees.
Your Captain says: Put your head on your hands.
Captain says: Put your hands on your head.
Put your hands on your hips.
Heh heh.
This is your Captain-and we are going down.
We are all going down, together.
And I said: Uh oh.
This is gonna be some day.
Standby.
This is the time.
And this is the record of the time.
This is the time.
And this is the record of the time.
Uh-this is your Captain again.
You know, I've got a funny feeling
I've seen this all before.
Why?
Cause I'm a caveman.
Why?
Cause I've got eyes in the back of my head.
Why?
It's the heat.
Standby.
This is the time.
And this is the record of the time.
This is the time.
And this is the record of the time.
Put your hands over your eyes.
Jump out of the plane.
There is no pilot.
You are not alone.
Standby.
This is the time.
And this is the
record of the time.
This is the time.
And this is the record of the time.


LANGUAGE IS A VIRUS

Paradise
Is exactly like
Where you are right now
Only much much
Better.

I saw this guy on the train
And he seemed to have gotten stuck
In one of those abstract trances.
And he was going: "Ugh . . . Ugh . . . Ugh . . . "

And Fred said:
l think he's in some kind of pain.I think it's a pain cry.
And I said: "Pain cry?
Then language is a virus."

Language! It's a virus!
Language! It's a virus!

Well I was talking to a friend
And I was saying:
I wanted you.
And I was looking for yov.
But I couldn't find you. I couldn't find you.
And he said: Hey!
Are you talking to me?
Or are you just practicing
For one of those performances of yours?
Huh?

Language! It's a virus!
Language! It's a virus!

He said: I had to write that letter to your mother
And I had to tell the judge that it was you.
And I had to sell the car and go to Florida.
Becaure that's just my way of saying (It's a charm.)
That I love you. And I (It's a job.)
Had to call you at the crack of dawn (Why?)
And list the times that I've been wrong.
Cause that's just my way of saying
That I'm sorry. (It's a job.)

Language! It's a virus!

Maat Magick and the Way of Self Initiation: An Interview with Nema

Nema, the author of Maat Magick, A Guide to Self Initiation (Samual Weiser) visited the Pacific Northwest and brought to us a unique view of how every person can take control of their spiritual evolution and invoke the divine into their daily lives. What follows is a short interview based on some ideas from her book.



Denny: Nema, what exactly is 'Maat Magick?'


Nema: Maat is the ancient Egyptian principle of Truth, justice, honesty and balance; Magick is the science and the Art of causing change to occur in conformity with Will. Maat Magick is a streamlined, contemporary system of initiation through magick ritual with three main aims: personal transformation, species transformation and preparation for non-human communication. It's based on Western esoteric tradition, but borrows freely from any valid spiritual system.


D: What is the source of this material?


N: Maat Magick includes information from the Western Initiated Tradition, the hidden path of Western Spirituality, from writers like Perdurabo, Dion Fortune, A. O. Spare and Kenneth Grant, as well as from my own visionary experiences. The visions that I received that became the central part of Maat Magick were ones I received when I tapped into the Akasha (the Astral) which is the eternal record of everything, past, present and future. Anyone can gain access to the Akasha with the right attitude and approach.


D: Who is this book for? Can everyone use the techniques it explains?


N: This book is for anyone who is dissatisfied with standard answers to the 'Big Questions' or with their present state of consciousness. Yes, everyone can use the techniques which I explain clearly in this book. They can be easily adapted to various situations like physical disability or sensory impairment, if need be.


D: What is 'Self initiation?'


N: Initiation, in the spiritual sense of the word, is the opening of the Self to new knowledge about existence and non-existence as well as knowledge gained from personal experience and intuition. Initiation rituals of various tribes, orders or groups can only be formal acknowledgements of personal attainments. The most one can do for another person's progress in knowledge, understanding and wisdom is to point him or her in the right direction and make encouraging noises!


D: Ok, but say I'm just an average person with an average job and regular concerns, what does all that have to do with me?


N: If you're perfectly satisfied with your life and you don't seek change, there is not much that Maat Magick can do for you. If you suspect that common knowledge only brushes the surface of reality, if you feel that there's more to life than what meets the eye, if you sense a vast Mystery behind appearances (and you yearn to discover that Mystery) then Maat Magick can open doors for you.


D: Maat Magick seems to be concerned with the future, what future possibilities do you see for the Earth?


N: I've seen a number of possible futures for our planet, some are very hopeful for the human race, while others aren't. Some of the dire possibilities include dictatorships, world war, a completely poisoned environment and even an Eden-like world with no people. On the positive side, I've seen futures where we manufacture things an atom at a time through nanotechnology or grown things like plastics from genetically modified plants. The main image, though, is a future Earth with a human race with its Group Unconsciousness fully Awake. That is, we evolve into a species with a 'double consciousness;' that of the individual and that of our Collective Awareness. The goal of Maat Magick is to weigh probability in favor of this positive future.


D: You discuss "extraterrestrial connections' in your book, could you talk about this a bit?


N: I prefer to use the term 'non-human' instead of 'extraterrestrial.' since there are beings awaiting our recognition who are already with us, but invisible to us. The ones who are off-planet come in a wild variety of forms, may of which we presently wouldn't see as life-forms at all. For instance, stars are intelligent entities whose convection currents and fluctuating electromagnetic fields both reflect and enable their thinking. They communicate with each other by light and the rest of the energy spectrum, as well as by 'nonlocal' omnipresence of the quantum-level reality. Time and Space are illusions, and many intelligences take practical advantage of that fact.


One maxim of Maat Magick is: "All that is, lives; all that lives is intelligent." The non-human life I refer to includes our Earthly Kingdoms of animal, vegetable and mineral, the Faerie Folk, the oceans, storms, earthquakes and volcanoes, our entire planet, the moon, angels, ghosts, devas, loa, kami, and other gods and spirits. It also includes those elusive beings who live close to us, just a beat out of our own vibration-level, just around the corner in the next dimension.


Denny Sargent is the author of the books Global Ritualism and The Tao of Birth Days. It should be mentioned, in all fairness, that he is pals with Nema . . .

Hermetic Diary of a Western Tantric Yogi: Dancing about Architecture

As I am writing this, Mercury is retrograde in Pisces, which is where the Swift One resides in my personal Chart, so it is a placement I am comfortable with. Anyone who knows me well knows well how slippery my speech patterns can be, and since we are essentially "talking about feelings" one could say that this realm is best suited toward poetry, story telling, etc. The reason is that Mercury is primarily concerned with data and details. Watery Pisces, however, is about instincts and feelings. It is interested in fusion and the big picture, which can make Mercury's grasp of facts a little fuzzy. Communication is more impressionistic when Mercury is in Pisces. Feelings are paramount, which can lead to confusion when one is looking for precision, exotic and embroidered--nothing like Ohio which is default for mundane-anywhere, nothing like you dressed up in a blond wig, holding a spoon that you threaten you'll shove down your throat. All of this is untrue. All of it is the first thing you hear on an airplane. After being welcomed with kitty cat cup cakes. Ungodly pink like an underwater plant. After a sweet hello, stupid goodbyes, before Thailand after the rain falls. Finding the words to express the vastness of Pisces can be challenging, as well. Using symbols, images, art and music can be good ways to capture these big concepts that go beyond the boundaries of ordinary language. Not surprisingly, there are many musicians and poets born with Mercury in Pisces. Kurt Cobain, Laurie Anderson, David Byrne, Frank Zappa, Yoko Ono, Alice Cooper, Elvis Costello, George Carlin, William S Burroughs (who once said "Talking about Music is like Dancing about Architecture" which to me seems like a perfectly good thing to do). With this in mind, today saw the arrival of the new Pope, Francis the First. There are many speculations about the identity of the Antichrist. One of the most frequent “victims” of the speculation is the Pope of the Roman Catholic Church. In the days of the Protestant Reformation, Martin Luther and some of the other Reformers were convinced that the Pope of that time was the Antichrist. Pope John Paul II was commonly identified as the Antichrist until his death. Why is this? Is there anything in the Bible that would indicate that a Pope will be the Antichrist? The speculation about the Pope possibly being the Antichrist revolves primarily around Revelation 17:9. Describing the evil end-times system symbolized by a woman riding a beast, Revelation 17:9 declares, “This calls for a mind with wisdom. The seven heads are seven hills on which the woman sits.” In ancient times, the city of Rome was known as “the city on seven hills” because there are seven prominent hills that surround the city. So, the thinking goes, we can know that it is somehow connected with Rome. Them's some mighty fine meatballs in that pasta. They bounce jubilantly like children with superballs installed in their feet. So, if the evil end-times system is somehow associated with Rome – it does not take much thought to see a potential connection with the Roman Catholic Church, which is centered in Rome. Numerous passages in the Bible describe an “Antichrist” who will lead the anti-Christ movement in the end times (Daniel 9:27; 2 Thessalonians 2:3-4; Revelation 13:5-8, now there's a Mercury in Pisces piece of writing for ya!). So, if the end-times evil world system is centered in Rome and led by an individual – the Pope is a likely candidate. On a personal level, we will see some expected outcomes suppressed as unforeseen circumstances surface to be resolved, which we are now prepared to do. I have previously brought up the idea of the central pulse coming from the middle of Metaverse at the rate of 22/twenty-two trillion times a second. This pulse does not merely provide a synchronizing ‘beat’ for Metaverse. Such an understanding is severely lacking. Rather this pulse IS Metaverse in the very real sense of the pulse triggering creation. As with anything of this nature, either positive or negative, it comes with it's own atmosphere. It's as if you were in a self contained bubble. The result of this, is that you are denied other perspectives of states you have rejected, in order to reside in states you have accepted. As you move up the ranks of the infernal hierarchy, your awareness of the indwelling potency increases and this works the same in both hierarchies. So, Satan is with you every step of the way,advising, encouraging, suggesting and so forth. There is the promise of a cushy position in the realm of Hell, once one has departed from this realm; shuffled off that mortal coil and so on and so forth. They fully believe this, even though Satan is called, 'the father of lies'. They buy into the idea of, “Better to rule in Hell than to serve in Heaven”. The thing is, as has been stated here many times, 'the devil works for God'. The Devil functions as instigator and District Attorney. What he really does, is gather evidence, all along the course of the existence of those who have delivered themselves into his service for personal gain. They do acquire these gains in the course of their tenure. That goes with the territory. Satanists suffer from a form of terminal myopia. Everything really does look a certain way and... for the purpose of demon-stration, it is that way, until it As it happens, this pulse comes 22/twenty-two trillion times a second, and every time it occurs, the Metaverse that consciousness experiences as the ‘material world or universe’ creates itself. That is the pulse comes out of the central point of universe and using no-time, travels instantly to the center of all galaxies, and through them to all other matter in universe down to the level of the perceived atomic solidity, and then each and every ‘atom’ within Metaverse creates itself to the beat of the pulse. A moaning ape reweaves its apparel, like a poor Chilean nun with tanned loins. I've been looking for God for a long time (like I say to people sometimes, “I didn't know he was lost”). Part of the reason for that, was my not understanding the things that had happened to me, from the moment I stepped out on this “sweet, swinging sphere”. Part of the reason was my fascination with all things metaphysical. Part of the reason was the things going on in my heart and another part of the reason, was that God wouldn't have it any other way. On December 21, 2012 we experienced the end of the Mayan long count calendar.what we at metaversal lightcraft refer to as the end of time...On April 10, this calendar starts again. And this time you and I have an opportunity to start time with it. The calendar western culture has lived by for the past 2000 years is seriously flawed. At the time of Pope Gregory the 8th, when it became known as the gregorian calendar, the belief was that the sun circled the earth. When we structure our lives by the artificial rhythm of the clock and 12-month calendar, we expose our central nervous system, and subsequently, our entire mental-emotional body to the frequency of a machine. Reknowned author and scientist Dr. Deepak Chopra (Mercury in Pisces), M.D., has presented studies showing how: the stress of linear time contributes directly to an acceleration of the physical aging process, inclusive of deterioration and disease. In modern industrial living, we wake up by the clock, we eat to the clock - we plan our lives and live our days in accord to the clock. We refer to the clock to program even our most basic of biological functions! Quoting Mark Comings, Quantum Physicist: "The intrinsic folly of this unnecessary yet widely promoted artificial dependance upon machine technology is that it discourages the development of, and even serves to hide the existence of, a vast spectrum of inner capacities - psychic, mental, emotional and spiritual potentials - that lie dormant within the biological human body in time."