At Midsummer (24th June) the God of the Waxing Year gives way to His twin, the God of the Waning Year. The sun, of which He is ruler, now diminishes the day. The Goddess conducts the God of the Waxing Year to a ritual death at the hands of His followers, where, after a suitable interval He is resurrected as His counterpart. The Lady’s colour ( Read more... )

The mind may go, but the heart endures long, and knows the best truths.

Wow, I am totally word-dumping on PantheaCon. I think I'm going to have to split into several posts. Alakazam!

( Seeking the Center )

I had a strange thought tonight.

My state in life is so breathtakingly fortunate that I can afford to once a week take forty gallons of perfectly good drinking water, expend fuel to heat it, adulter it so as to be undrinkable, and then simply pour it down the goddamn drain -- all for my own pleasure ( Read more... )

Read this post from elorie: My artistic ethos, or Ars Poetica. Please.

the_misha posted this in an f-locked context, so I am reposting it because I thought it so thrillingly awesome:

an excerpt from Robert Anton Wilson’s introduction to Undoing Yourself With Energized Meditation and Other Devices by Christopher S. Hyatt, Ph.D.:The second part of this Secret of the Illuminati is what I have called elsewhere Wilson’s 23rd Law ( Read more... )

I found this as an ancient email from ely'chelai-rah posted to awakenings, a now long-dead list, saved for some reason on a floppy disk along with a number of other messages of the same 1999 vintage. (It was apparently a folder-dump of some type because there were also a couple that belonged to the boyfriend I was living with at the time, which was ( Read more... )