Hello, Merry Meet, and all that. It’s been a long time. Sorry about that. We’ve had computer issues since February 1st. First my HP Pavilion gave up the ghost, then Stephen’s computer got three trojans. I had a Linux machine for about a month, then I got this computer, which I hope to have serve me another 5 or 6 years. We’ve also been off creating new groups. But we decided to return to our old ones to post before forming any more new groups. What have all of you been doing in the astral realms? Tegwedd’s been exploring some new ground. She actually had an astral romantic encounter with a guy who wasn’t Doc. It was at a gathering, maybe Yule, and they started making out, Then she remembered she had her own room, so they went there. Nuff said. Have any of you had a similar experience? Are any of you aware that astral experiences don’t have to happen only in the night time? That they can happen in the daytime as well? Tegwedd usually has her dreams just before she wakes up in the morning. When you dream, you go on the astral. You don’t even have to be sleepy to go into the astral. When you daydream you go into the astral. One minute, you’re in a conscious state, the next the subconscious. When some people go into the astral, they see everything in a fog. Others see a silvery light around everything.
When you know that you have gone into the astral realms, you can then intensify the experience with special breathing exercises. One of these techniques is called pranayama. In case you just jumped off the turnip truck, pranayama is part of prana yoga, which is the yoga of breathing. Yoga is related to the word yoke, which unites working animals. Yoga means union in old Sanskrit. There is a yoga for nearly every healthy activity. Chop wood carry water is part of karma yoga or union through work. It is also used in Tibet, or was used before the Chinese took over. Some variation is also used in China and Japan. There are many variations of pranayama. Stephen uses his own special variation. He uses his favorite number with deep breathing. Inhale to the count of your favorite number, say three, hold for the count of your favorite number, then exhale for that count. Stephen learned it on his own, and Tegwedd learned it from NROOGD, only she learned to inhale for a count of 4, hold for a count of 4, then exhale for a count of 4. She was afraid she’d stolen Stephen’s thunder, but all she’d done was be unhygienic and steal it from his mind. You can also use visualization while using the pranayama. As you continue to do it, the visualization should intensify. Visualize your own body. Once you feel that the other you is fully realized, start to transfer your consciousness into your astral body. Once your consciousness has been transferred to the astral body, you should be aware now of the astral realms. At this point you can actually start travelling in the astral. We hope that you are keeping a pen or pencil and pad of paper by you so you can record what’s happening. Let us know about your experiences. Pay attention to colors, shapes, and smells if there are any.
The astral realms never close. They’re open 24/7/365-366, all astral all the time. But it’s also like faeryland. Time moves differently there. You can be there just a few hours and when you come back, you find you’ve been there over a year. Tegwedd thought she was asleep just a few minutes, turns out, she had been asleep almost 3 hours. In “True Blood”, they use this concept to the utmost. Sookie’s grandfather thought he’d been there only a few hours, turns out, he’d been gone over 20 years. Sookie thought she’d been there only a few minutes, turns out she was gone 13 months. If you eat anything there, you must stay there. Tegwedd has been meeting Doc on the astral for almost 3 years (it’ll be 3 years next Sunday) On the show it was light fruit. The fruit gave off light, and bound the person to that plane forever. To leave that plane meant a slow painful death from accelerated aging. But Sookie saw it lose its light and rot. Your body disintegrates into nothing. Not a very pleasant death. In Celtic myth and legend, you turn to an ancient age, your body totally decrepit and weak. Physically death occurs within a few days or weeks. This condition occurred if you got off your horse and put your feet on the earth. If you stayed on your horse, this wouldn’t happen. A lot of the time these horses were faery horses (characterized as being white with red ears) not earth horses, so this doesn’t affect them. There seems to be no remedy for this magickal aging. It seems to be a law of that particular realm that can’t be broken. If we’re wrong on this, please let us know. This is according to all the reading on the topic that we’ve done in the literature..
Here is a short list of just some of the otherworldly locations and astral realms: Tir-na-Nog the Land of the Ever Young, the Land Beneath or Beyond the Waves, the Celtic Otherworld, Land of the Blessed, Land of the Sidh or Faeryland, the Land that time Forgot, Hy Breasil (the mythical place that gave the modern land of Brazil its name correction: after extensive research, it is not the island that gave Brazil its name, but brazilwood, or emberwood, a bright read colored wood, important in Portuguese commerce), the Forgotten Realms, H.P. Lovecraft’s Dreamlands, Yggdrasil, and those 9 realms, the Abyss, the Sephyroth, and the Tree of Life, Another Dimension, the City of the Great Race (the Great Old Ones Star Gods and Goddesses of the Cthulhu mythos), Earth’s Dreamlands (these are different from Lovecraft’s Dreamlands), the Great Hall of Celeno, Plateau of lang, R’lyeh, Yuggoth, the Astral Plane, the Etheric Plane, the Isle of Women (from the Celtic Book of the Dead by Caitlin Matthews). The Summerland is one of the major realms of the Celtic Otherworld. The Realm of Eternal Night or darkness, and the Realm of Eternal Light. Another one is that humongous library known as the Akashic Records or Library. We know there are countless more, but these were all we could think of. We’ve given you our ideas, now you give us yours. Which other realms have we not mentioned?
Who populates the astral realms? Max Freedom Long, H.P. Lovecraft, J.H. Brennan, Terence McKenna, Jon Dee, Edward Talbot Kelly, and all kinds of other dead people who were influential during their lifetimes on the topic of the astral realms, somewho are still alive such as R.J. Stewart, Also Uncle Al (Aleister Crowley), Snorri Snurlsson, who was an authority on the Norse end of the astral realms, There are also those who never lived on earth, but only in the minds of their creators, and later in our imaginations as we read their books and stories, such persons as Sherlock Holmes, Harry Potter and also the characters of stories that have yet to be written and published. Gary Gygax, Greg Stafford, Dave Hargrave, and Steve Perrin gave us many fantasy realms, peopled with fantastic characters and creatures. And now it’s it’s your turn. Who do you feel has contributed to our knowledge of the astral realms? So if you meet some characters who seem unfamiliar, they could be the characters of books yet to be written or published.
Tegwedd has her dreams just before she wakes up in the morning, at least these are the ones she remembers. Many different people and creatures populate the astral realms. There are people who taught us what the astral realms are all about. People such as Uncle Al, Terence McKenna, R.J. Stewart, and others helped us find our way around the astral realms. Historical personages such as King Arthur, or factional characters such as Harry Potter and his posse, or Sherlock Holmes, aliens, or characters of books yet to be written, all roam the astral realms looking for a place to settle. Be sure and stop in at our new website http://abbottsinn.wordpress.com , and at our other two websites http://abbottsinn.com/ and
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Saturday, July 9, 2011
Sunday, May 22, 2011
Ticket to the Astral Realms
The astral realms are where you go when you close your eyes to go to sleep, or plan to have an Out Of Body Experience, called an OOBE in the trade. Tegwedd has an astral temple. It looks like a cross between a Middle Eastern seraglio and a Babylonian temple, but lately I have been thinking of changing it to reflect my interests in the Celtic and Norse Hearths. Stephen’s astral temple has purple draperies. The ceiling is dark, with glow-in-the-dark stars. The floor has black carpeting. The altar is wooden, with a dark finish, black walnut or ebony, big enough the Magician’s tools. The 4 Aces of the Minor Arcana are set up on the altar as an equal armed cross with the Magician card in the center. The four Aces are the tools of the Magician, and the Magician is Stephen’s Main significator. His other significator is the Knight of Cups, in the Book of Thoth, commonly called the Crowley deck, which Tegwedd calls the Lady Frieda Harris deck, called the Prince of Cups. The High Priestess is Tegwedd’s Significator, along with the Queen of Swords.. What is your astral temple like? Post to this group and tell us.
This group’s secondary title is Uncle Al and the Astral Realms. Its tertiary title is Stephen Abbott and the Half-Astral Realm (which he created). Uncle Al had a lot to do with the astral realms. He claimed communication from Khemetic deities and visionaries. Rising on the planes refers to pathworking on the Qabalistic Tree of Life. Pathworking can also be found in shamanism and in Witchcraft, which is basically European shamanism. If we haven’t mentioned this in other posts before, this group is basically a sister group to Adventures in Shamanism. The astral realms can also be related to H.P. Lovecraft’s Dreamlands stories. A board game called Arkham Horror has the players play on different planes. This game has been out of print for years, but Stephen still has his copy of it.
Stephen is really pissed off that My Space has done away with its groups. As of this writing, Stephen has written and published a blog condemning MySpace for doing away with the groups. We don’t see how MySpace can possibly compete with Facebook without groups. Stephen says, “It took a lot of effort to create those groups, get people to join them, and post to them. You tell me if you wouldn’t be pissed off too at this. And they didn’t warn people. No warning at all!” Our groups were killed on Yahoo, and because they kill groups at the drop of a hat, and the process of forming groups there is so draconian, we won’t be expanding on Yahoo. But Googlegroups has been good to us,, so we’ll expand there. The only problem is that our groups there have been repeatedly hacked by Eastern Europeans posing as members who continually post things that are off topic, in bad taste, not funny, and probably full of malware. If you are members of any of our groups there, and receive emails from anyone except Tegwedd, Stephen, or Dylan Cook, delete them immediately, without opening them if you can. We are continuing to expand here at Hi5, and will be expanding at PaganSpace.net, WiccanTogether.ning.com, AbbottsInn.ning.com, and Stephen on his own will expand on IMVU, BlessedBeUK, and Avalon.
There are many parts to the astral realms;the etheric plane where the etheric double dwells, the astral plane, the half-astral plane which Stephen created as a place for dead stoners, among other realms. We highly recommend that you check out sacred-texts.com, which has out of print books you can download for free, and other books you can buy. Another site that has books on astral travel that you have to pay for, is SacredMagick.com. And of course there’s Mind-n-Magick.com which also has books on on the astral that you can buy. Gemini Moon is another place with books you can buy. Three of these also have toolbars which you can download for free. Stephen highly recommends all three. While we’re on the subject of free toolbars, you can’t go wrong with the Pagan Radio Network toolbar, which has music you can use for astral travel. It’s 24/7 Pagan music. You can become a member like we did. You can participate in the forums. Example: you can do a posting there on using PRN’s music for astral travel. PRN has been completely revamped, and is thoroughly connected to PaganSpace.net.
It’s not as difficult to get onto the astral plane as most books would have you believe. You don’t have to go to all the trouble of visualizing your personality going into your astral double, levitating next to the ceiling. Tegwedd just visualizes a place, and she’s there. Stephen has his own techniques as well. One technique he calls the dead man’s pose. This is a pose made popular by Uncle Al. Lie flat on the bed, sofa or floor with your arms down at your sides. Take deep slow breaths. The room should be as dark as possible. Close your eyes and keep breathing deeply. You can have music on; the spacier the better. Don’t move other than breathing. If you do this right, you’ll feel as though you’re lifting off. Keep a pad of paper and a writing instrument nearby so that you can write down what happens. Put time, date, length of the experience, exterior weather conditions, anything that seems relevant. Remember the lab notes you took in high school or college? Your magickal diary or journal is a lot like a lab notebook. These are experiments in the science of the mind. Remember Uncle Al’s slogan, “The aim of religion, the method of science.”
Write down if you see objects, vistas, living beings, or if you just see yourself, your astral double. Write down if you notice the astral silver cord; if you feel it tugging at you. Write down if you feel any physical sensations like warmth or coolth. Write down if you hear any sounds. Describe what they are. Take notes on any other sensations you may have. Note which parts of your body they’re in. If you see animals, write down what they are. If you see humans, write down who they are. Are they wearing present day clothes or period costumes? Are there buildings? What do they look like? Are they present day buildings or ancient? Some people believe that astral travel is a form of time travel. Some people think that astral travel is past life travel. Tegwedd has done a bit of this herself. Once on her birthday, she was high on shroom tea, and regressed herself to her immediately previous past life. She had to come back early because her then husband, also high on shroom tea, was getting himself into trouble wandering around the trailer park. This is an example of how psychotropics have been used traditionally as an aid to astral travel. It makes it easier, but we have to stress that it’s not necessary. You can easily travel while sober. And you’ll have more control over the experience. Hashish has been used to do astral travel, especially by the hashishim. It was used to do astral reconnaissance of their targets.
Another way is through a Lilly sensory deprivation tank. The Witch’s Cradle is another method of sensory deprivation often used for astral travel for centuries. There are many movies on astral travel. There are many books on the topic. Stephen himself has over 30 books on it, and he hasn’t bought any books for awhile. He is sure many more books have been published since then. Self-hypnosis is still another means to astral travel. “No Time to Fear” (2009) is about the doppelganger. “Altered States”, and “Flat-Liners” are classics in the field. You can get them either through the internet or Netflix. For spacy music you can astral travel to, we recommend that you get a Rhapsody account if you have a Windows system.
We were on a shopping junket, and when Tegwedd had to stop to rest, we discussed the group we were working on. Terence McKenna’s “Invisible Landscapes is is a book well worth looking into. J.K. Brennan’s “Astral Doorways” is another good book. Upon arriving home, we watched “Inside the Doctor in America”. What does Dr. Who do but if not travel to the astral realms? “He travels in the astral realms, the spatial realms, the temporal realms, and many consider time travel to be astral travel,” says Stephen.
The game “Hammer of Thor” features Yggdrasil which is the world ash wonder tree, the tree that leads us to the 9 worlds: Midgard, Myrkheim, Helheim, Niflheim, Jotunheim, Alfheim, Godheim, Vanaheim, and Muspelheim. We consider worlds and realms to be basically synonymous. “The Underworld Initiation” by R.J. Stewart is a book that tours the Celtic Otherworld. The Otherworld, Land of the Blessed Ones, the Blessed Land, Isle of Women, Tir-Na-Nog, Faerieland, Land of the Ever Living, Annwfn, are some of the names for the Celtic Otherworld. Then there’s the Mayan Underworld--Popol Vuh. I saw a movie on it once. And of course there are the Dreamlands of H.P. Lovecraft.
To sum up, each of us must build an astral temple. In this temple is an altar. On this altar are the four Aces of the Tarot and the Magician in the center. Uncle Al had a lot to do with the astral realms, and Stephen uses his dead man’s pose in which to astral travel. There are techniques which make use of sensory deprivation for astral travel. The ash tree Yggdrasil encompassed the nine worlds of the Germans, people of the Low Countries and the Norse. The Celtic Otherworld encompass parts of the astral realms. The astral realms are huge, as nearly infinite as any human creation can be, but it doubles back on itself.
Go to http://abbottsinninternational.com/ , http://abbottsinn.com/ , call 1-888-611-7982 for a reading, class or research, and go to our network at http://abbottsinn.ning.com/.
This group’s secondary title is Uncle Al and the Astral Realms. Its tertiary title is Stephen Abbott and the Half-Astral Realm (which he created). Uncle Al had a lot to do with the astral realms. He claimed communication from Khemetic deities and visionaries. Rising on the planes refers to pathworking on the Qabalistic Tree of Life. Pathworking can also be found in shamanism and in Witchcraft, which is basically European shamanism. If we haven’t mentioned this in other posts before, this group is basically a sister group to Adventures in Shamanism. The astral realms can also be related to H.P. Lovecraft’s Dreamlands stories. A board game called Arkham Horror has the players play on different planes. This game has been out of print for years, but Stephen still has his copy of it.
Stephen is really pissed off that My Space has done away with its groups. As of this writing, Stephen has written and published a blog condemning MySpace for doing away with the groups. We don’t see how MySpace can possibly compete with Facebook without groups. Stephen says, “It took a lot of effort to create those groups, get people to join them, and post to them. You tell me if you wouldn’t be pissed off too at this. And they didn’t warn people. No warning at all!” Our groups were killed on Yahoo, and because they kill groups at the drop of a hat, and the process of forming groups there is so draconian, we won’t be expanding on Yahoo. But Googlegroups has been good to us,, so we’ll expand there. The only problem is that our groups there have been repeatedly hacked by Eastern Europeans posing as members who continually post things that are off topic, in bad taste, not funny, and probably full of malware. If you are members of any of our groups there, and receive emails from anyone except Tegwedd, Stephen, or Dylan Cook, delete them immediately, without opening them if you can. We are continuing to expand here at Hi5, and will be expanding at PaganSpace.net, WiccanTogether.ning.com, AbbottsInn.ning.com, and Stephen on his own will expand on IMVU, BlessedBeUK, and Avalon.
There are many parts to the astral realms;the etheric plane where the etheric double dwells, the astral plane, the half-astral plane which Stephen created as a place for dead stoners, among other realms. We highly recommend that you check out sacred-texts.com, which has out of print books you can download for free, and other books you can buy. Another site that has books on astral travel that you have to pay for, is SacredMagick.com. And of course there’s Mind-n-Magick.com which also has books on on the astral that you can buy. Gemini Moon is another place with books you can buy. Three of these also have toolbars which you can download for free. Stephen highly recommends all three. While we’re on the subject of free toolbars, you can’t go wrong with the Pagan Radio Network toolbar, which has music you can use for astral travel. It’s 24/7 Pagan music. You can become a member like we did. You can participate in the forums. Example: you can do a posting there on using PRN’s music for astral travel. PRN has been completely revamped, and is thoroughly connected to PaganSpace.net.
It’s not as difficult to get onto the astral plane as most books would have you believe. You don’t have to go to all the trouble of visualizing your personality going into your astral double, levitating next to the ceiling. Tegwedd just visualizes a place, and she’s there. Stephen has his own techniques as well. One technique he calls the dead man’s pose. This is a pose made popular by Uncle Al. Lie flat on the bed, sofa or floor with your arms down at your sides. Take deep slow breaths. The room should be as dark as possible. Close your eyes and keep breathing deeply. You can have music on; the spacier the better. Don’t move other than breathing. If you do this right, you’ll feel as though you’re lifting off. Keep a pad of paper and a writing instrument nearby so that you can write down what happens. Put time, date, length of the experience, exterior weather conditions, anything that seems relevant. Remember the lab notes you took in high school or college? Your magickal diary or journal is a lot like a lab notebook. These are experiments in the science of the mind. Remember Uncle Al’s slogan, “The aim of religion, the method of science.”
Write down if you see objects, vistas, living beings, or if you just see yourself, your astral double. Write down if you notice the astral silver cord; if you feel it tugging at you. Write down if you feel any physical sensations like warmth or coolth. Write down if you hear any sounds. Describe what they are. Take notes on any other sensations you may have. Note which parts of your body they’re in. If you see animals, write down what they are. If you see humans, write down who they are. Are they wearing present day clothes or period costumes? Are there buildings? What do they look like? Are they present day buildings or ancient? Some people believe that astral travel is a form of time travel. Some people think that astral travel is past life travel. Tegwedd has done a bit of this herself. Once on her birthday, she was high on shroom tea, and regressed herself to her immediately previous past life. She had to come back early because her then husband, also high on shroom tea, was getting himself into trouble wandering around the trailer park. This is an example of how psychotropics have been used traditionally as an aid to astral travel. It makes it easier, but we have to stress that it’s not necessary. You can easily travel while sober. And you’ll have more control over the experience. Hashish has been used to do astral travel, especially by the hashishim. It was used to do astral reconnaissance of their targets.
Another way is through a Lilly sensory deprivation tank. The Witch’s Cradle is another method of sensory deprivation often used for astral travel for centuries. There are many movies on astral travel. There are many books on the topic. Stephen himself has over 30 books on it, and he hasn’t bought any books for awhile. He is sure many more books have been published since then. Self-hypnosis is still another means to astral travel. “No Time to Fear” (2009) is about the doppelganger. “Altered States”, and “Flat-Liners” are classics in the field. You can get them either through the internet or Netflix. For spacy music you can astral travel to, we recommend that you get a Rhapsody account if you have a Windows system.
We were on a shopping junket, and when Tegwedd had to stop to rest, we discussed the group we were working on. Terence McKenna’s “Invisible Landscapes is is a book well worth looking into. J.K. Brennan’s “Astral Doorways” is another good book. Upon arriving home, we watched “Inside the Doctor in America”. What does Dr. Who do but if not travel to the astral realms? “He travels in the astral realms, the spatial realms, the temporal realms, and many consider time travel to be astral travel,” says Stephen.
The game “Hammer of Thor” features Yggdrasil which is the world ash wonder tree, the tree that leads us to the 9 worlds: Midgard, Myrkheim, Helheim, Niflheim, Jotunheim, Alfheim, Godheim, Vanaheim, and Muspelheim. We consider worlds and realms to be basically synonymous. “The Underworld Initiation” by R.J. Stewart is a book that tours the Celtic Otherworld. The Otherworld, Land of the Blessed Ones, the Blessed Land, Isle of Women, Tir-Na-Nog, Faerieland, Land of the Ever Living, Annwfn, are some of the names for the Celtic Otherworld. Then there’s the Mayan Underworld--Popol Vuh. I saw a movie on it once. And of course there are the Dreamlands of H.P. Lovecraft.
To sum up, each of us must build an astral temple. In this temple is an altar. On this altar are the four Aces of the Tarot and the Magician in the center. Uncle Al had a lot to do with the astral realms, and Stephen uses his dead man’s pose in which to astral travel. There are techniques which make use of sensory deprivation for astral travel. The ash tree Yggdrasil encompassed the nine worlds of the Germans, people of the Low Countries and the Norse. The Celtic Otherworld encompass parts of the astral realms. The astral realms are huge, as nearly infinite as any human creation can be, but it doubles back on itself.
Go to http://abbottsinninternational.com/ , http://abbottsinn.com/ , call 1-888-611-7982 for a reading, class or research, and go to our network at http://abbottsinn.ning.com/.
Sunday, May 16, 2010
Do You Astral Travel?
Be sure to check out the other Adventures in the Astral Realms groups on the other networks! The astral realms have a new permanent resident now. Robin Goodfellow passed into the Summerland late May 1st. Robin was a former lover and a good friend. He always had something humorous to say. I think he thought his diabetes was a huge colossal cosmic joke on him by the Gods and Goddesses. He always had a strong interest in the astral realms. I think he was doing an astral journey when he slipped into his diabetic coma and died.
Since we are both interested in traveling to the astral realms, we both have dream journals that we write in whenever we get the chance. My dream this morning was weird. I dreamt I was going to a ball, and trying to get to my room to change into my gown. The hotel the ball was at looked like my old dorm at Concordia College, Fjelstad Hall. It was a beautiful old place that looked like a 16th century manor house. It was the only dorm I would live in. In the other dorms, the rooms were like shoe boxes, with walls of cardboard. In the process of trying to find my room, I ran into my 3rd ex-hubby, who was dressed as a Confederate cavalry officer. I finally made it to my room, and put on my gown, which was this cotton number, red with blue oak sprigs. I had made it some years ago. I wore it a few times before I lost my figure.
Dreams, in some people’s minds, are transporting devices that take one to the astral plane, or if you’re stoned, the half-astral. The witches of old used to astral travel to their Sabbats and esbats. I have a theory about how they did it. They would smear the lower part of their besoms with flying ointment (the part that was shaped like a phallus and hidden by the twigs) and masturbate with it. The ointment would soak into the moist mucous membranes of their vaginas, and whoop! They’d be off to the Sabbat, where they’d dream the encounter. Just imagine what these sexually repressed women would be visualizing. Wild stuff, I’m sure. Our modern TV shows would have nothing on these women’s imaginations. Flying ointments had in them such tasty ingredients as deadly nightshade, henbane, and belladonna. Overdose and it was one bad trip, and the last thing you’ll ever dream. In other words, it was a quick trip to the Summerland, and the 14th, 15th, 16th, and 17th century’s version of a morgue. For a fatty base, they probably used either goose grease or lanolin from the wool they worked with. I don’t believe they actually used human baby fat. That was just something the witch hunters threw in to make them seem more horrific. The women were being tortured, so they’d agree to anything the inquisitors’ sick minds came up with. As you know, Torquemada came up with the Spanish Inquisition. The hunt for Witches gathered strength after the publication of “Malleus Malificarum” in 1484. If you can remember who wrote Malleus Malificarum, you get a cookie.
They were Germans, we know that, and the Germans were the most savage and barbaric of the Witch hunters. The Spanish Inquisition has nothing on the Germans. Whole towns and villages were put to the stake from the 15th into the 18th centuries. The only thing that stopped it was the encroachment of the Age of Enlightenment and Reason, wherein they decided that the women who claimed to be Witches were all insane. The reason we are bringing this up is that the Astral Realms are not always lovely friendly places with nice friendly beings. There are plenty of what I like to call “astral nasties.” The two monks who wrote that book are probably still roaming the astral plane, hassling Witches who travel there. There are many dangers on the astral plane. There are not only ghosts of the nasty humans who died, but creatures of all sorts, that would make Stephen King’s, Clive Barker’s, and H.P. Lovecraft’s creatures look tame by comparison. Stephen wants me to talk about hungry ghosts, so I will. They are from China and Japan, but a ghost doesn’t have to be from China or Japan to be ferocious and hungry, greedy for power. One such spirit is the shade of Adolf Hitler.
The Cthulhu mythos is full of astral nasties. The creatures of H.P. Lovecraft are extra-dimensional creatures. Dreamlands are part of the astral realms. Stephen has always been fascinated by the lands of Ylang and the Dreamlands. Stephen is still fascinated by the dark. I’ve been dark most of my life, but 28 years and a little over 3 months ago, I was forced to develop a light side, because at that time the light of my life was born, my daughter Janvier. Raising her was a revelation. She has a healthy darkside too, how could she not with me as her mother? But she’s still the light of my life. Since then, although I’m still dark, I have developed an appreciation for my light side. One of the actresses who portrayed Mary Queen of Scots for our guild always called me her ”sweet bright spirit”.
If you are a member of the other 5 Adventures in the Astral Realms groups, you know that the astral realms are huge. They cover not only this planet, but all the other planets circling around other stars. They cover every landscape, not only the real ones, but also the fictional ones. There is a #10 Baker Street in a fictional London. In case you just landed here and don’t know what that is, it’s the rooms and office of Sherlock Holmes, the hypervigilant detective created by Arthur Conan Doyle. He roams the astral too so if you are being chased by an astral nasty, call on him, along with Dr. Strange. Every mythical or fictional character roams the astral realms, for after all, this is where they were born, it being only a very short trip to everyone’s subconscious, and to Jung’s collective unconscious. I mentioned Dr. Strange up there, and the reason was that his encounters with earth’s enemies take place on the astral plane.
Pathworking is a form of astral astral journeying, also known as traveling on the planes. You can use a Tarot card to do this. Like I’m doing right now. I selected the Page of Coins. The Page of coins is a rather androgynous looking young person, richly dressed with a gemmed headband. Beyond hir is a tree. S/he stands as though a guardian of this place. S/he could also be an astral guide. Beyond hir are fields and meadows. There is also a river lined by bushes or shrubberies. All I could see were fields of green marijuana plants. Oracle cards can be used as well; anything with a scene will work. When we walk along the river with our astral guide, what do we find? Who do we meet? Not all interdimensoinal beings are evil, either. It runs about the same proportion as people on earth. Do your own research. Don’t take our word for it. It doesn’t matter whether you’ve read with the deck or not. Throw the canned book meaning you’ve worked so hard to memorize out the window. You’re not doing a reading, you’re astral traveling. It doesn’t matter what the card means. What matters is what you see when you’ve stepped inside the card.
You can also meet fellow astral travelers while astral traveling. Again about the same proportion of evil to good people as on planet earth. A lot depends upon your attitude. If you’re sure they’re evil and hostile and act hostile towards them, they’re going to be evil and hostile towards you. That’s a version of the mirror image effect. Things you encounter are not separate entities, but different aspects of yourself, that are sentient. It’s like the different characters in your dreams all being parts of you. It’s also related to the Doppler effect and the shadow effect. Your shadow is the personification of all your repressed and unexpressed qualities. If your intuition senses a separate being, then it is a separate being, not you yourself in another form.
If you try to communicate with someone you encounter on this plane, 1. you’ll be successful 2 the connection can be severed and something like an electric shock hits your body and bounces you back, 3 nothing happens. If you have any other scenarios, we want to hear about them. I have one: 4: You develop a relationship with this person, and you become astral pen pals. We would like to hear about your own personal encounters with astral entities other than yourself.
Astral projection is one of the more common psychic abilities. It is also taught by the more prominent magickal orders such as the Order of the Golden Dawn, IOTA, Fraternas Saturni, and the OTO, as well as most, if not all, of the traditions of Wicca and Witchcraft. This is a very popular topic, with hundreds of books written on the subject, including book(s) written by the indefatigable writing team of Denning and Phillips. Astral travel is also known as OOBEs Out Of Body Experiences. It’s supposed to be a really difficult process, but my shaman teacher ladyoflove taught me to just visualize where I want to go, and go there. Isaac Bonewits in his Real Magic [sic] and Authentic Thaumaturgy goes into elaborate detail about OOBEs. Stephen personally prefers the term “astral projection”, but OOBE is the commonly scientific term, but Stephen likes the ancient terms. Stephen thinks the term OOBE is about 50 years old, and originated in the paranormal movement with Robert Monroe’s books. Stephen met Monroe once. How far back does the term “astral projection” or “astral travel” go? In the ‘80s, the actress Shirley Maclaine promulgated OOBEs heavily. How about if you do some research into Ms MacLaine’s work in OOBEs? Get back to us here on it. I didn’t read any of her books because I was sure that they were the usual kind of claptrap that celebrities write. After all, I had known about this stuff since at least the mid-70s, and I was sure that I was a Jennie-come-lately where that was concerned.
There are many astral realms. One of the realms is Da’ath in the Abyss. Stephen thought that Da’ath was the Abyss. I explained to him that Da’ath is in the Abyss, in the same way that Vatican City is in Rome, but it’s not of Rome. It could well be one of the places one goes when one rises on the planes.
The next time I call Isaac Bonewits, I’m going to ask him if he goes off on astral jaunts while the chemo needle is in his arm. I know that if I, Goddess forbid, ever had to submit to the chemo needle, that’s what I’d do. That or read a book. I think that when I had to go under anesthesia to repair my ankle almost 2 years ago, that I astral traveled. I called Isaac, but he didn’t answer.
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Many people have had near death experiences, which Stephen considers to be astral projection. In the auto accident in which he sprained his shoulder, the Goddess Brigit appeared to him and told him, “Your time has not yet come. You are My son.” On June 7th, 2008, I was at a Masonic dinner, when I had a GERD/gas attack. I got up to go see whether the ladies’ room had a couch I could lie down on. I remember lying there, and thinking that couch was awfully hard. I opened my eyes only to find all these worried Masons looking down at me. That’s as close as I’ve gotten to an NDE.
Thus we see that we may astral travel either voluntarily or involuntarily. Do share with us your astral projection and astral travel experiences.
Here’s the situation: Jason Rosenthal, probably a Christian Republican, the new CEO of Ning, intends to put the Ning networks on a paying basis. That means no more free networks, no more joining other people’s networks for free, either because you know that the owners of the paying networks are going to pass their exorbitant costs onto us. What do you say to that? Make a noise, make a big noise. Make a noise so big and loud that Rosenthal can hear it. The next noise he’ll hear is the thundering of many footsteps as we all leave. We have to fight for our rights. We can’t let assholes like Rosenthal dictate to us. This kind of fascist BS should not be allowed to happen. We should do a letter writing campaign to fight this a-h. We have to fight this biotch. This fascist crap cannot stand. We have to get going right away. If everyone protests, it’ll make him go broke and he’ll be fired. We got support for our position from an unexpected quarter. A friend of mine, whom Stephen can’t stand, both because of his politics and his lovestyle (he’s a Reagan Republican and a Gorean) said that what Rosenthal was doing in phasing out the free services was a bad business decision. “People would be coming to him from the free services to get the premium paid services, but he’s cut that part of his Market out. He should keep both.” Let’s boycott Ning, and any of the networks that cave-in to his Gestapo tactics. If any network says you must pay to play, just say no, and get all your friends to say no too. Spread it around, tell everyone you know. Don’t keep it a secret. I have been sending my blog to all the Ning networks I’m on. “We have to stop this neo-Ning fascism,” says Stephen.
We need at least $3000 to move. 916-455-2267 is Stephen’s number for multimedia readings. Just 93.75 readings would do the trick. Don’t stand by and figure that your neighbor or your friend will do it, so you don’t need to. We need your donation too. Every little bit helps. Don’t forget that you can donate to Stephen’s Paypal account. abbottsinn@gmail.com. Also call 1-800-ASK-KEEN and ask for Stephen6580. Or call 1-800-280-8496.Stephen 1580 Stephen now has.$250 in his account which is not enough to pay rent.
One of the psychic reading services that Stephen works for has changed hands. Zodiac (Celebrity Psychics.com) has changed hands and names. It is now Psychic Power. They are recruiting new readers. Stephen gets $50 for anyone who signs up and $100 for someone who signs up and racks up 500 minutes.
Stephen’s done it. He’s gone over to Chase with me. It came to a head because an agent at Bunko de America told him that he had enough money to write $900 in checks to our landlady to pay off his back rent when he didn’t have the money. Now you should understand that Stephen is even more math challenged than I am. He was sick for 5 days with asthma symptoms and wasn’t able to call them to ascertain his balance, or he would have caught the error sooner. They charged him $900 in overdraft charges, and paid everything except for the Rhapsody charge, and his porn. Now I can understand why they wouldn’t have paid the porn one, but the Rhapsody? Why didn’t they pay that one? He just called Bunko de America, and they still won’t own up to any of their responsibility in this. SSI plays a role in this whole thing too because they toyed with him for two hours, letting him think that they were going to cut him an emergency check, then reneged on him. Now folks, this is two hours when he could have been doing readings, and getting his overdraft down. And they turned around and called the sheriff on him. So maybe now you understand why Stephen is so depressed and angry. I realize that you’re probably all out of compassion. I know I am. But the need is real, and the need is dire. He is no longer suicidal, but another setback could send him over the edge again. Of course I have a plan of action now if he turns suicidal again. I’ll call 911, and have him go in on a 5150. In this state, that’s the code for in danger of harming himself or others. This way he’ll get the help he needs.
Now I’m in need of readings too. I need to put in my share of our moving money. My PayPal account is tezra.reitan@gmail.com. For a donation of $5, I’ll send you a copy of one of my books, and for $32, I’ll give you a reading by phone. For $20, I’ll send you a copy of all five of my books. 916-457-7476 is my number. I can’t give you a multi-media reading, because I don’t have my webcam and headset hooked up yet. For that, you’ll have to call Stephen at 916-455-2267.
Our friend Julie Maahs has a book out called the Serpent and the Stag. It can be found at http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/10619. I urge you strongly to buy a download, and tell your friends. She is publicizing it through viral marketing; or what used to be called word-of-mouth advertising. She’s directing the book towards a Pagan audience. It’s a murder mystery with nice contorted twists and turns. When I read it, I saw it as though it were a movie and I was the lighting director/art director. If you review books, contact her at julie@your-taxes.com and she will send you the free coupon code so you can get a free download. She wants a copy of the review, so send her a copy. I sent her a copy and also posted it on Blogger.
We’re sorry that we haven’t been around much, but March was a really bad month for both of us. There’s been a lot of stress around here. The putties have been expressing it by either barfing or eliminating everywhere except where they should. Stephen has been getting his sick migraines. I just recovered from a bout of walking pneumonia and the boogie woogie blues.and high blood pressure, in spite of the blood pressure med I’ve been taking the past year and a half. I still have a nasty cough that makes me sound as though I have what used to be called consumption. At least I’m no longer either whooping or gasping for breath like I was for a few days. I’m sure I got this illness because my immune system was down from all the stress I was under. At least I can function through it better than when I got it 32 years ago, when I would come home from work, eat something, and plop into bed until the next morning. Then, during that attack of pneumonia, I had body aches and a fever. My skin hurt. But in this bout I’m not as sick. It’s just that Dr. Jones wasn’t happy with the amount of air my lungs were taking in. She asked me if I were wheezing. Not this time around. At least I didn’t notice any.
We still don’t have a house-mate, but because I re-ran that ad in the SN&R last Thursday, I expect some nibbles soon. The very people we want to attract as a house-mate are scared to live here because of the neighborhood. Well, I’ll tell you about neighborhoods. Every neighborhood is at risk now because gangs have wheels and money. No neighborhood is safe anymore. I’m a woman, and I feel safe on this street. One of you must know someone in Sacramento who needs a congenial cheap place to live. We have an 11,000 volume Pagan/magickal library, a long slender backyard, a fire circle, and a cauldron. We have satellite TV too and a workshop where you can pursue your craft or artificer dreams. Stephen just renewed his craigslist ads today, and I’m going to do it tomorrow.
There are five putties we need to give up. Ordinarily I would’ve said “free to good homes,” but a very wise friend told me this past weekend that we should charge something for them so that the prospective owner demonstrates that s/he has enough disposable income to care for a pet. So we’ll charge the nominal $10. We’re looking for people who love cats as much as we do.
We greatly fear that Isaac Bonewits, founder of the ADF, and foremost Neo-Pagan, may be dying. We are trying to keep a positive spin on this in line with the Secret, and the Law of Attraction, but his doctors are not hopeful. They came out and said , “This man needs a miracle,” so we have been doing rituals towards that end. We talked to Brigit on the Goddess phone and everything. I realize full well that losing many people that you love is the price of longevity, but I’ve lost too many recently. To lose Isaac on top of losing Robin Goodfellow is just too much for me.
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Since we are both interested in traveling to the astral realms, we both have dream journals that we write in whenever we get the chance. My dream this morning was weird. I dreamt I was going to a ball, and trying to get to my room to change into my gown. The hotel the ball was at looked like my old dorm at Concordia College, Fjelstad Hall. It was a beautiful old place that looked like a 16th century manor house. It was the only dorm I would live in. In the other dorms, the rooms were like shoe boxes, with walls of cardboard. In the process of trying to find my room, I ran into my 3rd ex-hubby, who was dressed as a Confederate cavalry officer. I finally made it to my room, and put on my gown, which was this cotton number, red with blue oak sprigs. I had made it some years ago. I wore it a few times before I lost my figure.
Dreams, in some people’s minds, are transporting devices that take one to the astral plane, or if you’re stoned, the half-astral. The witches of old used to astral travel to their Sabbats and esbats. I have a theory about how they did it. They would smear the lower part of their besoms with flying ointment (the part that was shaped like a phallus and hidden by the twigs) and masturbate with it. The ointment would soak into the moist mucous membranes of their vaginas, and whoop! They’d be off to the Sabbat, where they’d dream the encounter. Just imagine what these sexually repressed women would be visualizing. Wild stuff, I’m sure. Our modern TV shows would have nothing on these women’s imaginations. Flying ointments had in them such tasty ingredients as deadly nightshade, henbane, and belladonna. Overdose and it was one bad trip, and the last thing you’ll ever dream. In other words, it was a quick trip to the Summerland, and the 14th, 15th, 16th, and 17th century’s version of a morgue. For a fatty base, they probably used either goose grease or lanolin from the wool they worked with. I don’t believe they actually used human baby fat. That was just something the witch hunters threw in to make them seem more horrific. The women were being tortured, so they’d agree to anything the inquisitors’ sick minds came up with. As you know, Torquemada came up with the Spanish Inquisition. The hunt for Witches gathered strength after the publication of “Malleus Malificarum” in 1484. If you can remember who wrote Malleus Malificarum, you get a cookie.
They were Germans, we know that, and the Germans were the most savage and barbaric of the Witch hunters. The Spanish Inquisition has nothing on the Germans. Whole towns and villages were put to the stake from the 15th into the 18th centuries. The only thing that stopped it was the encroachment of the Age of Enlightenment and Reason, wherein they decided that the women who claimed to be Witches were all insane. The reason we are bringing this up is that the Astral Realms are not always lovely friendly places with nice friendly beings. There are plenty of what I like to call “astral nasties.” The two monks who wrote that book are probably still roaming the astral plane, hassling Witches who travel there. There are many dangers on the astral plane. There are not only ghosts of the nasty humans who died, but creatures of all sorts, that would make Stephen King’s, Clive Barker’s, and H.P. Lovecraft’s creatures look tame by comparison. Stephen wants me to talk about hungry ghosts, so I will. They are from China and Japan, but a ghost doesn’t have to be from China or Japan to be ferocious and hungry, greedy for power. One such spirit is the shade of Adolf Hitler.
The Cthulhu mythos is full of astral nasties. The creatures of H.P. Lovecraft are extra-dimensional creatures. Dreamlands are part of the astral realms. Stephen has always been fascinated by the lands of Ylang and the Dreamlands. Stephen is still fascinated by the dark. I’ve been dark most of my life, but 28 years and a little over 3 months ago, I was forced to develop a light side, because at that time the light of my life was born, my daughter Janvier. Raising her was a revelation. She has a healthy darkside too, how could she not with me as her mother? But she’s still the light of my life. Since then, although I’m still dark, I have developed an appreciation for my light side. One of the actresses who portrayed Mary Queen of Scots for our guild always called me her ”sweet bright spirit”.
If you are a member of the other 5 Adventures in the Astral Realms groups, you know that the astral realms are huge. They cover not only this planet, but all the other planets circling around other stars. They cover every landscape, not only the real ones, but also the fictional ones. There is a #10 Baker Street in a fictional London. In case you just landed here and don’t know what that is, it’s the rooms and office of Sherlock Holmes, the hypervigilant detective created by Arthur Conan Doyle. He roams the astral too so if you are being chased by an astral nasty, call on him, along with Dr. Strange. Every mythical or fictional character roams the astral realms, for after all, this is where they were born, it being only a very short trip to everyone’s subconscious, and to Jung’s collective unconscious. I mentioned Dr. Strange up there, and the reason was that his encounters with earth’s enemies take place on the astral plane.
Pathworking is a form of astral astral journeying, also known as traveling on the planes. You can use a Tarot card to do this. Like I’m doing right now. I selected the Page of Coins. The Page of coins is a rather androgynous looking young person, richly dressed with a gemmed headband. Beyond hir is a tree. S/he stands as though a guardian of this place. S/he could also be an astral guide. Beyond hir are fields and meadows. There is also a river lined by bushes or shrubberies. All I could see were fields of green marijuana plants. Oracle cards can be used as well; anything with a scene will work. When we walk along the river with our astral guide, what do we find? Who do we meet? Not all interdimensoinal beings are evil, either. It runs about the same proportion as people on earth. Do your own research. Don’t take our word for it. It doesn’t matter whether you’ve read with the deck or not. Throw the canned book meaning you’ve worked so hard to memorize out the window. You’re not doing a reading, you’re astral traveling. It doesn’t matter what the card means. What matters is what you see when you’ve stepped inside the card.
You can also meet fellow astral travelers while astral traveling. Again about the same proportion of evil to good people as on planet earth. A lot depends upon your attitude. If you’re sure they’re evil and hostile and act hostile towards them, they’re going to be evil and hostile towards you. That’s a version of the mirror image effect. Things you encounter are not separate entities, but different aspects of yourself, that are sentient. It’s like the different characters in your dreams all being parts of you. It’s also related to the Doppler effect and the shadow effect. Your shadow is the personification of all your repressed and unexpressed qualities. If your intuition senses a separate being, then it is a separate being, not you yourself in another form.
If you try to communicate with someone you encounter on this plane, 1. you’ll be successful 2 the connection can be severed and something like an electric shock hits your body and bounces you back, 3 nothing happens. If you have any other scenarios, we want to hear about them. I have one: 4: You develop a relationship with this person, and you become astral pen pals. We would like to hear about your own personal encounters with astral entities other than yourself.
Astral projection is one of the more common psychic abilities. It is also taught by the more prominent magickal orders such as the Order of the Golden Dawn, IOTA, Fraternas Saturni, and the OTO, as well as most, if not all, of the traditions of Wicca and Witchcraft. This is a very popular topic, with hundreds of books written on the subject, including book(s) written by the indefatigable writing team of Denning and Phillips. Astral travel is also known as OOBEs Out Of Body Experiences. It’s supposed to be a really difficult process, but my shaman teacher ladyoflove taught me to just visualize where I want to go, and go there. Isaac Bonewits in his Real Magic [sic] and Authentic Thaumaturgy goes into elaborate detail about OOBEs. Stephen personally prefers the term “astral projection”, but OOBE is the commonly scientific term, but Stephen likes the ancient terms. Stephen thinks the term OOBE is about 50 years old, and originated in the paranormal movement with Robert Monroe’s books. Stephen met Monroe once. How far back does the term “astral projection” or “astral travel” go? In the ‘80s, the actress Shirley Maclaine promulgated OOBEs heavily. How about if you do some research into Ms MacLaine’s work in OOBEs? Get back to us here on it. I didn’t read any of her books because I was sure that they were the usual kind of claptrap that celebrities write. After all, I had known about this stuff since at least the mid-70s, and I was sure that I was a Jennie-come-lately where that was concerned.
There are many astral realms. One of the realms is Da’ath in the Abyss. Stephen thought that Da’ath was the Abyss. I explained to him that Da’ath is in the Abyss, in the same way that Vatican City is in Rome, but it’s not of Rome. It could well be one of the places one goes when one rises on the planes.
The next time I call Isaac Bonewits, I’m going to ask him if he goes off on astral jaunts while the chemo needle is in his arm. I know that if I, Goddess forbid, ever had to submit to the chemo needle, that’s what I’d do. That or read a book. I think that when I had to go under anesthesia to repair my ankle almost 2 years ago, that I astral traveled. I called Isaac, but he didn’t answer.
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Many people have had near death experiences, which Stephen considers to be astral projection. In the auto accident in which he sprained his shoulder, the Goddess Brigit appeared to him and told him, “Your time has not yet come. You are My son.” On June 7th, 2008, I was at a Masonic dinner, when I had a GERD/gas attack. I got up to go see whether the ladies’ room had a couch I could lie down on. I remember lying there, and thinking that couch was awfully hard. I opened my eyes only to find all these worried Masons looking down at me. That’s as close as I’ve gotten to an NDE.
Thus we see that we may astral travel either voluntarily or involuntarily. Do share with us your astral projection and astral travel experiences.
Here’s the situation: Jason Rosenthal, probably a Christian Republican, the new CEO of Ning, intends to put the Ning networks on a paying basis. That means no more free networks, no more joining other people’s networks for free, either because you know that the owners of the paying networks are going to pass their exorbitant costs onto us. What do you say to that? Make a noise, make a big noise. Make a noise so big and loud that Rosenthal can hear it. The next noise he’ll hear is the thundering of many footsteps as we all leave. We have to fight for our rights. We can’t let assholes like Rosenthal dictate to us. This kind of fascist BS should not be allowed to happen. We should do a letter writing campaign to fight this a-h. We have to fight this biotch. This fascist crap cannot stand. We have to get going right away. If everyone protests, it’ll make him go broke and he’ll be fired. We got support for our position from an unexpected quarter. A friend of mine, whom Stephen can’t stand, both because of his politics and his lovestyle (he’s a Reagan Republican and a Gorean) said that what Rosenthal was doing in phasing out the free services was a bad business decision. “People would be coming to him from the free services to get the premium paid services, but he’s cut that part of his Market out. He should keep both.” Let’s boycott Ning, and any of the networks that cave-in to his Gestapo tactics. If any network says you must pay to play, just say no, and get all your friends to say no too. Spread it around, tell everyone you know. Don’t keep it a secret. I have been sending my blog to all the Ning networks I’m on. “We have to stop this neo-Ning fascism,” says Stephen.
We need at least $3000 to move. 916-455-2267 is Stephen’s number for multimedia readings. Just 93.75 readings would do the trick. Don’t stand by and figure that your neighbor or your friend will do it, so you don’t need to. We need your donation too. Every little bit helps. Don’t forget that you can donate to Stephen’s Paypal account. abbottsinn@gmail.com. Also call 1-800-ASK-KEEN and ask for Stephen6580. Or call 1-800-280-8496.Stephen 1580 Stephen now has.$250 in his account which is not enough to pay rent.
One of the psychic reading services that Stephen works for has changed hands. Zodiac (Celebrity Psychics.com) has changed hands and names. It is now Psychic Power. They are recruiting new readers. Stephen gets $50 for anyone who signs up and $100 for someone who signs up and racks up 500 minutes.
Stephen’s done it. He’s gone over to Chase with me. It came to a head because an agent at Bunko de America told him that he had enough money to write $900 in checks to our landlady to pay off his back rent when he didn’t have the money. Now you should understand that Stephen is even more math challenged than I am. He was sick for 5 days with asthma symptoms and wasn’t able to call them to ascertain his balance, or he would have caught the error sooner. They charged him $900 in overdraft charges, and paid everything except for the Rhapsody charge, and his porn. Now I can understand why they wouldn’t have paid the porn one, but the Rhapsody? Why didn’t they pay that one? He just called Bunko de America, and they still won’t own up to any of their responsibility in this. SSI plays a role in this whole thing too because they toyed with him for two hours, letting him think that they were going to cut him an emergency check, then reneged on him. Now folks, this is two hours when he could have been doing readings, and getting his overdraft down. And they turned around and called the sheriff on him. So maybe now you understand why Stephen is so depressed and angry. I realize that you’re probably all out of compassion. I know I am. But the need is real, and the need is dire. He is no longer suicidal, but another setback could send him over the edge again. Of course I have a plan of action now if he turns suicidal again. I’ll call 911, and have him go in on a 5150. In this state, that’s the code for in danger of harming himself or others. This way he’ll get the help he needs.
Now I’m in need of readings too. I need to put in my share of our moving money. My PayPal account is tezra.reitan@gmail.com. For a donation of $5, I’ll send you a copy of one of my books, and for $32, I’ll give you a reading by phone. For $20, I’ll send you a copy of all five of my books. 916-457-7476 is my number. I can’t give you a multi-media reading, because I don’t have my webcam and headset hooked up yet. For that, you’ll have to call Stephen at 916-455-2267.
Our friend Julie Maahs has a book out called the Serpent and the Stag. It can be found at http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/10619. I urge you strongly to buy a download, and tell your friends. She is publicizing it through viral marketing; or what used to be called word-of-mouth advertising. She’s directing the book towards a Pagan audience. It’s a murder mystery with nice contorted twists and turns. When I read it, I saw it as though it were a movie and I was the lighting director/art director. If you review books, contact her at julie@your-taxes.com and she will send you the free coupon code so you can get a free download. She wants a copy of the review, so send her a copy. I sent her a copy and also posted it on Blogger.
We’re sorry that we haven’t been around much, but March was a really bad month for both of us. There’s been a lot of stress around here. The putties have been expressing it by either barfing or eliminating everywhere except where they should. Stephen has been getting his sick migraines. I just recovered from a bout of walking pneumonia and the boogie woogie blues.and high blood pressure, in spite of the blood pressure med I’ve been taking the past year and a half. I still have a nasty cough that makes me sound as though I have what used to be called consumption. At least I’m no longer either whooping or gasping for breath like I was for a few days. I’m sure I got this illness because my immune system was down from all the stress I was under. At least I can function through it better than when I got it 32 years ago, when I would come home from work, eat something, and plop into bed until the next morning. Then, during that attack of pneumonia, I had body aches and a fever. My skin hurt. But in this bout I’m not as sick. It’s just that Dr. Jones wasn’t happy with the amount of air my lungs were taking in. She asked me if I were wheezing. Not this time around. At least I didn’t notice any.
We still don’t have a house-mate, but because I re-ran that ad in the SN&R last Thursday, I expect some nibbles soon. The very people we want to attract as a house-mate are scared to live here because of the neighborhood. Well, I’ll tell you about neighborhoods. Every neighborhood is at risk now because gangs have wheels and money. No neighborhood is safe anymore. I’m a woman, and I feel safe on this street. One of you must know someone in Sacramento who needs a congenial cheap place to live. We have an 11,000 volume Pagan/magickal library, a long slender backyard, a fire circle, and a cauldron. We have satellite TV too and a workshop where you can pursue your craft or artificer dreams. Stephen just renewed his craigslist ads today, and I’m going to do it tomorrow.
There are five putties we need to give up. Ordinarily I would’ve said “free to good homes,” but a very wise friend told me this past weekend that we should charge something for them so that the prospective owner demonstrates that s/he has enough disposable income to care for a pet. So we’ll charge the nominal $10. We’re looking for people who love cats as much as we do.
We greatly fear that Isaac Bonewits, founder of the ADF, and foremost Neo-Pagan, may be dying. We are trying to keep a positive spin on this in line with the Secret, and the Law of Attraction, but his doctors are not hopeful. They came out and said , “This man needs a miracle,” so we have been doing rituals towards that end. We talked to Brigit on the Goddess phone and everything. I realize full well that losing many people that you love is the price of longevity, but I’ve lost too many recently. To lose Isaac on top of losing Robin Goodfellow is just too much for me.
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Tuesday, January 19, 2010
What is Fantasy?
What is fantasy and why do we as Pagans like it? Well, for my part, I like fantasy because it takes in different worlds and alternate realities. To be quite blunt, I frankly find ordinary reality to be quite boring and frustrating. I have a mood disorder, so I have an extremely low tolerance for frustration. I like to work at removing the sources of frustration in my life. I have already removed IMVU from my life. I just got an alternate phone so I could have my Magicjack again, thus removing another source of frustration from my life. I now have my long distance back again. Being able to communicate with people is very important to me. It is part of the reason I studied multiple foreign languages in school. Soon, Keen will be out of my life too, thus removing another source of frustration. Fantasy for me is, simply speaking, wish fulfillment. What is fantasy for you? If you were going to write a fantasy novel or short story, what would it be about?
To Stephen fantasy is a different reality, and finds ordinary reality to be at least as boring and frustrating as I do. He has IMVU and fantasy role gaming as his outlets, while I have Renaissance and writing as my outlets. Then there is also our spirituality, which, I admit, has its fantastic aspects.
How many of you liked the two magnificent miniseries that aired on SyFy a short time ago Tinman and Alice? Those were both fantasy series, takeoffs on the Wizard of Oz and Alice in Wonderland. Stephen says that for those who have eyes to see, there are definite Pagan elements in both stories. There was a wizard in the Tinman and a witch in Alice. We watched Watchmen about a week ago. It is about super heroes and set in an alternate reality where Nixon somehow gets a third term. This is not a fantasy for kids. This was definitely a fantasy for adults.
We were working on this post on our way to the grocery store. Because of pain in my hip and back, I have to stop and sit in my walker every block or so. I’m getting better. I went for a whole block and a half before I had to sit. We would work during these breaks. Stephen thought of another group: Geriatrics for Pagans. It’s for Pagan elders who are getting creaky in our old age. You have to be at least 50 to join. Stephen thinks it’s hilarious. He laughs at age and death. He envisioned Celtic wheelchair races. Celtic flags waving, Erin go bragh, and harp images on the flags. He sure likes to harp on that. I pictured walker races. My walker has wheels and a seat. That’s the kind you can race with.
As the “Recent News” flash informed you, Stephen has just finished reading Kushiel’s the 900-some page first novel of a series by Jacqueline Carey. It is definitely Pagan fantasy, very adult, with sex and violence all over it. Definitely not for the little kiddoes. The book is about a woman who bore a strange thing or mote in her eye. She was a masochist, and enjoyed pain. If you bore Kushiel’s dart, you were one of the chosen few. She would go on assignations as a spy and collect information. . She was an indentured servant with a mark that started on the back of her neck, and when it reached her natal cleft she was free. It takes place in a place very much like ancient Europe. It has sex and betrayal. Stephen thinks that a film should be made out of it, in fact he keeps doing a Freudian teddy and saying “film” instead of “books”. The characters are well developed.
Go read it if you can get your friendly local public library to part with it for 3 weeks. It took Stephen about 6 months to read it. He kept having to renew it. Right now he’s waiting with bated breath to take out the second book in the series Kushiel’s Chosen. Hopefully he’ll not call it a film again.
I’m currently in the middle of reading The Hallowed Hunt by Lois McMaster Bujold. It’s about a servant of the local lord who is commanded to escort the accused killer of the local lord’s brother. There is some confusion about who did kill the ignoble noble, the sultry accused or the dead noble’s “pet”. Thereby hangs the tale.
As we write this, we are watching the Golden Globe awards. The science fantasy film won 3 awards. Arnold introduced the film. Many Pagans have glommed onto this film. If you have money, please come to Sacramento and take us to see this movie. Ordinarily we heckle the Governator when he speaks, but this time we applauded him. From what little I’ve seen in shorts and trailers on TV, Avatar is indeed a groundbreaking film.
There is the series The Seeker the Darkness Comes on SyFy. I can’t wait to see the sequel. Then there is the Robin Hood series on BBCA. I love it. They’ve kind of wandered past the original story though. The costumes are interesting. They don’t really resemble what I consider to be medieval dress. I haven’t seen a whole lot of recent fantasy. What fantasy authors do you think we’d be interested in?
Two fantasy authors I really like are Mercedes Lackey and Katherine Kerr. Mercedes Lackey started a series by the title of Bardic Voices. She also started a related series by the title of Bardic Choices. They take place in a fanciful world where magical creatures such as man-sized talking and singing birds mingle with ordinary humans. There are also elves and other hominids such as dwarves. The books are about musicians who aspire to be bards, but the Guild is so hidebound that it is well nigh impossible to join the Guild. Fortunately, there are freebooters around, gypsy-like nomads who can give the Guild Bards a run for their money. My daughter gave me the first novel. I’ve been searching for the rest of them ever since. I’d like Ms. Lackey to write some more in the two series.
Katherine Kerr also penned a series I like. It is the Deverry series. The first, also given to me by my daughter, was Daggerspell. Since then, I have acquired just about all the books in the series. Like the Lackey series, it takes place in a magical land, where lots of different creatures mingle, but the dragons keep aloof from humankind.
Lammas Night by Katherine Kurtz is historical fantasy. It is about the modern legend that the Witches of England did a ritual to repel a German invasion back in 1940. Stephen is halfway through reading it for the 2nd time. I started it, but it got too depressing. Stephen will report back when he is finished reading it. One of the ways that they did it was that as royal would have to be sacrificed.
If you know anyone who wants a fairly cheap housing situation with two congenial Pagan magickal housemates in an ethnically mixed neighborhood in Sacramento, contact me at tezra.reitan@gmail.com or Stephen at abbottsinn_school@yahoo.com or Stephen at his phone number 916-455-2267. Also, we desperately need donations to keep Abbott’s Inn International School of Magick afloat. You can send donations of any size to either Stephen’s Paypal account at abbottsinn@gmail.com or abbottsinn_school@yahoo.com or my Paypal account at tezra.reitan@gmail.com. If it’s for at least $32, you’ll get either a reading or a class from our vast collections of divination decks/methods/tools or for the class, pick a topic from our vast repertoire in the field of magick. For $60, you can actually have both a reading and a class. I don’t have my webcam hooked up yet, or my mic, but with Stephen you can have sound and video on Yahoo IM, Windows Msgr or Skype. With me for a short while, it’ll be just phone or typing on Yahoo IM or Windows Msgr. Thank you for using and disseminating Stephen’s Zodiac referral number 1-800-280-8496. Stephen1580. It helps ever so much when you use it instead of the regular number because you don’t pay any more, but he makes three times as much. We’re both on SSI, thanks to Arnold Schwarzenegger drastically cut both of our checks, and Keen isn’t coming up with the paying calls. I haven’t made one cent since signing on with Keen. My clients all demand free five minute readings, and refuse to go over that five minutes for a paid reading. In fact, it’s cost me money to bid so altogether, Keen has been pretty much of a total loss for me. If you need money, kids, mow lawns or babysit, don’t join a psychic reading service, because it’ll just suck in what little money you do have.
Do check out the PaganRadioNetwork.net It’s free, although they certainly do accept donations. Doesn’t everyone? Seems like everyone has his hat out nowadays, and we’re sorry to be part of that, but the situation is dirt. We almost lost our power yesterday. In these times of smaller SSI checks, a bankrupt state, and practically non-existent paying KEEN calls, the prices just seem to be rising all the time for less and less service or quality.
AT&T is offering a “free” cell phone deal. Don’t fall for it. It is a scam. You have to open up a new account for a friend or family member. This will end up costing you more than the phone is worth. So beware of any “deals” AT&T offers you.
In order to keep his computer alive, or perhaps get a new computer, Stephen needs a new battery and Windows 7, because Vista is just too unreliable. Vista is the worst operating system since 98. But first Stephen has to pay off his rent, and so do I. Don’t buy a Dell or do business with Wells Fargo. They’re both ripoffs.
If you’re ever in Sacramento, look up Walter Rhoads and Julie Maahs. Together they own Gallery 14 at 14th St. and 60th Avenue. We’re promoting them big time. Walter Rhoads has a very interesting and different approach to art. He compares himself to the late great Jackson Pollock but there are two main differences: Rhoads is still drawing breath with a healthy 98.6 degrees temperature (except when he’s sick, in which case it’s somewhat higher) and I think Jackson Pollock was gay, and Rhoads is, like us, hopelessly hetero.
We certainly hope you’ve enjoyed this post. Sorry about my negativity up there, but I’ve been very depressed by this economy lately, and wishing I were with Doc in the Summerland.
Tegwedd ShadowDancer
Stephen Abbott
Inky my BFF (BoyFriend Forever)
Little (Big)Boy
Oreo (the Mouser)
Bailee Beasley Beastly
Frikki & Frakki
Dr. Livingston I. Presume aka Prince Henry the Navigator
To Stephen fantasy is a different reality, and finds ordinary reality to be at least as boring and frustrating as I do. He has IMVU and fantasy role gaming as his outlets, while I have Renaissance and writing as my outlets. Then there is also our spirituality, which, I admit, has its fantastic aspects.
How many of you liked the two magnificent miniseries that aired on SyFy a short time ago Tinman and Alice? Those were both fantasy series, takeoffs on the Wizard of Oz and Alice in Wonderland. Stephen says that for those who have eyes to see, there are definite Pagan elements in both stories. There was a wizard in the Tinman and a witch in Alice. We watched Watchmen about a week ago. It is about super heroes and set in an alternate reality where Nixon somehow gets a third term. This is not a fantasy for kids. This was definitely a fantasy for adults.
We were working on this post on our way to the grocery store. Because of pain in my hip and back, I have to stop and sit in my walker every block or so. I’m getting better. I went for a whole block and a half before I had to sit. We would work during these breaks. Stephen thought of another group: Geriatrics for Pagans. It’s for Pagan elders who are getting creaky in our old age. You have to be at least 50 to join. Stephen thinks it’s hilarious. He laughs at age and death. He envisioned Celtic wheelchair races. Celtic flags waving, Erin go bragh, and harp images on the flags. He sure likes to harp on that. I pictured walker races. My walker has wheels and a seat. That’s the kind you can race with.
As the “Recent News” flash informed you, Stephen has just finished reading Kushiel’s the 900-some page first novel of a series by Jacqueline Carey. It is definitely Pagan fantasy, very adult, with sex and violence all over it. Definitely not for the little kiddoes. The book is about a woman who bore a strange thing or mote in her eye. She was a masochist, and enjoyed pain. If you bore Kushiel’s dart, you were one of the chosen few. She would go on assignations as a spy and collect information. . She was an indentured servant with a mark that started on the back of her neck, and when it reached her natal cleft she was free. It takes place in a place very much like ancient Europe. It has sex and betrayal. Stephen thinks that a film should be made out of it, in fact he keeps doing a Freudian teddy and saying “film” instead of “books”. The characters are well developed.
Go read it if you can get your friendly local public library to part with it for 3 weeks. It took Stephen about 6 months to read it. He kept having to renew it. Right now he’s waiting with bated breath to take out the second book in the series Kushiel’s Chosen. Hopefully he’ll not call it a film again.
I’m currently in the middle of reading The Hallowed Hunt by Lois McMaster Bujold. It’s about a servant of the local lord who is commanded to escort the accused killer of the local lord’s brother. There is some confusion about who did kill the ignoble noble, the sultry accused or the dead noble’s “pet”. Thereby hangs the tale.
As we write this, we are watching the Golden Globe awards. The science fantasy film won 3 awards. Arnold introduced the film. Many Pagans have glommed onto this film. If you have money, please come to Sacramento and take us to see this movie. Ordinarily we heckle the Governator when he speaks, but this time we applauded him. From what little I’ve seen in shorts and trailers on TV, Avatar is indeed a groundbreaking film.
There is the series The Seeker the Darkness Comes on SyFy. I can’t wait to see the sequel. Then there is the Robin Hood series on BBCA. I love it. They’ve kind of wandered past the original story though. The costumes are interesting. They don’t really resemble what I consider to be medieval dress. I haven’t seen a whole lot of recent fantasy. What fantasy authors do you think we’d be interested in?
Two fantasy authors I really like are Mercedes Lackey and Katherine Kerr. Mercedes Lackey started a series by the title of Bardic Voices. She also started a related series by the title of Bardic Choices. They take place in a fanciful world where magical creatures such as man-sized talking and singing birds mingle with ordinary humans. There are also elves and other hominids such as dwarves. The books are about musicians who aspire to be bards, but the Guild is so hidebound that it is well nigh impossible to join the Guild. Fortunately, there are freebooters around, gypsy-like nomads who can give the Guild Bards a run for their money. My daughter gave me the first novel. I’ve been searching for the rest of them ever since. I’d like Ms. Lackey to write some more in the two series.
Katherine Kerr also penned a series I like. It is the Deverry series. The first, also given to me by my daughter, was Daggerspell. Since then, I have acquired just about all the books in the series. Like the Lackey series, it takes place in a magical land, where lots of different creatures mingle, but the dragons keep aloof from humankind.
Lammas Night by Katherine Kurtz is historical fantasy. It is about the modern legend that the Witches of England did a ritual to repel a German invasion back in 1940. Stephen is halfway through reading it for the 2nd time. I started it, but it got too depressing. Stephen will report back when he is finished reading it. One of the ways that they did it was that as royal would have to be sacrificed.
If you know anyone who wants a fairly cheap housing situation with two congenial Pagan magickal housemates in an ethnically mixed neighborhood in Sacramento, contact me at tezra.reitan@gmail.com or Stephen at abbottsinn_school@yahoo.com or Stephen at his phone number 916-455-2267. Also, we desperately need donations to keep Abbott’s Inn International School of Magick afloat. You can send donations of any size to either Stephen’s Paypal account at abbottsinn@gmail.com or abbottsinn_school@yahoo.com or my Paypal account at tezra.reitan@gmail.com. If it’s for at least $32, you’ll get either a reading or a class from our vast collections of divination decks/methods/tools or for the class, pick a topic from our vast repertoire in the field of magick. For $60, you can actually have both a reading and a class. I don’t have my webcam hooked up yet, or my mic, but with Stephen you can have sound and video on Yahoo IM, Windows Msgr or Skype. With me for a short while, it’ll be just phone or typing on Yahoo IM or Windows Msgr. Thank you for using and disseminating Stephen’s Zodiac referral number 1-800-280-8496. Stephen1580. It helps ever so much when you use it instead of the regular number because you don’t pay any more, but he makes three times as much. We’re both on SSI, thanks to Arnold Schwarzenegger drastically cut both of our checks, and Keen isn’t coming up with the paying calls. I haven’t made one cent since signing on with Keen. My clients all demand free five minute readings, and refuse to go over that five minutes for a paid reading. In fact, it’s cost me money to bid so altogether, Keen has been pretty much of a total loss for me. If you need money, kids, mow lawns or babysit, don’t join a psychic reading service, because it’ll just suck in what little money you do have.
Do check out the PaganRadioNetwork.net It’s free, although they certainly do accept donations. Doesn’t everyone? Seems like everyone has his hat out nowadays, and we’re sorry to be part of that, but the situation is dirt. We almost lost our power yesterday. In these times of smaller SSI checks, a bankrupt state, and practically non-existent paying KEEN calls, the prices just seem to be rising all the time for less and less service or quality.
AT&T is offering a “free” cell phone deal. Don’t fall for it. It is a scam. You have to open up a new account for a friend or family member. This will end up costing you more than the phone is worth. So beware of any “deals” AT&T offers you.
In order to keep his computer alive, or perhaps get a new computer, Stephen needs a new battery and Windows 7, because Vista is just too unreliable. Vista is the worst operating system since 98. But first Stephen has to pay off his rent, and so do I. Don’t buy a Dell or do business with Wells Fargo. They’re both ripoffs.
If you’re ever in Sacramento, look up Walter Rhoads and Julie Maahs. Together they own Gallery 14 at 14th St. and 60th Avenue. We’re promoting them big time. Walter Rhoads has a very interesting and different approach to art. He compares himself to the late great Jackson Pollock but there are two main differences: Rhoads is still drawing breath with a healthy 98.6 degrees temperature (except when he’s sick, in which case it’s somewhat higher) and I think Jackson Pollock was gay, and Rhoads is, like us, hopelessly hetero.
We certainly hope you’ve enjoyed this post. Sorry about my negativity up there, but I’ve been very depressed by this economy lately, and wishing I were with Doc in the Summerland.
Tegwedd ShadowDancer
Stephen Abbott
Inky my BFF (BoyFriend Forever)
Little (Big)Boy
Oreo (the Mouser)
Bailee Beasley Beastly
Frikki & Frakki
Dr. Livingston I. Presume aka Prince Henry the Navigator
Saturday, January 9, 2010
Nyarlathotep Arises
. As you may have figured out, Cult of Nyarlathotep is the sister group to Call of Cthulhu. Where Call of Cthulhu is a a more fanciful and sometimes humorous approach, Cult of Nyarlathotep is in a more serious vein. In Call of Cthulhu, we talk about the game, and about the mythos in a more general way. In Cult of Nyarlathotep, we talk more about the religion, and the magick of the Lovecraftian mythos. You can see a difference between the two groups. Occult implies something of a religious nature. The Cult of the Nyarlathotep is more the temple of Nyarlathotep.
The fascination many Pagans have with the darker side of magick is enhanced in the Cult of Nyarlathotep. The Cult of Nyarlathotep has many followers, according to the Cthulhu mythos. One of the ways to find out more about the deities is to check out the book for the game Call of Cthulhu, because descriptions of the Old Ones are the first things you encounter. Googling the deities’ names may yield more information, and the Paganapedia of Mind-n-Magick could yield even more. Who is your favorite Cthulhu mythos deity? The way to start this is for Stephen and me to state our favorites. Stephen will go first. His favorite deity is Shiggurath, the she goat of a thousand young.. The reason he likes her is that there is a connection between her and the ancient Druids. As for me, I am torn between Shiggurath and Nyarlathotep. Is the name Nyarlathotep, by its spelling, linked to the Khemetic religion? In the Cult of Nyarlathotep scenario in the Call of Cthulhu game, the scenario spans the world. Would this imply that the Cult of Nyarlathotep is international? Stephen has a strange theory that SG-1, and all the other Stargate programs are linked to Call of Cthulhu because like the Old Ones, the Go’uld came from the stars.
The Go’uld were a parasitic race, bent on domination of the universe, like the Old Ones. If anyone knows of any other star races, please post here, either as a comment or as a full-fledged discussion. It reminds me of something else. Faeries can’t tolerate iron because it is a star-metal. The first most accessible sources of iron were meteorites. What if this is because like the Old Ones and the Go’uld the faeries are also a star race? I’m thinking that just as Superman is allergic to kryptonite since it came from his home planet, faeries are allergic to iron because like kryptonite and iron, they also came from the stars. Do check out Faery Wisdom and Dragons, Faeries and Unicorns Oh My! Soon they’ll be here as well. Now is a good time to mention the other Cthulhu groups on Facebook, Hi5, Google, Yahoo, and Paganspace.net. Please tell us the specific names of these groups so we can be a part of that.
One man who has done a lot to promulgate the universe of Lovecraft is Donald Tyson, who has written two books on the Necronomicon and created a deck. Secrets of the Necronomicon is the deck. The Necronomicon:the Wanderings of Alhazred and Alhazred are the title of the books. Lo Scarabeo, an imprint of Llewellyn, has a Lovecraftesque deck The Dark Grimoire. I have it. It suits my darker moods. Stephen thinks there’s a third book, but I don’t know what it is. Stephen has found that this working on Cthulhu groups affects his dreams a lot. Is anyone else out there affected by the Cthulhu mythos on a dream level? We want to hear from you!
You know, you too could write about the Cthulhu mythos, either prose or poetry. Try your hand at writing a Cthulhuesque story, and follow in Daddy Lovecraft’s footsteps. Use local color and signs of the time. Most of them took place in the mythical small town of Arkham in Massachusetts during the 1920s. You can have your story take place anywhere, and at any time, even at sometime in the near future, say the 2020s, and look back a century in time. I realize that they often make for clogs in the flow of the plot, and so a lot of editors think they make for bad writing, but I happen to like flashbacks. I guess it’s my fascination with history. I always like to look back and see how things got that way. Stephen likes them too because they’re educational and help the continuity of the story.
It’s a sad commentary on the human condition that evil people are more fascinating to study than good people. Even in good people, their dark side is often more interesting than their light side. Our concepts of good and evil just kind of fade away, and we embrace what we once thought was evil. Basically we’ve lost all concepts of good and evil, since they’re now obsolete, and will now have to invent these concepts again as the ancient philosophy goes. Stephen now confesses that he made the “ancient philosophy” up. Ah, der Teufel is at it again. But really, what is good, what is evil? For far too long we’ve had only the skewed view of the Christians foe guidance. We need to come up with new more universal concepts, concepts that Pagans and Thelemites, Buddhists, Jews, Taoists and animists will accept. We can forget about the Christians and Muslims because their day is about done. Let’s just hope they don’t destroy the rest of us and this planet when they destroy each other during their Armageddon. .
If you know anyone who wants a fairly cheap housing situation with two congenial Pagan magickal housemates in an ethnically mixed neighborhood in Sacramento, contact me at tezra.reitan@gmail.com or Stephen at abbottsinn_school@yahoo.com or Stephen at his phone number 916-455-2267. Also, we desperately need donations to keep Abbott’s Inn International School of Magick afloat. You can send donations of any size to either Stephen’s Paypal account at abbottsinn@gmail.com or abbottsinn_school@yahoo.com or my Paypal account at tezra.reitan@gmail.com. If it’s for at least $32, you’ll get either a reading or a class from our vast collections of divination decks/methods/tools or for the class, pick a topic from our vast repertoire in the field of magick. For $60, you can actually have both a reading and a class. I don’t have my webcam hooked up yet, or my mic, but with Stephen you can have sound and video on Yahoo IM, Windows Msgr or Skype. With me for a short while, it’ll be just phone or typing on Yahoo IM or Windows Msgr. Thank you for using and disseminating Stephen’s Zodiac referral number 1-800-280-8496. Stephen1580. It helps ever so much when you use it instead of the regular number because you don’t pay any more, but he makes three times as much. We’re both on SSI, thanks to Arnold Schwarzenegger drastically cut both of our checks, and Keen isn’t coming up with the paying calls. I haven’t made one cent since signing on with Keen. My clients all demand free five minute readings, and refuse to go over that five minutes for a paid reading. In fact, it’s cost me money to bid so altogether, Keen has been pretty much of a total loss for me. If you need money, kids, mow lawns or babysit, don’t join a psychic reading service, because it’ll just suck in what little money you do have.
Do check out the PaganRadioNetwork.net It’s free, although they certainly do accept donations. Doesn’t everyone? Seems like everyone has his hat out nowadays, and we’re sorry to be part of that, but the situation is dirt. We almost lost our power yesterday. In these times of smaller SSI checks, a bankrupt state, and practically non-existent paying KEEN calls, the prices just seem to be rising all the time for less and less service or quality.
AT&T is offering a “free” cell phone deal. Don’t fall for it. It is a scam. You have to open up a new account for a friend or family member. This will end up costing you more than the phone is worth. So beware of any “deals” AT&T offers you.
In order to keep his computer alive, or perhaps get a new computer, Stephen needs a new battery and Windows 7, because Vista is just too unreliable. Vista is the worst operating system since 98. But first Stephen has to pay off his rent, and so do I. Don’t buy a Dell or do business with Wells Fargo. They’re both ripoffs.
If you’re ever in Sacramento, look up Walter Rhoads and Julie Maahs. Together they own Gallery 14 at 14th St. and 60th Avenue. We’re promoting them big time. Walter Rhoads has a very interesting and different approach to art. He compares himself to the late great Jackson Pollock but there are two main differences: Rhoads is still drawing breath with a healthy 98.6 degrees temperature (except when he’s sick, in which case it’s somewhat higher) and I think Jackson Pollock was gay, and Rhoads is, like us, hopelessly hetero.
We certainly hope you’ve enjoyed this post. Sorry about my negativity up there, but I’ve been very depressed by this economy lately, and wishing I were with Doc in the Summerland.
Tegwedd ShadowDancer
Stephen Abbott
Inky my BFF (BoyFriend Forever)
Little (Big)Boy
Oreo (the Mouser)
Bailee Beasley Beastly
Frikki & Frakki
Dr. Livingston I. Presume aka Prince Henry the Navigator
. As you may have figured out, Cult of Nyarlathotep is the sister group to Call of Cthulhu. Where Call of Cthulhu is a a more fanciful and sometimes humorous approach, Cult of Nyarlathotep is in a more serious vein. In Call of Cthulhu, we talk about the game, and about the mythos in a more general way. In Cult of Nyarlathotep, we talk more about the religion, and the magick of the Lovecraftian mythos. You can see a difference between the two groups. Occult implies something of a religious nature. The Cult of the Nyarlathotep is more the temple of Nyarlathotep.
The fascination many Pagans have with the darker side of magick is enhanced in the Cult of Nyarlathotep. The Cult of Nyarlathotep has many followers, according to the Cthulhu mythos. One of the ways to find out more about the deities is to check out the book for the game Call of Cthulhu, because descriptions of the Old Ones are the first things you encounter. Googling the deities’ names may yield more information, and the Paganapedia of Mind-n-Magick could yield even more. Who is your favorite Cthulhu mythos deity? The way to start this is for Stephen and me to state our favorites. Stephen will go first. His favorite deity is Shiggurath, the she goat of a thousand young.. The reason he likes her is that there is a connection between her and the ancient Druids. As for me, I am torn between Shiggurath and Nyarlathotep. Is the name Nyarlathotep, by its spelling, linked to the Khemetic religion? In the Cult of Nyarlathotep scenario in the Call of Cthulhu game, the scenario spans the world. Would this imply that the Cult of Nyarlathotep is international? Stephen has a strange theory that SG-1, and all the other Stargate programs are linked to Call of Cthulhu because like the Old Ones, the Go’uld came from the stars.
The Go’uld were a parasitic race, bent on domination of the universe, like the Old Ones. If anyone knows of any other star races, please post here, either as a comment or as a full-fledged discussion. It reminds me of something else. Faeries can’t tolerate iron because it is a star-metal. The first most accessible sources of iron were meteorites. What if this is because like the Old Ones and the Go’uld the faeries are also a star race? I’m thinking that just as Superman is allergic to kryptonite since it came from his home planet, faeries are allergic to iron because like kryptonite and iron, they also came from the stars. Do check out Faery Wisdom and Dragons, Faeries and Unicorns Oh My! Soon they’ll be here as well. Now is a good time to mention the other Cthulhu groups on Facebook, Hi5, Google, Yahoo, and Paganspace.net. Please tell us the specific names of these groups so we can be a part of that.
One man who has done a lot to promulgate the universe of Lovecraft is Donald Tyson, who has written two books on the Necronomicon and created a deck. Secrets of the Necronomicon is the deck. The Necronomicon:the Wanderings of Alhazred and Alhazred are the title of the books. Lo Scarabeo, an imprint of Llewellyn, has a Lovecraftesque deck The Dark Grimoire. I have it. It suits my darker moods. Stephen thinks there’s a third book, but I don’t know what it is. Stephen has found that this working on Cthulhu groups affects his dreams a lot. Is anyone else out there affected by the Cthulhu mythos on a dream level? We want to hear from you!
You know, you too could write about the Cthulhu mythos, either prose or poetry. Try your hand at writing a Cthulhuesque story, and follow in Daddy Lovecraft’s footsteps. Use local color and signs of the time. Most of them took place in the mythical small town of Arkham in Massachusetts during the 1920s. You can have your story take place anywhere, and at any time, even at sometime in the near future, say the 2020s, and look back a century in time. I realize that they often make for clogs in the flow of the plot, and so a lot of editors think they make for bad writing, but I happen to like flashbacks. I guess it’s my fascination with history. I always like to look back and see how things got that way. Stephen likes them too because they’re educational and help the continuity of the story.
It’s a sad commentary on the human condition that evil people are more fascinating to study than good people. Even in good people, their dark side is often more interesting than their light side. Our concepts of good and evil just kind of fade away, and we embrace what we once thought was evil. Basically we’ve lost all concepts of good and evil, since they’re now obsolete, and will now have to invent these concepts again as the ancient philosophy goes. Stephen now confesses that he made the “ancient philosophy” up. Ah, der Teufel is at it again. But really, what is good, what is evil? For far too long we’ve had only the skewed view of the Christians foe guidance. We need to come up with new more universal concepts, concepts that Pagans and Thelemites, Buddhists, Jews, Taoists and animists will accept. We can forget about the Christians and Muslims because their day is about done. Let’s just hope they don’t destroy the rest of us and this planet when they destroy each other during their Armageddon. .
If you know anyone who wants a fairly cheap housing situation with two congenial Pagan magickal housemates in an ethnically mixed neighborhood in Sacramento, contact me at tezra.reitan@gmail.com or Stephen at abbottsinn_school@yahoo.com or Stephen at his phone number 916-455-2267. Also, we desperately need donations to keep Abbott’s Inn International School of Magick afloat. You can send donations of any size to either Stephen’s Paypal account at abbottsinn@gmail.com or abbottsinn_school@yahoo.com or my Paypal account at tezra.reitan@gmail.com. If it’s for at least $32, you’ll get either a reading or a class from our vast collections of divination decks/methods/tools or for the class, pick a topic from our vast repertoire in the field of magick. For $60, you can actually have both a reading and a class. I don’t have my webcam hooked up yet, or my mic, but with Stephen you can have sound and video on Yahoo IM, Windows Msgr or Skype. With me for a short while, it’ll be just phone or typing on Yahoo IM or Windows Msgr. Thank you for using and disseminating Stephen’s Zodiac referral number 1-800-280-8496. Stephen1580. It helps ever so much when you use it instead of the regular number because you don’t pay any more, but he makes three times as much. We’re both on SSI, thanks to Arnold Schwarzenegger drastically cut both of our checks, and Keen isn’t coming up with the paying calls. I haven’t made one cent since signing on with Keen. My clients all demand free five minute readings, and refuse to go over that five minutes for a paid reading. In fact, it’s cost me money to bid so altogether, Keen has been pretty much of a total loss for me. If you need money, kids, mow lawns or babysit, don’t join a psychic reading service, because it’ll just suck in what little money you do have.
Do check out the PaganRadioNetwork.net It’s free, although they certainly do accept donations. Doesn’t everyone? Seems like everyone has his hat out nowadays, and we’re sorry to be part of that, but the situation is dirt. We almost lost our power yesterday. In these times of smaller SSI checks, a bankrupt state, and practically non-existent paying KEEN calls, the prices just seem to be rising all the time for less and less service or quality.
AT&T is offering a “free” cell phone deal. Don’t fall for it. It is a scam. You have to open up a new account for a friend or family member. This will end up costing you more than the phone is worth. So beware of any “deals” AT&T offers you.
In order to keep his computer alive, or perhaps get a new computer, Stephen needs a new battery and Windows 7, because Vista is just too unreliable. Vista is the worst operating system since 98. But first Stephen has to pay off his rent, and so do I. Don’t buy a Dell or do business with Wells Fargo. They’re both ripoffs.
If you’re ever in Sacramento, look up Walter Rhoads and Julie Maahs. Together they own Gallery 14 at 14th St. and 60th Avenue. We’re promoting them big time. Walter Rhoads has a very interesting and different approach to art. He compares himself to the late great Jackson Pollock but there are two main differences: Rhoads is still drawing breath with a healthy 98.6 degrees temperature (except when he’s sick, in which case it’s somewhat higher) and I think Jackson Pollock was gay, and Rhoads is, like us, hopelessly hetero.
We certainly hope you’ve enjoyed this post. Sorry about my negativity up there, but I’ve been very depressed by this economy lately, and wishing I were with Doc in the Summerland.
Tegwedd ShadowDancer
Stephen Abbott
Inky my BFF (BoyFriend Forever)
Little (Big)Boy
Oreo (the Mouser)
Bailee Beasley Beastly
Frikki & Frakki
Dr. Livingston I. Presume aka Prince Henry the Navigator
The fascination many Pagans have with the darker side of magick is enhanced in the Cult of Nyarlathotep. The Cult of Nyarlathotep has many followers, according to the Cthulhu mythos. One of the ways to find out more about the deities is to check out the book for the game Call of Cthulhu, because descriptions of the Old Ones are the first things you encounter. Googling the deities’ names may yield more information, and the Paganapedia of Mind-n-Magick could yield even more. Who is your favorite Cthulhu mythos deity? The way to start this is for Stephen and me to state our favorites. Stephen will go first. His favorite deity is Shiggurath, the she goat of a thousand young.. The reason he likes her is that there is a connection between her and the ancient Druids. As for me, I am torn between Shiggurath and Nyarlathotep. Is the name Nyarlathotep, by its spelling, linked to the Khemetic religion? In the Cult of Nyarlathotep scenario in the Call of Cthulhu game, the scenario spans the world. Would this imply that the Cult of Nyarlathotep is international? Stephen has a strange theory that SG-1, and all the other Stargate programs are linked to Call of Cthulhu because like the Old Ones, the Go’uld came from the stars.
The Go’uld were a parasitic race, bent on domination of the universe, like the Old Ones. If anyone knows of any other star races, please post here, either as a comment or as a full-fledged discussion. It reminds me of something else. Faeries can’t tolerate iron because it is a star-metal. The first most accessible sources of iron were meteorites. What if this is because like the Old Ones and the Go’uld the faeries are also a star race? I’m thinking that just as Superman is allergic to kryptonite since it came from his home planet, faeries are allergic to iron because like kryptonite and iron, they also came from the stars. Do check out Faery Wisdom and Dragons, Faeries and Unicorns Oh My! Soon they’ll be here as well. Now is a good time to mention the other Cthulhu groups on Facebook, Hi5, Google, Yahoo, and Paganspace.net. Please tell us the specific names of these groups so we can be a part of that.
One man who has done a lot to promulgate the universe of Lovecraft is Donald Tyson, who has written two books on the Necronomicon and created a deck. Secrets of the Necronomicon is the deck. The Necronomicon:the Wanderings of Alhazred and Alhazred are the title of the books. Lo Scarabeo, an imprint of Llewellyn, has a Lovecraftesque deck The Dark Grimoire. I have it. It suits my darker moods. Stephen thinks there’s a third book, but I don’t know what it is. Stephen has found that this working on Cthulhu groups affects his dreams a lot. Is anyone else out there affected by the Cthulhu mythos on a dream level? We want to hear from you!
You know, you too could write about the Cthulhu mythos, either prose or poetry. Try your hand at writing a Cthulhuesque story, and follow in Daddy Lovecraft’s footsteps. Use local color and signs of the time. Most of them took place in the mythical small town of Arkham in Massachusetts during the 1920s. You can have your story take place anywhere, and at any time, even at sometime in the near future, say the 2020s, and look back a century in time. I realize that they often make for clogs in the flow of the plot, and so a lot of editors think they make for bad writing, but I happen to like flashbacks. I guess it’s my fascination with history. I always like to look back and see how things got that way. Stephen likes them too because they’re educational and help the continuity of the story.
It’s a sad commentary on the human condition that evil people are more fascinating to study than good people. Even in good people, their dark side is often more interesting than their light side. Our concepts of good and evil just kind of fade away, and we embrace what we once thought was evil. Basically we’ve lost all concepts of good and evil, since they’re now obsolete, and will now have to invent these concepts again as the ancient philosophy goes. Stephen now confesses that he made the “ancient philosophy” up. Ah, der Teufel is at it again. But really, what is good, what is evil? For far too long we’ve had only the skewed view of the Christians foe guidance. We need to come up with new more universal concepts, concepts that Pagans and Thelemites, Buddhists, Jews, Taoists and animists will accept. We can forget about the Christians and Muslims because their day is about done. Let’s just hope they don’t destroy the rest of us and this planet when they destroy each other during their Armageddon. .
If you know anyone who wants a fairly cheap housing situation with two congenial Pagan magickal housemates in an ethnically mixed neighborhood in Sacramento, contact me at tezra.reitan@gmail.com or Stephen at abbottsinn_school@yahoo.com or Stephen at his phone number 916-455-2267. Also, we desperately need donations to keep Abbott’s Inn International School of Magick afloat. You can send donations of any size to either Stephen’s Paypal account at abbottsinn@gmail.com or abbottsinn_school@yahoo.com or my Paypal account at tezra.reitan@gmail.com. If it’s for at least $32, you’ll get either a reading or a class from our vast collections of divination decks/methods/tools or for the class, pick a topic from our vast repertoire in the field of magick. For $60, you can actually have both a reading and a class. I don’t have my webcam hooked up yet, or my mic, but with Stephen you can have sound and video on Yahoo IM, Windows Msgr or Skype. With me for a short while, it’ll be just phone or typing on Yahoo IM or Windows Msgr. Thank you for using and disseminating Stephen’s Zodiac referral number 1-800-280-8496. Stephen1580. It helps ever so much when you use it instead of the regular number because you don’t pay any more, but he makes three times as much. We’re both on SSI, thanks to Arnold Schwarzenegger drastically cut both of our checks, and Keen isn’t coming up with the paying calls. I haven’t made one cent since signing on with Keen. My clients all demand free five minute readings, and refuse to go over that five minutes for a paid reading. In fact, it’s cost me money to bid so altogether, Keen has been pretty much of a total loss for me. If you need money, kids, mow lawns or babysit, don’t join a psychic reading service, because it’ll just suck in what little money you do have.
Do check out the PaganRadioNetwork.net It’s free, although they certainly do accept donations. Doesn’t everyone? Seems like everyone has his hat out nowadays, and we’re sorry to be part of that, but the situation is dirt. We almost lost our power yesterday. In these times of smaller SSI checks, a bankrupt state, and practically non-existent paying KEEN calls, the prices just seem to be rising all the time for less and less service or quality.
AT&T is offering a “free” cell phone deal. Don’t fall for it. It is a scam. You have to open up a new account for a friend or family member. This will end up costing you more than the phone is worth. So beware of any “deals” AT&T offers you.
In order to keep his computer alive, or perhaps get a new computer, Stephen needs a new battery and Windows 7, because Vista is just too unreliable. Vista is the worst operating system since 98. But first Stephen has to pay off his rent, and so do I. Don’t buy a Dell or do business with Wells Fargo. They’re both ripoffs.
If you’re ever in Sacramento, look up Walter Rhoads and Julie Maahs. Together they own Gallery 14 at 14th St. and 60th Avenue. We’re promoting them big time. Walter Rhoads has a very interesting and different approach to art. He compares himself to the late great Jackson Pollock but there are two main differences: Rhoads is still drawing breath with a healthy 98.6 degrees temperature (except when he’s sick, in which case it’s somewhat higher) and I think Jackson Pollock was gay, and Rhoads is, like us, hopelessly hetero.
We certainly hope you’ve enjoyed this post. Sorry about my negativity up there, but I’ve been very depressed by this economy lately, and wishing I were with Doc in the Summerland.
Tegwedd ShadowDancer
Stephen Abbott
Inky my BFF (BoyFriend Forever)
Little (Big)Boy
Oreo (the Mouser)
Bailee Beasley Beastly
Frikki & Frakki
Dr. Livingston I. Presume aka Prince Henry the Navigator
. As you may have figured out, Cult of Nyarlathotep is the sister group to Call of Cthulhu. Where Call of Cthulhu is a a more fanciful and sometimes humorous approach, Cult of Nyarlathotep is in a more serious vein. In Call of Cthulhu, we talk about the game, and about the mythos in a more general way. In Cult of Nyarlathotep, we talk more about the religion, and the magick of the Lovecraftian mythos. You can see a difference between the two groups. Occult implies something of a religious nature. The Cult of the Nyarlathotep is more the temple of Nyarlathotep.
The fascination many Pagans have with the darker side of magick is enhanced in the Cult of Nyarlathotep. The Cult of Nyarlathotep has many followers, according to the Cthulhu mythos. One of the ways to find out more about the deities is to check out the book for the game Call of Cthulhu, because descriptions of the Old Ones are the first things you encounter. Googling the deities’ names may yield more information, and the Paganapedia of Mind-n-Magick could yield even more. Who is your favorite Cthulhu mythos deity? The way to start this is for Stephen and me to state our favorites. Stephen will go first. His favorite deity is Shiggurath, the she goat of a thousand young.. The reason he likes her is that there is a connection between her and the ancient Druids. As for me, I am torn between Shiggurath and Nyarlathotep. Is the name Nyarlathotep, by its spelling, linked to the Khemetic religion? In the Cult of Nyarlathotep scenario in the Call of Cthulhu game, the scenario spans the world. Would this imply that the Cult of Nyarlathotep is international? Stephen has a strange theory that SG-1, and all the other Stargate programs are linked to Call of Cthulhu because like the Old Ones, the Go’uld came from the stars.
The Go’uld were a parasitic race, bent on domination of the universe, like the Old Ones. If anyone knows of any other star races, please post here, either as a comment or as a full-fledged discussion. It reminds me of something else. Faeries can’t tolerate iron because it is a star-metal. The first most accessible sources of iron were meteorites. What if this is because like the Old Ones and the Go’uld the faeries are also a star race? I’m thinking that just as Superman is allergic to kryptonite since it came from his home planet, faeries are allergic to iron because like kryptonite and iron, they also came from the stars. Do check out Faery Wisdom and Dragons, Faeries and Unicorns Oh My! Soon they’ll be here as well. Now is a good time to mention the other Cthulhu groups on Facebook, Hi5, Google, Yahoo, and Paganspace.net. Please tell us the specific names of these groups so we can be a part of that.
One man who has done a lot to promulgate the universe of Lovecraft is Donald Tyson, who has written two books on the Necronomicon and created a deck. Secrets of the Necronomicon is the deck. The Necronomicon:the Wanderings of Alhazred and Alhazred are the title of the books. Lo Scarabeo, an imprint of Llewellyn, has a Lovecraftesque deck The Dark Grimoire. I have it. It suits my darker moods. Stephen thinks there’s a third book, but I don’t know what it is. Stephen has found that this working on Cthulhu groups affects his dreams a lot. Is anyone else out there affected by the Cthulhu mythos on a dream level? We want to hear from you!
You know, you too could write about the Cthulhu mythos, either prose or poetry. Try your hand at writing a Cthulhuesque story, and follow in Daddy Lovecraft’s footsteps. Use local color and signs of the time. Most of them took place in the mythical small town of Arkham in Massachusetts during the 1920s. You can have your story take place anywhere, and at any time, even at sometime in the near future, say the 2020s, and look back a century in time. I realize that they often make for clogs in the flow of the plot, and so a lot of editors think they make for bad writing, but I happen to like flashbacks. I guess it’s my fascination with history. I always like to look back and see how things got that way. Stephen likes them too because they’re educational and help the continuity of the story.
It’s a sad commentary on the human condition that evil people are more fascinating to study than good people. Even in good people, their dark side is often more interesting than their light side. Our concepts of good and evil just kind of fade away, and we embrace what we once thought was evil. Basically we’ve lost all concepts of good and evil, since they’re now obsolete, and will now have to invent these concepts again as the ancient philosophy goes. Stephen now confesses that he made the “ancient philosophy” up. Ah, der Teufel is at it again. But really, what is good, what is evil? For far too long we’ve had only the skewed view of the Christians foe guidance. We need to come up with new more universal concepts, concepts that Pagans and Thelemites, Buddhists, Jews, Taoists and animists will accept. We can forget about the Christians and Muslims because their day is about done. Let’s just hope they don’t destroy the rest of us and this planet when they destroy each other during their Armageddon. .
If you know anyone who wants a fairly cheap housing situation with two congenial Pagan magickal housemates in an ethnically mixed neighborhood in Sacramento, contact me at tezra.reitan@gmail.com or Stephen at abbottsinn_school@yahoo.com or Stephen at his phone number 916-455-2267. Also, we desperately need donations to keep Abbott’s Inn International School of Magick afloat. You can send donations of any size to either Stephen’s Paypal account at abbottsinn@gmail.com or abbottsinn_school@yahoo.com or my Paypal account at tezra.reitan@gmail.com. If it’s for at least $32, you’ll get either a reading or a class from our vast collections of divination decks/methods/tools or for the class, pick a topic from our vast repertoire in the field of magick. For $60, you can actually have both a reading and a class. I don’t have my webcam hooked up yet, or my mic, but with Stephen you can have sound and video on Yahoo IM, Windows Msgr or Skype. With me for a short while, it’ll be just phone or typing on Yahoo IM or Windows Msgr. Thank you for using and disseminating Stephen’s Zodiac referral number 1-800-280-8496. Stephen1580. It helps ever so much when you use it instead of the regular number because you don’t pay any more, but he makes three times as much. We’re both on SSI, thanks to Arnold Schwarzenegger drastically cut both of our checks, and Keen isn’t coming up with the paying calls. I haven’t made one cent since signing on with Keen. My clients all demand free five minute readings, and refuse to go over that five minutes for a paid reading. In fact, it’s cost me money to bid so altogether, Keen has been pretty much of a total loss for me. If you need money, kids, mow lawns or babysit, don’t join a psychic reading service, because it’ll just suck in what little money you do have.
Do check out the PaganRadioNetwork.net It’s free, although they certainly do accept donations. Doesn’t everyone? Seems like everyone has his hat out nowadays, and we’re sorry to be part of that, but the situation is dirt. We almost lost our power yesterday. In these times of smaller SSI checks, a bankrupt state, and practically non-existent paying KEEN calls, the prices just seem to be rising all the time for less and less service or quality.
AT&T is offering a “free” cell phone deal. Don’t fall for it. It is a scam. You have to open up a new account for a friend or family member. This will end up costing you more than the phone is worth. So beware of any “deals” AT&T offers you.
In order to keep his computer alive, or perhaps get a new computer, Stephen needs a new battery and Windows 7, because Vista is just too unreliable. Vista is the worst operating system since 98. But first Stephen has to pay off his rent, and so do I. Don’t buy a Dell or do business with Wells Fargo. They’re both ripoffs.
If you’re ever in Sacramento, look up Walter Rhoads and Julie Maahs. Together they own Gallery 14 at 14th St. and 60th Avenue. We’re promoting them big time. Walter Rhoads has a very interesting and different approach to art. He compares himself to the late great Jackson Pollock but there are two main differences: Rhoads is still drawing breath with a healthy 98.6 degrees temperature (except when he’s sick, in which case it’s somewhat higher) and I think Jackson Pollock was gay, and Rhoads is, like us, hopelessly hetero.
We certainly hope you’ve enjoyed this post. Sorry about my negativity up there, but I’ve been very depressed by this economy lately, and wishing I were with Doc in the Summerland.
Tegwedd ShadowDancer
Stephen Abbott
Inky my BFF (BoyFriend Forever)
Little (Big)Boy
Oreo (the Mouser)
Bailee Beasley Beastly
Frikki & Frakki
Dr. Livingston I. Presume aka Prince Henry the Navigator
Monday, January 4, 2010
Cthulhu R Us
Do check out the other Call of Cthulhu groups on the other networks. Also check out our sister group Cult of Nyarlathotep. We humorously like to call this group “Cthulhu for Pagans.” Pagans seem to have a bizarre fascination for everything Cthulhuesque. If Stephen had the power to influence the Old Ones, he would get them to devour all the Republicans and their ilk. The Republicans and their ilk are going to destroy this planet, if given their way. A destroyed planet is of no value to the Old Ones so maybe they’ll see the logic in his desire. Don’t worry about Stephen; he just has a fanatical hatred of everything jesoid and right wing. He has dark fantasies about the destruction of the Republicans, right wing jesoids and their ilk. He says they would make a good food and slave source for the Old Ones.
The Necronomicon is based upon Sumerian religion and magick. Do not believe it when people say that HP Lovecraft (Hewlett-Packard) was an early innovator in the personal computer field. Naw, we’re just kidding. originated all the material in the Necronomicon. But you see, they haven’t done their research. If they had, they would have found that H.P. was inspired, but did not create the Necronomicon, but it was an ancient German manuscript called “The Way of the Sage”. On the Putty Network, (http://puttynetwork.ning.com) we are working on the manuscript called the Necroputtycon, or “The Way of the Paw.” But seriously, folks, a young man in Tennessee of our acquaintance has located several documents that are the source materials for the Necronomicon. And all this time I’d thought Lovecraft had made up the whole thing, that it was an entire fiction. One of the best translations was the one by Herman Slater, creator of the occult shop Magickal Child. My daughter visited Magickal Child during one of her many visits to NYC, and got some things; oil of lavender, purifying bath salts, and a wooden box for one of my many Tarot decks. Herman Slater was obsessed with all things Cthulhu mythos.
We’re still trying to get the funds together to obtain the 1st person shooter Cthulhu computer game. If you know of an rpg that is based upon the Cthulhu mythos please post here, or in our other Call of Cthulhu groups. We do have a board game Arkham Horror, and an rpg based upon the Cthulhu mythos. The rpg gave its name to this species of group. The copy Stephen owns is a writer’s copy, and he has many of the original scenarios. We hope soon to play it using the Paganspace.net chat facility. I will be portraying the nonplayer characters and the monsters. We would appreciate if you members know of other Cthulhu groups out there letting us know about them, and how to join them for the purposes of networking.
Donald Tyson, besides being a renowned qabalist, has become somewhat of an authority on the Necronomicon and has 3 books on the subject out: Necronomicpn: The Wanderings of Alhazred, and a big fat book about Alhazred the author of the Necronomicon. You can probably still get it at Amazon.com. Me, I’m just going to read Stephen’s copy. Then there’s the Tarot decks about the Cthulhu mythos: Secrets of the Necronomicon by Donald Tyson, and the Dark Grimoire deck by Michele Penco, instructions by Giovanni Pelosini. We have both done successful readings with these decks. I have to be in just the right mood to read with them, bur Stephen always seems to be in that kind of mood. This mythos can affect your subconscious in a very deep way. One of the ways it shows itself is in your dreams. Lovecraft has a thing called the Dreamlands. In fact, Stephen had a dream about the Dreamlands today whilst he was sleeping his virus away. In the dream, he’s talking with the different authors, and how they died, Herman Slater dying of AIDS. He also talked about the Cthulhu mythos, and the people were all interested in what he had to say. He’d been to this meeting hall many times before. He can only speak for himself, but he finds that the Cthulhu mythos is like an intoxicating drug, and he just always has dreams about it. Let’s hear about your experiences in this regard.
Have any of you played either Arkham Horror or Call of Cthulhu? If you have had experiences with either or both of these two games, do post here about them. Also if you have any ideas about how to use these games, please post your ideas here. You know, Lovecraft was not the only author of this kind of mythos. There was also August Derleth and H. L. Mencken. I have read August Derleth’s writings, but not Mencken’s. Have any of you read the novels, the graphic novels, or even the screenplays for the many Lovecraftian movies? We want to hear from you! Perhaps you have penned a graphic novel in this vein. Do tell us about it. We’re very interested in your feedback about your dreams, reading, playing the games, and even writing about it. We are limited to only our own personal experience and knowledge. By your adding your own personal experiences and knowledge you enhance this group.
What is your opinion as to why Lovecraft wrote such horrors? Some say he was suffering from some sort of degenerative disease, but he could just as easily been under the influence of some sort of strange drug. “To worship me, take strange drugs, whereof I shall tell my prophet, and they shall harm thee not at all.” (LL2:22) Maybe it was both, he had a disease and he took a drug to relieve its symptoms, which gave him hallucinations and nightmares, which he immortalized in writing. Stephen says that Lovecraft had Hodgekins’ Disease. Many people consider Lovecraft to be a genius and Stephen is one of those. Other writers who followed in Lovecraft’s footsteps were August Derleth and H.L. Mencken. There is also Robert E. Howard, who created Conan the Barbarian, the king of sword and sorcery. One wonders what was wrong with them. There is also Brian Lumley, who was a Brit, and isn’t dead. He wrote from the time he was a young boy and did it fulltime when he retired from the British Army in 1980. I got this info from the Wikipedia. As far as we know, he’s still writing, and still not dead. Not everyone who followed Loveccraft is dead. What ever happened to Sandy Peterson, creator of the game Call of Cthulhu? Stephen hasn’t heard from him in 20 years. If you know please post here. . .
If you know anyone who wants a fairly cheap housing situation with two congenial Pagan magickal housemates in an ethnically mixed neighborhood in Sacramento, contact me at tezra.reitan@gmail.com or Stephen at abbottsinn_school@yahoo.com or Stephen at his phone number 916-455-2267. Also, we desperately need donations to keep Abbott’s Inn International School of Magick afloat. You can send donations of any size to either Stephen’s Paypal account at abbottsinn@gmail.com or abbottsinn_school@yahoo.com or my Paypal account at tezra.reitan@gmail.com. If it’s for at least $32, you’ll get either a reading or a class from our vast collections of divination decks/methods/tools or for the class, pick a topic from our vast repertoire in the field of magick. For $60, you can actually have both a reading and a class. I don’t have my webcam hooked up yet, or my mic, but with Stephen you can have sound and video on Yahoo IM, Windows Msgr or Skype. With me for a short while, it’ll be just phone or typing on Yahoo IM or Windows Msgr. Thank you for using and disseminating Stephen’s Zodiac referral number 1-800-280-8496. Stephen1580. It helps ever so much when you use it instead of the regular number because you don’t pay any more, but he makes three times as much. We’re both on SSI, thanks to Arnold Schwarzenegger drastically cutting both of our checks, and Keen isn’t coming up with the paying calls. I haven’t made one cent since signing on with Keen. My clients all demand free five minute readings, and refuse to go over that five minutes for a paid reading. In fact, it’s cost me money to bid so altogether, Keen has been pretty much of a total loss for me. If you need money, kids, mow lawns or babysit, don’t join a psychic reading service, because it’ll just suck in what little money you do have.
Do check out the PaganRadioNetwork.net It’s free, although they certainly do accept donations. Doesn’t everyone? Seems like everyone has his hand out nowadays, and we’re sorry to be part of that, but the situation is dirt. We almost lost our power yesterday. In these times of smaller SSI checks, a bankrupt state, and practically non-existent paying KEEN calls, the prices just seem to be rising all the time for less and less service or quality.
Stephen and I are in a bad situation with our Social Security. It didn’t come. I got my SSI all right, but not my SSA. Stephen didn’t get any of his. The people at Folsom Blvd. majorly fouled up. In my case, all they had to do was send my check to my bank on the 31st of December. A couple of clicks of the mouse and it would be done. .
In order to keep his computer alive, or perhaps get a new computer, Stephen needs a new battery and Windows 7, because Vista is just too unreliable. Vista is the worst operating system since 98. But first Stephen has to pay off his rent, and so do I. Don’t buy a Dell or do business with Wells Fargo. They’re both ripoffs.
If you’re ever in Sacramento, look up Walter Rhoads and Julie Maahs. Together they own Gallery 14 at 14th St. and 60th Avenue. We’re promoting them big time. Walter Rhoads has a very interesting and different approach to art. He compares himself to the late great Jackson Pollock but there are two main differences: Rhoads is still drawing breath with a healthy 98.6 degrees temperature (except when he’s sick, in which case it’s somewhat higher) and I think Jackson Pollock was gay, and Rhoads is, like us, hopelessly hetero.
We certainly hope you’ve enjoyed this post. Sorry about my negativity up there, but I’ve been very depressed by this economy lately, and wishing I were with Doc in the Summerland.
Tegwedd ShadowDancer
Stephen Abbott
Inky my BFF (BoyFriend Forever)
Little (Big)Boy
Oreo (the Mouser)
Bailee Beasley Beastly
Frikki & Frakki
Dr. Livingston I. Presume aka Prince Henry the Navigator
.
The Necronomicon is based upon Sumerian religion and magick. Do not believe it when people say that HP Lovecraft (Hewlett-Packard) was an early innovator in the personal computer field. Naw, we’re just kidding. originated all the material in the Necronomicon. But you see, they haven’t done their research. If they had, they would have found that H.P. was inspired, but did not create the Necronomicon, but it was an ancient German manuscript called “The Way of the Sage”. On the Putty Network, (http://puttynetwork.ning.com) we are working on the manuscript called the Necroputtycon, or “The Way of the Paw.” But seriously, folks, a young man in Tennessee of our acquaintance has located several documents that are the source materials for the Necronomicon. And all this time I’d thought Lovecraft had made up the whole thing, that it was an entire fiction. One of the best translations was the one by Herman Slater, creator of the occult shop Magickal Child. My daughter visited Magickal Child during one of her many visits to NYC, and got some things; oil of lavender, purifying bath salts, and a wooden box for one of my many Tarot decks. Herman Slater was obsessed with all things Cthulhu mythos.
We’re still trying to get the funds together to obtain the 1st person shooter Cthulhu computer game. If you know of an rpg that is based upon the Cthulhu mythos please post here, or in our other Call of Cthulhu groups. We do have a board game Arkham Horror, and an rpg based upon the Cthulhu mythos. The rpg gave its name to this species of group. The copy Stephen owns is a writer’s copy, and he has many of the original scenarios. We hope soon to play it using the Paganspace.net chat facility. I will be portraying the nonplayer characters and the monsters. We would appreciate if you members know of other Cthulhu groups out there letting us know about them, and how to join them for the purposes of networking.
Donald Tyson, besides being a renowned qabalist, has become somewhat of an authority on the Necronomicon and has 3 books on the subject out: Necronomicpn: The Wanderings of Alhazred, and a big fat book about Alhazred the author of the Necronomicon. You can probably still get it at Amazon.com. Me, I’m just going to read Stephen’s copy. Then there’s the Tarot decks about the Cthulhu mythos: Secrets of the Necronomicon by Donald Tyson, and the Dark Grimoire deck by Michele Penco, instructions by Giovanni Pelosini. We have both done successful readings with these decks. I have to be in just the right mood to read with them, bur Stephen always seems to be in that kind of mood. This mythos can affect your subconscious in a very deep way. One of the ways it shows itself is in your dreams. Lovecraft has a thing called the Dreamlands. In fact, Stephen had a dream about the Dreamlands today whilst he was sleeping his virus away. In the dream, he’s talking with the different authors, and how they died, Herman Slater dying of AIDS. He also talked about the Cthulhu mythos, and the people were all interested in what he had to say. He’d been to this meeting hall many times before. He can only speak for himself, but he finds that the Cthulhu mythos is like an intoxicating drug, and he just always has dreams about it. Let’s hear about your experiences in this regard.
Have any of you played either Arkham Horror or Call of Cthulhu? If you have had experiences with either or both of these two games, do post here about them. Also if you have any ideas about how to use these games, please post your ideas here. You know, Lovecraft was not the only author of this kind of mythos. There was also August Derleth and H. L. Mencken. I have read August Derleth’s writings, but not Mencken’s. Have any of you read the novels, the graphic novels, or even the screenplays for the many Lovecraftian movies? We want to hear from you! Perhaps you have penned a graphic novel in this vein. Do tell us about it. We’re very interested in your feedback about your dreams, reading, playing the games, and even writing about it. We are limited to only our own personal experience and knowledge. By your adding your own personal experiences and knowledge you enhance this group.
What is your opinion as to why Lovecraft wrote such horrors? Some say he was suffering from some sort of degenerative disease, but he could just as easily been under the influence of some sort of strange drug. “To worship me, take strange drugs, whereof I shall tell my prophet, and they shall harm thee not at all.” (LL2:22) Maybe it was both, he had a disease and he took a drug to relieve its symptoms, which gave him hallucinations and nightmares, which he immortalized in writing. Stephen says that Lovecraft had Hodgekins’ Disease. Many people consider Lovecraft to be a genius and Stephen is one of those. Other writers who followed in Lovecraft’s footsteps were August Derleth and H.L. Mencken. There is also Robert E. Howard, who created Conan the Barbarian, the king of sword and sorcery. One wonders what was wrong with them. There is also Brian Lumley, who was a Brit, and isn’t dead. He wrote from the time he was a young boy and did it fulltime when he retired from the British Army in 1980. I got this info from the Wikipedia. As far as we know, he’s still writing, and still not dead. Not everyone who followed Loveccraft is dead. What ever happened to Sandy Peterson, creator of the game Call of Cthulhu? Stephen hasn’t heard from him in 20 years. If you know please post here. . .
If you know anyone who wants a fairly cheap housing situation with two congenial Pagan magickal housemates in an ethnically mixed neighborhood in Sacramento, contact me at tezra.reitan@gmail.com or Stephen at abbottsinn_school@yahoo.com or Stephen at his phone number 916-455-2267. Also, we desperately need donations to keep Abbott’s Inn International School of Magick afloat. You can send donations of any size to either Stephen’s Paypal account at abbottsinn@gmail.com or abbottsinn_school@yahoo.com or my Paypal account at tezra.reitan@gmail.com. If it’s for at least $32, you’ll get either a reading or a class from our vast collections of divination decks/methods/tools or for the class, pick a topic from our vast repertoire in the field of magick. For $60, you can actually have both a reading and a class. I don’t have my webcam hooked up yet, or my mic, but with Stephen you can have sound and video on Yahoo IM, Windows Msgr or Skype. With me for a short while, it’ll be just phone or typing on Yahoo IM or Windows Msgr. Thank you for using and disseminating Stephen’s Zodiac referral number 1-800-280-8496. Stephen1580. It helps ever so much when you use it instead of the regular number because you don’t pay any more, but he makes three times as much. We’re both on SSI, thanks to Arnold Schwarzenegger drastically cutting both of our checks, and Keen isn’t coming up with the paying calls. I haven’t made one cent since signing on with Keen. My clients all demand free five minute readings, and refuse to go over that five minutes for a paid reading. In fact, it’s cost me money to bid so altogether, Keen has been pretty much of a total loss for me. If you need money, kids, mow lawns or babysit, don’t join a psychic reading service, because it’ll just suck in what little money you do have.
Do check out the PaganRadioNetwork.net It’s free, although they certainly do accept donations. Doesn’t everyone? Seems like everyone has his hand out nowadays, and we’re sorry to be part of that, but the situation is dirt. We almost lost our power yesterday. In these times of smaller SSI checks, a bankrupt state, and practically non-existent paying KEEN calls, the prices just seem to be rising all the time for less and less service or quality.
Stephen and I are in a bad situation with our Social Security. It didn’t come. I got my SSI all right, but not my SSA. Stephen didn’t get any of his. The people at Folsom Blvd. majorly fouled up. In my case, all they had to do was send my check to my bank on the 31st of December. A couple of clicks of the mouse and it would be done. .
In order to keep his computer alive, or perhaps get a new computer, Stephen needs a new battery and Windows 7, because Vista is just too unreliable. Vista is the worst operating system since 98. But first Stephen has to pay off his rent, and so do I. Don’t buy a Dell or do business with Wells Fargo. They’re both ripoffs.
If you’re ever in Sacramento, look up Walter Rhoads and Julie Maahs. Together they own Gallery 14 at 14th St. and 60th Avenue. We’re promoting them big time. Walter Rhoads has a very interesting and different approach to art. He compares himself to the late great Jackson Pollock but there are two main differences: Rhoads is still drawing breath with a healthy 98.6 degrees temperature (except when he’s sick, in which case it’s somewhat higher) and I think Jackson Pollock was gay, and Rhoads is, like us, hopelessly hetero.
We certainly hope you’ve enjoyed this post. Sorry about my negativity up there, but I’ve been very depressed by this economy lately, and wishing I were with Doc in the Summerland.
Tegwedd ShadowDancer
Stephen Abbott
Inky my BFF (BoyFriend Forever)
Little (Big)Boy
Oreo (the Mouser)
Bailee Beasley Beastly
Frikki & Frakki
Dr. Livingston I. Presume aka Prince Henry the Navigator
.
Sunday, December 20, 2009
Adventures in the Dreamlands
Do check out the other Dreamwork for Pagans clones on the other networks. When we talk about dreamwork, we’re not just talking about writing down your dreams. We’re talking about the idea of using your dreams to enhance your magick.
Do you know that you can have your own dream movie theatre in your head? Dreams are like little movies playing in your head. Scientists tell us that out of 8 hours of sleep in a night (how many of us get that much sleep?) we have REM sleep for maybe 90 minutes. REM stands for Rapid Eye Movement, science’s way of knowing from the outside when we are dreaming. We are not the only creatures who dream. Ever seen your dog or cat twitch its paws in sleep? It is dreaming, probably about hunting some small creature. The neat thing about dreams is that you can have any person appear in your dreams, living or dead, either John Wayne, who has been dead for 38 years, or Aunt Flo, who has been dead who knows how long. I don’t know how long, because she’s your aunt, not mine. I had an Aunt Fran, and an Aunt Ruth. They both died, and now our whole family is Ruthless. Seriously, folks, dreams can be fun. They’re from your sub- and unconscious, which are parts of your own mind, and nothing to fear. It’s a seething broth of everything you’ve absorbed, all the art, stories, myths, legends, books, movies, and television you’ve ever viewed. About 15 years ago I decided to make friends with my wild, wonderful, weird sub-conscious. I separate them into the subconscious and the unconscious. The subconscious we are dimly aware of. It is the stuff of dreams, what we create, the magick we do. The unconscious we aren’t at all aware of, but it comes out at times that we intend to say something else, or when we have deep-seated atavistic motivations.
We highly recommend that you start and keep a dream journal or log. It should be dated. You describe your dream(s) as fully as you can, Leave room for interpretation, what you think it means. Dream imagery can be very very valuable. The more graphic the images are the better. You want to put yourself into an altered state with the images. You want to pay attention to other senses, such as sound, as you hear people talking. For example, in one of Stephen’s dreams, he’s with a bunch of non-Pagans talking to them about Paganism. Also, in his dreams, he isn’t always the male lead. He plays many roles. We think it should be clear that if you have such vivid and deep dreams that they can be turned into short stories. In fact, I had a dream about going to a clinic for a sore toe, and everyone thought I was there to get an abortion, and this was before Roe vs. Wade. We want to hear about YOUR vivid dreams, and dreams that you think you could make a short story out of.
We’d also like to see some reviews of books about dreams and dreamwork. We’d prefer books that are actually accessible. I have 2 dream dictionaries. The trouble with these is that the same image means different things to different people. I could have a cat in my dream and one person will say “That’s too bad,” and the other person says, “That’s great!” Dreaming true is lucid dreaming, that is, you control how your dream proceeds consciously. I taught my daughter lucid dreaming when she was 4 and having nightmares about being chased by monsters. I taught her to have my cat Greymalkin chase the monsters away. She did me one better. She went on to trace the life cycles of the monsters, and identify the various kinds. Stephen doesn’t know about you, but he has lots of animals in his dreams: wolves, cats, bears, dinosaurs. I usually see myself in the body of one of my totem animals, either the black panther (the cat, not the political party of the 60s and 70s) or the Tasmanian Devil. When I’m really angry at a person or a group, the thought occurs to me, “The panther walks tonight,” and I shape-shift into a panther, and maul the offender to death.
The Australian aborigines have the concept of the Dreamtime, and H.P. Lovecraft wrote about the Dreamlands. For those of you who don’t know what these are, we’ll define them for you. The Dreamtime is a major part of the philosophy of the aborigine. It’s a place where dreamers go, as are the Dreamlands. In the Dreamlands one meets the creatures of the Cthulhu mythos. Do check out our Call of Cthulhu and Cult of Nyarlathotep. Stephen has the Dreamlands module for Call of Cthulhu. Also check out Adventures in the Astral Realms. If you know of any other dream worlds or realms, please post here. please
One additional method of dream recall is to ask yourself questions: “Did I have a dream about…buying books…animals, being on an investigative team…etc?
If you know anyone who wants a fairly cheap housing situation with two congenial Pagan magickal housemates in an ethnically mixed neighborhood in Sacramento, contact me at tezra.reitan@gmail.com or Stephen at abbottsinn_school@yahoo.com or Stephen at his phone number 916-455-2267. Also, we desperately need donations to keep Abbott’s Inn International School of Magick afloat. You can send donations of any size to either Stephen’s Paypal account at abbottsinn@gmail.com or abbottsinn_school@yahoo.com or my Paypal account at tezra.reitan@gmail.com. If it’s for at least $32, you’ll get either a reading or a class from our vast collections of divination decks/methods/tools or for the class, pick a topic from our vast repertoire in the field of magick. For $60, you can actually have both a reading and a class. I don’t have my webcam hooked up yet, or my mic, but with Stephen you can have sound and video on Yahoo IM, Windows Msgr or Skype. With me for a short while, it’ll be just phone or typing on Yahoo IM or Windows Msgr. Thank you for using and disseminating Stephen’s Zodiac referral number 1-800-280-8496. Stephen1580. It helps ever so much when you use it instead of the regular number because you don’t pay any more, but he makes three times as much. We’re both on SSI, thanks to Arnold Schwarzenegger drastically cut both of our checks, and Keen isn’t coming up with the paying calls. I haven’t made one cent since signing on with Keen. My clients all demand free five minute readings, and refuse to go over that five minutes for a paid reading. In fact, it’s cost me money to bid so altogether, Keen has been pretty much of a total loss for me. If you need money, kids, mow lawns or babysit, don’t join a psychic reading service, because it’ll just suck in what little money you do have.
Do check out the PaganRadioNetwork.net It’s free, although they certainly do accept donations. Doesn’t everyone? Seems like everyone has his hat out nowadays, and we’re sorry to be part of that, but the situation is dirt. We almost lost our power yesterday. In these times of smaller SSI checks, a bankrupt state, and practically non-existent paying KEEN calls, the prices just seem to be rising all the time for less and less service or quality.
In order to keep his computer alive, or perhaps get a new computer, Stephen needs a new battery and Windows 7, because Vista is just too unreliable. Vista is the worst operating system since 98. But first Stephen has to pay off his rent, and so do I. Don’t buy a Dell or do business with Wells Fargo. They’re both ripoffs.
If you’re ever in Sacramento, look up Walter Rhoads and Julie Maahs. Together they own Gallery 14 at 14th St. and 60th Avenue. We’re promoting them big time. Walter Rhoads has a very interesting and different approach to art. He compares himself to the late great Jackson Pollock but there are two main differences: Rhoads is still drawing breath with a healthy 98.6 degrees temperature (except when he’s sick, in which case it’s somewhat higher) and I think Jackson Pollock was gay, and Rhoads is, like us, hopelessly hetero.
We certainly hope you’ve enjoyed this post. Sorry about my negativity up there, but I’ve been very depressed by this economy lately, and wishing I were with Doc in the Summerland.
Tegwedd ShadowDancer
Stephen Abbott
Inky my BFF (BoyFriend Forever)
Little (Big)Boy
Oreo (the Mouser)
Bailee Beasley Beastly
Frikki & Frakki
Dr. Livingston I. Presume aka Prince Henry the Navigator
Do you know that you can have your own dream movie theatre in your head? Dreams are like little movies playing in your head. Scientists tell us that out of 8 hours of sleep in a night (how many of us get that much sleep?) we have REM sleep for maybe 90 minutes. REM stands for Rapid Eye Movement, science’s way of knowing from the outside when we are dreaming. We are not the only creatures who dream. Ever seen your dog or cat twitch its paws in sleep? It is dreaming, probably about hunting some small creature. The neat thing about dreams is that you can have any person appear in your dreams, living or dead, either John Wayne, who has been dead for 38 years, or Aunt Flo, who has been dead who knows how long. I don’t know how long, because she’s your aunt, not mine. I had an Aunt Fran, and an Aunt Ruth. They both died, and now our whole family is Ruthless. Seriously, folks, dreams can be fun. They’re from your sub- and unconscious, which are parts of your own mind, and nothing to fear. It’s a seething broth of everything you’ve absorbed, all the art, stories, myths, legends, books, movies, and television you’ve ever viewed. About 15 years ago I decided to make friends with my wild, wonderful, weird sub-conscious. I separate them into the subconscious and the unconscious. The subconscious we are dimly aware of. It is the stuff of dreams, what we create, the magick we do. The unconscious we aren’t at all aware of, but it comes out at times that we intend to say something else, or when we have deep-seated atavistic motivations.
We highly recommend that you start and keep a dream journal or log. It should be dated. You describe your dream(s) as fully as you can, Leave room for interpretation, what you think it means. Dream imagery can be very very valuable. The more graphic the images are the better. You want to put yourself into an altered state with the images. You want to pay attention to other senses, such as sound, as you hear people talking. For example, in one of Stephen’s dreams, he’s with a bunch of non-Pagans talking to them about Paganism. Also, in his dreams, he isn’t always the male lead. He plays many roles. We think it should be clear that if you have such vivid and deep dreams that they can be turned into short stories. In fact, I had a dream about going to a clinic for a sore toe, and everyone thought I was there to get an abortion, and this was before Roe vs. Wade. We want to hear about YOUR vivid dreams, and dreams that you think you could make a short story out of.
We’d also like to see some reviews of books about dreams and dreamwork. We’d prefer books that are actually accessible. I have 2 dream dictionaries. The trouble with these is that the same image means different things to different people. I could have a cat in my dream and one person will say “That’s too bad,” and the other person says, “That’s great!” Dreaming true is lucid dreaming, that is, you control how your dream proceeds consciously. I taught my daughter lucid dreaming when she was 4 and having nightmares about being chased by monsters. I taught her to have my cat Greymalkin chase the monsters away. She did me one better. She went on to trace the life cycles of the monsters, and identify the various kinds. Stephen doesn’t know about you, but he has lots of animals in his dreams: wolves, cats, bears, dinosaurs. I usually see myself in the body of one of my totem animals, either the black panther (the cat, not the political party of the 60s and 70s) or the Tasmanian Devil. When I’m really angry at a person or a group, the thought occurs to me, “The panther walks tonight,” and I shape-shift into a panther, and maul the offender to death.
The Australian aborigines have the concept of the Dreamtime, and H.P. Lovecraft wrote about the Dreamlands. For those of you who don’t know what these are, we’ll define them for you. The Dreamtime is a major part of the philosophy of the aborigine. It’s a place where dreamers go, as are the Dreamlands. In the Dreamlands one meets the creatures of the Cthulhu mythos. Do check out our Call of Cthulhu and Cult of Nyarlathotep. Stephen has the Dreamlands module for Call of Cthulhu. Also check out Adventures in the Astral Realms. If you know of any other dream worlds or realms, please post here. please
One additional method of dream recall is to ask yourself questions: “Did I have a dream about…buying books…animals, being on an investigative team…etc?
If you know anyone who wants a fairly cheap housing situation with two congenial Pagan magickal housemates in an ethnically mixed neighborhood in Sacramento, contact me at tezra.reitan@gmail.com or Stephen at abbottsinn_school@yahoo.com or Stephen at his phone number 916-455-2267. Also, we desperately need donations to keep Abbott’s Inn International School of Magick afloat. You can send donations of any size to either Stephen’s Paypal account at abbottsinn@gmail.com or abbottsinn_school@yahoo.com or my Paypal account at tezra.reitan@gmail.com. If it’s for at least $32, you’ll get either a reading or a class from our vast collections of divination decks/methods/tools or for the class, pick a topic from our vast repertoire in the field of magick. For $60, you can actually have both a reading and a class. I don’t have my webcam hooked up yet, or my mic, but with Stephen you can have sound and video on Yahoo IM, Windows Msgr or Skype. With me for a short while, it’ll be just phone or typing on Yahoo IM or Windows Msgr. Thank you for using and disseminating Stephen’s Zodiac referral number 1-800-280-8496. Stephen1580. It helps ever so much when you use it instead of the regular number because you don’t pay any more, but he makes three times as much. We’re both on SSI, thanks to Arnold Schwarzenegger drastically cut both of our checks, and Keen isn’t coming up with the paying calls. I haven’t made one cent since signing on with Keen. My clients all demand free five minute readings, and refuse to go over that five minutes for a paid reading. In fact, it’s cost me money to bid so altogether, Keen has been pretty much of a total loss for me. If you need money, kids, mow lawns or babysit, don’t join a psychic reading service, because it’ll just suck in what little money you do have.
Do check out the PaganRadioNetwork.net It’s free, although they certainly do accept donations. Doesn’t everyone? Seems like everyone has his hat out nowadays, and we’re sorry to be part of that, but the situation is dirt. We almost lost our power yesterday. In these times of smaller SSI checks, a bankrupt state, and practically non-existent paying KEEN calls, the prices just seem to be rising all the time for less and less service or quality.
In order to keep his computer alive, or perhaps get a new computer, Stephen needs a new battery and Windows 7, because Vista is just too unreliable. Vista is the worst operating system since 98. But first Stephen has to pay off his rent, and so do I. Don’t buy a Dell or do business with Wells Fargo. They’re both ripoffs.
If you’re ever in Sacramento, look up Walter Rhoads and Julie Maahs. Together they own Gallery 14 at 14th St. and 60th Avenue. We’re promoting them big time. Walter Rhoads has a very interesting and different approach to art. He compares himself to the late great Jackson Pollock but there are two main differences: Rhoads is still drawing breath with a healthy 98.6 degrees temperature (except when he’s sick, in which case it’s somewhat higher) and I think Jackson Pollock was gay, and Rhoads is, like us, hopelessly hetero.
We certainly hope you’ve enjoyed this post. Sorry about my negativity up there, but I’ve been very depressed by this economy lately, and wishing I were with Doc in the Summerland.
Tegwedd ShadowDancer
Stephen Abbott
Inky my BFF (BoyFriend Forever)
Little (Big)Boy
Oreo (the Mouser)
Bailee Beasley Beastly
Frikki & Frakki
Dr. Livingston I. Presume aka Prince Henry the Navigator
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