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
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
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
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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
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