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“In speaking of the Poet and Poem we speak of the Point and the Crooked Path that strikes forth from it; we speak of the Way and of the Steps placed upon it. We describe the breach between the centre of the world and the horizon, between the zenith and the nadir. In speaking of Poet and Poem we speak of many things of which we may not speak. Amid these words a secret is voiced. Do not mistake it amidst its own echoes.”
— Andrew Chumbley Qutub: The Point https://amzn.to/2MXWaVu
Last year, I got invited to a super-deluxe private resort to deliver a keynote speech to what I assumed would be a hundred or so investment bankers. It was by far the largest fee I had ever been…
The rich and powerful are literally giving up on the future–theirs and yours and mine and the planet’s and everyone on it–and prepping for doomsday, building high-tech bunkers and uh, no way I’ll sugarcoat this for them, planning how to implement slavery for their safety and comfort, while they let the rest of us die in a fire they’re still fanning.
They could be funding solutions to the ecological disasters they’re so afraid of, like carbon sequestering, water conservation, reforestation, renewable energy, or finding alternatives to rare earth minerals. They could be funding solutions to the socioeconomic disasters they’re so afraid of, like paying decent wages, abolishing sweatshops, improving infrastructure and public services, or UBI. But their heads are so far up their asses that instead of doing something productive with their gratuitous wads of cash, these doucheparades are pouring money into holes in the ground where they think they can hide from problems they helped create and sustain.
These men and others just like them are shaping tech and policy and industry right now and they believe that the earth is doomed and you’re as good as dead. Not only are they not going to help you, they are going to do their level best to hamstring or straightup destroy your future to prolong their own. That’s what they do, and they expect you to go along with it. Hell some of them expect you to cheer for them, they market themselves like rockstars and try to convince you their particular hole in the ground is uniquely subversive and punk rock and radical because reasons. It’s not and you’re still a corpse as far as they’re concerned.
So anyway don’t try to tell me solarpunk isn’t “really” punk.
Rejecting the conceited defeatist idiocy of the establishment is punk as hell. Surviving and thriving against the expressly stated plans of the wealthy and powerful is punk as hell. Working together in defiance of the selfish and shortsighted is punk as hell. Protecting everyone’s clean air and water, food sovereignty, and freedom, when wealthy men want to take all of those things away to ensure your obedience and loyalty, IS PUNK AS HELL. Fighting the apocalypse is punk as hell. Resisting despair is punk as hell.
Solarpunk is punk as hell and anyone who thinks otherwise is welcome to wear a “disciplinary collar” and serve on some techbro’s security force for rations.
Reblogging for this great commentary!
con artists that forge art and wine to sell to rich snobs for millions of dollars: cool, good
con artists that target marginalized groups and harass and make legal threats against people calling them on it: guillotine
…. art theft is art theft. Punish all of them the same or not at all.
man shut the fuck up
So crime is okay in some circumstances?
Hell yes
Absolutely
fuck yeah
We found another dumbass who think the law and morality are the same
The dumbass believes that criminals are always wrong and should never be praised. I wonder if they know about the Civil Rights Movement…
Probably not
Law is a written and recorded and understood social construct. Morality is a nebulous and vague social construct. Fooling the rich out of a tiny fraction of their money is still illegal, but it is also not overly harmful to them. Fooling the poor out of what little they have is also illegal and extremely harmful to those who are fooled and robbed.
Law is a spook. It doesn't exist except to enforce the illusions and ghosts that the elite want us to. The moment ypu equate right and wrong to law, is the moment when you will justify anything the law deems acceptable.
Feeling high on life today #thosefeelsthough
The United States is Being Radicalized---And It Isn't By Us
The United States is Being Radicalized—And It Isn’t By Us (From @Ole_Bonsey)
“The game is getting serious now and the days of blind optimism are over.”
From Dr. Bones
As I write these words I am currently parked outside of an abandoned orange grove, the Kia serving as mobile press office and exploratory vehicle. Behind me are the rotting remains of generations of dreams. The packing house, a cross between factory and roadside orange grove stand, now lies in ruins, a…
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Bonesy slaying and spitting truth
when you support outlawing Indigenous people’s hunting practices you are LITERALLY promoting their starvation. Indigenous communities in the Arctic have to suffer from food deserts and 174963846% increase in food costs that no white vegan will ever have to face. So please. let them eat lmao.
Yes!!! This is so important to me as a topic in my field!!! Maintaining, supporting, and especially restoring indigenous peoples’ right to hunting is a topic of the utmost importance.
People want to cry “even the populations of concern??” but the fact is they were almost never of concern until colonizers started overhunting. The decline of the polar bear in North America (and in most of its range) is a perfect example of how in very little time, white colonizers decimated a healthy population of animals that indigenous people had been responsibly surviving on for hundreds and often thousands of years.
It doesn’t just stop at us white people letting indigenous people hunt for subsistence though. It’s extremely important that we ask for and use indigenous knowledge and ideas when we create hunting laws and treaties. We need to hand over the power.
Again, the international agreement on polar bears is a good example of indigenous hunting traditions and knowledge being used to actually make informed decisions on hunting regulations.
I’m not trying to lecture or inform OP, but to make sure white people reading this understand how important it is that moving forward, indigenous communities are included in hunting regulations and treaties, because it is not their fault their survival has been threatened by colonial overhunting, and often they have vital knowledge about species range, migration, populations, and behaviors that non-native biologists haven’t figured out yet.
Here is a read on why the largely held white idea on “saving the animals” (especially seals that advocacy groups love to claim indigenous people club constantly, all the time) is a racist, misinformed, tunnel-vision view of a much larger picture made of way bigger problems:
http://www.ppehlab.org/blogposts/2017/3/18/1y0q4mmk9vzjfe135r5cbdv0pljwox
I say it a lot, but it deserves repeating:
Always always always: wildlife conservation efforts without the consideration and voices of indigenous people is a conservation effort without a soul.
I had a conversation about this once with a militant vegan regarding restoring indigenous hunting practices, bringing up the Sami and of course the Native Alaskans (I grew up in Alaska, and have several friends up there whom are indigibous and working and reclaiming their traditions). Its important to do our part of helping our indigenous allies to heal and reclaim, and to dismiss the truly colonial problems that come with white vegan savior concepts and their blatant European exceptionalism.
Great commentary VampireApologist. I've been seeing you pop up in my feed a lot and I'm loving what you got to say!
Fire from the Gods on Evildoers
Fire from the Gods on Evildoers (From Judith O'Grady)
“Let us call to them to enter into, as is Their mandate, this iteration of the never-ending fight against the Powers of Wrongness; the stealing and imprisoning of children. Send down Your power to help us stand for Right Action.”
From Judith O’Grady
At our MidSummer Ritual, the Deities addressed are Archetypical Seasonal Personifications rather than Deities of a specific Pantheon. They are the…
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The over-sexualization and objectification of women in Western Mystery Tradition groups, traditional witchcraft circles, and in pagan and polytheist traditions in general is extremely pervasive and toxic to everyone involved…. There is a massive, massive difference between supporting women’s sexuality and objectifying them for it, and that objectification comes in many forms, including the erasing of our humanity by pinning goddesses to us, the apparent entitlement to our sexuality, and not letting us define us.
@scarletmagdalene, “The Toxicity of Objectifying Women in the Craft and Other Occult Trads” published on Tea Addicted Witch (Patheos), 17 July 2018.
“Analysis of the names shows Phoenician, Canaanite and Mesopotamian genealogies. The fallen angels are healers, the Mighty Dead and wisdom teachers, whose theophanies as the wild el- emental powers may point to older shamanic, and arguably paleo- lithic, survivals. Such manifestations provide a bridge that enables us to reestablish contact.”
— Lucifer: Princeps by Peter Grey
From Rhyd Wildermuth
“ To understand Dianic opposition to trans women you have to understand two things.
First: they see all men as inherently oppressive. Like many tran-exclusionist feminists and even many mainstream feminists, they believe men are alpha-oppressors who cannot help but rape or otherwise harm and oppress women.
Second: they believe trans women are "still men," and carry with them all that inherent oppressor energy. In their world view, men are so inherently evil that being born with a penis marks you for life as toxic and evil no matter what you do or how you claim or express gender later in life.
Our usual response to their shittyness is to affirm that "trans women are women." And that's good, especially as a solidarity statement with trans women.
Unfortunately, these conflicts won't go away until that core misandry is challenged, both within paganism and also within non-Marxist feminisms.
But I'm not holding my breath for that to ever happen. I've made a similar critique of Jack Donovan's "tribal masculinity" as well: it's constructed from the oppositional nature of feminism (basically, he tries to embody everything feminists criticize about men). Incidentally, his anti-trans woman position is the mirror image of the TERFs. They both hate them because they believe they are "men trying to be women." “ - Wildermuth Great Commentary on TERFS in pagan spaces
The scumbag sorcerer himself
Embracing Neuro-Divergence and Witchcraft; a strange path I walk
Embracing Neuro-Divergence and Witchcraft; a strange path I walk
I remember a profound sense of alienation at eight, from my family, from the children I went to school with, to the people in church. That things that people were talking about were big concepts, flying over my head. The world was too big, too loud, to unlike me. I simply couldn’t find a way to fit in.
It was frustrating then, when outbursts of rage, bizarre focus on things no one else got, and…
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Embracing Neuro-Divergence and Witchcraft; a strange path I walk
I remember a profound sense of alienation at eight, from my family, from the children I went to school with, to the people in church. That things that people were talking about were big concepts, flying over my head. The world was too big, too loud, to unlike me. I simply couldn’t find a way to fit in. It was frustrating then, when outbursts of rage, bizarre focus on things no one else got, and a lack of “social etiquette” was often the strange behavior that distanced people from me. I felt like I was an actor who didn’t have the lines for his role, almost all the time, and no way of actually expressing this. I didn’t have the words or the means to convey it. If anything, I probably came off as aloof and weird. As maddening as it was then, I’m very thankful as an adult for this. The path that led me to witchcraft was a long one, painful as I had no way to even see the chains I felt, but these sorts of alienations and otherness, are what led my eyes to widen when I opened my first book on magic, a gift from probably one of the first relationships I ever had. The idea that this strange archetypical person, who was spoken of in hushed whispers by my fathers flock was real, and she was well, a little too much like me. She was an outcast, tabboo-breaker, heretic, and strange. Here was a means of power, embracing the oddness and queerness of self, and a silence in land. It was here that my hyperfocus on interests shifted, and I became super enthralled in it, and began the quest. It was here that this untamed chaos of navigating through all sorts of unspoken rules and authority, became lightened. I realized the program of the Order of the Bible, authority that I couldn’t protest against in society and home, were to be abandoned. My own untamedness could bloom. That first spell, just a few candles in my basement, breathing deep and saying the lords prayer backwards (I’m sure more than a few of you could guess which book this is from). I felt many things that moment, and I was really touched. The experiences with spirits I could not share, the odd quirks that made my life unbearable as I endured silently, and my obsessions all sort of added to that moment; a moment where an intense buzzing shook me, a gust of air and a brush with something invisible, told me that this was real. After that, I was on my way up. Here I am now, a young man with autism, and a sorcerer. I’ve traveled, loved and lost, walked on lands, fought horrible men, and found real genuine connection. The funny thing about the autism spectrum is how diverse it is. I can only comment on me. Sensory issues, obsessions, occasionally manic drive, and empathy out my ass. It’s great, it’s horrible, and it’s living. This unique, the deepest self, fighting for freedom and autonomy. I wouldn’t trade this life, enchanted as can be, for anything. Being able to actually love and embrace the self, really does a number on your practice and interconnectedness. So embrace the Unique. Abandon all your ghosts.
Rhyd Wildermuth - Witches in a Crumbling Empire; part one
The Yerbamala Collective is a nebulous coven of anti-fascist witches whose poetry has been popping up on social media feeds, fenceposts…
“It isn’t about anonymity or not, we aren’t safeguarding a national secret, but rebelling against ownership and opening up modes of resistance that stretch beyond our individual selves. “
I’ve been doing a lot of reading into the occult and have recently read Carlos Castanedas books about his sessions with the Yaqui Indian Don Juan, I don’t know if your familiar with the work but I’m fairly interested in higher consciousness and (I don’t mean to sound like an idiot but I am truly someone who doesn’t know what they are talking) sorcery. I want to learn more about herbs and plants and how to utilize them to gain knowedge and also power. I don’t know where to start or even how.
I would take those book least seriously. The author greatly made up much of his writings .But that doesn't mean it doesn't have value, but it shouldn't be some bible and isn't a real event. But if you wish to dabble and see what can happen, meditation is a good start. My recommendation on reading would be; An Carow Gwyn by robin ArtissonA Cornish book of ways by Gemma Gary Inner Temple of witchcraft by Christopher PenzachWitching Way of Hollow Hill by Robin Artisson Six ways by Aiden WatcherTreading the Mill by Nigel Pennick
