Month: October 2011

Dream Journal

10/30-10/31

I don’t have any excuses for not keeping up on my dream journal, except I’ve been enjoying the season. I did have a great zombie dream last night I want to share. As an added bonus, it also had vampires and a necromancer.

I was a leader of a group of survivors. The dream had interesting details. I remember that me and the other leaders would hold council meetings every evening to discuss our situation, and whether or not we have attracted too much attention and should move on.

We would find safe areas and fortify them. I remember enjoying how the increased sense of safety would help the less capable of our group. I especially enjoyed visiting the children and seeing their drawings. One time, a little girl drew a gold sparkly piece of calligraphy that said “love.” I knew then that I had to make our situation as safe as possible.

Things turned bad, of course. At these point in the dream I switched perspectives and was no longer a participant, but just an observer. I watched a group of vampire hunters enter a nearby building. After discovering a nest of them, they burned the building down, but neglected to go down into the basement. After that, the vampires chased them back to our camp, slaughtering a few of our group.

We returned the next day and opened up the basement to sunlight. This destroyed a few more, but at the council meeting that night, we were pretty sure that some of them escaped.

As if on cue, a huge horde of zombies attacked. We did pretty well, until the zombies started talking. This freaked out most of our group and sent them into a route.

I encountered one of the new talking zombies. It told me that we had invoked it’s anger, and they would kill us all for our offense. It was then that I realized one of the surviving vampires was a necromancer, controlling the zombie hordes. This actually gave me hope, as I noticed the zombies being directly controlled by the necromancer were even less coordinated and vulnerable to melee attacks. I could just walk up to them and stick them in the eye with a small shiv.

Too bad it ended there. Yeah, the whole thing was obviously the product of my pop/geek culture saturated brain, but it was a lot of fun. A damn good dream for Devil’s Night.

Happy Halloween!

I stumbled upon your blog, while sniffing around for blogs on chaos magic. I stumbled upon chaos magic while sniffing around for information on the artist Austin Osman Spare. (I am an artist myself.) I’m curious… are you a solitaire mage or do you work within some sort of pagan/occult group or network? Do you think being part of a group is necessary to development as a mage, or does structure contradict the nature of chaos magick itself? Cheers, Arc (Also I very much like your icon.)

Thanks for the compliment and the questions. I am jealous of you already. I am not, but have always wanted to be a graphic artist. I’m afraid all my artistic skills are in the written word. I’m glad you like my Chibi-Baphomat icon. It seems so appropriate for chaos magick.

I practice solitary myself. I would say it does not inhibit you from becoming an excellent magus. It does, however, make some types of rituals more difficult. I often wonder if a good initiation would help me open my mind, but that’s impossible to pull off as a solitaire. I do long to see how powerful a group working together can be.

My difficulty in finding a group is partially geographic. You just don’t find many practicing chaos magicians in Indianapolis. Not that I would necessarily feel the need to join with just chaos magicians. As long as I felt a synergy with the groups belief structure, I could work within it. So far, the two most organized groups, wiccans and thelemites, don’t fit the bill for me. I also feel that you should develop a level of trust with people you do ritual with.

I don’t think there’s anything truly inherent in chaos magick that makes forming groups impossible. The individualistic and sometimes self-centered nature of chaos magicians themselves does make things difficult. I am a part of a couple of online networks, but they lack organization, and I have yet to do any real work with them. I also attend a couple of local groups for discussion, but not practice.

I’m not above starting an online network that performs related magicks to see if they can influence each other’s workings.

In the end, I can see the benefits of working with other magus, but I don’t feel the need to rush into it. If a group comes along that I feel comfortable working with, I would do it. If not, I don’t think it’s going to stop me from achieving my goals.

I/III/I
Quero Regnum

Dream Journal

10/23-10/24/11

Putting this one out just to help encourage my fellow tumblr-dream folks. You know who you are. I haven’t had many things I remember recently, that seems to coincide with my amount of meditation. Less meditation = less remembered dreams.

I did, however, have a zombie dream which is always nice. I don’t remember much but I do recall teaching people how the sharpened shovel is one of the most effective weapons against zombies. People may complain about how the zombie genre seems to be overused now, and that may be true. But I know more people who consistently have zombie dreams than other other theme.

Here’s something I’m learning about my dreams. For the most part, I can make connections between what happens to me during a day and what I dream about. I only rarely have dreams that seem to explore something outside of my conscious experience.

Two, when I dream about things that may be slightly weird, but based on normal events, like work, I awaken drained and depressed. But I can have the most intense nightmares, ones where I wake up screaming, and the next day I am refreshed and happy. Being scared or experiencing horror is not the thing that bothers me. Experiencing the mundane does.

Warren Buffett, in a recent interview with CNBC, offers one of the best quotes about the debt ceiling:

Warren Buffett, in a recent interview with CNBC, offers one of the best quotes about the debt ceiling:

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“I could end the deficit in 5 minutes,” he told CNBC. “You just pass a law that says that anytime there is a deficit of more than 3% of GDP, all sitting members of Congress are ineligible for re-election

The 26th amendment (granting the right to vote for 18 year-olds) took only 3 months & 8 days to be ratified! Why? Simple! The people demanded it. That was in 1971…before computers, e-mail, cell phones, etc.

Of the 27 amendments to the Constitution, seven (7) took 1 year or less to become the law of the land…all because of public pressure.

Warren Buffet is asking each addressee to forward this email to a minimum of twenty people on their address list; in turn ask each of those to do likewise. In three days, most people in The United States of America will have the message. This is one idea that really should be passed around.

*Congressional Reform Act of 2011*

1. No Tenure / No Pension.
A Congressman collects a salary while in office and receives no pay when they are out of office.

2. Congress (past, present & future) participates in Social Security.
All funds in the Congressional retirement fund move to the Social Security system immediately. All future funds flow into the Social Security system, and Congress participates with the American people. It may not be used for any other purpose.

3. Congress can purchase their own retirement plan, just as all Americans do.

4. Congress will no longer vote themselves a pay raise. Congressional pay will rise by the lower of CPI or 3%.

5. Congress loses their current health care system and participates in the same health care system as the American people.

6. Congress must equally abide by all laws they impose on the American people.

7. All contracts with past and present Congressmen are void effective 1/1/12.

The American people did not make this contract with Congressmen. Congressmen made all these contracts for themselves. Serving in Congress is an honor, not a career. The Founding Fathers envisioned citizen legislators, so ours should serve their term(s), then go home and back to work.

If each person contacts a minimum of twenty people then it will only take three days for most people (in the U.S.) to receive the message. Maybe it is time.

THIS IS HOW YOU FIX CONGRESS!!!!!


Hey is it just me or is the person who made this circle a total fuckin idjit? I don’t think they understand that Tetragrammaton is a description of something, not a word to be inscribed. I feel sorry for this girl who is obviously being initiated by blighters.