Month: August 2015

humansofnewyork:

Before this fundraiser, Fatima had exhausted her financial resources in the struggle against bonded labor to the point where she feared that she’d be unable to pay her own medical bills. Thanks to everyone who donated over the past 72 hours, she now has nearly $2 million to continue her organization’s fight against bonded labor. (To fully visualize this impact, it should be realized that the purchasing power of a dollar in Pakistan is about 5x greater than in the United States.) This is an absolutely transformational amount of money. Fatima is meeting with the board of the BLLF to plan a major expansion of their efforts, and she wanted me to pass along this statement:

“From BLLF and from all of the bonded labourers, thank you. Thank you to everyone who has opened their hearts and donated to our cause. I struggle to find the words, I don’t think I have the words to tell you how grateful we are. You have donated for freedom, for rehabilitation and we are indebted. Thank you so much. The prayers of every labourer are with you and they will always hold you in their hearts. Our responsibility now is to honour what you have trusted us with, and we will. We have a lot of work ahead of us, but we want to build a real freedom center in Lahore, here we can work on not just releasing families but rehabilitation. We want workers to be treated with the rights they deserve as citizens.

Pakistan faces a lot of challenges, and we want industry to thrive in Pakistan, but the labourers must be free. You cannot make people work by beating and chaining them. I believe that the day the owners understand me, that the day the worker is happy, the profits will be greater. Labour rights need to be regulated, owners have the right to make profit but not through abuse, and deprivation. That is not an industry, that is slavery.

This is a big step for labourers that this has received so much attention, and that their voices have reached a global stage and we are being heard. With this we hope to end bonded labour in Pakistan.”

2 of 2 Is there any written references to the workings of the Knights of Chaos or similar esoteric groups that I should check out or is best to try and contact people involved directly to learn more as to not strip the group of their power of secrecy?

magicalrecord:

It’s actually not too big of a secret. The Knights of Chaos are organized through Peter J. Carroll’s site, Arcanorium College: http://www.arcanoriumcollege.com/

Lots of other great stuff there too. Email the Chancellor. At one time he was allowing a free month to try it out. He may still do so.

As far as the IOT is concerned, all I can say is that if you are in North America, go to: http://iota.thanateros.org/news.php. Internationally, try: http://www.thanateros.org/ and pick the closest IOT. It looks like the websites are dead. They are not. Someone actually does respond, but it does take time. If you are interested in joining, fill out the application thoroughly and honestly. Take your time. They are interested in people with creativity and dedication, not people who think they are bad-ass magicians. It doesn’t hurt to get started on Liber MMM (the first chapter of Liber Null & Psyconaut) http://paranormal.se/article/Liber_MMM.pdf

As far as being in the hinterland goes, I know your feels. Even living in the 10th largest city in the US (Indianapolis), I still have to drive at least five hours to attend temple meetings. Not much organized chaos magick out there (no, that’s not a contradiction in terms).

Don’t feel bad about only having a few sources to work with. Chaos magick is only a base “technology.” It’s a system to focus what you bring to it. Doing the magick is the important part.

That being said, being able to participate in group ritual has been great for me. Your experience may vary.