My blog is now receiving traffic from China. http://scrollofthoth.blogspot.com/

Going out on a limb, am I to believe my deviant behavior is making it past the Great Firewall? It makes me re-examine my beliefs on Chinese censorship. I need a lot more evidence to draw any conclusions, but it is interesting.

You’re supposed to be anti-politics. The reason is that whatever you think about the government, it’s the one part of the system of institutions that you can participate in and modify and do something about. By law and principle, you can’t do anything about investment firms or transnational corporations. Therefore, nobody better see that. You’ve got to be anti-politics. That’s another victory (for the propaganda system).

Noam Chomsky, On Democracy & Education

Magick Working Journal

Since I am using tumblr for my dream journal why not take it one step further and use it for my magick working journal as well?

9/23

Realized that my muse needs a place to sit and join me for meditation and ritual. I will lay out my black padded circle for her. 

Decided during meditation today to work on breathing and visualization. Using four-fold breaths, I imagined roman numerals floating just in front of my forehead. Burning blue on the inhale, burning red on the exhale. I was able to keep this going for some time but realized that it prevented me from relaxing my mind enough to receive visions. 

When I stopped counting I was immediately visited by Baphomat. I was sitting beside him around a fire. He kept trying to give me something and eventually I was able to reach out and take it. It was a book which at the same time was a yellow flower. 

I am taking this as him advising me to learn more about the natural world. There may be more to it. 

Finished with banishing. 

Dream Journal

I’ve decided to blatantly steal from people I follow on tumblr like Haksenhaus and others, in hopes I’m more consistent with my dream work.

9/22-9/23

Note: I know that this dream is in no way historically accurate.

I dreamt I was a commander of the Allied troops in charge of retaking Amsterdam from the Nazis. After we took part of the town, the Germans encamped on the other side. Every few hours, we would find a corpse. Sometimes dress it in a Nazi uniform and float it down the canal towards their camp in hopes of convincing them we were slaughtering the prisoners and dissidents. Or goal was to lower their morale by making them think we were butchers.  

Later, I met with the German commander and he was obviously appalled by our actions. Mission accomplished.

Some of my men disagreed with the plan. For my part I found it damn funny. It wasn’t like we were actually killing people, just using corpses of those already dead for the greater good.

As a side note, this is the first time in three days I didn’t dream about my last job, which I consider a vast improvement.

Jack T. Chick – “The Trick”

Jack T. Chick – “The Trick”

Dear Twitter Friends

You may have noticed that I have not been following twitter. In fact, the only thing I post on twitter comes straight from my tumblr feed. I’ve met a few really cool people on twitter. Especially @friendlydemon, @chickgonebad, @frater_puck, @mjamesblood, @catvincent, and folks I am forgetting to mention.

When I first heard about twitter, I thought to myself, “You take the most limitless form of communication and make it so you can only post 140 characters? That’s fucking stupid.”

But not being the kind of person that just writes things off, I tried it. I honestly tried it. I enjoyed it at times. I appreciated the way it parsed information. I marveled at it’s ability to track trends. But it still failed to be the way I wished to communicate. I can’t make an intelligent comment in 140 characters or less. 

So all you folks on twitter, I’ll miss you. I really hope you some on over to tumblr. I know some of you already have. Its so much better over here. If I want to post a picture, video, or link, I post it directly. If I want to write something long or short, doesn’t matter. I hope you give it a try.

Blessed be, 93s, and all that

Quero Regnum

I/III/I