I have a couple cool things I'm working on, but since its a full moon and there are a few pagan events happening now and over the next month coming on Samhain, I wanted to send people looking at something that might help them make sense of the madness we see.
As you know, many religious/spiritual concepts concepts exist in the world,
they loosely fall into atheist/monotheist/pantheist/
and "state of being"
(ie: nirvana/yoga/godforming/aspect/archetypal symbology etc.) categories,
and they have been generally at war for the last....
Ok, well probably as long as humans have been grunting in sentences.
Maybe even before that.
arguing about their grunts
as they point to the sky or whatever is freaking them out/waking them up.
So for anyone looking at this, trying to make sense of it all, I offer you a guide book.
Its not the christian bible,
or the "satanists" bible,
or the book of enoch, the necronomico bs, the torah,
the dianetic bookshelf,
Not anything by valiente, gardner, dee, nope....
I strongly suggest,
for anyone looking into the whole neopagan reconstructionist scene
to read a fantasy novel.
Just the first book mind you, since it's one of those 12 volume sagas that never end until the author croaks, which he has. Anyways JUST the first book, you can read the rest but I'm only recommending the first book to you all.
It's not on the literary scale of Tolkien or even Cherryh, the characterizations are a bit thin,
but he's got an allegorical Dummy's version of what's been happening since the Dawn of time amongst these clans who all seem to be denigrating and killing each other, when they are all kind of doing the same shit, just a different way. Men against women spiritualists, over and over.
Same abilities of the Human, just different paradigm/archetype/metaphorical relationship.
And a good representation of how everyone has something they are innately good at
You know, some are better with plants, some are better with visualization, etc.
The book I'm suggesting that you read is The Eye of the World, the first in the Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan.
So maybe read it, or not
and look around, at how good a job the Crusaders of today have done
turning everyone else against each other
blinding each other from the Dark backstabbers that infiltrate and rend.
Divide and Conquer.
Just as a last comment,
one which I will delve into further sometime next year
because its a humongous topic
In my own experiences with visionary merkabah/wheels/god-machineries
Long before I had even read anything substantial on the topic
other than a passing knowledge of Ezekial's story from sunday school 8P
The wheels always had 8 spokes. Every time.
For whatever that means.....
Paradigms......
