Brexit Fecksit

Frankly, I'd rather not think about it, because it's not like anything I say is going to change anything, but I'm still gonna say it anyway because it's not like I didn't see it coming. I remember my first time in London back in 1967, the trendy fashions of Carnaby street. A nice hot cup of Typhoo in a little Soho sandwich shop to escape that perpetual grey. We even met Michael Caine running a colourful little souvenir stand on the Strand, demonstrating how to speak cockney. In those days the common market was still in its baby steps and each had its own unique blend of wares and ideas. The shear diaspora of it really seemed so magical. Despite all unstable exchange rates, people still had the freedom to be personally creative to at least maintain some kind of continuity in their lives. When it all became the EEC that changed, not because of the tariff agreements, but the greed of big business, cheap mass production (and of course OPEC) swallowing up all the small competitors. They dictated the trend and then enforced their own restrictions. There the demon of globalization began to raise its ugly head. It didn't matter where I went, it was all the same rubbish, nor did the standards ensure quality. Of course when that market overdid it, they expected governments to bail them out or face massive unemployment, then fired them anyway. Loans to plug the deficit never got paid and without a viable GNP, taxpayers couldn't foot the bill either. Then 9/11 did the rest on the foregone promise of Iraqi oil. It didn't matter if us Europeans didn't buy it, the world banks centralized anyway, and failing this, foreclosed, and demanded their bailouts too; then came Spain, Italy and Greece. Germany's been scraping bottom since the wall came down, but still everyone takes us for some kind of socialist utopia, thriving on impossible riches stashed in some unheard of off-shore account. All these stupid demands for preferential treatment, threatening to throw the baby out with the bath water just leaves us cold. Did Norway make a fuss or threats when they opted out for the less demanding EEA arrangement? Don't talk to me about Iceland, because they still owe the central bank more than they can ever pay off, no matter what they do.


 I remember the Dover ferry, all those whiners hanging around the duty free, always complaining about the EC and avoiding us foreigners like we had something contagious. I don't think I've ever heard them not complain about the EEC, the EU or how us foreigners are just not like them, as if we should feel obligated. Well, guess what, I could say the same of them because it seems no matter where I've tried to communicate with that lot, they're too full of themselves to make sense of anyone else. So, don't cry at me about all the lies you've been told when you can't fess up to your own stupid mistakes. You've sold out to your own inner schweinehund, so you're just gonna have to sink or swim like the rest of us. No preferential treatment, you had your chance too many times already, like the foolish child who kept crying wolf. You have yet to learn that the enemy of your enemy is not necessarily your friend if you keep playing the blame game.


P.S. Note that I am addressing this rant to the sheeple who think the bully-boy vigilante tactics of undermining partnerships through blame shifting defamation, especially motivated by the unlikeliest promises, is anything other than a narcissistic want of its own absolute power. So you say its not about racism. Ask yourself what UKIP and its affiliates like the AfD and the Front Nationale stand to gain from breaking up the whole EU? You don’t think so? Most didn’t think so about the Beer-Hall Putsch either.

Cultural Mis-identity

I often get the typical assertions from North American neo-pagans that they're ethnically some kind of nationality or another. What they often forget is this thing we call „Zeitgeist“, namely the period attitudes of a culture. Take for instance what the English call a mid-Victorian. It refers to a pious abstinence bound to keep a few rude skeletons in the closet. Indeed , the Victorian Age was rather schismic in this way; with its stiff-upper lip ethos on outward appearances of the upper class wannabe catering to the gentry. What they don't tell you about is the household concubine, just in case peerage has its patrilineal shortcomings. Of course whatever doesn't measure up to that regime, stays among the servants until further notice. This way, all due secrets are kept neatly in the family closet. Failing this, there were always magisterial opportunities elsewhere, namely the colonies. That is where my father's parents landed.


On my mother's side, things were a hell of alot more complicated. As magistrates of the Hapsburgs, they were appalled by Bismarck giving in to the national socialists. It was their worst nightmare become reality. Her father landed in a labour camp, and she was involuntarily conscripted into the Luftwaffe and treated with utmost suspicion and contempt. Much of her family committed suicide rather than divulge the names of their jewish employees. Needless to say, at the first window of opportunity she fled to Prag, then managed to get the last train out of Dresden We've had a bitch of a time trying to track down all the records for some kind of compensation but between the military archives of England, America and Poland and each wanting a ridiculous fee, it's futile. After being employed by NATO at the time when Putin was liaison officer in Baden, there's no doubt the KGB had all that on file too. This may seem so long ago but I still shake my head saying WTF? when I think about it. So when people talk to me about their alleged ethnic roots, they should ask themselves about the circumstances that landed them when and where, before assuming they can relate to some ethnicity or another.


https://youtu.be/UmMv2IS433A

Sexual Rivalry and Dominance

In the ugly world of misogyny and misandry these days, it isn't so much about sex, as it is about possession. While it is not uncommon for sexual attractions to fall folly, the worst case scenario is when they become increasingly manipulative, especially when it intends to snatch another's partner away from right under their nose. While I can accept that sexual infidelity can be quite unwitting, it’s those inclined to one-upmanship that worry me, because that equates pretty much to hostage taking, basically undermining something intimate to cause anguish, or provoke you into an unwitting retaliation. 

In the real world of burdening responsibility, we seldom find the time to appreciate and reciprocate as much as we would like to. Hence, it’s only too easy for some opportunistic git to exploit the circumstances with alluring promises of something better. Perhaps it’s some sadistic need to feel superior, a personality disorder or maybe some form of frontal lobe damage. Either way, I can’t see such relationships as healthy in the outcome, no matter how fair and tolerant we may aspire ourselves to be, especially if a partner or friend is easily misled by such forays. There will always be that one, where even a friendly hello, is bound to end in some fiasco certain to haunt you for the rest of your days.

It’s that old carrot-on-a-stick soul-sucking allure of fondling and flattery to mask over what little actual interest in how you’re really doing. You are only a convenience they butter up with addictive amounts of sweet talk to serve their whims, only to watch you squirm at the slightest sign of withdrawal. Then comes the drama to emphasize on whatever misfortune can allure the desired level of sympathetic attention. This form of emotional blackmail may include self-inflicted injury, even the threat of suicide. Seemingly teetering on the borderline easily excuses them for deterring their target from any self-respecting focus; let alone attention to work, family or friends. Reciprocation is of course only by proxy to what their victim is receiving from the other end. When it finally comes down to intimate displays, in plain view of your partner, family or friends this is nothing short of harassment, with every intent to humiliate . If by this time you don’t realize you’re being sold up the Jordan, then you obviously deserve each other. No surprise that most German women these days prefer to be single mothers. Child rearing is time consuming enough without having to wet nurse an insecure adult.

Meanwhile back at the Idiot Farm...

Either the NSA has a new toy or the popular media is really that stupid, as no matter what I websearch these days, the shear magnitude of disinformation is absolutely gobsmacking. When it comes to hucksters like David Icke and Simon Parkes, I think they should be on the cover of Psychology Today; not because of any alleged achievements in higher consciousness, rather, monumental examples of Cluster B personality disorders. As for Alex Jones, if you did your research well, it should be clear he's the poster boy of the notorious John Birch Society, who are pretty well paranoid of anything outside their Anglo-white Christian fundamentalist society. Yes, I'm talking about the cross burning on the lawn kind of pathos.

The sad fact is that even psychology is degenerating into the Zen claptrap of the New Age movement. Hence such delusionals get glorified for being so allegedly enlightened despite the obvious frontal lobe damage...and seeing what an entourage such spin masters attract, it's no surprise how Hitler and his cronies got to power. It's always the same megalomanic come-on; offering the proverbial underdog superhuman powers and entitlement in a new world order à la Helena Blavatsky. Always the same blame-shifting diatribes about some cosmic or Zionist conspiracy or another...and since when did politics ever "Tell it like it is" in human history? Of course what the channelers of the Pleiadean masterrace won't tell you is that OB stars do not have highly evolved planets, or that the Annunaki by Sumerian definition were really just stars in the sky... and what is this obsession with pyramids? WTF does that prove?

Albeit ancient aliens, illuminutters or the preposterous claims of useless ex defence ministers, it's all the same chest pounding overcompensating simian struggle for alphadom. On the pagan side of things we tend to get regularly bombarded by such woo-woo wankers, say nothing of Llewicca confabulated beyond all recognition. This is anything than useful on a site that's trying to maintain a world heritage and cultural identity aspect of things. Rather like trying to play Prokofiev's Symphony No.5 on a kazoo, no, please take your shite elsewhere.

Why I hate Vegetarians

Every day when I look at my FB wall, some tosser is preaching vegetarianism. While I prefer my sources locally bio-dynamic and avoid most processed foods, the fact is I have a lethal intolerance to nitrates. Do you even know what that means? Do you realize how many condiments or their ingredients I have to avoid? That means no fast food, no dining out in unfamiliar places, no musli, sunflower oil, soja, green veg, E250 processed meats. and a host of herbal ingredients. So fuck off you lot and save the consumer horror stories. Do you honestly think animals are the only thing that’s been overdomesticated on this planet? Unlike you, some of us didn’t have the convenience of supermarkets in our youth, rather, learned to hunt, fish and forage. We do not fare well with your designer foods, albeit, animal, vegetable or mineral. Obviously life has been too good to you that you feel some insatiable need to preach at the very victims of your stigma. So STFU and push your nonsense elsewhere.

The Reason for the Season

On this occasion there's alot of stories going around making claims of where this and that Xmas trad came from. However, it seems alot got lost in translation over the course of migration from Europe to North America. As a resident European ethnically raised on these long-standing trads, allow me to put things back into perspective for those of you far removed. On the Neolithic side, the Winter Solstice was seen as the marriage of the sun lord with the earth mother in the underworld and rebirth. The Celts celebrated their special occasions at sacred wells and springs where birches were planted to honour the wights and dryads. Garlands of sprigs and herbs according to the season were the usual decoration, in this case holly and mistletoe. These were burned afterwards to make a sacred fire at the closure of the ceremony. The berries represent blood and semen. The Germans used garlands of pine and spruce, especially for their antiseptic properties. These were also used for smudging households and stalls over the days of the wild hunt. This was conducted over a period of 12 days before and after yule, whereas yule comprised 4 or 5 days making a total of one lunar month. This was an intensive period of festivity for a perfectly good reason, namely to keep from going stir crazy in your lodgings over the long dark nights. In more modern tradition, this period is celebrated between the 6th of December and the 6th of January. The 6th of December is Nicholas Day. In old tradition it was when Wotan/Odin in the guise of a hobo traveler visited the households. Those who took him in and treated him well were rewarded with gifts in their footware when he left secretly into the night. Those who did not treat him well ran the risk of being snatched away by the riders of the wild hunt. The 6th of January was originally Holla's Day, where Holla drives the demons of the wild hunt back into her underworld abode. In the Forealpine regions of Europe, this parade of demons is known as the Perchten. Then the Norns came around to the households to do their census and make predictions for the new year, leaving their mark above the door upon leaving. The modern trad has an entourage of children with star lanterns, called Star Singers who come to collect for charity, whereas the mark is usually the blessing of the local priest. I remember my mother always burnt a sprig of evergreen on Nicholas Day and was very superstitious about the way we conducted our affairs over this period, assuming it would affect the new year. This is typical of old German beliefs about the spinners of fate.

http://www.medievalists.net/2015/12/12/surviving-winter-in-the-middle-ages/

Renaissance Occult and the roots of Modern Esoterica

Despite all efforts of the Vatican to inhibit any scientific efforts, with travel and trade expanding beyond Europe into the New World and Asia, enterprising young minds yearned a broader scope of the world and life in general. Hence such pioneers as Leonardo Da Vinci, humanist Giovanni Pico della Mirandola and astronomer Nikolaus Kopernikus were much inspired to incredible ideas, often way ahead of their time. One mustn't forget however, that a formal education in those days were property and product of monastic institutions. Thus its scholars were raised on the idea of existence and destiny as being of godly design. That meant that any attempt to experiment with that design stood a good chance of prosecution for heresy. For this reason Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa seldom settled down in one place for very long. Were it not for the discrete interests of the Hapsburgs and the Medicis in his works, these manuscripts would have long since disappeared. Nonetheless, while Rome had its hands full with the Protestant rebellion, alchemists and esoterics of the period did aspire to identify “divine creation” with a whole medley of goetic formulas derived from ancient Middle-Eastern tradition. Having read some of Agrippa's works from De occulta philosophia libri tres, there is no question in my mind that this is not only forms the basis of Western Hermetic Mysticism, but Wicca as well. The only difference is that Wicca tries to amalgamate it with folk cunning craft which Hermeticism, being elitaire, prefers to avoid.

http://www.hermetics.org/pdf/magic/Agrippa1.pdf
http://www.hermetics.org/pdf/magic/Agrippa2.pdf
http://www.hermetics.org/pdf/magic/Agrippa3.pdf

Being an abstract minded animist, that whole Pythagorean school of theosophy just gives me constipation, especially its mathematical dogmas that seriously fall short of the real dynamics of causality. They just can't come to terms with that simple law of relativity that Nature multiplies through division. In essence I'm talking about the infinitesimal here, that very fractal symmetry in which all things have their own algorithmic part in the whole spacetime continuum, albeit DNA, molecular lattice symmetry or quantum matrix. So if you're looking for the sublime in a multiverse where Nature abhors absolutes, bear in mind the old proverb “that which rests, rusts”; and don't give me any guff about vindictive hairy thunderers or karma if I don't commit myself to the ritual self infliction of reciting whole volumes of Ancient Babylonian hocum. I do not have that god-fearing persecution complex they got so bent on for that man in god's image nonsense, they had to proliferate the whole planet for some perverse sense of security in numbers. The irony is that Homo Sapiens Sapiens is really just another kind of simian, with much the same sexual displays and harem building hierarchy as the rest under all that artifice.