P R O P H E † S & VV H O ℜ E S

littletexan asked: I'm fascinated by the photos you post, the symbols and imagery too. I was curious as to your beliefs, and if you have any books you'd recommend to broaden my horizons and knowledge.

oh thank you! it’s nice to know there is appreciation for what i enjoy sharing. 

as for beliefs, i have a few:

i believe in the unified energy of the universe that composes us all, the matter that is neither created or destroyed, only altered, recycled, transformed. i believe this life to be a blink in the eye of the infinite timeline, that death is nothing to be feared. i believe we are living in a time of profound and unprecedented disconnect from our spiritual selves, and that we are headed for harder and harder times. Man’s only defense is to reunite with the Nature that they have wrongly elevated themselves above. hah, highly unlikely. the ship! it sinks! 

i believe in living by the moon, by the season. tapping into your own cycles within the grander flux. i believe in the incorporation of ritual into daily life. light a candle to let shit go, sweep the bad juju off your back porch, consult the pendulum, tarot, & tea leaves. there is power in color, number, and in your own intention. 

i believe all Man’s problems are a result of the Patriarchy, that Capitalism is the greatest evil known to man, and that organized religion, to quote Marx, is ‘the opiate of the masses’, a means of control for the weak minded, nothing more. 

most of all, i believe in living everyday in gratitude. Tripoli is on fire, the Horn of Africa is in the midst of catastrophic drought, the women of Fallujah, in epidemic proportion, are bearing babies deformed by the Bush regime’s depleted uranium. the big business that governs this country is waging a ferocious war on the working class. it’s ugly out there. perspective is a valuable tool in keeping my mental health in check. 

but ultimately, ‘beliefs’ are nothing much to me. i am a simple animal. eat, sleep, fuck, happy. there’s a waning moon out and my mind’s at ease, myriad skulls stand sentinel in my yard. 

as for books, i collect herbals, religious texts, the expansive works of Carl Jung, Hildegard of Bingen, mystic writings and gospels. Read up on Ramakrishna, Marie Louveau, Jakob Böhme, Joan of Arc, Jesus Christ. And non-fiction books that had a spiritual impact on me; Herman Hesse’s Demian, Henry Miller’s Colossus of Mourossi, the hardcore grit of Cormac McCarthy’s Suttree, and Blood Meridian. And song-writers! The holiest of holy men in my book; Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, Patti Smith, Tom Waits, Nick Cave, Iggy Pop, Neil Young, Captain Beefheart. !!!

ok i’m tired. i’ll be in austin in september, we should sit down with some lone star and tacos and wax poetic on plant-worship, divine primes, the fibonacci sequence, and more metaphysical mumbo jumbo. 

g’night and as the prophet woody guthrie would say, ‘Take it easy, but take it!’

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