tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2411697383543828729.post1979765585850604686..comments2024-03-28T08:36:25.416-07:00Comments on Jechidah: Sex, Drugs & Magick: Words in the WingsRarebit Fiendhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09650603980195179414noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2411697383543828729.post-4794510082118595052022-11-23T03:55:41.203-08:002022-11-23T03:55:41.203-08:00Thank you for the link to your post, Oz. That was ...Thank you for the link to your post, Oz. That was very informative.Spookahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11682642534331240023noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2411697383543828729.post-14455016528565773822022-11-19T09:41:40.150-08:002022-11-19T09:41:40.150-08:00Work claims my time again, I didn't know this ...Work claims my time again, I didn't know this posted until Tom brought it to my attention at RawIllumination.<br /><br />I think the Afterwords lend contemporary relevance to <i>Sex, Drugs & Magick</i> Arden Leigh, in particular has great pragmatic advice about Magick.<br /><br />Thank-you for mentioning my Deleuze video series again, more on the way next week after this work cycle evens out.<br /><br />Spookah, Bowie seems to have returned (if he ever left) to magick as he got close to death. His last videographer had a rep for a Crowley piece. I wrote of the symbolism on his last album cover:<br />https://oz-mix.blogspot.com/2016/01/david-bowie-conscious-death.htmlOz Fritzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06061222169144560970noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2411697383543828729.post-82450788544615045912022-11-18T04:37:39.329-08:002022-11-18T04:37:39.329-08:00Oh, talking about music, thanks for this Sam Flax ...Oh, talking about music, thanks for this Sam Flax song, I did not know the artist.<br /><br />I was lucky enough to catch the other day the recent David Bowie docu Moonage Daydream on a big screen. I heartily recommend it, sombunall of you might like it. It does not take the usual bio/hagiographical route, instead going for what appears at first to be a more free-form collage of archival footage (no talking heads), all edited in a pretty potent psychedelic fashion. The film is a trip.<br /><br />But I have the suspicion that the half hidden agenda of the director might be to present us Bowie as a praticing magician. A clue to this thesis is the introduction of his interest in the occult very early on in the docu, although the film doesn't delve too much in it either. Just the right amount, perhaps, to ensure that the occult will stay concealed, while the seeker will find.<br />But I thought that when seen through this specific lens, the whole thing became a coherent exploration of Bowie's own 'journey beyond limits' of constantly reinventing himself under different aliases and in different art forms, including a crossing of the abyss of sorts when wondering who he might 'really' be under the many personalities.<br /><br />I do not think his drug use was mentioned even once, and I cannot decide if I find that refreshing or dishonest.Spookahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11682642534331240023noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2411697383543828729.post-70608146777063663842022-11-17T20:28:09.791-08:002022-11-17T20:28:09.791-08:00A few years ago, I read a book by Gordon White cal...A few years ago, I read a book by Gordon White called "The Chaos Protocols," thinking I would learn about magick, and I was struck by how often it seemed to me that I was reading a self-help book. When I read Arden Leigh's graceful essay, I had rather the same thought that her advice would be useful to everyone, not just to someone who was a practicing musician.<br /><br />If you are curious about her music, see this music video I posted on my blog of her cover of a Ramones song, "Poison Heart." <br /><br />http://www.rawillumination.net/2021/03/tuesday-links.htmlCleveland Okie (Tom Jackson)https://www.blogger.com/profile/07810736442596736041noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2411697383543828729.post-46633270437809806852022-11-17T17:51:26.178-08:002022-11-17T17:51:26.178-08:00Thank you Eric, for being such a faithful particip...Thank you Eric, for being such a faithful participant. <br /><br />@Spookah- I will have to listen to that! I can agree about the afterwords being more explicit than RAW; perhaps that is the nature of the evolution of occult writing. Pretty dramatic gradient since Blavatsky, the Golden Dawn and all those Palladists/Rosicrucians maybe running around in the nineteenth century. <br /><br />I interpreted the cover as a modern, gentler take on the dramatic red and black abstract of the New Falcon edition. Not as harsh, but still suggestively energized for a newer, less-concrete age. <br /><br />Thank you Spookah, and thank you for sharing some music in common. It's always welcome. Rarebit Fiendhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09650603980195179414noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2411697383543828729.post-83402566264553835432022-11-15T05:18:48.149-08:002022-11-15T05:18:48.149-08:00Last night I dreamed that this post was up on your...Last night I dreamed that this post was up on your blog. Happy to see that I got it right in my sleep.<br /><br />In case this passed you by, Jamie from the F23 podcast conducted an interview with Arden Leigh earlier this year, you might enjoy it.<br />https://www.buzzsprout.com/1047874/9906226-f23-podcast-e35-feat-arden-leigh<br /><br />I also enjoyed greatly both hers and Alexis Mincolla's afterwords. In a way, I thought they were being more explicit than RAW in the entire book.<br /><br />As we are now about to close the discussion on this Hilaritas edition of DS&M, I'd like to add that as much as I usually enjoy amoeba's work on the new cover arts, I can't help feeling underwhelmed by this one. The color tones are nice, but apart from that...I dunno, might there be something I am not seeing?<br /><br />Thank you Apuleius for leading this reading group. Spookahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11682642534331240023noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2411697383543828729.post-53569128201934201672022-11-14T14:14:36.982-08:002022-11-14T14:14:36.982-08:00Thank you for mentioning my interest in the Balzac...Thank you for mentioning my interest in the Balzac novel, and thank you for this reading group.Eric Wagnerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04312033917401203598noreply@blogger.com