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Book Review: Words of My Perfect Teacher by Patru Rinpoche
Having spent today reading most of Words of My Perfect Teacher I am now writing this post. The second chapter of the book (The Impernaance of Everything) was very very moving. I had the impression as though it was written by someone who had a deep understanding (informed by experience) of life, suffering as well as death. The perspective from which life, in that chapter, was looked at was so darkthat I could not help but being drawn into this text.
The third chapter, seemed a bit more paradoxical and at odds with what I as a Westerner have been taught. I was trying to compare the Buddhist idea of Dharma, the “teaching” to which all human suffering points (ie that with which we can confront the reality of existence), to the Greek idea of logos (which is the rational articulation of the laws of the world). But, there are stark differences: the Buddhist Dharma hinges at all critical points on what the Greeks called Doxa (unsubstantiated opinion). When Rinpoche talks about the necessity of virtue (10 right actions) as a vehicle for being liberated from suffering / Samsara his thinking is based mostly, in Chapter Three, on real life examples to which anyone can relate, but the imbues these histories with what the West would call myths (Virtue is often rewarded through reincarnation, but the existence of reincarnation is simply stated as a type of logical dicord in the discourse of the text). There were many examples of this all of which made me try to come up with a justification for or explanation of these” mythical” or “religious” themes that exist throughout the text, which are scientifically unfounded from what I have come to know and which are not necessary for the ideas put forth on human suffering and its liberation through a certain way of interacting wtih the world (the Dharma).
Consequently, the possibility of alternate non traditionally Western causes for the levels of Hell, the Jupkas, etc. are what I was thinking of whilst reading. One explanation might be that the Buddhist idea of Hell is a type of “Noble Lie” (Like Nietzsche’s Overman) that was intentional told to monks and laymen in order perhaps become monks or give them the necessary incentive (like the Christian idea of Hell) for them to practice the Dharma. This also implies that power could have played a role / that the higher ranking monks were trying to rule their culture or had, through suffering reached a state where their ideas seemed to them like the truth. At the same time, these hierarchies might have had to have been necessary if the mental purification the text discussed really did provide them with some sort of occult insight that could not have been communicated through language. At the same time, the ideas of Buddhism might outright have been a lie and I found it interest to see how the examples of human suffering tlaked about in the Impermance chapter become amplified (again to mythical levels) as though the buddhist myth employed were some sort of vision of what could be seen beyond the “visible” horizon. However, this is all speculation.
Against the O.N.A.
We are invisible, us Magickians. We cast our spells in the dark, to illuminate what we have already seen – and then move onwards, forwards and always up – to higher states of being; Higher levels of self understanding, interacting with and interpreting the world. Our eyes project more light onto where others see only darkness, or are blinded by a glimpse of our mind.
To those of you who live in my shadow: be ware of the ONA. It seems to have become another trend. Myatt left his order, because he had understood his “spelling” out of how he looked at the world: with the eyes of an artist, an aesthetic understanding. His mind made life beautiful, he revealed what was to many occult.
The problem with politics: Philosophy (understood in the broader and moret raditional sense of the term) is a product of a certain physiological condition in which a persons energy flows primarily in their min. Through meditating we can strengther our lmiddle / “real” Elixier Field (Dan Tien) and have the energy in our mind sink to that it collects in that reservoir, like a river flowing to a lake.
This lowers the level of energy you have in your mind ang makes you wise (what the daoists call Wisdom Mind). You consequently understand the path (Dao) andand can distinxction betwen right and wrong, futrue and present, concentration and distraction, you begin tto be able to choose your thoughts. This is also the reason why many of these meditation practices have martial elements, because standing up for what is right is extremely dangerous.
The ability to differentiate between future and present (ie being able to know when one is actually concentrating and Being instead of having ones thoughts control ones life) means that the, from my experience, interet in politics declines, because you can see how political thinking (often) takes place in a certain unenlightened mental space in which desirethought is still an expression of desire and consequently a projection of thof oneself into the futrue. In other words, when we do not meditate we begin to plvce salvation in our ideas. That is the primary motive of people who want to rule ,and it is not wise.
Myatt’s Left Hand Path is an internal alchemical process; a quest. It is designed to transoform the individual. But the very un-occult promotion of ONA material on the internet (ie feeding this stuff to people who would otherwise not find it) reminds me a lot of marketing and all its flaws. ONA memebrs become statistics when the Order is promoted to be as large and popula as possible. In other words the group becomes the lowest possible denominator because those who wnt to grow the order still project their themselves into the future by the process just described. This I would contrast to the experience of life as a connexion which implies a simple dwelling in and feeding off the energy of places.
I would be interested to know what Myatt thinks of his order and what it has become.
Five Dimensional Dark Sorcery
A heavy question: who crates the spaces in which we live? If you want to change your life, it is usally best to change the spaces that surround you – we naturally seem to adapt… Choose your priorities and selec the world you live in. You are what you do but you do what is demanded by your environment.
There are two types or category of space: ascendant space and descendant space. Heaven and Abyss. Being alive generally seems to mean balancing between them, on earth.
In North America we often overlook the “value” of age, spaces that have evolved and adapted to the world around you. There seem to be two ways to think: self reflexively (you observe patterns and then build within them or by trail and error (the environment is not an intelligenet design here, but something that has been carved into a diamond) – by the Urgeist.
We cannot build through trial and error since, as Nietzsche wrote, Nature locked the door and threw away the key. There are limits to our understanding. There are limits to what we can talk about and know.
What would you do if you were born into a room without any light and any windows? You feel your way through the room. Ofcourse intelligence is still your aid, but you make use of your entire being to explore the space you now live into and want to be born out of again, paradigm shift, the greatest form of self overcoming (destruction of the self by discovering a new environment). Find the gate, speak the riddle, walk through with pride – when it is open.
First we were bacteria floating in the sea, then learned to swim and eventually found our way onto the land. Then we caged ourselves in civilization, sublimated who were were and looked at the world through reason. What step is next? What will we now, over the new millenia, have to burn and destroy so that we can be born out of it. INTO a NEW REALM.
The last cathedrals of our intellect are nearing completion. But who knows what keys the Aeons will give us for the future? Grow old and grow wise, observe the millienia, drink of the we 8 mile well that was caste here by the urgeist. Baph0met shows you the Left Hand Path. Create a well then thereafter, give (like the Bees) of your honey. Love mankind (by your hatred, your hatred for yourself and for the world that you now understand).
Luciferian Love
If the stars they died, they shine no more
because my eyes, they want to sleep?
But who would I want to sleep with?
when the stars they shine no more
When the night sky suddenly blackened
and I start lossing this senseless war?
What would I do
if my eyes they suddenly blackened
my mind, a maze, without a door
because I looked, inside, too deep.
But who would I want to sleep with?
when the stars they shine no more?
When the night sky suddenly blackened
and the portal closed?
7 smiles and light in your eyes
7 tragic lies
7 tears are flowing to the river in which Lucifer still lies?
For Victoria S Holmes
Environmental Economics (Part 1)
There are a number of problems with placing a value (contingent valuation, cap and trade, nature swaps etc) on nature, ie an economic and monetary worth for nature. The debate surrounding environmental economics is often pitched as a battle between direct democratic choice (citizens vote to say what natural spaces are protected) and “market mechanisms” ie selling environmental goods or services on amarket in which the highest bidder has access to the most goods and services / resources and where supply and demand meet. The problem with this is that there is, in reality, not much of a difference between democratic or public policy and economic means of determining the worth of say a protected land. If citizens are to vote on whether a natural space should be protected, their decisions will be based upon what costs and benefits that natural space will have for them, the very same considerations that come into play in economics. If voters decide a forests becomes a reserve there will be costs associated with that (infrastructure, maintenance, personel) and those costs will have to be vborne by the taxpayer. If the land becomes privatized, people will still be paying for what they think a visit is worth. Without opening the usual left ring can of environmental worms, here are further tools economists use to refluect on theoretical problems that arise with resource management.
Economic Tools of Analysis
Economists draw a distinction between use and non use resources. Use resources are goods and service, this parts of the environment that carry utility (trees=lumber, air=oxygen etc) Non use environments or resources on the other hand are valued intrinsically, people believe in protecting patagonia or the arctic, even if they dont expect to go there. Economists use Market Data to answer questions. Its fairly common today to hear stuff like qualitative and quantitative information and economics has done a really interesting job at turning historically qualitative questions (what is the value of life?) into quantiative and monetary language.
Economists also use the trasvel cost method to determie what a natural park for instance, might be worth. The further people travel to a reserve the more it must be worth to them (since they are self interested rational actors that try to maximize their utility) and travling sucks dick, ite it costs money. If people are willing to pay 200$ on gas, time and (perhaps) renting a car to get to a forest, that forest is worth $200 per consumer. . THe travel method can be used to compare the value of reserves as well as determine what the costs and benefits for cleaining u0p a given reserve would be (If the reserve is farther away from consumers, bvut polluted, and if there is a unpolluted reserve neared to visitors, one can put travel cost to reserve a and travel costs to reserve B along with
Critique
An interesting critique that can be brought against environmental economics is that it is fairly bastract. For instance, using the Travel Cost method to find ourt what a reserve is worth, economicsts overlook how much the travel cost is worth to the traveler personally (something the tourist might not even know, $100 dollars means more to some people than others. If a teenager gets 100$ pocket money that money might not be worth that much to the kid, because he got it easily and did not have to work for it. By the same token, if someone goes snorkeling and finds $10 floating in the ocean, that $10 will be worth far more than $10 I suspect, because it was unique. I also sometimes personally feel that economic analyses become self sulfilling prophecies. IF policy makers base their politics on economic thinking, then they will create body politics that promote the foundations of economics and in that way act them out. There are innumerable historical examples of cultures and people not acting in rational self interest, or, as nietzsche says, “the last man lives the longest”.
Presencing the Underground: The Fourth Dimension of European Black Metal and Black Magick
Black Metal = Black Magick. I have personally stopped listening to the genre because it is possible to find the same spiriti that we how grew up in the 190s scene experienced, elsewhere.
I have spent the last few days, almost a week now, in an old town in Western Germany. Although the whole place is modernized (cars, some advertising, people have computers etc) there is still that old mystical european spiriti alive in places for those who are still capable of sensing it.
My girlfriend has always considered erself a mystick, and I think that holds true for me also. WeSociety has no real use for us because wed rather get up at dawn to “meditate” (The 18 Lohan Hands, Nei and Chi Kung = internal war) and spent the rest of the time walking through empty streets during sunrise feeling the energy of a place, which, again, has a mystickal sense in some places still in Europe.At the oldest parts of town I can still feel how the towns cold air must come from some mountains and how gazing above the roofs of old buildings might feel if there were still uncultivated forests and churches where the Eveningland (Abendland) prays to god.
I can see for those of you whose spiriti has also been “colonized” by black metal, who grew up with the genre and sense the same force in other cultural spaces, can manifest the Fourth Dimension of European Black Metal. I do not think that the New World is capable of creating black metal, not what I personally understand of the term. USBM with the same intention and background of those who grew up in Europe. I am not saying that there is no value in USBM, but, that it is a product of the New World, which lacks the same mystical energy, because the country is still to young and too rational in its productions.
I have spent the last 10 years living in this New World and I was always able to tap into the energy that flows through its vein by looking towards the future (something Europe cannot equally do), and perhaps there is a valid contribution black metal can make in this vein, but, but it is my perosnal experience that the Occult Forces which are responsible for Black Metal are still alive in Europe and can be spoken to (metaphocally) whilst living here.
A task for those in the scene: Many of us do not accept society, we have too much imagination, we are too creative and much ensorcelled by the forces society attempts to destroy (forests, irrationality, madness etc). There is too much dissent in our soul for us to go to work every morning instead of openin a portal to the astral plane. I would personally like to see more of this type of dissent expressed in the scene and would like to see more art (not obsessed with violence, the NS Regime) pushing back on current occult forces: connect your music to the Fourth Dimension, your intuition, your heaven ward gazing eye. And again, when I say the black metal scene, I do not mean solely those who listen to black metal, but are approaching the world from a particular angle, a perspective that should not be articulated and remains essentially secret (Ie not in public discourse).
A Vision: Tpoe into the old ways: perhaps I will rent a small room in a mediveal town somewhere in a forgotten space of europe, perhaps somewhere near the mountains. I think Heidegger knew of this energy when he spent his days walking around Southern Germany thinking about the 4 causes of the conditions for what he called “dwelling”. In ecology, if a species does nto find its niche it cannot contribute tot he organic whole and will most probably perish. There are many predators in this world , ie those of us who push back against society, but there are also hawsk who roam in the sky. Your wings too can carry you to the sunset, to the Untergrand des Abendlandes and still feed off of its latent energy., so that you may become stronger spiritually and dwell l in the correct dimension (before the internet, before cars, before advertising, before margek economies) where life was still an artwork, because we didnt have the means to create fantasy worlds without having them rain down un us through our lives (would you want to talk to someone who cannot dream?).
Rent a room in a basement in a small town in Europe. Walk through the old forests, crate shrines to the spirits that once lived, discipline yourself and your mind there, presence the Fourth Dimension of European Black Metal.
More on Population
There has been a lot of deforestation happening in Africa over the last 7 decades, according to various model based studies. The exact numbers don’t really matter, since its the long term and that is of interest, but, what was interesting about the models Ive heard of are: they were based on neo malthusian ideas.
Malthus is the “scathing” father of resource and population theory. Malthus’ basic argument was that populations increase geometrically (ie exponentially) and food supply does not (it increases linearly). Malthus said that there was no way around this (we cannot change “the passion between the sexes” and we cannot indefinitely increase food supply of match up with fertility rates) And so, we have trouble “improving mankind” and reaching for the “perfectibility of society”.
Malthus society to this dilemma: any family that has a child which cannot be fed / paid for needs to die. Which his why he was so heavily criticized by later thinkers such as Marx, since his writings, many of which dont really have any original ideas, are scathing attacks on the poor. Malthus however, still has his influence amongst wealthy circles concerned about environmental decline and has sparked a number of debates around eugenics and current population theory by groups such as the Enterprise Institute, the Ford Foundation as well as writers such as Paul Ehrlich and perhaps even the reception of Richard Lynn.
There are however studies that complicate Malthus basic theory. one such attempt was made by looking at the deforestation models mentioned above. Whilst modeling generally is fairly common in environmental science, it is difficult. Although models are based on clear abstractions, I would personally not dismiss them to hastily, since we can get a sense of where we are going and, even if our predictions reach far into the future, can know what our current course, if maintained, will lead to.
Deforestation models mostly assume that countries were home to untouched forested lands than they currently are. Some foresters who used to work in many rural areas modeled before data was availalbe, have left records of how thes areasw ere actually populated or inhabited by indiginous people that lived in them. This arguemtn doesnt seem that strong but recent studies in Forestry have made clear that this whole notion of a pristine untouched climax forests many wilderness discourse is based upon hardly existed and if it did, might mean taht a forest is less table, since not as many seral statesare represented which means there arent as many biological “zones” for different and diverse species types to live in.
Another important point Malthus makes is that miser and Vice are necessary for society adn that only the upper classes are virtous enough to be able to resist those natural cycles (ie sex) which contribute to population rise. in other words, the rates at which population levels rise, even if their increase takes palce at a differnet pace in different scial strate, is static fixed and necessary . This overlooks inventions such as birthcontrol and contraception. Further the arithemtic rates and which food suppliues increase, for malthus, has been perhaps circumvented by GMO crops – not to say that that is a good thing,b ut, interestingly enough, it high lights the relationship between food and population as well as illustrates how popluation level incresea rates mpush towards GMO food productiona dn how market mechanisms might support thee eventual phasing out of “nature” through such demand and then supply.
What should also be noted about the population debate is how population rates increase in poor countries such as Africa wicth some sub-saran countries averaging a fertility rate of around children per family. Afirca is developing economically though and these forces combined might be problematic if technology is not deployed wisely.
Noctyr Wyrd In Natura IV
Third Position Environmentalism
In her The Origins of Totalitarianism, Hannah Arendt defines ideologies as attempts at making objective statements about ideas meaning they are dilutions of philosophy. The following paper uses the carrying capacity and optimum human population level debate to argue that the preanalytic vision (Kuhn) of the discourse that dominates current environmental theory is problematic; it is ideological and not philosophical.
This is because the economic ideas both left and right (socialism and capitialism) argue for are both capitalist in the sense that they both believe in money. Malthus said that population levels are naturally and inevitable regulated by food supply( the Malthusian trap). It is my argument that there were a number of things Malthus did not anticipate (contraceptives, GMO crops and the Green Revolution, international integration) and that the new limiting factors we have standing in the way of unabated population level rises (steel, wood, the ecological footprint of the rich North) is actually our very idea of the world; namely, that everything can be assigned a monetary value (the Kurznet Curve) and that the hidden mind of a free market can choose that idea.
The current polarisation of the population debate to reveals that what is really needed is a bioregionalist, parallelism government by a global leitkultur of Sublimated Development, whose pursuit is the intangible and not the financial. The solution to the overpopulation debate is that human culture needs to be reinvigorated to valuing things without money. This is what I call Third Position Environmentalism.
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