Some interesting stuff coming out of the rediscovered "Hymn to Babylon":
"The information about the women of Babylon, their role as priestesses and the associated tasks, has also astonished experts, as no texts describing these things were previously known."
This use of epithets is similar to that in Hellenism. I can imagine a Neoplatonic / Julian Hellenic ritual installing e.g. the various forms of Zeus in different parts of the body.
Similar stuff in the Skanda Purana. It's also covered by the Padma Purana, but that has 250 chapters and about 3600 pages, so good luck!
Twelve names are: Keśava, Nārāyaṇa, Mādhava, Govinda, Viṣṇu, Madhusūdana, Trivikrama, Vāmana, Śrīdhara, Hṛṣīkeśa, Padmanābha, and Dāmodara.
. @theurgist.bsky.social I did a study on some of the Hindu rituals (both Vaishnava and Shaivite) around this for the August Order of Light.
The Vasudeva Upanishad for example has different marks being applied to different parts of the body whilst using the twelve names of deity. (cont..)
You could check the tantric sources and - perhaps even Egyptian ones - and find out the corresponding positions. Would be part of a series of workings though. IMO seems quite similar to ideas from Middle Pillar exercise etc.
Mogg Morgan was on a podcast recently talking about Egyptian-Indian shared practices, and IIRC one of those was the practice of "installing" gods into different parts of the body. Religious tattoos fit with that pattern.
There used to be a saying - referred to as "Acid Fascism" by some - that LSD made smart people smarter and stupid people jump out of windows.
This article about AI reminded me of that quote.
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Most of my exposure to McKenna was originally through RA Wilson, and yes, years ago. Formational, I suppose.
I just had a good laugh asking ChatGPT what a group combining those three texts would look like, and any possible problems.
I'm not a witch, so I can't play the game, but I'll bite anyway, on the proviso that I'm just choosing the three books likely to result in the most insanity possible, so:
1. The Archaic Revival (McKenna)
2. The Pilot's Self-Clearing Manual (anon, I guess?)
3. Nightside of Eden (Grant)
Or an asthma inhaler.
Female Mr. Benn?
I vaguely remember Mona the Vampire. A bit after my time perhaps. I loved Mr. Benn, it may have encouraged my dilettantism.
Nice to meet you. Glad to run into someone who's heard of it!
Great book recommendation from Mogg Morgan via his appearance on "The Magician and the Fool" podcast. Good episode.
Incredibly lazy and irresponsible journalism here from the BBC. Scientists can't explain "why" our universe exists. Science is definitionally incapable of answering that question. This feeds into the false idea that science has answers for everything.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...