Soma FM airplay and some other notes

Alphonse Mucha: Dance

I've been doing proofreading to the coming Finnish 3rd print of my first book. It has been an interesting process. The proof reading and the extra foreword and an appendix to the hardcover 3rd print should be ready later this week.

I heard from my CD's publisher's that my 700 000 years was played by a San Francisco based Soma FM lately. When it comes to my books, I heard that my second book Saatanan Mustat Nahkasiivet has been sold also in some really interesting places - like some S-market of Haapavesi (I think this somewhat equals to Wal-Mart in Nashville). Grand! (thanks to Oan for the information).

Lastly, if you happen to be in Turku, be sure to check out a great Alphonse Mucha exhibition at the Turku art museum. It is something not to miss.

Terra Hyperborea engrish

I heard from Some Place Else's Niko that there is a really psychedelic review of my CD out there. You can read it from here. This is total engrish. I think I should feel honored.

Through being cool

We're through being cool / eliminate the ninnies and the twits / Going to to bang some heads / going to beat some butts / time to show those evil spuds / what's what's what if you live in a small town / You might meet a dozen or two / young alien types who step out and dare to declare / spank the pank who try to to drive you nuts / time to clean some house / be a man / or a mouse / waste those who make it tuff / to go get around if you live in a big place / many factions underground / chase down / mister hinky dink so no trace can be found / but the tape on erase rearrange a face / we always liked Picasso anyway / mash' em!

- Devo, Through being cool

Book of Life 2006 CE, closure

Cantata Sangui live at Klubi, Turku, on 20th of July. Photo by Wooki.

The Book of Life 2006 CE is formally finished. I dare to say that it turned out to be a fruitful experience for all who took part to it. It definitely turned out that way to me.

I put it to my blog's main lines some months ago that "life is a moment - Remember yourself". If you have come used to it, read it again with a thought. That is the way it really is.

Learn to see how the linear time goes by and how subjective non-linear experience of time match or does not match with it. Learn to plant seeds of your Will into the tissue of the Universe. Learn to have fun, to be happy. Learn to face and challenge your limits in a meaningful way. Learn to forgive yourself. Learn to Love. Learn to be willing to grow - again.

Learn to Remember yourself.

The Book of Life 2006 CE was filled with "odd" synchronicities again. One of them dealt with the very end of the Working. Cantata Sangui, the band behind a wonderful song No longer in eyes of Aletheia, was going to perform in Turku on 20th of July, the last day of this year's the Book of Life. This was a pure "coincidence" but in a certain way it just "made sense".

The concert was a Working in itself. I do not even try to describe how I experienced it. I think it suffices to say that it was... magical. My many thanks to the band and especially to Mika (and well... to Liisa too). From tô aletheias pedion I greet you.

Lastly, I was asked about possible inspirational materials regarding the Book of Life recently. There is one definite inspirational book and movie regarding the Book of Life - Dr. Carl Sagan's Contact and the movie that is based on it. I see the movie once a year around the time of the Working.

Aletheia.

Book of Life related quotes, III

The unknown is the unknown so despite you're best laid plans you're gonna get a kick in the pants. That's if your magic really works for you. Whether its the lottery, leukemia or love surf the eternal present with an inward and outward eye to the self, its components and connections. Then we have immortality already.

- Etemenanki, the Book of Life 2006 CE participant

One of the best means for arousing the wish to work on yourself is to realize that you may die at any moment. But first you must learn how to keep it in mind.

Hope, when bold, is strenght. Hope, with doubt, is cowardice. Hope, with fear, is weakness.

- G.I. Gurdjieff

Wer sie nicht kennte / die Elemente / ihre Kraft / und Eigenschaft / wäre kein meister / über die Geister / He who does not know / the elements / their power / and qualities / can not master / over spirit /.

- Goethe

You seem not to know that if you meet Socrates in discussion, you are bound to find that even if you begin by discussing something else, before you are done you will be led around in argument by Socrates, until you are trapped into giving an account of yourself - of how you are living your present life and how you lived your life in the past. And once you are trapped, Socrates will not let you go until he has tried and tested you thoroughly on each point.

- Nicias, Athenian general warning his friends about Socrates.

If a man could understand all the horror of the lives of ordinary people who are turning round in a circle of insignificant interests and insignificant aims, if he could understand what they are losing, he would understand that there can only be one thing that is serious for him - to escape from the general law, to be free. What can be serious for a man in prison who is condemned to death? Only one thing: How to save himself, how to escape: nothing else is serious.

- G.I. Gurdjieff

Vox Paganorum 2/06

Vox Paganorum 2/06 is now available from Pakanaverkko (Pagan Net). The second issue for the year has on its cover my drawing Humpty Dumpty's Death (see above). The drawing was published for the first time in my second book Saatanan Mustat Nahkasiivet.

The issue includes articles f.ex about sonic magic (interviews of four Turku-area sonic magicians: myself, Cosine Nomine, Niko Skorpio, and Ovro), synchronicity, and thoughts on a magical year among other subjects.

You might also want to read my entry on Vox Paganorum 1/06.

Post Scriptum: Talking about sonic magic, come and see Cantata Sangui (the band who made the song No longer in eyes of Aletheia) live in Turku on this coming Thursday (July 20th).

Book of Life related quotes, II

Our entire lives considered at any moment is a Xeper, a manifestation. If you can think of all the things that you've wrought - changes in your mind/body complex, your recognition, your reputation - all of those things that represent what you have brought to this Earth - as a giant talisman - then you've got a handle on Xeper, the noun. Many of you may have written a Rune to pull something - gold or love - out of the Unmanifest. That Rune is a tiny, tiny version of the great talisman your Xeper is. The creation of Xeper is the Working whereby we attract what we're going to get in this life, and the divine memory we will have of this life.

- Don Webb

Out of the multiplicity of factors that enter into the shaping of a life, resultant patterns of living and relating emerge. A theme, or a group of interrelated themes, appears that can be modified and adapted to the stage-specific tasks or to the exigencies that arise. Sometimes the dominant theme results from an early childhood fixation and reiterates itself, unable to develop and lead onward, remaining in the same groove like the needle on a flawed phonograph record. The basic themes are more readily detected in emotionally disturbed persons because they are more set, more clearly repetitive, and perhaps more familiar to the practiced ear that has heard similar themes so often before. Still, repetitive ways of reacting and relating occur in all lives. The meaning of an episode in a life can often be grasped properly only through understanding how it furthers, impedes, or disrupts essential themes.

- Theodore Lidz

What I've discovered with stark and undeniable clarity is that ones who do well are so in touch with their individual core of consciousness, so aware of their self-worth and their sense of personal value, that they not only treat themselves with enormous self-respect but they inspire others to treat them with equal respect. They live with an empowering inner clarity, one that gives them the unshakable confidence that they alone can determine the quality of their life. They have tapped into their core of consciousness, claimed their right to a fulfilling life, and have refused to accept less from themselves or anyone else.

- Phillip C. McGraw

Love, work, and knowledge are the wellsprings of our life. They should also govern it.

- Wilhelm Reich

Let's look for a treasure!

- Terrance and Phillip

Book of Life related quotes, I

One method of self-analysis is autobiographical. By this I mean pondering own personal history beginning from childhood and ending in evaluation on development of one's future. This method is used to try to get an understanding of self; important occasions, previous fears, hopes, disappointments and experiences that have shaked one's belief and trust in oneself and in others.

We ask from ourselves: Who am I depending on? What are my worst fears? Who I was "destined" to be at my birth? What have been my goals and how they have changed? What have been crossroad points of my life, where I have chosen the wrong direction? To what efforts I have dedicated myself to fix the mistakes and to return to the right path? Who am I now and who I would have become if I would have always made the right decisions and avoided mistakes?

Who I wanted to be earlier, who I want to be now and in the future? What kind of picture I have of myself? What kind of picture others should have of me? How these pictures differ from each other and of what I really feel myself to be? Who I will become if I continue to live as I have lived previously? What conditions have been effecting or dictating my development thus far? What kind of alternatives I have for my development? What I should do in order to make my choices on my future to come true?

This autobiographical study should not be theorizing with abstract psychoanalytical structures, but it should stay on the level of "seeing", feeling and of imagination on the level of experiencing, where theoretical thinking is kept at minimum.

- Erich Fromm

The great events of world history are, at bottom, profoundly unimportant. In the last analysis, the essential thing is the life of the individual. This alone makes history, here alone do the great transformations first take place, and the whole future, the whole history of the world, ultimately spring as a gigantic summation from these hidden sources in individuals. In our most private and most subjective lives we are not only the passive witness of our age, and its sufferers, but also its makers. We make our own epoch.

- C.G. Jung

Remember, you cannot change what you do not acknowledge.

- Phillip C. McGraw

Blood makes noise

Finally, after more than 15 years of listening to her music, I met Suzanne Vega in person and experienced her live at Pakkahuone, Tampere, Finland. Seeing Suzanne live on the stage where I played live myself in the late 80's CE was quite an interesting experience during the Working of the Book of Life. A good mirror with the most beautiful voice from one angle to the future.

Book of Life 2006 CE statement

[The following is from the general statement of the worldwide intra-Temple of Set Working the Book of Life of the Temple's the Order of the Great Bear. Also non-setians are are free to do the Working on their own. For general information on the Working see my first book Vasemman Käden Polku (English translation The Left Hand Path is forthcoming from Voimasana later this year)].

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The Order of the Great Bear's annual Working called the Book of Life will begin on 13th of this month, on the traditional Finnish day of a bear.

During the last years the BoL has basically been about Working with past layers of one's path in order to Remember oneself and via that to be more able to Become in the potential future. This has meant Working with all past year's of one's life and writing an initiatory autobiography in the process. This year the direction of the Working is for the first time in its history (we have nearly 6 years of tradition for this within the Temple of Set now, and the Working has also been available for the general Finnish public via my first book since 2004 CE) towards the future. As discussed earlier, this brings certain differences to this year's schedule for the Working.

One week is enough time for the Working this year. It is not going to be about a month long project like previously. One can adjust the Working to be shorther or longer, though, if needed. Instead of year-by-year Working we will Work this year during that one week (13th-20th of July) with three special sections of our future's. The first of these includes the coming next few years. This means years that one can potentially fairly well plan, hope and dream about, and to Work towards these fairly well-defined goals and dreams. The second of these sections refers to the time between this near future and the very final part of one's physical life. The third, the last section deals with Working about facing physical death and reflecting on what kind of life you Will to live, with what kind of path/book of life you would feel most satisfied with on your body's deathbed as an Initiate, a human being.

The basic three-lense perspective within these three sections of the future in the Working are a) one’s body (one’s natural self and material aspects of one’s universe in general), b) one’s persona (one’s social, cultural self), and c) one’s psyche (one’s non-natural Self). With this basic three lense view one reflects on things that one a) absolutely desire and Will to have or to experience in the future, b) hope/wish for in the future, c) fear to experience in the future.

At the end of each of these main three sections of the Working (near future, time between near future and the final phase of life, and the final phase), one writes a letter to one's future self of those sections. The letters are then sealed and stored, and opened and read later during one's life when the time is right.

These letters, as the whole Working again, is aimed to serve us to Remember our most Noble Selves, and accordingly to gain understanding on how to make the best out of this path between natural birth and death in order to do glory to our non-natural potential, our Selves, and the Highest of Life.

Aletheia.

In memory of Toni Stranius

Toni Stranius 1972 - 2006 CE

I Remember

Photo by Tapio Kotkavuori

I Remember / the ancient hills / the wind on my face / the will to power / the runes / the gods and goddesses / the eternal stories / the myths and their living truth / snow and ice against my raised hands in Might.

I Remember myself through all of that / I've been there / I Am / I always will Be.

I Remember that with firm inner quiet strenght of the eternal present / and I look at this madness of the modern world / that scream in its desperation for something Real / and do not even recognize that / just rushing forth like an insane hurricane / destroying itself / a tragic age.

I Remember the mysteries / breathing in and through them / I Remember and I embrace the Holy / raising the horn filled with the mead of the All-Father / and I open my mouth for the first time again / Purity in direct experience of Real! / I Remember! / Wassail!

:RtR:

Karhunhampaankantaja

Sendings to the universe

I started to write a foreword to the 3rd print of Vasemman Käden Polku today. At the same time the book's first English print is under proof-reading. My Finnish translation of the Sacred Magic of Abra-Melin the Mage and foreword to it is little by little getting ready too and the manuscript of Aletheia: In search of Self-Remembering is becoming fatter. My writing projects are developing steadily towards the direction I have envisioned them to go and to do their effect on the tissue of the universe. On tô aletheias pedion I see this is Good.

Into the crypt of rays

Some things endure the test of time. I witnessed one of them from my past the last Sunday. Uhh!