"For darkness will be preferred to light; it will be thought better to die than to live; none will raise his eyes towards heaven; the pious man will be thought mad, the impious, wise; the frenzied will be thought brave, the worst criminal a good man. The soul and all the beliefs attached to it, according to which the soul is immortal by nature or forsees that it can obtain immortality as I have taught you--this will be laughed at and thought nonsense. And believe me, it will be considered a capital crime under the law to give oneself to the religion of the mind. A new justice will be created and new laws. Nothing holy, nothing pious, nothing worthy of heaven and of the gods who dwell there, will be any more spoken of nor will find credence in the soul.___The gods will separate themselves from men, deplorable divorce. Only the evil angels will remain who will mingle with men, and constrain them by violence--miserable creatures--to all the excesses of criminal audacity, engaging themselves in wars, brigandage, frauds, and in everything which is contrary to the nature of the soul. Then the earth will lose its equilibrium, the sea will no longer be navigable, the heaven will no longer be full of stars, the stars will stop their courses in the heaven. Every divine voice will be silenced, and will be silent. The fruits of the earth will moulder, the soil will be no longer fertile, the air itself will grow thick with a lugubrious torpor.___Such will be the old age of the world, irreligion, disorder, confusion of all goods. When all these things have come to pass, O Asclepius, then the Lord and Father, the god first in power and the demiurge of the One God, having considered these customs and voluntary crimes, endeavouring by his will, which is the divine will, to bar the way to vices and universal corruption and to correct errors, he will annihilate all malice, either by effacing it in a deluge or by consuming it by fire, or destroying it by pestilential maladies diffused in many places. Then he will bring back the world to its first beauty, so that this world may again be worthy of reverance and admiration, and that God also, creator and restorer of so great a work, may be glorified by the men who shall live then in continual hymns of praise and benedictions. That is what the rebirth of the world will be; a renewal of all good things, a holy and most solemn restoration of Nature herself, imposed by force in the course of time...by the will of God."

Gaspar Noe, Roman Polanski, Takashi Miike, Ingmar Bergman, Wachowski Brothers, David Lynch, Alfred Hitchcock, Jay Weidner, Chance Gardner, Kenneth Anger, Guillermo del Toro, Paul Wegener, The Hughes Brothers, Leni Riefenstahl, Dario Argento, Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Ridley Scott, Stephen Somers, Bram Stoker, Oliver Stone, Alejandro Jodorowski, Peter Greenaway, Dusan Makavejev, Richard Linklater, M. Night Shyamalan, Fruit Chan, Park Chan-wook, Kim Jee-woon, Nonzee Nimibutr, Peter Ho-sun Chan, Darren Aronofsky, Erich Von Stroheim, Robert Wiene, Fritz Lang...and am currently searching for new influences.

Libri of Aleister Crowley

What I'm currently reading for college:

1. Independent study on William Blake

-Why Mrs. Blake Cried: William Blake and the sexual basis of spiritual vision by Marsha Keith Schuchard

-Energy and the Imagination: The Development of Blake's Thought by Morton D. Paley

-Blake and the Assimilation of Chaos by Christine Gallant

-The Unholy Bible: Blake, Jung, and the Collective Unconscious by June Singer

-The Divine Image: A Study of Blake's Interpretation of Christianity by Margarett Bottrall

-Blake and Goethe: Psychology, Ontology, Imagination by Martin Bidney

-From Blake to "A Vision" by Kathleen Raine

-Between Blake and Nietzsche: The Reality of Culture by Harvey Birenbaum

2. Harlem Renaissance

-Up From Slavery by Booker T. Washington

-The Souls of Black Folk by Du Bois

-Harlem Renaissance Reader edited by David Levering Lewis

3. Internet Scams

-On Bullshit by Frankfurt

4. The Crusades

-The Rare and Excellent History of Saladin translated by D.S. Richards

5. Civil Rights

6. Travel and Knowledge in Islamic Middle East

-The Rise of Islam by Matthew S. Gordon

-The Travels of Ibn Jubayr

-Daily Life in the Medieval Islamic World by James E. Lindsay

7. Historical Inquiry

-How to Study History by Cantor and Schneider

-Going to the Sources by Anthony Brundage

8. Holocaust Studies

-History of the Holocaust by Yehuda Bauer

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"Hereupon I began to declare that All my life time I had spent in learning: but for this forty years continually, in sundry manners, and in divers Countries, with great pain, care, and cost, I had from degree to degree, sought to come by the best knowledge that man might attain unto in the world: And I found (at length) that neither any man living, nor any Book I could yet meet withal, was able to teach me those truths I desired, and longed for: And therefore I concluded with my self, to make intercession and prayer to the giver of wisdom and all good things, to send me such wisdom, as I might know the natures of his creatures; and also enjoy means to use them to his honour and glory."
--John Dee (from a conversation with Rudolph II)


Organizations: Ordo Templi Orientis, Vickery Lodge #1351 (Masons), Mankind Enlightenment Love, S.H.Y.

Currently in college studying human behavior and intellectual history. Vistacare Hospice Volunteer (Patient Support, Bereavement Counseling, 11th Hour Program). Odyssey Hospice Volunteer (11th Hour Program).

"And so, Glaucon, the tale has been saved and not lost. If we believe it, it will save us, too, and we shall make a safe crossing of the river of Lethe and keep our souls undefiled. But if I am also able to convince you when I affirm that soul is immortal and able to bear every evil and every good, we shall always hold to the upper way and in every way practice justice with wisdom. So shall we be friends to the gods and to ourselves both in this life and when we go to claim our rewards, like the victors in the games go forth to gather their prizes. So shall we fare well here and during that thousand-year journey whose story I have now told you."

"Experiments conducted by researcher Herbert Krugman reveal that when a person watches television, brain activity switches from the left to the right hemisphere. The left hemisphere is the seat of logical thought. Here, information is broken down into its component parts and critically analyzed. The right brain, however, treats incoming data uncritically, processing information in wholes, leading to emotional, rather than logical responses. The shift from left to right brain activity also causes the release of endorphins, the body's own natural opiates--thus, it is possible to become physically addicted to watching television, a hypothesis borne out by numerous studies which have shown that very few people are able to kick the television habit. It's no longer an overstatement to note that the youth today that are raised and taught through network television are intellectually dead by their early teens.

The dumbing down of humanity is represented by another shift which occurs in the brain when we watch television. Activity in the higher brain regions (such as the neo-cortex) is diminished, while activity in the lower brain regions (such as the limbic system) increases. The latter, commonly referred to as the reptile brain, is associated with more primitive mental functions, such as the "fight or flight" response. The reptile brain is unable to distinguish between reality and the simulated reality of television. To the reptile brain, if it looks real, it is real. Thus, though we know on a conscious level it is "only a film," on an unconscious level we do not--the heart beats faster, for instance, while we watch a suspenseful scene. Similarly, we know the commercial is trying to manipulate us, but on an unconscious level the commercial nonetheless succeeds in, say, making us feel inadequate until we buy whatever thing is being advertised--and the effect is all the more powerful because it is unconscious, operating on the deepest level of human response. The reptile brain makes it possible for us to survive as biological beings, but it also leaves us vulnerable to the manipulations of television programmers. This is where the manipulators use our own emotions as strings to control us. The distortions and directions we are being moved to are taking place in the subconscious, often undetected." (Mass Mind Control Through Network Television-article from rense.com)

http://www.rense.com/general69/mass.htm