Spendy liveblogs "Jim Morrison: Secret Teacher of the Occult"

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Yes IDK when people start talking about quantum mechanics I think. I dunno. I don't think the physicists even know what to make of quantum mechanics, are we really sure that the late author and healer of Plant Spirit Medicine understands

14. Before Einstein, physicists believed space was filled with aether, a “sea” of invisibly tiny particles, permeating everything. Particles so small that molecules move through them like fish move through water molecules. Einstein abandoned aether with his theories of relativity in 1905 and 1915, simplifying reality in a way that led to the creation of convoluted theories that defy logic. Even mainstream physicists admit that the dominant model of the quantum (subatomic) world is incomprehensible—Richard Feynmann, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1965, said in 1964, "I think I can safely say that nobody understands quantum mechanics.”

15. Before Einstein, light was theorized to be a wave that moves through aether particles, like how sound, a level up, is a wave that moves through atoms. By abandoning aether, Einstein had to say that light was both a wave and a particle (able to travel through empty space) and that nothing could go faster than light. Without aether, Einstein also had to invent a new explanation for gravity. Previously, Isaac Newton, Georges-Louis Le Sage, Lord Kelvin, and other physicists viewed gravity as having to do with the motion of aether particles, pushing or pulling objects toward one another. Einstein argued that gravity is caused by the warping of spacetime; critics of this theory say it describes but does not explain gravity.

16. The Deep State may have something to do with the massive success of Einstein’s aether-denying theories, which became widely accepted during the "golden age of general relativity” from 1960 to 1975. Eisteinian physics benefits the Deep State by (1) stalling the advancement of technologies having to do with aether and (2) making people believe that antigravity and other magical-seeming technologies are obviously impossible.

Antigravity and the Deep State

28-part, ~3000-word essay on the UFO, extraterrestrial, secret technology, dead-end physics, covert government situation.

taolin.substack.com

 

[luka]

 

[Benny Bunter]

Simply one of the most beautiful pieces of music ever recorded that

 

[Benny Bunter]

 

[sus]

from the Lizard King hisself:

The Celebration Of The Lizard by James Douglas Morrison

Comments & analysis: Lions in the street & roaming / Dogs in heat, rabid, foaming

allpoetry.com

 

[sus]

"The East was thought of as a place of birth and growth, and the West was considered the place of death."

The West = Death = Paradise. Gray Havens. Bali Hai forever on the horizon.

The Egyptians called the departed "Westerners"

I wonder if in American culture there is a trend to reversing this polarity? The East Coast stagnating, dying, the old world. The West Coast younger, fresher, earlier in the decadence spiral. New York is full of luddites who wear black leather because they saw it on a 60s album cover. San Francisco has self-driving cars and the people there wear black leather to signal that they'll do the spanking.

 

[sus]

"In the Nile lands, images had from ancient times been treated as living, active beings. Since the beginning Egypt had been the home of magical statues whose occult powers could affect the physical world."

I think sometimes about how life imitates art, how you can pick up an affect or a mood or a stance just from looking at a photograph, a statue. A statue is para-social, para-agentic. It is an emissary of an agent that the agent has put out to act on its behalf. Like how medieval Popes and Kings would send paintings of themselves abroad, to act as surrogate for them in negotiations and missionary conquests.

 

[sus]

You also have the notion of sympathetic magic, that if you can alter some representation of the thing (a voodoo doll, stereotypically) you can alter the thing itself.

 

[sus]

It is interesting that what Morrison was arrested for was indecent exposure. He was naked, like Adam. He wasn't wearing his social costume. He drank enough to remove his inhibitions and then he stripped himself bared it all so they had to take him away.

 

[sus]

Wyld says Morrison is the reincarnation of Alexander the Great, you can tell because they have the same beautiful flowing golden locks and also Jim's dad was a general like Philip.

That was his "Apollonian" persona. He had a darker side, a double named Jimbo who only came out when he drank. Ray Manzarek describes the personality as a "dark Irish drunk."

 

[sus]

He called his father The Commander. Wyld—following Jean Bowen's "Gods in Everyman: A New Psychology of Men's Lives and Loves"—calls the Admiral a "Sky Father."

a patriarchal god or authoritarian male who lives in the heavens, on mountaintops, or in the sky; thus they rule above and from a distance. They expect to be obeyed, and have the right to do what they please as long as they are chief gods.

Wyld is always citing these crazy people. At one point he mentions a four-stage model of consciousness he got from an "American alchemical acupuncturist."

OK so Morrison wants desperately to get out from under his father's thumb, doesn't want to follow his father's footsteps and join the military which is the track he's on by default. But he needs a spark some source of energy to get him out of the track he's on and get him onto a different one. The book on the occult, stolen from the library, is one spoke. Lawrence of Arabia is another. As Wyld tells it these both reinforce his notion that he can reinvent himself, become someone totally new, and what's more, become a different sort of leader than his father—become a man who holds a very different sort of power by wielding 'dark' Dionysian forces toward anarchic ends.

 

[sus]

The most important single fact in the early history of Western religion and sociology was undoubtedly the gradual suppression of the Lunar Mother-goddess’s inspiratory cult, and its suppression… by the busy, rational solar cult of the Solar God Apollo, who rejected the Orphic tree-alphabet in favor of the commercial Phoenician alphabet—the familiar ABC—and initiated the European literature and science. The moon goddess was the goddess of magic, of the subconscious, of poetic inspiration. Human mythology has been ‘solarized” and then, in the West, Christianized, and the masculine god of reason has usurped an increasingly important place, armed with the irresistible that you can see a thing more clearly by sunlight than by moonlight. But this is untrue. On the contrary, certain things become invisible in a strong light. Highly conscious, rational modes of thought are like a wide net through which all the smaller fish escape. (Collin Wilson, *The Occult: A History*)

Lunar roughly analogous to pagan, to occult, to counterculture. The Solar cult is the cult of transforming energy into lasting structure, the cult of Civilizing and Progress. The Lunar cult is interested in living off the energy of the Sun, it is interested in all the things that Civilizing and Progress fail to see, or destroy, the things it trades away in its rationalizing process.

 

[0bleak]

coincidentally I was watching a program about the book of thoth earlier today:

I didn't finish it, but as it goes into some of the kinds of things you talk about above including people rediscovering things in cycles, you might get something out of it.

 

[0bleak]

also corpus heremticum, tarot, crowley, freemasons, the 60s...

 

[sus]

Once Jim and I were eating at a diner when some navy boys came in and started picking on us about our long hair. The standard taunts: calling us girls and so forth. I muttered something back under my breath, probably a smart-ass remark about their sailor suits.

Which reminds me of the passage in "Arthur McBride":

"But," says Arthur, "I wouldn't be proud of your clothes,
For you've only the lend of them, as I suppose,
But you dare not change them one night, for you know
If you do, you'll be flogged in the morning,

Soldiers for Structure, at their Station, call the self-employed 'freaks.' The freaks shoot back: At least we're free, which is more than you can say.

 

[sus]

Also the Easy Rider scene. Which shows that part of the reason the Sheriffs Of Structure start threatening a beating is because the gals have an eye for bad boys, foreigners, independents.

I read a crazy Grapefruit-type mega blog post last week about how Elvis was domesticated by the CIA because he posed a threat to female sexuality

You get these ideas in Euripides's Bacchae, or Pied Piper stories about the children being led off by a magician. Can't have that. Have to murder him.

 

[0bleak]

I'm guessing the segregation of black musicians also ties into that.
Instead, let's have one of these white guys or bands cover their songs so they can get safe white versions.

 

[Murphy]

Lunar roughly analogous to pagan, to occult, to counterculture. The Solar cult is the cult of transforming energy into lasting structure, the cult of Civilizing and Progress. The Lunar cult is interested in living off the energy of the Sun, it is interested in all the things that Civilizing and Progress fail to see, or destroy, the things it trades away in its rationalizing process.

Don’t Lunar cults feed off the moon?

Moon’s milk mesmerises aloft Burnham Beaches

Syncretism point with The White Goddess, new Stone Age lunar cults shifted to solar metals and in between a mini hammered age of gold erupted with Ireland a key source

Gold is the Metal With the Broadest Shoulders. See Coil and Peter Christopherson working for commercial pop acts

 

[sus]

Don’t Lunar cults feed off the moon?

Yes but that's just reflected sunlight. Might be taking the metaphor too far that's always the danger here. But then you could also err by not taking it far enough.

 

[sus]

Been meaning to read White Goddess for ages, Kent's posts reminded me