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Metaphysics of whistleblowing…Caroline welcomes the return of John Kiriakou, CIA whistle blower who has journeyed through the Underworld – to emerge as liberating citizen trickster, with language craft!
What are Underworld skills do we need? that we may dispel the distracting bamboozlements, and align with rising tide of sane reverent ingenuity.
www.johnkiriakou.com
Twitter @JohnKiriakou
Here’s what I wrote to John,
we want to invite our mythic selves to cavort…
(even when someone might be disguised as a grown-up)
he responded, “sounds great”):
Remembering that radio is an opportunity for collective magic…& that the protoplasm of reality is especially receptive to imaginative imprint… let’s critique the horrific and animate the desirable, lest we leave opportunity by default to the Dementors of Doom, Mirror*Window*Door.
Merlin illustration by Frank Godwin
If we think of you as having elements of Carl Jung and Merlin, and why not? – what would you most like to be revealed, rendered harmless, and – in the fullness of times- an occasion for collective liberating mirth? (What are the distracting sleight of hand bamboozling narratives?)
and what Intelligence in the collective shall we bless, and encourage- an opportunity for a clarion call, to contribute to a rising tide of sanity.
And the value of journeying through the Underworld – to emerge as liberating citizen trickster, with language craft.
What are Underworld skills we need? Metaphoric narrative: You worked for Intelligence – now you work for authentic Intelligence.
Valuable intriguing article by Kashmir Hill
on blocking Amazon, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and Apple for 6 weeks
Goodbye Big Five
Reporter Kashmir Hill spent six weeks blocking Amazon, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and Apple from getting her money, data, and attention, using a custom-built VPN. Here’s what happened.
https://gizmodo.com/i-cut-the-big-five-tech-giants-from-my-life-it-was-hel-1831304194
A decorated hieroglyphic carving of an ancient egyptian artist painting on a wall. Inner wall at the Temple of Abydos in Egypt. The temple is dedicated to the god of the dead – Osiris.
and great Allan Moore (via Joseph Barney):
“There is some confusion as to what magic actually is. I think this can be cleared up if you just look at the very earliest descriptions of magic. Magic in its earliest form is often referred to as “the art”. I believe this is completely literal. I believe that magic is art and that art, whether it be writing, music, sculpture, or any other form is literally magic. Art is, like magic, the science of manipulating symbols, words, or images, to achieve changes in consciousness. The very language about magic seems to be talking as much about writing or art as it is about supernatural events. A grimmoir for example, the book of spells is simply a fancy way of saying grammar. Indeed, to cast a spell, is simply to spell, to manipulate words, to change people’s consciousness. And I believe that this is why an artist or writer is the closest thing in the contemporary world that you are likely to see to a Shaman.
I believe that all culture must have arisen from cult. Originally, all of the faucets of our culture, whether they be in the arts or sciences were the province of the Shaman. The fact that in present times, this magical power has degenerated to the level of cheap entertainment and manipulation, is, I think a tragedy. At the moment the people who are using Shamanism and magic to shape our culture are advertisers. Rather than try to wake people up, their Shamanism is used as an opiate to tranquilize people, to make people more manipulable. Their magic box of television, and by their magic words, their jingles can cause everyone in the country to be thinking the same words and have the same banal thoughts all at exactly the same moment.
In all of magic there is an incredibly large linguistic component. The Bardic tradition of magic would place a bard as being much higher and more fearsome than a magician. A magician might curse you. That might make your hands lay funny or you might have a child born with a club foot. If a Bard were to place not a curse upon you, but a satire, then that could destroy you. If it was a clever satire, it might not just destroy you in the eyes of your associates; it would destroy you in the eyes of your family. It would destroy you in your own eyes. And if it was a finely worded and clever satire that might survive and be remembered for decades, even centuries. Then years after you were dead people still might be reading it and laughing at you and your wretchedness and your absurdity. Writers and people who had command of words were respected and feared as people who manipulated magic. In latter times I think that artists and writers have allowed themselves to be sold down the river. They have accepted the prevailing belief that art and writing are merely forms of entertainment. They’re not seen as transformative forces that can change a human being; that can change a society. They are seen as simple entertainment; things with which we can fill 20 minutes, half an hour, while we’re waiting to die. It’s not the job of the artist to give the audience what the audience wants. If the audience knew what they needed, then they wouldn’t be the audience. They would be the artists. It is the job of artists to give the audience what they need.”
-Alan Moore
Alan Moore
Neptune (NASA / Corbis)
note in John’s chart below,
the Carl Jung like Sun in Leo square Neptune,
a lifelong wondering about illusion-delusion & power of symbols…
The Moon in Virgo (Like me, Witches-Wizards language maven Moon)
is betwixt Pluto-the journey to the Underworld,
and Uranus Liberating Trickster
