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Beltaine May 6th
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References
The Dawn of Everything
*PDF of The Dawn of Everything for our council …**New Link***The Dawn of Everything website with more to explore, or buy the book(or for sale on AK Press $25 https://www.akpress.org/the-dawn-of-everything.html )
May 13th References
*Stephen Karcher I-Ching (available for rent on Internet Archive)
*Visionary Activist Guidelines
*Otherworld Well Hedge School with Seán
*Zora Neale Hurston’s High John de Conquer (PDF available for download)
*Alexis (councilmate) shares: How Universal Principles And Patterns Will Shape Our New Economy (PDF)
*Pages 371-491 (or thereabouts) in The Dawn of Everything about Teotihuacan … (page 380) “HOW THE PEOPLE OF TEOTIHUACAN TURNED THEIR BACKS ON MONUMENT-BUILDING AND HUMAN SACRIFICE, AND INSTEAD EMBARKED ON A REMARKABLE PROJECT OF SOCIAL HOUSING”
May 20th References
Caroline Recommends:
– Erica Lagalisse “Occult Features of Anarchism” https://lagalisse.net/occult-features-of-anarchism/
– Available as pdf on The Anarchist Library: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/category/author/erica-lagalisse– Beau of the 5th Column “Let’s talk about community networks and what you can do….” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQWp5xRelI0&ab_channel=BeauoftheFifthColumn
– Caroline’s ubiquity university talk that includes the Kogi Prophecy as a reference (played therein) https://vimeo.com/910866613/c006b55a16?share=copy
– John Berger’s “Way of Seeing”
– Eddy Recommends:
– Terrence Howard on Joe Rogan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g197xdRZsW0&ab_channel=PowerfulJRE
– The Immortality Key, Brian C. Muraresku https://www.brianmuraresku.com/the-immortality-key
– Peter Tompkins “The Secret Life of Plants” https://ia800702.us.archive.org/34/items/TheSecretLifeOfPlants_201811/The%20Secret%20Life%20of%20Plants.pdf
– Peter Lamborn Wilson … https://archive.org/search?query=creator%3A%22Peter+Lamborn+Wilson%22
– Seán Recommends:
-Stephen Harrod Buhner’s teaching of the Heart connection to all life ….
– Book: “The Secret Teachings of Plants: The Intelligence of the Heart in the Direct Perception of Nature https://forestandmeadow.com/products/the-secret-teachings-of-plants
– Video: Wake Up Twice In The Morning | Your Heart Is Your Sixth Sense | Stephen Harrod Buhner https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRkeWLHQhRc&ab_channel=TheSacredScience
– one of my favorite cross border conversations ever — https://www.lionsroar.com/bell-hooks-talks-to-john-perry-barlow/
From the Council:
– Alexis recommends: The Sermons I Needed to Hear Right Now, The Ezra Klein Show https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-sermons-i-needed-to-hear-right-now/id1548604447?i=1000635157164
Theo recommends: Storytelling Festival in NY, May 31-June 2, check it out! https://centerforsacredstudies.betterworld.org/events/storytelling-festival
– and Check out the International Peace Coalition, meeting on Zoom, Fridays 11-1pm, https://mailchi.mp/e6ef199f76f6/ipc28-13753505?e=ab531bf25c– Eryn recommends: Malidoma Somé’s “Of Water and the Spirit: Ritual, Magic, and Initiation in the Life of an African Shaman”
May 28th References
-Wilding: Lady Isabella Tree https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uw084uIMo8Y
– Intro Song: Cool of the Day, Kith&Kin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oa09aTR8qQk– Outro Song: Natalia Lafourcade – María la Curandera– Leonard PeltierPetition to Grant Clemency for Native American Elder Leonard Peltier– Council of AncestorsVine Victor Deloria Jr. was an author, theologian, historian, and activist for Native American rightsJohn Trudell was an indigenous rights activist and poetBradley Roland Will was an independent journalist, killed in Oaxaca, Mexico in 2006Rachel Aliene Corrie was an American nonviolence activist, killed in Gaza in 2003 by Israeli soldiersBerta Cáceres – Berta Isabel Cáceres Flores (4 March 1971 – 3 March 2016) was a Honduran (Lenca – “People of The Jaguar”) environmental activist & indigenous leader. The chant that rose up after her death was “Berta Didn’t Die, She Multiplied!” 30min film: https://vimeo.com/243485649– Qabbalist visioningcirca 9:16pm“the occipital… that’s the doorway, that’s the portal whereby images enter the world through visioning.… experiment with moving the desirable image to the back of the head…”– Cave of Forgotten Dreams2010 documentary film by Werner Herzog about the Chauvet Cave in Southern France, which contains some of the oldest human-painted images yet discovered—some of them were crafted around 32,000 years ago.– Kabir, translated by Robert BlyFrom The Kabir Book: Forty-Four of the Ecstatic Poems of Kabir by Robert Bly.Friend, hope for the Guest while you are alive.
Jump into experience while you are alive!
Think… and think… while you are alive.
What you call “salvation” belongs to the time before death.
If you do not break your ropes while you’re alive
do you think
that ghosts will do it after?The idea that the soul will join with the ecstatic
just because the body is rotten —
that is all fantasy.
What is found now is found then.
If you find nothing now,
you will simply end up with an apartment in the City of Death.
If you make love with the divine now, in the next life you will have the face of satisfied desire.So plunge into the truth, find out who the Teacher is, Believe in the Great Sound!
Kabir says this: When the guest is being searched for, it is the intensity of the longing for the guest that does all the work.
Look at me, and you will see a slave of that intensity.From: Beacon Press; Reprint edition (February 1, 1993)
– Dawn of Everything: Ukrainepg 315 Imaginary Cities: Eurasia’s first urbanites – in Mesopotamia, the Indus valley, Ukraine and China – and how they built cities without kingsp 328 ON ‘MEGA-SITES’, AND HOW ARCHAEOLOGICAL FINDINGS IN UKRAINE ARE OVERTURNING CONVENTIONAL WISDOM ON THE ORIGINS OF CITIES
June 3rd References
– #6 “In all things, great and small, I see the Beauty of the Divine Expression.” Pattern on the Trestleboard by Builders of the Adytum https://www.bota.org/resources/the-pattern-on-the-trestleboard
– Calamus
Eryn found this The Herb Society of America Blog: https://herbsocietyblog.wordpress.com/2022/10/10/well-well-what-do-we-have-here-a-tale-of-two-acorus-species/– Passionate Enlightenment: Women in Tantric Buddhism by Miranda Shaw
Historians of religion have long held that this attempted enlightenment was for men only, and that women in the movement were at best marginal and subordinated and at worst degraded and exploited. In Passionate Enlightenment, Miranda Shaw argues to the contrary and presents extensive evidence of the outspoken and independent female founders of the Tantric movement and their creative role in shaping its distinctive vision of gender relations and sacred sexuality.– super pertinent to now, The Day Israel Attacked America
https://youtu.be/tx72tAWVcoM?si=cCno8cbt3_udOXPR– Daniel Levi, Israeli Peace Negotiator, On the proposed Peace deal, As this be on our council worktable…. https://youtu.be/Hv74Gwin0DM?si=tHqcie2u38TzSB4e
– Flash of the Spirit: African & Afro-American Art & Philosophy
by Robert Farris ThompsonElegba bestows “Ashé” … “an honor of righteous living, not a right… this means that one must cultivate the art of recognizing significant communication, knowing what is truth and what is falsehood, or even the lesson of the crossroad… will be lost.”
June 10th References
(see post for full references and links)
- Seán’s latest book is now available! https://otherworldwell.com/pages/books
– Intro: Canto a Élegguá, Sexto Sentido– Carlin – Don’t Need Full Conspiracy– Outro: 100 Days, Bengsons“Language grants us access to the realm we describe, if we speak of it, we can go there.”“No prison for the unexpected.”-Caroline“May all our borders become edges… in fertile and productive ways rather than be so sharply divided”-Seán– Gurdjieffian Level System– Visionary Activist Guidelines: https://trickstertraining.com/visionary-activist-guidelines/Ancestors:– Wilhelm Reich– June Jordan– Audre Lorde– Deep Ecology:Caroline hosts Ayana Young, land steward/protector, animating stories of environmental and social justice, deep ecology (“Ecologia profunda”), and land-based restoration through her podcast & radio show For the Wild.– Neil Douglas Klotz, Aramaic translation of the Bible “Blessed are those who plant peace”
June 17th References
(see post for full references and links)– – SymbolicSym – togetherbolic – to throw(versus diabolic)Graeber:“At their very simplest, anarchist beliefs turn on to two elementary assumptions. The first is that human beings are, under ordinary circumstances, about as reasonable and decent as they are allowed to be, and can organize themselves and their communities without needing to be told how. The second is that power corrupts. Most of all, anarchism is just a matter of having the courage to take the simple principles of common decency that we all live by, and to follow them through to their logical conclusions.”Are You An Anarchist? The Answer May Surprise You!
– PanchatantraThe Panchatantra (IAST: Pañcatantra, ISO: Pañcatantra, Sanskrit: पञ्चतन्त्र, “Five Treatises”) is an ancient Indian collection of interrelated animal fables in Sanskrit verse and prose, arranged within a frame story.[2] The surviving work is dated to about 200 BCE, but the fables are likely much more ancient.[3][4]– Gotta know,Project 2025 … https://www.project2025.org/– Project 2025 is the effort of a massive coalition of conservative organizations …– Project 2025 is being organized by The Heritage Foundation– “Mandate for Leadership” https://static.project2025.org/2025_MandateForLeadership_FULL.pdf– Resetting our Default, that our manner of relating be an offering rather than an imposition… with no expectation of how it be received … Woof*woof*wanna*play?!?– Deepening into metaphor, description, tangible, manner of relating … where’s the mango, the cloak …
