Yes I remember seeing that too - I thought it might have been incorporated into the other, original and larger Liber Bogus thread, but no. I’m assumi...

I would like to express my astonishment that this thread of miscellaneous flotsam & jetsam, quite against the odds, has managed to sustain such a ...

"obscuruspaintus" wrote: Personally I have never viewed Thelema as a religion but more as a method. For sixteen years I wore army dog tags ...

"ignant666" wrote: [...] Wikipedia says US (c)OTO has about 1,500 members "obscuruspaintus" wrote: [...] I found the O.T.O....

Yes, ignant666, I also agree your estimate (guesstimate? swagestimate?) seems 'reasonable'! "ignant666" wrote: Somewhere in between "scores...

Just a word of acknowledgement & appreciation: the fine example of your scholarship, care & presentation of your research should stand as an i...

"david" wrote: "jamie barter" wrote: "... Is it so fantastically hard to do, or are you just trying to be deliberately pervers...

"david" wrote: "Tao" wrote: Gaia is simply the Greek name for Mother Earth. Her protective shield is our atmosphere which, as ...

You’ve adopted a slightly different tone, in that you may be being ironic although so subtly done it’s hard to tell. Had you been drinking or imbibi...

"david" wrote: "jamie barter" wrote: Why is it only “achievable for real then"? What would have made it unreal before? And i...

In response to my "jamie barter" wrote: In response toReply #166 by david on: July 12, 2015, 01:32:31 pm:Where do you think DNA came from? ...

“And here's another thing!” (I seem to have omitted...) "david" wrote: "jamie barter" wrote: and whether you acknowledge that ...

"david" wrote: "jamie barter" wrote: By the way you still haven’t answered my points in Reply #24, david? Specifically my qu...

In response toReply #166 by david on: July 12, 2015, 01:32:31 pm:Where do you think DNA came from? That's a question y'all don't want to face.Yeeharr...

"david" wrote: Just an important reminder that "planes" and/or"sephiroth" are not real but are a metaphor. OTOH, Leary's brain circuits ap...

Seems like a fair cop there - well spotted! People have lost their reputations for far less apparent plagiarism...This “Euroclydon of misunderstandin...

Reply #15 by david on: July 12, 2015, 02:59:03 am:Read up on what AC said in his published diaries about colonizing Venus. I know it sounds laughable...

"Shiva" wrote: [...] I am simultaneously right and wronged 😀 and you should pay no attention to anything I say.[...] Cf. “Pay no attent...

Incidentally, you may already be aware of this but if you do decide to some practical work/ rituals best not to forget the aphorism “divine short, enc...

I would contend this is not such an outlandish speculation as might seem. In my essay on Black and Blue Magick (otherwise entitiled Metaphor, Media, ...

Reply #6 by david on: July 11, 2015, 06:19:35 pm:Quote from: jamie barter on July 11, 2015, 04:33:36 pm:“Why do you consider that (Gurdjieff and Crow...

Things seem to have gone quiet with TheGreyWizard over the last week. Maybe he is marshalling his resources. (Perhaps on the next occasion he’ll com...

Do you actually fully read people’s replies to you, david? Or do you just prefer to watch youtube & view Wikiporridge? I ask, because one of the...

Well that doesn’t seem too bad does it, for an average “stone”?! And for what was marketed as a “legal” high, this seems to contradict your findings ...

Going by your link you supplied here, this “news” which you’ve heard is apparently from May 2008, david. (?!) It must have been some while ago when y...

In this crazy thread of all things to all people, where has this notion of an “official” Thelema or Thelemites originated anyway?N Joy

Seems as if it may literally be like a lot of “hot air” about nothing... What gain did you actually receive from smoking this mixture – i.e., what mad...

The problem with this question though is: what if anyone who did got too "high" to be able to remember it? :oNorma n Joy conquest

Further to my observation in Reply #96 and matters touched on elsewhere in this unusual thread, the following may throw some additional light on matte...

"david" wrote: "Tao" wrote: What an excellent question (masked within horrid grammar). "Reason is a whore". I hear that som...

"the_real_simon_iff" wrote: 93! "rkaczynski" wrote: It was very exciting to uncover a previously-unknown piece of Crowleyana! ...

"michaelclarke18" wrote: Perhaps the main trouble with strong psychoactive agents is their unpredictability and that one is not always in c...

Thank you for the supplemental information Richard.Your remark "rkaczynski" wrote: In the late 1980s, I wrote to Christina Foyle asking aft...

Perhaps the main trouble with strong psychoactive agents is their unpredictability and that one is not always in control of the situation. (But then ...

"david" wrote: [...T]his attempt to shout down Los’s attempts for clarity as to what Thelema is, is very flawed and myopic. Imo, I am diss...

"Shiva" wrote: "jamie barter" wrote: I’m confused – perhaps someone can help advise what this thread is now meant to be about ...

"OKontrair" wrote: There is no extra content. If this was the entire lecture, maybe for various reasons Crowley read. Very slowly. Enu...

"david" wrote: Actually Jamie, no that's wrong. I do not want to discuss RH now because the moderator locked the thread and the subject se...

"Tao" wrote: You have poured the full depth and breadth of your creative soul into two poetic concretisations of your feelings about Radica...

I’m confused – perhaps someone can help advise what this thread is now meant to be about, or is it a general “free-for-all”? (I don’t believe there is...

"Los" wrote: For what it's worth -- and I'll speak for me here, not for a "camp" -- I would not deny that AC's work is fundamentally about ...

You appear to know more than most about this lecture, michael – so on the basis of this, if it’s “clearly a fragment” can you possibly inform if this ...

What exactly is it he is supposed to quote here, david? It would have been helpful if you could have supplied that information, as I don’t know wheth...

"Michael Staley" wrote: I'm sorry you responded to the opening post in this thread, Jamie. I was hoping that the thread would just be ignor...

"david" wrote: I'm contemplating how a human being could or would actually draw that conclusion. Simply enough, by association. Are you...

Hmm, Re. Troll... troll... troll, eh? This wouldn't be any relation to "The Troll-ey Song", as sung by Judy Garland, I suppose? The one that goes:♫ ...

"EDIT": Please excuse the possibly slightly confusing mis-quotation made in the previous post: instead of[…] However, we should all study Jung. His f...

You’re quite right William: now you come to mention it, it doesn’t seem to have been a particularly long speech. Perhaps there was a big question tim...

Thank you for answering with your usual resourcefulness, belmurru. "belmurru" wrote: [...] It sounds like he is referring to an E-meter (El...