Steve 3 Shirt Bannon Suggested I Share Some of this with You: Aliester Crowley, The Dark Enlightenment, Angeles Arrien and the Thoth Tarot
Life Choices for Us all: Based on Free Will
I have dreaded writing this a long while until grace began to send me inspiration as I mention in my post on the Tarot. The first part I will share what I believe Bannon and the Russians are doing with Aliester Crowley who called himself a Ritualist. I highly recommend reading all of the Wikipedia entry on him as he was much more than a Ritualist and tried every “practice” of perversion in my opinion one can imagine. and many are still following him.
Notice Bannon always wears three shirts. I’d call that ritualistic. Also somewhere I read him, who claims to be an anarchist, saying he could talk to anyone and when you hear him he often changes his views. In an article I found the interviewer say he felt enchanted. Not sure I have a copy for you. As an epigeneticist I’d say he has issues with what we call the gut brain axis which can cause many illnesses especially with the brain and that’s off topic.
I suspect Bannon sees himself as card two in the Thoth deck: the Magus/ Magician. This is rich with symbols and you can explore and my intention is to contrast this with Arrien’s interpretation.
Many believe Crowley was a Satinist and tried to call up Demons. Check Reddit for discussions. I hope to show how the tech bros in my view have done just this today, In my pro democracy tarot groups we have long felt that Putin is into dark arts so I was astounded to find this academic papers. They have had conferences for years on the Thoth. For those who want to learn of the Russian interest in the Thoth you can get a free account to an amazing academic site: Academia.edu I searched both Crowley and Thoth and found one author and more. The translations they offer are excellent.
Moving into the Dark Enlightenment
Like many I am anti fascist. I grew up in California during the days of Jerry Brown. Author and Democratic activist, Gil Duran worked especially with Brown and now he has become the go to on the deeply anti-democratic, racist incels that make up what most call the tech bros. I grew up near Silicon Valley and watched how it changed. Most of the core group including Elon Musk came from South Africa and are very pro Apartheid. Highly recommend Gil’s free blog: Nerd Reich
As this is such a great overview of these that seek to destroy us I will begin with a KQED interview with Gil that puts a lot in a short time. : Gil Duran KQED Interview.
Second as we enter the Dark Enlightenment Gil makes it clear that this gang, who began as the PayPal Mafia, see Wikipedia, now as we understand, they believe in control by technology and share OUR INFORMATION with Russia and who knows else. Here is a Ted Talk by an English woman who dared report on them: calling it a tech coup:
Carole Cadwalladr Warns of 'Digital Coup' in TED Talk
Let’s Head for the Light!
As I mentioned in my earlier piece on finding inspiration using tarot I purposefully kept it simple. Truth is I have bought all my books and cards on Amazon. I use them less but as my finances are slim who cares. So you may want to see this Wikipedia page to learn more and Academia has many articles on them as Jung, Arrien and myself are Jungian. Like any card we have a dark and a light side. And we explore and get to choose that is, we have FREE WILL. Here’s a Wikipedia page I like: Tarot Card Reading.
From Starhawk: “ Language shapes consciousness, and the use of language ri shape consciousness is an important branch of magic.” —-Dreaming the Dark
As you learn to introspect and know yourself you may find many synchronicities in life. Note how the Thoth has a suit called TRUMPS! Secondly Crowley had a partner, Frieda Harris who painted the complex designs. Lastly I have love Arrien a long time and highly recommend her shorter books that need no cards. Her passion was finding UNIVERSAL SYMBOLS. She was Basque and received and honorarium at my college. The book below is rich with processes for self knowing, Here is the deck I chose with the book: Thoth Tarot. I do a daily pull from the cards then read the little book that is with them and then get the real deal with the big book which is done in newsprint
I am going to let this fly though I have much more, Look for pro democracy readers on YouTube. Quite a powerful community of love and respect. This should help keep our minds on a life of beauty while we bring down the beast. Still having formatting issues. This newsletter will always be free. Blessings and Well being all.