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Today is International AIDS Day. Coincidentally, it is also the day that Var finally got his meds. 01/12/2009 = 11 22 9 = 42.

This image is by Keith Haring, died of AIDS at 31, on 2/16/90. I'll leave the red cross symbolism to you.

Gate Crashers

I think it's funny/creepy how CERN gets its StarGATE colliding again, and within days Obama gets a visit from a GATE crasher. Who is dressed exactly like a Nordic Shiva - AKA the Destroyer? Obama, don't look into her blue devil eyes!!! Damn. Too late.

"...now I am become Death (Shiva), the destroyer of worlds..." --physicist Robert Oppenheimer of the Manhattan Project

Focus Pocus

Is that a pyramid in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?

Given the major Horus signifiers I'm seeing lately, the "hard-on" wing sail of the BMW/Oracle America's Cup challenger being the most obvious, I am also seeing a deluge of butts on my favorite gay porn sites. Not that butts aren't always a major feature, but it just seems like suddenly, everyone is a top, and all we want to look at is rosy pink hole. WTF?

I'm reminded of Aleister Crowley's piquant definition of the "Eye of Horus".

"Oh, how superior is the Eye of Horus to the Mouth of Isis!" - Aleister Crowley

Which oddly enough, sounds an awful lot like King David's exclamation of adoration for Jonathan:

Very pleasant wast thou to me; Wonderful was thy love to me, Above the love of women! --2 Samuel 1:26

The sun really DOES shine out his ass.

It began with the latest Titan Studio anal-fest called "Eye Contact". Even ADMIRE got into the down under action this week. But it took Doug at Unnatural Devotions to really bring it home. Doug was doing his usual bang up job of porn reviews, giving a blow by blow description of Liberate Studios RogereD:

"his ass, creamy as a nougat, mouth-wateringly round and smooth, becomes the focal point..."

The FOCAL POINT!? Or is that fecal point? Whatever. Make your sniggering school boy scatological jokes elsewhere, this is serious synchromystic investigation we are doing here at Gosporn!!

The focal point of an image is the point where the eye chooses to linger - a mostly unconscious "decision". There is much diagraming and vectoring in art schools on the subject. The most obvious example of a focal point is in vanishing point perspective, see exhibit A.

Exhibit A

Which brings us around to Exhibit B - the single most famous example of vanishing point perspective in all of collective consciousness, accomplished from within the single "eye" of the Millennium Falcon! An eye that, now that we mention it, has a certain charming resemblance to the segmented muscular rings of... the nether regions.

Exhibit B

Summing up: Horus + asshole = lightspeed, or in today's popular idiom: stargate. To paraphrase the Dark Lord:

"Do not underestimate the power of the backside."

NOTES:

I apologize in advance for offending the sensibilities of DWS (dear web surfer). I attempted to censer the unbelievably hot Titan Men image as best I could.

Via www.hol.com (not making this up):

The EYE OF HORUS has a very specific meaning. The eye is represented as a figure with 6 parts. These 6 parts correspond to the six senses - Touch, Taste, Hearing, Thought, Sight, Smell. These are the 6 parts of the *eye*. The eye is the RECEPTOR of *input*. It has these six doors, to receive data.

The construction of the eye follows very precise laws. The senses are ordered according to their importance. And according to how much energy must be *eaten* by the *eye* for an individual to receive a particular sensation. All of the sensory data input is *food*.

In the Ancient Egyptian measurement system, the EYE OF HORUS represented a fractional quantification system to measure parts of a whole.

Don't Stop Believing

I was going to post a major diatribe this week, feeling the weight of the world on me, when Var had a few good days, and it seemed like the clouds lifted a little. So I smoked a little bowl and I had the most wonderful idea for a marketable design concept, and my mind has been happily focused on that, rather than the end of the world. Now I want the world to continue for a little bit longer... curious.

I sometimes wonder if the End of the World will happen when enough souls on planet Earth wish it to end. Say 51%, but I don't know - global consciousness is probably not a democracy. According to doctrine - we dream our world into existence. Wouldn't it be interesting if the world ended when everyone finally lost faith in the dream?

Now that all our conventional dreams have turned to sand, it becomes difficult to find one to believe in. Jeff Wells at Rigorous Intuition asks where is faith (real faith, not just denial) in the future to be found? Certainly not in what passes for religion or science these days, and not even at RI.

I always turn to either porn or scripture for inspiration, and tonight I have both - the story of Sodom. There is a wonderful scene in Genesis 18 that has Abraham bargaining with God over the fate of Sodom. God says he has heard about the great wickedness of the city, and plans to destroy it. Abraham asks God if he will destroy the righteous with the wicked, and throws out a wild number:

Then Abraham approached him and said: "Will you sweep away the righteous with the wicked? What if there are fifty righteous people in the city? Will you really sweep it away and not spare the place for the sake of the fifty righteous people in it? Far be it from you to do such a thing—to kill the righteous with the wicked, treating the righteous and the wicked alike. Far be it from you! Will not the Judge of all the earth do right?"

God easily agreed, and Abraham suddenly feared he had bid too high. He keeps winnowing down the price until finally it is just 10 righteous men.

Be that as it may, God found less than 10. He did find Lot (Abraham's bro) and he sent a few angels to get him the hell out of town before the bomb fell. I wonder if Sodom wasn't having some kind of existential crisis back then... a total breakdown of faith in a viable future. Maybe they had their own version of global warming/nukes/insane Neocons/Peak Oil/etc. Faith isn't just about wacky religious doctrine. Faith, or confidence, is what gives us the strength to get out of bed every morning! Hit it, Julie:

I Have Confidence! The Sound of Music

Apparently, The Id will keep our world in His imagination as long as there are at least 10 people who still believe in it. Or maybe less, but definitely more than just one. More than a Lot. I'm afraid my faith has its ups and downs. But for both our sakes, don't you lose yours. Don't stop believing. The universe may depend on it.

Don't Stop Believing - Glee. (The gay clowns/clones of G*D)

And will not God bring about justice for his chosen ones, who cry out to him day and night? Will he keep putting them off? I tell you, he will see that they get justice, and quickly. However, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on the earth? Luke 18:7-8

Conjuction Junction

What's your function?

That "Say A Little Prayer" lip-synching video you mentioned was very disturbing yet hot at the same time... --via the Bee Keeper

Spirit of the Lord Upon Joker

I was doing some research lately into the Jewish word Shekhinah, which wikipedia translates as "the dwelling or settling place of God, especially the Temple of Jerusalem". Before the temple, the Israelites would cart God around in a golden box - the Ark of the Covenant, which would lay waste to the enemies of the Chosen People.

We saw the terrible power of the Shekhinah during CNN's gleeful reporting of the "Shock and Awe" campaign against Baghdad at the beginning of the 2003 invasion of Iraq, which I now believe had more to do with revenge for the Babylonian captivity than alleged WMD or oil. Sorry Neb, payback is a bitch.


Anyhoo, looking at the pic that accompanies the wikipedia Shekhinah entry: King David with the Spirit upon him I notice the severed head of Goliath in the foreground, and besides the fact that he's the spitting image of Saddam Hussein, I couldn't help but be reminded of another image featuring a decapitated head - Heath Ledger's Joker. Symbolically, the decapitated head represents ego-death. It is the victory of Id over Ego, the I Am over the mind's illusionary concepts of I Was and I Will. The temporary state of ego-death consciousness was accomplished by the ancients via the intake or "anointing" of entheogens such as the famous Amanita mushroom.

In the image of David on the left, it is easy to see: the gold crown represents the magic mushroom of Kosmic Konsciousness - the spirit of the Lord upon him. The result is the death of his own ego, represented by the giant Goliath, brought down by a tiny, pineal gland sized stone. David sings inspired psalms in celebration of this event, represented by the harp.

But what about the image on the right? What the hell does the Joker have to do with the heroic King David? I'm suspecting that the collective human subconscious is even darker than I thought, and like Dionysus, I need a guide through this strange Underworld. Tonight, I nominate Heath Ledger as my guide - my Prosymnus.


Before Heath Ledger became the Joker, he was a knight. Heath played Sir William Thatcher in A Knight's Tale. With his handsomeness and tousled blond lion's mane, I can't help but associate him with the King of Judah - the Lion King. "He will rock you" pretty much nails it.

David was a humble shepherd, a herder, the preferred profession of the mushroom God. Perhaps that is because the shepherds were always grazing on mushrooms, along with their flock? In Brokeback Mountain, Heath Ledger plays a cowboy, a herder, but a herder with a difference.


Like King David before him, Heath Ledger's character of Ennis del Mar had a homosexual love affair. David's affair was with Jonathan, the son of Saul and the royal heir of the Kingdom of Judah. It was an affair doomed from the beginning, with court intrigue and royal pressure for an heir all getting in the way, and Jonathan finally died in battle. However, it can be said that Jonathan was David's "first love". Like David and Jonathan, the love of Ennis and Jack Twist was doomed from the beginning by social pressures and internalized homophobia, and the parallels with the biblical story of David and Jonathan run through the script like a ghost, even to the violent death of Jonathan/Jack.


I deliberately bring your attention to Heath Ledger's role as a Knight and to ideas of Middle Ages heraldry, because the Anglo Saxon version of the heroic David archetype is King Arthur. King Arthur is also called the Once and Future King. From the mushroom inspired ravings of St. John the Revelator, we have this remarkable line:

The beast, which you saw, once was, now is not, and will come up out of the Abyss and go to his destruction. The inhabitants of the earth whose names have not been written in the book of life from the creation of the world will be astonished when they see the beast, because he once was, now is not, and yet will come. -- Rev 8:17

The modern state of Israel carries the Star of David as their heraldic standard - so in a symbolic sense they are acting out the prophetic archetype of the Once and Future King.


I have previously noted the odd homoerotic tension between the Batman and the Joker. It's like a sick and twisted version of David and Jonathan, or Ennis and Jack. It is obvious that David and the Joker are the same image, but one is dark and one is light - the Joker represents the dark side of King David! Both images together represent duality, yin and yang, good and evil.

I'd like to thank Heath for being my guide through Hades, but unfortunately, like Prosymnus, he has died.

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When the wine god Dionysus went to Hades to rescue his mother Semele, Prosymnus guided him to the entrance by rowing him to the middle of the lake. The reward demanded by Prosymnus for this service was the right to make love to Dionysus. However, when Dionysus returned to earth by a different route, he found that Prosymnus had meanwhile died. Dionysus kept his promise by carving a piece of fig wood into the shape of a phallus and used it to ritually fulfill his promise to Prosymus, while seated on his tomb.