The Number of the Counting

As we all know, I have more than a passing interest in the trident, that triple-pronged, magical weapon of Shiva and Poseidon. And I wonder, why THREE prongs? They say three times the charm, and it made me think of the number 3 and time being somehow connected?

I see that we live in a 3D universe, the first dimension being a point, the second a plane, and the third a cubic volume. So it seems to me that Shiva's "weapon" is aimed at these three dimensions, or "citadels" as it were.

Antahkarana

The fourth dimension is time, and perhaps this element is represented by the shaft of the trident, wielded by "will" or intention.

In All Good Things, the final episode of STNG, Captain Jean Luc Picard is shifting back and forth in time between three time periods, and in each time he causes a tachyon beam to be emitted from the Enterprise, aimed at the same point in space. This causes an anomaly that destroys the world, but if you look at it from a magical perspective, this is exactly the magician's goal - to "destroy" his current world and "create" a new one.

So, I think about my intent, or will, or shaft, being aimed at the same point in space, at three different times. It's Saturnian judo.



The Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch.

...And Saint Attila raised the hand grenade up on high, saying, "O LORD, bless this Thy hand grenade that with it Thou mayest blow Thine enemies to tiny bits, in Thy mercy."
And the LORD did grin and the people did feast upon the lambs and sloths and carp and anchovies and orangutans and breakfast cereals, and fruit bats and large chu... [At this point, the friar is urged by Brother Maynard to "skip a bit, brother"]...
And the LORD spake, saying, "First shalt thou take out the Holy Pin, then shalt thou count to three, no more, no less.
Three shall be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shall be three.
Four shalt thou not count, neither count thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to three.
Five is right out.
Once the number three, being the third number, be reached, then lobbest thou thy Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch towards thy foe, who being naughty in My sight, shall snuff it."

Walking Around Jericho

I've lately taken to walking around my neighborhood once a day, a loop of two miles. I pass this sign on the way, noting the Joshua reference. I was reminded how Joshua and the Israelites walked around the walled city of Jericho.

I've looked at the Jericho myth before, see The Yellow Rose Again, where I examined the role of the virtuous whore, Rahab, but that was a long time ago. Now I'm examining all that walking around in circles. Why wasn't one time around enough? As we all know, Joshua and the Israelites, carrying the Ark of the Covenant and blowing their horns, marched around Jericho for seven days, and on the seventh, marched around an extra seven times. This gives us a 77, or "lightning bolt" of cosmic enlightenment, and so we can see the "walls of Jericho" as representing "The Tower" card.

The Tower is our subconscious belief system, our fundamental and 'inviolable' concepts about life, the universe, and everything. The subconscious, or dreaming mind, weaves these beliefs into the brick and mortar reality we experience as "the real world" and so if we can somehow change the programming of our subconscious, then we can change our reality. At least, in theory. It's a simple concept, but it requires blowing your own mind.

I am devising a work around, or a hack, if you will.

It involves a lot of repetitive walking in circles and trial and error, but lately it seems to be bearing some fruit. I judge my successes and failures by sync. As I experiment, cracks appear in the walls of my own space-time continuum - the visible fissures in my "real world".

My two feet will never get me to 88 mph, but Joshua tells me that I don't really need to. Just keep walking.

Sand Storm

Happy Halloween, everyone! They say that the veil between the mortal and the spirit worlds is particularly thin on Samhein, or All Hollow's Eve. It is the realm of the dark recesses of our subconscious, the one day when we are all encouraged to dress up as our subconscious desires. This is THE queer holiday, of course.

This Halloween was marked by Hurricane Sandy striking at Gotham, and we're all quoting 'The Dark Knight Rises':

There's a storm coming, Mr. Wayne. You and your friends better batten down the hatches, because when it hits, you're all gonna wonder how you ever thought you could live so large and leave so little for the rest of us.

Curiously, the homoerotic comics house Class Comics published "Sandstorm" on October 9, syncing Sandy to Set, the Egyptian god of the desert and storms. This is important because Set murdered Osiris, thus causing the "sun" to set.

Osiris = Consciousness, Set = Subconscious.



Mr. Sandman, the dreaming mind.

I was fascinated that in Stanley Kubrick's The Shining, the Overlook Hotel is taken over by Jack Torrence on or about Halloween (via KD12). We all know that Jack Nicholson is always playing "the devil", so quite clearly, the USA has been taken over by the subconscious, the "sand storm" being the signifier.

Oddly enough, I don't see this as a negative, but as an opportunity. If it's true that the subconscious writes our reality into being, then we might consider this a "writer's strike".

Let's give Jack a break. The devil only knows what he might cook up.

Shark Week

Hey all, just a quick gulp of air and then Ahab is going down for another stab at the whale. I've been hanging out in the octopus' garden for a while now, plumbing the depths of the subconscious.

It sorta all started when the mysterious seals began showing up on the raft in front of my mom's cabin on Hood Canal. They've never done that before, I began to think of them as my "Seal Team" - the surfacing of my subconscious into real life.

Have you seen American Warships? It's the shitty Netflix version of Battleship, yet another alien invasion story, except this time the aliens command stealth submarines that take out the mighty U.S. Navy. On a sync level it makes perfect sense, the aliens are "monsters from the Id", "hiding" in the subconscious. In American Warship, the brave Seal Team discovers the secret of the submarine's "alien" origins.



I watched Disney's 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea last week, with Captain Nemo (no one, no ego) playing the part of the avenging subconscious - the "sea monster". He rams the American warship "Abraham Lincoln". I figured that was a fairly blatant King Kill 33 sync. Nemo sank my ego!

Later, we see that Nemo's secret base is built under mysterious Lincoln Island, or in other words, a murdered president is the secret base of Captain Nemo, or in other words, a murdered ego is the secret base of the Id!

Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson stars in Journey 2: The Mysterious Island, which I like because A) I could watch his pecs bounce all day and B) he was also Mathayus (the Scorpion King) in The Mummy Returns.

As we all know by now, Osiris is the god of the sun, who is murdered by Set (sunset), but who then rises again in the form of Horus - the rising sun/son. Like a physical representation of resurrection, the pyramids represent a "mysterious island" of consciousness, rising above the chaotic sands of the subconscious desert.

After nine days, I let the horse run free,
'Cause the desert had turned to sea.
There were plants and birds, and rocks and things,
There was sand and hills and rings.
The ocean is a desert, with its life underground,
And a perfect disguise above.
Under the cities lies, a heart made of ground,
But the humans will give no love.
"The desert is an ocean with its life underground"
A Horse With No Name ~America

A horse with Nemo.

Back to the pyramids, I decided to watch my favorite Bond film last week: The Spy Who Loved Me. It features pyramids, submarines, Atlantis, Major Triple X and a murderer named "Jaws". We first meet Jaws on the plains of Giza and it's fairly obvious that he is the reincarnation of some dark Egyptian deity.

In the myth of Kamalo and the shark god, Kauhuhu plays the part of the subconscious avenger. As it happens, my copy of Mako Finn arrived a few days ago, and he's a sort of comic book homoerotic protector and avenger of sharks. He comes upon a reincarnated Megalodon. While the scientific name is C. megalodon, it is often informally dubbed the "megatooth shark", "giant white shark" or "monster shark".

Mr. Big Tooth

Megalodon - pointing at...

Now, hmmm. What does this giant, triangular tooth remind me of? Maybe a pyramid, or more precisely, the lost, or broken, cap.

Jake, the Martian fragment

Jules Verne's Mysterious Island was in part inspired by the Swiss Family Robinson, who are "castaways". Osiris was cut up into 14 pieces, and cast away into the Nile. Isis found all the pieces but one. The fourteenth piece, the lost cap, I have a feeling that only Set knows where he tossed it. He, and the BBC. Check the measurement on mega tooth, above.

On Her Majesty's Secret Service

Undress, Wiseman, Lord.

I've been expecting OCTober to be a spidery month and my hunch was confirmed when Bring a Trailer featured two "Spider" sports cars on Sept. 30.

A few days later, an add for a new solitaire app shows up on my iPhone:

Spiders represent Arachne - the subconscious weaver of the web of conscious reality. We note that this spider is playing cards, which syncs directly into games of chance, gambling and tarot readings. In the 1973 James Bond film Live and Let Die, Solitaire is a character who reads the tarot for her underworld boss, and she is never wrong.

Yesterday was the Golden Anniversary of the Bond Franchise - Dr. No opened on Oct. 5, 1962, and I've been musing on the concept of the secret agent.

According to Jung, the mind is divided into two parts - the conscious ego, and the subconscious, or Id. These two parts are at war with one another, but are also secretly in love, which leads to all manner of intrigue. This odd arrangement is echoed in the odd arrangement of our political organizations, which are all governed by duly elected representatives of our own good judgement, but we all know it's just a sham and all the real power lies in the "shadow" government - the realm of Black Ops, Disinfo, secret agents, and all the rest. The President of the USA may be the most powerful man on earth, but his power only exists at the behest of this shadowy, underworld side of the government.

Liz may be Queen of the Soggy Isles, but we all know the real power behind the throne:

M

As the President of the divided country of "Mikastan", I would dearly love a spy to go check out what the fuck is going ON in there, in my secret subconscious spider cave, and get a heads up on what's coming around the pike, so to speak. Sort of a Sneak Preview. But I can't very well go marching in as King Konsciousness, can I? All flags out and horns a blaring... hell, they'd see me coming a mile away.

No... a more subtle approach is needed, a master of disguise who can appear as a subconscious comrade, but who is really a double agent. He could go rummage around the spinning room while the spiders were all on a lunch break. He could check out files, blueprints, scripts. And maybe, if he were clever, he could swap some blueprints or scripts around, without the spiders catching on.

And if we were charming enough, maybe some lovely spider would even willingly cooperate. It's not the first time the spider was seduced by the fly.

SYNC NOTE: Barbara Bach played Major Anya Amasova in The Spy Who Loved Me. Bach is the wife of Ringo Starr, of the Beatles. Fifty years ago, on Oct. 5, 1962, the first Beatles single hit the streets: Love Me Do.

Faking Your Own Death

R.I.P. R Chris Cooper

We've had a bit of drama at the Evolution Archives this week - an author named R Chris Cooper was declared deceased on Sept. 24 in a thread started by a man claiming to be his partner, along with the info that all his MANY works of erotic fiction were being deleted from the forum, as requested in his last will and testament.

The firestorm erupted soon afterwards, with some claiming he faked his own death, and others leaping to the defense of the dearly departed. We note that the author began deleting his stories from the forum three days before his sudden "massive heart attack and stroke", and oddly enough, he had posted a story a week before that included a character who was forced to fake his own death after being recruited into a top secret military organization.

Faking your own death on forums is nothing new, and I don't really care if he did or didn't, but it synced because I'd just finished a Dirk Pitt novel that featured a WWII German U-Boat officer who had faked his own death.

Ever since watching Captain America - The First Avenger on 9/11/12, I've been thinking about the presentation of Nazis as wicked seekers of occult power. From Indiana Jones to Hellboy, it's a common theme:

The Munich Lodge of the Germanenorden Walvater of the Holy Grail is given the name Thule Society. The Germanenorden is a secret society dedicated to German nationalism, Nordic racial superiority, anti-Semitism, and reviving ancient Nordic pagan beliefs. Members come primarily from the upper echelons of German society.

In 1919 the Thule Society will sponsor a political party which many of them have joined and in which they have leadership positions: The German Workers' Party (Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, DAP). In 1920 it's renamed the National Socialist German Workers' Party, or Nazi Party. ~skepticism.org

Some say the Nazis, thanks to mediums channeling info from the Aldebaran system, built flying saucers capable of traveling all the way to Aldebaran - 65 light years away.

According to Thule, another disc left Antarctica in 1945 with both Hitler and Maria Orsic on board. According to the Thule insider, all subsequent appearances of Hitler were done by his doubles. The corpse in the bunker was the body of a double as well.

Faking his own death. And this is where it gets odd, because I went back to the Evolution Archives thread today, and I discovered that the last comment was by a member named Aldebaran.

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