“Once you break your identification with the system, with the authoritarian technics that are driving planetary murder, your language and your actions become very different. Once you identify with the real, living planet, everything changes.”
― Derrick Jensen, The Myth of Human Supremacy
Image: Spirit of Flight by Josephine Wall
― Derrick Jensen, The Myth of Human Supremacy
Image: Spirit of Flight by Josephine Wall
Extract from ‘The Fire From Within’ Chapter 13 ‘The Earth Boost’ by Carlos Castaneda
"Let's walk on the road to Oaxaca," Don Juan said to me. "Genaro is waiting for us somewhere along the way.”
His request took me by surprise. I had been waiting all day for him to continue his explanation. We left his house and walked in silence through the town to the unpaved highway. We walked leisurely for a long time. Suddenly Don Juan began to talk.
"I've been telling you all along about the great findings that the old seers made," he said. “Just as they found out that organic life is not the only life present on earth, they also discovered that the earth itself is a living being.”
He waited a moment before continuing. He smiled at me as if inviting me to make a comment. I could not think of anything to say.
"The old seers saw that the earth has a cocoon," he went on. "They saw that there is a ball encasing the earth, a luminous cocoon that entraps the Eagle’s emanations. The earth is a gigantic sentient being subjected to the same forces we are.”
He explained that the old seers, on discovering this, became immediately interested in the practical uses of that knowledge. The result of their interest was that the most elaborate categories of their sorcery had to do with the earth. They considered the earth to be the ultimate source of everything we are. Don Juan reaffirmed that the old seers were not mistaken in this respect, because the earth is indeed our ultimate source.
He didn't say anything else until we met Genaro about a mile up the road. He was waiting for us, sitting on a rock by the side of the road.
….
As the conversation continued Don Juan explained that what he called the key to everything was the firsthand knowledge that the earth is a sentient being and as such can give warriors a tremendous boost; it is an impulse that comes from the awareness of the earth itself at the instant in which the emanations inside warriors' cocoons are aligned with the appropriate emanations inside the earth's cocoon. Since both the earth and man are sentient beings, their emanations coincide, or rather, the earth has all the emanations present in man and all the emanations that are present in all sentient beings, organic and inorganic for that matter. When a moment of alignment takes place, sentient beings use that alignment in a limited way and perceive their world. Warriors can use that alignment either to perceive, like everyone else, or as a boost that allows them to enter unimaginable worlds.
"Let's walk on the road to Oaxaca," Don Juan said to me. "Genaro is waiting for us somewhere along the way.”
His request took me by surprise. I had been waiting all day for him to continue his explanation. We left his house and walked in silence through the town to the unpaved highway. We walked leisurely for a long time. Suddenly Don Juan began to talk.
"I've been telling you all along about the great findings that the old seers made," he said. “Just as they found out that organic life is not the only life present on earth, they also discovered that the earth itself is a living being.”
He waited a moment before continuing. He smiled at me as if inviting me to make a comment. I could not think of anything to say.
"The old seers saw that the earth has a cocoon," he went on. "They saw that there is a ball encasing the earth, a luminous cocoon that entraps the Eagle’s emanations. The earth is a gigantic sentient being subjected to the same forces we are.”
He explained that the old seers, on discovering this, became immediately interested in the practical uses of that knowledge. The result of their interest was that the most elaborate categories of their sorcery had to do with the earth. They considered the earth to be the ultimate source of everything we are. Don Juan reaffirmed that the old seers were not mistaken in this respect, because the earth is indeed our ultimate source.
He didn't say anything else until we met Genaro about a mile up the road. He was waiting for us, sitting on a rock by the side of the road.
….
As the conversation continued Don Juan explained that what he called the key to everything was the firsthand knowledge that the earth is a sentient being and as such can give warriors a tremendous boost; it is an impulse that comes from the awareness of the earth itself at the instant in which the emanations inside warriors' cocoons are aligned with the appropriate emanations inside the earth's cocoon. Since both the earth and man are sentient beings, their emanations coincide, or rather, the earth has all the emanations present in man and all the emanations that are present in all sentient beings, organic and inorganic for that matter. When a moment of alignment takes place, sentient beings use that alignment in a limited way and perceive their world. Warriors can use that alignment either to perceive, like everyone else, or as a boost that allows them to enter unimaginable worlds.
“The most central and irrational faith among people is the faith in technology and economical growth. Its priests believe until their death that material prosperity bring enjoyment and happiness - even though all the proofs in history have shown that only lack and attempt cause a life worth living, that the material prosperity doesn't bring anything else than despair. These priests believe in technology still when they choke in their gas masks.”
― Pentti Linkola, Can Life Prevail?
Image: Nuclear Family by Phillippe Caza
― Pentti Linkola, Can Life Prevail?
Image: Nuclear Family by Phillippe Caza
“Our story begins with the Grail castle, which is in serious trouble. The Fisher King, the king of the castle, has been wounded. His wounds are so severe that he cannot live, yet he is incapable of dying. He groans; he cries out; he suffers constantly. The whole land is in desolation, for a land mirrors the condition of its king, inwardly in a mythological dimension, as well as outwardly in the physical world. The cattle do not reproduce; the crops won't grow; knights are killed; children are orphaned; maidens weep; there is mourning everywhere - all because the Fisher King is wounded.”
— Robert A. Johnson
Notes: The Grail King Anfortas is known as The Fisher King because he represents the plight and wounded impotence of the patriarchal masters upheld by the theocratic system of the Piscean Age.
Image: The King of Thule by Pierre Jean Van der Ouderaa
— Robert A. Johnson
Notes: The Grail King Anfortas is known as The Fisher King because he represents the plight and wounded impotence of the patriarchal masters upheld by the theocratic system of the Piscean Age.
Image: The King of Thule by Pierre Jean Van der Ouderaa
“Only one who is born a hero or a warrior has a place in our order. Only the Lord of the Pure Will can march to the end, breaking in the gates of the City of Eternal Life. Because will, through its perseverance, creates the thing it contemplates. Only the Wild Hordes of Odin and Parsifal will achieve the Graal."
― Miguel Serrano
Image: Thor, The Wild Hunt of Odin by Peter Nicolai Arbo
― Miguel Serrano
Image: Thor, The Wild Hunt of Odin by Peter Nicolai Arbo
“Today, the term 'weird' means something strange, bizarre or supernatural. But in its archaic and original sense, it meant that aspect of life which was so deep, so all pervasive and so central to our understanding of ourselves and our world that it was inexpressible. Wyrd refers to our personal destiny. It connects us to all things, thoughts, emotions, events in the cosmos as if through the threads of an enormous, invisible but dynamic web. Today, through a deep connection with wyrd, we are inspired to see our lives in a new and empowering way. It restores our experience of the healing power of love, nature and creativity. It is about letting into our lives the guidance of an extended universe of spirit.”
― Brian Bates, The Way of Wyrd
Image: The Norns by Alois Delug
― Brian Bates, The Way of Wyrd
Image: The Norns by Alois Delug
The Gnostic understanding of the Sun
Within The Apocryphon of John, the Sun is called by a name from the Mystery Schools: Sabaoth, pronounced SAH-buy-ot. The Gnostic cosmological treatises describe how, early in the evolution of the solar system, the Sun-star becomes aligned in a special way with the emergent Earth. In the idiom of the myth, this event is called the conversion of Sabaoth. This occurs in a three-way interaction between the Aeon Sophia, Yaldabaoth, and Sabaoth.
As the scaffolding of the planetary system arises, a newborn star emerges from the nebula where the Anthropos is embedded. Owing to its superior mass, the star causes the emergent planetary system to cohere around it. It becomes the central sun of the Archontic heaven, a realm of celestial mechanics dominated by blind, inorganic forces. Sophia shames the Demiurge by declaring to him that the Anthropos (Child of Light), though yet unborn, surpasses the Archons in intelligence, for humanity is an emanation of the Pleroma, whereas the Archons arise outside the cosmic core, without an act of emanation. Witnessing this reprimand, and shocked by the arrogance of the Demiurge, the newborn star undergoes a conversion: it chooses to align with Sophia against the realm of Archontic forces.
“Now when Sabaoth, the son of Yaldabaoth, heard the voice of the Aeon Sophia, he sang praises to her and condemned his putative father [the chief Archon]…. He praised Sophia because she informed him of the Child of Light [the immortal man / Anthropos schema] and its radiant Power. Then the Aeon Sophia stretched out her finger and poured upon Sabaoth some of her own radiant Power, to be condemnation to Yaldabaoth. When Sabaoth was illumined in this way, he received great authority against all the Archons, the forces of chaos. Since that day he has been called “Lord of the Vital Forces.”
– On the Origin of the World 25-27, Nag Hammadi Codexes with paraphrases
This mythic cosmology asserts that the Sun stands with the Earth (the living body of the Wisdom Goddess) against the Archontic realm of the inorganic planetary system. The Sun is nurturing to life on Earth. It provides prana, vital force, in a constant stream delicately filtered by the terrestrial atmosphere, so that the lethal elements in sunlight are eliminated.
The myth tells us that the life-supporting properties of solar radiation were invested in the Sun by the Aeon Sophia, “who poured upon Sabaoth some of her own radiant Power.”
This mythological cosmology is beginning to be supported by alternative cosmology theories such as plasma cosmology and the work of the Thunderbolts Project. Scientists operating outside of the current dogmatic paradigm recognise the nature of plasmatic surges from the galactic core. Therefore it might be theoretically conceivable that such a current, engaged frontally with an emergent sun, could alter the chemistry of the nascent solar orb. Stars are continually being born in the nebular regions of the galactic limbs, but not all of them are frontally affected by a raw plasmatic surge. This appears to be the unique cosmic event described in the conversion of Sabaoth.
-Excepts with elaboration sourced from John Lamb Lash, Sophianic Cosmology.
Within The Apocryphon of John, the Sun is called by a name from the Mystery Schools: Sabaoth, pronounced SAH-buy-ot. The Gnostic cosmological treatises describe how, early in the evolution of the solar system, the Sun-star becomes aligned in a special way with the emergent Earth. In the idiom of the myth, this event is called the conversion of Sabaoth. This occurs in a three-way interaction between the Aeon Sophia, Yaldabaoth, and Sabaoth.
As the scaffolding of the planetary system arises, a newborn star emerges from the nebula where the Anthropos is embedded. Owing to its superior mass, the star causes the emergent planetary system to cohere around it. It becomes the central sun of the Archontic heaven, a realm of celestial mechanics dominated by blind, inorganic forces. Sophia shames the Demiurge by declaring to him that the Anthropos (Child of Light), though yet unborn, surpasses the Archons in intelligence, for humanity is an emanation of the Pleroma, whereas the Archons arise outside the cosmic core, without an act of emanation. Witnessing this reprimand, and shocked by the arrogance of the Demiurge, the newborn star undergoes a conversion: it chooses to align with Sophia against the realm of Archontic forces.
“Now when Sabaoth, the son of Yaldabaoth, heard the voice of the Aeon Sophia, he sang praises to her and condemned his putative father [the chief Archon]…. He praised Sophia because she informed him of the Child of Light [the immortal man / Anthropos schema] and its radiant Power. Then the Aeon Sophia stretched out her finger and poured upon Sabaoth some of her own radiant Power, to be condemnation to Yaldabaoth. When Sabaoth was illumined in this way, he received great authority against all the Archons, the forces of chaos. Since that day he has been called “Lord of the Vital Forces.”
– On the Origin of the World 25-27, Nag Hammadi Codexes with paraphrases
This mythic cosmology asserts that the Sun stands with the Earth (the living body of the Wisdom Goddess) against the Archontic realm of the inorganic planetary system. The Sun is nurturing to life on Earth. It provides prana, vital force, in a constant stream delicately filtered by the terrestrial atmosphere, so that the lethal elements in sunlight are eliminated.
The myth tells us that the life-supporting properties of solar radiation were invested in the Sun by the Aeon Sophia, “who poured upon Sabaoth some of her own radiant Power.”
This mythological cosmology is beginning to be supported by alternative cosmology theories such as plasma cosmology and the work of the Thunderbolts Project. Scientists operating outside of the current dogmatic paradigm recognise the nature of plasmatic surges from the galactic core. Therefore it might be theoretically conceivable that such a current, engaged frontally with an emergent sun, could alter the chemistry of the nascent solar orb. Stars are continually being born in the nebular regions of the galactic limbs, but not all of them are frontally affected by a raw plasmatic surge. This appears to be the unique cosmic event described in the conversion of Sabaoth.
-Excepts with elaboration sourced from John Lamb Lash, Sophianic Cosmology.
“Perhaps the single most important thing that we can do to undo the harm we have done is to fix firmly in our minds the thought: the earth is alive.”
― James Lovelock
Notes: James Lovelock was an English independent scientist, environmentalist and futurist. He is best known for proposing the Gaia hypothesis, which postulates that the Earth functions as a self-regulating system. The hypothesis was formulated and co-developed by the microbiologist Lynn Margulis in the 1970s. Lovelock named the idea after Gaia, the primordial goddess who personified the Earth in Greek mythology.
Image: Napping Hill by Dan Craig
― James Lovelock
Notes: James Lovelock was an English independent scientist, environmentalist and futurist. He is best known for proposing the Gaia hypothesis, which postulates that the Earth functions as a self-regulating system. The hypothesis was formulated and co-developed by the microbiologist Lynn Margulis in the 1970s. Lovelock named the idea after Gaia, the primordial goddess who personified the Earth in Greek mythology.
Image: Napping Hill by Dan Craig
“I know this: if life is illusion, then I am no less an illusion, and being thus, the illusion is real to me. I live, I burn with life, I love, I slay, and am content.”
― Robert E. Howard, Queen of the Black Coast
Notes: Here we see Conan’s life-affirming rejection of the anti-cosmic ‘prison planet’ illusory Archontic deceit. The Gnostics did not teach that the world, the planet itself and the realm of the senses, is an illusion or deception. They taught that it is a deep and beautiful mystery, but we are blocked from entering the mystery in depth and in a lucid way by factors in our own minds. The Archons can insinuate their alien intelligence into our minds not through domination but through the abdication of our own consciousness. Be as Conan, live your life to its full potential.
Image: Conan the Indomitable by Kirk Reinert
― Robert E. Howard, Queen of the Black Coast
Notes: Here we see Conan’s life-affirming rejection of the anti-cosmic ‘prison planet’ illusory Archontic deceit. The Gnostics did not teach that the world, the planet itself and the realm of the senses, is an illusion or deception. They taught that it is a deep and beautiful mystery, but we are blocked from entering the mystery in depth and in a lucid way by factors in our own minds. The Archons can insinuate their alien intelligence into our minds not through domination but through the abdication of our own consciousness. Be as Conan, live your life to its full potential.
Image: Conan the Indomitable by Kirk Reinert
“Clear detection of the presence of the Supernatural is key to human sanity.”
― John Lamb Lash
Image: The Hermit by Scott Murphy
Notes: The Hermit card in Tarot is the ninth card in the major arcana. The number 9 can signify accomplishment, wisdom as well as the search for truth.
The number 9 also holds great significance within Nordic Paganism with this number intricately weaved throughout its mythology. In Nordic Pagan themed Tarot decks the Hermit is represented by Heimdall who guards the rainbow bridge Bifröst who was born to nine mothers. He is attested as possessing foreknowledge and keen senses, particularly eyesight and hearing.
Greek pagans hold 9 to be sacred because to them nine symbolised the 9 Muses or daughters of Zeus and Mnenosyne, who are believed to preside over mankind's activities on earth.
In the Mystery language, the Ninth is code for the Earth as an organic planetary body distinct from the inorganic planetary system, called the Hebdomad or the Seventh.
― John Lamb Lash
Image: The Hermit by Scott Murphy
Notes: The Hermit card in Tarot is the ninth card in the major arcana. The number 9 can signify accomplishment, wisdom as well as the search for truth.
The number 9 also holds great significance within Nordic Paganism with this number intricately weaved throughout its mythology. In Nordic Pagan themed Tarot decks the Hermit is represented by Heimdall who guards the rainbow bridge Bifröst who was born to nine mothers. He is attested as possessing foreknowledge and keen senses, particularly eyesight and hearing.
Greek pagans hold 9 to be sacred because to them nine symbolised the 9 Muses or daughters of Zeus and Mnenosyne, who are believed to preside over mankind's activities on earth.
In the Mystery language, the Ninth is code for the Earth as an organic planetary body distinct from the inorganic planetary system, called the Hebdomad or the Seventh.
“When one undertakes such a purging and uprooting of the human consciousness, when one snatches away from man the mythological and ideological illusions which justify his choices and, more often, his fantasies, it is perfectly obvious that one is exposing oneself, first of all, to every kind of misunderstanding and, still more surely, to every kind of retaliation. Idols cannot be cast down with impunity, and we can see quite clearly where the task of a contemporary Gnostic would lie: in attacking the new idols, the new Churches of our time, in short, the new faces which evil is forever putting on and which today we call ideology.”
― Jacques Lacarrière, The Gnostics
Image: Blind Obedience by Seb McKinnon
― Jacques Lacarrière, The Gnostics
Image: Blind Obedience by Seb McKinnon
"A man goes to knowledge as he goes to war, wide-awake, with fear, with respect, and with absolute assurance. Going to knowledge or going to war in any other manner is a mistake, and whoever makes it will live to regret his steps.”
― Carlos Castaneda, The Teachings of Don Juan
Image: Rites of Passage by Susan Seddon Boulet
― Carlos Castaneda, The Teachings of Don Juan
Image: Rites of Passage by Susan Seddon Boulet
“There is an occult concept of the “egregore,” a term derived from the Greek word for “watcher.” It is used for an immaterial entity that “watches” or presides over some earthly affair or collectivity. The important point is that an egregore is augmented by human belief, ritual, and especially by sacrifice. If it is sufficiently nourished by such energies, the egregore can take on a life of its own and appear to be an independent, personal divinity, with a limited power on behalf of its devotees and an unlimited appetite for further devotion. It is then believed to be an immortal god or goddess, an angel, or a
daemon.”
― Joscelyn Godwin, The Golden Thread
Note: It is suggested that the rise and fall of nations are intimately bound up with their relations with their gods. It is therefore prudent to acknowledge their existence, every civilisation has done so in the past and often their downfall can be associated with neglecting or abandoning their gods.
Image: Athena by Robert Auer
daemon.”
― Joscelyn Godwin, The Golden Thread
Note: It is suggested that the rise and fall of nations are intimately bound up with their relations with their gods. It is therefore prudent to acknowledge their existence, every civilisation has done so in the past and often their downfall can be associated with neglecting or abandoning their gods.
Image: Athena by Robert Auer
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The Fyrgen Podcast - Episode 17: Working with Wyrd
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Is 'Wyrd' simply another word for 'fate'? In this episode I explain the difference between the two, and advise on how we can use our understanding of Wyrd to create a better society and greater worth for ourselves.
Music featured: 'The Fyre-Bough' by Wolcensmen.
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▶️ Listen on Telegram here
Is 'Wyrd' simply another word for 'fate'? In this episode I explain the difference between the two, and advise on how we can use our understanding of Wyrd to create a better society and greater worth for ourselves.
Music featured: 'The Fyre-Bough' by Wolcensmen.
Visit fyrgen.com for past episodes and info on how you can support this podcast. Merchandise pre-orders have just been launched on the shop page.
Also available on Odysee.