Warty Theorems

Try More Wheats # 17: Algebra & Occultism

Aeoli Kephas — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 00:07:51 GMT

Jason chats with Michael O' Neill from Magus Arts Presents about iconoclasm, Jason’s formative years and school days, learning to beat the system from within, subtle subversion versus outright rebellion, undermining the status quo, the function of a virus inside a hostile system, the parallels with Aeolus Kephas in the Alternate Perceptions Community, turning paranoid awareness on its head, Jason’s brother & father, growing up without rules, the trip to Morocco, why Morocco, being a bum, poaching on Arab soil, learning the Tarot, the path of letting go, Shamanism vs. Magick, Guatemala, meeting Mitch, giving up sorcerer persona, a deglamorization process, sorcery as plumbing, leaving the occult at the door for SWEDA, who needs algebra for grocery shopping?

Oh Wrye Maestro # 16: Living in the End Times

Aeoli Kephas — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 19:50:28 GMT

Jason chats with Ascension Nick on ordinary paranoia as a side-effect of increased awareness, the higher octave of terrorism, Reptilians and Annunaki, how snakes know the end is coming, Homo Serpiens and the Apotheosis of Species, the feeling of Something Big on the horizon, tracing it back to adolescence and the arrested awakening of brain centers, Joseph Chilton Pearce, the end of the world as the projection of personal and collective psychological patterns, how the physical apocalypse is the means to allow for an arrested crisis of consciousness to finally occur, living in a world of holograms, what do we know about 6 billion humans, changing reality tunnels while still staying out of what we know, the collective unconscious becoming conscious, Jason's example of integrating patterns, Henrik again, how wounds becomes scars, ups and downs of the ARGO, learning to become neutral, Carlos Castaneda and fear as the driving force for the warrior, living for truth, John De Ruiter again, fear out the window, Jason on the trail of don Juan in Mexico and Guatemala, finding a mentor, Mitch Fraas again, Carlos the scribe, the distortion of the narrrative, knowledge filtered through the lens of the personal self, the core paradox of Carlos Castaneda, Neil Kramer's missing pizza.

Threats, Ye Worm? # 15: The ARChitects of the Second Matrix

Aeoli Kephas — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 20:57:45 GMT

Jason flies solo with an old-style free-association ramble on SWEDA as a rehabilitation center of occultists, the splinter in the brain, a word to the audience, old and new, the Alternate Perceptions Community (or Alternate Opinions Community) as a mini-consensus that unconsciously imitates the big consensus, a word on Michael Tsarian, David Icke, Henrik Palmgren and Red Ice (but not Neil Kramer!); information as entertainment, the difference between belief and knowing, the burden of knowledge, how the "second matrix" is formed and maintained, podcasting as therapy, heart-connecting across spacetime, the mind perceives, the heart knows, the difference between exploring ideas and propagating beliefs, perception vs. projection, itchy butt holes and global conspiracies, the psychology of prior investment, bullshit as the glue that holds the “ARC” (Alternative Research Community”) together, using death as an advisor, living from what we know to be true. Image by Soundless Steve.

We Stormy Heart # 14: Ye Olde Place of Knowing

Aeoli Kephas — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:44:06 GMT

Jason chats with one of the original Aeoli Kephas, musicologist and current Swedite, Ezra Sandzer-Bell, about the difficulty of maintaining old friendships as we undergo personal mutation, how changing perspective often means losing friends, family as set against the individuation process, “relationships” as the illusory “third thing,” the observer and the observed, the filter of interpretation, the merchant mind, the endless internal dialogue of “do I feel good now?”, dissolving patterns, untying knots with the lightest of touches, the underlying order of being, original patterns of truth, the personal journey of consciousness, JDR again, integrating the personal unconscious, moving from personal to collective karma, an alternate view of reincarnation, the not-doing of bodhi sattvas, owning the collective shadow, the false idea of the Universe as a giant “education system,” getting to choose “past lives,” what gives value to existence, the impossibility of communicating knowing, the risks of alienation, severing worldly ties a little at a time, why being in our knowing slows us down, musical expression, collective creative endeavors, the tendency of artistic expression to reinforce the ego, Stop Making Sense and David Byrne, musical performance and the fusion of individual consciousness into a collective movement of being, and a last word about SWEDA.

Thetas? Me Worry! # 13: Sex, Paranoia, and Gurus

Aeoli Kephas — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 05:42:36 GMT

A blend of two conversations, the edited portion of Jason's chat with Doug Lain for Diet Soap, in which Jason and Doug discuss paranoid awareness, the occult path, social awareness versus self-awareness, why revolutions never work, surrendering to a fucked-up world, our natural state as fucked up humans, Jason’s encounter with John De Ruiter and how his teachings have filtered down into SWEDA, SWEDA as a training ground for leaders (but *not* a revolutionary movement). For the second part, Jason and Ross continue their discussion on porn addiction and sexual energy, porn as a way to avoid intimacy, of hardening and closing, how misuse of sex can destroy us, a word on Jason’s dark side and his dandy brother Sebastian, the SWEDA arrangement of several males grouped around a single female, the wounded anima, SWEDA as The Crucible, the sustained discomfort of alchemical relationships, revealing unconscious matter before we have integrated it, the art of making love without putting our hands on the life force vs. sex as self-medication.

Wormy Theatres # 12: The War on Sexuality

Aeoli Kephas — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 20:14:29 GMT

Return of Ross to discuss with Jason Ross' marijuana habit and his past addiction to Internet porn; the grid, the real matrix: how our consciousness is seeded with imagery and our life force is siphoned off, metaphysical conception, how masturbation creates thought forms, watching sex scenes with our parents, how sexual distortion becomes a comfort zone, the danger of putting our hands on our sexuality, the body's knowing, the transformative potential of sex in myths, how disowned sexuality breeds monsters, morality vs. energetic fact, religious doctrines, social control, the impossibility of sex without intimacy, Jason's sexually liberal upbringing, Freud, the Inquisition, pedophilia, Marquis de Sade, teen sex, this one's got it all ~ a podcast for our times! (With special contribution from Ross' alchemical other, Sophie).

Warmest Theory # 11: Garbage Men

Aeoli Kephas — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 04:24:59 GMT

Sean and Jason discuss Jason's shamanic apprenticeship in Guatemala, the works of Carlos Castaneda and how well they matched up with the reality, shamans as garbage-collectors, the shittiest job in the universe, a never-ending surrender, shaman as servant to community, mystery as the true nature of everything, the lines of the world, pitting the sorcerer's view against consensus view, the recapitulation, the Eagle, the ultimate goal-orientation of the sorcerer's path, JDR and simplicity, allowing the shallow to be shallow, the deep to be deep, the limitations of words, SWEDA as a home for the lost and frustrated, Sean losing his religion, praying to the Universe, acceptance of regret, fucking up for a reason, the pitfalls of being a psychedelic shaman and intentional magik, the entheogenic movement and false awakenings, Jason's red pill experience, Sean's first and last LSD trip, and back to SWEDA and generational patterns, and finally, Sean's Grammy-nominated performance of "Ain't No Thing Like a Chicken Wing."

My Earth Towers # 10: In City and in Forest

Aeoli Kephas — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 03:52:49 GMT

Cafe chat between Jason and Brandon, complete with background ambience and street noise: why everybody wants to be a somebody, the trap of "cosmic purpose" as another way to be somebody, becoming a "vessel for truth" (and getting to be somebody), becoming a smaller somebody at SWEDA, letting go of what we think is ours, the cloud of unknowing, the option of coming out of what we know to be true in order to have more for our persons, being valued in the eyes of others, Brandon's superiority-inferiority complex, honesty and dishonesty, "me" in quotation marks, Brandon growing up short, the safety and comfort of taking on leader roles, celebrity as the supreme comfort zone, the so-called "spiritual path," social drives vs. "spiritual" drives, Brandon, protector of the forest, finding Paradise in the ugliness of "Now."