@nderabloodredsky said
"I want more freedom."
There goes a good read:
The 4-Hour Work Week by Timothy Ferriss
Don't get too carried away by ridiculousness of the book title. The book has solid content even if you don't want to go all the way it proposes.
If you want to get yourself more freedom while still working for the man that's a good handbook.
@Ne said
"Very good point about the Jewish people, which is deserving of thorough consideration,funny enough this is the exact concept for one of my current projects; entitled "Mutant Nation" lets call it a semi-fictional story line conceived as a philosophical and political backdrop for some more elaborate technical speculation, a model which is directly related to the rest of your quote below."
Read TAZ by Hakim Bey.
You can get it here
Just though about sharing my experience with ayahuasca (DMT) and seeing what other people have to say about it. 
I passed the 2010 reveilon in a smallholding with a comunity (Comunindios) doing some Ayahuasca ceremony. Comunindios's philosophy somehow echoes Thelema, the main aspects being Light, Truth and Pro-Creation.
The ritual was hold in a clearing into the woods, on a cold and rainy full moon night. A big satin was used to cover the area against the rain. Outside the satin a fire was set. In the center of the clearing there was the remains of a recently cut tree. I was without ingesting alcohol or drugs and on vegetarian diet for a week.
Once the sun sets the group gather in the clearing and do some meditation for ~5 minutes. Them proceeding in silence everyone go to take the ayahuasca. It's said the tea has a bad taste, but I actually enjoyed it, as it tasted like cofee. After drinking a small cup (~100 ml) of concentrated ayahuasca i went to a chair and sat there covered by some blankets and waited in meditation (pranayama).
I did not felt any "collateral effects" associated with the ayahuasca, no nausea, throwing up or anything like that. After ~30 minutes, with my eyes closed, I began to see geometric forms and patterns floating before me. There was some rhythm but also chaos in the way they moved. They were from various colors and forms, I felt they had sandpaper-like texture. Time lost it's meaning, i did not knew if I was in the present, past or future, or how fast or slow the time was passing. My senses were nullified, but once i went after them they responded normally. When i opened my eyes the world was absolutely normal.
After some "time" the forms start to vanish gradually. As they vanished I was "seeing" a celestial vault, a feeling of subtle happiness took root in me. Opening my eyes and looking around i could feel other people feelings. I felt happiness coming from the old shaman, angst in an old lady (who later revealed she had spent the night living again family conflicts), a couple cuddling a few feet from me emanated love, looking to the fire several yards away made me feel the heat and i felt the woods were observing us. When I looked to the cut tree into the clearing I saw it as the decapitated head of a bull in state of decomposition, although the form of the tree remained the same, only my understanding of it was changed. The death represented in no way diminished the sensation of happiness nor did it cause repulse or fear, it sat there as a simple event along the way.
Closing my eyes again and looking inside I kept seeing the celestial vault. A dialogue started to happen between the vault (Nuit?) and a source of heat (Hadit?) coming from me, that I felt wasn't me. The conversation went on as an explanation of Thelema's cosmology, "Nuit" being the main speaker and "Hadit" taking the position of interviewer. The interview started with a presentation of the 0=2 formula, which was show and explained in it's diverse manifestations, including in quantum mechanics (that used to torment me deeply during chemistry college). The class kept on going deeply into AL II 9, "Remember ye that existence is pure joy; that all the sorrows are but as shadows; they pass & are done", again being shown and explained in it's diverse manifestations. That followed with AL I 29, "For I am divided for love's sake, for the chance of union". During all the talk I remember to get worried if this experience would never end because I felt as if I've been in this for days.
After AL II 9 "lesson" "Nuit" said farewell and "Hadit" went back into me, as sudden as all started it all stopped. I had passed 5 hours since drinking the ayahuasca, and we were now 2 hours into 2010. I did not notice the fireworks at midnight at all, and after asking if there were any i was told a lot of them had been fired by neighbors. I sat by the fire and waited exhausted both physically, but feeling my mind absolutely relaxed. At 4am people gathered back, almost everyone were back from the ayahuasca trip, and talked about how it had been to them. After that I slept there in the clearing.
For 1 month and a half after the ritual my sense of time was apeshit crazy, days passing by without noticing. That state when time is irrelevant and meaningless is what I think is Eternal.
All in all the experience was very interesting and I plan to go for another ride soon in the next equinox (almost there). People's experiences vary wildly, be it for light or dark side experiences. Let's see what awaits me next time.
Thank you all for the help.
My birth certificate lists no time, probably due to some mess with the adoption process or something like that.
I will try to find it digging through the records, but thing aren't so easy down here in Brazil 
If the search ends with no results I might go for a rectification.
I was adopted when I was 3 months old and my documents indicate no hour of birth. I have been studying some astrology and, so knowing exactly when I was born is a must.
Is there a method to discover the time of birth?
I ask this because navigating the bureaucracy of my home country in search of that would be an enormous and probably useless task.
Christianity took 300 years to start becoming serious. Thelema has 500 years if you count Rabelais, but counting from Crowey just 100 years. This is still a very young concept. You gotta give it time to unfold…
The way i see Thelema taking hold is not as a religion or anything like that. It's by changing the consciousness of people, and that happens slowly without people ever noticing. And it's happening.
Look at Jay-Z at 15s or the lyrics on the song.
There are signs everywhere.
About Christianity, it's already slowly eroding. Every country that legalizes abort or homosexual marriage kills a little bit more Christianity. Every christian who pays lip service instead of taking the commandments seriously or that believes in "my own vision of God" stab Christianity another wound. It's a matter of time.
PS: I still fear Thelema's Council of Nicea 
Liber DCCCXXXVII – The Law of Liberty
Liber II – The Message of Master Therion
Liber CL – De Lege Libellvm
Liber LXXVII – Liber Oz
Liber XXXI – Liber AL vel Legis
That's some good books for a beginning.
I fear the day Thelema goes through it's Council of Nicaea.
@Fr. T.E.U. said
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"Profane comment: Some very respected ideas of the current theories on Quantum Mechanics dismiss the concept of causality and locality. Dismissing the implications and applications of Quantum Mechanics is somewhat difficult as those concepts are what power our modern technology"
Right. That's just a set of "rules". The deep and true understanding of how all of that works is still being worked on. Actually since the 30's not much was really understood in physics.
Anyway those concepts come often into stage because they resemble a lot eastern philosophy and other magick stuff.
@Fr. T.E.U. said
"I say, with full confidence Shiva: I know not of it; I profess my ignorance. ...We can't all be experts of everything, after all."
I was graduating in Chemistry in college, which gave me a good understanding of both classical and modern physics. I dropped out of college after 2 years for i couldn't see myself working with that. Too much bureaucracy for me.
@Fr. T.E.U. said
"Thus, I wonder: what do the other theories postulate;"
The opposition to quantum mechanics is classical physics. Those old theories by Newton, Tesla, Maxwell and Einstein.
@Andrey said
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Yes it does. You are right, that conclusion would be premature. We have another explanation, that the brain is like a jewel through which light passes. Damage in the jewel does not damage the light in any way."
I really liked this metaphor.
The correlations between Sokhmet and other goddesses point to the star Sirius, know by the greek as Sothis.
You can put side by side Sopdu, Sopdet and Sekhmet. Sopdet being the mother of Venus -> Netzach. It all makes sense.
@Fr. T.E.U. said
"On the point of non-causality and/or self-causality: I find these notions somewhat difficult to take seriously "given" what we do know about reality via actual experiments, ...while we're talking about proofs and all. Just saying."
Profane comment: Some very respected ideas of the current theories on Quantum Mechanics dismiss the concept of causality and locality. Dismissing the implications and applications of Quantum Mechanics is somewhat difficult as those concepts are what power our modern technology.
Esoteric comment: Any two opposing qualities shall be evenly matched on a cosmic level if you take the Thelemic concept of2=0 for the sum of everything must be nothing.
My take on it:
We are all part of the whole Nothing that is existence. Our stay in human bodies is a manifestation of the Nothing divided, there's no soul of ours to (re)incarnate as there is only the whole Nothing. Once we die, our ride in this playground of human flesh ends and we go back to the Nothing or maybe start another ride, and that's all. I believe there is no Soul per se. What we have are manifestations of the Nothing. No more, no less. We are not apart from the whole universe.
Would it be reasonable them the concept that the True Will is in the core of the Id?
@Jim Eshelman said
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"Would it be more accurate to say KCHGA involves the sanctification of Nature?"
Not a bad phrase. Potentially misleading sometimes, but not bad."
I fail to understand this.
What is the definition of Nature?
Recently i've been studying Freud's psychodynamics theories and started to mix the concepts with Thelema and magick practices. These thinking led to some interesting comparisons and understandings on how both theories could work in parallel.
I find it worth noting that both concepts were developed almost simultaneously, and i don't think Crowley or Freud had contact with each others work. At least not until the 1920's. Could some more informed person corroborate my assumption?
Freud's theory works around the dynamics between three forces:
Outside world: this is "real life". The world in it's physical manifestation.
Id: the basics desires. It's our emotion on a more instinctual basest manner. It prefer instant gratification despite the risks and costs attached to that. On Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, the Id is Mr Hyde.
Super-ego: the conscience and guilt. The judge applying self-punishment when perceiving your intent is wrong, the concept of wrong being very personal, although universal in some aspects.
Trying to balance the dynamics we have the Ego. The ego's job is to appease the Id, while avoiding the super-ego, taking into account the outside world.
My take is that the concept of the Knowledge and Conversation with you HGA is somewhat akin to get the Ego to undress the Id and get an understanding of it's core desires and objectives, as one's True Will. Further along the path, the act of crossing the abyss means to release the super-ego by understanding and accepting that there's no wrong in the path of your True Will, as well as getting the impulses of the Id at peace with the Ego.
So, what are your opinions on this? I believe there's some serious potential in the association of these concepts. There's a lot more to Freud than Oedipus Complex…