Seattle. #Holga #filmphotography

gratitude to @souljerky.bsky.social for introducing me to this organic/silicate fusion of jingle-jangly desert ambience and modular synth bliss, hosted by Dallas Acid and featuring Bill Callahan (!) Laraaji (?!) Ariel Kalma (!?!) and Paz Lechantin (!!!) dallasacid.bandcamp.com/album/a-pray...

#nokings chicago / taos

Wrathful Benevolence (A Joyful Noises Jyestha Conjure) www.mixcloud.com/souljerky/jo... A sonicspell of noisy peace through the oppressive forces of Jyestha's powertrip into the darkness of Mula nakshatra, the source of the Cosmos.

🌀 Joyful Noises :: NEW MOON :: Mountain time Monday, May 26 before sunrise from4:30–6:30am. #NEXTEPISODE

May I rehabituate my social media use patterns towards this place and direction.

I was just in Baltimore, but sadly missed this! "Well, who won Saturday’s race? Every team took home some hardware. But the top honor, Grand Mediocre Champion, went to Wheel Horse, a red tractor-like contraption with fins, for finishing in the middle of the pack."

"I would set you free, if I knew how. But it isn't free out here. All the animals, the plants, the minerals, even other kinds of men, are being broken and reassembled every day, to preserve an elite few, who are the loudest to theorize on freedom, but the least free of all." (Gravity's Rainbow)

*Kubjikā, The Erotic Goddess* Sexual Potency,Transformation and Reversal in the Heterodox Theophanies of the Kubjika Tantras by Mark Dyczkowski www.anuttaratrikakula.org/wp-content/u...

12/20 secksiest book cover ever #booksky #20bookchallenge #gravitysrainbow #pynchon

‘Prayer is not a request for something: it is an expression of a mode of being, a means of existing and causing to exist…Prayer is the highest form, the supreme act, of the Creative Imagination.’ HENRY CORBIN Art: Paul (Pavel Ivanov) Mak, An imam in prayer

May ten thousand contemplative gun-toting peace-nicks rise up and convert the bullies to dharmaprotectors or die trying

Sickness stinks, but Buddhists in the #Himalaya can call on several deities to help heal. This #ThangkaTuesday highlights Ta Chak Khyung Sum (རྟ་ཕྱག་ཁྱུང་གསུམ།), a single deity who packs the power of three: blue Chana Dorje, the green horse head of Tandin, and white Khyung. #tibetanart #buddhism

For a long time I only had a xerox of Nightside of Eden.. Yet it’s imaginings and clarity opened up new ways of perceiving

contemplation

"That if they could not have a fierce joy in their struggle, then they were not truly free but governed by fear and doubt."

A street artist in DC is putting up these posters all over the city. I’d love to get one.

Here's Mark Dyczkowski in action, expounding the core teachings of nondual Saivism. www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdWG...

We were planning to visit him yesterday… Heart broken. ♥️ Such a loss.

Any attempt to talk about Trump, like Ezra Klein in NYT this morning, that does not mention intimidation, violence and harassment against politicians and officials by his side (call them 'monarchists,' please) is awfully incomplete. For instance-- archive.is/W9WYu

New blog post. A selection of Yoginī tales (from Kathāsaritsāraga, Yaśatilaka, and Skanda Purāṇa). enfolding.org/tales-of-yog...

“Hear me and make all spirits subject unto me…” Gleeful creative joy beatings of shirts, coins and rudraksha for Saraswati puja consecrations today during Basant Panchami muhurta on Panchkote ghat in Varanasi. Camera rushes from @erikrdavis.bsky.social for @gentlydown.bsky.social

Magickal Ganga bathed-beaten-blessed operations. Mauni Amavasya bathings. #Varanasi #Benares #Kashi #KumbhaMela2025 #Prayangraj #Mahakumbhamela #Venus #Jupiter #talisman #amulet #consecration #sigil #bhavan #baptism #spiritualmaterialism #gentlydown @gentlydown.bsky.social

Where’s my bicycle powered helicopter?

“Ram Ram Ram Ram Ram Ram” …above Tulsi Ghat, Varanasi

Between temples, sadhana and madness on the Ganges, Assi Ghat, Benares.

Bluesky esoteric book challenge. A book per day (it's okay to skip days if you're really busy), in no particular order, until you've shared ALL of the best occult books in your personal library. No explanations, no reviews, just covers! #Books #Esoteric #Occult #esotericbookchallenge

Arriving in Mumbai we embarked on a spiritual quest—our first stop, Siddhi Vinayaka Temple. Seeking blessings, chaotic peace kicked our hearts, we made offerings. Deep resonance vibrated at Bubulnath Temple, charging us & the work. Can u feel it? Join our quest @ Gently Down Project.

Mantra thread #4 On Puraścaraṇa, the preliminary ritual for perfecting a mantra. Puraścaraṇa is not so much a single ritual, but an extended period of ritual activity performed until the mantra is “perfected” as evidenced by particular signs. #1 (image: Śricakra by @mariastrutz.bsky.social)

“consciousness transcends space and time” twinkles the recent social media / comedy reemergence of the eye-popping study, 'Analysis and Assessment of The Gateway Process,' drafted in 1983, conducted by US Army Intelligence, made public by the CIA #MonroeInstitute

tho i lean more to 'everything is alive and significant' side of this particular fence, i still dig the sentiment (snagged from a beautifulmonsters substack post)

"I didn't plan it that way, which is very much like life itself." —Joan Didion

Early vid of Sharathji leading the Mangala Mantra, Ashtanga Yoga’s closing prayer. Old shots of Sharath warm my heart in his wake. This was filmed at the Broome Street Ganesha Temple in the early 2000s, when I was chai wallah. #SriGaneshaTeaStall #SharathJois #AshtangaYoga #MangalaMantra

"Is it really so sophisticated to believe in material reality?" -Ramsey Dukes

Yesterday I was so hungry and I paid so much that I ate a sandwhich which had the unfortunate smell of a cold.

this morning

Walking down the Rogue River last week talking to my brother about making offerings to the ancestors & then this popped-up. #ChickenOfTheWoods yum

This is a very big deal.

Finally a ray of hope in India: "The charge against him: a 'brazen indifference' to the killing." https://bit.ly/3Qzi6d7 (As Venus retrogrades, combusts in calcination into the Sun, the soul)

Today’s yummy soundtrack (recorded in 1983)

Lemuria +1

Waiting for Blue Sky to end its embargo on new codes like ...

Moonlight, moonshine! Happy Guru Purnima! 🌝 Thank you for all the beings and circumstances that spark the light we share. Teachers. Seekers. And imbeciles like me. Gawsh what a beautiful thing, that grace happens and is cultivated and shared. Om!

New Spacecraft yoga missive - Yoginis & meditation, - Light from fireflies (they’re beetles!), - Today’s New Moon (and it’s backlighting/Earthshine) - Saturn Appearance Day (Śani Jayanti)! https://bit.ly/3OosJyk

Call of the Yoginis! At the Berkeley Alembic this Sat May 20, 2-5pm Pacific... Calling people, a local community, a Kaula, and also a conjuring of the liminal entities themselves: the Yoginis, Dakinis, 'spiritual beings'… Looking forward to seeing you there!

Liminal dreaming, liminal dying. Scientific American on brain activity at actual time of death. #EEG #bardo