MISKATONIC ALCHEMICAL EXPEDITION
Seeking the True Will thru the Sacraments of Sex and Drugs
By Bill Seibert (Alobar Greywalker)Started in 1986-87, the Miskatonic Alchemical Expedition consists of a series of Gatherings/Pagan Parties/Holy Guardian Angel Workings set in primitive and isolated locations, where the niceties of civilization (morals, clothing, social taboos, etc.) can be consciously put aside by each expedition member as they will. Sacraments such as drugs and sex are used to seek one's True Will and bring through energies from private inner universes/the common multi-verse.
The purpose/methodology/tools of the Miskatonic Alchemical Expeditions involve physical plane waking-consciousness magickal endeavors. The expedition is a coordinated anarchistic group endeavor to create an environment in which dreams/phantasies/visions are projected outward within our working group (Circle). We assist individuals to reify their internal Universes within waking consciousness with intentionality and responsibility.
Sometime in the mid 1970's, I was becoming more active in the Typhonian OTO. I asked my then superior, Soror Tanith, why it was that Magickal Powerzones came together around a core of dedicated people, generated lots of energy, which in turn attracted more people to the powerzone -- only to have the whole thing eventually collapse it on itself, never to be heard from again? Tanith answered that she felt that a powerzone was, by its very nature, impermanent. Her answer was too pat and far from satisfying, but by its very nature, her answer created an itch in me (much like a bit of grit in an oyster) to explore this question further.
From my present (1994) perspective, it seems to me that powerzones are willfully created transient magickal engines -- which are also unconsciously engendered immortal inter-dimensional organisms -- which attract ingenious and imaginative magickal beings to itself, who then drive themselves into a frenzy of taboo-breaking cross-fertilization in an effort to find &/or create mutual understanding and give birth to a new world -- in which they give birth to one another and themselves. Inadvertently, these Bornless Ones also create spores of mutant magickal memes -- initiatory mutli-dimensional tinker-toy mandalas which catalyze transubstantiation of human and trans-human consciousness in all who play with them. When the spores reach maturation, some cataclysm (egoistic dissonance, financial strife, external persecution, etc.) breaks up the harmony of the incubating powerzone womb and the (now defunct) powerzone spreads its initiatory spores into the void to co-mingle and cross-fertilize with other spores from myriad defunct &/or living Powerzones, Magickal Orders, Occult Philosophies, etc. to continuously spawn new magickal engines and organisms wherever the confluence of forces find favorable alignments of Stars.
Thus, when the cycle of eons has ended, and the Phoenix returns in weariness to Heliopolis for its self-appointed immolation, it is not the end, but a new beginning. For out of the ashes of the dying Phoenix arise dust motes which swirl and congregate under the influence of a billion whirling galaxies to coalesce -- giving birth to myriad new Phoenixes, strong in the vigor of their youth, shrieking orgiastically as they fly thru the worlds of (wo)men and their gods exploring, conquering and remaking Maya into their own images -- as godlings are wont to do!
More details can be found here.
"I hight Don Quixote, I live on peyote,
marijuana, morphine and cocaine,
I never know sadness, but only a madness
that burns at the heart and the brain.
I see each charwoman, ecstatic, inhuman,
angelic, demonic, divine.
Each wagon a dragon, each beer mug a flagon
that brims with ambrosial wine."
Jack Parsons, OTO (1943)
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