The First Church of David Bowie, Phonomancer

And my friend asked me, "What might a few of your 'tools' be? And used for building what specifically?" To which I replied, "Hmm, good question! A few tenets of the belief I'm espousing might be something like..." There is an Ultimate Ground of Being. Like the hippies say, "We're all One, man." This ultimate Isness is consciousness Itself. Being All, It has to be the object of Its own attention. Contemplating Itself, it divides into two: a masculine, or positive, aspect, and a feminine, or negative aspect. The Divine Masculine is the Logos. The Ein Sof. Pure knowledge. It is utterly alien and absolutely cares nothing about you. The Divine Feminine is Sophia. Wisdom. Spirit. And the way She feels about you is...well, more on that in a second. Having separated from the Ultimate Ground (yet still in union with it), and aware of their separation, they choose to merge. This union produces a third Divine body, their child, known in Jungia...

No ceremony last night (12/7); I went to see the mighty YOB at the Bossanova Ballroom. It was a welcome break! As you’ll see, last weekend’s Rite was a real ass-kicker. A lot happened, and I recorded a lot of commentary. I had some ambitious about editing the actual footage into something I could post, but honestly, I just don’t have time. You’ll just have to take me at my word that the following is an accurate (edited for clarity in certain places) blow-by-blow recounting of an evening that included maybe the hardest, scariest 15 minutes of my life.  I recorded my first comments after the song “Up and Atom,” which is the third song of the Rite’s Ritual of Transformation, the StereoMyth.  0:27:45 - That was an epic little dream that I had there. I was taken into the upper realms, where it was explained to me that if you want to call the Goddess, if you want her, the best way to do that is to feel. I realized that I was so locked in against the fear that I had choked...