Why 23?

The Number 23 movie comes out today. It’s a creepy story starring Jim “I play creepy guys” Carrey. In it, Jim is a regular guy who receives a book of paranoid ravings about the number 23, becomes a 23rdian,and then ends up in that paranoid world himself.

Where did they come up with that idea? The 23 enigma has been in the underground conscious for quite some time. Some believe that those who see the number 23 around them is a harbinger of new wealth. Some believe that it is a sign of conspiracy or other sign of cosmic consciousness. I know that ideawas spread by Robert Anton Wilson’s book, “Cosmic Trigger,” which also spread the cult of Discordianism. Twenty-three is the number of the Goddess Discordia. Wilson said that he did not uncover the 23 enigma, but that William S. Burroughs did, after 2 disasters happened on the same day: a ferry boat, helmed by a Capt. Clark, sank after 23 years of good luck; and a flight 23 helmed by another Capt. Clark crashed on the same day. Afterwards, Burroughs kept a scrapbook ofthese 23 incidents for years.

Some people have very personal stories of 23. One man found the number 23 all around this death of his father. And another has found that 23 is being used to market Dr. Pepper to us, of all things.
Having studied Chaldean numerology, I’m going to tell you a secret: the number 23 is a good luck number of publishing–like the number 32, which all 23rdians count as a 23. It knows how to get itself noticed!

Well, I’ve googled “23″ here at 23rd Mandalation. We’ve been at this for almost a year now, and so far the number 23 has come up 6 times, 212 and 2012 3 times, and 32 also 3 times. I guess our time of wealth has not yet come.

Valentine’s Day: The Past Was Worse

Believe it or not, St. Valentine’s Day is my day. Hearts and chocolate and kissing… that’s me! Suki means loveable, after all. (Japanese do not have the verb love the way the Westerners do.)

But what in the world does that have to do with a Roman Catholic Saint?

Starting as a Roman Feast of Lupercalia–you know, back in Roman times–February 14/15 was a fertility festival, which took a few different forms. In some areas, young men dressed wearing freshly cut goat skins would gad about and spank women with small whips. Women weren’t running, either–it was considered good fertility luck to get spanked with this mini-whip by a young man in a bloody goat skin.

Romans sure were kinky! The Luper (meaning wolf) part of this has to do with Rome being founded by twins named Romulus and Remus, who were raised by a wolf. Wolf-mother–fertility, get it?

Another Lupercalian fertility ceremony was the maiden lottery, in which young women would put their names in to be chosen by men and become their sexual partners for the duration of the festival, and sometimes for the year. This was extremely popular with Roman soldiers (wonder why?) and the custom was taken with them to the rest of Europe. This is another reason I try to remain in serious relationships.
Of course, (yawn) Roman Catholicism came into power, and had to take away all the fun. They made February 14th St. Valentine’s Feast Day. St. V. was put to death for performing marriages. And our Valentines are vestiges of  the lottery.

I am just glad the bloody goat skin didn’t survive to modern day. It would mess up my dress.

The Elemental of 171 West Buchanan Street

It’s been hard for the landlord to keep tenants at 171. Sure, the building was drafty, and in the worst condition of any building on the street. But the neighbors said that tenants just didn’t stay on my side of the building for more than a few months, and those who had were unsavory. Other than a tenant who had stayed for 12 years–until he passed away last October–I spent most of the time completely alone in the two-family house that was subdivided into four apartments.

In the evenings, I often felt that someone was watching me. With that feeling, I would look out the windows at my backyard. But soon that stopped. Because I “saw” something, more in my mind’s eye than anything, but unlike many visions, turning my mind from it would not make it go away. It had an old man’s head and body, white and crinkly, with an exceptionally long nose and face, no hair on the top of his head, and long white hair in the back. He would traipse about, back and forth on white, goat-like legs in my backyard, at an inhuman speed, almost like a speeded up film.

After a moment of “watching” this, he would turn his attention toward me, and it felt like his face, crinkly, white, with cancerous-looking growths all over it, was inches from mine, and his eyes, which I could now see, were milky-white of a blind man and peering into my soul.

I tacked a picture of the Eye of Horus to my back door, and purified my home and my yard with salt. I avoided looking out the back windows at night, but I knew those were only temporary fixes. Before I moved out, I did “see” him again. And I was glad to be gone.

How to Invoke a Tarot Angel

Although I personally do not use the Tarot, finding them to be too esoteric and not so ecto-teric, I found the following article at
http://www.llewellynjournal.com/article/1257 intriguing. The idea that we could bring into our “normal” lives and “magical” lives an angelic helper was a Hopeful thought in a world in which we can use all the help and all the good thoughts we can get…

Upcoming Cosmic Event Oct. 17

Brothers and Sisters The Shift is here

Pt. 1

Click here for Arcturian Alignment 1

http://www.youtube.com/v/FSUgW9AJ5Jg

Pt. 2

Click here for Arcturian Alignment 2

http://www.youtube.com/v/XczlrQJrX6s

Pt. 3

Click here for Arcturian Alignment 3

http://www.youtube.com/v/ASTvbhtrDIA

Pt. 4

Click here for Arcturian Alignment 4

http://www.youtube.com/v/GfEfv_3o7NA

Original post in Text

A cosmic trigger event is occurring on the 17th of October 2006.

This is the beginning, one of many trigger events to come between now and 2013. An ultraviolet (UV) pulse beam radiating from higher dimensions in universe-2 will cross paths with the Earth on this day. Earth will remain approximately within this UV beam for 17 hours of your time.

This beam resonates with the heart chakra, it is radiant flourescent in nature, blue/magenta in colour. Although it resonates in this frequency band, it is above the colour frequency spectrum of your universe-1 which you, Earth articulate in. However due to the nature of your soul and soul groups operating from Universe-2 frequency bands it will have an effect.

The effect is every thought and emotion will be amplified intensely one million-fold. Yes, we will repeat, all will be amplified one millions time and more.

Every thought, every emotion, every intent, every will, no matter if it is good, bad, ill, positive, negative, will be amplified one million times in strength.

What does this mean ?

Since all matter manifest is due to your thoughts, i.e. what you focus on, this beam will accelerate these thoughts and solidify them at an accelerated rate making them manifest a million times faster than they normally would.

For those that do not comprehend. Your thoughts, what you focus on create your reality. This UV beam thus can be a dangerous tool. For if you are focused on thoughts which are negative to your liking they will manifest into your reality almost instantly. Then again this UV beam can be a gift if you choose it to be.

Mission-1017 requires approximately one million people to focus on positive, benign, good willed thoughts for themselves and the Earth and Humanity on this day. Your thoughts can be of any nature of your choosing, but remember whatever you focus on will be made manifest in a relatively faster than anticipated time frame. To some the occurrences may almost be bordering on the miracle.

All we ask is positive thoughts of love, prosperity, healing, wealth, kindness, gratitude be focused on.

This UV beam comes into full affect for 17 hrs on the 17th of October 2006. No matter what time zone you are in the hours are approximately 10:17 am on the 17th of October to 1:17 am on the 18th October. The peak time will be 17:10 (5:10 pm) on the 17th October. You do not need to be in a meditative state through out this time, though would be beneficial. The main key time no matter what time zone you are in will be the peak time of 17:10 (5:10 pm).

Perhaps at this time if you can find a peaceful spot or location to focus. The optimum is out in the vicinity of grounded nature, likened to that of a large tree or next to the ocean waves. Focus on whatever it is you desire. What is required for the benefit of all Earth and Humanity is positive thoughts of loving nature.

We call this UV beam trigger event, .. gateway. Please forward this message to as many people as you know who will use this cosmic trigger event to focus positive, good willed thoughts. We require approximately 1-million people across globe to actively participate in this event. Please use whatever communication mediums you have at your disposal. Reach out to as many people as possible. We require 1-million plus people at the least to trigger a shift for humanity from separation and fragmentation to one of unification and oneness. This is your opportunity to take back what is rightfully yours i.e. Peace and Prosperity for all Earth and Mankind.

This is a gift, a life line from your universe so to speak, an answer to your prayers. What you do with it and whether or not you choose to participate is your choice.

This was originally posted 23rd-M’s myspace friend, White Arcanum:

Graffiti Magic and the Urban Landscape

From Key23.net: by Bood Samel in features on Mon Aug 28 10:08:52 EDT 2006 Two of my main interests in life are graffiti, and the practice of ceremonial magic. It wasn’t long after I started stumbling my way into magic that I started to notice similarities, and parallels between the acts of carrying out ceremonial magic, and going out and doing graffiti. Both are self-initiatory processes that transmute how we consciously interact with the world around us. When one picks up the bulky marker, or can of paint, and sets it against the drollness of modern homogenized landscapes, something changes in the mind of the implementer. Suddenly the world becomes a much more fantastic place. Seemingly bland urban landscapes become the playground of a hidden illicit art world. Everything becomes vast, and inspiring, while at the same time personalized. Blurred lines scrawled clandestinely all over the place become sigil gateways into a hidden, yet omnipresent world. Yet experience shows us that the drive towards the rapture of the fantastic belongs at our disposal, and in our individual control. Like magic, graffiti is all around us, but both are hardly noticed by those not involved with either. It already is a form of the occult in the literal sense–hidden knowledge–its experience and understanding available only to the initiated. (entire article is here)

Top 10 Reasons Not to Go for a Psychic Reading

3. If you hear good news to come, you’ll relax, knowing that the good thing will happen. If you relax, then you won’t be able to spot the opportunity of that good thing when it comes, so it will never happen (Rest of reasons are here)

Get Ready For Your One-World Religion

“It’s clear that the global transformationalists are promoting the Earth Charter as the “new scripture.” At the presentation of the Ark, and its “new gospel” contents, we can expect that it will be endorsed by the U.N. The halls of the United Nations has long been a haven for New Age one-world religion spirituality. Former Secretary-Generals like Dag Hammarskjold (founder of the U.N. Meditation Room), U Thant and former Assistant Secretary-General Robert Muller have long been outspoken advocates of a new pantheistic global spirituality, using the U.N. as a vehicle to spread their doctrine.” Rest of interesting article is here.

Nuclear Apocalypse Milder Than Expected

Iran was expected to ignite World War III on the anniversary of the prophet Muhammad’s journey to Heaven on his winged horse (hmm, we don’t have a cryptozoology, category) which this year fell yesterday, or Aug. 22. I had read about this in the Wall Street Journal a couple of weeks ago. Interesting article. Here’s that link.

Dead Psychic’s Sketch Of JonBenet Killer Revisited

Psychic Dorothy Allison believed she knew what JonBenet’s killer looked like and provided a sketch to the Ramsey family, based on her visions. The Ramsey family Web site published the sketch, asking the public, “Have you seen this man? This man may have been in the Boulder area in December 1996.” Click here to read more and see the sketch.