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Cratos

All matter is merely energy condensed to a slower vibration, we are all one conciousness experiencin

About Me

The unfettered mind runs like a blade, cleaving and dissecting then moving onward. Open,empty...but always processing. Enlightenment cannot be grasped, only glimpsed like a lightning flash, one can only run and return to these moments of clarity. Numbers are not methods of counting but each one an idea, a mode of being within themselves, running and returning, these pieces can form a whole...
Create your own friendquiz here"Deo Duce Comite Ferro." -S.L. Macgregor Mathers "Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense." --Buddha, Siddartha Guhtama (563BC-483BC)

My Interests

Metaphysics, Kali, Silat, Muay Thai, Boxing, MMA, Hermetic Qabalah, Yoga, Health Science, Nutrition, and being really really good looking.

I'd like to meet:

People who realize reason is the great public folly.
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Music:

Tool, Loreena Mckennit, Joe Satriani, Colin Hay, John Coletrane, A Perfect Circle, Irish Folk Music, Flogging Molly, Dropkick Murphys, Jay-Z, Gregorian Chant, Ryan Adams, John Lee Hooker, Guster, Ray Lamontagne, Warren Haynes, Frank Sinatra, and Citizen Cope just to name a few.

Movies:

Fight Club, Donnie Darko, Ong Bak, Samurai X:Rouni Kenshin, Moulin Rouge, Big Fish, The Last of the Mochicans, Gladiator, and The Last Samurai.

Television:

Scrubs, The Office, Conan O'Brien, and all of the educational tv channels (discovery, animal planet, etc.)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bv1B_jxGB-I&eurl=

Books:

Nonfiction: Dion Fortune, Iseral Regardie, W.E. Butler, Aleister Crowley, Gareth Knight, C.G. Jung, Robert Kiosaki, Neitzche, Aryeh Kaplan, The Bible, and PlatoFiction: W.B. Yeats, Stephen Lawhead, Terry Brooks, R.A. Salvatore, Dean Koontz, Piers Anthony.

Heroes:

Guro Dan Inosanto, Ajarn Chai, Carl Atienza, Sifu Terry Gibson, Aleister Crowley, Frater Haines, and Ramon Dekkers.

My Blog

Some new ideas

Well as some of you may know, I left town for a few days to figure some things out, and it has changed some of my views on life. I have always had to mindset that I am here to experience life in all o...
Posted by Cratos on Tue, 27 Feb 2007 01:01:00 PST

Possible Changes

So much has changed for me in the past year. I have grown in many ways, but due to my change in lifestyle I have had to streamline my once diverse studies. I have chosen a path and career that require...
Posted by Cratos on Tue, 20 Feb 2007 09:51:00 PST

Guess I am getting old

I have spent most of my free time contemplating concepts during this ice storm (aside from ordering pizza and playing PS3 and walking to the liquor store) and I came across a very intersting pass...
Posted by Cratos on Wed, 17 Jan 2007 01:59:00 PST

A Dark Ocean...

I have spent the past 5 years or so being very inwardly focused. When I wasnt attending college or working I was spending all of my free time training for my next fight or reading books on philosophy ...
Posted by Cratos on Sun, 14 Jan 2007 09:25:00 PST

Hectic Weekend

What a torrent of events in the past few days: Some rat bastard stole my credit card number and ran up a huge bill, I need to find him to I can kill him and make a necklace out of his teeth... I am ju...
Posted by Cratos on Mon, 30 Oct 2006 10:36:00 PST

Happiness

I have been reading books by the Dalai Lama, and I have found one recurring theme in all of his writings. Happiness is a choice!!  I am not a Buddhist, but I believe you can l...
Posted by Cratos on Thu, 14 Sep 2006 11:21:00 PST

Where is the mind?

This weekend I went on a 48 hour period of fasting and a 12 hour span of meditation, it was a life-changing experience that has altered my views on many things, I also coiencidentally heard ...
Posted by Cratos on Tue, 15 Aug 2006 12:54:00 PST

colors, vibration, and the mind of a child.

My cousin has a baby boy who just turned one. They only live a few miles away, so I have gotten to see him grow up first hand. He is getting to the point where he cant quite talk yet, but he understan...
Posted by Cratos on Mon, 01 May 2006 02:03:00 PST

I stole these rules from fellow irishman Bryan O'Rourke!

A few MUSTS for St. Patricks day:1. Don't drive. Take a cab or stay in. Not because you don't drive well drunk - because Irish folk don't. We'll wreck straight in to your car and beat your ass even if...
Posted by Cratos on Wed, 15 Mar 2006 09:20:00 PST

What is the mind?

I have been studying the mind recently. I have found the Qabalistic doctrine to give the best explanation for how the mind works. I find it so appealing because not only does it take intellect in...
Posted by Cratos on Wed, 08 Mar 2006 01:36:00 PST