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I am very interested in that which is hidden-- energies, emotions, the invisible world, motivations, knowledge, power...
I am interested in the alchemy of the psyche--and the alchemy that happens between people...I am interested in the soul's mysteries--the combination of fate and free will with which we all grapple... what we inherit--our physicality, our talents and weaknesses and our patterns, the sins and sicknesses and successes of our ancestors. ...I am interested in the divinity and darkness in all creatures....
I am interested in the fusion of sex and violence, sex and the sacred, sex and death, sex and mysticism...Accident scenes interest me. So do diasters. ... The spririt world, out of body experiences, near death experiences... ....The well being of all the Goddess's wild creatures interests me. The well being of children is of great interest to me... I never lose interest in power dynamics---what we are capable of, how we deny each other, how we can turn our backs on suffering...what we will do for compassion and love, our altruism
in death and rebirth, in resurrection and survival. In resiliancy.
I am interested in contradictions, inconsistancies, clashing impulses, multiple truths and parallel realities...
I have an ongoing study of Jungian/archetypal psychology, interfaith mysticism, Goddess mysteries, parapsychology, and occult philosophy and technique.
I gravitate toward people of intensity and drama, people who are capable of deep feeling and passion. Underworld initiates. People who play with fire; people who cross the lines. Gypsies, tricksters. People who love experimentation, and fusion of different elements to create new things. Belly dancers, astrologers, musicians, artists, witches, magicians. Outsiders, survivors, underdogs, blacksheep, troublemakers, truth-tellers, phoenixes...and swans...
For I am the first and the last
I am the venerated and the despised
I am the whore and the saint
I am the wife and the virgin
I am the mother and the daughter
I am the inheritance of my mother
I am barren, and my children are many
I am the married woman and I am always single
I am the woman who gives birth and she who never will
I am the consolation for the pain of birth
I am the wife and the husband
And it was my man who created me
I am the mother of my father
I am the sister of my lover
And he is my rejected son
Always respect me
For I am the shameful and the magnificent one
I am the utterance of my name
--Perfect thunder, Perfect Mind (also knowwn as: "Hymn to Isis"), 3rd or 4th c B.C.E.,
discovered in Nag Hammadi
Art by Fred Rambaud
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I love to listen to Medieval music and Medieval inspired like Moon Lay Hidden Beneath A Cloud, Corvus Corax; Gregorian chant, Celtic, Classical, 80's metal, Baroque, Doom, dark Americana (like Sixteen Horsepower, Johnny Cash). I love Peter Gabriel, Monica Richards, Azam Ali, Juno Reactor, Dead Can Dance, and I got a Cd for my birthday of Giant Squid that I have to hear every day. I am madly in love with Nico's solo work---she never did get the credit she deserved, and I shall be her avanger ;)-- and my own work has been influenced by Diamanda Galas. Many of my friends are musicians, and I of course love what they do.
My band is Aepril Schaile and the Judgement
Jane Campion's The Piano, Pasolini's Medea, Harold and Maude, Stigmata, Serial Mom, Addam's Family Values, Jacob's Ladder, Million Dollar Baby
Deadwood, Medium, Lost, Carnivale Old 70's TV: All in the Family, Wonder Woman. When I was a kid I watched Batman reruns just to see if Cat Woman might do an appearance; I wanted to be like her when I grew up. Yes.
Fiction: Quietus by Vivianne Schilling, White as Snow by Tanith Lee, Veronica Decides to Die by Paulo Coehlo, A Prayer for the Dying by Stewart O'Nan, Damage
Non-Fiction: Liz Greene's Astrology of Fate, Sophia by Caitlin Mathtews, The Woman with the Alabaster Jar by Margaret Starbird, Spiritual Madness:Meeting God in Darkness by Caroline Myss
Coda Bear, Mike; St. Mary Magdalene, Maria Callas, Morgan Le Fay, Boudica, Muhammad Ali, Anne Bolelyn, Cleopatra, Ruth St Denis, Elizabeth Kubler Ross, Fred Rogers, Josephine Baker, Isadora Duncan...
All artists and musicians, but especially those who take risks with their hearts, and their craft.
And of course, who doesn't love:
Growing up, Beethoven endured mental/physical abuse by his demanding and alcoholic father who pushed him to become a musician in order to augment the family income. In 1795, Beethoven became publicly known as a rising and brilliant composer. But in 1801, his confidence began to disappear as his hearing slowly deteriorated, and in 1818 became completely deaf. He sank into depression and paranoia, and was viewed as an eccentric by others. Though musical tastes had changed in the 19th century (people then preferred light rossini operas), Beethoven's genius as a composer was still known and respected. Beethoven died in early 1827 during a thunderstorm. Sources say that Beethoven rose up and lifted his right fist as thunder lighted his room, and soon after, sank into eternal sleep. His funeral was attended by around 30,000 people
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