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riddle me this

2009-11-03T22:23:15Z

Riddle me this :

Is purposeful purposelessness Chaos or Order?

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The internet is my chapel

2009-11-01T18:37:54Z

I spend more time goofing off on the internet than I do actually *doing* things, particularly things that would help me out of the situation I'm stuck in. The internet, more often than not, feels like an escape, a method of avoiding harsh reality, a tool for the hungry ghosts to keep me from leaving the chapel.

I'd say more, but I just thought of something to go Google...

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poem de jour

2009-10-29T02:33:17Z

What's in My Journal

Odd things, like a button drawer. Mean things, fishooks, barbs in your hand.
But marbles too. A genius for being agreeable.
Junkyard crucifixes, voluptuous
discards. Space for knickknacks, and for
Alaska. Evidence to hang me, or to beatify.
Clues that lead nowhere, that never connected anyway.
Deliberate obfuscation, the kind that takes genius. Chasms in character.
Loud omissions. Mornings that yawn
above a new grave. Pages you know exist but you can't find them. Someone's terribly inevitable life story, maybe mine.

William Stafford

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vertical connection and marijuana

2009-10-12T14:51:39Z

'As we lose touch with our vertical sources, we lose perspective. Our lives become trivialized in a tangle of meaningless pursuits. We do things without knowing why. We lose track of what is essential to our nature, what matters and what doesn’t. All symptoms of power loss. In an attempt to regain lost ground, we try and assert external control by imposing rigid rules and structures over the spontaneous fluidity of life -- our own and others’ -- resulting in a vain and vicious cycle.'
http://www.paratheatrical.com/orientation.html

Would you say that this loss of verical connection is another way of saying one has lost connection with the 5th circuit and thus become entangled in chapel perilous, at least that is what it seems to me.

To me it also seems that marijuana can SEEMINGLY miraculously reconnect me with verticality and inspiration and optimism, yet the price for this could be neglect of issues pertaining to the lower circuits.

I'm not sure whether to regard marijuana as a helpful tool, or not, bearing in mind that I live in an area where the natural radon levels from granite are very high, which increases the risk of lung cancer.

I was wondering if anyone can relate to this, or suggest some alternative strategies for regaining vertical connection. Pranayama for instance, also I was attuned to Reiki sometime ago, although I believe the hour long daily 'selftreat' is very benificial, I tend to avoid doing it, with the excuse that I don't have time, as if there is some kind of self-destructive inclination within me that I find hard to pinpoint or release.

Any advice?

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youtube and the infernal machine

2009-10-12T06:38:34Z

In the beginning, there were the gods.
It is in their service that we build the Net, the Web, and the new art forms that manipulate time and space the way our ancestors manipulated stone and pigment. Our communal rites will combine mind, spirit, energy, and technology to break down the barriers between performer and audience, artist and viewer, priest and celebrant, mind and body, self and other. Our glory will be illuminated and reflected in a hundred million mirrors as we look around the world and see each other - really see each other - for the first time. And, as these billions of flashes of the divine spark begin to shimmer all around us, setting this electronic Matrix alight with wonder, we will begin to reckon with the transformative truth...

www.earthportals.com/god.html

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perilous quotes

2009-10-06T12:38:37Z

the chapel illuminates with the shadowy hand of reality...

"I should of been a plumber" einstein

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BABES IN THE ABYSS

2009-09-30T09:13:55Z

This is a shout out to those residing and/or visiting Chapel Perilous. We know who we are. We are the dispossessed, the outcasts and the outsiders, rebels with a cause who have upturned the mulch of our dead lives and seeded those fertile fields with incindiary visions of our future selves. Having already subverted the norm, we renunciate dominator culture’s status quo of everything and drift happy disconnected yet still wavering in the ambiguity fog of dislocation. Free-floating across the abyss between old worlds and the new, guided only by shining paths of mother evolution. We have passed over, we have passed the point of no-return and since there is no turning back, we celebrate the momentum lifting us on the wings of perception, grace and whatever skills we have earned from surviving the inevitable catastrophe of self.

Only when we are over, does our real life begin.

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$150 loft/studio in attic ~1250 feet^2 -OR- $250 shared room ~175 feet^2 (oakland west)

2009-09-17T15:25:56Z

I have not being posting in here for a while. Even though tribe.net seems to be on the down, I figured that some the survivors might be interested by the following:

I just discovered, to my amazement, that the attic of the new place I moved in has an incredible potential.

Visit the posting at
http://sfbay.craigslist.org/eby/roo/1370066367.html
to contact the person who posted this.

~ 150$ or cheaper for a loft in the attic, in addition to a dance/theater studio and massage-therapy/meditation space --1250 feet^2 (OR 250$ for a shared room -- 175 feet^2)
> West Oakland <

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light a votive candle for a loved one that has passed

2009-09-16T17:55:49Z

in memory of C.Brandon Koehl b. 7.23.1970 d. 12.25.2005
~ thanx for the shining example ~

love all-ways,
mem

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evolution and 'painful' emotions

2009-09-02T16:21:13Z

I suppose that pain/aversion in the emotional body and discordant confusion in the philosophical body are the primary gateway drugs for chapel perilous. In their various forms.

I notice some confusion in regard to the 'survival value' of negative emotions. Especially when they lead to desires for suicide, self-torture, etc. A sense of defeat, failure, hopelessness cumulating in great desires for death, even when 90% of the a persons life is beautiful, exciting, intelligent and dandy. Why would the genetic code install such a process? that rather sounds like a hippy wondering what meaning God created in this mental-sensation/envornmental inflection. oops.

It does seem peculiar though. A person experiences 'bad' emotion. Other people (with intuitive neurological wisdom) ignore/avert the person experiencing the 'bad' emotion. the person experiencing the 'bad' emotion feels more bad. Snowball....
the 'bad' emotion gets so bad the 'bad' person wants to extinguish themselves - freeing the race from 'bad' (socially ineffective/inefficient) energy. So why would/should this desire (for blow-out) be illegal? Or is such a 'law' created to protect the conscience of the nearest and dearest?

PS. a disclaimer for any possible distorted meaning transmitted in this post, perhaps due to the author's possible deep feeling/absortion (very SLIGHTLY leaning towards possession rather than equanimity/detachment) in such a trance..

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chapel penniless...

2009-08-24T11:32:58Z

conscious poverty...

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Historical and mythical origins of Chapel Perilous

2009-06-30T03:14:02Z

As we have come to discover on this tribe, so much of our modern cultural references and legacies are steeped in the Chapel Perilous mythos. The Chapel Perilous has its roots in the Arthurian legends which are also supported by a series of historical and mythological sources. For those interested in finding out more about the origins of Chapel Perilous, check out these links:

http://www.perillos.com/history.html

http://www.perillos.com/perillos_grail1.html

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perilous art

2009-06-11T22:49:22Z

The Scream, by Edvard Munch:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f4/The_Scream.jpg

Saturn/Chronos Devouring His Son, by Francisco Goya:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/77/Saturno_devorando_a_sus_hijos.jpg

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lost cause

2009-05-15T22:52:06Z

The Hints of Sweat still Permeate
the odor of the room

Some Things that Come just never leave
The Room becomes their tomb.

To see something so clearly that you taste it,
&
then it’s gone…
a distant memory…
a yellowed photograph.

So apparently I have been losing my mind.
Cycles, circles, energies and flows…..
Every day I awake, and know not where I go.

Rah

When the light
hits my eye
I’m struck, knocked back
as I wonder why

Looking for a purpose
all I find is reason

Looking for a structure
Hung High, by the neck,
they call it treason.

Whatever.

If the Sweet Tastes of that which I cannot see,
Are really just figments of my imagination mocking me,

Then I don’t know
what time is really worth,

And I do not know,
What mind is really worse.

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chapel signposts

2009-05-11T03:42:29Z

I know that I'm in the Chapel when I feel that my feet aren't touching the ground.

Its an airy feeling.

Lofty, but precarious.

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OT: New Tribe

2009-04-20T00:23:17Z

New tribe started for Agnostics: tribes.tribe.net/agnosticsonly

Being certain is stupid, whereas exercising doubt and critical thinking is more intelligent. Agnosticism is simply about being skeptical. Skeptical Atheists are welcome, and we ask that all people be considerate and polite when posting. Labels matter little, it's what's going on between the ears that counts.

True skeptics are skeptical of skeptics, skepticism, and him/herself.

Admitting that you may be wrong shows strength of character. We're only human. The only people who don't make mistakes aren't doing anything at all.

Agnostics may have suspicions about social/scientific/spiritual concepts having more or less validity, but our trick is discussing such topics without an emotional investment in any particular outcome.

So, with an open mind, a warm heart, and a colorful sense of humor, we extend our invitation to anyone inclined towards the Agnostic point of view.

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JOKES heard inside Chapel Perilous

2009-04-17T06:35:18Z

Why does Chaos always beat Order?

Because it is better organized, of course.

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Mutual Chapel Perilous excursions - the dangers of the relatonship psychic catastrophe

2009-04-16T09:51:24Z

has anyone had the experience of taking others with you into the chapel ? This does of course come under the category of getting lost in someone else's world, or someone else getting lost in yours. I have had both these experiences, usually the former but most recently a lot of the latter and both cause me to suffer quite a lot. What does one do when psychic tensions between people begin to ring the alarm bells of confusion in a mutual relationship and shit starts hitting the fan and/or falling from the sky ?

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Soundtrack Loops Inside Chapel Perilous - 3

2009-04-10T09:25:38Z

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMAB3r6EjcM&mode=related&search=

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surreal flash fiction ~ dreaming in the Chapel

2009-03-30T02:53:42Z

Ascent

Ascending spiraled steps in hope of eventually reaching a solid surface, more a chore than a mission as we continue inexorably day by day. Or is that eternity by eternity? There's not much choice, as these stairs, though solid and seemingly endless, do not provide enough solidity, enough surface, for other sustained activity. There is not even room to climb by twos, thus enabling the solace of close companionship. Certainly there is no room to make love between, stair to stair, to find what respite or pleasure such loving might provide. Perhaps for some of the more daring an occasional rearguard rape may be accomplished, coming from behind as it were, never seeing the face of the victim, so that's alright. A temporary digression from the rote work, hand over hand, leg up and leg up, monotonous unfulfilling dance.

There has been word sent down from time to time, messages in popping soap bubbles. No one is quite sure what they say, written in unfamiliar code, dripping from the watery former bubbles. Some take faith that since we have no soap or water, the fact of such material proves the surface is not far ahead. How far can bubbles fall before popping to release their secrets? Others suspect this phenomenon to be some sort of rain, a creature of sky, not surface.

We have always been upon the stairs. No one remembers any other existence. If there were surface below, from which we started our climb, there are no stories to describe it.

Sometimes some one will let go in disgust, give up on climbing to take a chance on a less strenuous eternal fall. We never hear them hit a bottom, only senseless screaming tapering off into distance silence.

There is a myth, I don't know how I heard it. Perhaps subliminal messages are written upon stairs along the way; or it might have come as lyrics from the times of spontaneous singing. The myth claims there is a method of mindplay that can allow us to metamorph into birdlike beings who can open vestigial wings and fly swiftly beyond the stairway to wonders of land, sea, continents, oceans, possibilities beyond imagining.

I have attached my mind, all my will, to that one thought. I can almost feel my wings stiffening, getting ready to fly. But to fly, I will have to release my grip by grip on the stair, leap into faith that flight is even possible, and more importantly, possible for me.

Or is flying just another way to define falling?

(c) Laurie Corzett/libramoon March 29, 2009

Shades of Real

I am in that place of bonded service to the shadows. Strong brick and stone, tarnished by long years of miasma, are my walls. There are rough chinks. Sometimes sunlight shines through in bright bits of warming rays. I have no memory of seeing outside, though faint hazy echoes of sunny airy landscape seems to have familiarity I can't quite apprehend.

There is disturbance. I am called to a shadow chamber, given mission to carry a message between worlds. I am outfitted to detract notice, given instructions, missive, and coin of the realm to which I will travel. Before I fully reach my destination, I am overcome with not unexpected fatigue. I find a shelter among a cluster of wild brush and rusting trash to await clarity.

Awakening to a bed of eider down and an array of concerned faces, I am drawn to my target.

"The shadow commands you." I say, simply, directly, without inflection, as I have been trained. No one else notices.

Satisfied with my task completed, I am allowed to sleep, dreaming of that other place. The shadow releases me from bondage.

Walking carefree in the sunshine, I smile to see elongating shadows. Soon balance will be restored, one world not of service and bondage, but reciprocity.

I don't know where this thought has come from, perhaps words of a popular song.

(c) Laurie Corzett/libramoon March 28, 2009

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Films That Look and Feel Like Chapel Perilous to Me

2009-03-29T16:20:34Z

I strongly recommend any and all of these films for their high artistic merit, provocative moods and startling reflections of what seems to me like the same journey in and out of Chapel Perilous.

JACOB'S LADDER by Adriane Lyne
THE DOUBLE LIFE OF VERONIQUE by Krzysztof Kieslowski
THE PASSENGER by Michelangelo Antonioni
CATCH-22 by Mike Nichols
JULIET OF THE SPIRITS by Frederico Fellini
SARAGOSSA MANUSCRIPT by Wojciech Has
BLADE RUNNER (director's cut) by Ridley Scott
BLUE VELVET by David Lynch
EL TOPO by Alejandro Jodorowsky
APOCALYPSE NOW REDUX by Francis Ford Coppola
HEART OF GLASS by Werner Herzog
THE ELEMENT OF CRIME by Lars Von Trier

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Exit Chapel Stage Right

2009-02-15T05:05:53Z

My wife's 17 year old cousin committed suicide this afternoon.
The chapel is alive and well.

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Overcoming Belief

2009-01-24T02:26:49Z

Despite being a big fan of Robert Anton Wilson and his Maybe Logic, I keep finding myself "correcting" the beliefs of others. Although my beliefs tend to be backed by research and evidence, I understand that they are still merely reality tunnels, and are not necessarily reality itself. When I hear about how dolphins evolved from the people of Atlantis, or how the Annunaki settled Earth genetically engineered humans, or how dinosaur fossils are remnants of the great flood, it's like nails on a chalkboard for me. I wish I could be more tolerant and open-minded of such beliefs. I understand that I'm not omniscient, but I often find myself acting like I am. I feel hypocritical because I'm not a scientific materialist, yet I often defer to science as the authoritative source on such matters, even though often I defer to spiritual teachings on matters such as consciousness. Are there any techniques you use to overcome such certainty?

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Hall of Mirrors

2008-12-11T15:48:17Z

Hi everyone!

So, I have a doubt I was wondering about with regards to Chapel Perilous, but it's possible that that doubt may be based on a misunderstanding of what Chapel Perilous "is".

I feel like I've heard the term Hall of Mirros associated with Chapel Perilous, like the "place" where everything is a reflection.....Am I thinking of something else, or does the concept make sense to anyone here?

And if that is accurate, then my next point is: Isn't all interaction with every other being a form of reflection as well? When you start understanding the difference between thinking that reality is really happening, and seeing how you yourself are creating it, then, based on this concept of hall of mirrors I'm thinking about, you start seeing how the reflection is showing you you, and not necessarily the other person or agent of interaction.

So, if any of that is remotely accurate, or resonates with any of you, does the departure from Chapel Perilous then imply sort of learning about projections and reflections and how to resonate the energy you want to resonate into the world, rather than just being a "passenger" in your form of interaction? So, to say it another way, to leave the fun house hall of mirrors do you sort of have to realize that "interaction" will always carry a fun-house-hall-of-mirrors component, and that you can start moving the mirrors around to your liking as aligned with your cosmic will?

Does that make sense to anyone?

Thanks for humoring me!

:)

Jav

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ANGEL TECH now available (new)

2008-09-28T06:18:00Z

ANGEL TECH has been republished by The Original Falcon Press with a new cover art (by James Koehnline) and an updated author introduction. Preface by Robert Anton Wilson. Order autographed copies from the author at: http://www.verticalpool.com/books.html

Or purchase it from from the publisher at: http://originalfalcon.com/b-angel_tech.php

Antero Alli will speak on the 8-Circuit Brain, Saturday October 11th in Portland Oregon at www.esozone.com

Courtesy of Dept of Shameless Self-promotion

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Orgone Accumulator

2008-07-06T22:43:48Z

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVNIQigvEeE

I've got an Orgone Accumulator
It makes me feel greater
I'll see you sometime later
When I'm through with my Accumulator

It's no social integrator
It's a one man isolator
It's a back brain stimulator
It's a cerebral vibrator

Those energy stimulators
Turn your eyeballs into crators
But an Orgone Accumulator
Is a superman creator

It's no social integrator
It's a one man isolator
It's a back brain stimulator
It's a cerebral vibrator

I've got an Orgone Accumulator
And it makes me feel grater
I'll see you sometime later
When I'm through with my Accumulator

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9VKri7qyM8

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The 8 Circuit Brain Model, Part 1 - Conversations with Antero Alli

2008-05-23T19:38:48Z

This group might be interested in these series of podcasts with Antero Alli on the 8 Circuit brain being published by the Radical Change Group at www.radicalchangegroup.com

#35 The 8 Circuit Brain Model, Part 1 - Conversations with Antero Alli
http://www.radicalchangegroup.com/blog/2008/05/18/35-the-8-circuit-brain-model-part-1-conversations-with-antero-alli/.

Released: May 18th, 2008
Recorded: September 28, 2007
OOOOO (2 votes)

icon for podpress 8 circuit brain model 1 [43:24m]: Hide Player | Play in Popup | Download (417)

Antero AlliToday we are starting an exciting new series of conversations with an author, a ritualist, a film maker, a dramatist, and astrologer, and a theater director Antero Alli. These series of conversations are near and dear both to our hearts, and to the work that Antero does.

This series of conversations (3 so far to be published every week starting now) is on the topic called the 8 Circuit Brain model. It is something that Timothy Leary first brought into the western consciousness, and later Robert Anton Wilson in his book Prometheus Rising gave it a more wide spread appeal. It was further developed by Antero in his book “Angel Tech”

This conversation covers the following topics:

* History and introduction to the 8-circuit brain model
* Absorb, Integrate, Transmit: Intelligence Increase
* Embracing humility, flaws & paradox on the human journey
* Circuit 1: Bio-Survival intelligence
* Circuit 2: Emotional-Territorial intelligence
* Direct experience
* Meeting the needs of the second circuit

two more podcasts to come, over the next two sundays

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Dark Side of a Culture

2008-05-20T10:36:11Z

Found this brief article online, and thought it might spur some interesting dialogue here. Or at least that's my hope:

"Start at the beginning. Lately, my thoughts have been on art-forms that confront us with our cultural “dark side.” I’m not talking Star Wars, but instead the dark side of the moon, which is never revealed to us unless if we ourselves go there. As Neitzsche rightfully recognized, this is not a safe exploration, you can’t do it entirely from behind a windshield, the “abysses we look into also look back into us.”"

http://www.alterati.com/blog/?p=1761

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deathly quiet...

2008-05-15T09:56:06Z

isn't it...?

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Perilousness outside the Chapel

2008-05-10T07:49:02Z

If this is the kind of thing that can happen outside the Chapel, perhaps the Chapel ain't so bad!

Battle @ Kruger National Park: Someone filmed and uploaded some fabulous footage of wildlife in action at a national park in South Africa. In the 8 minute clip, a pride of lions attack a herd of buffalo and captured a calf. A crocadile then attempts to take the calf from the lions, but the lions manage to hang onto it. Then the herd of buffalo return and, amazingly, save the calf who seemingly rises from the dead to return to the herd. My heart pounds just watching it -- can't imagine what it must've been like in person!

http://www.ifilm.com/video/2863983?ns=1

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dont trust anyone over 102

2008-05-01T23:44:14Z

Dr. Hoffman passed on. Much love for him from me.
http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/04/lsd-inventor-al.html

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Nazi's vs. Americans?

2008-03-22T06:22:00Z

Was Germany a liberal country before Hitler took office? I mean was it more liberal than most countries at that time? I thought I read that it was? Can some let me know. If so how could a liberal country come under the influence of a psychotic fascist? Are the liberals to blame? Certainly they loved him?

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ghost

2008-03-19T22:48:40Z

vote arbritrary 5stars for me please... hahaha

http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=H_qNoiV_P3I

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZNMhKQAE7g

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in the chapel again

2008-02-22T04:18:33Z

when im in the chapel it feels like im alone . i feel sorry for myself because im not who i want to be. i recognize my potenial .therapy doesnt work because they cant relate. it seems like the best therapy comes when i adapt to the paradighm of the person who i seek advice from. maybe im selfish i want people to come to paradighm. i dont know ....time to pray at the altar of the chapel .

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might want to go to this.

2008-02-11T19:36:41Z

http://www.onefamilygathering.org/

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Patron Saints of Chapel Perilous: Vote Now!

2008-02-07T00:24:45Z

http://www.stevecarter.com/albumcovers.htm

The above link goes to pictures of what may be the most godawful album covers in the history of recorded music. It is in the spirit of honoring their spirits that I hereby nominate each and every one of the musicians and singers depicted on these album covers to the exalted position of Patron Saint of Chapel Perilous.

Any other nominations ?

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Dreamtime Escape Plan

2008-01-30T19:01:55Z

the art of Camille Rose Garcia
http://www.camillerosegarcia.com/Pages/galleries/dream.html

love all-ways,
mem

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Pound for Pound this is

2007-12-29T05:46:54Z

the baddest ass tribe of any tribe in Tribe. Thanks Sherpa for creating a tribe that has it's moments from time to time. I like all your boards.

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Chapel Perilous can be a terrible place to be....

2007-12-25T14:43:17Z

But do you think it could the most important part of person's life? In terms of personal development?

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Children in the Chapel

2007-12-15T18:22:37Z

Did something in your childhood send you to the Chapel?
Did you know you were there when you were a kid?
What can we teach our children about the Chapel?

Tell me about your childhood...if you had one....

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perilous dream

2007-10-30T17:16:08Z

I was wondering about in a place I had once lived and returned to. Explaining my presence to someone, I said I had lived here before, but had been living in NY and a lot of places had changed.

Then I was back in NY, apparently to take care of unfinished business. I didn't have enough money to pay for my exorbitantly priced room. The shrewish proprietess gave the room to someone who came in while I was arguing about the price. I was out on the street.

I ran into an old acquaintance in a dark parking lot, outside a bar. Apparently we had parted bitterly. I apologized for what had happened and asked that we be able to get along, if not as friends not as enemies. He agreed to try.

I was inside the bar, in a largish ladies' lounge, sitting on a wooden bench. Another woman, friendly, offered to share a cigarette. We smoked and talked amiably. Another woman came along and offered a glass tube, which she put to my lips and blew a white smoke into me, several times. I realized I was enjoying kaleidoscopic visions when I awoke, thinking: aw sh__! Just when it was getting good.

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book recomendations for our perilous chapel?

2007-10-29T06:44:47Z

just finished this book and was floored... it is such a good illustration of our church of mayhem...

the book is called Samskara it's by: U. R. Anantha Murthy
First published in 1965 in the Kannada language.
English translation by A.K. Ramanujan. Published by the Oxford University Press in 1978

i read for a class i taking called "death and dying in the hindu tradition"... i figured it a good class to help me through my fearful struggle to shape my persona through the shock of putrefaction...

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Hungry Ghost Rebirth

2007-10-07T19:24:36Z

http://groups.google.com/group/What_Buddha_Said

Those who steals and cheat takes Hungry Ghost Rebirth!

Those who steal food & who are too lazy for doing good deeds, become
corpse or menstruation eating Ghosts, and abortion eating Ghosts (Peta).
Whatsoever are engaged in low praxis, mean, miserly, avaricious, stingy,
& the constantly greedy are reborn after death as swollen neck Ghosts...
Whoever prevents others from giving & does not himself gives anything,
becomes an ever hungry & thirsty Ghost, needle-mouthed & big-bellied...
Whoever clings to his wealth only for his family, but who neither enjoys
nor shares it, is reborn as ghost eating only what is given, such as things
given at funerals... Whoever longs to steal anothers property, but then
later regrets it, is reborn as a peta feeding on excrement, pus & vomit...
Whoever speaks aggressively, angry, words hitting like daggers, becomes
a ghost with mouth like a furnace burning fiercely with red coals & ashes...
And whoever is cruel minded, without sympathy and quarrelsome, would
become a fiery ghost eating worms, leeches, insects, crabs and beetles...

Source (edited extract):
Pañcagatidīpanī by Ashvaghosa & Saddhammaghosa: 11-12th century AC.
Tr. by Ann A. Hazlewood. Journal of the Pāli Text Society. Vol. XI 1987:
http://www.pariyatti.com/book.cgi?prod_id=132714

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Song and a Prayer and an Epitaph

2007-10-02T02:52:27Z

What song do you want played at your funeral, memorial or wake ? What prayer would you want spoken or performed there ? And what epitaph should be carved on your stone ?

song
http://youtube.com/watch?v=PStzQW6XVkM

prayer
http://www.verticalpool.com/prayer.html

epitaph
"Addressee unknown. Return to Sender."

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CHAPEL PERILOUS SOURCE PAGE UPDATE

2007-09-18T16:49:23Z

http://www.verticalpool.com/chapelperilous.htm

For those recently confined in the dungeons, crucified on the altars and/or drifting freely through the misty corridors of Chapel Perilous, please note that the above link goes to the web page that initiated the idea for this tribe. I have very recently updated this page with new information, links and images. Not that it will help anyone get in or out of the Chapel but sometimes it's nice to have something to read when you're sitting on the Chapel john.

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Zeitgeist - The Movie

2007-08-30T22:26:32Z

Has anyone watched this movie yet? I started watching it last
night, and got through Part 1 (of 3) before it got too late. I'll try
to finish the rest of it this evening.

Part 1 is an expose of sorts focused on organized religion presented in
a pretty compelling and intriguing way...along with some new
information.

It is sure to be controversial and offensive to some, particularly the
authorities and those that benefit the most from our current social,
religious and political systems.

The whole movie in its entirety is available online at:

http://www.zeitgeistmovie.com/
and
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5547481422995115331

There is also a DVD version on BitTorrent out there for those who do
not want to watch it on their computer.

The images in the introduction are pretty intense and disturbing, so
if you are sensitive to that kind of thing, you may either want to fast
forward through it or just hang in there as it lightens up a bit and is
worth sticking with in my opinion.

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Feeding the beast

2007-08-19T02:16:54Z

I am confused about the purpose of the chapel .
Sure it is thought and rather chaotic sometimes yet chaos is a part of reconstruction breaking down and building up- a process for change rather than being something to sanctify day in and day out.
Doesn't the same old mental thought patterns of reruns cause swamp gas , decay and possibly drousiness?
I am not talking about ritual that is one means where the reputation proves productive and provides a space for the opportunity for growth and change .
I am clueless here, is this tribe a replica of the chapel of Perilous?
if so -then what ? there are doors .
So what is everyone doing in the chapel ?
My question is sincere if that even matters.
Afterall they are only thought floaters.
kate

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Confrontations with demons of the past

2007-08-19T00:38:25Z

Thanks a lot, internet.

I got "found" last week by someone I never expected to talk to again. Someone I last saw at 18... truly a lifetime ago for me. I left that life quite purposely, and all the people in it - a decision that in many ways saved my life. Last year I connected with one person from that life on myspace - a good friend from those days, and at the time I was really glad to reconnect, see that someone else made it out and has done some amazing things with his life. But that single contact and rekindling of a friendship led someone else to my profile.

The shock of contact dumped me through the trap door of Chapel Perilous. Old wounds have been reopened. Processing the new information from this contact took me back to old crossroads... I can see the past forks on my path, see a bit down the roads I didn't travel, the choices I didn't make. Remorse, regret, wondering, questioning, second guessing, seeing that old patterns back then still run on inside me as invisible programs, anger, annoyance... it's brought to the forefront of my mind a bunch of shit I'd really rather not be thinking about. But I can't seem to stop thinking about it all.

Part of me wants to delete every account, unplug the modem, go back into obscurity. But I figure there's gotta be a lesson to learn here. How to move on from what I've already moved on from?

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Uh oh

2007-08-17T18:21:22Z

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvVfcyVCdNA

Mind of Illusions

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The Hungry Ghost

2007-08-09T02:20:32Z

a film about Bill Foster

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffJsX6ZRKDM

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Sanity Catch - Short Film.

2007-07-31T19:27:58Z

http://www.ifilm.com/video/2877171

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Wherever Enchantment Borders the Perilous...

2007-07-29T18:30:57Z

One path into the Chapel Perilous follows the course of enchantment. Where and how have your own experiences of being under a delicious spell of enchantment -- your own or someone else's -- led you into spinning and swooning into the delirious chambers of Chapel Perilous ? What happened to you ? How did it happen ?

I spent ten years (all of my twenties) in Chapel Perilous as a result of two types of enchantment; my own and those of certain Anima women (femme fatales) I fell for. My own self-created spells came about by a nonstop creative blaze of writing and directing my own plays, each one a vision of a different facet and fantasy of my twenty-something, delirium-soaked psyche. Each play created a different world that I inhabited while my mundane ego was kept busy by making an art out of poverty to stay alive on the planet. The last in this series of seven plays was called "Chapel Perilous: Dreaming Phases for Lovers".

As for the unbroken chain of Anima women whose spells captured my imagination (and more), those heartbroken memories remain locked away deep inside my Muses' treasure troves, guarded by Her loyal gargoyles, where She feeds on them and secretes their remains for my edification.

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unrequited love

2007-07-27T04:50:10Z

*sigh* how can i get her to notice if i'm just a lonely ghost?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Xl8YtgDAKc

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Upon Return, Jesus Taken For Pussy Liberal

2007-07-27T00:58:18Z

Upon Return, Jesus Taken For Pussy Liberal
By Lee Camp

MACON, GA – Jesus Christ made his grand return Friday but apparently has been taken for a "pussy commie liberal" by most of the townspeople he's encountered.

Jesus told reporters that all weekend he wandered around town trying to help those in need of salvation however he was told by countless citizens to "cut [his] f**kin' hair," or "put on some real man's clothes." He was reportedly called everything from a "pinko latte-sipping liberal peace-freak" to a "queer ball-less God-hating elitist fairy."

When Jesus told one man that the man's Hummer was not good for the environment and contributing to war waged for oil, the man accused him of being a troop-hating terrorist. Mary Spurns, 43, claimed Jesus was an illegal immigrant who was trying to take her job. Even though the Lord's child said he had no interest in Spurns' position as a cashier at the Fashion Bug, the woman still alerted the authorities who soon learned Christ had no identification cards and was therefore in the country illegally.

If Jesus does not reveal his country of origin in the coming days, authorities have said he will likely be shipped to Guantanamo Bay with no right to council or habeas corpus. He will be tortured extensively and then shipped to Egypt for more creative forms of torture. Before a black bag was placed over his head, Jesus said, "I kind of wish I had come back in a different country or perhaps a few years in the future. This was a poor choice."

http://www.bigfib.com/issue86/world2-en.html

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architect of CP?

2007-07-26T17:41:32Z

Check out Paul Laffoley at: http://www.laffoley.com/

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religious inspirations

2007-07-22T01:03:41Z

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3F5PA6BVPX4&mode=related&search=

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The Chapel Is Haunted?

2007-07-19T03:08:49Z

Strange bumps in the night? Shifting perceptions of unseen forms when awakening? Could it be that our souls are being blocked ( or perhaps entertained ) by other dis-embodied entities? Or are the "poltergeists" a manifestation of psychick energy running amok?
Seems the veil is thinner now, any planetary or astrological explanations? How many of us are hosts to astral hitch-hikers?
Many questions, just plumbing the depths.

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When Curses Have Their Way With Us

2007-07-16T21:06:25Z

This is a kind of counter-point to the "Enchantment" thread.

Another way we can find ourselves in Chapel Perilous is through the darker crevices and abysses of voodoo curses. I'm not talking about Santeria or Haitian Voudon but the more personal kind of black magic we, as human beings, are fully capable of subjecting ourselves and each other to.

These curse-induced trances can start out small and over time, expand and implode within us. Take for example, the overly-critical, self-stabbing curses some of us endure. Then, there's the overly-sophisticated forms of torment we unwittingly and sometimes consciously impose on others in the name of love or whatever.

Whatever the curse and wherever (and whomever) it's coming from, the results often manifest as some kind of power loss, paralysis and/or paranoia. Curses can also leave us totally obsessed with ourselves, our dramas, or someone "special", even a single idea or belief. The more powerful curses can manifest dramaically debilatating effects that eventually leave us as carved out shadow versions of our forrmer selves.

The self-imposed curse I used to suffer from came in the form of my obsession with clarity and maintaining perspective at all costs; any serious loss of clarity would trigger anxiety attacks. In my white-hot pursuit of clarity, I friend my imagination and burnt my soul, burned it bad. I eventually healed but not without enduring some very serious and heavy shit in the process.

One curse that someone put on me involved a powerful projection on his part onto me as some kind of superhuman god-like man figure. This was part one of the curse and I don't think he did it on purpose. Part two of the curse came when his projection switched polarities and I suddenly became for him the Devil incarnate. I thought for sure he was going to actually murder me as his heroic task to rid the Earth of the Anti-Christ. No shit. I was scared to death. I did not want to die at the hands of a psycho.

With the help of an older male mentor, I relaxed resisting his projection. My mentor suggested that I was, in fact, for this person exactly who he believed I was: the Devil. Or rather, HIS devil. I decided to temporarily relax into that role without any resistance and I immediately saw what my friend meant for me to see: I was not THE devil but HIS devil.

This realization somehow had the effect of neutralizing his negative projection onto me, which felt like the curse had clearly been removed. When I saw him, again, he simply looked at me as if he did not know who I was. And that was a good thing, for sure.

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paper dolls and easy listening

2007-07-07T22:12:07Z

The chapel perilous by route cut and paste of YouTube.
This has been an editorical announcement -now please exit-

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Soundtrack Loops Inside Chapel Perilous - 2

2007-07-07T00:44:01Z

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4sP9g0dDks&mode=related&search=

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Transgressions

2007-07-06T12:53:43Z

Just thinnking of our transgressions (and the ones committed against us...though not thinkin gof those as much...) and the transformative macic contained therein that often go unnoticed or ignorned due to the fact that we feel a sense of guilt or shame...

trippin on Rilke...

"The most wonderful aspect of life still seems to me that some coarse and crude intervention and even a blatant violation can become the occasion for establishing a new order within us. This is indeed the most superb acheivement of our vitality: that it interprets evil as something good and quite actually inverts the two. Without this kind of magic we would all be evil since evil touches and invades everyone. Anyone could be caught in a specific moment of being "bad"; only that one not stay put, *that* is the secret, that one continues to *live*. Nothing is more unsustainable than what is bad. This is why no one aught to think that he might "be" bad; he need only shift ever so slighlty and he is no longer "bad."

~Rainer Maria Rilke, "Letters on Life"

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the calls are coming from inside the house!

2007-07-01T06:56:13Z

A horror movie come to life
Three Fircrest families receive death threats via cell phone. Even when the phones are off. Even when they get new phones.

SEAN ROBINSON; The News Tribune
Published: June 20th, 2007 01:00 AM

Heather Kuykendall and her daughter, Courtney, 16, display the cell phones they’ve abandoned in an attempt to cut off a stream of threatening messages from mysterious harassers. Courtney started receiving the calls in February. Other families have gotten them, too. Investigators suspect it’s an elaborate hoax.

Maybe it’s just a long-running prank, but the reign of terror endured by three Fircrest families buries the needle on the creepy meter.

For four months, the Kuykendalls, the Prices and the McKays say, they’ve been harassed and threatened by mysterious cell phone stalkers who track their every move and occasionally lurk by their homes late at night, screaming and banging on walls.

Police can’t seem to stop them. The late-night visitors vanish before officers arrive. The families say investigators have a hard time believing the stalkers can control cell phones without touching them and suspect an elaborate hoax. Complaints to their phone companies do no good – the families say they’ve been told what the stalkers are doing is impossible.

It doesn’t feel impossible to Heather Kuykendall and her sister, Darci Price, who’ve saved and recorded scores of threatening voice mails, uttered in throaty, juvenile rasps stolen from bad horror films.

Price and Kuykendall have given the callers a name: “Restricted.” That’s the word that shows up on their caller ID windows: on the land lines at home, and on every one of their cell phones.

Their messages, left at all hours, threaten death – to the families, their children and their pets.

“They tell us that they see us,” Kuykendall said Tuesday. “They tell us that they know everything we’re doing.”

It’s gotten so bad the sisters’ parents have offered a $1,000 reward to anyone who identifies the culprits.

The stalkers know what the family is eating, when adults leave the house, when they go to baseball games. They know the color of shirt Courtney Kuykendall, 16, is wearing. When Heather Kuykendall recently installed a new lock on the door of the house, she got a voice mail. During an interview with The News Tribune on Tuesday, she played the recording.

The stalkers taunted her, telling her they knew the code. In another message, they threatened shootings at the schools Kuykendall’s children attend.

“I’m warning you,” one guttural message says. “Don’t send them to school. If you do, say goodbye.”

Somehow, the callers have gained control of the family cell phones, Price and Kuykendall say. Messages received by the sisters include snatches of conversation overheard on cell-phone mikes, replayed and transmitted via voice mail. Phone records show many of the messages coming from Courtney’s phone, even when she’s not using it – even when it’s turned off.

Price and Kuykendall say the stalkers knew when they visited Fircrest police and sent a voice-mail message that included a portion of their conversation with a detective.

The harassment seems to center on Courtney, but it extends to her parents, her aunt Darcy and Courtney’s friends, including Taylor McKay, who lives across the street in Fircrest. Her mother, Andrea McKay, has received messages similar to those left at the Kuykendall household and cell phone bills approaching $1,000 for one month. She described one recent call: She was slicing limes in the kitchen. The stalkers left a message, saying they preferred lemons.

“Taylor and Courtney seem to be the hub of the harassment, and different people have branched off from there,” Andrea McKay said. “I don’t know how they’re doing it. They were able to get Taylor’s phone number through Courtney’s phone, and every contact was exposed.”

McKay, a teacher in the Peninsula School District, said she and Taylor recently explained the threats to the principal at Gig Harbor High School, which Taylor attends. A Gig Harbor police officer sat in on the conversation, she said.

While the four people talked, Taylor’s and Andrea’s phones, which were switched off, sat on a table. While mother and daughter spoke, Taylor’s phone switched on and sent a text message to her mother’s phone, Andrea said.

The Kuykendalls and Prices report similar experiences. Richard Price, Darcy’s husband, is a 26-year military officer, assigned to McChord Air Force Base. On a recent trip to the base, the stalkers sent him a message.

“McChord needs us,” the voice said.

Mari Manley, 16, one of Courtney’s close friends, is another victim of the harassment. She tried to avoid the calls by ignoring her phone. Late one night, she heard the phone making an unfamiliar noise. Her ringtone had changed.

“Answer your phone,” a guttural voice said. Manley saved the ringtone, and played it during an interview Tuesday.

The families and their friends have adopted a new routine: They block the cameras on their phones with tape. They take out the batteries to stop the calls. The Prices and Kuykendalls returned all their corrupted phones to their wireless company and replaced them with new ones. The threatening messages kept coming.

Fircrest Police Chief John Cheesman is familiar with the case and knows the families. His department is working the case with the Tacoma Police Department and the Pierce County Sheriff’s Office, he said. The agencies filed a search warrant for the phone records, but they didn’t reveal much. Many of the calls and text messages trace back to Courtney’s phone, which the family believes has been electronically hijacked.

Cell phone technology allows remote monitoring of calls, according to the U.S. Department of Commerce. Known as a “roving bug,” it works whether a phone is on or off. FBI agents tracking organized crime have used it to monitor meetings among mobsters. Global positioning systems, installed in many cell phones, also make it possible to pinpoint a phone’s location within a few feet.

According to James M. Atkinson, a Massachusetts-based expert in counterintelligence who has advised the U.S. Congress on security issues, it’s not that hard to take remote control of a wireless phone. “You do not have to have a strong technical background for someone to do this,” he said Tuesday. “They probably have a technically gifted kid who probably is in their neighborhood.”

Courtney Kuykendall says she has no idea who the stalkers are, though she knows police are suspicious. She believes someone followed her at school – a man in a hooded sweatshirt with a beard.

“They’re accusing my daughter of threatening her own family,” Heather Kuykendall said.

“Why would I do that?” Courtney said. “Why would I do that to people I care about? Why would I harass my own family?”

http://www.thenewstribune.com/news/crime/story/91460.html

follow up story
http://www.thenewstribune.com/news/local/story/98881.html

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Funny Money and the Chapel Perilous Exiles

2007-06-28T21:37:43Z

Until 1974, Americans were issued dollar bills in lieu of an equal amount of gold kept in reserve in a mighty vault, carefully guarded by the U. S. military, at Fort Knox, Kentucky. In 1974, President Richard M. Nxion destroyed the foundations of the USA monetary system when he did away with the gold standard (see link for gold standard info):

http://tx.essortment.com/goldstandards_rgvh.htm

Eventually U.S. bankers discovered that people would still trust their printed paper money, even after it was no longer backed up by gold and was only worth the paper it was printed on. For the last 50 years, the banks have been issuing plastic credit cards (which got misconstrued as a form of money) towards the establishment of a virtual economy of plastic, paper and debits. What this means is that the value of the dollar bill is no better than the people's faith in its worth.

How all this relates to Chapel Perilous can be understood when we see how pervasively the collective consciousness is invested in money ? No, the illusion of money. This massive delusion, no, hallucination, has resulted in a widespread epidemic of extremely low self-worth in the populace, rendering people more vulnerable to external control as their status detriorates from Citiizen to Consumer.

Some of us remain in the Chapel Perilous because we have not yet updated our thinking and our beliefs about the true nature of money as it is today. Put in economic terms, any investment of consciousness (our true currency) into any bank of illusion is guarantteed to generate interest of increasing self-deceipt and eventual bankruptcy of the soul.

Any thoughts ?

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Pluto

2007-06-28T18:30:11Z

What we call the progress of science I interpret a the influence of Pluto.
Pluto's influence is felt stronger and stronger as the new age approaches.
I know you feel it!

P,S,. I saw Riba McEntire tonight on CMT and she blew me away...she is the Barbra Streisand of Country Music...seriously
You got to see her concert with Kelly Clarkson,,,,,I wish I was kidding....she was amazing.

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midlife crisis...?

2007-06-18T13:13:42Z

http://www.aplaceinspace.net/Pages/CandyMidlife.html

The midlife 'crisis' often begins with a growing awareness of our mortality and impending death. Sometimes this may be triggered by an actual experience of the death of a family member, colleague or friend. But more often, for seemingly no apparent reason, we become obsessed with the loss of our youth and other signs of ageing. This can be a critical period where we are plunged into the depths of our feelings. Common experiences are of a deep sense of loss, accompanied by intense feelings of grief, depression, rage, jealousy, betrayal, isolation and disempowerment.

At this time, we can feel dismembered, destructured, and disassembled. Once again, an external trigger, such as a relationship, may seem to be the catalyst for these powerful feelings. But what is really happening, is an internal process. The unconscious is awakening, the psyche/soul is stirring, and something within us is crying out for greater depth and meaning.

This can be a powerful Dark Night of the Soul experience, where we encounters our dark side, and are faced with all the 'demons' of the past. In Jungian terms, this phase represents the confrontation with the shadow. It provides us with the impetus, through external experience and internal process, to become more aware of those parts of ourselves which we have repressed, buried, rejected, denied, projected and ignored. It is time to begin recognising, owning and integrating these unlived parts of ourselves. This process is invariably painful, if not frightening. But the key lies in willingly surrendering to the process, enduring the pain, and being prepared to journey deep within our core, to face the darkness, the shadow, the past. Those undergoing this transit are most likely to consult an astrologer at this time, to seek psychotherapy, and may be drawn to 'inner child' therapy and other forms of healing.

It is time to begin to heal the wounded child, to allow ourselves to be vulnerable, to courageously enter the dark tunnel which stretches before us. We begin to sense that there are changes which need to be made. We have the opportunity, now, to become more conscious.

Mythologically, this phase of the midlife passage can be associated with the descent into the Underworld realm of the Sumerian goddess, Ereshkigal, or the Greek god, Hades. We may identify with the abducted Persephone who is taken forcibly by Hades into his underworld; the abandoned and pregnant Psyche, who, as part of her mission to be reunited with her beloved Eros, has to perform four tasks for Aphrodite, one of which includes entering into the underworld to procure a jar of Persephone's ointment. Or, we may more closely identify with the Sumerian goddess of the heavens, Inanna, who bereaved and grieving for her dead husband, chooses to enter Ereshkigal's underworld to attend his funeral, and suffers terribly at the hands of her wicked sister, resulting in her death and eventual resurrection.

Stein describes this phase of the midlife passage quite poetically: "we find loss of personal identity and the coalescence of images of tomb and womb: images of corpses and ghosts come together with images of embryos and neophytes". [10]

This phase, therefore, is not just about death; it is about birth and renewal. Interestingly, the Greek word 'psyche' means 'soul' , and also 'butterfly'. The soul or psyche seeks to awaken, just as the chrysalis seeks to metamorphose into the butterfly.

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Stories of Sorcery, Magick and Madness

2007-06-14T02:55:19Z

When the Waters Were Changed

ONCE upon a time Khidr, the Teacher of Moses, called upon mankind with a warning. At a certain date, he said, all the water in the world which had not been specially hoarded, would disappear. It would then be renewed, with different water, which would drive men mad.

Only one man listened to the meaning of this advice. He collected water and went to a secure place where he stored it, and waited for the water to change its character.

On the appointed date the streams stopped running, the wells went dry, and the man who had listened, seeing this happening, went to his retreat and drank his preserved water.

When he saw, from his security, the waterfalls again beginning to flow, this man descended among the other sons of men. He found that they were thinking and talking in an entirely different way from before; yet they had no memory of what had happened, nor of having been warned. When he tried to talk to them, he realized that they thought that he was mad, and they showed hostility or compassion, not understanding.

At first he drank none of the new water, but went back to his concealment, to draw on his supplies, every day. Finally, however, he took the decision to drink the new water because he could not bear the loneliness of living, behaving and thinking in a different way from everyone else. He drank the new water, and became like the rest. Then he forgot all about his own store of special water, and his fellows began to look upon him as a madman who had miraculously been restored to sanity.

- Taken from Tales of The Dervishes by Idries Shah

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Love that isn't pain....

2007-06-11T23:38:50Z

A love
that is not all pain....

is not

all love

~Antonio Porchia

This quote has been relentlessly monopolizing my conscious attention-time lately

y'know,
what if......he's right?

and I can see it being true

maybe

I just like the minds here

it's why I threw it out there

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the grail and spiritual politics

2007-06-11T23:24:17Z

so I surfed into some stuff about a chap called evola...

reminded me of hitler's supposed involvement in occult societies and what the mythographers termed war in heaven and how hitler supposedly had elite troops out searching the cathar region for the grail and the spear of destiny and all sorts of conspiracy stuff etc...

"The Mystery of the Grail originally formed an appendix to Evola's 1934 book Revolt Against the Modern World. Evola sought pre-Christian, pagan origins for the Grail legend, which he identified as "regal blood" or Sangreal. This myth of the Quest for the Grail is also representative of the heroic individual transcending mundane boundaries, for only the worthy knight can reach it. The legend is centred on the symbol of the dead, wounded or sleeping king, his kingdom stricken with ruin due to loss of faith, or the falling away from the sacred tradition. The Knight, who succeeds in the quest, undergoing many tests, restores the King to health (or assumes the mantle of kingship himself) and re- establishes the Kingdom. The legend of King Arthur is the most familiar rendition of this myth. The King sleeps but will return when Albion is in its greatest peril. Likewise, the Ghibelline emperor Frederick Barbarosa is said to lie sleeping in the Harz mountains, awakening to lead Germany at its darkest hour.

Evola considers the Ghibelline medieval culture as the apex of Western Civilisation. The Ghibelline during the medieval period was represented by the German Hohenstaufen imperial line in opposition to the papacy. The result in Italy was fierce fighting between the two contenders for authority, the papal faction of the Guelf, often represented by wealthy property owners and merchants. After the extinction of the Ghibelline line in 1268, Ghi-belleanism came to symbolise nostalgia for the return of the Holy Roman Empire, which had achieved European unity.

The Grail myth according to Evola is centred on the Ghibelline tradition. It continues as an expression to restore European Civilisation. The Knights of the Grail, states Evola, continued through the Templars, hence their suppression by the Vatican. The Rosicrucians also existed to restore Europe's tradition; hence, the reference in their manifestos to "Knights of the Golden Stone", and the resurrected King who wears a Templar's cross. To Evola the Grail legend remains a central myth for European revival and unity, a symbol of the warrior-priest whom he counsels to maintain spiritual purity amidst the present Dark Age."

http://www.oswaldmosley.com

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Chapel Drugstore

2007-06-06T17:43:20Z

http://www.wakeyz.com/

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Is there any hope for us, the outside elite people?

2007-06-06T06:07:17Z

Who can't develop a taste for ritual...

I find it boring, I guess it is just that I do not live in that category of people. May be because I am a pisces-gemini asc.

Is there any other way to reach imprint vulnerability?

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Welcome to Chapel Perilous: An Introduction with Reading Material

2007-06-04T02:33:08Z

I first read about "Chapel Perilous" many years ago in a book called COMSIC TRIGGER by Robert Anton Wilson. In it, Bob described the Chapel accordingly:

"Chapel Perilous, like the mysterious entity called "I", cannot be located in the time-space continuum: it is weightless, odorless, tasteless, and undetectable by ordinary instruments. Indeed like the Ego, once you're inside it there doesn't seem to be any way to ever get out, again, until you suddenly discover that it has been brought into existence by thought and does not exist outside of thought."

Since reading about Chapel Perilous, I have personally undergone a series of visits -- accidentally and intentionally -- and have learned a few things about the place, like how to come and go and, how to escape from there. I have built a web page distilling my discoveries that I am now ready to share with the general public here for the first time.

http://www.verticalpool.com/chapelperilous.htm

I am open to discussing anything on this page, as well as your own impressions and experiences.

NOTE: Though I am a practicing astrologer and I iknow that some of you study astrology, this is not an astrology tribe. If you use astrology, please find ways to immediately apply it to your experiences of what might be Chapel Perilous to you. As moderator, I will gently delete any posts that continue using astrology without serving the focus and theme of this Chapel Perilous tribe.

I look forward to our discussions.

-sherpa

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Police in Chapel Perilous

2007-06-04T00:40:48Z

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=1f4_1179038976#rea

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Pictures of the Chapel

2007-05-26T05:53:05Z

I'm wondering how folks imagine the Chapel to look.. from the inside, from the outside.. actually a chapel? with an alter and pews? or more like an institution -- with long hallways and empty rooms..

Here's a link that got me thinking about it. http://www.hoursofdarkness.com/City_Methodist_Church/Church.htm

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In which way reality selection is different from solipsism?

2007-05-24T20:43:12Z

Sometimes I meet with people who speaks a lot about creating their own reality, performing decisions about things well above their control... etc.

Which is the limit to relativism?

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Sherpa... By the way..?

2007-05-23T15:51:19Z

How do you do with Legba?

Do you remember this girl?

"A thin black child with wooden beads and antique resistors woven tightly into her hair opened the Finn's door and led them along the tunnel of refuse"

Are you the Finn?

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Scapegoats and Cruciforms

2007-05-20T20:32:02Z

It seems that human creatures need their martyrs and scapegoats. Who hangs on the cross suspended above the altar in Chapel Perilous ? Is it you ? Is it your mother or father ? Who is the biggest scapegoat in your world ? Who is the martyr who has sacrificed their life for you ?

I am asking these questions of myself after viewing the final few minutes of a film I made twelve years ago. I am also posting these questions here in case anyone else finds them meaningful or compelling. Here's the clip from THE DRIVETIME that got me thinking on this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rY-p1O3Xjt8

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Trust

2007-05-19T23:04:25Z

What is trust?

Simple question....not-so-simple answer.

Can you give an answer ?

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23?

2007-05-14T22:05:43Z

I just got introduced to an album called 23 from a tribe blog and surfed into an article about the release of a film which then talked about burroughs who I had also just recently used in mixes...

http://www.sign69.com/medialounge/space1004.html

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CP future?

2007-05-12T08:58:39Z

http://www.superdeluxe.com/sd/contentDetail.do?id=D81F2344BF5AC7BB2B6A941A575A79A451EB499F7C73BDFB

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Rituals Performed Inside Chapel Perilous

2007-05-08T13:28:51Z

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UuwLjlpR-c&mode=related&search=

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solipsism

2007-05-08T05:24:01Z

well what can I say about this except I really could of dreamt up something a bit cooler... hahaha

or could I...?

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Soundtrack Loops inside Chapel Perilous

2007-05-07T12:49:48Z

I have added an MP3 file of one of many lovely haunting Chapel Perilous songs my lovely haunting wife Sylvi has composed, sung and recorded at:

http://www.verticalpool.com/chapelperilous.htm (You may need Safari browser to hear it )

you can hear more of her Chapel Perilous songs at: http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/sylvialli

What other songs, albums (CDs) or soundtracks most closely mirror the mood and feeling of your Chapel perilous experiences.

Here is a short list of a few of mine:

Temple of Love by Sisters of Mercy (song)
Unknown Pleasures by Joy Division (album)
Closer by Joy Division (album)
In the Realm of the Dying Sun by Dead Can Dance (album)
Mullholland Drive: The Soundtrack
A Prayer for England by Massive Attack (song)
AndMoreAgain by Love (song)
The Pink Room by David Lynch (Fire Walk with Me soundtrack)

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mythic overlaps

2007-05-07T00:54:02Z

so as I got funneled into the perilous web there were many threads of coincidence that appeared between the maps and the terrains...

the dark european stuff between grail and goddess spread tentacles in all directions and then the new age and digital matrix aspects of leylines and spaceships and the monkey king also came along for the ride...

is the chapel somehow equatable to the monkey's period of being trapped for 500 years beneath the mountain prior to being released to help a monk on a buddhist quest...?

and there was much mention of a key at some point...

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Self-Controlism

2007-04-28T01:24:26Z

Pardon me if this is not a Chapel Perilous issue......

recently I had a conversation with someone about control (mainly issues surrounding control and control of others, e.g. being controlling, manipulative pr**k.) and it was explained that mainly self-control was employed and that no control of others was ever used. However, a counterpoint was given in the conversation that the use of self-control could be used as a means to control others. How? Self-control is used to control others by limiting information and materia flowing to others, thus not giving anyone anything that can be used against a person. Others can't harm you if they can't reach you. It was pointed out that kind of thinking has some serious drawbacks, namely that one can't reach other people. There is a lack of give and take.

Questions involved were about the difficulty in giving and receiving complements as well as the difficulty in allowance to share with others (sharing in this case taken to mean intimacy - "true sharing").

I'm not sure why I feel this was important to post here in CP (hence the above disclaimer), but I thought someone might be able to look at this and see if this corresponded to things in their own life or if someone had an insight into this process of "self-controlism" because while some self control is "good", too much might be "bad" ........or some such shit like that.

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Depersonalization

2007-04-27T22:11:56Z

Has anyone ever gone through an attack of depersonalization disorder? The more I read abut chapel Perilous, it seems, the more similar it sounds to this disorder in some ways.

it is categorised by feeling like there is something between you and reality, like you are watching everything through a screen, or like your life is a movie. there is a profound disconnection from everything and everybody. Everything takes on an unfamiliarity, even the thoughts in your head seem distant and unreal. Your actions are automatic, because you don't want people to know that you think you're going insane, so you put up a facade of what people expect you to say, and to look like.

I went through a period of about 6 months of this, the first month being the worst. At the start I thought I was losing it completely. I had to fight to regain control of my mind. it seemed like the only way to stop the feeling was to forget about it, so i was forced to find purpose and something to do every day. It was the scariest experience of my life, but it taught me about putting one's mind to useful, positive things.

Yeah, just wondering if anyone else has had similar experiences? This is what i liken my personal Chapel Perilous to - disconnection from the self and from the world.

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Chapel perilous

2007-04-24T18:32:19Z

Chapel Perilous, like the mysterious entity called "I", cannot be located in the time-space continuum: it is weightless, odorless, tasteless, and undetectable by ordinary instruments. Indeed like the Ego, once you're inside it there doesn't seem to be any way to ever get out, again, until you suddenly discover that it has been brought into existence by thought and does not exist outside of thought." - Robert Anton Wilson

Does anyone care to explore this thought without the buffers?

I keep going over the 'until you suddenly discover that it has been brought into existence by thought and does not exist outside of thought."
That sort of leaves me questioning aren't all things brought on through thought?
I am trying not to get into a big thinking tagnent about this but rather discuss how do we allow ourselves to get out of the chapel of perilous. .

These are things that I have been going over in that repsect,
Do we redirect our thoughts -I think to an exent this is what I have had to do but at the same time it has made a bit of a paradox for me in a lot of my daily habits, interests and life . Everything seems so very absurd to me now yet at the same time, some things are making more sense .
I am doing things more rather than engaging in philsophical or mental conversing as much as I once did.
The internet has become a challenge for me .
Ritual seems to be more significant and insightful to me now -
The Chapel phew ! coming out of the chapel Phew! I really think I had to go out all of the doors and then some .
I get the feeling it is not like a amuesment park carnival ride where once you have gone through it you kind of know when you approach the ride's exit . It is a little trickier than that -but there is a forumula to it.
Okay -your turn

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Fear and Loathing

2007-04-24T15:34:13Z

Lately, I have been experiencing sporadic panic attacks, and a general underlying level of anxiety. One thing I have noticed, however, is it seems to be linked to my beliefs. In other words, there is a link between my fear and my subconcious ( or semi concious) assumptions about reality. This has been both a symptom, and a cure, for my chapel experience. The hardest thing about fear is to realize it takes more effort to sustain , then to let go and re-evaluate our hidden values. IMHO.

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The Moat and the Draw Bridge

2007-04-23T20:11:41Z

Often times people get stuck in Chapel Perilous, or "stuck in their heads" or "in their own worlds", because they can't find or build any bridge to connect inner and outer worlds. It's like their castles or chapels are surrounded by a moat without a draw bridge; maybe some of us have even almost drowned attempting escape.

In the spirit of virtual bridge-building, I'd like to suggest a little game to test our sense of inner and outer, knowing all along that these divisions are arbitary yet sometimes useful when sorting things out.

The bridge in this game is made up of self-images. On the Chapel side are images you have of yourself. On the outside are those images you think other people have of you. List a series of words for each to see how inner and outer might relate, or not.

1) Images you have of yourself.
2) Images you think others have of you.

I will go first.

1) No images but many currents, flows, pressures, ineffable impressions, releases and tensions.

2) Impersonal or formal, funny, wise, arrogant, dangerous, pretentious, silly, easily offended.

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Missing Man Formation

2007-04-20T16:06:48Z

Not sure if this relates at all to the Chapel but....

I have the experience of missing something ....internal, vital, that brings wholeness.
I have been perpetually grieving because that part isn't there.

What do I do?
What can I do?

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why is pain bad? spinoff of love that isn't pain

2007-04-19T00:34:10Z

Why is pain something to be feared? Why is it coinsidered the dark side of a coin? I have always found painful events in my life to be liberating, fostering growth on many levels. would you really appreciate love without it?

just a thought or two.

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RIP Kurt

2007-04-15T16:52:04Z

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/nation/4707797.html

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Conclave Obscurum

2007-04-14T02:16:58Z

http://www.conclaveobscurum.ru/

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Looking into the Abyss

2007-04-11T06:05:22Z

I haven't had a reason to post here until now...

Took the following from another forum
http://forums.philosophyforums.com/thread/25153

Topic spawned by that quote from Nietzsche.
=========================================

Nietzsche and Zhuangzi paused,
stepped off of Cliff's Edge
into the pointlessness
of universal or absolute meaning.

"Bottomless!!", cried Nietzsche
in despair, overcome with
existential angst, the sensation
of vertigo, of nothingness!

And plunged head first into the
a-byss.

"Weightless!!", exclaimed Zhuangzi
delighted, freed from Convention
"And if an abyss is bottomless,
there is no falling!"

And watched Cliff's Edge floating
a-way.

===================================

Discuss.

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Dark night of the Soul?

2007-04-11T03:02:35Z

Hi - how does the dark night of the soul (as described by the work of christian mysticism) relate
to chapel perilous. In cosmic trigger, RAW talks about going through the dark night as being
hte beginning of his exit from chapel perilous.

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trapped in the tribe?

2007-04-10T11:34:49Z

In the last week or so I've been unplugged and this tribe has accumulated 223 new posts for me. That seems like quite a lot for the number of members.

Has the tribe about chapel perilous become chapel perilous?

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The eyes have it

2007-04-10T04:28:03Z

So I was up in my room a couple nights ago, listening to music and working on a piece I'm writing, and as I zoned out thinking about what to write next, my laundry basket transformed. It's one of those white plastic ones with the open criss-crosses so you can see inside, and it was full of black clothing. Suddenly, black dots appeared in the center of the criss-crosses that I wasn't directly looking at, just like in this optical illusion http://www.michaelbach.de/ot/lum_herGrid/index.html

This kind of thing happens to me all the time - I'm nearsighted but typically only wear my glasses when driving or while playing video games. That same night, while outside, my beer disappeared in the dark and my eyes replaced it by "sketching in" the bricks that surrounded it.

As usual, these experiences triggered thoughts like how often do I see what isn't "really" there? How much of what's around me does my brain automatically edit out? How much of what I perceive in another person's actions or words matches their intent? How often do the messages of my senses deviate from what's around me?

Bob Wilson wrote something to the effect that one typically exits the chapel as either a raving lunatic or a complete agnostic. I'm sure there are other possibilties... but I find that the agnostic's the path I took. I end up back inside whenever I try to look for an absolute, and regain freedom when I admit that I don't know what the hell's going on, and nobody else really does either... outside hir own nervous system.

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the shadow

2007-04-10T04:17:10Z

well the shadow is one of the elements in the chapel scenario so I'd be interested to hear what people think of it...

followed a tribe blog link and grabbed this text...

http://www.awakeninthedream.com

"The evil that is playing out in the world non-locally pervades the entire field, which is to say that we are all complicit. Though he was talking about Nazi Germany, Jung could have been talking about our present day when he said, “Psychological collective guilt …hits everybody, just and unjust alike, everybody who was anywhere near the place where the terrible thing happened.” In our case, because the evil is playing itself out non-locally throughout the field, which is to say everywhere, we are all “near the place where the terrible thing happened (and is happening).” We are all playing roles, to the extent we are acting out our unconscious, in animating the darkness that has befallen our planet. To say this differently: We are all collaboratively dreaming up the darkness in the world, we are all responsible. There is no one in this world who is completely innocent, as we are all interconnected, inseparable parts of the greater field. "

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I can't put my finger on exactly how

2007-04-09T20:34:06Z

But this just reeks of the ol' CP.

Creates some decent smiles, though.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/04/AR2007040401721.html?hpid=topnews

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For Hire

2007-04-07T20:28:44Z

Grand Mason and Interior decoratior for hire.

I specialize in building and restoring perilous chapels. Would like to try to help restore yours as well as make suggestions.

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a trap door in New York

2007-04-06T03:24:06Z

ever since coming across this particular tribe [i'm relatively new to this site], it feels like it has triggered all sorts of activity in my mind. I'm also still wrapping my head around the concept.

it made me think of an entire city falling through the Trap Door and a story of my own fall due to shock -- maybe you guys can tell me if it actually is a fall, or just something else.

Perhaps NYC has collectively fallen through the Trap Door into the CP on the morning of 9/11/01 [I am only going to talk about the effects that i've witnessed in NYC, cause it's my home]. I was in my final year at college. That morning, I was rollerblading through downtown Brooklyn to get into Manhattan to get to my Dante's Inferno class. I began crossing the Manhattan bridge and saw smoke pouring out of one of the towers.. i recall thinking to myself, 'Must've been another bomb' -- it was then when i saw the 2nd tower get hit from behind and watched a giant fireball unfurl. Everything inside of me froze from a cellular level, except my eyes which were still working cause they were full of salt water.

construction workers were running towards me, shouting at the dumbfounded handful of us to get off the bridge cause we were under attack.

then it was auto-pilot mode from that moment on and for the next several days.

wait! i still had a class to go to!

i remember taking off my blades and taking the last F train at the Jay Street station into Manhattan, before they shut down all Manhtn-bound trains. Before going into the station, a hot dog vendor looks me and says, 'i feel scared' and i put my hand on his shoulder and said, 'don't be scared' [christ!] Anyways, the train was full of really impatient people, for all they know the delay was because of 'an incident'. i had to put my sunglasses on because the tears were endless and i recall a woman looking at me, while i was struggling to control breath.

When i got out at W.4th and 6th Avenue -- everyone on the street were standing still and eyes gazing south at the burning bulidings. It was one of the most surreal street scenes to emerge into from the subway station, that i've ever witnessed.

i got to class 45 minutes late, apologized to the professor - when we got out, the towers have fallen. I went to the bookshop i worked at, and we listened to the radio all day, waiting for any new information.

An ironically amusing story my friend told me when he walked across the Williamsburgh Bridge to home, while covered in fall-out dust -- a homeless man had remarked to him, 'You watch, tomorrow you will see people selling t-shirts on the streets about this' He was so right, and the worst one i saw was fashioned after 'I can't believe it's not butter' as 'I can't believe i got out alive!'

The events of that day brought the very best, and equally the very worst out of everyone in the city.

To this day, i still get a knot in the belly and my breathing pauses -- whenever a train operator says, 'Due to an incident..' or when i smell burning plastic. Then that gentle cloud of amnesia sets in again.

Hmm, this could have gone under the topic 'Fear and the Chapel' maybe.

thoughts?

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Chapel Perilous's topics - tribe.net

riddle me this

The internet is my chapel

poem de jour

vertical connection and marijuana

youtube and the infernal machine

perilous quotes

BABES IN THE ABYSS

$150 loft/studio in attic ~1250 feet^2 -OR- $250 shared room ~175 feet^2 (oakland west)

*light a votive candle for a loved one that has passed*

evolution and 'painful' emotions

chapel penniless...

Historical and mythical origins of Chapel Perilous

perilous art

lost cause

chapel signposts

OT: New Tribe

JOKES heard inside Chapel Perilous

Mutual Chapel Perilous excursions - the dangers of the relatonship psychic catastrophe

Soundtrack Loops Inside Chapel Perilous - 3

surreal flash fiction ~ dreaming in the Chapel

Films That Look and Feel Like Chapel Perilous to Me

Exit Chapel Stage Right

Overcoming Belief

Hall of Mirrors

ANGEL TECH now available (new)

Orgone Accumulator

The 8 Circuit Brain Model, Part 1 - Conversations with Antero Alli

Dark Side of a Culture

deathly quiet...

Perilousness outside the Chapel

dont trust anyone over 102

Nazi's vs. Americans?

ghost

in the chapel again

might want to go to this.

Patron Saints of Chapel Perilous: Vote Now!

Dreamtime Escape Plan

Pound for Pound this is

Chapel Perilous can be a terrible place to be....

Children in the Chapel

perilous dream

book recomendations for our perilous chapel?

Hungry Ghost Rebirth

Song and a Prayer and an Epitaph

CHAPEL PERILOUS SOURCE PAGE UPDATE

Zeitgeist - The Movie

Feeding the beast

Confrontations with demons of the past

Uh oh

The Hungry Ghost

Sanity Catch - Short Film.

Wherever Enchantment Borders the Perilous...

unrequited love

Upon Return, Jesus Taken For Pussy Liberal

architect of CP?

religious inspirations

The Chapel Is Haunted?

When Curses Have Their Way With Us

paper dolls and easy listening

Soundtrack Loops Inside Chapel Perilous - 2

Transgressions

the calls are coming from inside the house!

Funny Money and the Chapel Perilous Exiles

Pluto

midlife crisis...?

Stories of Sorcery, Magick and Madness

Love that isn't pain....

the grail and spiritual politics

Chapel Drugstore

Is there any hope for us, the outside elite people?

Welcome to Chapel Perilous: An Introduction with Reading Material

Police in Chapel Perilous

Pictures of the Chapel

In which way reality selection is different from solipsism?

Sherpa... By the way..?

Scapegoats and Cruciforms

Trust

23?

CP future?

light a votive candle for a loved one that has passed