Blake
Interview with Jordan Stratford
When I met Jordan Stratford + online I was really excited to have the opportunity to talk to him, because our stories complement each others' so well. I set up one of the first big Gnostic sites on the web in the mid-90s but wound up getting initiated as a priest in an African witchcraft [...]
Key Concepts
Cognitive frames of reference informing the G.F.N. mission:
Antinomianism - taboo-breaking as a means to wisdom, e.g., the “transgression” of Georges Bataille, Ikkyu , the “left hand” or “short path” of Tantra and Vamamarga.
Animism - the underlying assumption of indigenous shamanism is that everything is alive and capable of communication: rocks, streams, machines, people, clouds, insects, [...]
“Five Criticisms of Modern Gnosticism”
Interesting commentary from Jordan Stratford+ and Eckhart Christopher on modern gnosticism.
I am probably profoundly misunderstanding them, but they seem to be saying that Modern gnosticism derives its authority, legitimacy, succession, etc solely from the RCC - the one that Benedict is in charge of now, and John Paul before him, etc. - and that [...]
Admit
"When a man does not admit he is an animal, he is less than an animal…. Blake was the revolt of one man. He was not a revolutionary but a man in revolt. A creature in revolt can conceive that there is NO solution and that there will be unending construction and destruction…. Blake revolted [...]
Meat Poetry
Just “discovered” a
beat poet named Michael McClure - fucking amazing shite, have never heard of this guy before but will definitely buy everything he’s ever written off of amazon.com, pronto!
YOU’RE A BAG OF MEAT! A white sack of soft skin and fat held in shape by a lot of bones! . . . Nobody’s [...]
Antichrist
"We may not all break the Ten Commandments, but we are certainly all capable of it. Within us lurks the breaker of all laws, ready to spring out at the first real opportunity." - Isadora Duncan, 1878-1927
"Inside every saint there appeared a heretic struggling to get out; and the converse. One man's [...]
Apocalypse
"What a tragic world this is. Those down here are prisoners, and the ultimate tragedy is that they don't know it, they think they are free because they never have been free, and do not understand what it means. This is a prison and few men have guessed. But I know, he said to himself. [...]
Art II
"Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in its mother's womb." - Jean Arp
"Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death. God is Jesus." - William Blake
Black & White
"How is one to live a moral and compassionate existence when one is fully aware of the blood, the horror inherent in life, when one finds darkness not only in one's culture but within oneself? If there is a stage at which an individual life becomes truly adult, it must be when one grasps [...]
Breeds
"The sleep of reason breeds monsters" - Goya
"The man who never alters his opinion is like the stagnant water and breeds Reptiles of the mind." - William Blake
