The Wannabe Byronic Vampire Lord thing is just so incredibly cringe and sad for us aging Gen Xers to still be trying to pull off in the Year Of Our Lord 2023, at a time when most of us qualify for an AARP membership.
I fucking died.
the O9A/ToB folks, because they very much serve as the equivalent of Doordash or Grubhub for Archons and Qlippotic entities in exchange for - what, white supremacist edgelord street cred?
*resurrects, dies again harder*
Dude... so I was involved with neo-Druid shit in the 00s/early 10s but I had a phase of being fascinated by Grail/Merovingian stuff after reading Da Vinci Code [yeah I know] and I had a then-friend tell me "oh noooo don't look into that, I heard there was Big Drama with this one group the Dragon Court." Now I know what they were talking about. What I saw in the Pagan circles I traveled [which is why I left altogether] was bad enough, I think if I had been caught up in this shit - people gleefully celebrating someone suffering with cancer ffs - I would have even more deep psychological scars than the ones I've already got from Witch Wars.
To this day, I have no idea why these circles attract so many toxic people. And one conclusion I came to was that a lot of these people jocky for power and position within these circles because these are people who haven't adjusted very well to "normal adult life" outside of these circles "in the real world."
And hey, that's relatable. That was me in the early 2000s, too. Some people decide to put on airs, and then Reality or Karma knocks them down a few pegs. They do work on themselves, figure out where they went wrong, and try to be better people. And some folks double and triple down into full-bore narcissism and spiritual psychosis. This is what I expect happened to Tracy Twyman, Charles Johnson, and a lot of other people involved with this thing.
If the rituals work for you, that’s awesome! But, also - lots of humans have a deep-seated need to understand a world that is not built to be understood. And it makes us a lil bit squirrely, I gotta say.
I am leading the Imbolc/Brigid’s Day/Candlemas ritual for the online coven on Friday, so please wish me all of the luck with that? So far, they’re all cool with my being secular about paganism, and I’m very hopeful about that. I’m going to try out ritual as a way to guide my brain into healthier yearly channels, see if we can get going some of those upward spirals I keep hearing about.
Sort of? I think sabethea will have to manually invite you to the DW group and Google groups page, but zie is selling hir house and may not be able to add you in time for tomorrow’s ritual. But I can drop hir a line that you’re interested?
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I fucking died.
the O9A/ToB folks, because they very much serve as the equivalent of Doordash or Grubhub for Archons and Qlippotic entities in exchange for - what, white supremacist edgelord street cred?
*resurrects, dies again harder*
Dude... so I was involved with neo-Druid shit in the 00s/early 10s but I had a phase of being fascinated by Grail/Merovingian stuff after reading Da Vinci Code [yeah I know] and I had a then-friend tell me "oh noooo don't look into that, I heard there was Big Drama with this one group the Dragon Court." Now I know what they were talking about. What I saw in the Pagan circles I traveled [which is why I left altogether] was bad enough, I think if I had been caught up in this shit - people gleefully celebrating someone suffering with cancer ffs - I would have even more deep psychological scars than the ones I've already got from Witch Wars.
Anyway the Dragon Court essay was FASCINATING.
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To this day, I have no idea why these circles attract so many toxic people. And one conclusion I came to was that a lot of these people jocky for power and position within these circles because these are people who haven't adjusted very well to "normal adult life" outside of these circles "in the real world."
And hey, that's relatable. That was me in the early 2000s, too. Some people decide to put on airs, and then Reality or Karma knocks them down a few pegs. They do work on themselves, figure out where they went wrong, and try to be better people. And some folks double and triple down into full-bore narcissism and spiritual psychosis. This is what I expect happened to Tracy Twyman, Charles Johnson, and a lot of other people involved with this thing.
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I am leading the Imbolc/Brigid’s Day/Candlemas ritual for the online coven on Friday, so please wish me all of the luck with that? So far, they’re all cool with my being secular about paganism, and I’m very hopeful about that. I’m going to try out ritual as a way to guide my brain into healthier yearly channels, see if we can get going some of those upward spirals I keep hearing about.
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