Yes, me again, sorry.

[ignant666]

It's me, ignant666.

I have now succeeded in inspecting this place, have found it satisfactory, and so have now created an account.

If you were not a lashtal person, you may not know me, so:

• I am a 65 year old white male American, a New York City resident for most of my life, though not anymore (i now live about halfway between NYC and Aesopus Island);
• Retired research scientist/lawyer/punk-rock musician/bicycle messenger/drug dealer/nightclub bouncer/cook;
• Married for 23 years to a Brazilian woman, one son aged 21;
• Obsessive cyclist, non-automobile operator;
• Left politics, hate fucking Nazis;
  
• I am not really much of a Thelemite any more, but was one for 50 or so years. More of a Post-Thelemic Fake Taoist these days, i would say.

If you were a lashtal person, you may well be tired of me, but i regret to report that i am still not yet quite dead. Be patient, can't be all that long now.

[Michael Staley]

Welcome to the forums, ignant666. Looking forward to your participation in the forums.

Thanks for the thumb-nail bio. Much of it I had gathered over the years of our mutual posting on LAShTAL, but some of it was news.

On a personal note, interested to see you refer to "Aesopus" and not "Esopus".

[ignant666]

Apr 15, 2024 7:50:43 GMT Michael Staley said:

Welcome to the forums, ignant666. Looking forward to your participation in the forums.

Thanks for the thumb-nail bio. Much of it I had gathered over the years of our mutual posting on LAShTAL, but some of it was news.

On a personal note, interested to see you refer to "Aesopus" and not "Esopus".

Just trying to blend in, Michael. 

Thanx for the welcome.

[kylefite]

Welcome, Ignant! I, too, believe I knew a good deal of the bio-facts you share, including stories of you darting through traffic on your bike. Not sure if I recall your adventures as a cook. I'm not sure if Robert Anderson Plimer (who wrote the Introduction to Sean Woodward's Typhonian Rites of Amenta) is active here but I do recall sundry posts of his on a well known social media site where he entertains guests after lectures and events with his special "Typhonian Curry."

Curious as to why you call yourself a "Fake Taoist" instead of simply a "Taoist."

Looking forward to reading more posts from you accompanied by your classic avatar image~!

[Michael Staley]

Apr 15, 2024 23:25:04 GMT kylefite said:

I'm not sure if Robert Anderson Plimer (who wrote the Introduction to Sean Woodward's Typhonian Rites of Amenta) is active here but I do recall sundry posts of his on a well known social media site where he entertains guests after lectures and events with his special "Typhonian Curry."

Caroline and I stayed with Bob and Elaine on the Isle of Wight last Summer, and I can attest to the deliciousness of his "Typhonian Curry".

[ignant666]

Apr 15, 2024 23:25:04 GMT kylefite said:

Curious as to why you call yourself a "Fake Taoist" instead of simply a "Taoist."

Thanx for the welcome. 

As to "fake Taoism": I am not really all that knowledgeable about Taoism. I have read and liked the Tao te ching, and the I ching, but that's about it as far as my knowledge goes. So i don't think i am anything like a real "Taoist".

As to cooking: i guess that former career has come up less often than some of the others. My second job ever, the summer i was 14, was supposed to be working as a busboy at a fancy French restaurant on Nantucket Island. I cut my long hippie hair short for the job (suffering enormous cultural trauma thereby), but not nearly short enough for the French martinet owner to put me in "ze front of ze house". So i became a dishwasher instead, and soon was allowed to prep vegetables when they realized i was fast with a knife. By the end of that summer, i was a prep cook, with some line experience. By 16, i had worked the line in a bunch of places, mostly brunch and seafood places. I kept in the restaurant biz for several years, but in my early 20s, bike messengering, bouncing and selling drugs got me out of the kitchen.

I still do most of the cooking in our household, and can cook more or less anything i have ever tasted.

[kylefite]

As to "fake Taoism": I am not really all that knowledgeable about Taoism. I have read and liked the Tao te ching, and the I ching, but that's about it as far as my knowledge goes. So i don't think i am anything like a real "Taoist".

I recently referred to this podcast with Jason Read in another thread.

whatmagicisthis.com/2024/04/03/taoist-magic-with-jason-read/


You may find it of interest. This talk was my introduction to Mr. Read. My own view of Taoism has been, more or less, based in the Tao Te Ching and Crowley's comments on this. I found the sorcerous and magical dimensions of Taoism, as described in the above interview, to be very intriguing.

i became a dishwasher instead

A job I worked in college and also on summer breaks with a local country club. I also did the prep work, had misadventures in baking and it has only been later in life that I've taken a great interest in cooking at home (along with gardening). Both, for me, are a great joy and I love talking about them! Before Lashtal closed its doors, we had some talk about "Culinary Crowley" which was both fun and interesting. We all know he was boastful of his curry but I don't ever recall anything in Crowley regarding gardening or cultivating plants. Working with plant life was something I learned that Swedenborg was a strong advocate for (and something other occult luminaries had interest in, such as Steiner).

[christibrany]

Bring out yer dead!
'I'm not dead yet!' 

Hi Iggers