The Adventure of Self-Love was a success, although it raised strange issues. For instance, if I love myself so much why do I need anybody to read about me on the web? But I made it back to the Art Institute and I had a great new perspective on art, and I am working on my own new art at a decent pace. Even now I have my next picture with dialogue almost ready to go. I’ve made more pictures in the last month than I made in the year before, I think.

The amazing thing, however, was that the ArtIC held over the El Greco exhibit I had been so looking forward to earlier this year. It opened a week or so before they closed, but it was still there today, and I had an amazing experience of the timelessness of Jesus looking at all his work. I am going to infuse the spirit of El Greco into my stories.

And I had been wondering for a long time whether to give my story an actual prophet for the heroes to meet, or merely a false parody for them to defeat. I think now that I will have to have an actual prophet, and try to consciously include the spirit of Jesus in my work. I think this El Greco exhibit was the necessary catalyst to give me hope of resolving my conflicts with Christianity. It’s certainly some kind of synchronicity that my Adventure of Self-Love would climax with an epiphany of Christ.

For years I’ve been able to do intuitive readings for people.  Many have suggested that I put up a website and try to make some money.  I always wondered what my web presence should be.  I didn’t want to get sucked into the competitive shallowness with Doreen Virtue and Sylvia Browne.  I wanted to do something real, but I just don’t want to “be” anything in the websphere.

However, I’ve been reading Shaman Durek’s Spirit Hacking and after years of being unable to grasp the concept, he has clued me in on “self-love”.  I’m finally able to practice it in the last 48 hours, because I read his book.  This is a similar breakthrough for me to the time eight years ago I read A Course in Miracles and was finally able to “get” self-forgiveness.  I still use it all the time.  Now, on day two of my adventure of self-love, I have decided to focus on nothing else for at least ten days, climaxing with my return trip to the Art Institute.  We’ll see at the end of this time if a continuous practice of self-love has accomplished anything in my life.

Last night at John’s circle I was trying to experience self-love while sharing with the group.  It was difficult. I could feel it present in me, but it’s as though the water-tap is stuck in the off position.  Once I get it going I expect it to flow freely, and to solve my problem of how to present myself on the web.

This morning I had an amazing dream.  I was playing a song on my iPhone but it wound up on a soundsystem in a cabinet right beside me.  I looked out through a door and saw Princess Leia.  As I walked toward her she appeard to be possessed by darkness and demonic.  As I finally got to her the forces of darkness were all around me, screaming, clawing at me, but I knew that the secret was to not react to them and they would “spin out” and destroy themselves.  Then there was a giant, scary spider behind me making horrifying chittering sounds, but I was still okay.

Then I woke up.  I lay in bed for a while and then I had a hynpogogic vision of the MCU’s Scarlet Witch looking down on me with op-art rings in her eyes, like an old horror movie.  That was cool because it was a sign from one of my angels that the whole dream was a symbolic communication of the archetypes of Saturn. 

So this is a very auspicious day for me and no matter what I’m thinking of in my usual Neptunian wanderings, I’m just switching everything to self-love.  I’m going to record a lot of it here and see what kind of story it adds up to after I visit the Art Institute again. 7/20/2020 8:37 AM

I’ve been listening to Game of Thrones on Audible for more than a year, although I did take several months off when L.A. Fitness was closed. Today I’m getting a visceral sense of what the violence in stories like this does, psychically, and I’m wondering why I should want to do this to my friends who are interested in shamanism. Even though I’d love to write a novel, I have one planned out, and I think I can do it, why do I want anyone to feel the way this novel makes people feel? What about this was supposed to be important? I loved my fantasies so much I thought it would be paradise to make them real, but this world is so awful (and the HBO series of Game of Thrones was so awful) that it doesn’t make any difference to me anymore. How can this be spiritual? I can only transmit the light that it is my part in the cosmos to transmit, but is that something I really care about when all it does is expand this filthy, ugly world full of horrible people? In some ways I’ve made myself into nothing in this world because I despise the human experience. I think that was one of the reasons I loved rock music – because it’s so harsh it can annihilate a person’s individuality for a brief moment. I wanted to annihilate my individuality in rock – it’s very Piscean. The Piscean element of my personality holds this world in a positively medieval contempt. What’s the solution? I don’t know but there has to be a way to manage it, and writing this post did give me some insights into where these thoughts belong in relation to the rest of my personality, and even some ideas about what to write that might satisfy my contradictory hungers for life and death.

I’m having an interesting experience this morning, as though the dark and light sides of my life are merging, the side that perceives spirit clearly and the side that feels all alone in the world and doomed. I’m allowing the doom but I don’t feel so bad because I perceive the spirit world relatively clearly. I’m not getting triggered, it’s all just a murky pointlessness in this world. I’ve been hearing the voices of my angels more clearly. They speak in complete sentences more and more often now. This has been an exceptionally long void-of-course for the moon. At 12:05 it ends when the moon enters Virgo, which is always the most fun, magical sign for the moon to be in for me. So I’m just going to dwell in murky darkness until 12:05 PM, and see what happens. Will my mood suddenly get better? Will this psychic quagmire get resolved? I’ll post back later tonight with results of my experiment.

I posted that on Facebook and already I’m in a very interesting turmoil. I’m continuing to write on my blog because part of the turmoil is about the boundary between public and private. I’m glad King Spa is opening tomorrow. Something’s “on” me and even though it’s scary because I feel like I have no future, there also seems to be some door opening that may lead me to the total immersion in higher worlds that I have always sought. Is there some presence here with me?

I know that even if I get killed, it’s worth it because it will end the confusion of my imagination. I was always just a person, I guess. I had some strange thing going on in my mind that made me think differently.

9:33 AM – I’m having hope that I can be a genuine person, that I can go back into the world after social distancing in one piece, instead of feeling cut off from reality has I have been for 25 years or so. I’m seeing in my mind’s eye all the strange images of the past that have been in some kind of alternate reality, and I’m accepting that there are things that did actually happen, but my interior story is not accurate, so some kind of inner space is “filling out” or “collapsing” – and yet it wasn’t a meaningless space. Something magical happened because of it, some change to the world was made.

I just finished a Zoom circle with Sacelli, et al. and I am wondering what I could write about it that will be useful to read in 13 years.  Turning 50 is bringing me to the single-pointed focus I always wanted.  I went back to nights when I lived at Jarvis, feeling safe & cozy on circle nights, knowing my bedroom was upstairs, there on the edge of bohemia, going to work for a large corporation.  There were specific layers of energy I experienced, specific points of contact with the higher realms, and of course all the evenings socializing around the table in the dining room.  It meant a lot but when John moved to Mexico it was all over for a year.  What did it mean?  I still had to find my place in the world.  Now my own spirit contact is much more stable.  But what is specific about tonight?  So much time spent on this “scene” in Chicago, and it means nothing.  Nothing comes of it.  “Society” is worse, there is no beauty, no honor.  Only the spirit world matters.  And I don’t even want to think about the wreckage of crummy relationships.  But there was all that work, all those readings and meetings…something happened.  I got over a lot of bullshit, occultism and black magic, pretentious assholes, narcissists.  I got clear.  So I want to enjoy the nostalgia.

I’m picking up the continuity of my life now, I just got done with an amazing circle and now I can feel the spirit forces aligning in my life.  The drama of social distancing is ending.  I crossed the line from being someone who leads two lives, working during the week and seeking shamanic visions on the weekend, to feeling like a unified human being, working to bring the light and dark sides of my vision into one place.  I have so many visions, and they are all ecstatic, they are all fun.  But there are so many, the golden light is so blissful and expansive that I have to struggle to bring them down into something productive.  Because at the same time that I am having these ecstatic visions I have many exciting projects to undertake, many modes of expression available in the world.  How do I choose?  How do I organize?

I have to stick with the 8th Habit.  Modeling, I have to move through this chaos to what my soul wants, and at this stage that would be the pathfinding, wouldn’t it?

So if I’m finding a path through chaos, what is the goal?  Where am I going?  I have a lot of specific projects, but I guess the main purpose would be to get a handle on it.

It’s a while later, my dashboard says this post above the line was saved two hours ago.  I feel fantastic but it is very difficult to get my mind together.  I stopped there and took a picture of my Sirius Black wand, as a symbol that I am going to try to create something that will somehow coalesce my wild imagination into clarity.  I have lots of fantasies and daydreams about popular culture, and yet I am imprisoned by the forces of Saturn, the Dementors of corporate entertainment.

The issue isn’t “getting to work”, it’s finding something constructive to do with this state of my imagination.

So I’m going to experiment now with the persona of Sirius Black.  This is my photo of official Harry Potter Merchandise, the Sirius Black Wand.  Sirius the star was sacred to the Egyptians, and the Egyptians called their country “Khem” which means “Black”, so I had this whole fantasy that the Black family were the ancestral lineage of the Pharoahs.  I made up a whole adventure where Sirius goes to Egypt to play the Game of Fate, and Bellatrix LeStrange follows him.

But that was just to get me started.  On a deeper level I’ve decided to explore the imaginal space of Mafdet, the Egyptian cat goddess, and while I’m at it I’ve included a couple of pictures I use as reference points for my guardian angels.  I’m going to get around to photoshopping some interesting stuff about them soon.   

I don’t know what any of it means, but at least I did something I can remember when I reread this 13 years from now.  I’ve started to find a path out of chaos.

Jason Cunningham works with an angel named Kara to give advice on life issues in terms of spiritual growth and soul purpose.  He reads auras and uses astrological information to illuminate patterns of behavior, and also has attunements in Reiki, All Love, and Reconnective energies.  He has taken classes with [someone] and [someone else], and he is also a member of the Chicago branch of the International Association for Near-Death Studies, for which he is the bookstore manager.

So he could see the red angel sitting across from him, with all the other people sitting around playing games.  She had something to say and she was coming through clearly, which made him feel good, but then there was this other aspect of himself that was confused and sad, that had developed in his mind a conspiracy of the Moons of Saturn, Mimas and Pandora, also Prometheus, I think.  But it was very like the tremendous fantasy he had had of that other time.

And then he had a bunch of memories that didn’t make any sense about conversations that had never happened in Grand Rapids, and a bunch of very weird things that had never made any sense, and also a lot of really stupid, ugly people who were never entertaining at all, and some place he could have gone to do something but now he was here instead and he had known a lot of people who were really revolting and seen a whole bunch of stupidity and suicide.  And he was going to get paid some more but there was some deeper magic happening also that he had some faith in, it was like he had emptied out his life and now he was going to go on into the future as something else, with something else.  And there had been a very dramatic daydream about the moons of Saturn, Tethys, Calypso, Telesto, etc.  And perhaps he should be thinking about Mimas.

So one the one hand, everyone was full of shit, but on the other he had just accomplished something and now a Red Angel was appearing to him. She reminded him of S. B. who had forgotten about him long ago.  And why was all the chaos? He wanted to ask.  Why was it important to see these monsters, to assimilate to their filth under the influence of phrase?  What was he supposed to be — and here he felt some flunky wanting to assimilate the same tired bullshit about choice and responsibility.

There was a car chase, indeed!  He had been replaying that conversation with E. S., thinking about the W. a bit.  It was working out for him, but he had to come up with a way to do it in the middle of this disturbing game of conservatives.  Earlier he had seen a whole parade of them and learned to say good night.

The channeling was picking up speed and he was indeed John Constantine, prowling around the night with a trench coat and a switchblade.  Then the tiredness came upon him, and it was like an episode of Star Trek, but he could look forward to the next weekend when it would all begin again.  It had never made sense, but he was going to get completely away from it and not have to deal with the dislike and the stupidity again.  At last he had gotten what he wanted, but of course he had to get a hold of Juliet.