SEPTEMBER 23, 2006 19:00

On this date, at this time, I will be performing an Autumnal Equinox Ceremony in the Catskills at the Legion Barn.
I hope you can make it.

OSKAR FISCHINGER

The Oskar Fischinger Archive

HARRY SMITH

Harry Everett Smith (1923–November 27, 1991) was an American born in Portland, Oregon; he was an archivist, ethnomusicologist, student of anthropology, record collector, experimental filmmaker, artist, bohemian and Kabbalist. Smith is a well-known figure in several fields. People who know him as a filmmaker often do not know of his 1952 Anthology of American Folk Music; folk enthusiasts often do not know he was "the greatest living magician" according to Kenneth Anger.
Smith died at the Hotel Chelsea in New York City.
The Harry Smith Archives are located HERE.
Many of his films will be screened September 16th and 17th at Anthology Film Archives.
Yet, the abstractions series can begin to be viewed HERE.

THE HEAVENLY TREE GROWS DOWNWARD

THE MYSTERIES WERE ORGANIZED FOR THE PURPOSE OF ASSISTING THE STRUGGLING CREATURE TO RE AWAKEN THE SPIRITUAL POWERS WHICH, SURROUNDED BY THE FLAMING RING OF LUST AND DEGENERACY, LAY ASLEEP WITHIN THE SOUL (MP HALL)

BY IMPUTING CONCEPTS OF NASTINESS, DIRT, SHAMEFULNES, GUILT, INDECENCY, AND OBSCENITY TO THE ENTIRE SEXUAL PROCESS, IT HAS POISONED THE LIFE FORCE AT IT"S SOURCE (JW PARSONS)

THE POTENTIAL FOR A LIFE AS A SUM TOTAL OF MERE GESTURES

PASSING FROM REALM TO REALM

TO READ NEW MEANINGS INTO OLD FORMS: "I MUST CREATE A SYSTEM, OR BE ENSLAV'D BY ANOTHER MAN'S. I WILL NOT REASON & COMPARE: MY BUSINESS IS TO CREATE" (WBLAKE)

I have been listening to the intimate beauty contained in the songs of Joe and Guin Miller. According to the San Francisco Theosophy website:
"Joe and Guin Miller were great American sages. Working together from the 1960s to the 1990s, they inspired thousands of people throughout the world. With their music, walks in the park, evenings at the SFTS and their deeply compassionate, one-on-one friendship, they touched many lives and offered a powerful example of the unconditional love and simple awareness that operates at the heart of all the world's great mystical traditions."
and from Dervish Healing Order:
"Joe Miler was an authentic American Mystic who taught in many ways, the most famous being the thursday morning walks through Golden Gate Park. Joe never charged for anything. On the contrary, he treated everyone to ice cream at the Ocean Safeway near the beach"
The songs and videos of the Millers can be found HERE.

Kenneth Anger Interview on French TV

LINDA MONTANO

Artistic ritual, often staged as individual interactions or collabarative workshops, can be used to alter and enhance a person's life and create the opportunity for focus on spiritual energy states, silence, and the cessation of art/life boundaries

RECOGNIZING

THE BASIC FORCES OF LIFE AND DEATH AS THEY MANIFEST IN CHANGE

SOME HAVE FELT

UNLOVED AND UNKNOWING IN THE WAYS OF LOVE

ONE IS ENCOURAGED

TO REACH FURTHER
AND
GATHER WHAT IS SCATTERED

GUARDIANS PERMIT ME NOT THIS FORUM CURRENTLY PROMISE COME BACKS AS RESOURCE FLOWS TRANSMISSION ATTEMPTING

GO TO BED IN A COFFIN

Recent research into traditions of the Autumnal Equinox led me to one of the best movies ever; Night of the Hunter. Night of the Hunter is a name (along with Feast of Avilon, Harvest Tide, and Mabon) associated with the equinox of September 23rd. Reading about Night of the Hunter then led me to another wonderful film; Dancing Outlaw.
Dancing Outlaw is a slice in the life of Appalachian Mountain Dancer Jesco White. Jesco carries on the dancing tradition of his father, D. Ray White. I’ve always been a big fan of jigs, and Dancing Outlaw was a major influence on my early video work. The film contains the greatest visual realization of the harmonized guitar jam found in the last 1/3 of Lynyrd Skynrd’s Freebird. Jesco is from the same county that gave the world Hasil Adkins.
You can view the entire documentary for free HERE.
You can also view Jesco’s Myspace Page HERE.