The GEnie Files 1992 - PART 6
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TRIBAL PHILOSOPHY
Category 28, Topic 25
Message 263 Tues Jun 02, 1992
F.MOORE7 [shaman] at 05:49 EDT
Great question. It’ll take a dialog to flush a great answer out. To start with, shamanism has to be on the small scale. If we try to reach a large number of people, we will be pulled away from the magic into the search for bigness. What we have to do is to create tribal local communities with mythologies within this culture. In reality, the two of us talking on this network is an experiment in what we are talking about. Ask me more questions.
About money, for me it’s a symbol of exchange and respect from the student to the shaman.
TALKING SHOP
June 4, 1992
Jim and Stavros,
Here I go again with the letter that Aladdin lost last night.
Btw, Stavros … we’re watching THE FISHER KING. I like it a lot. We are up to the panhandler’s rap. One of my main street pieces has been the panhandler.
Jim, I think about 88% of what I try to heal in the people who come to me is the modern sickness of casualness in its many forms … which is much more difficult than breaking “sexual” taboos.
I’ve made a career out of flirting, being cherotic turned-on, and playing … all of which is surrendering to the lust and the love of life. But, as you said, this not casual … or imprisoned in the artificial contexts of morals or romance, this sacred flirting is very close to the heart of what I call “controlled folly”.
Stavros, what I said was it is possible to be intimate with anyone who wants and is willing to be intimate, who is willing and capable to/of doing the hard risking work required to reach and maintain intimacy. These are the operating factors, not what kind of personality/body/interest the person falls into. But these operating factors are on the practical level not in most people. Your being willing to be intimate with anyone has ALL these qualities, and it sets up an automatic screen around you which sends the people who are not “serious” “running”.
Stavros, suppose a woman said she wants to be intimate with me … because of my “beautiful spirit” … even though she finds my body gross, and disgusting. It seems obvious that in this case intimacy is not practical … because I am my body. Stavros, your spiritual quest is your body. Margaret has said it’s appalling to her.
Guys, two things today made my head hurt. Someone said he felt my ex is a snake … but he could still support her to get his political agenda over. Bad politics, bad magic.
And Debbie S. suggested I change the rituals I use because my ex ripped them off. Wonder if she’d tell you, Jim, the same thing if someone ripped off the traditional rituals.
Probably not, because she sees them as “traditional” hence sacred.
RELATIONSHIPS
Item 4318255 92/06/02 00:34
From: F.MOORE7 Frank Moore
To: STAVROS Stavros Krysiak
cc: F.MOORE7 Frank Moore
Some old business … B & D means bondage and domination. Like most things in the modern western culture, the s&m/b&d scene is a distorted version of what is a healthy spiritual/physical dimension from both childhood and shamanistic practices. What I call vere [which is totally different from normal pain] has always been one of the main ways to enter the altered reality. But during the 1800’s, the fat stealers created s/m-b/d as a distorted mirror image of the church by linking vere to sin, guilt, punishment, forgiveness, power, humiliation … all of which is totally alien to both child games and shamanism. Sometimes, in my 24-hour workshop, I have straight people explore vere by playing with s/m toys … to their shocked amazement, they all have enjoyed it in a relaxed pleasure trance.
Now, for “sex attraction”. First, why she didn’t have sex with you had little to nothing to do with her not having much sexual attraction for you. It was an attempt on her part to control the threat that you were to her reality.
Frankly, I see the concept of being sexually attracted [as anything more than something to enjoy] as an invention of the fat stealers to prevent us from getting close and intimate with anyone who is willing to be truly intimate, to make us wait and look for “the right person”, then doubt if the person we are with is “the right person”. When a couple comes to me talking about being sexually attracted, I know we’re talking trouble.
Btw … a reminder … I’ll be on KPFA 94.1fm, midnight Thursday to 2 a.m. Hope you’ll call in.
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Item 1026716 92/06/05 01:12
From: F.MOORE7 Frank Moore
To: STAVROS Stavros Krysiak
cc: F.MOORE7 Frank Moore
J.AUDLIN James D. Audlin
Romantic love was invented around 12th century by Arabic poets who were writing about the harem women who were always hidden. The crusades brought romantic love to Europe. At first, romantic love was a rebellion against the combine plot … a movement for personal choice and control, for personal love and sex for pleasure/love within marriage [this was almost unheard of in the history of marriage!]. But the fat stealers quickly turned romantic love into a powerful tool for abstraction, isolation, fragmentation … a new morality ….
PERFORMANCE
Item 3076465 92/06/16 00:46
From: F.MOORE7 Frank Moore
To: J.AUDLIN James D. Audlin
cc: F.MOORE7 Frank Moore
STAVROS Stavros Krysiak
What a week! Monday, we went to see Robert Gordon, a rockabilly singer, at a small club. Danced our legs useless. Tuesday, we went to an art show which turned into a poetry reading where the poets literally forced us to not leave [oh, the price of fame!]. Wednesday, we drove down to Mountain View to stay in a motel because 8am Friday I was talking to an English Class at Foothill College. Saturday was my normal appointment.
And Sunday … well one of my fantasies have been to do a he/she love act in one of those strip clubs. Well, THE MITCHELL BROTHERS THEATER in S.F. is the national best … the palace of the sex biz. And they turned the place over to CAL-ACT for a benefit. And Bobby Lilly put me on the bill. Now I ended up doing an erotic eroplay dance with Nina Hartley, one of the top erotic dancers/porn stars. I was extremely impressed with Nina because she fell into and captured the warm, cuddly, unglamorous, vulnerable feel of my work. Mitchell Brothers said we can do more benefits there.
Anyway, that’s why I haven’t been online.
DAILY LIFE
Item 3555636 92/06/25 01:05
From: F.MOORE7 Frank Moore
To: MORGAINE Deborah M. Gottner
cc: F.MOORE7 Frank Moore
Am I married … a hard question. The answer has to be no, because historically marriage has been the ownership of another [or others]. But I’m in a tribal being [I just made that description up] with Linda and Michael. I and Linda have been together for 16+ years … ever since I rolled into the travel agency where she was working … looked down her shirt and saw bare tits and asked her to be in a non-existent play. She quit her job two weeks later. We have been together ever since. We moved in with Michael, one of my students, about two years ago. Before he started working with me, he was an uptight graphic artist who thought he couldn’t draw …. Because THEY told him so … and a heart throb singer in a yuppie band. Now he is a laughing master of living, looks like Curly of the 3 Stooges, and draws underground masterpieces.
We live in a great house … I call it the ASHRAM/SALON OF ALL POSSIBILITIES … in a great neighborhood [an organic food store, dessert store, bagel shop]. We live with three cats. My other students live nearby. Our house is filled with art and an orange neon peace sign in the window. And we have a guest room for those who come from out of town to train with me.