The GEnie Files 1992 - PART 8
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RITUAL NUDITY & SEXUALITY
Religion & Ethics RT
Category 29, Topic 8
Message 10 Sun Aug 23, 1992
F.MOORE7 [shaman] at 04:45 EDT
I have been thinking long and hard about this issue. It may take me several posts to clearly state it … it isn’t a simple black/white issue. I think 95% of “sex magic” can be performed without intercourse, and about 70% can be done without orgasms. Of course, these percentages are meaningless, but they help me say what I need to. I think that most of the focus in “sex magic” on intercourse, orgasm, semen is a detour from the real magical dynamics. But there is the 5% which does require intercourse in some fashion, and we don’t know what is the operating factor which makes the ritual work … for example, skin rubbing skin inside of the body might be the operating factor … in which case, rubbers would get in between and prevent the magical dynamic. I quickly suggest these rituals should not be done casually … all the people involved should be fully aware of and fully accept the risks and dangers involved in a ritual before they do that ritual.
I had an apprentice who had AIDS. This didn’t present a problem in the eroplay rituals … because there is no intercourse or orgasm in eroplay. But at one point, they thought he had TB. I could change the eroplay ritual from the woman rubbing his body, arousing him, to rubbing her own body, arousing her body, and transferring the chero to his body psychically. But when I had sessions with him, they had us wear masks. I soon realized the masks were blocking important magical channels. I took the masks off.
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Item 3308238 92/09/03 00:45
From: F.MOORE Frank Moore
To: P.HUBBARD Philip R. Hubbard
cc: LINTERAH Linda L. Whitten
PUCK Scott M. Baron
H.GARCIA3 Bert Garcia
C.FINK4 Carl I. Fink
R.ASH2 Robert A. Ash
CONNOR Jack Winglewick
F.MOORE7 Frank Moore
Sub: Lux replies to Lady Khallie
Reply: Item #0329884 from P.HUBBARD on 92/09/02 at 20:28
Tanpan eats his meal in slow enjoyment, but he leaves half of the food uneaten … this food remains strangely hot.
“Captain”, Tanpan says in a smooth voice which sounds like two voices –one man, one woman—talking in duet, “if you’d give me a bone, I’d carve something truly beautiful for you. Lux and Lady Khallie, I deeply intend to be very good friends with you. But as for the god of war, I have no time for him.”
With this, Tanpan gets up from the table with his hot food and goes to the sailors. He gives each sailor an equal portion of food. Then he squats besides the injured sailor, and starts nursing him.
TALKING SHOP
Item: 3294755 92/09/02 01:31
From: F.MOORE7 Frank Moore
To: K.GRIFFITH3 Earl K. Griffith
cc: F.MOORE7 Frank Moore
STAVROS Stavros Krysiak
J.AUDLIN James. D. Audlin
Sub: Who is FM?
Luna,
I’ll ramble nonlinearly. What I say should be kept in the context /spirit/reality of the work I’m doing. I think it’d be unwise to talk about it in relationship or in comparison to/with other magical systems. It’s better to talk about the magical dynamics within this magical context … and let the people within the other magical contexts say/think “oh yes, that is like this thing I’ve done” for themselves … like the way Jim and I are talking.
Shamanism at its core is not a religion … any more than being an artist at its core is not a religion … even if it can be turned into one … even though most, if not all, religions came out of shamanistic practices to fulfil totally different needs/purposes than shamanism. For example, religion’s function is to create and maintain a certain social/moral/emotional/spiritual order. Shamanism is the going outside the “normal” order/reality … which sometimes reinforces the “NORMAL” order, sometimes shakes it, sometimes breaks it. Religion is tradition … priests are trained in the traditions to perform the duty of enforcing and handing down the traditions. Shamanism, on the other hand, is experiential, personal [but not individual], and dynamically active. Priests are selected and trained and ordained. Shamans are born, guided, tricked, called. Shamanism is not a social role/mask, but an aspect of the personality. So, it isn’t something to switch on and off, to be sometimes and not be other times. If you are a shaman, you simply are a shaman. Because shamanism is personal, the “tools” are within the personal body, the tools are different for each and every shaman. Because of this, it would be a mistake to focus on the tools stored in my body. It is much more important to focus on how to use the tools … or, more correctly, how to surrender to the tools.
Before I move on, I should address the church status. The work can be defined as a church only within the current legal definition which brings certain benefits. But on the levels we are talking, what we are doing is not a church or a religion … which raises a question for Jim … before whitey came, did the N.A. tribes have the concept of “church”?
I will not know for years how much of the work I do is actually training shamans. It’s clear that much we do is doing magic which is nonlinearly focused on effecting humane change in the outer world. Another main aspect is living/creating/teaching a tribal lifestyle in which the people are melted into a living being in which their personalities are heightened and released within this tribal being. I think this aspect of what we are is what is most threatening to the “normal” reality. Tina is seeing this when Kent keeps telling her she as a woman should become a leader in Cal-Act … implying she is not now a “leader” in her style!
This tribal lifestyle/being is what the people who say they felt a pre-recognition of this are really talking about.
The cave is a physical symbol of the ritualistic intent of the people to create a magic bubble in which taboos of the “normal” reality can be performed. This intent is the real magical circle. The physical symbol just focuses the intent, densifying the magical reality. The cave should not be seen as a retreat from the normal reality, but as an extension of that reality in which rituals can be performed and the results(?) can be transferred back into the normal reality.
The ritual lifts the acts out of “soap opera” linear dynamics of the normal world. This means the shaman who is doing a “sex magic ritual” is not a lover or a threat to take the person away from his/her mate [provided that everything is on the up-and-up] … just like actors doing a love scene in a movie. This is not to say magical rituals do not affect relationships outside the rituals. They do. They strengthen strong ones and shake weak ones. And it has very little to do with the “sexual” content of rituals. Many women have gotten jealous when their men had relationships with me … and pull them out of this. In truth, what they are jealous of, threatened by, is the level of intimacy and vulnerability that the men experienced in the work with me. I can’t think of any cases of this in the reverse roles … except when the woman was in the phase of committing herself into this. In reality, the actual physical play …be it eroplay, tanplay, tansex, or tanpan … is only rarely a point of freakout … and the pre-thinking-worrying about such play is only slightly more an occasion for freaking out within the apprenticeship. [By the way, I do not “create” or do rituals for some linear result or effect.] The mundane things like being on time and putting the magic in the center of one’s life, and living within the tribal being are, in reality, much more dangerously charged than any “sex magic” rituals.
But what can happen is morality and the false specialness of “sex” are brought into the magical reality as tools of judgement. When this happens, the shaman is placed in a very painful, very dangerous position. In this position, the shaman cannot deny the judgement or take any defensive action because any denial or defense only reinforces the judgement which decays into disrespect … the only hope is to take the judgement on as a positive, but this is a last-ditch effort and the situation usually completely decays. This situation is modern. In tribal times, it was a given that morality should not be brought into the ritual reality, and that “sex” was simply one of the tools of magic.
CENSORSHIP
Item: 5753157 92/09/04 03:39
From: FMOORE7 Frank Moore
To: STAVROS Stavros Krysiak
cc: K.GRIFFITH3 Earl K. Griffith
J.AUDLIN James D. Audlin
F.MOORE7 Frank Moore
Sub: Who is FM?
Reply: Item #8757947 from STAVROS on 92/09/03 at 10:35
It looks like we’ll get a 5% cut …and Mike’s work continues to be almost non-existent … but magically we are doing fine moneywise. But I always think of the people who don’t have tribal magic … and I hear on the news the Feds MAY raise SSI … which may offset Linda’s cut.
You’re right, Kyle. We’re too radical for CAL-ACT. Tina and Alexi have been trying to get CAL-ACT to upgrade the picket of Blockbuster Video to boycott and to hand out a list of the local video stores as alternatives to Blockbuster Video. [Jim and Stavros, about ten months ago, I gave Alexi the magical assignment of picketing BV. He has spent hundreds of hours picketing alone … amazing things have happened … changing his whole life. When he joined CAL-ACT as a part of his Chero work, CAL-ACT took the picket on … but it’s still mainly Alexi’s and Tina’s bodies out there.]
They voted to do the boycott and the list. But now Bobbie gets cold feet, fearing BV will sue CAL-ACT for the boycott, [it’d be incredibly stupid for BV to sue the unknown CAL-ACT!] She froze the boycott … even the list … trying to find a lawyer to tell her if it is safe for CAL-ACT to boycott [not what are all the possible results of our boycott]. She told Alexi and Tina that, in the climate of censorship, it is wise to be careful and self-censor. If this is the head state in which we are operating, the censorship has already won. It would be like not doing the last performance because I might be arrested for corrupting the morals of minors … may be reasonable fear … but totally self-defeating.
PERFORMANCE
Religion and Ethics RT
Category 2, Topic 30
Message 137 Wed Sep 07, 1992
F.MOORE7 [shaman] at 23:44 EDT
Ah yes, Stavros, the post-performance bath ritual. But body paint is easy to get off compared to glitter … and just think of the guts and catsup of the “meat act”!
It was a great performance, a great cast, great audience … average age of which I’d say was punky 15 … they are very open at that age.
Speaking of post-performance bath rituals … a few years back, after a performance in Denver, a woman came up disappointed … she had been looking forward to the ritual … but arrived just after the ritual had ended due to a crisis with her kid. I suggested she and I could do a ritual right then. There was a big old-fashioned tub in the back room of the gallery. In the light of many candles, as her husband and others watched and chanted, she and I took an eroplay bath. In many ways, this was much more magical than the formal ritual.
BTW, look in today’s S.F. Chronicle’s food section for a rave review of Alexi’s [my apprentice] cooking at SMOKEY JOES’ CAFÉ.
Oma, I’m 46, in a wheelchair, spastic … and I’m a sex symbol! In fact, Annie Sprinkle just suggested I could hustle my bod [I’d get bored]. So, don’t fall for the lie that THEY are pushing for beauty.