The Flow of Culture
At the funeral some of the cousins closely related to me got into an argument. I had expressed in a low tone my displeasure in seeing how our own people lost their cultural traditions, had uprooted themselves, cut those roots off, and Grafted themselves into a culture that wasn’t there’s. Many of my cousins nodded in agreement. Others shook their head in disagreement.
Some of my other cousins asked us how we can dislike how that side of the family lost their culture and adopted Christian-American culture, when we ourselves can’t even speak the language ((Khmer or Thai)). We only know English. I had to point out that the other side of the family speaks nothing but Khmer and they have an alien culture, while us cousins on our side speak only English, but are still rooted in our ancestral traditions and culture of Brahmanism, Buddhism, Animism, and indigenous Shamanism. Many of us have Buddhas made of ivory and animal bone, magical charms, magical tattoos, magical scrolls, and so on.
I had to explain to them that I saw nothing wrong with adopting or incorporating new elements into one’s culture, but that what I did not favor was removing everything out besides the new elements, and also to reject your ancestral culture. I guess that is the difference between Buddhism and Christianity. Buddhism is adaptable to a people’s native and indigenous culture. Buddhism in this case grows like how Ivy gradually grows around a tree or structure taking on the shape of the tree and structure. While Christianity uproots the whole tree and forces itself in the tree’s place.
Presencing
Everything that day inspired in me thoughts to think about. I was thinking about how Great Grandpa lived only 89 human years, and then he died. At first there seemed to be no visible purpose for why he existed in the first place. But being an ONA person, I eventually came to realize that Great Grandpa was indeed a “nexion” two important thing “presenced” themselves thru into the causal realm. I did come to realize observing everything that day that he did “leave a mark” on this world vicariously thru what he did presence: Progeny & Culture.
It is aurally said in the ONA that Our children are not ours to own, but only loaned to us for a short time. We are to such loans only guardians, providers, until they are old enough to be their own person and to make their own life’s choices. Which time we and what children have been loaned to us become comrades and equals.
This aural teaching in the ONA makes a lot of sense to me. I have many cousins who were never raised by their birth mothers, who were given to a sister to raise until their coming of age. As a guardian of such children loaned to you, you do have a sacred duty to fulfill. You were given that child because of your own abilities and capabilities. Your duty your knowledge, wisdom, and those abilities and capabilities down to such loaned children so that when they do grow up and come of age to be their own person, such young new adults have the means to make it it Life, so that they in turn can fulfill their duties to their Mother: Nature, by spawning new humans. And so in this way Nature moves forward as a living system, as She has been for billions of years.
Great Grandpa in the end did fulfill his duties. He did care for his children and saw to it that they all even survived a genocidal revolution. He did do his duty of teaching them the skills they needs to live Life productively and successfully, so that they in turn can fulfill their duties to Nature by caring for Children loaned to them of their own. As they have. All of his children are happy and successful in Life in their own ways. I might not agree with their choice of religion; but I am happy that as a clan of 7 children and 16 grandchildren, they are a functioning family with a deep love and spirit of devotion, honor, and service for one another. In this, I believe Great Grandpa did a wonderful job. As opposed to the dysfunctional families typical in America.
Great Grandpa was the first and only person in our whole family to become Christian. Before, when he was younger he was a Buddhist and he did become a monk for a while, but becoming a monk the way he did it was a traditional act a son did in honor of his parents. He later was baptized a Christian. He ended up having 7 children and 16 grandchildren. I noticed that every human being that issued out of him, was a Christian like he was.
It’s so funny because I was talking to one of his grand daughters who was way younger than me about her religion and Jesus and she had asked me what my religion was. I said Buddhism, and she says back, “Buddhism? Oh yeah we learned about that in school!” It was funny to me from an aeonic perspective, because for over a thousand years her very own people and bloodline has been Buddhist, and it was only recently that her little branch of the family became Christian. She had to learn a little piece of her own people’s history and roots from school.
Anyways, so Great Grandpa found himself a wife who also became Christian. They had 7 children whom they raised all Christian. Those children had their own offspring who where then also raised Christian. It becomes visible that out of two original people came not only a large group of people but also a culture.
I was laying in bed that night thinking about this idea. How only two people over time can presence into the world new peoples and new cultures. Which led me to think about my own self. I want children of my own someday. Someday I will give birth to new humans. What culture do I want my future children to be, and how would I pass that culture to them. This made me think about not only how I got my culture, but also I thought about the ONA and how I would pass that Myattian culture down to them.
The Next Generation
Fortunately for me, I have my littlest cousin to observe. She is 2 years old. She has a long ass name, but everybody calls her “Srey Peach.” “Peach” being my phonetic Anglicization of her nick name which means a “jewel” or “gem;” and “srey” meaning “girl.” That’s actually what she calls herself instead of a pronoun, since we don’t use pronouns in our family. They’re really cute and amazing at that age.
She’s only 2 years old, she has already traveled the world. She’s been to Angkor Wat, and she was taken to India on a Buddhist pilgrimage to see the places the Buddha was at. My aunt ((not Srey Peach’s mother)) after showing us a slide show of their time in India ask Srey Peach to tells us what she experienced and saw. At 2 she can barely talk, but when she talks she speaks Khmer. The only English words she knows right now is “Okay,” and “one, two three.”
Amazingly she came back from India knowing how to chant/sing the Three Jewels in Pali because she had seen monks doing it. But she does it in a 2 year old way. She’d pick up her hand and clasp them and start with “Namo tassa bhagavato…” She can also sing this other Buddhist-Brahmanist song in Khmer about paying homage and honor to the the Buddha and devattas.
So watching her grow into her culture helped me understand how I myself am in the culture that I am in, and how such culture and traditional observances were past down to me by the generation that came before me.
When we as human beings come into the world, we come into it exposed initially – and very importantly – two 3 things: Our own family members, Language, and what such family does in their daily lives.
After the funeral we had a little family reunion of sorts with all of grandma’s siblings and cousins over. The 2 year old Srey Peach was most of the time the source of entertainment that evening. They’re barely alive and only 2 fingers old, but they can talk by themselves, they say the weirdest things, and this one ((my little cousin)) already knows the culture and customs of honor in our family.
Some of the aunts were laughing at the 2 year old cousin and said to themselves, “Where does she know all this from?” And one of my grandmother’s uncles – whom we also call Great Grandpa – said to this, “Where do you think it all comes from? From her two parents. They are smart creatures. They listen to every word said, and they see everything done, and they copy what they see and hear. That’s why they say and orange tree grows only orange fruit. It’s your responsibility as young parents to be careful what you say and do to raise these little ones right according to our ways so they can be cultured and good people, and not savages. It’s up to each of us as parents to pass our way to our children.”
Then the Great Grandpa went on and on with his fellow elders about how my generation has lost so much of the old ways and culture because of the carelessness of our parents. This other elder during their complaints interjected, “Why would god grow us as our own people, if we just end up speaking other people’s languages, going into other people’s sasana, observing other people’s customs? It’s nobody’s fault but the parents’ if a child grows up losing its culture. It’s not just one generation in jeopardy of being lost. It’s our whole bpooch, our people’s whole way of life since ancient Time that is threatened by such carelessness.”
Like all of my cousins, I was born exposed to the language my mother spoke ((Khmer)). Because our minds at that age is wired to almost magically absorb language, our human language is actually a very important bridge and vehicle to transmit human culture. Every little word each language has acts like a hook and seed that is literally embedded into a baby’s brain.
Besides language, our eyes is the other major bridge by which culture crosses over naturally from one generation to the next. As children, we spend our entire childhood copying and mimicking everything we see done. You don’t have to force culture or a way of doing things onto a child. They pick anything and everything you do up by default.
I have this Black friend who is in his late 20′s. He lives in an apartment complex with his girlfriend and they have a 3 year old boy nicknamed “Boobis.” Boobis is probably the cutest little boy I have ever seen. He’s half Black half Mexican. Cute because of the “culture” he expresses in his little 3 year old way. Boobis calls everybody “nigga.” That’s how he address you and says hi when you go over to his place. He says in his 3 year old voice, “Ey nigga what you be doing, wanna play bitch?” And his dad think that’s funny. You’ll hear his mom; who is a good friend of mine; yell at Boobis’s dad, “Ey quit fucking raising him a nigga like you! I don’t want him gangbanging at 3 years old motherfucker!”
Needless to say, 3 year old Boobis knows and freely uses every bad word his “parents” use in front of him. And the sad part is that Boobis is unaware that he is using bad words. He’s just a boy using whatever words he has to communicate normal boy stuff thru. It’s actually really funny when we watch little Boobis go to play with kids his around his age, because the other kids have a hard time understanding what Boobis is trying to communicate because none of them understand cuss words and the broken gangsta-English Boobis uses. At 3 years old, he knows how to break dance, and he can sing you his favorite rap songs. If you ask Boobis where he is from, he’ll hold his hands up and try to bend his fingers to throw a gang hand sign and he’ll say the name of his dad’s gang. Ask Boobis who his “gang” has “beef” with, and that 3 year old boy is able to name you a list of other gangs around the area his dad doesn’t get along with.
And so, because language is one of the first things a child picks up, stories are a powerful tool to pass down culture. Stories as in history, narratives, mythos, legends, etc. My 2 year old cousin can tell you the simple story of how the Buddha sat under a tree. When her mom asks her what the Buddha is doing under a tree Srey Peach says in her 2 year old way, “Samadhi!” You ask 3 year old Boobis why his “gang” gots beef with some other gang, and Boobis is able to retell you why his dad’s gang hates the other gang about who shot who and what colors they wear, etc. I grew up hearing a ton of stories. Some out of the Ramayana, most were stories of family history.
Besides language, we see and become a part of what we see being done as children growing up. I grew up seeing Brahmanist-Buddhist rites and ceremonies at home. Where every ceremony has monks chanting. Then you offer food to the monks. So my mom would hold a bowl of rice and tell me to use a spoon to put rice into the monks begging bowl. I didn’t know what I was doing or why. But the whats and whys are irrelevant. Because in a living culture, you don’t learn about such culture intellectually. You naturally literally Flow into the Culture. Sometimes you grow up still not knowing why things are done. I have cousins and uncles older than me who are into their culture and proud of it, but they still don’t know why they feed monks, why monks wear rags, and why they have begging bowls. Cultural praxis/tradition/observance is independent of intellectual apprehension. It was only on my own terms; after much curiosity; that I began to research the actual history of Buddhism and the actual meanings of Pali and Sanskrit that I learned why myself.
My grandmother is 80. She’s been practicing her culture and tradition for 80 years. She doesn’t know why she does what she does, and she doesn’t even know the meaning of the word “Bhikkhu.” I spent a lot of time asking every monk I meet when I get the chance the meaning of the Pali chants they are chanting. 90% of the monks I have met, don’t know the meanings of what they are chanting. They admit that they do not know the meanings of the words. They only learn such chants in context to ceremonies, rituals, and magical uses. Culture is not an intellectual phenomenon that you “learn” from study. If it were so children would not be able to take to a culture like a duck to water.
Culture is first past down via language, then the seeing of rites and activities observed repetitively over and over, then hearing stories and mythos. For as long as I have lived every April 13th we celebrate and go to the Wat. Year after year. It’s a habit. It’s practice. It’s a something we just do. Every fool moon we burn incense at our home altar and offer Moon Cake, clasp our hands, and in the evening we eat the Moon Cake. Month after month. Year after year. For my whole life. It’s a habit. It’s a practice. It’s something we do. And we call that habitual practice or habitual observance a “Cultivation,” an “Ethos,” a “Tradition,” a “Custom,” and a “Culture.”
That little simple rite of offering incense and moon cake to a statue of Buddha and picture of your ancestors is a powerful tool, and I would say the most effective method of passing down Buddhism, as it worked for me and all of my cousins. It’s simple, but it is a gateway into a complex Way of Life. Because seeing the face of Buddha your while life in that way, causes you to grow up desiring to actually understand what exactly Buddha may have taught. And those lessons drips little by little into your head as you grow up. So that by the time you are 18, you are a practicing Buddhist. There is no choice involved as you just grow into the sasana. Sasana as my grandma and the elders use it in my family means both a people’s culture and their religion. I eat at the table with a fork while everybody else older than me eats with a spoon, and my grandma shook her head once and said to one of here elder peers, “Strange the way she eats. She’s gone into the Sasana of the White People.”
As you grow older, the language becomes more sophisticated and religion or culture specific. Generally it is the same Khmer language; but you learn that there are specific words only associated with Buddhism and the culture, which you hear used over and over. Such memeplex specific words act as seeds that carry a raveled up teachings. Those seeds are just waiting for you to get curious enough to as an elder what they mean. Once you ask, then the elders unravels their meaning, and that seed Germinates in your mind as another piece to your culture and tradition. Pictorial symbols and allegories are also memetic seeds of a culture. Growing up being exposed to a picture of a Dharma Wheel you whole life causes that symbol to be very familiar to you. The symbol for so many years has already had the time to dig itself into your mind. The symbol gains more power if it is seen during moments of emotional excitation such as at fun family gatherings or at large gatherings at a Wat, because then the symbol is anchored to memories, and thus has the power of nostalgia. All it takes to unravel the meaning of the symbol is to ask someone what it means. I only had to ask once what the Dharma Wheel meant. The meaning was accompanied by a teaching. And that was it. I didn’t have to accept the teaching, because the symbol representing what was taught was already a part of me.
It’s always amazed me how a religion of 24,000 pages can effortlessly be past down as a culture from one generation to the next. In such a way that even my 2 year old cousin can Flow into the sasana and Culture. It’s because of the use of language, progressive teaching, and direct exposure of repetitive praxis and traditions.
Things ((memeplexes)) like living cultures, living traditions; and religions like Buddhism and Christianity has had thousands of years of trial and error of learning how to propagate itself aeonically for thousands of years. In my mind I see the growth of culture and very old religions happening in two different ways or directions. One I call Horizontal Propagation and the other is called Vertical Propagation.
If you picture an escalator, you can better understand the difference. Each “step” in the escalator is a Generation. Death is when the steps goes under, since the escalator is constantly moving backwards. Backwards meaning we are constantly aging.
New religions, such as something like Satanism at the moment only propagates itself “Horizontally.” meaning that if we consider the escalator again, the memes of Satanism at the moment only knows how to spread itself horizontally on the plane of a step on that escalator. As that escalator step sinks under, all the work of propagation must start over on the next step’s generational plane. Horizontal propagation is when a 40 year old reads some Satanic Bible, then tells his friend who are around his same age about it. As each each step passes under, there is no guarantee that the next step will have the same number of adherents on its horizontal plane.
And this is a visible problem we can see happening in institutions which relies heavily on horizontal propagation such as Freemasonry. During the hey-days of social clubs like this back in the 40′s-50′s one out of every 10 Americans was either a Mason, Odd fellow, Elk, Moose, or one of the other social clubs. As each generation passes, membership numbers decreased. Many of these social clubs are dead. There are now only about 2 million Masons in America from the huge numbers only 60 years ago. This is because with horizontal propagation, Time is a neglected factor. As Time passes and new generations emerges, such memeplexes lose their power of relevance to such new generations. It’s not a living culture. It’s just something you adopt because you like it and perhaps tell a friend about.
Vertical propagation does not spread horizontally on a plane. It happened from one lower plane to the next step above it. It’s like a frog hopping each step as the step goes under. Except as each generation passes, numbers multiply. So as our frog jumps each step, it divides itself in two. Then as each of those frogs jumps to the nest escalator step they each divide themselves in two. So that the higher the frogs go up the escalator, the more frogs there are. Vertical propagation doesn’t care if people on the same plane of the escalator step likes the memeplex or not. It’s not interested in spreading. It’s interested in jumping.
This is the way my late Great Grandpa did it. In the beginning there was only him who became a Christian. He represents one lower step in that escalator. He had 7 children who represents the next step above him whom he raised Christians. That’s like our frog jumping a step and splitting up into 7 frogs. His children had a total of 16 children of their own who were all raised and brought up in that Christian culture and practice. 16 is a very small number, but its a coherent number which works with Time instead of against Time, because now that culture has acquired the ability to continue to jump generations into the future and grow exponentially across Time.
The difference in directions of propagation is discipline. If you ask the average Satanist if they will raise their children as Satanists, you will get the generic liberal answer, “No way, my kids will have the freedom to chose their own religion.” That right there disallows vertical propagation. If this belief is standard in this Satanism memeplex, than the memeplex itself will be incapable of aeonic coherency and aeonic continuity. We can predict that as Time passes this thing we call Satanism will dwindle. We can already see this decreasing factor in conjunction with Time and the passing of generations, in things like the Church of Satan, and more so in the Temple of Set.
The Challenge
I can’t change or “fix” Satanism. It’s not in my place to butt in and attempt to fix something which its adherents blissfully believes to be not broke. I’m not that into Satanism to want to fix shit for Satanists. If I do desire to fix things, it’s only because I dislike Christianity so much, Satanism is the nearest stick at hand I can use to beat Christianity with.
Unlike mundane Satanism, the ONA is pliable and malleable like clay. Plus my friends here over the years have gain a certain amount of respect by those that matter in the ONA. So a while ago we took on the challenge of figuring out how to make the ONA jump the escalator steps, so that ONA can move itself thru each generation into the future.
It’s not an easy task. The easiest part is that our Nexion ((WSA352)) is connected to a living tradition and culture we were all raised in, which we are able to analyze and breakdown to understand into practical insights. The most difficult part is to explain those insights to every ONA person.
In the early days 3 years ago we thought it would just be easy to share our insights and have other ONA people work together to evolve the ONA into an aeonic organism that jumps generations rather than depend on horizontal spreading to live. But as we learned people don’t like any kind of change. So instead of working together to evolve the ONA into a direction, we spent our first 2 years fighting and stepping on ONA people. We’ve since then abandoned the idea of having friendly talks and just took matters into our own hands by subtly changing things slowly. As long as one person “up there” in the ONA rank and file and the OG’s understand what we are doing, then we’ll continue to plow down every ONA person in our way to evolve the ONA.
Our first step in evolving the ONA was to cut out the religious sentiments for ONA causal forms such as its Traditional Satanism. Causal Forms, are causal forms. They are a useful tool to get work done. They are not the essence. Then we had to gradually work on phasing up the ONA’s cultural rhetoric. ONA Kulture as Anton Long puts it. Reichsfolk Culture as we put it. Culture this… Tradition that. Then we worked on gradually phasing up the Tribal and Clan talk. Sinister Tribes as Anton Long puts it. Numinous Clans as DM puts it. Progeny… Blood… Breeding… etc.
Now since the little components are in place – Way of Life, Culture, Tradition, Tribes, Progeny, Blood, Breeding – we can move onto the next step which is to figure out how we as Dreccs/Niners will pass such Kulture down to our Blood and Progeny you see. One subtle step at a time into a direction set in motion over 3 years ago. Like playing the Star Game with ONA with a wyrdful end pattern in mind.
Vertical propagation first requires as a tool: Language, or in-group specific language. This is because we Dreccs should know by now that our language is our reality in our minds. Because we should know that language is the very first thing a baby or child acquires magically. By group specific language I would mean a unique set of vocabulary and lexicon specific to ONA. This is something Anton Long has already been doing. ONA already has unique and original vocabulary.
Think gangs and the military. Each gang culturally has its own set of vocabulary and way of talk. In linguistics we call this variation “dialects.” The military also employs military specific vocabulary. Just like Starbucks uses Starbucks specific vocabulary. If language defines in words and ideas our world we exist in, our ‘weltanschauung,’ our worldviews, and our paradigm, then what world does a mind which knows and uses military words exist in? A military one. What kind of world does a mind live in which uses a dialect specific to Bloods? A bloods world.
Language itself is a powerful tool that kills. When you exist in a Nazi world, and a group of humans have been designated with the word/ideation “Jew,” you kill. When as a mind you exist in a military world a group of people has been designated with the word/ideation “Terrorist,” you kill. When as a crip you exist in a world where a group of people has been designated as “bloods,” you kill. When as a Christian you psychologically exist in a world where a group of people has been designated as “heathen/pagan” you stay within the boundaries of your psychological territory. Because those words and that language creates the feel and perception of “us and them,” and such language defines identity. As they say in psychology: we know who we are by knowing what we are not. We are not Mundanes. We are ONA Dreccs.
I would say that we need more ONA specific vocabulary. More seed vocabulary that have raveled up essence and teachings in them like “Exeatic,” “Dark-Empathy,” “Aeonic-Insight,” and “Acausal-Knowing.” Loaded ONA specific words like these in the mind act like seeds. When the conditions are right, you just unravel their meaning by simple explanations and mythos. This way the young Dreccling doesn’t get their Kulture as a college discourse.
Loaded words like “Dhamma.” Whats it mean we ask our elders? The elder will explain that word to you according to their own understandings. What’s sangha and Sambuddhi mean we ask our uncles? They give us their own understandings of each seed word. In this way each generation end up evolving the entire memeplex according to the worldviews of their generations. This is how a living memeplex stays alive for over a thousand years. It shapeshifts. If it does not have the ability to shapeshift to reflect the weltanschauung of its current host generation, then it dies of irrelevancy. “Original Sin” today in the Christian worldview does not mean the same thing it did 600 years ago. Our challenge it to breakdown the essence of the ONA and manufacture such loaded seed words so that we can embben such words into the language our Drecclings will naturally flow into using.
The next thing needed for vertical propagation is mythos. This is something I have always found attractive of the ONA, is that it uses and is not afraid to use mythos, stories, and fiction. Mythos and stories is important because of its obvious connection to language. You can’t really tell a story without a language to tell the story in. Mythos is also important because kids aren’t mentally and emotionally inspired and stimulated by college lectures and academic statistics. I know I sure wasn’t.
Every boy cousins of mine when they were small was inspired by Batman to pretend to be Batman. None of my cousins thus far has yet to play pretend to be Donald Trump or Stephen Hawking; even if they are super rich and super smart. All of by boy cousins played pretend games with stick words and guns. None of them played pretend to be bold monks, religious nutters, and book worms. Us girl cousins as children were more sensible and refined at play, whereas the boys were just barbaric.
If you’ve ever noticed, when girls of any age gets together and plays pretend, its less action based and more talking or telling or narration based. Even my 2 year old cousin, when I play with her its language and communication based. Srey Peach at 2 only knows a literal handful of words which she can use to express herself. But she understand us fluently. So when I’m playing with her, she narrates our play thru words she just makes up that don’t mean anything. She’ll also grab dolls and stuffed animals, sit them down together, give them names, then pretend to read a picture book to them.
So it’s just human nature, from our earliest beginnings to be mythos and story oriented, and to be stimulated by stories. Every living culture has a set of stories or cultural narratives it uses to imbue each new generation with its culture. Such stories are usually age specific with certain aspects of the culture embedded into each story.
I grew up hearing my mom tell me stories about a character named “A-Jey.” This is a Khmer thing, or the character and stories are culture specific. A is like the word “the” but used specifically for males, and only used by an older person speaking of a younger person. Jey is his name. Culturally this “A-Jey” character and the name itself is equated with ignorance and stupidity. It’s an insult to call people A-Jey. His stories are short and they teach some sort of culture specific moral or lesson.
For instance, my mom was telling me how this one time the king had called A-Jey to the palace to ask him to send a note to a girl he was in love with in a town nearby, and to come back and tell the king what this girl had to say regarding the note. A-Jey was told by the king that this was an important favor, and told him not to read the note. The king before sending A-Jey on his way reminded him saying, “Oh, and another thing A-Jey, there are a lot of bad people out there, be careful. Don’t listen to or believe what anybody tells you. I’d like you back safely because her answer is very important!”
The town was only a few miles away from the palace but A-Jey was so stupid he got lost. After three days of not seeing A-Jey return the king became worried and sent his sena ((army people)) to go find A-Jey and bring him back to be punished for abandoning the king’s favor.
The sena found A-Jey and brought him back to the king. The king asks A-Jey what happened because he had been gone for 3 days. A-Jey said, “I got lost your majesty, and remembering your advice, I refused to ask people for direction. It took me several days to find the girl you liked, but I gave her the note sire!” And the king said, “Okay good! So what did she say?” A-Jey replied, “How should I know sir, I wasn’t listening!?” The moral of the story is don’t be stupid like A-Jey and take people’s words literally.
Telling a child a string of lectures of not listening and believing what others say is stale and doesn’t work. We know it doesn’t work because as children, when we are told not to do something, we go and do it usually. But telling children the essence of that lesson or practical wisdom in the outer form of a story works, because the child can put herself or himself into the story, mentally maneuver around in the story, and use their own understandings of the story’s events and situation to understand the essence.
The Vindex Mythos is a great example of a loaded mythos. Because from this we get the Vindex Ethos, which is the Warrior Ethos. The old Deofel Quintet is another great example of a loaded and useful mythos. We may each learn something slightly different from the Deofels, but one things we do eventually learn from them is that the Essence of the ONA is not Satanism.
Another things and one of the most important things is based on the innate human nature of seeing and learning from example. I didn’t have to read anything or go to a school to learn to be a “member” of Khmer Brahmanist-Buddhist culture. I literally Flowed and grew into the culture by just doing what I saw others around me do. And what I was able to do depends on how old I am and what I am capable of doing. My little 2 year old cousin can’t really do anything yet in our culture except “sapis sua” ((clasp her hands together)). But she knows when to do it as a way of paying her respects to anybody she sees that looks old, and she knows to do it when she sees a Buddha or monk.
Habit and repetition is important. Cultures, very old religions, and now Nation-States have learned to set special days aside as an excuse to have people come together to perform and practice shared observances. These observances are repetitive and predictable in that we always know what will happen during Christmas. Go buy a tree, decorate the tree, wrap gifts, cook a feast, eat with family etc. We always know what will happen during a Rose Bowl Parade, as well as a gay pride parade. We always know what will go on on labor day or memorial day, have a BBQ with friends and family. We always knew what is going to happen at a Wat, or at a military boot camp, or at a Catholic Mass. It’s repetitive and predictable. About as repetitive and predictable as agriculture. It’s the same thing over and over. Plant the seeds, water, harvest, plant the seeds, water, harvest, plant the seeds, water, harvest. But we call such repetitive observance in agriculture “cultivation” of crops.
It from being exposed to such repetition that a culture is actually manufactured. You take a group of strangers, pack them into a common place, make them repetitively experience the same observances at boot camp, day after day. A few months later those strangers are no longer strangers. They are members of a culture, a military culture. One that is highly coherent and disciplined. You simply cannot actualize that same organized and disciplined military culture if you put everything that took place at boot camp in text format and gave it to a body of college students. It doesn’t matter how smart or literate the students are. Reading and text does not materialize culture. The most numinous aspects of a living culture or ancient religion isn’t its doctrines. It’s the culture and religion’s ancient observances. It can be something as wordless and simple as a Japanese green tea ceremony of making green tea, holding the cup in a certain way, twisting the cup, and mindfully sipping. There is just something feelably numinous about old customs which have been faithfully and repetitively observed over time.
Writing and doctrines don’t create the culture. Nothing about the 24,000 pages of the Tipitaka makes my culture. The written text isn’t even a real part of the Buddhist culture and tradition. It only plays a supportive role. Culture is what a person and people habitually cultivate. If the cultivation of observances is faithfully and repetitively kept over time, and your children flow into that culture because they pick up what you do, then that culture gains the ability to break the barrier of Time.
This isn’t just a human thing either. I’ve seen chimps pass their culture of fishing for ants and termites with thin twigs to their children. There is a weird group of crows who live near my place that have developed the culture of washing dirty food and dropping nuts you give them from the air to crack them. There are these fat squirrels that live at this one lake near my place that come out of their trees when you walk by and follow you for food. I looked back once and I had 7 fucking fat squirrels following me, babies an all. They wobble when they run behind you across the field. You kick at them and they still follow. And when you do give them food, they literally just wobble up to your hands and take it. Especially the small baby squirrels because they see how others squirrels do this, and they are too young to be untrusting of humans.
Observances in the ONA like the full moon fests and sunedrions are good examples of something that can be repeatedly observed month after month, year after year, and generation ofter generation. Another good example is the idea of places of Black Pilgrimages. The “central” place in Shropshire and more importantly places special to each individual nexion. It’s a simple idea to just have a place where you can gather, hang out, share food, and perform simple rites, but observed repetitively at the same spot not only develops culture but also roots or grounds you in the real world. ONA has thousands of pages of manuscripts and unfortunately not as much that establishes repetition over time besides the Sevenfold Way, the rites in Codex Saerus, and Naos. We need more everyday observances, monthly observances, and annual observances. If not collectively that it is something each nexion, or sinister tribe must learn to consider and incorporate.
Another thing useful in forging culture is differentiation of association and group identity. Growing up, whenever I did something wrong, one of the elders would admonish me saying, “That is not Our way of doing things…” Growing up with so many cousins popping out of your many aunts, there is a lot of babysitting and helping raise your young cousins. You’ll hear me and all of my cousins say, “No! We don’t that!” whenever we see on of the younger one do something we know they shouldn’t do, such as walk over somebody older than them. The use of the words “us,” “we,” and “our,” over and over again is simple, but with Time, those words help forge a group identity.
The other factor in forging a group identity is by being taught to understand what We are not. For instance in my family we have a certain group identity we associate with not only because of family history we hear, but also because we are raised hearing statements like, “Only barbarians do that,” “Only peasants say that,” “We’re not barbarians, we have manners.” So growing up our world is divided into two camps, Us and barbarians. And people talk so much negative stuff about those barbarians that nobody wants to do what they do. And so over Time, we develop a crisp psychological boundary of knowing or having a group identity.
This works with gang culture also. A crip knows he is a crip psychologically not so because of the blue he wears, but more so because of what he knows and hears about bloods. How some bloods gang killed one of their boys, how bloods are toys and wannabe gangbangers. You hear all of that, and experience antagonistic behavior from rival gangs and that Others defines what you are. We know what we are by knowing what we are not. Then in such gang cultures you’ll hear a lot of hating on other rival gangs. They’ll talk about how the girls from such and such gangs are skanks; and how the guys from such and such gangs are bitches and pussies. These are all rhetorical narratives to keep those who have identified themselves with one group from breeding with rival from another group. It’s basic human nature. If a girl is a promiscuous skank, then you can’t tell if the baby she is carrying is yours. If the rival group’s guys are bitches how the hell is he going to provide for you as his lady or protect you?
The more the Other is spoken about, the more clearer one’s group identity and group association becomes. September 11th was the best thing to happen to America because it then gave Americans a rhetorical “Other” to hate on, thus forging stronger feeling of Patriotism, Nationalism, and group solidarity in the general population. This is the same “Us & Them” human/tribal mentality. If people are not kinfolk of your tribe in olden days, they are potential enemies, potential killers of your people, they may compete for resources and not share, they may take your females, and your males may go for their females. If your tribe is to remain alive across Time, you need to psychologically define the boundaries between Us & Them. This is one thing the ONA is really good at. ONA is so good at this that now, mundanes, even know they are mundane.
Another thing that is needed is a figurehead. This is again human nature. In my family it is my Grandmother. In our Clan it is the most senior elder. In our culture/religion is is the Buddha. This isn;t a person you necessarily follow and obey. This person is only a landmark to help you figure out where in the family, clan, tribe, or culture you are at relative to such figureheads as your landmark example. The further away I am from my grandmother ((what she says and does)) I am, the further away from the family I know myself to be. The further away from some Buddha I am, the further I know I am from the culture. The Nazis during WWII spared a very significant cathedral in London only because their bomber were using this structure as a landmark to tell where they were at so they can bomb the hell out of the area.
This landmark person doesn’t have to be a real person. It is better aeonically to have this landmark person not even be real but a character in the over all mythos, such as the Buddha. Not only is the Buddha the founder of Buddhism, but he is an eternal part of the overall mythos. So even if a personality cult develops around him, that personality does not die, because he is simply a part of the mythos. Anton Long to the ONA would be such a character. Not only is Anton Long the founder of the ONA, but he is also a living aspect of the overall ONA mythos. In the long run it would be beneficial to keep Anton Long and DM psychologically apart.
A story of how the culture came into being is also important because we can humanly relate to things that have a very simple human beginning. Muhammad was an illiterate desert dweller, he was met up by an angle of god who gave him the Koran. Jesus was a carpenter’s son who died for people sins. A prince from the Kambuja tribe in India saw a mermaid bathing, they got married had kids and the kids became known as the Khmer. A Chinese guy came from china, got married with a Thai aristocrat lady and founded our family in the 1800′s. These historical narratives – fictional or actual or both – helps solidify psychological boundaries inside. You know emotionally where your people starts and stops.
It’s also just simple human nature to want to know our history. I still here my mom and aunts ask my grandmother about family history. My cousins come to me and ask me about their own family history and ethnic roots. A month ago or so one of my uncles came to me and asked me about his own ethnic background. He had always thought he was at least half Khmer because he spoke the language. II had to tell him he doesn’t have a drop of Khmer in him. He’s ethnically Han Chinese, Thai, and Lao. After that he went around went on a quest to search for his root by asking every old person he knew our about family’s ancestry. Now he has a stronger – more solid sense – of who he is, what is family is and he now more proud of his family, ancestry, and heritage. If our family were a nation, we’d call the new feelings he found things like nationalism and patriotism.
So the challenge is to breakdown the essence of the ONA into the above mentioned things so that we can use those things to help ONA jump vertically rather than aimlessly spread horizontally. From my own personal aeonic perspective, I would rather have 10 Dreccs who know exactly how to pass ONA Kulture down to their Drecclings and are dedicated to such aeonic task, than have 1000 random initiates to whom the ONA is just some belief system they assume. Vertical transmission takes Time and the numbers aren’t initially impressive. But with just one single quality Niner devoted to passing her or his Drecc Kulture down to their children and grandchildren, the ONA will have gained the valuable ability of aeonic continuity.
In the same way that some families such as my own stay coherent as an organized entity since the 1800′s; as opposed to other families that becomes discoherent and dissipates into generic mundane population over time. Our family collective culture and identity began with a mere two people 200 years ago, and over the passing of Time those two people presenced in the causal realm a real tribe of many clans spread in at least 5 different countries. If we has just 2 Dreccs devoted to manifesting a real tribe and they had the resources and skills needed to do so, what who the ONA have 200 years from now? Vertical growth is slow and takes Time, but with that Time, the organization learns to actually transcend Time. Horizontal growth is fast and random, but growth happened inside a framework of Time. I think both methods are needed.
My Future Offspring
This is probably an unusual topic for somebody in the ONA to want to write about. One often thinks about subversion, culling, ethnic wars, and such “dark” and sinister activities when one thinks of the ONA. But like my boy cousins who as children play fought as Batmen with swords and guns; boys do boy things with whatever they get their hands on.
And like my girl cousins, if a girl touches the ONA, she will naturally do girl things with it. I suppose talking about family and raising children isn’t “sinister,” but if it makes the male Dreccs feel better, the killers and warriors of the future are born from the wombs of mothers. Vindex when she or he comes, will first need to be a baby that is born out of a woman who raises that future Vindex in a certain culture imbued with a certain Ethos that is not Magian or mundane. Think about it.
I would like to – or will – have children some day. In this matter, I an ultraconservative. I must be. Like myself, my future children will have no choice but to be raised in my ancestral culture, a Brahmanist-Buddhist of the Khmer-Thai indigenous variety. It is something that the will Flow into, guided by me over Time. But I also want them to grow up ONA Dreccs and to pass that Kulture to their children also. With this in mind, I have come up with a step by step plan to raise them Myattian.
Reichsfolk is what I will first use because it has certain parts I find useful and connectable with my own indigenous culture. I would raise my future children Reichsfolk in the sense that they will grow up proud of their own culture, people, and ancestral ways. The reverence of Nature found in Reichsfolk also goes well with my own culture’s animism and reverence for Nature. The most important part of Reichsfolk is its inherent idea of clans and tribes. Other useful parts of Reichsfolk is the code of Honor.
While I raise my future children as Reichsfolk, I’ll familiarize them with every key word used in the ONA. Reichsfolk National-Socialism will also serve as a gate way to tell stories about the Magian Forces who in “ancient times” united to battle against the Numinous Axis of the Noble Germans and Japanese. I’ll probably have to create Reichsfolk oriented observances to use.
ONA would be introduced in bits and pieces, appropriate for their age and level of mental development. First the simple things such as the monthly fests each fullmoon. Besides cultural holidays and major holidays like Halloween and Christmas, each special day mentioned in Naos and other Traditional ONA writings based on the alchemical season, will also be special days of the year where they will observe and then participate in simple rites during those Traditional days. Such as the Traditional chants, since children pick up such things very easily. Black Pilgrimages to our local nexion’s special spot every now and them would also be incorporated.
Art work can also be employed at an early age. In that I can give them paint and have them paint their own sinister tarot, by quickly telling them what Naos says they should generally look like. This way they can express their own creativity and become familiar also with the names and word of each card.
Most of the Sinister Fiction would also be useful at this early age. You would just read them the stories, and/or make your own which teaches ONA, Reichsfolk, and Numinous Way things.
I’ve also thought about DM’s Physis Martial Arts. I think this is a fantastic concept, especially from an Asian perspective, because so much culture can be transmitted with things like Martial Arts. The moves and regular practice of Physis Martial Arts in itself would be a repetitive practice. A certain oriental element or approach would have to be incorporated where the moves themselves are associated with a philosophical and cultural meme. This would be easy be cause Physis Martial Arts shares the name Physis Magic in Naos. The general philosophical stuff from Physis Magic can be linked to Physis Martial Arts. Being an “empty form” I can also later give such empty form style its own philosophical Drecc understanding concerning the difference Essence and Form, in a similar way Bruce Lee turned his Jeet Kun Do into a hybrid philosophical system.
My future children can begin learning their Physis Martial Arts very young. I would first have to learn it, work out what bugs it may have, and then work from there before I can teach them it. The key idea is to ritualize it like we ritualize many things in the East. The ritual would consist of dressing them up in all black lose fitting clothes. Having them burn incense to an altar or something simple like that. And then they would practice their moves. This would be a routine observance. This would also be when the name DM or Anton Long is introduced in as the Father of that style and philosophy. They would also be informed that this same person is the Father of Reichsfolk.
At around age 9 then the Star Game would be used. I think the Star game is a great idea because it must be built from scratch. Like art, this would give the children a means to express their creativity, but it would also be a family project. Once the Star Game parts and pieces are made, I could then begin to teach them how to play simple versions of the game. The SG would also open the door to other ONA ideas such as aeonics and wyrd, etc. Being raised Buddhist, they’d be familiar with meditation. So after age 9 when their minds have developed, I would also introduce the Tree of Wyrd and pathworking into their routine. This will stimulate their imagination, but also introduce them to a bulk of other ONA ideas and concepts.
Lots of nature hikes, camping, hunting with them, and out doors activity to get them used to that “culture” of physical activity. I’ll probably have them join the boy scouts and/or girl scouts just to further develop that ‘culture’ of working in organizations and being active out doors and working in groups. This is for later when they begin their Sevenfold Way.
After the age of 13 when their minds have further developed to understand more sophisticated thought, I’d introduce the Numinous Way philosophy into their routine, associating each lesson that teaches the Philosophy of the Numen with what cultural observances they already have.
Then at 14 ((7×2)), I’d give them some sort of rite of passage ceremony recognizing them as young adults. Part of the rite of passage would be handing down to them hand made copies of Codex Saerus and Naos or something. Then a charge would be given to them in which the Sevenfold Way is briefly explained and they’d be charged to work at observing the tests, trials, ordeals, and tasks associated with the Sevenfold Way in time. And gift of some type of jewelry like crystals would be given to mark the occasion. The first parts of their task for their first degree in the Sevenfold Way would be easy. It would require – or I would suggest to them – that they initiate their own selves into the ONA. Then they’d just work at collecting every ONA MSS they can find.
So that would be a general outline of the first 14 years of a Dreccling’s life. In the end, I find the Traditional aspects of the ONA very useful in engineering culture and Tradition. Hopefully as time passes the ONA will develop more such aspects needed to generate culture and tradition. The more, the better. From an early age they would know that there is an essence to the ONA, and what outer forms ONA uses is not the ONA. As long as they grow up understanding that crucial concept, and as long as they understand that the ONA evolves thru them, the ONA will pass thru them, shapeshift thru them, and therefore remain relevant to their future needs and worldviews. If done right, and if the simple observance of the monthly fests and sunedrions at each full moon is observed and becomes a family tradition, the ONA will have the ability to not just spread horizontally, but to also jump into the future vertically.
Shugz 352
Order of Nine Angles
122 yf
