Tribal Phunk
Back in old times in one of my high schools we had these two rival “dance/party crews.” One called FX for “Final Xplosion” [a sexual innuendo], and the other called “Tribal Phunk,” TP, which we called “Toilet Paper.” A dance crew is basically a group that dances and competes in dances. And a party crew is a group that throws parties [duh]. So a dance/party crew is an organized group that competes by throwing better parties and at the parties they compete in dance movies. A party crew also charges money per head at parties to make money to pay for the DJ, sound system, profit, beer, dope, etc, etc.
FX was all the cool White students and all the cool Asians from Mainland Asia. FX’s musical base or “platform” was Techno, Trance, House and other such closely related genres of music. Tribal Phunk were all the cool Filipinos, cool Blacks, and cool Mexicans. TP’s musical “platform” was based on three genres of music called Tribal, Phunk, Jungle. 90% of all my friends were in FX, so I hung out with them exclusively.
There’s cross-over membership between these crews, gangs, race crews, and tagger crews in the area. And it’s all usually the same faces and sets of people. We hated those people in Tribal Phunk because their members also came from rival ethnic Filipino, Black, and Mexican gangs.
I really hated this one Filipina bitch named Karen, who was the uncontested prettiest girl on campus. Her boyfriend was one of FX’s founding leaders who was Vietnamese and a friend of mine. Their thing was like a “forbidden” high school Romeo & Juliette love affair. Because that bitch Karen had all of her friends and kinfolk in TP. We acted like we were friendly with each other in public. But we don’t hang out and I felt like shoving her face into a brick wall nose first ever time I saw her talk to anybody in FX. I didn’t know how I hated her back then though. You know when you are so infatuated with someone so much that you end up passionately hating them for not liking you back. Then it just drives you crazy inside to watch them touch and make out with somebody. But that’s a different story.
Just a side note; my family has this saying that goes something like in English: “Sugar covers Venom, and a Hard shell covers a Soft inside.” My aunt-mom always warns me: “Beware of those people who are sweet and nice to you. Who speaks sugar coated words with a smile.” Because beneath that fake sweetness is a bitter poison. Then she tells me to work hard to make friends with those who act tough, hard, who act like they don’t like you, because those people are the ones that make life long loyal friends.
I never knew what she meant until I examined myself. I was terribly sweet voiced and all smiles with Karen, but just underneath that smile I wanted to either kick her teeth in or ruin her life or something. I had one teacher whom I hated who was my Spanish teacher. Spanish for me was an easy A because I already knew the basics. This teacher was the biggest bitch on campus. Nobody liked her, and she seemed to not like anybody. Always yelling at people, giving you detention for being 1 minute late to class! Years later, I inched my way closer to her during my campus life because she was the supervisor of a student club I was in. This Spanish teacher eventually became my most favourite teacher and good friend. Every Fridays she’d have me stop by her class in the morning real quick to pick up brownies she baked for me. This was always the case with people I met. Usually those mean people who put “No Soliciting” on their doors, are actually the softy types that find it very hard to say no. Later in the school year, some of my bestest friends came from Tribal Phunk.
Culture and Tradition
At the beginning of the school year our FX crew was small. This was because there were just more Mexicans on campus and because most White people can’t dance or something. So later the founders switched it from a dance crew to a hybrid party crew so as to throw parties and make some money. What the founders of FX knew and did is a valuable Business strategy. It’s learning to assess your group’s short-comings, learning to be aware of your Market, then making the right changes. They knew White kids can’t dance, but they also knew White kids had money. So to get more White kids in you change your dance crew into a party crew. Then they made the most “business savvy” of their White friends a co-leader of FX to attract his White friends. Gradually as time passes and as the years roll by our FX developed a “Tradition” and Culture that was uniquely ours.
For instance every Tuesday was GQ day where we came to school in our church clothes, in formal attire, or in mock Catholic school girl attire. And then every Fridays everyone in FX came to school in their pajamas. Some of the ravers and dancers went all out Fridays and brought teddy bears, things like that. Nobody knew how those two stupid “traditions” started, but they did, and it was fun. The more some type of a culture our FX had, the more people it drew in. So that eventually FX became huge spreading into the other high school campuses, since our parties we threw were open for anybody who knew about it in the area.
In FX me and some of the other girls were the Promoters. The leaders had the connects to get the party location and sound equipment. Location meaning if a party was not held at one of our houses, they’d find a field or rent a hall. Then fliers would be made with directions and so on. So as a Promoter my duty was to pass out as many fliers as possible to every “cool” looking person I meet at the malls, on the streets, etc. This was before Myspace & Fagbook. The more people that come to the party means more money because there was a $5-$10 entrance fee. Also rival party crews compete by trying to throw the better party. Your party crew and your rival party crew will pick a group of neutral students as “judges” who go to your parties to see who wins the “battle.” The profit wasn’t made with the entrance fee. Profit was made on party location from your boys dealing all kinds of drugs and selling balloons filled with nitrous, things of that sort. So my real world experience of promoting groups and business savvy started all the way back in high school.
Promoting on school campuses was easy. All you had to do was invite all the key popular kids and let them in free. The natural pecking order on campus does the rest of the work for you to draw people to the party. Messing with the rival crews attempt at throwing a party was easy too. You simply had to use your social skills to talk the popular kids to not go to their parties. Promoting public awareness of your group was easy. If you were cool, you wore FX paraphernalia, such as patches, hats, buttons, pins, and you give those things to the popular kids to wear on campus too. It all goes back to social skills, natural human relations, and knowing how any given social order is structured and works. Which I think comes more Naturally to girls than guys.
I’m thinking about my past dance crew experiences because the idea of tribes and dance is still fresh on my mind. Earlier this week I spent some time watching a ton of videos about a hill tribe of Thai/Lao people called the Taidam. After watching them I recognize in their culture components that are “universal” to almost all tribes and people, which I see and recognize in these things we call “gangs” and “crews” as well.
But you have to have an eye for these little cultural components or you will not recognize the patterning of the Quilt. So you have gangs with their hand signs they Salute one another with. You have some armies Salute each other by putting the hand to the forehead. Other armies Salute by erecting their right arm at a 45 degree angle in the air like the WWII Fascists and Nationalists did. You have the gangs like the Latin Kings who greet their own with the words “Amor De Rey!” Then what People greet each other with an “Assalamu Aleikum,” or an “Allah Akbar!” Or a “Sieg Heil.” You have Bloods who in old days wear all red. Crips who wear all blue. Orangemen wear Orange Collars. Masons wear aprons. The upper class men in olden days wore wigs. Modern soldiers who wear camo. The word Taidam means Black Thai and they are known as Black Thais because their tribe wears all Black. They have a sister tribe which speaks a different dialect from them called the White Thais and their tribe wears white.
Street fighting to gangs, Boxing and Wrestling to Westerners, Kung Fu to the Chinese, Jiujitsu and Sumo to the Japanese, Muay Thai to the Thai, and Pradal Serey to the Khmer. You have Crip Walking, Blood Stacking, B-boying, Ram Khmer, Ram Thai, Lam Lao, Ballet, Square Dancing, Square-Walking. What groups of people walk in squares and angles as a culture? Some militaries, Freemasons, and Prince Hall Masons walk in angles. Hindis don’t eat beef, Muslims don’t eat pork, the English and Chinese drink tea, Jews eat Kosher, the Thai eat Kapi, Italian and Pasta, Japanese goes with Sushi. Language and religion are merely and only two components of what is a culture. Put an English guy who talks Rhyme Slang in a room with a Crip who is versed in his Crip Slang and I guarantee the two will not understand each other. If you don’t have an eye for these Cultural Components, you’ll never see them and thus never understand what they are good for.
What are these “cultural components” good for? They act like social glue to hold a people together by forging a group identity based on common shared Experience and Activity. Shared Experience and Activity is a powerful glue which binds two people together. Shared tragedy brings and keeps two people together more powerfully then any rhetoric on brotherhood. Soldiers of an army don’t willingly die for each other because of heroic rhetoric, it’s because of shared Experience of the bootcamp and of the fieldwork [the war]. Street gangs don’t brainwash their members with ideologies to get them to kill and go to jail for the gang. It’s the shared Experience and Activities that does that. Two people don’t become best friends over time because they share the same Mindstuff like ideas and opinions. It’s the shared experience of repetitively hanging out with each other.
Second to shared Experience and Activity, shared emotions is the second – if not equally – most powerful social glue. Nothing brings a family closer together then tragedy and suffering. Such as the death of a loved one. Nothing forges a stronger army then to force those soldiers to see their fellow soldiers get gunned down by an enemy. Nothing brings a church together then the shared sorrow felt when collectively recalling to mind the sacrifice Jesus made on the cross. Nothing brings Radical Islamists together then the shared hatred of Jews. Nothing brings Blood together better then the shared hatred of Crips. When the sharing of Emotions and Experiences are gone from a marriage or intimate relationship, you know it will soon end.
Ideas divide. It is understood that on a human level we are each individuals with our own individual opinions about things. Therefore to use ideas as a means to bring a people together does not Aeonically work, simply because it is in the Nature of the individual Mind to have it’s own interpretations and thus difference of opinions will arise. That self-perceived Difference in Mind is what plays at causing a person or group of people to Believe they are different from another person. With things like shared emotions or shared experience, there can exist no interpretation or differentiation. If two people experience the same sorrow of the death of a loved one, what can those two argue over? How do you argue over a shared experience?
In my family, when growing up, you’re not allowed to argue and fight with your siblings and cousins. You’ll get punished if you do. Even something as silly as arguing about a cartoon or who is the best superhero. Because ideas divide. As grown ups, there is an unwritten law observed where we don’t talk about two things: Religion and Politics. It’s considered a Dishonorable act to speak about those two things knowing that your elders and other have their own opinions about such things. Even if an elder asks you for your opinion on such matters, you shake your head and say you have no opinions. Or you go through this whole ritual of saying things like: “I am young and don’t know much, so my opinions on such matters are based on my own inexperience, I will share my opinions with you, but I could be wrong, and I mean you no disrespect in any way.” Then you can share your ideas with your elders. If grown ups are talking about religion or politics, some one older than them will end up saying: “That’s enough! Keep your thoughts about those things to yourself.” If the old elders gather to drink and eat together, usually they save the serious opinions about religion and politics for after the eating where they remove themselves to argue amongst each other away from everybody. Because ideas divide. Freedom of thought and speech are double edged swords aren’t they then? They gives you a sense of independence or individuality, but at the same time they induces social division: Divide & Conquer.
I sound like a fascist don’t I? Can you really watch a colony of ants or hive of bees and describe their way of life as being “democracy?” Can you really consider the crystalline atomic structure of a diamond where every carbon atom has a specific exact place, and say that such “social” structure is “liberal and democratic?” Charcoal is carbon atoms in a liberal state of democracy. Coal is good only for burning. Can you really know the structure of an army and say that it is a “democracy?” Can you really consider your own body with all it’s organs and cells each with their proper duties to perform for the Whole Collective, and say that such organic structure is liberal and democratic? Where every cell and organ is “free” to do whatever it wants? There is no chaos in Order. The only thoughts I believe should be publicly thunk, and the only speech that should be publicly spoken are what will benefit the Family, Folk, and Culture. Otherwise, decadence [aka “freedom”] is destructive to the coherency, life, and Force of Will of a folk and its culture.
What’s it mean when we say we are trying to preserve or maintain our “culture?” What are we actually trying to preserve and save? And save from what? If each cultural component were a letter, then a culture is a Paragraph of letters. So when we say that we desire to maintain our culture, what we mean is that we desire to maintain the patterning of letters in such Paragraphs. In other words we desire to maintain the coherency of all the cultural components that make up our peoples’ Culture.
So back to our Party Crews. They didn’t last long. After the second year both died out. This was due to two things. First thing is that in school, each year removes seniors and adds new freshmens. Because of this the original members of both FX and TP all left high school. So things started dying down. Other thing was that our fun cultural components in FX were fun to do for a while, but that shit gets old. So without Rivals and with the death or decline of our group culture, our FX just died out. But when we say “died out” we don’t mean mortality. We mean the coherency of what was once a crystallized culture has dissipated into a larger medium. Like putting sugar crystals in water. The solid coherent crystals in that water will diffuse slowly into the larger medium. At school, the larger medium is the “secular” culture of generic campus life. Meaning that what we once had as our own unique culture was lost to the secular life of campus. And so having lost our culture, we ended up just a student among many. Just another brick in the wall as Pink Floyd put it once.
And so in something like the real world when we talk about saving and preserving our cultures this is ultimately what we mean. To hold onto those components of what is our respective culture, traditions, and customs that makes us unique, which holds us together as a folk, from dissipating over time into the Genericness of general population. In Theravadin Pali, the word Loka means the General Public. And the word translated into English as “Transcendental,” literally means “Above/Over the general piblic.” Above their generic opinions. Above their generic views. Because the generic populous is Mundane [Anariya]. Time is the enemy that erodes all things in it’s path. Even in the ancient Mahabharat Epic, Time is portrayed as the enemy. Understanding and conquering Time was a central background theme. Time is an important concept to keep in mind, when trying to save culture. Save it from what? From Time’s Flow. A great pragmatic example of a group of people who over Time have lost their culture, tradition, and ancestral customs are African-Americans who are descendants of old world slaves. Compared to an African who is American, who migrated to America. One group has lost something, whereas the other retains something. In this context, when we lose our culture, we mean that such culture has diffused and vapourized into the larger mundane secular medium of America.
It’s very hard to save your culture from being vapourized into the secular medium. When we say the word “culture” what essentially do we mean? That word comes from the same root as the words “AgriCULTURE,” and “ViniCULTURE.” Culture comes directly from the Latin “Cultura,” meaning “A Cultivating” of something. Cultura in turn stems from the word “Colere” meaning to “Tend, Guard, Cultivate, Till.” From Colere comes the word “Cultus” which means “Labour, Care, Cultivation, what is tended, Reverence.”A Culture is essentially an act or set of acts or behaviour which is Cultivated, Tended To, Tilled, Reverenced.
Cultivating something takes more then planting seeds and leaving the rest of the work up to the sun and rain. What’s it mean to “Tend” your garden? You go back, Over and Over, to water your plants, fertilize the soil, remove weeds, care for your growing plants etc. There is karate and judo and then there is Kata. You Cultivate your Kata to produce the Culture of karate or judo. There is Essence [dhamma], Form [Yana/Kata], and then Culture: Sasana/Do/Tao. “Do” being the Japanese and/or Korean rendition of Tao, meaning “Art, Way,” as in Ai-Ki-Do and/or Hap-Ki-Do. If Prahputsasana is the outer Culture [Way of Life], then what is done with the Yana? It is Cultivated. Why? To Convey the Essence beneath such that it bares Fruit outwardly. Why Tend a garden or cultivate a grove of fruit trees? To Convey the Essence beneath the soil thru those trees such that they bare Fruit for you to taste. Why taste the Fruit? Because Gnosis unfolds from direct experience. Why Gnosis? Because no teacher can give you the Essence, in the same sense that no teacher can give you the Do of Aikido. The teacher can guide you, but in actuality it is you yourself, by your own effort and means, do you Cultivate your Katas to manifest that Do. Only when you have Mastered the Do, do you come to a personal gnosis or understanding of the Essence: Ki. It was the very last words of the Buddha, to strive to accomplish your own ends. You can not taste the Essence without Cultivating the Form for the personal experience.
Cultus in very olden times back in Rome once referred to the Way a group of people did things collectively together. This Way was based on the activities such groups Cultivated, called Ritus, from where we get words like Rite and Ritual. We confuse the two words today. Cultus and Ritus are two very different things. A Ritus was a set of Forms a people Observed, such as the customs, Traditions, ceremonies, and usage/practices [the Forms]. A Cultus was the Way in which such groups of people together Cultivated or expressed their unique sets of Ritus. And the Essence such Ritus conveys or leads one to back then was called the Numen.
This Latin word Cultus is an exact match up of the Sanskrit/Pali word Sasana. Both words are associated with a People and their Traditions or Customs. Just as in ancient Roman times there was no word for a “religion” in Sanskrit, Pali, and things like Khmer and Thai there is no word for “religion.” Sasana is the closest word, which actually means the Cultus/Culture of a People, or what a People together Cultivate in deed and action. Today sasana is used to mean religion, but at the same time it means a Culture, and Way of Life connected to a People [Sas]. But then the word Sas which means a people, race, nation. tribe, is also used to mean their customs, and way of life too. In Khmer “Sas Christian” means Both the religion of Christianity and the People who practice Christianity.
The word or idea behind Sasana and the Latin word Cultus are very important to also keep in mind, to gain a better understanding of Culture and the preservation of culture. You can’t preserve something you don’t have an understanding of, can you? The interesting thing is the word Sasana does not in anyway imply or suggest a Way of Thinking. The word Cultus is almost entirely based on the practical concept of Tilling, Cultivating, which suggests Deed and Action, and not Thinking and Believing. It wasn’t until sometime AFTER the medieval ages that the word “religion” left the semantic field of Community, Culture, Order, to mean a Belief System or Way of Thinking. What we today know of as “religion” is a bastardization of human Culture. What Cultus and Ritus once Linked [Ligere] a people to each other as a Community and back to [re-ligere] Nature devolved into the business of telling people how to think and believe.
Culture vs. Time
If we were to look at a river, we would be looking at two different things: Land and the River. One is more transient than the other. One is more “permanent” than the other. The River is transient and always flowing onward somewhere. The Land around the river does change, but very, very, slowly over time. Not as rapid as the River. So if we were to make a toy boat with leaves and sticks and place it on that River, we can understand that our little boat will float away. But if we were to place that toy boat on the Land, we can understand that out little boat won’t be going anywhere for a while.
The Land is the Body/Causal and the River is Mind. The change which happens to both is Time. Time effects all things, but differently. Therefore – thought the ancient ancestors – if we make something bound to Mind/Thinking/Belief, it will do what? It will float away rapidly because it is simply in the very Nature of Mind to change as it grows. Thus – thought the ancestors – if we want to create something longer lasting that can be used as a vehicle to create the future, to make the lives of our future progeny better, it is more intelligent to create something bound to the Body. The Body lasts for at least 50-100 years, during which time it Cultivates what? Deeds and Actions. If Time devours everything in its Path, then don’t build castles in Time’s Path. If Mind changes often, then don’t make Mind the foundation of what you desire to be permanent.
I think the coolest display of this Activity versus Thinking is found in old world Europe. Catholicism in the olden days was more Activity based. The beliefs were trivial and because everything was in Latin, your average Catholic had no real body of thinking or beliefs. Back then Catholicism was an institution of Activities and Cultivation of Deeds. Those Activities forged communities. Those Communities over time became Cultures. Those Culture over time became Kingdoms. Those Kingdoms in Time became entire Empires. Things like the Russian and British Empires ended up owning vast amounts of land.
The Protestant reformation came. At first the early Protestant churches were Activity based, but as time goes by these Protestant churches devolved into belief systems and dogmatic ways of thinking. When this happened Protestantism clearly became causally impotent. Meaning it lack all power to seed the earth to give birth to anything real. Once grounded in the Realm of Mind – Thinking, Opinions, and Beliefs – you see Protestantism mutating constantly into different competing sects, each with different ideas, opinions, and convictions.
Another example of Culture versus Time would be India. The Culture established or manifested by Brahmanism has been around for over 5000 years. During which time it’s way of thinking and beliefs have changed, and kingdoms have come and gone, but the Culture is still There. During India’s 5000 years of Cultural continuity they have seeding or brought into being over time new cultures, new languages – every language related to Into-European – and so on. Which when we look back with our Aeonic Insightful eyes, we can see that such a culture has had a huge impact of Humanity.
I see this same phenomenon in Nature. It seems as if the only thing Nature as a whole is really interested in is Self Continuity, through replication and reproduction. That seems to be the only “universal” Law of Nature. So “universal” that reproduction is encoded into our very DNA. The rest of Nature is wild and lawless. But in that wild and feral background, we see that the most Successful species thrives and keeps up with Time, while the species that failed, go extinct.
So even though we can say that Nature is Lawless, if as a species you desire to play this Game successfully, you need Order. The most successful organisms on earth are ants. If we look closely at the social order of ants, we notice that it is very well structured and organized. Every one has a place and duty to perform in the colony. The unit works for the whole. Back even before ants this Community idea came during the time when single celled organisms one day learned to live together in communities where each cell evolved to specialize in a specific function to benefit the Community of cells. From this we have the very successful earthly form of those multicellular organisms, which we are a form of. Even though we can say that Nature is Feral and Lawless, it’s hard to say the same about of bodies as a multicellular thing. There is structure, order, coherency, and cooperation for mutual benefit. It’s interesting to note that we – the product of such collective systematic organization – are the dominate and most intelligent creature.
Unnuminosity Of Religion
For me, understanding the nature of Religion – a nearly all modern Western construct – helps me better understand what a Culture is and is not, and thus helps me preserve my own Culture.
To me, it’s as if the Generic Western Public has generally given up culture for Religion. The phrase: “Don’t tell me what to Do, tell me what to Think” applies here. Your generic Westerner [Americans at least] opposes the idea of being told what to do, to the point of tearing apart blood bound and family ties of they are bossed around. But they seem to thirst after people and organizations that tell them what to believe and how to think. You even have an entire religion like Modern Satanism which teaches the belief that conformity is bovine. But it’s okay to think and believe what some Satanic Bible or some High Priest dishes out.
There is a saying in my culture and family that goes: “The Peasants hoard gold, and the rich just wear it.” If you’ve ever seen Mr. T you’ll Understand the essence of that saying. It’s like a person who is starving. You put them in a cake shop, and they will insensibly gorge themselves greedily. In regards to things like gold and jewelry, because a poor person has never had jewelry before, when they have gold they are insensible with it. They act like they never had gold before and wear six gold chains, a ring on every finger, 10 earrings on each ear, watches with faces the size of a clock, and they got grills encrusted with gold and diamond. Whereas a person who is rich comes from a mode of life were gold is no big deal, so we are either bored with it or sensible with our jewelry. My aunt-mom say that even when both groups of people have gold and money, you can tell which person the poor one is. Sensibility, like Honour and Duty, just isn’t in a peasants vocabulary. If peasants act like that with gold, just think how they’d be if you gave them political power! Oh wait, that’s democracy isn’t it.
And it’s the same thing with basically anything in life with these peasants. They’ve never had “freedom” before. So when you give it to them, they go crazy with their liberty to the point where they disregard their own roots, culture, traditions, duties, honour, and loyalties. Anything that gets in their way their personal liberty to do whatever they want is thrown out and evil. A week or two ago I read on Yahoo News about a 17 year old boy who killed his parents to throw a house party. After killing them he posted his invites on facebook. The guy murdered both of his parents just to get the freedom to have a party with his friends. We can be outraged and laugh at this kid’s stupidity. But some of us laughing have killed our family bonds, living traditions, and ancient culture for the same freedom to do what we want haven’t we? With the 17 year old boy I am left asking: “And Then What?” What do you do after the party? And I wonder the same question with people who hoard freedom at the expense of their family, folk and culture. To what End?
I see something “wrong” with that. When I say “wrong” I mean Kamma Akosala: Unskillful or Destructive Work. We judge an act or deed based on its Fruit or end results it bares. What’s wrong with the concept of Western religions is that they build little boats in the River of the Mind, which is constantly Flowing and Changing. And so you can actually see the Fruit that such religions bares in the real world over time. And what’s “wrong” with “freedom” is that as a tree you are cut at the trunk, devoid of culture, left with no family or folk, and divided into individualized units, absolutely dependent on the State. Absolute Power doesn’t corrupt absolutely. A people’s absolute Dependence on those in power is what corrupts absolutely.
What is “wrong” is that religion is a poor and cheap substitute for a culture. Religion is like sugar: it tastes sweet and gives you a quick jolt of energy, but there is no real Nutritional Value or long term substance. Religion is a quick fix. It answers our deep and genuine questions with sweet sounding ideas. We agree with those ideas for a while. We use identifying labels for a while. Then our Mind changes and we look for a bigger and better fix. Modern religions can’t seem to retain their membership and coherency for long. Even something like Mormonism. It’s turn over rate is high. Half of the numbers are inactive “Mormons.” Door to Door sales tactics is the only thing propping up the religion and church. Same thing with the Jehovah’s Witnesses. How many people who join in one decade remain members the next decade? The younger the age, the higher a chance they will drop out of the religion.
The end result of all this is the growth and increase of Secularization. Secularization to living cultures is like a desert. That desert is dead of old forest growth and expands turning everything into a cultureless desert. It’s a strange sight to be in America and to see a secular Jew, secular Hindi, secular Muslim, secular Buddhist, secular Satanist, secular Asian, secular White, secular Catholic Mexican all live the same cultureless way of life with no sense of direction, blood flow, time, purpose, or Aeonic direction in Mind. Every one seems to just be content with working 50 hour weeks, clubbing Friday nights to spend their pay checks, doing their facebook and tweets, paying their taxes, going to sleep and repeating the cycle over and over again until they grow old? The final end result is that unbounded to anybody, having no responsibility or duty to any one, segregated into State-Dependent units/citizens, such people live their entire secular lives for the secular State and its interests. In the same way that the religious lived out their entire lives to support and prop up Christendom and the Vatican in old world Europe.
Then there is the issue of Aeonics and Time. How does a sasana like Buddhism live for 2500 years and retain a Buddhist for life, when a religion – or whatever we poetically call it – like Satanism can barely survive and retain a Satanist for a decade?
And the funny thing is Satanism changes as often as somebody’s change of Mind. Every other day since 1969 you got a new “Anton LaVey” and a new Satanic Church, a new Temple of Satan, and New Dark Order of Baphomet, with new “This-One-Is-The Real-Satanism-This-Time” Satanic ideology. And we know that 99% of all those new people and new organizations, and new ideologies 1-3 years later vanish off the face of the earth after going defunct. I mean creativity is cool, but such levels of product mutability is pointless and directionless in regard to Time. So many “real Satanisms,” yet so little concrete end results, after 50 years? Of all the Satanists that ever walked the earth how many can we name today that have been Satanists all 50 years? 40 years? Even if you can find one, the question is: where are they going with that satanism and how far will it go? We often here Satanists say in a liberal manner: “My kids will have the freedom to chose their own religion.” So for such satanists, how far is their satanism going to go Aeonically? 1000 thousand years?
Am I saying Satanism sucks ass? No. I’m saying generic Satanism is sick from the foundation up. To base this thing on the Mind and thoughts/ideas, makes it highly unstable and mutable. Because it’s in the very nature of Mind to be constantly changing and growing. You can’t logically base a Satanism on the natural mutability of Mind one day, and ten years later ask what happened to all the Satanists and why there are so many schisms and stuff. There is a saying in my culture that goes: “Oranges grow from orange trees [duh].” So if the Mind has the nature of changing and making new ideas, what Satanism grows on that tree of Mind will change and mutate in ideas. You build something in the Field of Mind, and what you build will inherit Mind’s spirit of constant change and mutability. The Earth or physical Field is slow in change. Action and deed, customs and cultures cultivated are seeds planted in this physical Field.
I’ll give two examples real quick as contrasting points, that way we can see modern satanism in its proper light. Freemasonry has been around since at least 1717AD. It’s common for someone to be a Freemason for their whole lives, die one, and pass it onto the sons as a Tradition. Internally Freemasonry has what is called an “Underdeveloped Ideology.” Meaning that Freemasonry’s ideology department is primitive. Its mythos is primitive and not a thousand pages of ideas expounded. It’s a simple myth about a temple and the builder dying. Around that primitive ideology is a very developed and elaborate methodology of action and praxis. It has 3 basic degrees. The rituals of each degree is elaborate consisting of acts, movements, and things done. It has other types of Rites such as cornerstone ceremonies, funeral rites, etc. So the thing to pay attention to is that first the ideology is kept simple and primitive, while the things done is huge and elaborate. Ideas don’t become Timeless Traditions. Shares action cultivated does. Ideas are only 10% of a living Culture. The rest are shared activities and behaviour patterns.
Other quick example is what was called the British Traditional Witchraft [BTW] and the American phenomenon of Wicca it spawned. Personally I believe that BTW started with Gerald Gardner and his Gardnarian Witchcraft/Wicca. BTW and the Wicca that followed has a primitive ideology. I don’t mean primitive in a bad way. I just simply means “simple, and open to personal understanding.” You have a God and a Goddess. Doesn’t matter what you call these two or how you see it. You have a simple Wiccan Creed. But then in the DOING department BTW and Wicca has a huge culture of things of shared activities. You have the initiations, the meetings, the feasts, the Great Work, the shared experience of ritual circle work, all these little customs like drawing circles, dressing up, setting altars, wands, etc etc. Ideas don’t become Timeless, they change and mutate. It is shared activity that generates culture and if nurtured can become as Timeless as the Brahmanist culture of India or 4000 year old culture of China.
If you think about it a people’s culture has very little to do with ideas and belief. China’s 4000 year old culture out lived many of its philosophies and “religions,” as well as what kingdoms and nations were inside of it. With something like my own culture first you had Animism, then Indian traders brought Brahmanism, then Buddhism took root. Kingdoms and political systems came and gone. And with all the changing of “religions” and political entities, the people and their culture remained intact. Even during the communist period when religion was banned, the people still had a culture and customs, and traditions they practiced and observed.
Ideas don’t become Timeless in the human world of Experience. Things Experienced do. But you can ask: “But what about all those ancient Greek and Indian ideas which have been around for ages, aren’t they ‘timeless’?” Sure, where do they exist? In the written medium, just like how ancient Greek, Latin, and Sanskrit are timeless right? Found only on paper. Immortalized in writing. I said the “Human World of Experience,” not paper and writing. Ancient Greek, Latin, and Sanskrit are dead in the Human World of Experience. There is something wrong with your intelligence if you confused what is experienced and Lived with what is written on paper.
Things To Consider
The whole reason why I brought up this topic is because of a topic thread brought up in the “Backroom,” about my feelings about people and their Cultures. I think the West is sick from a disease called Magian Ethos. I think that this sickness is perpetuated by an insensible appetite for “freedom.” There is nothing wrong with gold and jewelry, but piling and hoarding gold on yourself like there’s no tomorrow is Over Kill. There is nothing wrong with freedom. But freedom at the cost and death of one’s culture, traditions, Numinous human identity, folk, and blood is Over Kill. I think much of the West has lost its roots and culture to a cheap bastardization of culture called religion.
I think religion is deceptive. Because it causes you to assume that thinking and believing affects the physical world and time. As if sharing ideas glues people together into a community, folk, culture. When it does not. Ideas have done nothing but change, mutate, and divide people. Shared Action, Activities, Deeds affects the physical world and is the fertile soil of a Living Culture That fertile soil is Tilled by shared experience and shared activity. There is a fine line at times between a belief and an action in word. For instance in the West the Buddhist concept of compassion [Metta] is a nice and fluffy belief that makes your tummy feel like its made of pink cotton candy. In the East it’s a cultural praxis most Westerners won’t get their hands dirty in. To have compassion for your elders means to care for them, let them live with you in your homes, feed them when they are very old, nurse them, change their diapers, bathe them. Growing up with an elderly granny or great auntie dying in your house is hard for a kid or teen. I know because I was there. Your parents are out making money and so there are times when you must choose between hanging out with friends or the Compassion for your great auntie. From experience, Duty of Metta always wins, but not without a fight of crying because inside you know you can’t be like other people your age.
The concept of Honour/Nobility – Arya/Ariya – is a pretty and cute belief in the West we pay lip service to if we even ever consider it. In the East you live and die by it. To be Ariya means to be Noble or Honourable. Most Westerners won’t do the deed of Honour. To Honour your elders means even if your older cousin tells you to do something, you do it without question. To honour your parents means your parents are always right even if they are wrong and you do your duties and take their orders without question. To honour your parents means you honour your debts. They made you and cared for you, so out of that debt of honour you must take care of them until they die. It is easy to believe. It’s hard to do. And it’s harder to make what we do a way of life. I have cousins of uncles in my family who growing up got the living shit beat out of them by their father – my late great grandfather – and never once did any of them betray their Loyalty, Duty, and Honour to their father. My great grandfather died taken cared of by those very same children he abused, who kept their honour to him and nursed him to a peaceful death before dishonouring him or raising a voice.
My little 10 year old cousin knows how hard it is to live and practice Honour. She’s at that age where she wants to do things other girls her age do, but she lives with our Grandmother who does not allow her to leave the house after school. There is nothing that she can say or do, and running to ask her mother won’t fix anything because in our culture Grandmother has more authority over mothers and fathers. My little cousin has no choice but to Honour Grandmother and be an “indoor cat.” She’s cried plenty of times over it to her mother and me. She’ll cry and quietly whisper to us that she is sad because she can’t go out and play with other people because Grandmother won’t let her do anything. Usually both me and her mom will laugh lightly at it and both say: “We still can’t do anything, if she says we can’t. Just the way things are.” Her mom is 41, owns two houses, but still lives with her mother [my Grandmother] and is still bound by Honour to obey Grandmother. At 41 [2 years older than my birth mom], my aunt is still not allowed to bring her boyfriend over to her own house! My Grandma had to tell her only once after the family let her divorce my cousins dad: “If you are not going to get married, I don’t want to hear anything or see anything.” Honour is a simple word when written. And it is a quaint idea when it dances in our mind. But as a cultural praxis it is life long, binding, is in the background of every deed and act we do, and makes you cry often because it’s painful sometimes. All the 9 aunts and uncles are exactly 2 years apart from each other.
So that is the essential difference between a belief and an action. Between a religion and a Culture. One is easy and based on ideas that you carry around in your head. The other controls your life and actions and is hard. You can change one as often as you change your Mind. The other you are bound to by ties of blood, friendship, love, loyalty, duty, and honour. One is fleeting and impotent in the physical world and time. The other has the potential to seed the future and impact large sections of humanity in Time. One looks simple and nice as words on paper or as ideas. The other is tearful and at times feels like a burden.
There is a story in the Mahabharat that I love about Honour, Duty, & personal freedom. The story goes that this one time the King of Hastinapur was bad fated to have a brief relationship with Ganga – the devi of the ganges – to repay a wrong in a past life. During their marriage Ganga gave the King 8 sons. She drowned each one in her Ganges river at birth. But the King could not say anything because he had made an Oath to Ganga that she could do as she pleased with their children to get her to marry him. Bound by Honour to his oath he could do nothing but watch Ganga kill his sons and cry.
When the eighth son was born he could not take it any more and asked her to please stop and just let him have one son. So Ganga agreed since it was fated to be. But Ganga said that she will leave and take their son with her to the Brahmaloka to train him and teach him, and that in time, she will bring him to the King.
So when the son was a young man Ganga returned to the earth and brought the King his son who was educated by the gods. The King was very happy and started a relationship with his son to catch up. According to their royal tradition at the time, the young prince was not automatically heir to the throne. He had to prove his worth to the people and King. So for many years the young prince spent his time working at being worthy of the throne of Hastinapur. So the day came years later that the King was satisfied with his son and promised him the throne and made him official Crown Prince. They kingdom had a celebration.
After the celebration the King and son decided to go on an extended hunting trip together as father and son, so they did. Out in the fields, the King in his chariot wanders off away from his son and found himself at a river. Where he saw a very beautiful girl who was a wayfarer that took people to the other side of the river. The King had not had a wife for many years since Ganga left him. He asked the girl to take him around the lake and told her to keep rowing her little boat until he found the courage to say what he wanted to say to her. Eventually the girl asks the King what it was he wished to ask her. The King said: “If you would marry me.” The girl said in return something like: “How can I say no to a King’s proposal? But it’s not me you must ask. I want to marry you. But my father says whom I can and can’t marry. You’ll have to ask him.”
A day later the King goes to the girl’s mud brick home to ask her father if he would let them get married. The father told the King that he was expecting the King because his daughter’s horoscope said that she was Fated to be married to a King. He told the love struck King that he would be happy to let them marry each other since is was fated to be, but on one condition. The King asks what the condition was. The father of the girl says: “That her son inherits your throne.”
The King is outraged and says that he has already promised his other son the throne and that he is bound by his Duty to keep his word to his son. The King asks the girl’s father for any other condition but that. The father said to the King that if this King did not meet this simple condition, that there are plenty other Kings in need of a wife, and his daughter was fated to marry one anyways. Disrespected, the King storms out in a huff and puff of anger. The girl is crying and her father tells her: “Don’t worry, he’ll be back. It’s fate.”
At his tent camp, the King spirals into a deep depression. He does not want to return to the Kingdom, as his heart is stuck in the area. He is in love with the girl and wants to marry her very bad, but he is bound by his Duty to Honour his word to his son. Torn between Love and Duty he gets more depressed each day. The Crown Prince notices that his father is depressed and asks what was the matter, but the King says that there there are things a king and father can’t talk and shouldn’t talk about. The crown Prince is asked to leave and not bring up the subject any further.
Secretly the crown prince interrogates the Kings chariot driver to ask what his father does and where he has been driving his father for the past week. The driver first says that he can’t say anything because he is bound by Loyalty to the King and cannot betray that Loyalty. The crown prince objects and says that he and all citizens are not bound the person on the throne, but to the Throne itself which represents the people and kingdom. If the King is not well mentally he betrays his people’s well being, therefore the drivers betrays the people and throne.
After a while the driver finally tells the concerned crown prince that for the past week he has been driving the king to a river, where the king just stands by a tree for a long time staring at a girl. The prince asks if his father has talked to the girl and asked for a marriage. The driver says that the King has done so and even has gone to the girls house to ask her father. So the prince asks why they two aren’t married then, what was the problem? The driver says that the girls father made a condition that the two can marry if the King promised the girl’s son would inherit the throne, but that the King could not meet that condition because he was bound to his Duty to his Son, the Prince who was already promised the Throne.
But the Prince was bound to his father by Honour. It was his Honorable Duty as a son to obey his father and to not make his father sad, but to make him happy. In Honour of his father’s happiness, the prince ordered the driver to take him to the girls house. And so at the girl’s house the prince speaks to the girl’s father and says that he [the prince] will meet the condition and relinquish his claim to the throne giving it up to his future brothers, on the condition that he is allowed to take the girl to his father the same night. The end [of episode 2-5ish].
I love how the the sages in the Mahabharat explains that Fate, Honour, Loyalty, and Duty are like lines that weaves into a net, in which we humans are caught in and cannot escape. I would go further and say that Honour, Loyalty, and Duty are like fibers to the Thread of Wyrd/Fate. In the modern West, those four words have lost all meaning and spirit. At best they are ideas the Westerner tosses around in their heads and debate over for their “merit” and practicality or whatever. In the times of the ancient Hastinapur – circa 3000BC-900BC – fate, honour, loyalty, and duty were the living foundation of human life and culture which controlled our actions, relations, and lives from cradle to death. In many cultures outside of America – and still in living upper class cultures in the West – such things are still nets that bind us together with our folk, culture, and traditions.
Where is the Praxis of the ONA they may ask us. Here: Honour, Loyalty, and Duty; Folk, Culture, and Tradition. That in itself will take a life time to practice and live. If you must ask how to make those 6 things a living praxis and Way of Life, then you made of stone and have lost your Numinous Human spirit which feels and which spins a web of empathy connecting you with others near you. It’s ultimately Empathy and the need for reciprocation that things like Honour, Loyalty, Duty, Folk, Culture, and Tradition come into existence is become the glue that binds people together. Something has died in the American West. The fact that some have to ask how to live Honour, Loyalty, and Duty, is indicative and speaks louder than words. Nothing has to be said. Your actions speak louder then your words, as they say. The fruits of such actions are just the cherry on top. Everything about the West [in America at least] is falling apart. From your social fabric, to your sensibility, your cultures, your dignity as a people. But it all doesn’t matter so long as you have your freedom.
But I’m no superhero or Captain America. I’m Asian. This is War: a War between the Honorable and the Dishonorable. Between the Ariya and the Anariya. Between the Aryan and the Mundane. As it has been since ancient times. I’m on Asia’s side and cheering for China, Japan, and India. It’s the West in its current form that I want to gladly see die. These rotten mundanes can rot. But it is the Noble Breed of the West – my Kin – that I wish to be concerned about. The few Noble easily drown in a mob of mundanity running on Magian Ethos. It’s to my Noble Kinfolk in the West that I wish to help realize that they are a Breed apart from the Anariya/Mundane, and that what rotten unnuminous and ignoble way of life they live is not Our. I only wish to draw such Kinfolk’s awareness back into the past so that they realize that their Tradition and Culture is still alive in their past: still in their blood. All I wish if for those of us Noble in Blood to return once more, to a more Noble and Numinous Way of Life, one based on the Praxis of Honour, Loyalty, and Duty. To return to a Life lived for Folk, Culture, and Tradition. If you have to ask how to live it, you are far lost or never had it. It should come Naturally to those bred with it Naturally in their veins. To those of us whose Ancestors lived in such ways, and bred and raised their progeny in such ways. It is in our Blood. Which Blood and Breed has been the distinctive Mark that separates our Aristocratic and Noble Kind from those mongrel mundanes of common peasant stock.
These are thing I wish for the ONA in general to think about as time passes and as we work on evolving the ONA into whatever direction we will take it. There is a reason why I dislike religion and philosophy and why I don’t want the ONA to be rooted in such things. Religion and philosophy are fruitless in context to people and time and manifestation. They only breed more opinions, thoughts, ideas, and convictions. There is something wrong with you if you believe that thoughts and convictions are real things that are worth something in the world of experience. There is no substitute for Living. I don’t know how else to term it but “Living.” The word “Praxis” has become stupid. When Praxis is said, people look for step by step instructions, proof of deed, or things of that sort. Ask me for proof of my Living of Praxis of Honour, Loyalty, and Duty, and all I can say is that my entire Life with my family and folk bound by tradition and culture is in its entirety my proof. Come to my house to verify it. Ask a person in the Military and you’ll get the same answer. The proof is in what life has been lived on the battlefield, and at home with kith and kin, for Blood and Honour. Mythos should only inspire praxis and Culture: the Cultivation of Deeds and Activity: Seeds sown in the real world of human life and human experience. The threads of Wyrd that binds us together in an unbreakable tie, bound to our family, folk, and cultural traditions until death.
There is a reason why I try to tease the ONA into the direction of becoming a Kulture, and why I write some much about things like my culture and other people’s culture. So that the Western Niner or Drecc will one day learn to understand that religion and Magian Ethos is a cheap and worthless substitute for human culture. So that such sinister kinfolk can learn to become re-aware of their own ancestral indigenous cultures to take root in once more. In the end, for a distant and aeonic goal. Gold, the most noble of metals, is worn on the heads of Kings and Queens. The Noble Breed – Ariya Puggala – in the same way is the Crown of Heaven and Earth. High on Their Numinous Heads is where we belong. Not on the level with the Mundane. Not to think like them or live like them. Not to wander aimlessly in life generation after generation like them. It was our Noble ancestor’s Will to conquer Time that forged empires and bloodline of Warriors and The Noble Born. Aeonics is an alien concept and Way of Life to the Mundane. So is Honour, Loyalty, and Duty.
The last reason why culture is important to me and why I try to evolve ONA into a Kulture based on Practical Wisdom is that if ONA is to survive it’s Founder and exist in some Future, then it cannot make the same mistakes as modern Occidental memeplexes makes and just be a religion or philosophy. It must be a Way of Life and a Praxis or Effort of Deeds. Like how, you ask? I tried to explain it several ways and times above.
How do you apply the praxis of the ONA you ask? Where is the Praxis or instructions or sasana to be followed you ask? I already told you. There is a fine line between Belief and Doing. The Line is fine, but the Field such belief and doing covers is hugely different. Honour is an important concept in the ONA. Don’t believe in it. Put it into living practice. If you say living within the bonds of Honour is easy, then you’re talking shit. You ask any Asian or army person what the difficult thing is about being their Way of Life is and they’ll name a list of aspects of life that all has to do with the bond and duty of honour.
Duty is another concept in the ONA. Stop thinking about it and apply it. Duty to your family and intimate friends is a 24/7 job. If you think it’s easy, join the army for 4 years. Learn to perform your duties to those around you for a productive end purpose or for mutual benefit. It’s easy to believe. It’s painful to Live knowing that you can’t “unduty” yourself free from family and folk, from tradition and culture. It is honestly very much like a fish net we are caught in, just as the ancient sages said. We have no choice but to live and die with the other fish in our nets of fate. What do you call it when a fish breaks free from a net? Freedom. Those mundanes are “free.” They live their life without such ties. But for what in the end? To be free to be pawns of a mundane state? Free to serve a mundane state their whole lives. Free to aimlessly breed the next generation of servile yet free “citizens.”
Loyalty is another simple idea in the ONA. Stop thinking about it and apply it in life. Just Do it. Put it into practice. You are bound with ties of loyalty to your blood and close friends. Live like it and do like it. Know your own and live like it until death. That sounds stupid in the West. In my family its a way of life. You are loyal to your family and traditions, and will live and serve them and each other until they die or you die. The Venerable Ananda is the greatest symbol of Loyalty, Honour, and Duty. He was by the Buddha’s side until the Buddha passed to the Other Shore. Even after death that loyalty, honour, and duty continues. We call it Honouring our Ancestors. The West wrongly calls it “ancestor worship.” Even if your teacher, guru, friend, father, grandmother, brother is dead, you still pay homage and honour to them.
Those are only 3 concepts found in the ONA and Myattian Triad. There are 5000 pages of ONA MSS loaded with thousands more such concepts. Stop thinking and believing in the shit and apply it in life. It’s easy to believe. It’s hard to Do, and even harder to cultivate into a Culture. That is the Praxis of the ONA, when I say Praxis. You’re dumb and blind if you can’t see the Culture from the Cult. One is a doing, and the other is a believing. One requires no leader, just your own hard and sincere efforts. The other has somebody telling you what to believe and how to think and see the world.
And that’s only ONA. We still got the hundreds of pages of Reichsfolk and the thousands of pages of The Numinous Way to put into living Praxis. The difference is learning how to Translate those concepts into Life through your actions and activities to be Cultivated over Time. If your Reichsfolk, then Live like it. Be proud of your own people, your own people’s Ways, Culture, Traditions, and Ancestral Knowledge & Wisdom. Fuck that Jewish Magian shit, the Jesus, Kabbalah and everything. Fuck their way of life and ethos. Live the Way your People once did, for your own Gods, Culture, Blood, and Folk. Dig into the past if you need to. If the Magians have buried your past. Your blood is what ties you to your past which is as living and as much a part of you as your blood. Everyone that ever existed in the past that had to exist, and everything that happened that had to happen in the past merges and converges in your Blood and Flesh. You are the Living Manifestation of your Past and Ancestors. You can never lose your past. Your Awareness can only be misdirected from it.
There is this Sufi [Ishmaelite] allegory I read or heard somewhere long ago. There was once an orphaned tiger kitten who was adopted by a herd of sheep. The tiger grew up thinking it was a sheep. One day when it had grown into a young man tiger a very big tiger from the jungle came to kill and eat some sheep. Frightened like the other sheep the young tiger ran away for safety, but out of intense curiosity he stayed just close enough to watch the horror of some odd Beast killing his sheep people. After the horrific incident the young tiger ran away crying and confused into the jungle. Until he had come upon a pond where he looked into and saw his own Reflection. In time the young tiger remembered something lost deep inside of him. It was as if he changed inside or realized something long forgotten. The young Tiger turns his face toward the sheep and with his new Eyes and Heart walked to find them as a Tiger.
In the Sufi Tradition the sheep are the unbelievers. You are raised in their company believing you are one of them. The big Tiger is One who knows the Beloved [Allah]. It is in it’s Nature. Which Nature is hidden and dormant in that young orphaned Tiger. Only when that young Tiger reflects into itself – into the pond of its own psyche – does it see and Remember it’s God given Nature, which can never be taken away. That Nature in the Tiger represents the eternal bond between Man and Allah, Creation and Creator, which are the same in Essence, for Adam was made in Allah’s Image and Likeness. One Flesh, the other Spirit. One causal, the other acausal.
But that allegory in human terms also applies. Our people, past, and ancestors live in our our Blood. In the West we are like Tigers raised in a Magian orphanage. We grow up believing that we are something we are not. We are raised to live a way of life that is not our Natural Way of Life. But even if they have hidden our blood and people from us, if we reflect inside and look deep into our psyches, we will remember our past which we realize pulsates with every beat of our Heart. Our people’s past and ancestral spirit can never be taken away. We are each a living manifestation of such past and ancestors. It is just that we are conditioned to be unaware of such folk and ancestral culture. Because our Eyes and Heart has been lost and entralled in the Mundane and their Magian Ethos and way of life.
Religion is a poor substitute for living traditions and ancestral wisdom. You know religion is cheap because nowadays anybody with a website can invent one in a few hours of spieling ideas and abstract opinions. A living Culture takes a life time of praxis, hundreds and thousands of years to develop. Where each Tradition and Culture is grounded in the real world via deeds and activities of daily praxis or the willful expression/cultivation of such Culture.
The Activity – any shared activity/cultivation – is the key idea. Because each act of an activity is like a seed planted into the soil of the Causal Environment. In such an environment, those seeds grow in the real world of Experience and bares fruit. Believing without Activity doesn’t grow anything in the real world.
These are just things to keep in mind in the ONA. To me the idea of putting the ONA into daily praxis and making it a real Way of Life is easily grasped in my Mind. I know as a word “Honour” is an idea that can be believed in. But from my own cultural experiences I also know Honour in itself is an entire way of life that is very real for every Asian Culture. Asia here meaning all of Asia from Arabia to the Philippines. In the West, Honour is a Way of Life in the military or in organized crime groups. It’s not a matter of belief in these places and for these people. And that’s just one concept/meme in the ONA that is Applicable as a living Way of Life. There’s a whole 5000 pages more of concepts that can be realistically Applied in life via activity and deeds. And by deeds I don’t mean blowing up the State, resurrecting Hitler from the dead, or birthing World War 4. I just mean the Cultivation and Application of Praxis. The transformation of Theory into Experimentation and Applied Science.
There is nothing wrong with ideas or knowledge. As long as we understand that theories and knowledge is just the beginning. Wisdom is the second step, which is Applied Knowledge. Theory is the first step, experimentation is the second, Applied Science is the third. First there is the Theory of microbes and disease. Then there is the experience learned from experimentation. Then is borne the Culture and Praxis or Craft of Applying that Wisdom in cultivating microbes to produce antibiotics for a tangible purpose. Unfortunately most modern religions and philosophies stops at step one believing a body of abstract knowledge, ideology, theory, believed in is enough.
So ONA is a corpus of Knowledge and theories. These are to be tested and experimented with in the real world. I’m not talking about bombs and terrorism and culling. I’m talking about everyday applicable stuff. Experiment with concepts like Honour, Loyalty, and Duty in your daily living with others or your folk. Is it possible to apply those concepts into life? Yes it is, study any Traditional Culture and Military. But it takes effort and Will to not only live it, but pass such Cultivated activities to the next generation. Believing is easy. Disbelieving is easier.
Concepts like Clans can also leave the arena of belief and be applied. Clans do exist. Making one from scratch is hard and takes effort but it is possible. Any gang or crew that you create which you feed energy to for 10 years will over time develop cultural components on it’s own. But you have to know what a cultural component is and what is not culture. Gangs don’t have anything to do with belief or religious ideas. It’s just a body of things applicable and cultivation of shared activities. It you really think about it, walking together to a rock if Cultivated over and over will grow into a Cultural Tradition. In Islam this is called the Hajj. In ONA this same simple concept is called the Black Pilgrimage. Go find a odd shaped rock and walk to it for 10 years. Make up a mythos. The Muslims did. The Kaaba is the site if Adam’s creation, where Isaac offered his son, where Abraham circumscribed his sons, whatever.
Just don’t make beliefs, opinions, and thinkable thoughts the foundation of your group. Why not? Because we think and we each will have our own opinions. Differing opinions end up causing arguments. So when you build something on the foundation of Mind not only is it not permanent but it will also breed arguments and friction between group members. A culture is based on many little acts – called Customs – put together. It’s really hard to argue over little customs.
We have an ancient Custom in Thai-Khmer culture where every New Year [April 13th] we make this big sand castle in our back yard. When thee elders and uncles make it they collect zip lock bags of money from us and they bury it in the sand castle. The monks come and do their 3 hour chant. We all go outside and burn 3 sticks of incense and pray to Buddha and the ancestors at the sand castle and put out incense on it. Usually the sand castle is decorated and there is a statue of a Buddha at the top. One one side of the castle is a plate of food for the ancestors, on another side, a bit aways from the sand mound is a plate of food with a chicken head and chicken legs left for the demons and wild spirits, to appease them so they won’t give us bad luck. The monks sprinkle is with holy water. We do bindbat and feed them after they are done. Then we go outside and burn Ghost Money for the ancestors. When they leave we eat our little feast and gamble. Which is when the young children are allowed to dig into the sand castle for the little bags of gifts, toys, and money.
That is what a Custom and Tradition of a Culture is. If you observe closely what I tried to describe above, at no time did I mention a belief or idea or ideology to be agreed upon. The entire thing was just a body of things done. Simple things like make sand castles, offer food to ancestors and feral spirits. This is what a sasana is. It has nothing to do with beliefs or ideologies. Just things done over and over again. And it’s very hard to argue about such custom, because you just Do It. The Tradition of building this sand mound is actually over a thousand years old and is a residual Tradition left over from ancient times when Brahmanism-Animism was the sasana of the Khmer Empire. The dirt mound in those ancient times represented Mount Meru, the abode of Lord Shiva. The Buddha at the top of the Mound was Shiva in ancient times. If you look closely at the areas influenced by Brahmanism such as India, Southeast Asia, and Indonesia, you’ll actually see this sacred mound built into our temples.
April 13th was still the general time this ceremony was held in because it coincides with Spring and something about the lunar calendar. In modern times we usually do the ceremony and celebration during the weekend closest to April 13th. In ancient times a hybrid Brahmanist and Animist ritual was held around that mound honoring Brahma and Shiva and/or Vishnu. In those ancient times, blood sacrifices were offered for the spirits and ancestors, usually animals while the King provided slaves. When Buddhism displaced Brahmanism, the sacrificing was discontinued and instead the custom of offering chicken heads and legs for the feral spirits was adopted. In rural areas, a live chicken is still sacrificed.
So that weird Tradition of making sand castles in April is what a real living thousand year old cultural custom looks like. It’s not a belief or an idea. It’s just something you do backed up with a simple mythos. This custom is connected to certain peoples who have over the centuries faithfully observed this weird Tradition every April. So that if I bumped into somebody who observed this same Tradition, I automatically know that such person is either Khmer, Thai, or Lao and is Theravada Buddhist whose ancestors were Brahmanist-Animists. Another example of a living custom in my parts is pouring some of your beer to the ground and offering a moment of silence. If I see somebody do this custom, I know that he or they are in some way connected to American gang or street culture. This is a custom I can appreciate because its animistic and parallels my people’s honouring of our dead ancestors. And again, this Custom is not a belief. It’s not something you think or carry in your mind. It’s just a Custom you simply Do or Act. You can’t really argue or debate it either.
People can then be identified by their Traditions and Customs can’t they? In ancient times before modern religions and philosophical isms and ologies, this was all there was: Ritus. A people or tribe was defined by their dialect, way they dress, and their Culture/Customs/Traditions. The “belief” system back then was a simple body of animistic beliefs. These animistic beliefs never went anywhere in my own culture. It doesn’t matter if Buddhism says spirits may not exist. It doesn’t matter if Monks were not originally made to officiate in such animist traditions. A living culture will annex and absorb anything that is useful and practicable that will further strengthen its cultural coherency. The Buddhism, like the older Brahmanism is only a tool for a living people to expressed their unique human way of life through. Only a tool to perhaps be used to see and understand the world with.
So now, how are ONA people identified? How shall we in the near future be identified? Like Modern Satanism and modern religions with some set of abstract beliefs and dogmas and standards of ethics we all agree upon and carry around in our heads? Or in how we Do our ONA in our everyday lives? In our ONA Customs, Traditions, Rites, and Cultural observances? The components of a living culture and tradition are all there in the ONA. The only thing that is missing is the actual application and physical expression. Whatever for you might ask, isn’t believing and agreeing with ideas enough? For aeonics and believing does not seed the future.
All for an end purpose. Not just for cultural coherency, but for longevity. We as Niners and Dreccs of the ONA have living examples to study and observe. We first have things like Modern Satanism, and other modern Western religions. Where are these things now? Are they dying? Will they be around 50 years from now? Can they jump the generation gap? Then we have the living cultures that we each are rooted in. How long have those cultures been around? What have such cultures over time produced and manifested? How long have they been around? Then we simply ask ourselves which of these two types of things do we want ONA to be? Do we want ONA to be dead 50 years from now? Or do we want it to continue living 100 years from now? What must we give up to make it a living tradition? What must be done to make it a culture? Do we want the ONA to be a belief system and body of opinions or viewpoints that manifests nothing but arguments, debates, and “truths?” Or do we want ONA to be a Way of Life that manifests Fruit, Clans, Living Traditions, and Kulture in the causal environment?
Personally I pick the second option. I’d like the ONA to be a Way of Life that describes a type and group of people. Personally I know how to translate ONA, Reichsfolk, and the Numinous Way into daily practice to make them into a Way of Life. It just takes Application. And by that I don’t mean making bombs, playing James Bond or Rambo, doing survival training courses in Alaska, conspiring against some Jew World Order, stock piling automatic rifles, or giving birth to the Fourth Reich. I mean simply being Drecc or Niner, living it, applying the Myattian stuff in our lives through our activities and doings. But like I said, it’s easier said then done. It’s easy to believe and hard to Do.
Honour as a belief is easy to agree with in your head. Rejecting it is easier. As a culture, for me Honour means I will be serving my two pairs of parents my whole entire life until they die peacefully. That’s the difference. Duty as an idea is easy to agree with in our heads. For me Duty as an aspect of our cultural way of life means I have a Duty to raise my own children in our way and culture without their consent. I had no choice to be Thai. My children will have no choice either. Loyalty is an easy and dreamy idea in the head. For me Loyalty as a way of life in my culture means, I am stuck with my family and culture and our way of life until I die. Those are only 3 mere concepts found in the Myattian Triad. There are more. The Glossary of the ONA has a list of concepts from A-W which can all be translated into components of culture and cultivated. Not to mention the entire 7 Fold Way as Rites of Passage.
If left to me in 30 years the ONA would be a Tradition and set of customs of a Culture. ONA would grow with Time in two ways: the normal way of fining our Kind “out there,” and the Breeding way of breeding our children and raising them up Drecc. By this I mean as how a living culture is. When Buddhism came to the people of Southeast Asia, they already had their own thousand year old culture, and Brahmanism. They just added the Buddhism on top of what they had. The Buddhism never replaced anything. That’s just not how you Upaya and make yanas. If you want to get the Essence of dhamma to Animist-Shaivites, you reconfigure [upaya] your Buddhism to mirror Animistic-Shaivism of the natives. Just like the Dravidian Bodhidharma upayaed Buddhism into Chan in China by mixing it with Taoism; as he upayaed Shaolin; as he mixed it with Shinto in Japan. As the Buddha upayaed dhamma mixed with Brahmanism to his audience. So raising children as Dreccs doesn’t mean replacing a child or people’s culture with ONA. It just means the ONA is incorporated into an already existing culture.
I just personally don’t have any faith long term wise with this thing we call Religion in the West. I don’t think any person in Asia is willing to give up their entire ancestral culture and familial/clan way of life for a religion. At the same time I don’t trust this thing we call secularism either long term wise. Because both lack culture or the coherency that culture induces in a group of people. I suppose I am a Traditionalist. So in closing, the basic key points is Time Flow and changes things, therefore don’t built things in Time’s domain if you want things to last. Mind changes with growth and new ideas. There don’t build things in Mind’s domain if you want things to last. The physical world will be around for a long time, therefore planting seeds in it will last. The seeds planted in the causal world are our deeds and actions we put into motion. Thus, if we are serious about Aeonics then we should each understand what the ONA must be and must not be. Mythos inspires, and action produces fruit, but a belief rarely if ever does anything but be thought about. Culture is Activity Cultivated, not thoughts thunk. The difference between a Knowledge and Wisdom is Application. Many little observed customs adds up to a living Tradition. The Way of Life the Myattian Triad is trying to describe and intimate is ancient and more human. It’s just that in modern times, some of the West has forgotten that way and sold out for Magian Ethos.
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