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Peace Sigil -The Transducer comes to life!

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13:18 / 01.12.01

quote:Originally posted by Captain Zoom:
May, I'll do a little something on both nights ... Every generation gets told that they can change the world. I'm just glad our turn has finally rolled around.

Thank you for your support. I am happy that you are interested in both nights. And yeah, this is fun, isn't it.

I hope I get shit on today!!

-May Tricks

[ 01-12-2001: Message edited by: May Tricks ]

[ 01-12-2001: Message edited by: May Tricks ]

14:19 / 01.12.01

I'm in for a recharge. If I can amp last night's feeling a 1000-fold or even a 100-fold I wouldn't pass it up.

The Sinister Haiku Bureau

16:44 / 01.12.01

yeah, I'm probably in, depending on where I am at the time (it being the holidays, i never know which city I'm gonna be in)- but I'm pretty sure I'll do at least one...

Mirakel Dreamer

19:00 / 01.12.01

Not that it needs to be said, but I'm in =)

Mirakel

09:15 / 02.12.01

Operation Peace Mango is a go. Repeat, that's a "go." Launch successful.

09:15 / 02.12.01

I'm in, of course.

14th December could be a little dificult, but I'll try anyway, and 30th December is garanteed.

I'll try to contact my friend again... and, till there, who knows how many more persons I could atract to the charge?

Cass

09:15 / 02.12.01

So the trick is not to think at all about mangoes or transducers until 14 December, do it all over again (hic) then forget about it all again until 30 (hic) December.

I can do that.

(By forgetting about one's working one circumvents–hopefully- the dreaded "

LUST OF RESULT

")

Count me in. Not that I remember any of this, mind...

09:15 / 02.12.01

Mmmh, I'm not sure how others see it, but I've always thought the forgetting/lust of results conundrum applied only to sigil launchings. What we did last night was create a servitor. Servitors (spirits, egregors, whatever...) need the constant belief of their creators and feed off the emotions directed to them by people who think about them in the same way godforms feed off the faith and worship of their devotees. This is why we want to distribute the mango image and music everywhere. No?

I'll participate in other charging sessions for sure. We need to get more people into it.

Last night went pretty well. I improvised a climax when, instead of drinking my cup of mango nectar, I went outside on my balcony, in a half-trance, with bare upper-body and feet (in the cold and the snow), raised the cup to the night-sky and superposed it with the image of the mango glyph still on my retina from the computer screen and then emptied it over the edge. It came to me much later that I never checked to see if there was someone under it, so some poor passerby could've really felt like he was being shit on by God.

I had the Leonard Cohen songs "Anthem" and "Democracy" (from "The Future") playing on repeat all along. They go with the themes of the Transducer really well, especially "Anthem".

I did two quick follow-up divinations on the question "Will this ritual work?":

My Tarot deck gave me the cards Love and Completion, which is good.

My copy of Illuminatus gave me the line of dialogue: "Beats the hell out of me. All I see is war and people ripping each other off like what's-his-name said." Which is remarkably appropriate yet a bit depressing. But then I suspect my copy of Illuminatus has been in a bad mood recently and is slightly jealous of my tarot deck.

Temple Goddess

11:29 / 02.12.01

I did a charging but I didn't dress in drag. I did meditate and do a visualization of the sigil being charged.I hope that helped.
Great idea, I really felt good about this working.

15:23 / 02.12.01

regarding what gus said, I feel it's appropriate to nourish the mango spirit anytime anyplace anywhere.

I've been working on the mango track all day... getting near to finishing it

18:37 / 02.12.01

Oh Flameon I can't wait to hear it!

-May

08:44 / 03.12.01

Well, I did it...but fuck if getting it done wasn't the most irritating thing in the world. Left work about six in the evening (GMT), realised I'd forgotten my mobile 'phone so had to go back to my office to get it, got held up by a beggar, public transport was running later than usual, kept having little irritating things happen to me when I got home...I can only assume that someone was trying to run interference...

Paranoia aside, I'm pretty confident about this, although it's too early to say whether such confidence is justified. Have to agree with Johnny H - I felt extreeeeemely pissed off, not immediately after the working, but on the sunday; but this is quite normal for me, I often get a bit tetchy after a big job. Post-magic tension, you might say...

As regards further charging, yeah, that'd be fair enough...My works Xmas do is on the 14th so I can probably get something done on the sly then; and the 30th shouldn't be a problem either. I don't think we should try and forget about this - we should be working on distributing the Mango, as discussed in the original thread. To this end, me and one of my mates are off to a concert this week, with a rather large reproduction of the Mango in tow, and a few smaller reproductions in sticker form as well...Which, if nothing else, will be a conversation piece, I s'pose...

13:23 / 03.12.01

uuhhhh. i drank some mango and apple juice and fell asleep. but i'd been thinking about the image all day. no dreams, though.

13:39 / 03.12.01

I know the stress of "Post-magick Anxiety". I think I even had "pre" symtoms. I beleive this is due to The Transducer cleaning out the negativity in our lives. This was the real sacrifice that we made. We all have to "clean up" or else we are in opposition with intent of our working.
I would just like to mention that I am not being judgmental here and trying to imply that 'lithers need to cleanse, this is just theroy about the tensions that have come about due to the working.
-May

17:22 / 03.12.01

I had a lot of interference with mundane stuff that night, but did manage to leave some smoked fish and hot peppers at a crossroads well after midnight. Peaceful moment after a rather tense evening.

Definitely in for a recharge.

23:09 / 04.12.01

Just checking this thread because i am getting locked out of a few. THE BARBELITH GODS ARE MAD! What have I done?

Any way I guess I will post the times that the Solar Eclipse will take place on the 14th of December.

Eclipse begins at 18:03 GMT and ends at 23:40 GMT
OR begining at 6:03pm in UK, 11:03pm EST or 1:03am PST ... and ending over 5 and a half hours later

Well that might be along night!

-May Tricks

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23:40 / 04.12.01

That's because member #611's profile has become corrupted.

Soon Tom will sacrifice the offending profile to the dark gods of Barbelith and then the threads will be working again in no time.

05:44 / 05.12.01

So - we have all noticed that the UN conference to come up with an interim government in Afghanistan has succeeded, yes?

One point to us, I think...

05:50 / 05.12.01

So: I observe in the news this morning that the UN conference in Bonn, after weeks of arguing between various factions, has finally been able to agree an interim government for Afghanistan, provisionally scheduled to start December 22nd.

Nice one...*licks finger and draws a number 1 in the air*

05:26 / 06.12.01

Dammit, why do I keep having to make double posts?

05:26 / 06.12.01

It is kind of nice, you shared twice!!
-May

05:26 / 06.12.01

It is kind of nice, you shared twice!!
-May

20:26 / 07.12.01

meanwhile, in a top secret recording studio made of cardboard and knitted string, Flame On is a few vocal takes away from unleashing the Peace Mango track on an unsuspecting public...

as noted earlier I will need people to download the track within a specific timeframe in order to create enough hits for a critical mass to disseminate the thing- perhaps we should key this into the second-stage working so that when we recharge the thing it can key into a potentially huge number of human beans.

17:02 / 10.12.01

Flame: having trouble accessing the site - geocities says it should take an hour to fix. Will try again later.

17:30 / 10.12.01

the geocities thing is very temporary, until I can get it up on mp3.com (it's in the submission queue at the mo, and I refuse/can't afford the $20 per month they now ask for for the express service...)

When it's up on mp3.com I'll post the link for all, then every time someone listens to the track they create more potential for others to hear it, which is kind of groovy. Should also point out that any mp3.com cash generated by the Mangovibe will be ploughed back into advertising on mp3.com and generating further pagehits.

Plus I think I've successfully infected the BBC computer network with it. We're gonna cover the whole damn planet in mango juice.

12:49 / 12.12.01

With two days 'til the eclipse I thought I'd move this back up the page to remind everyone. Flame On - I couldn't access the song. OH, wait you've addressed that, never mind. I think working it into the second stage, if we can, is a great idea.

Zoom.

13:14 / 12.12.01

Good thinking, Captain Zoom! ('I've waited my whole life to say something like that...')

So what's the plan then? Are we just rerunning our original Peace Mango Programs ('Hell of a name for a band...') or do we do something different?

Mine may need to be adapted anyway - I'm off to a party on the 14th.

14:12 / 12.12.01

I had an interesting thought this morning, while I was explaining to my mom (of all things) how people participating in group consciousness activities create spiritual beings that unite their common ideals, and can act of their own. Relevant example, the recent rash of patriotism and displaying of US flags here strengthens the Spirit of America, so it can fight the Spirit of the Taliban and others in the middle east. Spiritual combat mirrors physical combat below, and vice versa (so below, as above, etc).

Group working like the peace Mango do the same. The image I had, was of these beings being affected by a similar offering, devouring it. I thought immediately of the peace Mango. You see, if you put up an offering of energy/food for these modern Gods, you could feed them. Now, what if you slipped them a mickey? Drug them? When they devour this energy, its content message will affect them.

So you see why I thought of the Mango. Its a food. But it contains a drug: peace. If the Gods in question stop to munch on our Mango, they'll become more complacent and peaceful. So, it works, if let alone, or devoured

Ok, so I'm just really keen on the whole idea of slipping drugs to Gods. Its beautiful!

Religion being the opiate of the masses, and all that.

14:17 / 12.12.01

The above analogy could also be slightly altered to give a new meaning to the term 'viral servitor'

19:08 / 12.12.01

Thanks Zoom! It is a good idea to keep this thread near the top right now. Flame, keep up the good work. I love it! I am not sure what he has planned but it will be good I am sure. You all are taking ownership of this and I am very happy to have played a part in the development. The way things go from here is anybody's guess.
I am going to be participating in the festivies on the 14th. Rex also made a suggestion of focusing The intent of Peace Mango/Transducer on a specific target. I am of the opinion that this is not the right time for this but I hope that this is something we could all think about for a future working.
As for how the ritual should proceed....I am not exactly sure if people agree but, I would like to proceed basically the same way as The first time. This time I am hoping to add the Mango music from Flame as it isvery catchy and I cannot get it out of my head!
Good Work Flame!

-May

19:26 / 12.12.01

velvetvandal - i've waited my entire life to hear something like that.

Zoom.

Solitaire Rose as Tom Servo

00:20 / 13.12.01

I'm in....what time on Friday?

03:08 / 13.12.01

quote: This time I am hoping to add the Mango music from Flame as it isvery catchy and I cannot get it out of my head!
Good Work Flame!
I have to totally agree with May and I'll be doing the same thing on the 14th. After hearing this song I couldn't get a goofy smile off of my face. I went out and got a mango smoothie and a joint (and I'm not really a smoker.) Then I had a thought. (don't we all after smoothies and joints?) Can eating/drinking Mango products feed The Peace Mango in the same way Milk and Cookies feed Gek? Probably not cause it wasn't included in the original program but hell, it wasn't originally a Mango! Besides the moon thing I think this food/offering connection will strengthen the PM significantly... I mean, every time you have a mango you'll think peace!

quote: Ok, so I'm just really keen on the whole idea of slipping drugs to Gods.
This idea is too brilliant to let go... I'd like to see this developed!

12:06 / 13.12.01

quote: every time you have a mango you'll think peace!

That's exactly it. Establishing that reflex response in one's own head or that of others is a good 'feeding' thing... I've been seeing mangoes everywhere and even my mp3 player is getting in on the act, playing the track 3 times in a row from a random playlist of 300+ tracks last night...

Wonder if I made it *too* catchy... heheh, no such thing

Will hook up into it tomorrow night for a boosting session. It's working....

edit- regarding the consumption of mango products, that's exactly what me and Meme Buggerer did on the 30th. Mango juice! oh, and guava seems to be good for some reason- Meme grabbed some on instinct and it has the greenish outside and reddish inside of the sigil, we noticed.

[ 13-12-2001: Message edited by: Flame On ]

12:25 / 13.12.01

I need another hit of that Mango Love Drug!!
-May

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