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14:36 / 06.06.02

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18:42 / 07.06.02

Hmm, sorry I missed ya Bear and Angel. Nice 2 c Gozer and co again. Oh and Mr Ed was also there for a bit too. Anyways, I'll def be there next time.

13:12 / 08.06.02

It was nice. Luke Skywalker as the fool, Han Solo as the magician, the usual self referential cleverness that makes magic what it is.

Fundamental archetypes of myth, always fun. You could do the same thing to the Invisibles, X-men or Chopper chicks from Zombie town, but probably not as well.

Never seen Steve Wilson before. Reminds me a bit of the 'Ultimate Magus' from the Nemesis the Warlock VS Deadlock story. (that sounds so geeky.)

11:07 / 14.06.02

Is the Cthulhu mythos meeting at the same place as the Star Wars one?

12:16 / 14.06.02

Yes.

gozer the destructor

13:05 / 14.06.02

What what what? Tell me, tell me...what Cthulhu thing?

14:33 / 14.06.02

Sayz on the flyer -

The Cthulhu Mythos as a pratical Magical System

Tom is secretary of the London Carpocratian Gnostic Group, writer, artist and comedienne, with a lifelong interest in the occult and in HP Lovercraft. Tonight, she will endeavour to show that Lovecrafts Great Old ones ar enot fiction but fact, and that the Cthulhu mythos can be used as the basis for a very effective and pratical system of magic. But, be very careful.....

She, Tom? Anyway thats what it says.

15:50 / 19.06.02

Not going, but just what to remind people that this is tonight if anyone is interested.

15:52 / 19.06.02

I'll be there, maybe see some of ya's?

16:41 / 19.06.02

Too tired to get to this one. Too tired to remember what the frequency of these meets is (are?).

Maybe the next one?!!? Can someone tell me what it'll be about, please?

Going home to bed and sleep!

Night!

14:11 / 05.07.02

If anyone is interested I posted details about another night out, it can be found in the Gathering.

15:09 / 30.07.02

*bump*

This wednesday, i.e. tomorrow, the talk is on Magick and Surrealism. I'll be there by 8.00; maybe see some of you's?

22:19 / 30.07.02

I will be trying to make it to this one, honest!

Although given it's quarter to midnight and I am still at work, I may just fall over in a heap, then again I might get my second wind - who knows?

Anyway, I'll do my best to be there. Can whoever is going keep an eye out for me as (believe it or not) I'm acutally quite shy and will run away again if I can't recognise anyone, although I will try to pluck up courage to loiter so as to be spotted more easily.

12:30 / 31.07.02

Hope to see ya there, Angel. And the rest of you London magickal possee, too. Come on, you know you love it. (You can tell the speaker's a mate of mine can't ya?!)

12:37 / 31.07.02

i keep missing these meetings, mostly due to finding out about them at the last minute. if anyone who goes along tonight could get ahold of/post up a programme of events, it would be much appreciated.

13:06 / 31.07.02

see you there...

SFD...SC meetings are every other Wednesday...It's pretty hit or miss on the quality of each talk but it's usually worth keeping the dates free as the company is always fine...the last one i went to was exellent and as Posters says tonights will be pretty good 2...

13:07 / 31.07.02

and i'll get hold of a programme to post up tonight...

11:31 / 01.08.02

Great to see you's all. 'Fraid I didn't see a programme though...

13:51 / 01.08.02

Yeah, nice to see folks- the evening looked to be dissolving into Jim Morrison-esque boozy chaos as I left, with Ghadis near the epicentre, foam-ropes spilling from the mouths of nearby debaters, going on about Freud and surrealism or somesuch

gozer the destructor

15:46 / 09.08.02

Damn, now that does sound intresting, sorry I couldn't make it bill, when's the next one and whats it about?

12:47 / 10.08.02

Nay worries sah, the next one this wednesday, details in the other thread.

gozer the destructor

23:41 / 14.08.02

Well who else was there?

08:21 / 16.08.02

Hey Gozer!

Good to see you around again!

I didn't make it, although I really wanted to. I had to go see the closing night of "The Birds" at the National, as I hadn't got my act together to see it earlier and friends who were in it would have beencrushed it I hadn't made the effort. Sigh1

Was it good? Interesting? Informative? I would love to hear about it, as death and death rituals is something I am toying with to build some performance/es around.

10:35 / 16.08.02

Missed it due to evil workload. Will try to make the next one though.

gozer the destructor

11:50 / 16.08.02

Hmm, you didn't really miss that much, the woman who did the talk just basically read out a list of customs (ranging from the obvious ie covering mirrors, to the pointless ie covering water jugs so the escaping sould doesn't drown) then concluded with the 'death meditation', which I laughed at all the way through. Well I tell a lie i tried to start it but when she said' try to imagine your eye balls melting into your brain' i had to open my eyes and chuckle only to see about five other people doing the same thing. Some how i couldn't get my concentration back after that.

Groans all round really.

However i will be going to the next one because surely no one can make discordia boring...can they?

Revolving megapope indeed!!

13:13 / 16.08.02

Hmmm, not so much died laughing as laughed dying...

Indeed, the next one dang well oughta be good.

11:28 / 28.08.02

Dunno if I can make tonight now but I thought I'd give this thread a bump anyway.

11:47 / 28.08.02

Gozer, are you going to make it along to this one???

I should probably go home to bed, but I'm thinking maybe I could pop along if others were going to be there!

12:27 / 28.08.02

This is someone from your crew tonight isn't it Bill or at least they were talking about it, so is anyone going is it tonight (Wednesday) at 19:00?

13:42 / 28.08.02

Its certainly the sort of thing that would appeal to my lot. But I don't think I know Ian, unless we've met interwebnetically. I want to be there but I am feeling blimmin rough so I doubt you'll see me tonight folks. Have fun though, if you go, and let us know how the talk was if you don't get to pished to remember the details.

15:53 / 06.05.05

Latest info:

Wednesday 18th May: Gareth Medway - The Exorcism of Robin Hood's Grave

Gareth is a Priest of Themis, intrepid scholar/historian of the occult and
perverse author of "The Lure of the Sinister", a study of the hysterias and
moral panics surrounding Satanism (NY University Press). Tonight he will
tell how fate, the Gods and circumstances led him to do arcane and perhaps
desecratory things on a Yorkshire hilltop.

Wednesday 1st June: Jacqui Woodward-Smith - Sex and Death: The Real Love
Goddesses

Jacqui is a Priestess of Avalon, working with the Ancient Goddesses of the
British Isles, and yet a mere novice in the mysteries of love! Undaunted,
though, she will talk tonight about the often veiled faces of the Celtic
Love Goddesses, particularly Blodeuwedd and Rhiannon.

Wednesday 15th June: Liz Gale - Adventures of a Gardnerian High Priestess

Liz has been a Wiccan High Priestess in the Gardnerian tradition for many
years, as well as being a Reiki Master, a practitioner of Tarot and and
Reflexologist. Each tradition of magick has its own practices, protocols and
prohibitions and tonight she will offer some insights into those of Wicca
from her years as a High Priestess, many of them working with the recently
deceased Harry Greenfield.

The Secret Chiefs meets fortnightly on Wednesday evenings (or occasionally
Thursday or Friday) upstairs at the Devereux public house (20 Devereux
Court, off Essex Street, London, WC2). Nearest tube is Temple. Meet from 7pm
and the talk starts at 8.30pm. Admission is £2 (£1 concs). All are welcome.

Dances with Gophers

14:57 / 19.05.05

Thanks Bill! With any luck I'll get to Liz's talk should be interesting. Pity I can't make Jaqui's or Gareths as they should be interesting as well.

22:49 / 19.05.05

"Jacqui is a Priestess of Avalon, working with the Ancient Goddesses of the British Isles, and yet a mere novice in the mysteries of love!"

Ms Woo-Woo-Smith a 'novice'. What nonsense. She's keen as mustard on the mysteries of love. Keen, I say, keen.

Dances with Gophers

16:04 / 08.07.05

Next Secret Chiefs, 15/7/05 is Jack Gale, Carole Hart & Jaqui Wodward-Smith on "The Gnome and Poetess". The 27/7 & 10/8 are TBC no details. 24/8 is Nathaniel J Harris on Hereditary Witchcraft.

LEMC, next is on 13/9/05 the invention of sacred places by Bob Trubshaw. 27/9 is David Rankine on the angelic legacy of John Dee, which is probably the only one I'll get to for the rest of the year. More details when I get them!

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