Post Midterm Lecture Flashcards
Lodges
rising of witch hunts, science
Covens
rise shifts to formal lodges
H.O.G.D.
Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn
- oldest organization
- came trough germany
- occult scientist
- upper class educated phenomenon
- driven by the elite
- occult influenced art
- very few women
- Crowley
Aleister Crowley
- considered left hand path - very shocking person at the time - the important would be involved in the H.O.G.D. not peasants - Crowley into sex magic, controlling power very philosophically (India, Eastern countries) - he joined the h.o.g.d. - ceremonial magic(k)fans, very ritual and specific - - very big ego. - get kicked out from the golden dawn
O.T.O.
Order of the Temple of the Orient
- much older occult, old roots in Europe
-still around today and somewhat similar
- Crowley then join O.T.O. and become very popular
-very bitter rivalry b/w O.T.O. and H.O.G.D. because of Crowley- tried to go back to H.O.G.D. and “coo” them
-don’t use name in golden dawn, crowley get his revenge by publishing secret occult knowledge of h.o.g.d. (brought to court) .. you can still find papers with crowley’s name
THELMA : rules and book of the O.T.O.
Goddess worshipper
- started in U.S.A. 1960 & 1970
- same time as many social movements ( Gay liberalism, black power, QC movement)
- Feminist movement looking at mainstream religion
- W.I.C.C.A. = Women in Constant Creative Action
- W.I.T.C.H. = Womens International Terrorist Conspiracy from Hell
Prudence Preese
founder of W.I.T.C.H.
- political movements
- 1960-1970 in QC, FLQ and October crisis
Marija Gimbutas
- scholar
- Anthropologist and archeologist
- Women entered study
- Poetry ( could tell if from male or women based community)
- goddess rather than just god
- one of key researcher in ancient goddess
Mary Daly
- Went to Boston University “ Roman Catholic “
- gets her Tenyear
- starts saying there is no position for women in judaism and christianity
- writes her texts almost like poetry (very hard to understand)
- ” Beyond God the Father “, “The Church and the Second Sex” - 2 main books
- Get radical and starts talking about women as witches ( women should make their own religion “uncontrolled women” -would justify herself as a witch - started to think of God as a women)
Z. Budapest
- Immigrates to U.S.A. because of communism ( San Francisco) late 60’s
- Open up feminist book story and occult stuff
- Start designing a women centered goddess
- writing spiritual system for JUST women (don’t care about men at all)
- cursing ritual for rapist
- made up system of goddess worships
- called their religion Dianic ( from goddess Diana)
Morgan McFarland & Mark Roberts
- involved in feminist movements
- lived on communs “hippies”
- interested in social and environmental change
- they came up with their own goddess worshippers
- men have a role now
- socialist equalitarian worshippers
- call their spirituality Diana
- more conservative
Starhawk
- get involved in whole new religion “Wicca”
- social activist (L.A.)
- Involved in inccults ( goes to Z. Budapest’s store / they come up with a collective )
- Starhawk and many other men and women start other spirituality “Reclaiming” ( hold rituals and gatherings)
- still active today
- Starhawk is not the founder..
- wrote books about it
Pagan(us)
Neo pagan: the young pagan or reborn
- not as emotionally loaded as witch
- > means somebody who lives in the country
- practice pre-christian practices from somewhere in Europe
- considered new religion
Wicca
also call themselves witches or NeoPagan
Starhawk was already studying wicca
- wiccan are polytheist
- celtic faiths (British Isle)
Asatru
- recognized as state religion in Iceland
- WHAT THE HELL ?!*
- Scandinavian and Germanic
- Someone who practices Asatryr
- written language
- Pantheistic
- use lunar calendar
- practice magic mostly for healing
Druids
practiced druidry
- composing and speaking traditions - this was crushed when the romans showed up.
- druids came back & restructured what they thought b/c nothing had been written/ all oral
- Elite people
Alexandre Sander ( Alexandrian's ) * gotta remember my damn name *
- dies early 80’s
- high magic ( ritualized )
Electic
Mix/Blend, wiccans, don’t go though initiation with a coven
- a bit of everything
- do what works for them
- popular in North America
Charles Arnold
* HEY ARNOLD * :D
- ran a coven, canadian, electric Alexandrian
- 1980s first time canadian said wicca was a religion
- illegal to practice modern satanism in prison (b/c you practice what is in your best interest)
Gerald B Garden ( Garnerian)
studies wicca….?
supplication
Relationship where you do something to heal or get a favour to god
- you pray to…
- hoping it is pleasing and answers
Magic(K)al
Operating your actions to make change not god
Shamanic
Not hierarchical
ex. praying to the deer ( supplication)
- equal to equal or spirit to spirit connection
- ex. my family is hungry and i will honour your sacrifice
- every individual has its right and equal
Shaman- Tungus (siberia)
-someone who masters or speaks to spirits
intercessor
Asking someone to pray on your behalf
Semiotics
The study of signs & symbols
Candle spell
- reason
- colour
- intent :
- personalize (marking it) - write name/D.O.B./zodiac
- Symbolic ( ex. food) - Dress with oil
- Speak spell
Mezmer
Doctor that learnt a new technique
- moving the blood with magnets
- “animal magnitism”
- not what politicians have but medical matter
- he starts teaching his technique ( get patient to lower, calmer state.. relax)
Marquis de Puysegur
one of Mesmer’s disciples
- he was easy to be put in relax state
- ** MAKE HIM WALK AROUND LIKE A FUCKING CHICKEN **
Braid
-goes to the puysegur cliniques
-brings the term “hypnose” (hyper relaxed, can’t hypnotize someone who doesn’t want to )
- you can do surgery under hypnose
you can’t make anybody do something that they would not do if they were not hypnotized.
ASC
Altered states of consciousness ( daydreaming)
- sleep = unconscious
- Costco syndrome : disrupts your state of awareness
EHE
Extraordinary Human Experience
ex. me.. passing the final
OBE
Out of body experience
NDE
Near Death Experience
Phase & shift
- science based
- accepted in Western society (ex. sitting,standing..)
- all humain beings go b/w phase & shift ( have to go trough neutral)
- meditation would always be in shift
- daydreaming is in shift
- drugs may induce shift faster or make it longer perhaps
- north American societies never stop/pause so we don’t shift as much
- Harry S. - walking in someone’s dream that is in shift
Possession
VS
Trance
possession : you remember NOTHING
Trance : you remember EVERYTHING unless they don’t want you to (hypnose)
Possession
recognized in most culture & societies around the world
- in our culture : being possessed by the muse ( not a spirit but an action.. music, painting)
- willing and unwilling ppl can be possessed (cursed, in the way)
- some societies consider possession as a gift, blessing
Speaking in tongue
willing possession by an angel or person of that religion
- can happen to more than one person
Syncretic
Traces of other religion in “larger” religion
ex. there is judaism in christianity
why are ppl unwillingly possessed?
DEVIL, SAAAATAN
What can you be possessed by?
6666666
- Incarnatity : spirit that had or has a body
- sometime accidental,evil eye.
ex. western societies : sudden death syndrome - Discarnate: never had a body
ex. Devil - Forces of nature
- not as common in North America
- nature can act up.. (volcano, Tsunami, Earthquake)
- non conscious thought
- not long (1-2 day)
- will not eat or sleep, not rational
Sincretic religions
Santeria = Spanish Roman Catholic + Yoruba Voudon = French Roman Catholic + Kongo
voudon
ppl willingly possessed but have trained for years in the system and religion
- French Roman Catholic + Kongo
- comes from Haiti
- spreads to Santeria Cuba
Santeria religion
similar to Voudon ( willing possession)
- Spanish Roman Catholic + Yoruba
- referred to as Orishas
Bite of Benin
Western Africa
- slavery
- they thought they weren’t humans
- stealing humans
- once they were sold to slavers they weren’t humans anymore
- only thing that saved them was believe
- started making common language
CUBA & Hispaniola
- islands they brought the slaves to
- where they bought their goods ( produced sugar)
- when they finally got out of holes… they were baptized by christians.
- killed if they spoke of believed in their gods.
Santeria
worshipped by SATAN
- orisha = lesser divine figures (cuba & Dominican Republic)
- represented by white and gold
Zommmmmbiesssss
- proven that there is zombification
- founded by Dr. Wade Davis (canadian)
- ethnobotany (plants)
- illegal to zombify ppl
Fugu fish
- powder from the “Poison” = Zombie Powder
- Removes the higher consciousness
- degrades brain (with time)
Who got zombified ?
- mostly male
- annoying ppl (Nasty)
- isolated community (rural)
- present as dead
- acts like mule, kept away from ppl
- eventually will never come back to full functionality ( Kills brain cells)
