Date: Wed, 5 Nov 1997 15:51:31 -0800
Subject: Return of the Thundermouth: More Near-Adventures In Shamanism
Boo!
*Return of the Thunderbeings* that I'm reading is by Iron Thunderhorse
and Donn La VIe, Jr. BTW. Bear and Co. pubishers of course. I recommend
to borrow it and look at pictures... Okay, I'm a poor critic, everything
in the world sucks and I'm about to pull the Odinsword :-)
Of course I have to beg to differ with the interpretive style here,
there is an illustration on pg 124. of the Mannikin Scepter; the icon is
a common theme in Maya-Aztec iconography I presume.
Version B looks and sounds like that little holographic subdouble of a
patient for using as a holographic guinea pig for medicine evaluation.
The demarcation of what I conditionally infer to be the nasal
magnetotactic is particularly interesting.
It doesn't look like that outright, but it's a multiple icon. With some
jellybird I last saw in some Druid drawings of a sacred site and the
winged
football in the St. Germaine (Not the alchemical count) Tarot.
Typical of the ancients it's worth a few thousand words. But basically
that's what I think it's applicable to...
Not that a witch or any other Cartesian riser wouldn't get filed under
the theme of "Emergence" either (Oh, so it comes in Egyptian does
it?)... :-)
Yeah, and Jaws of the Sky, what with the Corn-Underworld guy, not really
different than Cere's Icon-ensemble...
(And if I have it right, they have nothing nice to say about ducks...
they're blaming the entire human condition on influenza, like we've
never thought of it. Not much deadlier, in the short run. Just
incredibly meddlesome with human potential I think) But I usually feel
like asking people to believe that is like asking them to believe the
moon is made of green cheese. There, my straightjackets all ironed, I'm
putting it on... but I'm stashing a copy of the "Awakenings" video in it's folds and muttering to myself the secret reference to American Anthropologist magazine where an article has a Navaho called "Blue Eyes" saying something equally disturbing and incredible that may be the same thing in so many words…
But I still don't trust anything that doesn't echo when it quacks... :-)
Probably just getting arrogant now that having drawn the same auric
diagram over and over with notes and circles and arrows some years ago,
and guess what turned up in the first fifteen minutes of websearching
Kirlian? Right, someone took a picture of that very thing. Looks like
two lighter areas around the throat chakra.
Off to rest or think or something, and suddenly craving cheese...
Best and better...
Peace!
Chronos Apollonios // ChroniApolloni@webtv.net ~~The World Seed Fund,
c/o Abundant Life Seed Foundation, PO Box 772, 1029 Lawrence St., Port
Townsend, WA 98368~~Rex Research, PO Box 19250, Jean, NV 89109
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Date: Wed, 5 Nov 1997 16:34:50 -0800
Subject: Phantom Pain Cures
Hello.
You know, it's not like I've tried aspirin or feverfew for this myself.
...But I actually ran into my copy of Maria Treben's "Health From God's
Garden".
Presented here as fuel for contemplation of the deeper mysteries: (pg
107)
"PHANTOM LIMB PAINS:
o Comfrey Root Poultices
Take a teaspoon of powdered comfrey root, add a cupful of hot water and
a few drops of vegetable oil, and stir the mixture well until smooth.
Apply this paste to a clean linen cloth while it is still warm and lay
the cloth on the amputation stump*. Apply a fresh poultice as soon as
the paste becomes cool
*[Chroni: Or a tree stump, or a stumped listmember on Arcana]
o Iris* Root Tea
Iris roots should be collected in autumn, because that is when they are
at their best. Wash them thoroughly under running water with a brush and
hang them up to dry. When they are completely dry, reduce them to powder
in a coffee grinder.
Soak one teaspoon full of this powder in 1 pt (1/2 l) of cold water
for twelve hours, then heat the infusions up gently and strain it. Make
the tea last the whole day, taking small sips at regular intervals. It's
a good idea to keep it in a pre-warmed thermos.
*[Chroni: That's OSiris to you, lady]
o Onion Tincture
Onion tincture is also helpful for dealing with troublesome phantom limb
pains. You can buy it in health food and herbalist's shops, but it can
also be made at home very easily.
Fill a glass bottle with freshly-cut onion rings and add enough
38-40% grain alcohol to cover them completely. Leave the sealed bottle
to stand inn a warm place for at least two weeks. Apply this onion
tincture directly to the amputation stump several times a day.
o Thyme Baths
Soak a generous handful of theyme in 1 gal (5 l) of cold water for
twelve hours, then heat up the infusion gently and strain it into your
bathwater. Bathe the stump for twenty minutes, repeating the process
three times a week.
o Thyme and Club Moss Compresses
Fill a pillowcase wtih equal quantities of thyme and club moss-- 3 to 5
oz. (100-150g) of each--heat it up gently in the oven and apply it to
the amputation stump, leaving it on overnight.
[Chroni: can you catch club moss actually looking like a stump?]
Which reminds me, you can send the money you saved on this book to: The
"Buy Chroni A Kirlian Camera By Christmas" Fund, c/o...
Better yet, buy her book, it's good…
Peace!
Chronos Apollonios // ChroniApolloni@webtv.net ~~The World Seed Fund,
c/o Abundant Life Seed Foundation, PO Box 772, 1029 Lawrence St., Port
Townsend, WA 98368~~Rex Research, PO Box 19250, Jean, NV 89109
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Date: Wed, 5 Nov 1997 20:38:04 -0800
Subject: Herbal Garble
Hi
I added Astragalus to my regimen a couple days ago, I sounded like a
textbook case for the stuff.
Having a horrible time finding specific information like dosage and
contraindications, and noticed for the first time that Michael Tierra's
*Planetary Herbology" maybe excellent in every other respect, but the
*CI's* aren't there and the Dosages have gotta be fiction. Grams per
day? Eeek!
Seems like ginseng so far, except without silliness which was also
implied for the product. I'm @500 mg/ day actually, and I notice alot of
positive effects but I'm getting the fatigue-fighting power.
I can tell I'll be hearing more about it, I already have seed from James
L. Hudson, Seedsman to grow my own next year, and so on, but good info
seems hard to find.
None of the chemical info makes much sense either.
Bubbles down to either substituting betony or the same weird
polysacharide rap that came up for Echinacea coneflower and never
straightened itself out.
Can anyone point me in the right direction of responsible medical use of
Astragalus?
Incidentally, Steven Foster in "Herbal Emissaries..."
brings up the need for attention to see if there are indigenous American
specie outside of the ones which are toxic locoweeds.
I'm wondering if the common name "membranous milk vetch" might point
more in the direction of actual milk vetches, Vicia sp.?
On a probably unrelated note, (dunno, maybe Astragalus and Betony are
fire society medicines, Yarrow is *full* of betaine and stuff, is...one
gaba ref for Astragalus I don't quite believe...but...) all that
babbling about nervous systems turned inside out energetically has me
looking at Doorweed again for a number of reasons. I wouldn't be
surprised if its a fire-society herb/ heat protective/ fire retardant
kind of thing...
But yeah, it's obviously understated that the Sacred Doorway has
concerns not just connected to the spread of disease, but of fire as
well. It might be worth wondering about any of the traditional
doorbluings in such a respect. A potentizer for Anti-fire magic?
Doorweed has very interesting signatures in this department, and I'll
let you know next time I Didn't accidentally scorch my tongue on coffee
after lotus candy...
Here at the Chronos Institute for Leaving No Stone Unturned, we Leave No
Stone Unturned.
Peace!
Chronos Apollonios // ChroniApolloni@webtv.net ~~The World Seed Fund,
c/o Abundant Life Seed Foundation, PO Box 772, 1029 Lawrence St., Port
Townsend, WA 98368~~Rex Research, PO Box 19250, Jean, NV 89109
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Date: Thu, 6 Nov 1997 17:52:57 -0800
Subject: St. Columba's Plant
Hello.
Yup, St. Johnsworts has quite a rep dunnit? I just wish I was sure it
was to eat like candy... It's kind of funny that many people suffer
depression too... what are they sick to death of the status quo?
Well, anyway, I saw something on the chemistry, about an active molecule
that sounded like it might be in the bis-anthracenes like in Knotgrass/
Buckwheat.
So I'm going to try to repeat here something I posted a long time ago
for those who haven't guessed all the secrets of the entire universe are
already in the Occulthaven archive...
The idea was that the molecule may be able to chelate, and then lose
Iron (?) in some form like exotic matter or Kushi iron (same thing)
whose inclusion in hemoglobin might prevent the red blood cell from
being degraded before it can mature into a white blood cell.
St. Johnswort is notable for testing in AIDS research.
The Doctorine of Signatures strongly implies this about Knotgrass and
its cousin buckwheat. A long story, and a use of the Doctorine to a
depth as *unusual* as the depth of layered meaning attributable to the
works of the ancient poet Kallimachos.
Of which it's interesting that St. Johnswort has perfoliations *like
little windows*...
Would a *primitive/ pagan* really need a chemist to confirm this?
And this implies of the magical properties?
I await confirmation that St. Johnswort has substance abuse fighting
power since the little pinholes might be signatory of several types of
dependancy. (oh, wow, dude you're supposed to clean out the seeds first.
wazzat a silk shirt? bummer!) but I've already heard from people
getting... er, very happy on it? Wouldn't try it at home, but you
know...
Also heard talk about outlawing and regulating it, rather odd for a
plant that is probably virtually everywhere.
Now you know me and St. Columba, he's Lugh of the Celts, and the cognate
for divination of medicines for particular patients by buoyancy,
since he was the only one of his siblings who survived the ordeal of
drowning at birth.
I really will have to contemplate more reason for the connection, that's
a good challenging riddle. A panacea is it, or it *does something to*
other herbs?
Of course the last thing I remember Knotgrass telling me personally
before Kallimachos butted in was that you can't be pro-life and
anti-gay-rights at the same time, since couples regardless of
orientation will need adequate resources to assume the responsibility of
adoption, and the alternative may then be abortion.
It was funny I hadn't thought of that before.
As many devout Christians know, that's insane, isn't it?
Well, p*ss on the Saints, I now hereby dedicate St. Johnsworts to Lugh.
Lughswort. So there.
(And I can Do that, I'm an Apollonian priest.)
Off to embrace the Mysteries...
Peace!
Chronos Apollonios // ChroniApolloni@webtv.net ~~The World Seed Fund,
c/o Abundant Life Seed Foundation, PO Box 772, 1029 Lawrence St., Port
Townsend, WA 98368~~Rex Research, PO Box 19250, Jean, NV 89109
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Date: Thu, 6 Nov 1997 21:28:38 -0800
Subject: Tarot Questions
Hello.
I while ago, I smoked some Mugwort and whipped out some Tarot cards. I
haven't done That for so long I couldn't even remember the Celtic Cross
layout but it comes back to ya quick, dunnit?
Since I have, monk-like, foresworn from telling
fortunes of material gains and all of that (giggle),
and since thousands of people including Andrew Weil and Stanley Krippner
have written me as a result of my postings on Divination of Medicines By
Buoyancy, tillated and yet perplexed beyond belief (more giggling--well,
okay, I Wish they'd wrote) at this ancient wisdom that threatens to take
most of the stupidity out of modern medicine once and for all,
promptly...
...I have decided there is no reason that Medical Divination cannot take
the form of Divination more Accustomed.
So I ask ye ole deck, what's up with St. Johnswort.
The significator was the ten of swords. St. Johnswort having a
perfoliated or perforated leaf, ten swords is about as perforated as you
can get.
Crowned with the Ace of Swords inverted, it is suggested that it is more
effective at lower doses.
I have been told this often as a fact.
So I ask *Why does Astragalus start working like a wonderdrug for me and
two days later it's not doing jack sh*t, dick, nada, zip, zilch?*. The
significator, the inverted Ace of Rods refers to false starts. A further
card meaning stagnation may mean your truly Apolloni is a God of
Stagnant Chi Incarnate.
The two of cups appears in a postion to suggest there is something to be
taken with it, synergistically.
So I ask ye ole deck, what's up with Echinacea? The significator is the
Hanged man. Interesting for a plant who is uprooted for use of the
roots.
Now I know this is pretty darn good, I'm patting myself on the back, in
fact...
...but it dawns on me that a lot of this is still very loose. It's going
to take me some time to decode all of this... and I think I may have to
do Alot more readings before I get a good grasp of what all the cards
can communicate here and how... there still *isn't* a card whose
divinatory meaning is *Your liver*, period.
...and I'm wondering if it would be better to assign arbitrary values to
the cards first, or if I should just keep working it and see what they
tell me the are in the long run and the bigger picture...
...and still mystified enough I'd be delighted to hear input from others
on how this might take shape...
...or, well... anyone else ever heard of doing this? I never assume I'm
the first to think of anything...
Your shuffling shaman,
Peace!
Chronos Apollonios // ChroniApolloni@webtv.net ~~The World Seed Fund,
c/o Abundant Life Seed Foundation, PO Box 772, 1029 Lawrence St., Port
Townsend, WA 98368~~Rex Research, PO Box 19250, Jean, NV 89109
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