Six Of Swords Episode 3 - Staying With The Trouble: The Yoga of Persons in Magical Geographies - Featuring Brother Charles Barrie

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Six of Swords Episode 3 - Brother Charles Barrie

00:00:00 - Intro

00:01:45 - opening blessing (silence)

00:03:45 - Brother Charles gives his intro

00:04:30 - Yoga, Theosophy, Tantra, Pagan

00:06:30 - Landscape and Magic

00:07:15 - awareness of self is awareness of the environment

00:07:45 - Twilight Yoga

00:08:15 - Twilight as liminal - twilight language

00:10:00 - Charles' parents practices

00:10:45 - Wellington as a cosmopolitan city and plenty of practices available

00:11:45 - the human self and the total self - the ecological self

00:12:15 - have you ever had a full-blown kundalini awakening?

00:12:45 - different types of meaning for kundalini?

00:14:00 - the coil still functions as a coil but it's also open and radiating cosmic energy

00:14:15 - an interface with the more sublet dimensions of ourselves

00:15:00 - the purpose of the work is about how to engage with that system - simultaneously open and contain one's self - and carry that understanding the way we work with the world

00:16:00 - what's the purpose of this?

00:17:45 - The Secret History of the World and our idealist origins

00:18:00 - Tool - Reflection

00:18:30 - understanding that we are all part of that process

00:19:00 - an alchemical apotheotic apocalypse

00:20:30 - where does Freemasonry fit in to this?
00:21:00 - Freemasonry is very visible in New Zealand

00:21:15 - how far does it go back in your generations?

00:22:45 - Freemasonic lodges joining together

00:23:00 - Gisborne - complex history - Captain Cooke
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gisborne,_New_Zealand

00:23:30 - the twin streams of the European and Aboriginal

00:24:00 - Gisborne - known for sunshine and surfing (ohhhhh yeahhhh)

00:24:45 - shrimp or prawn?

00:25:45 - prawn is for the BBQ

00:26:30 - conscientious vs ecological

00:27:45 - more on Masonry in New Zealand with Charles

00:28:45 - Charles and I are the same age - both 1984 babies

00:29:45 - Charles says he was an Inner Guard

00:30:30 - Charles talks about taking time off from Freemasonry

00:31:00 - Charles was taking a Maori language class (very. cool.)

00:32:00 - Maori had shared ancestry a few other Pacific peoples

00:33:30 - there are different centers which teach Maori in more or less specificity

00:34:00 - how to say Maori the right way

00:35:00 - the 'Easter Island heads'

00:35:30 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pounamu

00:36:15 - Maori are known for wood carving, beautiful songs, poetry, and plays

00:37:15 - ancestors, metaphysical beings, landscape beings are topics

00:38:00 - meeting houses named after parts of the body, beautiful carvings and woven mats

00:39:00 - Maori inspired Masonic Lodge

00:41:30 - the personality of a place of worship

00:42:00 - similarity to Solomon's Temple

00:42:45 - importance of staying with the trouble that has happened in New Zealand

00:44:00 - rivers being granted personhood and animism in the law

00:45:00 - Marcus Matawhero Lloyd

00:46:00 - are you finding that there are more of your MPs that are amenable?

00:47:15 - more politicians need to move on past scientific materialism

00:48:00 - What's your favorite strain of weed?

00:49:00 - Are you a saliva or an induce kind of guy?

00:49:30 - attitudes and politics towards cannabis are changing in New Zealand

00:50:00 - what's the politics of weed in New Zealand?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aotearoa_Legalise_Cannabis_Party

00:51:00 - still fairly archaic (we have that here, too)

00:51:30 - drug problems in New Zealand

00:52:00 - meth is a problem (period.)

00:53:00 - responsible cannabis use is a solution to a lot of things

00:53:30 - New Zealand as a bread basket of the Empire in Colonial Era

00:54:00 - deforestation for pastureland in New Zealand

00:55:45 - New Zealand is Temperate and Regional Subtropical

00:56:00 - rare flowers and planets in New Zealand
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C5%8Dwhai

00:57:30 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clianthus

00:58:00 - goat rabbit = grabbit

00:59:00 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carmichaelia

01:00:00 - Mantras - Shiva mantras, Ganesh mantras

01:02:45 - Shiva the Cosmic Dancer/The Yoga of Time Travel

01:05:00 - https://www.yogananda-srf.org/
https://www.ananda.org/free-inspiration/books/autobiography-of-a-yogi/?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIypfc39ij4AIVieDICh3JGQCREAAYAiAAEgIjJvD_BwE

01:05:45 - The Holy Science - https://www.amazon.com/Holy-Science-Swami-Sri-Yukteswar/dp/161427455X

01:07:00 - karmic links between our relationships

01:08:00 - the stream of events and metaphysical causality

01:08:15 - what about past-lives and current relationships?

01:09:00 - yogis sending their consciousnesses through time

01:09:30 - all universe is one single substance

01:10:30 - tracking consciousness down and up the line

01:11:00 - where does the consciousness go to?

01:11:30 - what do you think synchronicity is?

01:12:00 - ritual possession and consciousness

01:12:30 - things have already come in to their being in their future states

01:13:00 - synchronicity and déjà vu

01:15:15 - what is music to you

01:16:00 - ephemeral music and songs that can be talismanic

01:17:15 - Munis - Cosmic musician traveling through time and space

01:18:45 - musicing with each other all of the time (Disposition)

01:19:45 -Ganesh and Charles' experience with him

01:21:15 - Origin of Ganesh
01:22:00 - Parvati is in the bath, Shiva wants to get in to see her…

01:23:00 - why an elephant's head?

01:25:30 - different names of Parvati

01:26:30 - Mercury and Kundalini

01:28:45 - good Ganesh foundation?

01:29:30 - book about Ganesh - Tantra: The Path of Ecstasy
https://www.amazon.com/Tantra-Path-Ecstasy-Georg-Feuerstein/dp/157062304X

01:31:00 - books of tantra related to Ganesh

01:32:00 - when the student is ready the teacher appears - guru principle

01:33:00 - Stanislav Grof

01:33:30 - https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0874775388/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i1

01:34:30 - random Secret History of the World page - p 214-215

01:36:45 - Moses having a psychedelic experience

01:37:30 - What are gods?

01:39:00 - can they possess you?

01:39:45 - we can prepare our vessel to allow rather large consciousnesses in to us

01:40:45 - Charles' Shiva experience

01:41:30 - how old do you want to be when you die?

01:43:30 - what is your favourite film?

01:45:00 - Aliens or interdimensionals?

01:50:00 - waters above, waters below - world in a womb

01:52:00 - different sheathes of our being

01:53:00 - hyperthickness and space travel

01:53:30 - Charles' aversion to space travel - there's no Planet B

01:54:45 - the more we understand our actual nature, the less we're going to want to focus on space travel

01:56:00 - wrap up, local community projects - p_gnosis on twitter

01:56:30 - Charles' band - Subset BC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=In8RPR6W1qU

01:58:45 - "Try not to freak out."

Addendum - Charle' Shownotes Links ^^

Books on yoga and tantra I would recommend:
Mysticism in the 21st Century 2nd Ed. by Connell R. Monette -  The chapter on Tantra
Aghora: At the left hand of God - Robert Svoboda (or anything else by him!)
Tantra: The path of ecstasy - Georg Feuerstein
From the river of heaven - David Frawley
Tools for Tantra - Harish Johari
Apolcalyptic Witchcraft - Peter Grey

Understanding what humans actually AM:
Secret Body - Dr. Jeff Kripal
Star.Ships - Gordon White
How Forests Think - Eduardo Kohn
Voice of the Fire - Alan Moore

Understanding how to live on this Earth:
The Biggest Estate on Earth - Bill Gammage
Inheritors of the Earth - Chris D. Thomas
Retrosuburbia - David Holmgren

Staying with the trouble in Aotearoa New Zealand:
Ka Whawhai Tonu Matou, Struggle without end - Ranginui Walker
Go Ask that Mountain - Dick Scott
Nga Uruora - Geoff Park

My Masters Thesis which explores the place of humans in landscape - The Emergence of Collective Dreams: An exploration of community development based collaborative landscape design, is here:  http://researcharchive.vuw.ac.nz/handle/10063/2734

 Subset BC:
Attached are a couple of live improv recordings that might have something you like.
You can see Subset BC live here:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=In8RPR6W1qU

A couple of other bands I played bass in before Subset

Bella Cajon - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdLdUg6PZJE
Bazealand - traditional and modern/fusian Brazilian music -  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbWJDTw3yjA