Trauma has an effect on the subconscious mind and it explains a lot of things we don’t understand on the surface. People are more likely to stay in groups that traumatize them in some way like friends that make mean jokes or organizations that abuse their members behind the scenes. They are also more likely to form closer bonds with people they experience traumatic experiences with. Even in the context of some magical practices, giving blood or self-injurious behaviors are sometimes used to bring manifestations.

The reason for this goes back to survival, and because it draws upon the abilities and The God Of Fear And Hunger. Even animal sacrifice or human sacrifice is traumatic to a person who performs it which would explain why they are such common tropes around the world. You obviously should not do anything to harm yourself or others, but performing tasks you would rather not, eating spicy food, or using trauma to manifest will bring results.

Once upon a time, there was an elderly man coming home from the grocery store who went to unlock his door. To his surprise, the lock would not accept his key and he was greeted by a strange woman that claimed the house was hers. The man had been living there and was not a landlord, so he was unsure how the woman was able to steal his house in such a short time. Before he could make any conclusions, an identical woman runs up to him from behind and steals his wallet and car keys from his pocket before starting his car impossibly fast and driving away before he could even move. He was furious, and before the woman could close the door, he put his foot inside and forced himself in. The furniture and rooms were completely different, as if someone had been living there for years. He quickly grabbed the shotgun hanging above the fireplace and shot the woman, but he just managed to remove her arm and chased at him seemingly unfazed by the injury. She would smile at him with sharp teeth and scream “This is my house now!” and attempt to bite his head. The man dodged and hit the woman in the mouth with the butt of his gun, managing to break some of the woman’s teeth, but they just grew back out in seconds like the teeth of a shark.

The man got away from the woman by running into the other parts of the house, but he quickly got lost because the layout of the home was impossibly large and entirely different from before. He had long hallways like a hotel and rooms like abandoned buildings, with windows that looked out into mysterious black stone. He ran as he reloaded his gun also trying to avoid being entranced by the otherworldly sounds coming from the walls. As the homeowner was chasing him he used the gun to shoot her and managed to knock her down. The homeowner’s face and body began melting like a candle’s wax under a flame, and began to smell like cat food. He blinked and found himself inside of his home with his groceries in his kitchen and his car in the driveway, but could not figure out why his key would not turn his lock anymore.

As ridiculous and provocative as it may sound to the average person whose perception of the events of Tiananmen square are based on extremist right-wing propaganda from the white house, Tiananmen square rioting was a product of Operation Yellowbird with many student leaders collaborating with the CIA out of Hong Kong. The US also used their spy networks and criminal triads to smuggle the criminals behind the riots out of China and take them to the US when the communist party restored order afterwards. Additionally, many facts and events of Tiananmen square are completely fabricated or heavily distorted by the US regime. The famous “Tank man” was never harmed by the military and even mounted the tank, opened the hatch, and harassed the driver. Many members of the PLA were killed or injured by rioters, with some even hanging.

Of course, the US has no sense of irony for their ham-fisted and propagandistic depictions of Tiananmen riots. After one of their officers executed an unarmed civilian by the name of George Floyd, they used rubber bullets and lethal force to suppress protests against police violence, and their police force is still despised by the citizenry to this day not only for their crimes during that time, but the long history that the police force has of harassing and lynching their own citizens, especially those of ethnic minorities that are persecuted by the police.

Knowing everything that we know now, I would say that the communist party of China not only handled the situation as carefully and with the least amount of harm to the people as possible, but I would be willing to personally drive a tank into Tiananmen if the protests were happening today. I think any person who truly chooses the proletariat over class enemies should do the same. Western liberals perceive support for the Chinese police as comparable to the blue lives matter movements of the west or the unhinged worship of police in a liberal society. This comparison completely ignores class struggle and is therefore anti-marxist. It also rejects differences in political and authority systems around the world making it first-worldist and undialectical. A person who wants to build a socialist state rejecting the authority of the socialist state to police itself and defend itself is extremely bizarre, and seems to be based on past experience being persecuted by the bourgeois state in various ways. Of course a police force is not perfect and even in a socialist society there can be reactionaries infiltrating or operating within any organization, but the difference is accountability and the protection of the civil rights of the citizens which cannot exist in a dictatorship of the bourgeois.

Many hippies who protested the Vietnam war and supported many progressive ideas ended up becoming obsessed with money, and became a part of the same war machine they probably once hated even if they retain the style, attitudes, and beliefs associated with counterculture. Obviously some people are already lost like those operating on liberal values or who support any reformism of the US which makes their activism and ideology self-limiting. The fall of the soviet union was a great blow to the socialist movement and those that remained were ideologically hijacked by capital.Despite these people experiencing persecution and infiltration by the liberal establishment, they were integrated into society. They are referred to as bourgeois bohemian or corporate hippies now.

There are of course similar factors in the socialist movement now that led to the downfall of the hippie movement such as infighting, revisionism, and infiltration by the regime. Their movement was idealistic, non-dialectical and even pushed their members to leave it once they hit a certain age. While modern comrades are (hopefully) not as shallow and pseudo-revolutionary as the people that would sabotage their own movement, outside propaganda does pose a threat to the viability of the current socialist movement. As a comrade, you must understand that regardless of your personal situation, the theories of Marx and Lenin still apply. A person who is a socialist while they are struggling and a liberal when they are doing well financially is operating from their class interests, but is not a true revolutionary and is likely motivated by short-term greed and personal gain more than long-term prosperity, as even the currency they sold out for will become worthless over time with poor governance from a liberal regime.

Because I understand the Marxist analysis of society, I know that even if I am offered a six figure job tomorrow, I can still understand that the society I am living in is a class society and therefore primitive and outdated, comparable to a feudal society. I may have more money and be more comfortable, but I can understand that from a socialist perspective, having a bunch of money does not obligate me to conform to US society and ideology. In some ways, being financially secure would allow a person to participate less in the labor market and therefore contribute less to capital. The same way that struggling liberals can support reactionary ideas, a comfortable comrade can support revolutionary ideas because they know a society of Marx is preferable to being wealthy under feudal corporate capitalism. Modern China shows us that socialism can achieve more and create an economy even better for the working class than what is possible otherwise, and because of this it is even more preferable for a person with wealth to live in such a society than a failed state such as the US.

Additionally, it must be stated that the process by which a person is stripped of revolutionary ideas and assimilated into society is subtle and often comes from multiple sources. The local community may be liberals promoting ideas that appear to be progressive but do nothing to change the systems we live under, such as voting. You may also be exposed to liberalism through social media or government propaganda such as mainstream news which is controlled by billionaires. Even some more extreme and overt propaganda displays such as American flags everywhere or the national anthem in places where it is unnecessary like sporting events causes psychological effects like developing an affinity for the regime or nationalism towards the regime. As a person trying not to lose your mind to liberalism, you must stay in contact with revolutionary media, revolutionary theory, and revolutionary ideology.

Working with spirits is beneficial, and provides great results for those who know how to properly do it and how to ask. However, as a Lavenderist you may not always have direct spiritual connections to spirits you want to work with or may not have the appropriate offerings available for boosting rituals. There is a workaround though, and it can really help you to empower non-Lavenderist spiritual workings with the power of the gods you know and are familiar with. This is called sub-working and helps when trying to work with spirits or gods that are distant or that you are unsure of how to work with.

To do this, simply give your offerings or prayers to the god you wish to help. Keep in mind they will empower the ritual but also affect the results in ways that are sometimes difficult to predict. The sub-working empowers your original working but the energies affect each other and the results.

You can say

“ I call upon ___ to work alongside ____ to help manifest ____ “

or

“ I call upon ____ to empower my manifestation of _____ “

There are entities that feed off of fame and attention to survive. They can be demonic in nature but they can technically be ghosts of people, egregores, djinn, or even angelic beings. There is no name for demons that feed off of attention and fame, so I have titled them Gramonites, but am told that the correct term is technically celebrite or celebritic spirit. They can be invoked in celebrity worship or in Celebritic rituals that use attention or reputation as the basis of energy in rituals and spells.

The best way to describe celebritic spirits or celebrity worship itself is to describe the process of their formation. A person desiring fame creates a stage name and/or stage personality which is used in their work, and this begins as a small tulpa or egregore but can grow and ascend as it gains attention or status. Eventually it reaches a point where it can be interacted with separate from its originator, and those become obsessed with the celebrity or devote unreasonable amounts of time to them. However, Celebritic spirits work differently than normal celebrity egregores. They either exist before finding a host and taking that host to fame, or they begin as normal celebrity egregores and ascend beyond a level of needing a host to survive, being able to seek new potential hosts.

Besides the power that Celebritic spirits have, comes the extra qualities they develop that other celebrity spirits do not typically have. They can become demonic, angelic, they can begin behaving like deities or in the cases of mythology or great people, they can even rise as high as gods. Some historical figures worshiped today such as Mao Zedong or Genghis Khan could arguably be considered to have created Celebritic spirits that have reached this level, and that could possibly be the case for any deity said to once have been a human. However, they do not always carry the signature of celebritic spirits which is an overwhelming sense of abundance and glory.

When a celebritic spirit rises high enough it may choose to exist as something else and discard its aura of celebritic energy. In a way, being a celebritic deity is almost a stepping stone to existing as a god or something that a mortal or egregore would not typically ascend to. Some gods may even choose to hide that they were once celebritic deities or come from this background because as mortals it would create questions for us about what our attention is worth, the spiritual consequences of fame, or what we would do if we wanted to become immortal deities without human desires and emotions.

If you wish to make a pact with a celebritic spirit to become its host and be its vessel for fame and attention seeking, do not do it lightly. You will gain the skills it has, but it can have effects on your personality and soul even after it leaves your body. It will also be affected by actions you take while serving it and providing it attention and fame, so you can corrupt it if you perform any evil actions while guiding it towards fame in the current lifetime. It must also be said that the most abundant kind of celebritic spirit that exists right now is actually sex workers, because many of them use stage names, have dissociative identity disorder, and die earlier than normal which causes their stage egregore to continue seeking fame after their death. The next most abundant stage egregore that exists is the social media influencer or youtube personality. With the explosion of online personalities through various sites including Youtube, celebrity egregores are being born left and right as more and more people create stage personalities and then stop performing and using them for whatever reason. However, you must also be conducive to the stage egregore you wish to have a possession with, so learn about podcasting, live streaming, or whatever kind of celebrity egregore you want to attract.

The favorite offering that can be made to The Drowned God is drowned grog. The reason is because this is the drink served in his underwater palace where those who follow him go upon their death. Even the mermaid concubines love this drink as well as the fish around the palace of The Drowned God.

To make drowned grog, simply take some seawater and mix it with dark rum. The ideal ratio is three parts salt water and one part dark rum, but this is not precise and is always eyeballed. If you do not have access to the sea, you can add salt to rainwater, river water, or just use water from the sink since the liquor will cover the taste anyway. It is not recommended to consume them since the salt and liquor can be extremely dehydrating, but they are good for libations or for leaving on the shrine.

When burning joss sticks or cones in the morning as offerings to dead ancestors or gods, you may have noticed the pleasant smell that comes from them. This smell can be used on clothing and hair and is hygienic since incense smoke has an antibacterial effect.

To incense your clothes, simply light some incense, and allow the smoke to rise up into the clothing or bend over and allow the smoke to go into your hair so it picks up the scent. Hold your breath if you do this, since the smoke at such a proximity can be intense. This is easier to do with longer hair, and for clothes this can slightly extend the time they can be worn until the next washing.

Before humans rotted, every dead body was carried to the underworld by winged monkeys, who threw them into a large pit that surrounded The God Of Fear And Hunger. She loved her corpses, but eventually the pit became so full of carrion that the corpses would fall out, and it became pointless for her to collect any more. She decided instead to leave the corpses on the ground and allow moss to grow on them. Eventually bugs came out from the endless void and began feeding on the flesh of dead people. Ravens and other birds as well as animals all began developing a taste for meat, so they started eating it before it went bad.

Once upon a time, there was a young boy living in rural China with his grandmother and older brother, since his parents were killed at the hands of imperialists during the war. He lived with them until one day, his brother went missing in Changbai forest, and when he came back he had orange hair, only craved meat, and he kept talking about a fox with an emerald in its mouth. He woke up in the middle of the night to hear his older brother making noise, and when looking, he was fully dressed and about to sneak out. He said to his younger brother that he must go into the forest to live the life he wants, but can never return or tell the truth about where he is going.

In the morning when the boy told his grandmother about his brother, she was shocked. She said that he has been chosen by the fox woman, who has taken him to the forest to live with her in the world of spirits and gods. She told him never to speak about it again, and to only say that his brother ran away, since they were unable to ever speak about the place he has gone.

As he got older, he kept feeling pulled towards the forest, and eventually saw a woman in fancy robes and orange hair beckoning him towards the trees at night. He ran after her into the dark forest, and lanterns suddenly appeared around him. He had entered the world of foxes, where his brother was waiting. He handed him a green stone, and upon touching it he was also turned into a humanoid fox.

Once upon a time, the god of the moon focused his attention on a man that was swimming in a lake at the edge of the world. The moon’s energy turned the man pale with white hair, and he became the first magician in the entire world. His third eye opened and he was able to see spirits and ghosts, but not all of them were good. He was visited by octopus spirits, peacocks, parakeets, baboons and the ghost of Joseph Stalin. The spirit guides gave him a sense of peace and also a connection to spirituality, but he was also trolled by evil spirits and ghosts, who played mean tricks on him and caused him to behave in ways that were illogical and went against his best interests. He eventually fell from the lake off of a waterfall and began falling into space, and then he talked to the cat goddess, dogs, and other animals such as axolotls which gave him a book of sacred information. He could not read as letters were not invented yet, and so he tore the pages from the book and ate them. They tasted like frosting which caused him to quickly devour the entire sacred book, and this caused all of humanity to have a connection to the teachings of spirituality. However, the magician’s mental imbalance caused people to behave in strange and erratic ways, so spirituality came with mental illness and lunacy.

If you call upon the shark spirit, you can begin to grow long and sharp teeth like knives. It is not recommended to shave your teeth to sharpen them because this causes sensitivity and decay, but it is better to add on to your teeth as the gods will do.

With your magic, make a shrine of shark teeth and call out to the shark spirit and ask him for sharpened teeth. Your teeth will grow and then you will have sharp points, but not sharp enough to cut your tongue, lips, or inner mouth easily. This will allow you to have cool pretty teeth and also eat meat. It will also help with cavities and things.

Once upon a time, there was a large evil tentacle monster off the coast of Haiti. It was large and would smash buildings on the coast and kidnap people by grabbing them and dragging them into the sea. The people were terrorized by the monster until one brave alcoholic sailor dared to sail into the ocean and attempt to kill it with fishing spears and harpoons. He sailed out and tried to bring it on his ship, but the Lovecraftian monster was too large and could not be brought into the ship. His boat was destroyed and many of his men died or were eaten by the monster, but he went to shore and was able to make a new plan.

He made harpoons and tied rope onto them, and when the monster revealed its tentacles by slamming them onto the shore he stuck them with metal fishing spears and pulled them onto the land. This made him able to gather more men to pull the beast, and he eventually caused the monster to become beached and die, with everyone taking turns cutting into its flesh and eating it, with the Drowned God absorbing it's energy to achieve godhood.

The Drowned God appears as a skeleton with horns, and a fishing spear. Sometimes his bones are made from blue gems, blue wood, or driftwood. His bones can even appear to be made of shell fossils or other marine materials.

A rightist talking point against gender identity is that only two genders exist. Class enemies come to Pride or other events meant to promote inclusion to ask thinly veiled manipulative questions like “How many genders are there” to try and win points with other reactionaries. There is so much to unpack that many people are not prepared for when they are asked at these events randomly, so I think I should put the issue to rest about how many genders exist.

Obviously most living things tend to fall into one of the two biological sexes at birth, and gender is based off of roles and cultural associations that are given to each of these sexes, usually to divide labor and assign tasks of childcare or domestic work to one sex or the other, with most favoring women to care for children due to their ability to multitask. When rightists say there are only two genders, this assumes that every person and every society in the world has had the same binary ideas of gender without variation, or that third genders have never existed or are somehow invalid.

Many arguments against non-binary genders existing independently from male or female come from theological arguments and as such can be discarded. Many societies across the world have independently developed unique gender identities that fall outside of conventional male and female genders that were created in the west to fit into European family structure. The Indian subcontinent has a gender known as Hijra which comes from Hinduism and is deeply connected to a goddess that is said to choose them at birth. Native American societies had a gender known as the two-spirit.

Even besides this, we have to keep in mind that because ideas about gender and gender roles are social constructs and vary from society to society, there are at least two genders for every culture that assigned different roles to them. This is not even counting every individual person’s perceptions or ideas about gender which can be different from every other person’s conception of it. Ideas we have about gender can even change with age, with some things being considered masculine at younger ages that later become considered feminine at later life stages. Gender is almost like a religion in the way that personal interpretation of it is the basis of everyone’s involvement in it regardless of how much the society tries to make everyone’s understanding conform to ideals.

However, we don’t even need to go deeply into everyone’s minds to see where the idea of gender becomes muddy. Different people have different amounts of estrogen and testosterone, and since these are characteristics of gender, does having different amounts of them make some more or less feminine and/or masculine? Some people seem to think so as athletes have been accused of being transgender for having naturally higher levels of testosterone, with rightists claiming it gives the woman an unfair advantage in sports. I will not get into that situation here because I can only deal with one disaster at a time, but it shows just how the entire worldview reactionaries have created does not conform to any science or even practicality. Class enemies operate as a hate group and it’s obvious to anyone who does even the most basic research into their ideas.

The next time someone shows up to Pride and asks you how many genders there are, the correct answer is that there are even more genders than people, as every person has their ideas of what it means to be masculine, feminine, or non-binary even if they are based on the same archetypes. Just like other ideas, personal interpretation is so varied that it’s unlikely for any two people to think the same thing.

The idea of reforming capitalism from a left-wing perspective would be great if it would provide positive results. In reality, any person who really tries to achieve this without force or at least very clandestine methods will be assassinated. I see socialist parties joining forces with major parties that exist under capitalism, and I can’t help but think they are not operating from the same perspective as orthodox Marxism-Leninism. Social democratic groups might make some great changes or some great connections with like-minded individuals, but they will never put their hands deep in the ground and remove the foundations of the capitalist system at the root.

If you’re an anarchist or a social democrat just seeking to make the western world more liveable for yourself, your organization will work for the purpose that you want it to work for.If you are a third-worldist communist who wants to end slavery in the world, destroy the economic systems that allow poverty and exploitation to exist, electoral politics is never going to cut it.

I am not trying to lean into adventurism or tell people to do something I would not do. However, there are more ways to influence society than activism. media collectives and propaganda are effective, as shown by the shutdown of various revolutionary media organizations such as Redfish. Rightists are using these tactics without even being factually correct, and it’s gotten so bad for the government that even liberals have made it a priority to combat fake news.

If enough people want to end capitalism, they can’t kill everyone and they lose. It’s about winning over enough people to make sure that you cannot just be assassinated to keep the regime in power. The ruling party knows this though and it’s why they have created a society of apathetic, debt-ridden, depressed and hedonistic people that will never be able to challenge them politically. A good way to test if you truly are revolutionary is to see how the establishment reacts to your ideology. Good signs are assassinations, persecutions or general suppression of its members like what we historically see with leftist movements in this country.

Mao Zedong is the ruler of the underworld because he became the god of revolution after he died, but sometimes you might see him in the sky or he can appear to you as a dream. He is celebrated and everyone in the underworld loves Chairman Mao/ The Jade Chairman.

In order to talk to him, spend a bit of time reading theory or listening to socialist music. After a while when you begin to connect with the energies and resonate spiritually with The Jade Chairman, you will begin to intuitively know what he would say in response to certain issues or situations, and you begin to think just like a seasoned revolutionary as the Jade Chairman telepathically sends thoughts into your mind.

This does not usurp your own autonomy, but the thought process of a comrade such as Mao is extremely different to what most people in modern western society would ever think of. People perceive this way of thinking as alien or impractical in a society stuck in primitive bourgeois government systems, but it is shown to provide benefits and good governance to people.

Once upon a time, there was a wise old man reading from an ancient book explaining the origin of poverty to children. He told them a complex story with various gods and deities to explain why people were poor. In the middle of this, The Jade Chairman walked into the room and stopped him. He passed out copies of socialist theory and explained that poverty must be understood within the context of class struggle, or it is anti-proletariat and only exists to justify bourgeois systems. He explained to them the economic systems the world had, but few could understand, and even less could make the connection to class oppression. Those who did went on to become revolutionaries.Since then, poverty has been understood as something man-made, and not inherent to reality.

The Driftwood God is a male manifestation of The Lady Of The Waves representing oceans, sailing, piracy, or spirituality in general. He is also referred to as The Drowned God or The Black Flag God by followers but the name Driftwood god is used to prevent confusion. He can appear as a skeleton wearing a sailor’s uniform or a man made of water holding a trident. His symbol is a pineapple.

Many items are associated with The Drowned God. Driftwood is special because it represents the sea changing the natural world, and also because of how similar it is to human bones. Blue gemstones or those with water energy are also connected, and oceanic ones like Caribbean calcite, blue apatite or aquamarine are especially connected. Other substances are seashells, shark teeth, fish/pirate/ or ocean related imagery are also good for connecting to the driftwood god. Offerings include alcohol, tobacco, oranges, pineapple, coconuts, or anything that is useful on a ship, precious from the ocean, or that prevents scurvy. The Driftwood god is very masculine so colognes and tobacco products also work. taxidermy sea animals are good for setting up on a shrine to the drowned god, especially the jaws or teeth of a shark.