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.