How To Create Your Own Badass Occult Fraternity
Choose Your Demographic Think carefully about the kinds of people you would like in your school. Age range? Education Levels? Political Affiliations? Artistic Tastes? Religious Backgrounds (if any)? Find Your Audience’s Grievances Once you’ve focused on the type of people you want, try to discern the kinds of grievances they tend to have in common. […]
Farmer Joe’s Toxic Stream
Farmer Joe had a stream running through his property, which he relied upon for drinking water for himself and his family, water for his herds, and water for irrigation. But the water was tainted, and had been for quite some time. To make it safe, after drawing what he needed each day, he always had […]
Some Problems of Left Hand Paths
Medicating the Pain of Death
Item 1 in the “Job Description” for any culture/religion is to provide effective social pain-relief around the generally horrible phenomenon of human death. These pain meds can vary hugely, and are typically a cocktail of basic elements such as: However, away from the din and clatter of mainstream society’s machinations around death, there are some […]
Just One “True Will”?
Is there really just one “True Will” for any given individual? Or is there a number of possible areas of growth, application, focus, attention and effort, which for an individual, will find resonance and, if pursued without impediment, can deliver great fulfilment? The idea that everyone has a “Single True Will” of their own has […]
Dismantling Morality
From the Eulibrian perspective, moral codes are naturally-occurring sentient organisms, which evolve spontaneously in a symbiotic relationship with human colony organisms. Typically, people are expected to feel (and act on) emotional reactions to various behaviours in themselves and others, based on the “rightness” or “wrongness” of these behaviours, according to the moral code(s) of the […]
Evolution of “Definition of Self”
Subtly Influenced by Others A classic psychology experiment involves three volunteers entering a room to take a test at desks. The test itself is relatively insignificant, involving a long series of multiple-choice questions. In the course of taking the exam, smoke begins to fill the room through vents. What do you think happens? The test, […]
Co-Governance in New Zealand: A Deeper Look
This article demonstrates the use of the Eulibria lens to analyse a highly charged issue, which in the 2020s has been dominating New Zealand politics and dividing New Zealand’s community — the co-Governance movement. Context As a country with its constitutional roots in a 19th century Treaty between the indigenous Māori people and the colonising […]