See Free!

 

“Rebellion is when you look society in the face and say I understand who you want me to be, but I’m going to show you who I actually am.”
— Anthony Anaxagorou

 

See me
Not the me who follows
arbitrary rules
as a husband, a parent, a societal role
but the me who dreams
who breathes
who feels things outside the box
and looks to expand beyond
eat, work, sleep, buy, buy waste
Look at me and throw off your own chains
as I seek to loosen mine
We can create something new
and transform ourselves from the mouldy mould.
See yourself
not as a role
but as a being being free.
— G A Rosenberg

 

Blessings, G

 

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Hart in a Storm (Furfur)Hart in a Storm (Furfur) by G A Rosenberg

 

Asleep in the CaveAsleep in the Cave by G A Rosenberg

 

Between Love and Bloodshed (Glasya-Labolas)Between Love and Bloodshed (Glasya-Labolas) by G A Rosenberg

 

Expanding Our Symbols in a Rebellious Way

 

“The occult, as both a collection of practices and beliefs as well as overarching symbolic language, has long provided artists and composers with a grammar for realising a means of pushing up against the mainstream, of creating music and art that is not bound by convention. Just as occult practices provided people a more direct and immediate way to engage with the divine, it made sense that avant-garde and experimental artists would feel a kinship and an inspiration in occult ideas and symbols. Satie and Ravel were Rosicrucians, Mucha was a theosophist, Pierre Schaeffer was follower of Gurdjieff, and William Butler Yeats was a member of the Hermetic Order Of The Golden Dawn. The list goes one. As rock musicians experimented with sound and performance, turning towards alternative spiritual practices and images made perfect sense. It was not enough to be socially and politically rebellious. A spiritual rebellion was needed for a foundation. The occult imagination is one that is heterodox, sometimes heretical. What better way to feel as if your art is charged with a deeper spiritual meaning than to attach it to a spiritual identity that itself has often been about rebellion?”

— Peter Bebergal

 

If we wish to see and understand what lies beyond the everyday, we need to expand our symbolic repertoire. Symbols are the language of our deeper consciousness and the more we expand our language base, the deeper our knowledge becomes. Expansion may be something as simple as learning a new language. The letters and words we use our symbols so by making the shift to a new language we shift and expand how we talk and think. Another powerful source of symbolic language is in the stories we tell and the types of beings that reoccur in them. Learning the mythology of another culture and how it relates to our own expands our way of expressing ourselves even more. Occult means nothing more or less than hidden. When we bring hidden things into the open we expand. This is true whether we are talking on the level of our unconscious shadow selves or the material we culturally refer to as occult. Operating on these deeper levels is a rebellion since everything in our day to day culture including the religions most of us were raise in tells us that this is taboo. Of course the last thing any authority wants is to have its foundations questioned. That can lead to the horrific practice of thinking for ourselves.
Blessings, G

 

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Goat StareGoat Stare by G A Rosenberg

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