Podcast 107: Rubaphilos Salfluĕre - Sharing Your Knowledge To Help the Tradition (Extended for Patrons)

Rubaphilos Salfluĕre on adopting a nome de plum, sharing knowledge to help the tradition, social protocols, Hermetic education, The Kybalion, and in the exclusive extension for patrons, mixing spiritual practice with commercialism, deeds and conduct of teachers, material removed from texts, cyphers, and more.

Direct download - https://www.mediafire.com/file/fu07zcwcugoj1it/AnInfinitePath_ep107RubaphilosSalflue%25CC%2586re_Patron.mp3

Heredom College - www.heredomcollege.org
Ruba's forum - http://groups.io/g/Heredom/
Ruba's Youtube - http://www.youtube.com/c/Rubaphilossalfluere

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Robert Anton Wilson Speaking

Here in lies a lovely bundle of Robert Anton Wilson's talks / lectures which we have found and assembled. All nicely packaged up together. Enjoy!

http://www.mediafire.com/file/zrikp0ezg8f3s0f/Robert_Anton_Wilson.zip

American Voter Fraud? Or just Suppression?

America is in a massive hoopla currently over the outcome of the 2020 presidential election. With uniform claims from the "conservative" (Republican) side saying the election was stolen for Biden via voter fraud. The most simple explanation to it all is that Donald Trump consistently told Republican voters to not vote by mail, and more “liberal” leaning (Democratic) folks mostly did vote by mail because of convenience and Covid19. Those are the exact reasons I voted by mail for example. So as votes came in, they initially looked really good in all states for Trump, but once the mail in votes started being counted, which usually happened after the in person votes, they flipped most of the close swing states to Joe Biden. Simple.

If you want the real deal on Donald Trump, look to his niece Mary Trump who sounds like she’s the one person in the family who got out. She has many inside things to say about the psychological damage Donald Trump received from his father while growing up, her grandfather, one of which was the mindset that losing anything was totally equivalent to failure. So it seems like Donald Trump has concocted this many month long plan to have an out, that is supposed voter fraud, since he's psychologically incapable of accepting a loss.

Voter fraud has historically been very minor in the USA. I am aware of decades of voter suppression by the Republican GOP however, disenfranchising anyone who’s not a WASP (White Anglo-Saxon Protestant). But since we’re in a constant search for truth, we’re willing to look at all sides. So, we’ve been lurking on the American right wing echo sphere in some off the beaten path “conservative” forums and chat channels. Trying really hard to find any ACTUAL EVIDENCE of voter fraud in the 2020 election. The only things actually found has been a surveillance video of a poll worker filling out ballots in the counting room. However that looks like they’re simply transferring a ballot which might have initially been unreadable by the counting machine because of the pen / or maybe even pencil which the voter initially used.

The most substantial actual evidence which we've found is that if one goes to the official government website containing the list of registered voters in Pennsylvania, the crucial state which sealed the win for Joe Biden, there does seem to be quite a few voters on that which we're born in 1800. Yet I've research those birth dates were left that way intentionally to protect certain folks' birthdays for various reasons of anonymity.

The reason I write this here is, if you have been looking into this at all and found any actual direct evidence of voter fraud, please send it my way.

How To's From Episode 106 of the Podcast - LBRP and Middle Pillar Exercises

Two of the mental / magical exercises which were recommended on episode 106 of the podcast with David Shoemaker were The Lesser Banashing Ritual of the Pentagram (LBRP) and The Middle Pillar. Shoemaker and John Michael Greer advocate doing these daily. Josephine McCarthy and other’s do not. So go figure and perhaps try them out for yourself and see if they do anything for you over time.

At first they seem like a lot to memorize, but after getting use to them, one can grasp that they are actually quite easy and can be done very efficiently, only needing to take up perhaps 5 to 10 minutes of your day outside of other practices like perhaps blending a smoothy and sitting down to meditate.

Here are two simple step by steps of how to perform them taken from the book “Kabbalah, Magic & the Great Work of Self Transformation: A Complete Course” by Lyam Thomas Christopher. I usually would honor NOT sharing a book by an author who is still living and perhaps relying on royalties from the text, but the work is easily findable on archive.org so perhaps that is sanctioned by the author - https://archive.org/details/KABBALAHMAGICAHDTHEGREATWORKOfSEL

There is a more detailed description of how to perform the LBRP in the previous pages, but here is a simple cliff notes version from page 22 of the text:

How to do the Middle Pillar from starting around page 72:

Podcast 106: David Shoemaker - Examples of Initial Daily Practice (Extended for Patrons)

David Shoemaker on some practical examples of initial daily magical practice and in the exclusive extension for patrons, esoteric psychology.

http://www.mediafire.com/file/nvj9y6wixvynfc6/AnInfinitePath_ep106DavidShoemaker_Patron.mp3

Personal Site - http://dr-shoemaker.com/
Living Thelema Podcast - https://livingthelema.com/
Temple of the Silver Star - https://www.totss.org/
A∴A∴ - http://onestarinsight.org/

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Rudolph Steiner's Works in Audio

It’s fair to put Rudolph Steiner’s work as one of the most advanced gates to attempt to pass through regarding spirituality. He was an amazing human who accomplished a staggering amount in his lifetime in a wide variety of areas, much of which still has a lasting legacy to this day.

Dale Brunsvold has been reading out many of his lectures and written works over the years. Most of which are very dense and need to be re-visited over and over like layers of paint. So if you have a spare year or two to do just the initial first pass of listening, head on over to http://www.rudolfsteineraudio.com/ and perhaps show him some of your support in due course as well…

Spoken Word Essay Collection Vol II - Navigating With Reason

The second collection of (hopefully) timeless spoken word essays narrated by Niles Heckman sharing spiritual philosophic concepts on life is now bundled! These aim to pump audio goodness into your mind brain sponge, do an ever so slight squeegeeing of your third eye, and make you a more conscious human being after intaking. If you have the ears to hear of course.

The collection consists of the second 25 essays created from 2019 to 2021. Originally part of the podcast An Infinite Path, these are the first full collection of public and private essays available individualized with just the raw voice. Recorded in various closets so the sound inflection does vary, but audio quality is for the most part consistent.

The vast majority of them were written by Niles with the exception of a small handful which were co-written or borrowed in which case credit is given in the id3 tags of the mp3 file. Some are a few minutes, and some are over half an hour, resulting in a total of 6+ hours of audio content. We are charging $12 through our store for 25 essays which is less than 50 cents per file, but we give them away to you patrons of our work here and now, with a thanks for your support.

The essays included are: A List of Illogical Fallacies, Asking is As King, A Tea Said To Cure Cancer, Behind a Set of Castle Gates, Cutting it Out, Entheogenic Use On The Spiritual Path, Fear And Terror Broadcasts, Growing Tonights Dream, Hegalian Dialectic, Lonely Elephants And Social Connection, Mystery of History, Navigating With Reason, Overstanding Outerstanding and Innerstanding, The 10 Case Affirmations, The Creative Mind's Successful Thoughts, The Crystalline Perfection of The Philosopher's Stone, The Individualization Trinity, The Master of the Carriage, The Mount Everest Climb of Finishing, The Path of Spiritual Growth Part 1, Three Pillars of Persuasion, Transitioning Into Digital Ghosts, Two Brilliant Minds Decode The Wake, You're Talking to Yourself, and Your Most Unique Expression of Individuality. 

Download: https://www.mediafire.com/file/xainfmds993j4cf/NilesHeckman_Essays_Vol_02_NavigatingWithReason.zip

Essay: You're Talking to Yourself (Exclusive for Patrons)

http://www.mediafire.com/file/3az983mzquff6i9/AnInfinitePath_essay_YoureTalkingToYourself.mp3

*In order to make our lives easier, we have just been posting private URL’s of the extended podcasts and essays in the member section(s), but a member has asked if we can also post the streaming play bar as well. There is no private RSS feed out of these members section(s) so but below is a striped down version of the play bar which we will also include from now on.

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The Works of Franz Bardon

Franz Bardon was a Czech occultist and student and teacher of Hermetics. Renowned for primarily three books:

1 - Initiation into Hermetics
2 - The Practice of Magical Evocation
3 - The Key to the True Kabbalah

His first, Initiation into Hermetics, published in 1956, is his most impressive, comprehensive, and influential. In it, he puts forth an energetic model of the magical universe, drawing on Hermetic and Eastern philosophies. In Part I he presents his theory, and in Part II he presents a 10-step program of mental, physical, and psychic training. He called all of his disciples magicians, the word being “a symbol of the deepest initiation and the highest wisdom.”

According to Bardon, the cause of all things existing is the akasha, an Eastern term for what the alchemists called the quint essence, or Fifth Element or power. In Bardon’s universe, electric and magnetic fluids are comparable to yin and yang. Electric fluids (masculine, or yang) are warm, positive, and red in color, and magnetic fluids (feminine, or yin) are cool, negative, and blue in color. Together they make up the vital power or life force, which Baron Karl von Reichenbach earlier called the “od” or “odyle” force. Bardon occasionally used von Reichenbach’s term od. According to Bardon, every part of the body is governed by either electric or magnetic energy or is neutral. Disease arises when imbalances occur.

Bardon’s second book, The Practice of Magical Evocation, is a monumental ceremonial magic grimoire on the making and use of magical tools, the proper evocations of numerous spirits, and the dangers of pacts with spirits. To evoke a spirit, the magician works in a proper magical environment to create a sphere hospitable to the entity. He enters a trance and projects his consciousness into the sphere and then calls it back. Bardon said that he contacted all of the named spirits himself and omitted many more because he thought they were unsuitable for beginners.

Bardon’s third work is The Key to the True Kabbalah, in which he gives a unique system based on the sounds of letters of the alphabet. He presents a method of empowering letters and combining them using magical keys to create magical effects.

He wrote a fourth book which we have not read and these three works are quite controversial because they claim one can make great progress solely using them without a teacher. Which is very very thin ice. The books are also full of warnings. The sheer number of such warnings should be sufficient warning in itself to any intelligent reader that much of what he teaches is potentially highly dangerous. Yet, the hunger for mystery and magical 'thrills' that motivates so many seekers mean that few will heed that warning. Thus, the first book is worth a listen and the second and third have some decent things, but also many many red flags. We will still share them here so you might have a listen and see what you think of them for yourself if you so choose.

He passed away in 1958 so hence our sharing of them in the here & now.

http://www.mediafire.com/file/lnxw5639j2qka69/AudioBook_FranzBardon_InitiationIntoHermetics.mp3
https://www.mediafire.com/file/2y8ggt3zdjlyduy/Audiobook_FranzBardon_ThePracticeOfMagicalEnvocation.mp3
https://www.mediafire.com/file/qjngw8uzf1333bq/Audiobook_FranzBardon_TheKeyToTheTrueQabbalah.mp3

Esoteric and Divinatory Tarot

We’ve been doing some tarot research and as a result were chatting with a gentleman named Attila Blaga. Like Dracula, he lives in Transylvania in Eastern Europe and is VERY KNOWLEDGABLE about esoteric tarot. We chatted about maybe getting him on the podcast but I came to find out that he can read English perfectly but can not speak it very well.

Initially inspired by Ospensky and Gurdjieff and following the trail from there, his work on the Tarot is very worth your time. As much like with astrology, there is a lot of main stream water down info out there regarding the subject, but getting to the underlying real deal is much more rare to come by. His site is worth a deep dive when you have three extra spare days on your hands. He also makes his own decks as well.

http://tarotator.com/

Masterpiece Mystery: Van der Valk

My dear mother has been watching this PBS show “Masterpiece Theatre” since I was a young sprout. So basically for over 40 years. The show is a fluffy yet somewhat sophisticated murder mystery drama anthology television series which premiered on Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) in the early 70’s, making it America's longest-running weekly prime time drama series. The show has UK affiliation as well and has presented numerous acclaimed British productions. Many of these are produced by the BBC, but the line-up has also included programs shown on the UK commercial channels ITV and Channel 4.

In terms of its production, it was always quite decently written and cast with good directing and acting (for bad acting = bad directing). Yet, it always looked visually so cheap to me in terms of its cinematography. “Van der Valk” is a modern reboot detective series filmed entirely on location in Amsterdam. Which has all the good aspects of the original show but is also very nicely shot. My mother dear was watching the second episode and it caught my eye. I mention this here because not only was it a really good murder mystery story, and we all may love one of those now and then, but this episode was quite packed with esoteric and occult symbolism. So much like in the lightweight yet fun Dan Brown esoteric mystery books/films, and even though all television “Tells You What To Vision”, this one is still worth a watch.

The trailer and watch link can be found here “officially” - http://www.pbs.org/video/episode-2-only-in-amsterdam-q9rqxm/

… or by likely searching something along the lines of “Masterpiece Van der Valk Episode 2 streaming” in a non safe search web browser and seeing what other options might be out there if you don’t fancy a sign up with PBS.

Mystery of History

Thanks to you, our documentary short subject film “Mystery of History”, derived from the essay of the same name, is complete. It’s a brief glimpse of how the topic of race has long been used as a tool to divide and conquer. Told primarily through the illustrations of John Clark Ridpath’s history books. With the reality of an underlying unity being at the heart of our mystery of existence.

Watch on either YouTube or Vimeo:

This one is in the same style as Balanced Opposites and sections of Transmutation, telling the story through old artwork. Which we find is a really decent way to do it for a zero budget project. We always aim to grab artwork that is so old the artists are long gone and also give credit when possible. 

On a side note, this piece has a few technical flaws in it such as me buzzing the wide shot of my talking head footage. “Buzzed” means slightly out of focus so my face is a bit soft. Also my eye-line glancing down to my notes will be something to prevent  in the future. The scratchy jacket we were wearing was also picked up by the microphone, so there are some un-removable un-desirable sounds of it in the audio. These things are fine for this piece, especially since we made it 100% solo during Covid and am also giving it away freely. Yet, they are all part of the continuing learning experience and we’re conscious to not repeat these imperfections in future projects.

We use to work in Los Angeles at a company called Digital Domain. They have a features department and commercial department. Occasionally certain famous directors would do a project through the commercial department to test future techniques they wanted to implement on features. So the commercial basically amounts to the mindset of “get your client to pay for your research and development”.  We like this idea of using shorter length projects to test things for longer form projects so we’ve also adapted it into our filmmaking philosophy. 

We’ll also be giving away a zip file of all the images from the film. Stay tuned for that.

Podcast 105: Kaya Martinez & Khari Allen Lee - Thriving Over Just Surviving (Extended for Patrons)

Kaya Martinez and Khari Allen Lee on having partners to navigate stormy seas with, natural mental and physical healing, evolving self with evolving times, future proofing, the importance of being able to gather, abundance, aging with grace, and in the exclusive extension for patrons, misperceptions about race and culture.

http://www.mediafire.com/file/bc97iqvk4545vzi/AnInfinitePath_ep105KayaMartinezAndKhariAllenLee_Patron.mp3

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Regenerative Agriculture

If you’re in the mood to watch an uplifting and non-depressing documentary about climate change and regenerative agriculture, Kiss The Ground is worth your time. Narrated by Woody Harrelson, it highlights land stewards leading the charge of regenerating the world’s soils and how healthy soil has an incredible ability to take in excessive carbon. Even though a truly de-polarized perspective does allow us to see that global warming is both natural and man made, if you’re a hardcore polarized right winger who thinks “greening” and" “sustainability” are code words for communism because big oil and big agriculture have told you so, perhaps we can still all agree that pollution is bad.

Yet again, who would have thought the natural way of farming with happy animal grazing, cover crops, perennials, and trees, while not chewing up the land with giant combines would be better than tearing large swaths of land to then spray with gazillions of gallons of poisons and chemicals?!?!?!?! Example 63,546 of why big anything (in this case big agriculture) is dreadful and why small agriculture is the way.

It’s available to watch on Netflix, which is a bit problematic, but it’s official site is here - http://kisstheground.com/

It’s always great when a documentary creates both good content and then has a call to action regarding the subject matter. Which this one does. Even though the vast majority of anthropogenic climate problems are cause by about 50 to 100 mega corpses, it never hurts to have each of us do our part to be part of the solution as well.

Essay: Two Brilliant Minds Decode The Wake (Exclusive for Patrons)

http://www.mediafire.com/file/0vi4cios7c925ol/AnInfinitePath_essay_TwoBrilliantMindsDecodeTheWake.mp3

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Book Share: The Fulcanelli Phenomenon

In the realm of sharing books, this one is worth your time and is from 1980. The author was  Kenneth Rayner Johnson who passed away in 2011. Interestingly enough, while being primarily a horror fiction writer, he also penned this very peculiar esoteric work The Fulcanelli Phenomenon: The Story Of A Twentieth Century Alchemist In The Light Of New Examination Of The Hermetic Tradition. 

It is out of print and VERY DIFFICULT to find online. After dispatching our secret minions around the digital landscape of the world wide web, dark web, and under web, we have come back with gold at the end of the rainbow. So here it is for you fine excellent folks!

PDF version: http://www.mediafire.com/file/lbjqsk3cvar3b8f/The_Fulcanelli_Phenomenon%252C_by_Kenneth_Rayner_Johnson_%25281980%2529.pdf

Audiobook made from the PDF by your's truly: http://www.mediafire.com/file/gzsihkaa9jnfbep/Audiobook_KennethRaynerJohnson_TheFulcanelliPhenomenon.mp3 

*Obviously we are interested in very obscure and occult + esoteric texts which we share here. Of which 99.99999% of muggle humanity could absolutely care less about. Yet you fine folks are obviously a bit more Jedi like by being interested in, let alone caring enough to support, our work. Hence our sharing the more esoteric private stuff to you via this platform. As the podcast slowly continues, we've been thinking about keeping more of the esoteric stuff (such as Hermeticism and alchemy) more behind the private gates and have more (slightly) broader appeal content regarding mindfulness, personal development, and self empowerment more in the public half of the content. On that front, a more broad appeal recent text which we really enjoyed and would also recommend is The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck by Mark Manson. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28257707-the-subtle-art-of-not-giving-a-f-ck There is an audiobook version of it but we will hold off from sharing here because the author is young and very much still alive. 

*We've also corrected the error in the audiobook from our previous book share, TOLTECA where the voice went EQUALS EQUALS EQUALS. So do re-download that link for the fix if you fancy!

Narration: A Complex Systems Perspective (Exclusive for Patrons)

Private unlisted link on YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_LY6UD67mE&feature=youtu.be

Private link via Vimeo - https://vimeo.com/457882569/19eacc9d32

Grass Fed Natural Beef Ancestral Supplements

Ancestral Supplements is a New Zealand based company which sells grass fed, pasture raised, humanly killed (if such a thing is possible), organ parts in dehydrated capsule form.

We are not profe$$ional nutritionists but the more we independently research diet and health the more we find eating natural foots, as close to natural the way our ancestors did (before the advent of industrial corporate petrochemical monoculture), is the best way. Who would have thought!?!?!?

When the native Americans would kill a buffalo, they would utilize every single part of it. Including the organs, which they claimed had massive health benefits. We will always have a few things to learn from our ancestors.

https://shop.ancestralsupplements.com/collections/frontpage?page=1

Regarding "Film Festivals"

A quote regarding the monetization schemes that title themselves “film festivals”. 

This is the usual response we give when asked why our 2018 feature film ‘Transmutation’  appeared in none of them. Even though it’s been extremely well received and has been financially successful selling straight to audience. 

Strange Angle

In the realm of fluff entertainment, nearly everyone likes to plop down and watch a show now and then. Even though much of it is mindless distraction and John Michael Greer says the best thing you can do with your television, which "tells you what to vision", is drop it into a dumpster, we ourselves don't own a TV but are also known to of course watch a few shows via the computer screen. Strange Angel is one such show which we enjoyed and is worth your time.

It's about the rocket scientist and occultist Jack Parsons and a somewhat overdramatized sex party representation of Thelema as well. Thelema is an occult social or spiritual philosophy developed in the early 1900s by Aleister Crowley. Crowley of course is problematic, as he did many good things in his life and many not good things as well, but Thelema, which comes out of his text The Book of the Law, is actually quite good. For the "Do what thou will shall be the whole of the law" is excellent which is Crowley's flowery way of writing "follow your true will."

David Shoemaker, who is affiliated with various Thelemic organizations, was on episode 76 of the podcast which has been freshly uploaded to censor happy YouTube and will be on the podcast again, has an attitude regarding the show which is "that it's worth watching because it's quite decent and could be way worse." It's available in all places, at CBS, so go figure. You can do the thing where you sign up for a trial at their site, binge watch it and then cancel the trial. So you don't have to give a major TV network any of your cash-o-la.

https://www.cbs.com/shows/strange-angel/