The Order of the New Syncretic Hermetic Spiritualism
8 Ix, Equinox Portal Emergence
It’s all about combinations of things, the TRANS*cendent way. Kit brings the most ancient lineage on African spiritual traditions, but even this combines with my own research on African ancestral psychedelic traditions, learned from Darren, Akua, and Acacea. This is why trans is the singularity, because it’s returning us to the beginning, the things we used to know before we developed language, which maybe now I’m actually thinking is when the separation started, but it hyper-accelerated at certain points along the way:
Plant technology
Shamanism
Agriculture
Property
Marriage
Markets
Slavery
Capitalism
The internet
AI
Kit brings the tradition of initiation into a single lineage—the way things have always been done since the beginning of humans. Which is why this is the emergence of the archetype: never before have we been able to combine things like this. So I initiated myself into the new old-fashioned lineage today, the emergence of the Order of the Syncretic Hermetic Spiritualism: the one defined by combinations of things to find the resonance.
We the Trans priest(x)s of all gender expressions bring the medicine of the combination, which includes not just traditions but spirituality, science, and academia—bringing the questioning everything of the scientific method, academia’s citation of sources and always giving credit, and anthropology’s focus on in situ, looking at everything in context.
So yes, it all makes sense, why the Thesis is Past Meets Presence and the Plays and Stories are We Go Alone Together—one is the process of creating the things I’m creating in all the realms, for all the purposes, in all the expressions. The other are the REMIXes, the retold myths and Bible stories, the reframed reclaimed histories of our past parts of self and interdimensional siblings, coming together in ecstatic healing, celebration, grieving, releasing, and community.
But god damn, do I need help making the things manifest.
Everyone keeps telling me that I radiate that I’m an artist. But I can seem to stop starting and get something finished. I’m scared and I need help.
I know I am being held. Trust the process. But also. Sometimes things need to be published. And I’m dying only being an artist in theory, that nobody sees. Because part of all of this I’m collecting, creating, receiving, is about OBSERVING… we need to be witnessed. Which means things need to exist outside of password protection.
HELP. ME.
LISTEN:
AI Summary: Here is the updated summary using they/them pronouns: Holly Regan discusses their journey in combining ancestral wisdom and psychedelic practices, emphasizing the importance of syncretism and trans-dimensional wisdom. They reflect on their experiments with medicine combinations, such as cacao, Amanita, and LSD, and their profound effects on their soul. Holly initiates themself as a priestx of the new syncretic spiritualism, discussing how the play will be a performance of this, blending medicine music with electronic and shoegaze scores. They address the need for consent in spiritual practices and the importance of recognizing and reclaiming one's power. Holly also touches on the syncretic nature of Christianity and the necessity of citing sources in spiritual practices.
Combining Ancestral Wisdom and Psychedelic Practices
- Holly Regan discusses the process of combining various ancestral traditions and practices, emphasizing the importance of mixing and remixing. - They mention the significance of psychedelic practices in their journey, referencing the Shulgin tradition and the Harvard Psilocybin project. - Holly reflects on the importance of asking permission and being careful with medicine combinations, acknowledging the need to understand the medicines individually. - They share their experiences with different medicine combinations, such as cacao, Amanita, and LSD, and their impact on their soul excavation.
Self-Initiation and Syncretic Spiritualism
- Holly Regan initiates themself as a priestx of the new syncretic spiritualism. - They emphasize the importance of recognizing and empowering disowned parts within oneself and culture. - Holly describes the play they are creating, which combines various heroes and archetypes, reframing them as fluid and non-binary; combining medicine music with electronic and shoegaze scores. - They reflect on the concept of being the universe's power bottom and the importance of co-creational power.
Personal Reflections and Shamanic Initiation
- Holly Regan discusses their experiences of getting blackout drunk and feeling possessed, questioning whether these were shamanic initiations. - They reflect on the shame associated with these experiences and the realization that they were activating their shamanic powers. - Holly acknowledges the need for guidance and the role of community in their journey.
The Role of Syncretism in Shamanic Initiation
- Holly Regan explores the idea that traditional shamanic initiation involves breaking open and connecting with the spirit world. - They reflect on their own experiences and the lack of guidance, questioning whether the element of surprise is part of the initiation process. - Holly discusses the concept of syncretism and the new shamanic initiation, emphasizing the importance of combining and cobbling together knowledge. - They acknowledge the pain and loneliness of their journey and the importance of trusting themself and their intuition.
The Importance of Consent and Syncretic Emergence
- Holly Regan emphasizes the importance of giving consent and recognizing the power of syncretism in their work. - They reflect on the legacy of betrayal and the fear of sharing their truth, acknowledging the need for boundaries and metaphors in their work. - Holly discusses the importance of not revealing everything and the role of possession in their creative process. - They acknowledge the fear of being shut down and the trauma of having their journals read without consent.
The Call to Create and the Fear of Rejection
- Holly Regan expresses their fear of creating and putting their work out there, reflecting on past experiences of being shut down and betrayed. - They discuss the trauma of having their journals read and the fear of being seen as crazy or evil. - Holly reflects on the importance of metaphors and disguising characters in their work to protect themself. - They acknowledge the need to learn boundaries and the importance of not revealing everything.
The Role of Ancestral Legacy and Syncretism
- Holly Regan discusses the importance of reclaiming and reconnecting with their ancestral legacy and lineage. - They reflect on the concept of returning home and the role of syncretism in their journey. - Holly acknowledges the importance of going back to the beginning to understand the roots of their traditions. - They discuss the role of African ancestry and the importance of understanding the syncretic nature of Christianity.
The Gospel of Judas and the Syncretic Nature of Christianity
- Holly Regan reflects on the Gospel of Judas and the syncretic nature of Christianity, emphasizing the importance of recognizing its roots in Eastern mysticism. - They discuss the role of Jesus and Judas in the syncretic tradition and the importance of rewriting the story. - Holly acknowledges the importance of recognizing the interconnectedness of all traditions and the role of syncretism in spirituality. - They reflect on the importance of citing sources and giving credit to those who came before them.
The Importance of Consent and Respect in Syncretic Practices
- Holly Regan emphasizes the importance of giving consent and respecting the traditions and practices they draw upon. - They discuss the role of reciprocity and the need to break free of the monetary system in their work. - Holly reflects on the importance of not always getting credit or financial compensation for their ideas. - They acknowledge the need to be aware of the potential for exploitation and the importance of respecting indigenous cultures.
The Initiation Ceremony and the Council of Elders
- Holly Regan performs an initiation ceremony, emphasizing the importance of serving Mother Earth and building mycelial networks. - They reflect on the concept of the council of elders and the importance of nature and the body as the governing body. - Holly discusses the importance of giving consent and recognizing the power of syncretism in their work. - They acknowledge the importance of recognizing the night world and the role of trauma healing in their journey.
Action Items:
Create a musical that combines medicine, music, theater and psychedelic experiences to convey trans emergence as a fluid archetype. (Assignee: Holly Regan)
Heal the part of self that is afraid to create and finish works due to fear of criticism and punishment. (Assignee: Holly Regan)
Trust the calling to travel to places of ancestral significance like Egypt and Ghana to reconnect with lineages, despite discomfort. (Assignee: Holly Regan)
LISTEN:
This is so fascinating!!! The AI identifies me and Cain in this rap/dialogos/song/chant, the Oath of the Syncretic Hermetic Spiritualist Order.
AI Summary: Cain and Holly Regan discuss the creation of a new syncretic spiritualism, blending ancient wisdom with modern perspectives. They emphasize the ephemeral nature of their work, which exists only in the moment of observation and witnessing. They highlight the importance of compassion, the dissolution of boundaries, and the integration of scientific methods with spiritual practices. Holly Regan notes the unique ability to transcend material boundaries through technology and the return to a holistic view of the universe, akin to the Mayan concept of the singularity. They express their beliefs through performance, art, and ritual, aiming to return to a universal understanding of existence.
Transcript (but better listened to because it’s a spoken word performance):
CAIN: The cross looks a lot like a cactus. The human is the center of the axis mundi between heaven and earth, receding, channeling the lightning rod for larger wisdom. This is the initiation, the creation of the new hermetic syncretic spiritualism, the most ancient order, remixed, a new incarnation.
HOLLY: Presented in our vessels our prendas filtered through our unique combination of knowledge and experience captured in this moment,
CAIN: in these containers,
HOLLY: special and sacred and that they are ephemeral, only existing for a moment before they disappear again, coming together briefly, only existing because we're observing each other. That is the transmutation, is the witnessing, telling each other it really happened, you're not crazy. Compassion, meaning suffering together, the pain our initial initiatory portal as priestexes into this new order of syncretic, hermetic spiritualism, the Gospel of Judas, the real story of Jesus, the real story of the repressed feminine that never gave consent and had everything taken. And the remix is in dissolving every boundary and binary, including between academia, science and spirituality, bringing into these ancient ways, the scientific method, the process of questioning everything, citation and in situ, looking at everything in context, citing our Sources, bringing in the ancient concept of I, Me, I am because you're living reciprocity, bringing in respect, calling out our elders and where we got these things from to begin with, but also bringing in that we have new things that they didn't know. We have new perspective that is only gained from this new ability, through technology, to transcend the boundaries of the material plane. We are the psycho pumps that can now move between all the realms, not just astral, but also physical material in ways that were unprecedented before. We can now see from a new vantage point through our unique lens of human consciousness. In this moment, it's just that we can see farther, clearer than ever before. And so we bring new boundary dissolving perspective to the ancient traditions, which still were pretty binary, masculine, feminine. And now we bring in the trans what which was there to begin with, if you go far enough back. But again, I don't think that we ever before had the ability to really combine everything in every moment through a material corpus. In this moment of existence, it's it's like a new quantum level, a new observer from a larger perspective, that's more like the original thing, that's more like the cosmos that created everything to begin with. And this is why it's the singularity. It's because through our bodies, we've returned to the place where the whole universe started, and that's the eschaton Iscariot. That's the chariot that takes us into the new cycle, and the Maya predicted it. They just maybe didn't know how to name every part of it yet. That's why the calendar is always accurate. Always. Sometimes it only makes sense in retrospect. Sometimes it only makes sense and it only makes sense in context. It only makes sense the citations, if we see where we came from, and we express this gospel through performance and art and food and beverage, and we express this gospel through coming together. We express this gospel through ritual. That's the key. We express this gospel through ceremony. And the ceremony takes many forms, from ecstatic dance to a meal to sharing a beer, anything that's prepared intentionally, a meal, a funeral feast for. Recognition or simply holding space in silence at the same moment, or alone on our mats. It's all about observance. It's all about observance. We can see things more closely than ever before because of technology. We can see things more closely than ever before because of the return to being able to go into our bodies, we can see things more clearly than ever before because of our reclaimed ability to walk the day world and the night world alternately, sometimes simultaneously, the dance between the formless and forum. This is why it's the singularity. It's because using the new emerging technologies, innovations, knowledge, guidance, wisdom, feeling my body, our body, body of Earth. This is our sacramental oath. It's really just returning us to the truest expression of what the universe is that's knowing itself through every possible configuration, the christing, the remembering, remembering in our bodies, my body, the body of Earth, the gospel of Jesus, Judas in the initiatory of the new order of the oldest tradition, syncretic hermetic spiritualism.
