@GirlVersusGame I can't just recommend a few songs by either band. You need to listen to all of them. It's a tough one for me to answer honestly as I like all of them. Out of the two bands zeppelin are my fave so I'll recommend...
1) Going to california
2) Tangerine
3) Since I've been loving you
4) No quarter
5) Kashmir
@Northern_munkey I'll give them a listen thank you, Kashmir I know. It was sampled by Puff Daddy for 'come with me' used on the Godzilla soundtrack. I heard it live when Slash used it for his last tour too. I'm a huge Jimmy Page fan but I mean the man himself, I hardly know his music. He's also an Occultist, has a massive collection, even once owned Aleister Crowley's original property in Scotland (Boleskin House) I found Page through the Occult not music. Bowie had a passing interest and was introduced to him by Mick Jagger, then decided his interests were a little too extreme and too dark. He owned Equinox too, an Occult bookstore in London, he published manuscripts through it. My collection is in the hundreds, his is in the thousands, he's got so many originals like some of Crowley's clothes and book collection. He's so fascinating as a man that having not listened to his music was that rare exception. But of course I know Stairway to Heaven too, it's layered in so much esoteric meaning, just like Page.
I'm trying this one, most I know as covers like Immigrant Song, used for The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo. I'm starting to think that Over The Hills and Far Away (not listened yet) wasn't a NightWish original after all. Either way tonights the night I'll really discover Zeppelin, thank you.
These violent delights have violent ends & in their triumph die, like fire & powder Which, as they kiss, consume.
@GirlVersusGame I own pretty much all of crowleys works and i do class myself as a thelemite although I'm not a practitioner-its more of a philosophical interest for me. It's not something I actively engage conversation about as there are so many people out there who claim to be "occultists" but always get things wrong and show themselves to be charlatans. I used crowleys teachings as a way to work out who I am and to try and be true to myself regardless what others think. It strengthened my mind and silenced a lot of noise that just wasn't productive to me. Do I believe in god? It's not a question that's easy to answer because my feelings towards religion and personal faith are sometimes conflicted. I think the whole "do what thou wilt" mantra sums it up.
@Northern_munkey I'm a practitioner of the Golden Dawn system of High Magik, I never expected to ever bump into another Occultist on a video-game site. The Occult for me is all generation, the men in my life are Masons. I've been offered a place in the Order of The Eastern Star, through a direct Master Mason connection. I almost said yes. I passed the investigation committee, aced my moral standing. For me it was the interest in their charity work and their philanthropy, also in their belief in the Supreme Architect, what Masons call God. A Mason can't ask a brother or sister who or what they think God is, just that they believe in that one Supreme Being, and I do.
For years I used Witchcraft and the Occult to balance natural mediumship, it did work for a while, until it didn't. What I said to you about a near death experience, I came back from that place with some souvenirs. I tried Witchcraft first, skipped passed Wicca right into Golden Dawn then Enochian teachings. I got a little too deep in something else and things really turned upside down. High Magik is often transactional, I wanted balance and knowledge, I had a lot of questions. I couldn't find those answers in books and I read hundreds, so I went to the source as they say.
While I remember. I recommended a great film about the Occult to someone a couple of days ago 'A Dark Song' it uses the actual the Abramelin Operation from the 15th century Book of Abramelin.
They said after that they loved the movie. I'd told him my favorite movie is The Devil Rides Out with Christopher Lee and 'mine too' so we talked about so many Occultic movies.
I don't know if that eight page monster post is still on this thread, that was about everything I saw over there. I say 'everything', it was just a fraction, I've written hundreds of pages about that experience. It was two-minutes of our time but it felt like months to me. I didn't see 'God', I saw science, a different kind of science that we have yet to discover. I saw a lot of that same science in the teachings of Rudolf Steiner (Occult science and Theosophy) and in the work of Madam Helena Blavatsky. The same way I saw it in the work of Nikoli Tesla and his theories on energy/frequency and vibration, I then saw those same connections in theoretical physics and quantum mechanics and string theory. I'm currently reading 'The story of light: An introduction to quantum field theory or quarks and leptons' and 'Quantum Mechanics and the Big World: Order, Broken Symmetry and Coherence in Quantum Many-body Systems'. Both are a direct consequence of what I saw over there, I've been trying my whole life to understand it it properly, without the woo and the spooky theatrics. What I saw was realer that real and I'm certain the answers are either in mainstream science of in the science of the Occult.
That's my Goodreads, there's an Occult tab there, no doubt you recognize some titles. Some of the people from here are on there too. goodreads.com/awaywiththefaeries
It's not something I actively engage conversation about as there are so many people out there who claim to be "occultists" but always get things wrong and show themselves to be charlatans. I
That was my experience with mediumship. It was only a couple of years ago that I finally told my Partner what was going on. I saw every mainstream medium, I wanted to close-down and turn it all off. I was getting no sleep, seeing really disturbing things. It's fine if a person can turn that into a career but I can't, my Family are strictly against it. Against Witchcraft now too but the Occult is in our DNA, if tomorrow I said 'yes' to joining the O.E.S. there would be a huge 'well done'. I want to do it for myself, not because of feeling pressured, it needs to feel right and true, just like the virtues of The Order itself. The world charlatan to me would be what I saw in so called demonologists who said they knew how to help, they had no clue and ran away. I made the problem for myself, and more or less dealt with it myself. I have nothing but the upmost respect for the Occult. I met a lot of wannabes in the form of Left-Hand Path Satanists too, so many people like that, it was always a bad fit. I'm solitary now and it works. I've found a way to blend the work of regular philosophers with those like Steiner and found a system of isolation and self-mastery and learning that works for me as an individual. That's another reason that I still haven't joined our Lodge.
It strengthened my mind and silenced a lot of noise that just wasn't productive to me.
That's where I am now, I adore silence and quiet study, all I want from life is learning, it's the only thing I can bring with me when I go back up there. I have to say it's been really special talking to you. I do believe everything happens for a reason, conversations too. It's so easy to think 'well I'm weird as heck and those people are normal, thank you for being equally weird. I mean that in the nicest way possible. Question does your wife paint anything of that nature? you said she's an artist and my mind went right to Lady Frieda Harris. My Grandmum gave me my first Tarot deck when I was five or six and her Thoth deck is one of my favorites to work with. Obviously because it's Golden Dawn.
Edit: Adding these for anyone wondering what we're even talking about. Hyena Socks asked me for some Occult and Witchcraft book recommendations a couple of days ago so people must get curious eventually. That's my original Golden Dawn deck, Lady Frieda's work is beautiful, absolutely stunning.
@GirlVersusGame my wife did a series of portraits of crowley for a friend who published a series of crowleys diaries. Each portrait was from the era in which the original diaries were published. Each run was numbered 1 to 93. The run I own are all numbered 23.
@GirlVersusGame also I don't class myself as an occultist more of somebody who has an understanding and keen interest in all things esoteric. It just so happens that crowleys system resonates with me and I think it just worked for me. I didn't take you labeling me an occultist as an insult.
@GirlVersusGame other bands you may find of interest that are very relevant to our discourse are throbbing gristle,coil and psychic t.v.
They are not easy listening and throbbing gristle are especially an unpleasant experience but it's all relevant.
@Northern_munkey I didn't take you labeling me an occultist as an insult.
Oh good because I see it as a strong compliment.
As you said there are so many charlatans, for me it's a way of life. I shelved the practice of Witchcraft, I still study, I'll never shelve the Occult. It helps me in everyday life because it is part of everyday life, and Crowley may have been 'the wickedest man alive', he still understood something that many of his time didn't (the same for today) and I do have a lot of respect for his teachings and his work. Steiner is my favorite Occult philosopher. Dion Fortune was one of my earliest efforts to really study Ceremonial Magik. Her books 'Aspects of Occultism' and 'The Cosmic Doctrine' were two of my earliest, one I keep going back to is 'Principles of Hermetic Philosophy'. I have a lot of what you might call connections to people in that Circle today, it's all very much alive and well and probably why people are so quick to jump to conspiracy theories.
It's nature is hidden and I suppose people jump to natural conclusions. William Wynn Westcott, William Robert Woodman, and Samuel Liddell Mathers were all Masons/Societas Rosicruciana and all co-founders of The Golden Dawn. I think the irony is that people think Elites are all part of these Esoteric Orders, but sometimes it's true, by the same token it's a lot more normal than it seems. For me it's a deep reverence and respect for specific Systems and for those who came before me, it's all God, that creative force and energy that I think put me here. I see that Great Architect as a creator of everything, the universe, other universes, those teachings fit.
Another example I can think of would be from Crowley's Book of The Law
'"Lust, enjoy all things of sense and rapture: fear not that any God shall deny thee for this." He taught that asceticism and self-denial were harmful lies, and that physical passion and sensory joy are part of divine existence' - Hence my actual relationship dynamic. I live it literally not figuratively.
This is also why Crowley renamed 'Strength' to 'Lust'. He designed it around the primal and the Divine, that combination created a kind of Spiritual transformation. I view my lifestyle dynamic through The Book of The Law, not Fifty Shades of nonsense. It's either all in, or not at all. The Thelema were morally restrained and libertine in their 'activities', as am I. I do try to avoid Egoistic Hedonism and instead focus on Libertinism and True Will, I'm morally unrestrained because of it, but I do care about others in the process, it's a complex mix, one that works.
my wife did a series of portraits of crowley for a friend who published a series of crowleys diaries. Each portrait was from the era in which the original diaries were published. Each run was numbered 1 to 93. The run I own are all numbered 23.
And now I'm not surprised at all by that answer, it's a really small word. It's also a kind of never judge it's book by it's cover. When I start talking about certain topics it kind of takes people aback, it's unexpected just like I didn't expect you to mention Crowley or Thelma today. My thinking a couple of days ago was 'this Guy is cool he likes Judge Dredd', then you started talking about other things and I saw a much bigger picture. You are a perfect example of why it's good to just randomly talk to people, it's like the box of chocolates in Forrest Gump. We can spend our lives assuming but we'll never really truly know a person until we make the effort to talk to them. I appreciate that you did. I don't really care if people think I'm weird, their world is equally weird, but it's all very brief too.
Also as for Zeppelin, they too are a good fit too. I'm trying every album.
These violent delights have violent ends & in their triumph die, like fire & powder Which, as they kiss, consume.
@SoulChimera I guess it makes sense when you see what Totoki has been doing
1. New IP owned by them.
2. DS2 seemed to massively underperform commercially and didn't get the goty awards
3. PS wants to go fully exclusive but KP probably wants day one PC.
Definitely a bad look though especially right now.
In some good news Until Dawn 2's pricing seems really good at least in Hong Kong Dollars. HKD 278 (35usd) for digital and 328 (41-42usd) for Deluxe digital
@cainhurst94
And Dacre Montgomery from Stranger Things fame lives on.
It's funny to think just how much better the later seasons would of been had he stuck around(Which was planned from the get-go), since he was easily the strongest most diverse and compelling actor on that show and completely outshined every single other cast member. Even the actor that played Steve admited to how impressed he was being in Dacre's presence during their scenes together.
But he feared being type casted so he worked something out with the directors just to stick around for 2 seasons, have his redemption arc, and then get killed off off in S3's finale. He still showed up as Vecna in one of S4's episode, but that was that. And S5 was pretty awful, especially the 2nd half. S4 was a mixed bag, and newcomer Eddie did not fill the Billy void. Vecna was interesting, and i enjoyed the showdown between him and Eleven, and whatever else. But in all honestly, had the series ended at S3 I would of been more than content.
But back to Until Dawn 2...Ya, I'll most likely never play it. My excitement as far as PS5 is concerned is resserved for Resident Evil Veronica and not much else. Then again, I'll most likely just experience the PCVR mod once it drops a month or so after Veronica releases, and use the Steam Frame to play it. Plus I'm probably just going to get Mega Man Dual Override on NS2, unless there's a drastic difference in visual quality.
I also want to experience both ILL & Silent Hill: Townfall in VR, and then there's Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantic, again, with a 3rd person PCVR mod with traditional controls using a DualSense. I need that sense of scale, visceral feeling and wow factor that a flat 65" OLED TV simply can't provide anymore. The flatcreen gaming landscape has hit a wall of graphical dimishing returns. If only modern 4K QD-OLED TV's had stereoscopic 3D, even with glasses. it would be like peering through a window into a virtual world, with 3D pop.
It was incredible back on 3DS during it's launch in 2011, I can only imagine how great it would be even at just 1080p per eye(Since 4K would split in half for each eye) on a 55 or 65" 4K TV. It would revitlize my passion and love for flatscreen gaming ten fold. Ocarina of Time Remake in S3D you say? Take my money.
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