Introductions

[Medusa161]

G'day all you bright sparks!

Some of you obviously know more folk arriving here than others do. Keeping this in mind, I thought that it might help ease us all into discussions and stuff if we came here for a mo and introduced ourselves.

What makes us tick? What do we want to achieve? Why do we do what we do?

Ever curious

Su

[Medusa161]

Please allow me to introduce myself
I'm a woman of wit and taste
I’ve been around for a long, long year
Stole many a man's soul and faith … *

Enter stage left … one small Australian-based woman starting to shrink with age. She smiles and for one brief second you find yourself staring down a kaleidoscope of mirrors.

What would interest you? We could start with woman, wit, witch, mage, muse, mad piper at the gates of hell perhaps … inspired or deranged? Who really knows she muses.

Self-taught for the most part in magic, I followed the next lead from my next question kind of thing, and then kept right on going. I put effort into ancient Egyptian metaphysics, mediaeval alchemy, western ceremonial magic, sorcery and a reasonable amount of post-modern stuff. These days I mostly operate with imagination in the driver's seat using a form of magic that I currently develop (eidetic magic). My how time flies when we enjoy ourselves (grins).

I love everything to do with stars from stellar myth to NASA. I read science fiction to keep my mind sparking. I sometimes suspect that I started life asking "why" and "what-if". I love everything to do with language including old ones (Hebrew, Latin, and ancient Egyptian) and whacky ones (Enochian and Ouranic-Barbaric). These days I even communicate in a variation of language known as E-Prime (English Prime) which basically means our language with the verb "to be" omitted. I love the psychological model for magic and stuff like general semantics, neurobiology, self-hypnosis, NLP, E-Prime etc.

Pleased to meet you
Hope you guessed my name, oh yeah
But what's confusing you
Is just the nature of my game
Just as every cop is a criminal
And all the sinners saints
As heads is tails
Just call me Medusa
'cause I’m in need of some restraint
So if you meet me
Have some courtesy
Have some sympathy, and some taste
Use all your well-learned politesse
Or I'll lay your soul to waste … *

* With apologies to "Sympathy for the Devil" by The Rolling Stones

I look forward to the discussions here.

Su Leybourn (aka Medusa161)

[Venger Satanis]

Introductions! what a good idea.

well, I'm Venger As'Nas Satanis. in 2004, i founded and continue to lead the Cult of Cthulhu organization as High Priest.

3 words to best describe me: creative, ambitious, eldritch.

i like what's become of this community already. i hope it brings more people into the Mythos and our Cult as well.

thanks for joining everyone,

VS

[Venger Satanis]

hang on... i'm changing my 3 words to: creative, ambitious, nigrescent. cause, yeah... that's my pet word. although, i'm still quite eldritch. ;)

VS

[William Weird]

Ghastly greetings, ghouls n' goblins!

I'm William Weird. I've been a Lovecraft devotee since grade school when I read Pickman's Model for the first time. I'm a big nerd with a taste for all things bizarre, obscure, macabre, and cult. I'm a big horror movie nut, and comic book geek as well, but my first and most sincere passion remains, to this day, literature. I love reading and I love writing, but over the years my love for writing and my love for cinema have fused together, meaning I've been writing less and less short stories and novels and writing more and more screenplays. I'm currently working on an adaptation all my own of Pickman's Model (still my favorite Lovecraft story after all these years), not to make or anything, just for my own pleasure.
Hmmmm... what else?
My sense of humor is made up entirely of lame puns and really inappropriate gallows humor.

Well, I guess that's a little bit about me, in a nutshell. Cool to be hear.

Until next slime...
Stay sick!
Your pickled pal,
William Weird.

[Renee]

Life is truly weird, I just followed my own inner awareness happening. I didn't read any of Lovecraft's works but it is really close to what has been reveal to me. It is a bit different but still the closest I have been able to find that matchs what I really believe in. That is why I am here.

[Martin Bowes]

What a good Idea! Ok brought up in the mental meat grinder that is catholothism.But from a young age always strangly drawn to the DarkSide(?). My introduction to Occult as a tangible force was strangely from my Childhood Karate instructor. with his strange little demos. It was'nt till a copy of Stewart and Janet Farrah's Witches Way made its way into my possesion that I became realy aware of the occult .Hey you gotta start somwhere! Soon tired of its unrealistic Happy Shineyness. Though it does have lot of good stuff. It did introduce me to Crowley, Golden Dawn etall. These were Intresting but impractical. 'Bout this time met some guys at a conncert through an ex-girlfriend. This was a turning point for me. Roleplaying, HP Lovecraft and a sort of proto(for me anyhow) Chaos. So here we are been practising consciously on and off for bout 20 years. The times I've not been doing my thing I've met people who keep bringing me back. So what else do I do ,read lots. Pretty much anything that comes my way. At weekends can ften be dressed in the clothing of early 14th Century re-enacting the Wars Of Independance. More often than not on the English army. Oh and still keep my hand in with martial arts a Little Muay Thai and Escrima/Kali

[Abdul Alhazred]

hola, all. i'm actually coming to this site from the "geek" side of things. i've been into HPL since i was about 13, realized that Conan author Robert E. Howard used to be in Lovecraft's "inner circle" of writers, and that all those great Stuart Gordon/Brian Yuzna flix were based on someone's writings. while i'm really into books on the occult, etc., i'd hardly call myself a practitioner of magic(k). i'm all about cult movies (you probably already assumed that with my Gordon/Yuzna name-dropping though...lol.), comic books, lowbrow art, the electric git-fiddle (aka guitar), D.I.Y. punk rock, black metal, noise, tattooing and other body mods, and....oh yeah...being married to Uxia (she'd kick my arse if i didn't mention that, haha!). hope i made some kind of sense there. been on a bit of no sleep and Molson. apparently i'm all about insomnia and Canadian beer tonight.

[Venger Satanis]

nothing wrong with being a geek.

i like comic books, lowbrow art, and i think most people like the guitar in some fashion. tattoos and body mods. tell us more. and more photos of Uxia!

VS

[Abdul Alhazred]

yeah, Uxia definitely needs to put some more pics up soon. i got one up of some tattoo work i started on her a while back. hopefully no one thought that was me sporting the low-rise jeans and thong in my pics...lol!

as for more on me, anyone can feel free to hit me up for an add at my myspace too. it's a little more in depth, since i've had it longer....

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&am...

please don't let the large amount of friends on there fool you. if someone actually takes the time to write me/carry on an intelligent conversation, i will write back. i'm the furthest thing from a "page collector" there is.

[Venger Satanis]

tell us more about the karate instructor, the roleplaying, and the chaos? why do people keep bringing you back, and why do you keep falling away?

thanks for the intro.

VS

[Martin Bowes]

Ok my old Sensei. He was always Charlie except on formal occasaisions. Kept all the associated Kow-towing to a minimum. A teacher of two different styles. Then there were his little moments where he almost desended into Mr Miyagi mode. Focus, push your energy down, project your self.  This could be just the usual martial art cliches. Though when sparring he had this strange way of getting in your head. You'd be doing your thing then all of a sudden your arm or leg would be off doing its own thing or rather his thing!  After years of this we did ask him about it. He laughed in a smug Knowing way then it began. Training in the dark, sparring over a little assault course of Gym equipment.  Weapons were intoduced. When we started we borrowed his. We became very aware of how his tools didn't like anyone but him handling them. It could I guess be put down to our incompetence. But even as we learned, his tools remained aloof. Which always made him laugh smuggly. He explain these things to us. Focus, push your energy down, project. Like I said a copy of "The Witches Way" found its way to me. A big awakening. I began to find myself in the company of mediums, wiccas; people I'd known for a long time were Practising or dabbling. It was great until I over stepped the mark."Don't Raise up what you cant put down". Hit a real low.  College was a turning point. Met up with a crew of boys I'd met at a Nephilim gig. Slater, Hannah, Doc. A Nominaly wiccan (so they claimed) bunch who role played and war gamed. BANG again in it up to my neck. This motley crew was joined by Chris and Heather, a semi pro medium and my old schoolmate Mo. What was practised was like I said a kinda proto chaos. Completly selfish self serving and out of control.  

[something_is_coming]

I am a third degree HVHI Chaote,exploring new aspects of mythos philosophy and practice. I have been working with Lovecraftian paradigms for about four years now and have been a devoted fan of his legacy for over a decade.

....and once upon a time..I had a cat..who decided it was a good idea to jump on my desk,scare the shit out of me,knock a full cup of tea onto my keys and then haul-furry-ass across the house to hide....

kitty is getting a bath..

www.myspace.com/somethingiscoming