Newspaper Discovery Sends Shock Waves Through Subgenius Community | Fit To Print. Sometimes while I’m preparing newspapers for microfilming, I come across interesting images, often I’ll take a photo on my phone and upload it to Facebook to share with my friends. I did this a couple of weeks ago and received an amazing response to a series of photos I posted from The Blue Ridge Herald from June 1956. I have been aware of the Church of the SubGenius since the late 1980′s. During high school, a friend’s older brother had purchased a copy of The Book of the SubGenius : The Sacred Teachings of J.R. “Bob” Dobbs, so I checked it out. The Dobbs head was immediately recognizable in this advertisement for a department store in Leesburg, Virginia. Two days after my initial posts I started receiving many comments and “likes” from strangers who are affiliated with the Church. Father's Day advertisement for Tobacco Gifts featuring Bob. The real-life origin of the SubGenius logo?
Psychedelic Ritual Magick! Since the beginning of history, human beings have been tripping balls as a sacred act. From the Vedic texts to the Egyptian and Tibetan Books of the Dead, read the world's sacred texts and you'll see reference after reference to deep psychedelic states. Some anthropologists even believe that all of human culture, language and religion might be rooted in the psychedelic experience. Fast forward to 2014: After the consciousness revolutions of the 1960s—with all of their successes and failures—substances that were once reserved for shamans and elite priesthoods have become commonplace. From mushrooms to salvia to incredibly potent medicinal marijuana, these substances are everywhere, carrying varying degrees of legality. And legal or not, young people throughout the world are doing what young people have always done: getting loaded in order to grasp at transcendence.
But what's been lost is the deep shamanic and esoteric wisdom that traditionally accompanied the use of these substances. Flying Logic : Software for Visual Planning Support : Home. Temple of Mysteries - The Johannite Heresy. Another candidate for the gnostic heresy at the heart of the Templars is that they - or the inner circle - were Johannites.
Baigent, Leigh and Lincoln, discussing the Templars' alleged worship of the head-shaped Baphomet idol, write: recent speculation had linked the head, at least tentatively, with the severed head of John the Baptist; and certain writers have suggested that the Templars were 'infected' with the Johannite or Mandaean heresy - which denounced Jesus as a 'false prophet' and acknowledged John as the true Messiah. In the course of their activities in the Middle East the Templars undoubtedly established contact with Johannite sects, and the possibility of Johannite tendencies in the Order is not altogether unlikely. But one cannot say that such tendencies obtained for the Order as a whole nor that they were a matter of official policy. One of the suggested origins of the name 'Baphomet' is that it derives from 'Baptist' or 'baptism'.
This idea was taken up by Lynn Picknett and. Order of the United Rites of Memphis and Mizraim. Nine Ways | Ancient Wisdom from the Yungdrung Bön Tradition of Tibet. WingMakers.