Tommie and Spud Talk About...

What? An actual new episode of TaSTA? Is the world ending? Hold on - AND there's a video version too?  In this episode [Ep. 115] Tommie & Spud talk about the TV show "Severance" and how watching it with a spiritual eye is quite revealing; Old Blue Eyes Jordan Thornton gets a mention;  Alice Bailey, World Service, and Harmlessness get an entire section for themselves, and Spud recommends some books and offers his new counselling services. We start and end the episode with Spud's history of doing bad things and how he plans to reform.

NOTE: There were weird audio sync issues, so we used the Zoom audio, which means that laughs get cut off. So please bear in mind that we both found each other hilarious and laughed at each other's jokes.

People & Things  Mentioned:

In Episode 113 - Shredding of the Snake Skin, Tommie and Spud talk about several dreams and syncs involving snakes. Spud mentions a review on Amazon about Peter Kingsley, which leads to a discussion around a scholarly approach versus a practitioners approach - and why both have value. 

There is a discussion around Keith Raniere, NXIVM and The Vow documentary, and cults and general cultish behaviour. 

After that, we discuss the differences between Awakening, Initiation and Darśana, which leads nicely into Spud's theory of there only being two Archetypes: The Victim & The Hero. 

Last week, Spud launched a Chaos Hand grenade around the notions of "Cultural Shadows", which we unpack for a while.

Tommie then guides Spud and you, the Listener, through a process which allows you to experience that everything has the exact same quality and arises in the exact same place and then you might even disappear. This leads to the ending discussion about Awakening and if it's actually worth persuing.

And we end with Tommie and Spud discussing two recent dreams, and why sometimes dreams don't mean anything.

LINKS:

00:28 Tommie shows off the new TaSTA T-shirt!

02:00 Grants, Loans, and Property Tax (and weird sound)

08:00 Is Democracy bad?

10:40 Tommie's Vegan Digestive issues and other stories.

20:50 A horror story from Spud's childhood.

24:45 TaSTA's Irish Facts 002!

28:28 TaSTA's Irish Lesson 002 - How to say Goodbye!

34:50 TaSTA's Pillars of Magic 002: Sigils!

-- Sigils: what are they, how to make them, why they work, what is shoaling, how to activate them, what are hypersigils, and what our thoughts and experiences are around them. 

1:09:53 A Philip K Dick conversation including his books, movies, Simulation Theory, Valis, Past Lives, Alternative Current lives, Remembering the future, Exploding Safes and other stories.

This week we talk about...

00:13 The Number 101

01:20 The Tv Show 1883

02:30 Spud being Spud.

04:34 John Lennon, George Harrison and Jodorowsky

07:30 It's not Tommie's fault

08:35 The Secret Cypher of the Ufonauts

12:50 Stuart Wilde and The Greys

15:40 Greenfield's UPG?

18:30 How popular is Hellier really?

19:20 Anthony Peake's view on the HGA / Diamon.

24:35 Deja Vu on drugs.

30:00 TaSTA's Irish Lesson 001 - How to say Hello!

32:04 TaSTA's Irish Facts 001!

33:30 TaSTA's Pillars of Magic 001: Offerings.

34:25 Offerings are the oldest religious ritual?

38:15 Offerings now seem like a diluted version of what they were.

41:10 Offerings as Sacrifices.

41:40 The First Sacrifice.

45:40 Do the Spirits know what Sacrifices originally were?

48:00 Time as an Offering

49:40 Using Spirit Offerings as a slot machine.

52:45  Offering as remembrance.

56:00 Spending time with Spirit

57:30 Offerings and Pacts

59:40 Using Offerings to make somewhere "holy" - 

59:50 Offerings work the same as art.

1:04:40 Not wanting material things doesn't make you more spiritual. 

1:08:00 Being punished if you get what you want

1:09:05 Skinriding

1:10:00 Spirits need to be remembered?

Timestamps:

00:14 Happy Birthday to TaSTA?

01:20 Going back to listening to the first episode.

03:20 How exactly do you pronounce "Thelema"?

05:15 Perdurabo: The Life of Aleister Crowley.

06:05 Crowley and the deaths on the mountain.

08:00 Being Vegan while Touring in a band.

10:05 Test Tube Cows.

13:15 What's wrong with Alan Moore's Jerusalem.

16:50 What's wrong with Grant Morrison's comics.

19:00  The superpower Tommie wants.

20:40 Bad Karma from Piracy?

22:20 What we thought of Hellier having rewatched it recently.

32:10 Is Indrid Cold dead?

35:20 Tommie talks about some recent tough Shadow Work.

40:30 The danger of doing Shadow Work.

42:22 Pierre Grimes & Philosophical Midwifery

48:00 How much Shadow Work can you do by yourself?

49:45 Another amazingly weird Jodorowsky story. 

53:50 What Tommie feels Magick is? And why he thinks he may be talking about something different than what other people are calling magick.

1:06:45 How we have changed from the first episode.

1:15:00 What's next?

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TIMESTAMPS:

00:14 Rose in the Wind (Song) 

01:55 Musk now owns Twitter

02:40 How and when did social media change?

06:40 Tommie gets back into Randonautica

17:45 Even Bad people think they're doing the right thing??? Really??

22:00 It is what it is.

24:10 Johnny Depp and Amber Turd.

25:45 Animal Training and Elephants doing Magick!

30:30 The Ultraterrestrial Hunt! 

36:00 Experience of doing The Star Ruby

41:00 Pan in Hellier

42:10 In Search of The Dead!

45:15 Why does "Woo" happen mostly at night? 

49:45 That weird "Presence" in your room at 3am.

51:30 What exactly are Ghosts?

53:20 "That Place"

56:10 Should you approach Woo scientifically? 

1:05:30 The story behind Tommie's new Ouija Board

1:09:10 Approaching Ritual communications as "cutups"

1:12:10 Making connections and A-ha moments within a Magick Working.

1:15:01 Tommie changes his mind about the "success" of the Pan working in Hellier

1:18:50 Why ask spirits questions you already know the answer to?

1:21:00 Pieer Grimmes knows your secrets!

1:23:00 the "Ah F*ck" moment in shadow work. 

1:26:00 Occult Drama and what is the point when you should first punch a Nazi?

00:15 MU MU!

00:45 Spud has the Lurgi!

03:00 Charging the Car and Solar Energy

06:30 Tommie does some Spirit Bothering. 

11:11 All the Clairs...

13:00 Lag in Spiritual communication.

14:30 Maybe us making patterns IS the communication.

15:50 What Spud has learned from the Black Communications.

16:54 All of Spud's recent Thelemic syncs.

24:50 Having a period of "Spiritual Sickness".

29:26 Spud and Tommie can't remember who played Frodo.

31:45 The Myths/ lies/ Bad Spelling of Jodorowsky.

33:52 The Peter Kingsley bird.

34:00 Too TV much to watch.

35:00 Blavatsky needs more recognition.

36:25 The guitar player theory of Spiritual Advancement.

41:10 Spud was scared of Thelema in case he liked it!

44:00 How "Friends" + "Cheers" have aged badly.

46:20 What would the KLF do?

TIMESTAMPS:

00:15 Will Smith slapping Chris Rock conspiracies.

03:30 Spud's history of baldness.

10:49 We discuss our recent rituals and communication with BLACK.

11:40 The TaSTA Ritual with Jason "Nuggan" Mendel.

15:18 The TaSTA Ritual with Duncan Barford.

27:42 The TaSTA Dawn Ritual.

29:40 The call with Marco Visconti.

31:13 The TaSTA Dawn Ritual continued.

Timestamps:

00:14 Introductions

01:16 What Duncan did to get into the trance to contact BLACK.

02:00 The quality of the visualisations.

03:39 When did Duncan first start doing trance work?

05:03 Advice for people who want to do trance work themselves

06:25 How does the entity evoked affect the trance?

07:40 Trance Vs The Estes Method

09:40 Necrophonic App

11:11 Trance compared to an Ouija Board

12:30 Using herbs like Mugwort

15:10 Who exactly is Duncan? What was The Baptist's Head?

23:00 Breaking Chaos Magick & and why Chaos Magick is limited.

30:30 Queuing is Anarchy.

31:30 Does Duncan still do Magick?

34:15 Spud teaches us some Ukrainian 

36:20 Chat around the documentary "The Bridgewater Triangle" including discussion on what exactly is "The Other", are UFOs & Cryptids part of the awakening process? & more!

00:14 Mark Lannigan died.

01:30 All Director's Cuts of movies are bad?

03:30 World War 3 and Spud's Dream.

07:30 Is Spud safe?

18:30 Why aren't people just chill?

19:00 States & Stages in spiritual evolution.

23:11 Speaking Romantic Klingon.

23:50 Processing your day so your dreams are more intense.

25:50 Something in my room...

26:25 Dreaming about significant past influences.

29:10 A recent Magical Working around singing and truth.

34:50 Taking breaks can rejuvenate your practice. 

36:40 What's the deal with Dead Gurus, spiritual teachers, and money.

42:55 Why not audition Gurus?

47:45 Don't believe you are special just because you are God.

51:00 Support your local guru.

52:00 Tommie & the Arcane School.

55:45 Spud discovers he has a microphone

58:05 Spud doesn't like spiritual chanting.

1:00:00 Hare Krishna's make the best food.

1:02:00 Lots of Occultists returning to Catholicism.

1:06:30 Ramakrishna - mad b*stard!

1:08:49 Sister Nivedita.

NOW IN HD! We finally started paying for Zoom so now we can record in (kinda) HD. It's upscaled to 4K too. Will wonders never cease?

00:20 Pints of Guinness

02:10 Spud's third week of lockdown

04:25 Leo the Leak

07:30 Good Old Texas Joe and Spotify

15:00 On the lack of the Second Father Archetype

19:05 Never believe your own Bullsh1t

21:00 Tommie realises that he's being racist by referencing a meme

23:00 Richard Dawkins "invented" Memes

24:10 St Bridgit's Day

26:00 We continue to not have a clue about what we are actually talking about

29:50 What year is it?

34:02 An Angel has a word with Spud

42:24 Chaos Magick, mantras are "real"  and where that leads...

47:10 Can Chaos magick be used to work on Karma?

49:49 The Near Enemies of Truth

51:15 Tommie joins the Arcane School

58:56 The Difference between Theosophy and Tantra

1:06:45 David Gordon White's Pantajli book

1:09:55 The chat about the new UFO documentary "The Observers."

00:22 Is Russia coming for Spud?

09:50 This is the nature of the world and it can't be fixed?

20:10 Tantra and Raja Yoga

22:20 Tantric method of digesting emotions

35:00 You fixing you, is you fixing the Universe

36:10 Being in Love with your teacher

36:40 Loving people without liking them

42:35 Be Here Now

47:15 Sexy M+Ms  

49:45 The Kybalion Movie Chat

00:28 The latest NFT idiocy, or maybe a scam?

10:50 A couple of Glitch in the Matrix stories.

14:40 classic ghost story

15:15 Bob Wilson and Cosmic Trigger

16:11 Ram Das and Conversion Therapy

17:55 The sexy Polish underworld

20:05 Catholic Ireland and schools

21:50 Modern Multicultural Ireland

23:40 Being on the dole while selling used underwear 

31:40 The Prince Purple OEITH T-Shirt

35:00 Brexit ruined everything AGAIN

37:05 Duncan Barford's sexy book "The Book Of Raziel"

39:20 Why T&S find it hard  to work with people

43:30 Doing things our own way with regard to working

48:30 We let ourselves down more than other people do

50:00 What Tommie needs in a guru

51:20 Does it all stem from trauma?

52:00 Tommie reading Alice A. Bailey again

53:20 Group work and your place in the bigger scheme of things

56:00 Spirituality shouldn't be the main thing in your life?

01:02:00 Icelandic Woo - Investigation Into the Invisible World

00:14 Not a medical doctor

01:42 Ireland is at peak testing capacity

05:40 The new Matrix is rubbish

08:00 Spud has been reading fiction again including Cormac McCarty and Chuck Palahniuk.

09:00 Fight Club

16:30 Transgressive Fiction and Anti-heroes

27:15 The upcoming Metta Challenge over on AIWW Discord

28:05 What way do you do Metta?

31:41 The actually full truth about Metta & the Buddha

32:48 Meditation without context

39:15 Horseshoe magic

40:28 Feeling responsible for other people's moods and being their emotional regulator

53:40 Steve Martin

55:50 Carlos Castaneda chat

This week we have a special guest co-host - Jason "Nuggan" Mendel from A Lamp in the Underworld! 

00:16 Let's try this again!

00:46 Who is Jason?

01:32 How was Christmas?

03:00 Roles and Pendulums 

03:45 But there is no you!

04:18 Spud's George Harrison Story

06:50 Do you use an alarm?

07:50 The deep sleep of the non-Catholics

08:30 A Typical American Christmas?

11:10 Happy new YEAR! 

12:50 Twitter doesn't like something...again!

18:34 TaSTA won an Award!

20:45 We don't take TaSTA seriously enough?

21:01 What we've learned since meeting Metatron

22:00 Why it is so hard to do a divination for yourself

22:50 Jason describes his first "professional" Tarot reading

31:28 How do Gods fit in with Non-duality?

39:07 What is your response to sceptics? 

46:20 Jason's current spiritual journey

00:14 Buddha never said, "Thank you".

01:15 Carl Jung and AION.

02:35 All men die grumpy.

04:50 Charles Eisenstein, The Gathering of the Tribe, and his cosmology.

21:40 Elon Musk and Time's Man of the Year.

24:40 Discussion around the C word that you can't mention on YouTube anymore.

35:30 The other C word you can't mention on YouTube :)

36:30 Control (a C word you can mention)

40:10 Meditation chat

42:49 "I don't mind what happens" - Jiddu Krishnamurti

43:40 Parenting, parents, and generational trauma.

52:30 The Kekulé Problem 

56:10 Spud buys a Bible

59:50 "The Last Shaman" Discussion

TIMESTAMPS

00:14 What the Ancient Greeks called December

01:40 Something weird is happening to Spud

03:36 Using Etsy as an Artist in Ireland

05:36 Update on the second edition of the Grimoire

08:55 Spud finally gets round to reading Aion by Carl Jung

10:03 NO FAP?

10:50 AIWW's Discord "Prosperity Challenge"

11:30 Spud talks Horses

15:38 Using the Forty Servant's prayers

17:15 The benefits of group workings 

20:25 The release of Top Gun is the end of it all

21:50 Magic Offerings and how & why to do them

35:00 Why Spud has been missing recently

38:35 Lying down to Meditate and then falling asleep 

42:40 Gamifying Meditation 

43:20 Wayne Dyer's story about jogging every day 

44:13 Mixing up your meditation practice

49:30 Chaos Magic approach to meditation 7 magic practice

53:26 "Top of the Morning"

55:50  We talk about the documentary American Gospel: Christ Alone 

This week we discuss:

- An English Man in Belgium corrects Spud about Ireland

- Flags!

- Spud no longer leaves in a shantytown

- Stephen Skinner is Damon Brand update

- Separating Gordon White's two wolves

- Is Censorship a good idea? Is not having censorship a good idea?

- The cost of saying you are wrong

- Jodorowsky's Dune 

- Living in France would be too much for Spud's libido

- Jesus is Dionysus? 

- Getting out of your head and meditation

- Why Tommie likes Servitors and some personal history

- Servitors feeling external and internal

- Shiva and Shakti

- Asking "Why?"

- The reason for life

- The problem of evil and "bad stuff"

- God evolves at a slower rate than humans

- Does everyone think they're the good guy?

- Guinness!

- Our children talk about dead and imaginary friends.

- English is a terrible language.

- Shakespear voted for Brexit

- The Second Edition of The Grimoire

- Anyone want Spud's old tarot deck?

- What will happen to The Forty Servants when Tommie dies?

- Create new stuff not cover versions.

- Imaginary Court case about Servitors

- John Lennon's face is trademarked

- NFTs are stupid

- Facebook's Meta Future

- Do we need a second life?

- When you remove divinity everything else becomes religious in nature

- The immortality Key 

- The Darkening Age

- The Face on Mars

- Milk on Mars?

- Greeks owned Slaves

- Tantra Illuminated and the Notorious BIG

- Christopher D. Wallis 

- The three Paths of Reality

- Spud makes a case for Dr. Stephen Skinner being Damon Brand.

- Tommie Believes him.

- Spud worries Skinner will put a curse on him.

- Spud calls up an Angel and has a scary experience

- Dr Dee asking Angels for money

- How to say common Irish phrases in Babylonian.

- Do men actually like beaches?

- Apocalypse Poland? 

- Dave Ghrol's Magick Ritual that lead to his success

- John Lennon isn't a great person

- John Higgs and William Blake

- Tommie new music Video "The Stars Descend"

- Creativity and compulsion

- Foolish Fish's "Your Magic is Fine"

- Working with Spirits

- How to contact your HGA

- Blocks on your path towards awakening

- Strangers tell you secrets

- A Fortune Teller that Spud wanted to punch

- Getting dumped after a Tarot Reading 

- Frank Sidebottom

- Tommie shows off the cool metalwork items from William Opdyke

- Why do horses wear shoes? 

- Online abuse and communities

- KLF objects to new documentary 

- Spud fancies John Higgs

- Forty Servants Halloween Ritual

- PETER KINGSLEY!

- Stephen Skinner and the Spirit Model

- Magick Vs Mysticism 

- What would Spud Magic look like?

- Spud, Angels, and Left-hand-path

- Damon Brand 72 Angels

- Highly Sensitive People

- The Village of Swimming Cows

This week we talk about...

- Metallica through the years

- Problems UK musicians are having

- Nigel Farage "Up the Ra!"

- Aleister Crowley, Stephen Skinner & Hierarchy

- CROW-ley not Cruwley

- Tradition vs Making up your own stuff

- Peter Kingsley (yes... again)

- William Blake, John Higgs and Emanuel Swedenborg!

- Levels of dreaming

- Imaginary Friends

- Samhain

- Druids Vs the Ancient Greeks

- and finish with Midnight Mass