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#1

“As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: quantum-physics, uncertainty

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#2

“Sex is like an atom bomb. A potent weapon which fascinates and frightens. We're afraid to let it loose, yet we all have our finger on the button.”

--Zeena Schreck, Cuir Underground: Sado-Magic for Satan Interview, 1998”
― Zeena Schreck, Demons of the Flesh: The Complete Guide to Left Hand Path Sex Magic

tags: eroticism, fear, fear-of-living, fears, left-hand-path, nudism, religion, sexuality, tantra, zeena-schreck

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#3

“Money is like fire, an element as little troubled by moralising as earth, air, and water. Men can employ it as a tool or they can dance around it as if it were the incarnation of a god . . . It acquires its meaning from the uses to which it is put.”
― Lewis Lapham

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#4

“What’s wrong with being naked?”
--Zeena Schreck on AMLA to Christian Minister Jerry Johnston”
― Zeena Schreck, Demons of the Flesh: The Complete Guide to Left Hand Path Sex Magic

tags: environmentalism, left-hand-path, nudism, religion, sexuality, tantra, zeena-schreck

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#5

“The moral, I suppose, would be that the first requirements for a heroic career are the knightly virtues of loyalty, temperance, and courage. The loyalty in this case is of two degrees or commitments: first, to the chosen adventure, but then, also, to the ideals of the order of knighthood. Now, this second commitment seems to put Gawain's way in opposition to the way of the Buddha, who when ordered by the Lord of Duty to perform the social duties proper to his caste, simply ignored the command, and that night achieved illumination as well as release from rebirth. Gawain is a European and, like Odysseus, who remained true to the earth and returned from the Island of the Sun to his marriage with Penelope, he has accepted, as the commitment of his life, not release from but loyalty to the values of life in this world. And yet, as we have just seen, whether following the middle way of the Buddha or the middle way of Gawain, the passage to fulfillment lies between the perils of desire and fear.”
― Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth

tags: buddha, courage, desire, fear, gawain, hero, knight, loyalty, odysseus, temperance, virtue

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#6

“Conservatism is far from what I’m aiming at in proclaiming the establishment of a Sethian left-hand path tradition in the West as one of the first missions of the SLM. In fact, in establishing such a tradition, true to the spirit of sacred transgression and holy subversion that is essential to both Seth and the left-hand path, we are opening a door that enlightens through endangerment, that awakens through risk and peril: this is a radical (from Latin radix, root, implying how deep a change is required) enterprise that is the very opposite of conservatism.”

--“From the Eye of the Storm” (Zeena's column as Hemet-Neter Tepi Seth for the SLM), Volume I - Summer Solstice issue (2003): "Building a Sethian Left-Hand Path Tradition in the West.”
― Zeena Schreck, Demons of the Flesh: The Complete Guide to Left Hand Path Sex Magic

tags: aghora, beat-fear, gnostic, gnosticism, jivanmukta, left-hand-path, leftists, liberation, moksha, radical, radicals, sethianism, tantra, zeena-schreck

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#7

“There comes a time in a man's life when to get where he has to go--if there are no doors or windows--he walks through a wall.”
― Bernard Malamud

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#8

“And remember, you shall suffer all things and again suffer: until you have sufficient sufferance to accept all things.”
― Austin Osman Spare

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#9

“Self proclamation of authoritative titles is a common phenomenon among religious and/or occult sect leaders. A cursory survey of this primarily 20th century phenomenon will instantly reveal a multitude of self-declared Masters, High Priests, gurus, Ipsissimi, Bhaghwani, etc.. I am pleased that I cannot count myself among such types. Legitimate religious teachers and scholars know that a genuine spiritual leader is one whose calling to lead is first noticed by those outside of him or herself based on certain qualities, abilities, and actions and then must subsequently be accepted by the individual in question as his or her destiny. This contrasts with those whose will to lead is born simply out of the mundane wish to be a leader. In such cases the goal being to reap the rewards a title brings without the hard work and the innate, manifest qualities which validate the position; in short what might be considered a 'false prophet'."

--“From the Eye of the Storm” (Zeena's column for the SLM) Volume II – Winter Issue (2003): “One Year Later...”
― Zeena Schreck, Demons of the Flesh: The Complete Guide to Left Hand Path Sex Magic

tags: exposed-truth, false-prophets, spiritual-materialism, spirituality, zeena-schreck

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#10

“They said nothing and our parents said nothing, so we sensed how ancient they were, how accustomed to trauma, depressions, and wars. We realized that the version of the world they rendered for us was not the world they really believed in, and for all their caretaking and bitching about crabgrass they didn't give a damn about lawns.”
― Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides

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#11

“To seek Truth is automatically a calling for the innate dissident and the subversive; how
many are willing to give up safety and security for the perilous life of the spiritual revolutionary? How
many are willing to truly learn that their own cherished concepts are wrong? Striking provocative or
mysterious poses in the safety of Internet [social media] is far easier than taking the risks involved in
the hard work of genuine initiation.”
― Zeena Schreck

tags: anti-social-media, dissidents, outcasts, revolutionary-spirit, self-examination, spiritual-transformation, spirituality, subversion, truth, uncertainty

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#12

“The more violent the body contact of the sports you watch, the lower your class.
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― Paul Fussell

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#13

“Zeena's first published sermon at 7 years old. From “The Cloven Hoof” periodical, 1970, San Francisco, CA, USA.:

“The question, 'What is the difference between God and Satan?,' was put to Zeena LaVey, seven-year-old daughter of the High Priest. Her answer was...

'SATAN MADE THE ROSE AND GOD MADE THE THORNS.”
― Zeena Schreck, Demons of the Flesh: The Complete Guide to Left Hand Path Sex Magic

tags: child-prophets, children-of-celebrities, gnosticism, god, religion-and-children, satan, spirituality

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#14

“To the non-initiate, whose experience of sexuality and bodily pleasure may be distorted by negative cultural conditioning, the introduction of sexuality into a sacred context is often mistakenly misconstrued as the ordinary pursuit of sex for recreation.”
― Zeena Schreck

tags: ecstasy, initiation, materialism-versus-spiritualism, sexuality, shamanism, tantra, tantric-practices, zeena-schreck

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#15

“That’s sad. How plastic and artificial life has become. It gets harder and harder to find something…real.” Nin interlocked his fingers, and stretched out his arms. “Real love, real friends, real body parts…”
― Jess C Scott, The Other Side of Life

tags: body-image, cyberpunk, materialism, meaning, plastic-surgery, reality, reflection, society, technology

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#16

“The left-hand path adept seeks to liberate him/herself from passive subjection to the illusory nature of Maya, thus freeing the consciousness from the binds of self-created delusion.”
― Zeena Schreck, Demons of the Flesh: The Complete Guide to Left Hand Path Sex Magic

tags: buddhism, jivanmukta, left-hand-path, materialism-versus-spiritualism, spiritual-transformation

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#17

“It should be noted, as with so many legends and popularly accepted truths created out of political motivation: There, in fact, is no evidence that the hundreds of murders historically attributed to the werewolves of Gévaudan were actually caused by wolves. As with all witchhunts, the endless battle against ignorance requires one to always keep an open mind and sharp wits when considering such rumors - especially the rumors we choose to enjoy.”
― Zeena Schreck, Beatdom #11: The Nature Issue

tags: animal-cruelty, animal-liberation, animal-rights, animal-stories, beatdom, environmentalism, ignorance, shapeshifters, werewolves, witch-hunts, wolves, zeena-schreck

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#18

“Kitsch is the inability to admit that shit exists”
― Milan Kundera

tags: kitsch, style

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#19

“Consciousness is endless, from one incarnation to the next. It simply will and does manifest in other places and times, regardless of what becomes of the human race.”
― Zeena Schreck, Beatdom #11: The Nature Issue

tags: beatdom, death-of-the-human-race, life-after-death, materialism-versus-spiritualism, reincarnation, transcendence, zeena-schreck

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#20

“Maturity, one discovers, has everything to do with the acceptance of ‘not knowing.”
― Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves

tags: acceptance, maturity, uncertainty

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#21

“In the sunset of dissolution, everything is illuminated by the aura of nostalgia, even the guillotine.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

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#22

“Environmentalists and secular humanists insist that humans will destroy the planet. Corporate capitalists and many religious fundamentalists have no regard for wildlife and nature. Ultimately, this dualistic battle is based on false premises. In fact, this planet is more powerful than the human species.”
― Zeena Schreck, Beatdom #11: The Nature Issue

tags: beatdom, continued-life, death-of-the-human-race, environmentalism, materialism, zeena-schreck

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#23

“I took a test in Existentialism. I left all the answers blank and got 100.”
― Woody Allen

tags: existentialism, humor, uncertainty

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#24

“I'm not afraid of death; I just don't want to be there when it happens.”
― Woody Allen

tags: death, fear, humor, life

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#25

“I don't know the question, but sex is definitely the answer.”
― Woody Allen

tags: humor, life, sex

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#26

“Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television.”
― Woody Allen

tags: art, humor, life

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#27

“God is silent. Now if only man would shut up.”
― Woody Allen

tags: god, humor, mankind, silence

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#28

“Shapeshifting requires the ability to transcend your attachments, in particular your ego attachments to identity and who you are. If you can get over your attachment to labeling yourself and your cherishing of your identity, you can be virtually anybody. You can slip in and out of different shells, even different animal forms or deity forms.”
― Zeena Schreck

tags: animal-liberation, animal-totem, animism, death, deity-yoga, freedom, gods, gods-and-warriors, illusion, impermanence, left-hand-path, magic, magick, magick-and-faith, martial-art-training, materialism-versus-spiritualism, plant-spirits, reality, sacred-travel, self-identity, shamanic, shamanic-healing, shamanism, shamanism-healing, shapeshifter, spirit-possession, spiritual-journey, spiritual-transformation, spirituality, taboo-breaking, taboos, tai-chi, tai-chi-chuan, tantra, tantric-buddhism, totemism, vamamarga, zeena-schreck

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#29

“Zeena Schreck is a Berlin-based interdisciplinary artist, author, musician/composer, tantric teacher, mystic, animal rights activist, and counter-culture icon known by her mononymous artist name, ZEENA. Her work stems from her experience within the esoteric, shamanistic and magical traditions of which she's practiced, taught and been initiated. She is a practicing Tibetan Buddhist yogini, teaches at the Buddhistische Gesellschaft Berlin and is the spiritual leader of the Sethian Liberation Movement (SLM).”
― Zeena Schreck

tags: animal-activism, animal-liberation, animal-rights, animals, animism, art, artist, artists, bhakti, composers, environmentalism, independence, initiation, inspiration, jivanmukti, left-hand-path, magic, magick, magick-and-faith, musicians, nature, outcasts, sexuality, shamanism, spiritual-journey, spiritual-transformation, spirituality, taboo-breaking, taboos, tantra, tantric-buddhism, totemism, vamamarga, women-warriors, zeena-schreck

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#30

“There are Tantrics who deliberately break taboos and social norms and then there are other Tantrics who, by means of their practices and the way that they practice, that to society in general, it may have the appearance of breaking social norms but in fact that is just the manifestation of the progress of their practice.”
― Zeena Schreck

tags: animism, artists-quotes, autonomy, bhakti, dissident, ecstasy, freedom, independence, initiation, inspiration, jivanmukti, left-hand-path, magic, outcasts, revolutionary, self-esteem, self-examination, sexuality, shamanism, shapeshifter, spiritual-journey, spiritual-transformation, spirituality, subversion, taboo-breaking, taboos, tantra, tantric-buddhism, vamamarga, women-warriors, zeena-schreck

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