Shady

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www.livejournal.com/users/merlinswheel/

I write, travel, sell artwork in the post-Grateful Dead counterculture. Burning Man (Black Rock City) is the place on the planet where I feel I can most truly express myself. My community is extensive and weird. I like nice people... "strangers stopping strangers just to shake their hands."

A lot of my writing is posted at www.ulster.net/~shady but soon I hope to have it listed at blotterati.com.

My passions in life are simple -- good friends, good music, food, drink, dancing, art and removing the malignant influences of the neo-con psychos from the landscape of America.

I like mysticism and weird religions and am wary of fundamentalism of all varieties. My church is the Born Again Pagan, Christian Mystic, Zen Gypsy Warlock, Psychedelic Mind-Fucked Church. The Church is omni-directional, poly-denominational, for prophet and likes gurus too.

Single

Female

Social drinker

I don't smoke

Other

Gonzo Evangelist of the Cosmic Giggle

nacho communion, numismancy and i sell absolutions for your most heinous sins. one for $3, two for $5.

Religious Institutions

in the time before Time, the entity who was not yet Shady was in an apple grove in the land of Hy Brasil. life was groovy, i'd almost say peachy, but it was an APPLE GROVE after all, not a peach grove, and this entity was content.

but then there was a Great Schism that happened across the multiverses. some call this the Fall From Eden, and this entity was forced from the contented place of Unity and forced into Incarnation.

because of the need for Incarnation, this entity created Identity and thusly came to recognize that It was going to take on the mask of the Divine Masculine, call itself a He and give itself a Name. as the grove he'd come to call HOME (heaven on multiverse earth) was shady, he called that HOME Shady Grove and called Himself Shady Backflash.

thusly impressed by his ability to Create, he stumbled out into the multiverses to troublemake. in due course, he was summoned by THOTH, The Hippie Of The Highest, and the Secret MisChiefs of the Hermetic Order of the Grateful Dead and commissioned to head out and deliver papyrus manuscripts containing a codex for FUNdalini Energy Raising that might allow other beings torn from the state of Unity (which ruptured the fabrics of reality during the aforementioned "fall from edenness") to find their way HOME.

in time this entity came to recognize that Hy Brasil and Avalon and Atlantis and Elysium and Eden and suchforth were all essentially parallel Other Worlds that pointed to the same Edenic State.

so Shady Grove is a nice little apple orchard in Avalon. has a crystal cave out behind it with a library and an alchemical laboratory, too, with a great sound system and some pretty cool art and lighting. state of the art tech stuff. the sanctum sanctorum of Shady Grove is known as the Akashic Junction.

when the Great Schism (Fall from Eden) happened, everything that was once Unity had to take a side in the newly formed Duality.

and while, sure, the Biblical historians screwed the whole thing up by postulating the Creation and the Fall waaaaaay after the hairless apes had already populated the planet, it was clear from early on that the Schism that forced All into The Manifest would also bring with it its attendant Drama. so everyone took sides. some sided according to the newly formed concept of Gender, some according to Race, some according to Religion and others for equally absurd reasons.

the place once called Avalon was no different. it became a mystical sorority and the No Boys Allowed sign made it tough for Shady (who'd chosen an X and a Y chromosome) to go back and sit in the shade in the apple grove and read comic books. (prior to the Schism Shady had access to eternity and, therefore, the full collection of the entire spectrum of creative concepts in the Akashic Records and could, therefore, read the works of authors who had yet to conceive of conception. Neil Gaiman's work became particularly enticing.)

but, alas, the commission from THOTH and the MisChiefs meant Shady, too, had to accept a role in the coming Division. being separate from Unity meant having to take a side. be "male" or "female"; "alive" or "dead"; "awake" or "asleep";

everything in the manifest multiverse had to have a "state of being" and this was true for Shady as well.

rather than go and do something silly like Get A Job, he proclaimed himself Gonzo Evangelist of the Cosmic Giggle and set about to deliver the techniques of FUNdalini Energy Raising to those unfortunate souls who'd lost their sense of humor somewhere in the Rupture of the Multiverses.

it didn't pay well, but what the hell, he thought. it was better than working at Wal-Mart.

so he hijacked the Ship of the Sun, filled the ship with Fools from the local Fool's Guild (The Balloonatic Fringe) and set sail to spread the Gospel of FUNdalini Energy Raising. current reports indicate that he is a Lost Sailor who's been way to long at sea.

Shady has been resident Pope and Lord of MisRule of the Born Again Pagan, Christian Mystic Zen Gypsy Warlock Psychedelic Mind-Fucked Church since its inception in 1990. He travels extensively preaching the Good News.

Please email shady(at)blotterati.com for information related to his missionary work.

The Born Again Pagan Christian Mystic Zen Gypsy Warlock Psychedelic Mind-Fucked Church

Pope / Lord of MisRule

preaching, divination, snail oil sales, nacho communion, tarot, numismancy. i don't read chicken innards.

i've tried a few positions.

i've kept mixed company.

dubious at best.