Feb 27, 2023Liked by Frater Pera 𓁟 The Living Saint
Lifting weights is great; my back problems more or less disappeared for the first time in my life once I started. The thing that surprised me most was that I suddenly got a lot more flexible.
Do you have an recs for how you'd replace Freemasonry if you were a woman? There are a handful of co-ed lodges in the US but they are mostly few and far between.
That's a really great question. I personally know a woman who is a freemason, but I also don't know which lodge she belongs to. So they're out there, but yeah, super hard to find. I like that co-ed lodges are becoming a thing. But in the absence of this, I strongly recommend you look up Allen Greenfield's outfit, Free Illuminism. There's lodges all over the world and if you don't have one near you, chartering one is a matter of writing an email. Different lodges do different things, but the great majority of them do the Ancient and Primitive Rite of Memphis and Misraim. All the cats I've met through them are super cool, too. It's probably the most progressive outfits out there.
Jan 12, 2023Liked by Frater Pera 𓁟 The Living Saint
I don't lift weights much, but I do do kickboxing and brazillian jiu-jitsu, this is a great post and totally applies to my martial arts training as well.
Oh man. I cannot tell you how much I miss fighting. I was way into Muay Thai for several years. I studied a bunch of martial arts. Wah Lum Pai kung fu, Silat, Kali, Jeet Kune Do, Savate. And I sucked at all of them. Way too much emphasis on careful technique. But Muay Thai? A fighting sport of brutal smashing and battery? Way more my speed and definitely consistent with your point. You have got to be *focused* when you fight. I'm actually looking into a Renzo Gracie BJJ spot nearby for my son. I'll probably start rolling, too.
Crazy, I've been thinking about this for few days and now you're posting this . Exactly the same thoughts, get back to the gym , perform regular rituals. You also recommend joining freemasons, don't they only recruit people from a certain social status? Isn't it super hard to get inside?
I seriously wanted to join a mystic order in order to grow and meet new people, realize Collective rituals .. I took AMORC, I'm not bashing anyone but I didn't get what I was hoping for, Golden Dawn orders are more in tone of what drives me but there's no lodges in my country..
"don't they only recruit people from a certain social status? Isn't it super hard to get inside?"
Fuck no! They're admitting me, of all people! Joining the Masons is as simple as finding a lodge near you, emailing them or calling them and expressing an interest. They'll tell you when they meet, usually twice a month, and you go down, dress nicely, and have dinner with them. They just asked me a bunch of questions in casual conversation to get a sense of my personality. They just want to make sure that I'm not an asshole, nor am I going to bring any bad news around to their lodge. I was eventually talked into it after conversations with a bunch of dudes around the Apostolic Johannite Church. Conversations with Marco Visconti also steered me in that direction.
You might be mistaking them for Skull and Bones which is a Yale thing with a lot of Freemason symbolism. Those rich assholes can suck it.
Lifting weights is great; my back problems more or less disappeared for the first time in my life once I started. The thing that surprised me most was that I suddenly got a lot more flexible.
Do you have an recs for how you'd replace Freemasonry if you were a woman? There are a handful of co-ed lodges in the US but they are mostly few and far between.
That's a really great question. I personally know a woman who is a freemason, but I also don't know which lodge she belongs to. So they're out there, but yeah, super hard to find. I like that co-ed lodges are becoming a thing. But in the absence of this, I strongly recommend you look up Allen Greenfield's outfit, Free Illuminism. There's lodges all over the world and if you don't have one near you, chartering one is a matter of writing an email. Different lodges do different things, but the great majority of them do the Ancient and Primitive Rite of Memphis and Misraim. All the cats I've met through them are super cool, too. It's probably the most progressive outfits out there.
I don't lift weights much, but I do do kickboxing and brazillian jiu-jitsu, this is a great post and totally applies to my martial arts training as well.
Oh man. I cannot tell you how much I miss fighting. I was way into Muay Thai for several years. I studied a bunch of martial arts. Wah Lum Pai kung fu, Silat, Kali, Jeet Kune Do, Savate. And I sucked at all of them. Way too much emphasis on careful technique. But Muay Thai? A fighting sport of brutal smashing and battery? Way more my speed and definitely consistent with your point. You have got to be *focused* when you fight. I'm actually looking into a Renzo Gracie BJJ spot nearby for my son. I'll probably start rolling, too.
Crazy, I've been thinking about this for few days and now you're posting this . Exactly the same thoughts, get back to the gym , perform regular rituals. You also recommend joining freemasons, don't they only recruit people from a certain social status? Isn't it super hard to get inside?
I seriously wanted to join a mystic order in order to grow and meet new people, realize Collective rituals .. I took AMORC, I'm not bashing anyone but I didn't get what I was hoping for, Golden Dawn orders are more in tone of what drives me but there's no lodges in my country..
Anyways, thank you for the article
"don't they only recruit people from a certain social status? Isn't it super hard to get inside?"
Fuck no! They're admitting me, of all people! Joining the Masons is as simple as finding a lodge near you, emailing them or calling them and expressing an interest. They'll tell you when they meet, usually twice a month, and you go down, dress nicely, and have dinner with them. They just asked me a bunch of questions in casual conversation to get a sense of my personality. They just want to make sure that I'm not an asshole, nor am I going to bring any bad news around to their lodge. I was eventually talked into it after conversations with a bunch of dudes around the Apostolic Johannite Church. Conversations with Marco Visconti also steered me in that direction.
You might be mistaking them for Skull and Bones which is a Yale thing with a lot of Freemason symbolism. Those rich assholes can suck it.