Over the next few months I will be attempting to turn Anulios into a ‘real world’ magazine/review. It is a big project and will take some time - the idea is to have a magazine that is downloadable and can be printed out from a website - this one - which will also feature some of the articles and features.

The magazine will still be called Anulios but the focus will swerve slightly; there will be more on an ‘activity in the real world’ aspect and this means events and happenings in Barcelona as that is where we are - anything from reviews to storytellings and exhibitions which we shall be organizing.

This is an idea I had myself quite a while back but nothing came of it for the simple reason that it is impossible to get the people who have the capacity for this. In short; Gurdjieff’s ‘Seekers of Truth’ and any equivalent we may foreseeably cobble together are not the same thing and - in the present climate - there is absolutely zero possibility of even reaching 1% of the quality of consciousness of those people. Imo.

I hope the dialogue continues and is curious the levels of application - everyone is taking from it something that is meant for them. I have realized something quite important for me from this dialogue though perhaps now is not the time to share it as it needs digesting first but I wanted to express my gratitude.

Carry on guys!

As requested, please accept this contribution, representing my hope that you will continue to maintain your blog.
I recently rejoined blogging after a seven month hiatus. I stopped because I was disillusioned, although not for the same reason you have given. In my case, I was discouraged by my inability to find the words to convey my message. I have studied for many years with a genuine master teacher of the esoteric arts and sciences. From reading some of your past posts, especially your recent series on “Why I am Abandoning Esotericism” and from reading comments from some of your readers, I have been struck by several things.

This is my theory: Life is evolving. That is to say, history is the history of advancement and evolution - we start off in caves we progress to huts, to houses, to space....and on. Progress is all. It is irresistable and where we are headed in all areas; technological, philosophical, religious etc.....

It has come to my attention that there is a loosely based chaote influenced working magickal group starting up hereabouts so I pass on the info for what it’s worth...they seem like fun guys or I wouldn’t pass it on but the usual caveats apply. If you want to contact them - with no guarantee of admission, and if you are (or can be sometimes) in BCN, you might want to mail them.

Is there any reader who perhaps lives there or knows the city and can offer helpful hints, tips or reasons to go/not go.

Let me know. Cheers.

What is actually happening here?

If we are interested in Sufism, mysticism and general esoteric wiseacring - and that is what this blog actually is - then what we are essentially interested in is the distinction between ‘illusion’ or apparent/concensus reality and ‘reality’. Ie the idea that what we see on a daily basis may be ‘false’ or illusory and that we need to ‘wake up’.

Well, there is certainly much to rant about...ho um, where to start....my adventures with Salvia Divinorum? No, perhaps another time....I know.....The Pope. That’s always a good one.

It seems that the Pontiff has been making some ill-informed and rather ludicrous comments about Islam and Muslims have taken offense. This should not surprising as that was probably the intention of either the man himself or those (mis) interpreting his words. Or both. The aim being to continue to perpetuate the recently established stereotype of babbling barbarians frothing at the mouth at every imagined slight and who are hell bent on ‘hating our freedom’.

Actually I also ‘hate our freedom’ in some sense but that is largely because it is no freedom at all - it is choice. Overwhelming choice admittedly but at the end of the day it is still only restricted choice from an authorized menu compiled by someone else who has no intention of putting certain dishes on it and who may or may not have our best interests at heart. Certainly they have their own....

So: hence no posts. And it’s unlikely to change in the next few weeks as I have some massive Expression Engine and coding jobs piling up.

Which brings me to this: I don’t want this blog to die - though it could conceivably go through a ‘conversion experience’ as I have a ‘big vision’ which it is a key part of - yet, I do not have time to nurture it on my own. I have come up with a possible solution - what I propose is this:

That I throw it open to ‘guest bloggers’ who might have a different input than me (hopefully) but still be moving in the same general direction. This way we could evolve Anulios into more of an ‘Online Community’ which broaches many different areas of interest - Christianity, Islam, Parapolitics, Sufism, Magic, Fortean stuff - whatever.

Then when I have time, and if it has worked, we could redesign as a portal or something similar and launch a push for online domination, mwwwahahah.

Seriously: if you are interested in blogging on Anulios on suitable subjects and in the spirit of the blog - ie no right-wing nutjobs, Islamophobes, racists or fundies please - then send me a proposal via the comments on this post or my email at the bottom of the right-side menu.

Let me know.....