"Global Trumpeter" interview

Here, at this link an interview I did for Global Trumpeter, a digital magazine from Delhi, where I am nothing like as controversial as I can be, for some reason. Horrid picture of me, of course, especially since it was taken before I recently started lifting weights again. 

Anyway, here's my Amazon UK page, where some offers are available. Here's the US Amazon page, with more detail.

 

Mercury, & the other retrogrades

It's preshadow for Gemini Rx, August the 23rd to September the 15th is the actual retrograde. Since Mercury governs intellection, speech, & communication, this can cause information issues, computer problems, & so forth.

The good thing about this Rx is, of course, the opportunity to reflect & radically reassess & reject parts of oneself. Kali approves of this, & I am always up for regeneration & total transformation (Ascendant contra-parallel Pluto). Generally speaking, it's perhaps best not to finalise new projects during Mercury Rx, but it's a good time to end futile patterns, perhaps in conjunction with Venus Rx. When one receives communication from exes during either Rx, "fuck off" is generally the correct response

Mercury governs Gemini, my Moon sing, & this Mercury Rx is in Virgo, the domicile of Mercury, & also my North Node. This has really got me determined to finish & publish the current book on the 11th September, when we have a semi-sextile with Mars.

Venus is retrograde, & so is Saturn, my ruler, as are Neptune & Pluto, the latter very significant for me since it's now in my ascendant. Neptune being in Scorpio in the ninth house in my natal chart is what gives me a certain awareness of spiritual things that most people don't get access to.

I am currently writing a book about Lalita Tripura Sundari, & I am going even further in a strict one Mother Goddess direction. Kali, Tara, Lalila, Tiamat, Hecate - they're all the same thing. I'd like to recommend here a wonderful website Chapel of Our Mother God - click the link & read, I strongly advise you, it's very interesting though I don't entirely endorse all the content. 

In the new book I am also extensively referencing research about spiritual narcissism' There's not much of that done yet, so I'm referring to pretty much all of it, & this has really provoked me to go for the whole institutionalised "guru" nonsense like a rabid hyena, perhaps the noblest animal.

Anyway, here's the latest book, about Durga, Durga sings every night on Amazon & also on Amazon UK.

 

 

Leo season tomorrow

I note here that all those books, see the post below, are now listed at Amazon, & should be available in pounds sterling on UK Amazon soon.

Here is Durga sings every night on Amazon & also on Amazon UK.

Tomorrow is Leo season, obviously symbolised by the Barbie movie. Generally speaking, Leo season gives confidence & energy, it comes, of course, after the sucky emotional Cancer season, & before the fussy but meticulous Virgo season. But, most importantly, it brings DRAMA! Leo, the lion, for some reason always summons the drama llama. Apart from Venus Rx, I am delighted to say that Lilith is in Leo too. Mercury is in Leo during the start of the season. Lilith, Venus Rx, & Mercury are all good for Aries.

Anyway, concerting the Aries/Libra NN/SN axis, I reiterate, stop cutting cunts slack, like Libra. Cut them out, like Aries. Lilith says "enforce your boundaries."

Concerning Leo season, I shall mention Aries, who will get a creative boost & maybe romance & joy. However, it's Venus Rx, so NO EXES! Text ex BAD!! Lilith again says "enforce your boundaries." Chiron is Rx in Aries, so healing energy but not to be rushed.

Gemini, it's a good time for communication & writing, as Gemini moon I might work a lot on Lalita drinks too much & maybe even finish it. Geminis might also consider how they relate to the world & what their basic values are. Lilith, yet again, says "enforce your boundaries." See what a blessing She is?

Capricorn, we maybe need to consider finances, & realise that we can be utter cunts. We should maybe cut back on that cuntishness a little. Pluto retrograde doesn't help the NN in the start of August so just take it easy & reflect.

Anyway, Leo season is fun, & the llama is always willing. Finally, this is probably a good few weeks to buy clothes, Leo being conscious of that sort of thing.

Of astrology & various books

The North node is now in Aries. My natal North Node is Virgo, & in the eighth house. Naturally, I long ago rejected material values & affirmed transience & the incomplete. It is time for everyone to eradicate trauma bonding & eliminate energy vampires from your life. People-pleasing is stupid. Cut that shit out of your life, & correct any dysfunctional situation where you lose your energy to some worthless motherfucker.

The nodes getting away from the Taurus nonsense is good news for everybody, except narcissists, so it's extra good for the rest of us. The basic meaning of Aries is independence, fire, energy, & courage. Libra is basically to do with partnership & cooperation. The shift means that it is time to affirm your true inner self  above the others. Libra tends to people-pleasing, dishonesty to keep the peace, & passivity. Nowadays, cooperating with the other tends to involve adapting to the demands of a narcissistic society. This nodal shift says "fuck that" very emphatically. You affirm yourself & defend yourself. It is not selfish, to be, first & foremost, yourself.

Libra is in my eighth house but governs nothing at all for me. I have never sought to please others, I write for the Divine Mother alone, but I witness now others needing to break away from people pleasing. It's the perfect time to do so until January 2025.

Thankfully the eighth house can be said to govern death & rebirth, as well as sex. The sun is in my second house but, since money is of no interest to me, I am reading this as a very good aspect for weightlifting again &/or the approbation of the Dark Mother, with which She has lately been very generous. More generally, it's to do with self worth. For everybody, though, the North Node in Aries should help you cut away the bullshit people from your lives, & the horses the fuckers rode in on. Own your own part in things, but focus on yourself. The Aries/Libra axis will help you realise the nature of any dodgy interpersonal dynamics.

Had to correct a footnote in Kali breathes this fire, the revised version of which is now uploaded, with a somewhat modified cover. In a few days, the Amazon link will give the corrected version. I have approved the proofs for Durga sings every night & dressed in flesh so these will be on Amazon shortly too. For now they are available on Lulu at the above links. Because Amazon suck ass, not least by paying me a fraction of what Lulu pays, above & beyond treating their employees like shit, I prefer that people buy the things from Lulu. But, naturally, I myself use Prime, like the whore that I am, & I understand if others do so too. 

EDIT: Here is Durga sings every night on Amazon & also on Amazon UK.

Samples from "Durga sings every night"

Four samples from Durga sings every night.

 

"Durga sings every night"

Here my latest book is now available. Durga Maa is represented by Her yantra, which is the perfect solution for cover images. Here is Durga sings every night, Because of the subject matter, I am fairly stroppy in the introduction, mounting  a vicious attack on narcissism, indeed on all forms of fascism, &, equally predictably, on the motherfucking patriarchy with its new egomimetic development into the regime of the brother, first depicted by Juliet Flower MacCannell.

This book by David C. McLean is a complement to the series that he is writing on Kali Maa & the Mahavidyas. 

It contains an introduction that relates Durga to Kali, & describes the contrast between the demands of commensurability & intensity, between chaos & order, & between goddess & patriarchal oppression. 

McLean argues that the only fundamental wrong is narcissism, & describes the selective eternal return in Deleuzian terms so the ego is excluded, only the partial & fragmentary gets to be born again, only that which is incomplete & process.

 

Whisper of Life, by Nausicaa Morgue

I am pleased to announce that I just helped the enormously talented Nausicaa Morgue to set up the blog linked here for her wonderful bone sculptures. This is a great privilege for me because Nausicaa is clearly a favoured vessel for the divine fire & the Great Mother showed great kindness by asking me to help her.

Currently there are two items available there, at a very fair price, & this is open to negotiation. Brief descriptions follow. The bones are prepared with old school craftsmanship, & entirely without chemicals. They are made into objects of sombre beauty in a gesture of profound respect for the departed, to honour the eternal return & eternal fire that goddess prepares for those that love Her. Like Deleuze reads Nietzsche, not every self gets to return; that's not something goddess ever promised. 

 

The only magic in these pieces is the magic of devotion & art, of life & fire itself.

 

This art is definitely posthuman, in my sense, of the beast & the fire, the incommensurable, not the dreadful human world. This work appertains to the animal, demonic, to goddess, & to earth, not the human world, defiled by narcissism, greed, & the perpetual quest for identity. These artworks are haecceities, & it is monumentally impressive that Nausicaa captured them so readily, liberating them into their perpetual becoming.

Here is Nausicaa's "cow baby" sculpture. Nausicaa burns brighter with goddess than anyone I have ever known, & it is my nature to tend flames, so I shall be promoting the living shit out of her work. This statue elevates the fragile & resilient beauty of abjection, carrying at the same time the protection of a crescent moon of obsidian, & it screams its goddess promise of incarnation forever, flesh not identity. The intensity that is captured in this piece is from goddess Herself, channelled through Her best reflection. It is an expression of the fire that burns, the restive fury of goddess in the beast.

This second statue is a scrying mirror, or just simply a mirror, & it is made to honour the remains of another beast. Nausicaa selected an older mirror that showed the passage of time itself in order to better complement the birth of time & timelessness that the stature celebrates. Kali is beyond time & controls it, like every other illusion it does not affect Her. It is Maa Kali who has told me to assist Nausicaa as best I can, & I am confident that the purchase of any of these will secure Her divine blessings on the purchaser, it will certainly secure mine.

Buy one or both here: https://whisperoflifeart.blogspot.com/

Matangi assembles Her rejects

There's a new book by me at the Lulu bookstore, forthcoming from Amazon etc but it's better for us if you buy from Lulu anyway. Full of massive love for Kali Maa & Her aspect Matangi. Blurb & cover follow, linked here Matangi assembles Her rejects.

EDIT: I forgot about samples though. Including now. I now add the Amazon link, here it is. The UK Amazon link is also live here.

This is the second book about Mother Kali from David C. McLean & it focuses on the Mahavidya Matangi, who controls art & poetry, & is the goddess of impurity. She is related to Hecate & other Dark Mothers. 

In the introduction there is discussion of Her as source of understanding of the incommensurable & McLean relates Her to Deleuze & Lyotard. He sees in Her a solution to the issue of the expression of intensity. 

We hope that this book pleases Kali Maa.

 

 

Tanya Rakh, "too short a far shot"

It is with immense delight that I can announce that a new book by Tanya Rakh is going to be available as soon as one of us has seen the proof. It is with great happiness that I announce this & naturally I have done an introductory manifesto. 

This follows, as does the cover. The picture is Tanya's "spiral tree." It is now on sale here, coming to Amazon soon.

EDIT: Here is is at this link on Amazon. Here it is at this very similar link on UK Amazon too. It would be wonderful if you bought from Lulu instead, of course, because Tanya would then get much more money.

Introduction

This book is written as a purge of old ghosts, or Tanya said it was at least. It is her fourth book with Posthuman Poetry & Prose. It speaks of alienation & distances, the incommunicability of intensity. I too know how it feels when organs do not fit in this stupid human skin, & I certainly don't understand capitalism. Tanya, too, has a fish family to look after, we all have something that obliges us to engage with gross & grotesque world.

Anyway, what is purged is things that do not appertain to the now, things that are inessential & already transcended; the machinations of Maya, that what is not, what Mahadevi has done to pass Her time & entertain Herself, because eternal perfection is dull when One is wanton & grows desirous, as She says Herself that She does. Intensity cannot be expressed in any human tongue, but Kali as Matangi can show it to those She favours, so we can step sideways into the light with Her for a while. This book does this, & sings the perfection of the dirty, the impure, the “immaculate dirt”, for everything is essentially divine. The book ends with the chain of return seen as always already perfect, every fall, everything part of Mother with the “huge black eyes”.

For everything is what it is, & this book shows how to approach the essentially incomprehensible nature of what is, the cruel confusion that seemingly is, & these poems delineate a stance to take to the world that allows us to see earth behind it, sustaining & upholding it. Tanya shows that the only way to do this is to relinquish the illusions of humanism & affirm the beast.

Because goddess is always desirous, She always wants things to happen, so there is not going to be any quiescent end state, incarnation is forever, these fleshy transactions, &, like Mr. Fish himself, we shall always carry some false body around, though we are fire & formless, & we belong in Her perfection.

As Tanya points out, the animal sleeps like Maa Kali lives, naked & dressed in space, too large to ever be contained.

Naturally, I advocate the purchase, reading, & regular rereading of this book. I do not interpret it, for it is a manifestation, an expression of the emptiness & the ever-present ghosts, the hungry ghosts, the ghouls at the heart of illusion. It is a very beautiful book & I am sure that Kali is delighted, for it is fire & power, as is She.

"Kali breathes this fire"

Finally got my new book finished after much buggering about, since I need to be comfortable with it, it being about the Divine Mother as it is. But Maa Kali cherishes imperfection & impurity, so that's something of a consolation. I am releasing it now because I have been constantly & obsessively adding to it, & want to hurry up with writing the next book about Matangi instead.

It is on sale here at Lulu, & here it now is on Amazon at this link. It is listed on  Amazon UK as well. The book is more expensive than I might wish, £12.50 or $16.50, with other currencies at corresponding rates, but blame the twats at Amazon for that, given that the book is 232 pages in length.

Four poems are on the images below, one of which is on two pages. 

The book contains a 45 page introduction about Kali. The introduction does not pretend to be comprehensive but relates the scriptures about Her to posthumanism, & the selective & creative nature of reincarnation, & speaks of the ultimate eternal return after the dissolution, when Her restive & fickle nature will create again. Some of this is drawn from the Posthuman poetry manifesto & adds to that. (Here the manifesto is on Amazon too.) Anyway, as Ramakrishna Paramahamsa wrote, She only saves one in a hundred thousand. 

The introduction also includes much ranting about narcissism, neo-colonialism against indigenous peoples, the patriarchy, the caste system, the narcissism of many "gurus", & the disgraceful British empire.

Blurb, cover, & samples follow:

This book is the first about Kali Maa & the Mahavidyas that McLean has written. This is what he proposes to write about in the future. 

The book includes a 45 page introduction in which McLean relates the Divine Mother to posthuman themes. There will no full manifesto on the basis of this but the ideas will be developed in later books.

The cover image is Kali's yantra.

New book by Carolyn Srygley Moore

 We all have a past, Watson. Ghosts. They are the shadows that define our every sunny day.

// Sherlock Holmes;
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

We have just completed a book called For All of My Beautiful Ghosts by awesome American poet Carolyn Srygley Moore. Carolyn actually writes real poems, which is enormously unusual nowadays, & we have done this book for her with higher quality coloured ink for the 177 numbered pages, since it also contains photos.

EDIT: It printed fine &, after final edits, here it is at Lulu, For All of My Beautiful Ghosts. Because of the ink, it's more expensive, though, to cut costs for the buyer, we did at first not sell it from corporate scumbags Amazon we have now made it more expensive & moved it to distribution through Amazon. This is because people are prepared to purchase it there, & evidently prefer to spend more rather than less. The Amazon link is here & the book is now available there. I would prefer that you buy it from Lulu though, since this gives Carolyn a lot more money, ten times more, because Amazon are bloody robber barons, & she deserves it.

I shall almost certainly review it later, but I am currently reading about Kali Maa & finishing my book about Her as primal goddess in the Mahavidyas. Carolyn sets a bloody high bar for me with her wonderful book, but I want it to be my best ever.

Cover, featuring a collage by Carolyn herself, & my blurb follow:

Posthuman Poetry & Prose is delighted to release this book of poems by Carolyn Srygley Moore, a poet & artist resident in New York State.

These poems tell a life, & they are of ghosts in the sense that what one relates to is ghostly; it is the poematic impulse, which is to capture the past, to prove that it was real & that it still is, to produce "a photograph of the feast in mourning", as Derrida so aptly puts it, so there is always poem when the ghosts fade at sunset & earth is there, sustaining the futility that is world.

"Alien Songs" by Tanya Rakh & Ndotono Waweru

Delighted to announce the arrival of a book of duets by Tanya Rakh & Ndotono Waweru from Posthuman Poetry & Prose. The poems in Alien Songs, on sale here, & on sale here at Amazon, are of the posthuman diaspora that learns to survive beyond identity. Only the divergent returns. Only what is "alien", in the sense of estranged from humanist traditions, only what is Dionysian individuation - not the I, the self, & their identity - will be validated by the posthuman naissance that celebrates the chaos of the eternal return, where the subject is the Other, & alienated, in principle, from its "self" by the Kantian "Cogito for a dissolved Self: the Self of 'I think' includ[ing] in its essence a receptivity of intuition in relation to which I is already an other." (Deleuze). The chaosmos goddess creates is anarchic; identities are weak, they do not return. 

& poetry just is a nostalgia for presence, for simple self-identity, for all the substantial constructs, or so Derrida tells us. But poetry needs to be the inarticulate cry of intensity, the indeterminate, that which is not concealed behind a name or a face  but dances its passion in the flame & naked. Poetry needs to capture this, per impossibile - it might scream to that which throbs an instant in the meat & cannot be measured against anything. Otherwise things play real when you look at them & words grow into unreliable maps & forget what stars there are.

Though I publish others on an occasional basis, Tanya is basically the other half of posthuman poetry, & when I return to goddess it is my hope that she will take it over. It is a privilege to publish all of her previous & forthcoming work, & a delight to see how seamless this collaboration with Ndotono is.

Tanya & Ndotono wrote this intro

Alien Songs is a fully collaborative collection of duets in verse. These duets each stand alone as individual pieces, but also join together to create an amalgamated star atlas for a breathing and multitextured extraterrestrial world.

Each of our songs embodies an aspect of this world—some echo an element, others an organ, yet others a phenomena of nature—and there are many more totems to explore. All of these pieces, separately and combined, are calls to a connection beyond the confines of everyday space and time, the heavy matter of humanity.

While the maladjusted soul may not be able to easily drag its accompanying body off this planet for a spell, it can dissolve for a while between astral wind currents when the right words are sung. These duets are incantations, oracles, scribblings on the walls of the heart. By reading them, we hope all lonely Aliens can catch a few glimmers of their home stars.

Tanya Rakh and Ndotono Waweru

The book is absolutely amazing, & the cover is below, with thanks to the brilliant photographer Shaina Sterrett for letting us use her image. Here is Shaina's Instagram where she shares her art.

Here is a sample poem online at Spillwords at this link. Alien Songs is on sale at this link. it can also be found on Amazon at this link. Note that it is better for the writers if you buy direct from Lulu.

I am looking forward to the publication of Tanya Rakh's ghost fractals soon, goddess willing. There will also be a book of visual poetry, vispo, coming from Tanya too, this will be printed with quality paper & ink, everything you do to the moon. It will be awesome.