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To: "sacredlandscapelist@egroups.com"From: catherine yronwode Subject: [sl] Introduction, History, and CB Radio Metaphor Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 11:19:11 -0800 Hello, I post so rarely these days (due to other committments, not other interests -- for i see them as all connected), that i might as well be a lurker. So perhaps a re-introduction is in order. I started this e-list in 1995, mostly to find intellectual conversation on the varied topics we now cover here, and as an offering to my friend Barry Carroll, who had long complained (like, since 1967) that he and i were the only two people he knew with such eclectic interests. We had read a lot of books on the subject, from Claude Bragdon to John Michell, and from Fulcanelli to D'Arcy Thompson; we had each travelled around in search of sacred sites; i was an astrologer; and Barry had taken to studying some of the number-crunching aspects of the geometrical basis for such forms of architecture -- but we never seemed to find anyone to talk with about the material except each other, which was not always feasible, since we only saw each other about once a year or less. In a conversation that year, Barry had offhandedly dismissed the newly developing internet as a "fad" similar to CB radios, and i wanted to show him that my much more all-encompassing vision of the internet -- as having the potential for uniting people from diverse cultures and regions -- could be demonstrated by picking a very obscure topic of intererst, our so-called "interdisciplinary studies" (what a name!), and finding enough bright minds who wanted to share ideas on cyber space that we could hold a multi-levelled conversation such as we had never been able to do in the meat-world. System resources for the net were very limited in 1995, and most of them at the time were controlled by academic institutions. This e-list was originally hosted at the University of North Carolina's SUNsite, under the name sustag-principles, due to the kind offices of a sysadmin there named Larry London, who did not have the authority to create a new list, but "hid" us in an unused e-group that had been designed for talk about the principles of permaculture and other forms of sustainable agriculture that emophasize perennials and tree crops. Larry also allowed me to set up a portal for the e-list on a web page at UNC and archived the posts there. The only requirement that Larry had was that i occasionally post on topics related to agriculture, which was no problem. The only problem with this location for the e-list was that every once in a while we would have to explain ourselves to some farmer who wandered in to the newsgroup raring to discus cover crops. In January of 1996 i taught myself html and set up my own web page, the Sacred Landscape, to host both the e-list portal and my own essays on the subject, as well as a few by Barry and others. Shortly thereafter, UNC reclaimed the sustag-principles e-list for use by permaculturalists, but one of our list-members (i forget who -- sorry!) put us in contact with Jeffrey Mishlove, who offered us the use of one of his "empty" e-lists, which was called space-l. Jeffrey's organization dealt with psychic phenomena and thus we went from playing host to the occasional bemused farmer to playing the host to the occasional bemused UFO-watcher, who could not understand that by "space," we meant territory or place and not that region above the atmosphere. Eventually, as e-groups made e-list hosting a possibility for those without their own servers, we made the move over here, and finally got our own name -- the sacredlandscapelist. Barry and Dan took on the chores of administering the list and e-groups maintains the archive. So who am i? Well, i am an eccentric hippie woman with a pretty good processor in my head and not enough time in the day to do eveything i wish i could. I earn my calories as a writer and graphic designer, which, practically speaking, means that i work at tasks ranging from comic book production to growing herbs and manufacturing spiritual supplies in the hoodoo tradition for a primarily African-American clientele. I live with my husband nagasiva yronwode in an old farmhouse in Sonoma County, Califonia, a rural area north of San Francisco, where we garden, raise chickens, glue artifacts of spiritual and magical import onto our art-car, and maintain about 4,500 web pages at our luckymojo.com domain on a variety of esoteric subjects. Here is a list of our major sub-sites: The Sacred Landscape ------- http://www.luckymojo.com/sacredland.html Hoodoo in Theory and Practice -- http://www.luckymojo.com/hoodoo.html The Lucky W Amulet Archive ----- http://www.luckymojo.com/luckyw.html Karezza and Sacred Sex ------ http://www.luckymojo.com/sacredsex.html The Esoteric Archive --------- http://www.luckymojo.com/esoteric.html Freemasonry for Women ------- http://www.luckymojo.com/comasonry.html The Mage's Guide to the Internet ------ http://www.luckymojo.com/magi Hoodoo and Blues Lyrics --------- http://www.luckymojo.com/blues.html The Lucky Mojo Spells Archive -- http://www.luckymojo.com/spells.html Lucky Mojo Curio Co. http://www.luckymojo.com/luckymojocatalogue.html cat yronwode (my personal page) --- http://www.luckymojo.com/cat.html nagasiva yronwode (his page) - http://www.luckymojo.com/nagasiva.html I greatly enjoy the discussions here and although my current top-priority online project (transcribing, htmlizing, and uploading one pre-1960 blues song about hoodoo folk-magic per day, with hyper-linked commentary to my online book "Hoodoo in Theory and Practice") is currently keeping me too busy to write much about architecture, geometry, or the like, i read every post and enjoy all of those that don't go over my head. I was especially grateful to see that there is an entire newsletter devoted to holy waters! That is remarkable! Please post more on that subject, will you? In fact, may i sugest a project for someone on the list? Could one of you volunteer to put together a link-list of the web-pages on "interdisciplinary studies" topics written and/or maintained by our list-members? I think it would be a neat way to introduce ourselves to each other's works -- and if such a list were collated and presented in coherent form with re-posting, say, once a month, then new members could get some idea of what each of us is doing. I would do it, but right now i have to go htmlize and write a commentary on the mention of goofer dust in Will Batts' "Country Woman Blues," recorded in Memphis, Tennessee, in 1933. Catcha on the flip-flop, good buddy, and a big 10-20 right atcha! ... or is that a big 10-40...? i forget :-) cat (posting from the Hillbilly Junction of the Mind) yronwode
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