Old Time Oral California Storytelling
It’s a art form sometimes and oral storytelling is great if you understand some simple truths about it.
Example: All the Xxxxx remember is it started with the crossing guard recognizing Xxxxxx X Xxxxxx. 45 conversation minutes later Xxxxxx X Xxxxxx remembered the do not talk around lists. His is huge. because it involves whole families and Redlands was cool until people forgot the do not talk around this or that family rule.
So the oral storytelling was re-started like this:
If you were talking to the Consul General/Ambassador of The Church of Satan from Los Angeles how would that change the conversation? (!)
#1: It’s a powerful brand name like: Coca Cola, Pepsi, 7-UP OR Honda, Ferrari, Ford OR Harley Davidson, Indian, Yamaha. It’s called The Church of Satan [CoS] and commercially it exists. The books have sold over a million copies and if you add in the witch market you end up with influencers in a multi-billion dollar a year media industry called for a lack of a better term simply “Magic and Witchcraft”.
#2: It was the California/USA Classical Neo-Classical and Modern Pagan Church Council
#3 It represents international culture customs and practices to other nations.
I am not trying to “fire it up again” with the old crowd btw and we are not arrogant people. You have to realize that anyone who was in that Church get’s listened to if they are identified with it. So there is a responsibility to themselves and others for their own well being and safety. Famous is a understatement it’s a instantly recognized brand name.
Back to Oral Storytelling
Simple truth:
Oral storytelling takes a lot of time and you have to form a image in people’s minds so you have to be patient.
Simple truth:
People have do not talk around [these people] lists.
Simple truth:
It’s not gossip we are telling the truth or remembering events together.
Simple truth:
If you do not have enough time in the neighborhood to be able to recognize the person or the car they drive and you are not supposed to talk about certain subjects around them then that is a problem. Neighbors with similar interests used to talk in the morning together for a minute or two before work around the Sanctuary and Shrine.
Simple truth:
If you wanted to be recognized as the best of the best then you helped out The Witches and Friends of the Original CoS —”Then it could be said that you were blessed”. At the least important level it’s a powerful family brand name that represents a cultural movement and several different legal religions. (1)
-gtk
PS: Does anyone remember Anton’s Witches in LA? Read the books first please. We are selling out and leaving here soon due to the simple fact that people in Redlands California stole from me and were rude and disrespectful.
Notes:
(!) Consul General/Ambassador: The organizer of the ambassadors. The difference is in discernment between cultural, business and political roles. In some non U.S.A. countries and nations the roles are mixed together and you will find that the Ambassador or Consul seeks to promote foreign relations that include commercial, cultural and political interests. If you consider the pagan nations for a moment in a worldwide legal standpoint you can see how hard the job really is. The issue becomes the nations without borders.
For one observable example: If you look at the people who participate in rock and roll music festivals around the world they look a lot like a separate nation within the borders of other countries and they are semi-nomadic. You can recognize them within larger society when they are not all together at a festival.
If you include other kinds of entertainment troupes then you end up with “The Entertainment Industry Church” This is not based on “Satanism” but rather using music, dance, theater and film in the telling and enacting of legends and tales from the ancient cultures we all participate in. It’s our shared history and culture that makes it all a real experience not some kind of a amusement park environment. We are not made of clay and we experience real emotional involvement with each other.
(1) To some people the family name and “the brand name” represents inclusion in a world that does not include them.
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