Rest In Peace, Guru Rasa Von Werder

By Ajax the Great (Pete Jackson)

With the heaviest of hearts, William and I have recently come to learn from a credible source that our beloved friend, associate, and movement leader, the legendary Guru Rasa Von Werder, has passed away.  She would have been 81 years of age had she lived to July 16, but apparently she took her final breaths sometime on or before June 5, about a month ago.  She was known to have had a bad heart for a while now, which she had struggled with for over a decade, having miraculously survived at least five heart attacks over the years, which took their toll.  The exact details surrounding her passing are not entirely clear yet at this time.  

We were both truly hoping that, as the late Mark Twain famously quipped, that "the reports of [her] death are greatly exaggerated", but alas, I managed to confirm it with another source (i.e. one of her other, more local friends and associates).

Born Rasa Sofija Jakstas on July 16, 1945, and also known as Kellie Everts, Rasa has accomplished far more than most people in all of recorded history during her eight decades of life.  From being the founder (progenitor) of female bodybuilding, to being the "Stripper For God" to ultimately being the founder of her own church and religion plus the Matriarchy movement, she was truly the toughest act to follow.  A walking, talking miracle if there ever was one, she truly revolutionized so much!

I myself have no doubts that she went straight to Heaven, and among the very highest places therein, however one understands that concept of the very best parts of Great Beyond.  (Or if there was any sort of delay in getting there, it would have been far too brief to be noteworthy.)  If you believe that suffering is good for the soul, well, she certainly earned her way in!  Substitute "charity" in place of "suffering", and that would apply a fortiori for her as well.  Alternatively, if you believe simply in divine grace, well, that was also equally evident in her life on Earth as well.  Same with predestination as well.  In other words, anyway you look at (grace, merit, predestination, karma, or even chance), there can be no doubt that if there is a Heaven, she is certainly there right now looking down.  And as one of the oldest of "old souls" most likely, she perhaps even achieved full-fledged Nirvana as well by now, merging completely with Mother God Herself.  She truly had a heart of gold.

And finally, above all, what she wanted to be known for most of all, was the the fact that, in her own words, she "obeyed God".

Rest in peace, Guru Rasa Von Werder.  Forever a legend, never to be forgotten.

Rasa Von Werder 

1945-2026

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The Gender War: A War Men Lost Before The War Began

By Ajax the Great (Pete Jackson)

(Originally posted on the Vive La Difference! blog)

The 1960s protest folk song "White Boots Marching in a Yellow Land by the late, great Phil Ochs, was written about the Vietnam War.  With lyrics like, "Every battle won is just another grain of sand," and "Oh, we're fighting in a war we lost, before the war began", that were as poignant as they were prescient, it really described that war quite well indeed.  And would also apply by anticipation to the later wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and now Iran as well.

I can't help but think that such a song also applies a fortiori to the 7000+ year gender war.  You know the War on Women, that we call "patriarchy" to make it sound nicer.  Truly, much like the Americans in Vietnam, it's a war men have already lost before the war began, despite winning nearly every single battle.  Most are just too dumb or ignorant to see it, but more and more are catching on, hence all the angry, violent, and testerical lashing out we are seeing lately from reactionary men.

Men's biggest fear is of course that they will lose. That is, what what losing would really mean?  But at the same time, Women's biggest fear in that regard is actually that Women will win.  That is, what would winning really mean?  Yes, fear of winning!  That goes to show just how deep the toxic patriarchal brainwashing goes.

The mutually beneficial solution, then, is simple.  Men need to accept that they have lost the gender war, and thus surrender to Women.  And Women need to accept they they have won the gender war, and whatever the terms of surrender that are mutually agreed upon.  Only then can humanity's longest war finally end, Goddess willing.

So what are we waiting for?  Let the planetary healing begin!

"White Boots Marching in a Yellow Land", Phil Ochs, 1965 Demo Version 

"White Boots Marching in a Yellow Land", Phil Ochs, 1968 Album Version 

Happy Mother's Day!

   

By Ajax the Great (Pete Jackson)

(Originally posted on the Vive La Difference! blog)

First, I would like to wish a Happy Mother's Day to all of the wonderful Mothers out there.  You are, after all, literally the reason why the human race even exists at all, despite the fact that the work you do is grossly undervalued in so many way by our twisted capitalistic and patriarchal society.  In other words, your beautiful feminine energy is essentially what keeps the rest of us alive.  

Thank you.

I would also like to note and lament how, for all the shallow platitudes America likes to throw around about "Mothers and apple pie", we are still a nation that perpetually continues to screw over Mothers and pregnant Women in so many ways.  Years ago, the legendary Guru Rasa Von Werder shared with us a poignant and in-depth article from Vox (see here) with us that illustrates the various ways in which that is true.  This article should truly be food for thought indeed.  Our patriarchal and capitalistic society clearly has a "cult of motherhood", in which the "ideal" of motherhood is so highly vaunted, worshipped even, but in practice actual Mothers themselves get about as much genuine respect as Rodney Dangerfield.  Both during and after pregnancy, so many Mothers are routinely discriminated against, overworked, underpaid, and even outright criminalized in many cases.  And meanwhile, there is to this day a powerful faction of mostly male politicians that is doing everything in their power to deny Women their right to choose whether or not to get (or stay) pregnant in the first place.  Indeed, the rank hypocrisy of our utterly misogynistic, hypocritical, and pharisaical system is so thick you could cut it with a knife.

Meanwhile, old Buckminster Fuller (who, not coincidentally, believed that Women should rule the world) must be spinning in his grave right now.  With today's technology and innovation, there is literally no legitimate reason why we as a society need "everybody and their mother" (literally!) to "work for a living" unless they really wanted to.  There are more than enough resources in the world for everyone on this planet to live like a millionaire, but the greedy oligarchs who control such resources apparently don't want to share.  Combined with the outdated scarcity mentality that men tend to favor (as opposed to the abundance mentality that Women tend to favor), those same oligarchs have also done everything in their power to sabotage any alternatives (i.e. free and renewable energy) to their own evil system that they force upon the rest of us.  So why make them even richer?

Additionally, just as we should "dispense with the absolutely specious notion that everybody needs to earn a living" (in Bucky's words), so too should we jettison the equally specious and outdated idea that "everybody must procreate" as though it were a civic duty.  Not only does today's technology make much useful human labor redundant, but the world is grossly overpopulated and will only get more so in the coming decades, and despite the abundance of the world's resources we are chewing through them like there is no tomorrow while destroying the planet.  And the main cause of that overpopulation is--wait for it--MEN.  Because they are the ones who, both historically and today, force, coerce, deceive, and/or manipulate Women to have kids that they otherwise would not want or are not yet ready for.  Men like to "get 'em while they're young" and then use them as serial breeding slaves, essentially, and all the euphemisms in the world do not change that fact.  It is really no coincidence that the two most effective (and ethical) ways to reduce overpopulation and excessively high birthrates are 1) female empowerment and 2) poverty reduction, while everything else is a mere sideshow.  Because when Women actually have a free and genuine choice on when or whether or not to reproduce, they usually make the right choices overall.  After all, they are the ones who have the most "skin in the game", therefore they would know best.

And to those folks with the audacity to worry about low and falling birthrates in the rich countries these days?  Well, that's a GOOD thing on balance.  It's almost like Gaia is trying to tell us all something.  And it should go without saying, of course, but NO ONE should EVER be forced, coerced, deceived, or manipulated into motherhood. It must ALWAYS be an individual choice, as anything else is slavery.  End of.  

So let the planetary healing begin! 

MAMASTE

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Happy May Day / Beltane, Everyone!

By Ajax the Great (Pete Jackson)

Today, May 1, is May Day, also known as the Celtic and Neopagan holiday of Beltane.  It has a rather long history and symbolizes many things, but it is most notably a day to honor the Goddess, which includes the Goddess in every Woman.  Elephant Journal describes it rather nicely in their article a few years ago about the holiday:

Halfway between the Vernal Equinox and the Summer Solstice falls May Day—the original holiday of sex and abundance.  If you’ve ever wondered, as I used to, what the hype was around May Day—as in why I always heard about ‘May Day’ but never seemed to witness anyone actually celebrating, here’s why. It’s deeply rooted in pagan nature and hedonistic sex worship and celebrations. As Christianity spread and the Church extended its reach and control, these pagan and Divine worships of masculine and feminine equality had to be forgotten.  May 1st is Beltane in the Northern Hemisphere, the day we honor nature’s oldest love story.  And we all love a love story.   This is a holiday of union, between man and woman, God and Goddess—a celebration of the divine balance in the union of Divine masculine and feminine. Because once upon a time, the two were honored as sacred parts of the one Divine balance.

Indeed.  And among Neopagans today, Beltane is (usually) primarily about honoring the Divine Feminine, where as Samhain (October 31) is primarily about honoring the Divine Masculine.  Thus, I propose that we shift International Women's Day (currently March 8) to May 1, and shift International Men's Day (November 19, coinciding with World Toilet Day, lol) to November 1. The latter, of course, should not be seen as a day to celebrate men, but rather as a day of atonement for the evil that men do, and have done for thousands of years now--a sort of all-male equivalent of the Jewish holy day Yom Kippur to essentially apologize to the Divine Feminine.  

Honestly, it's the least us fellas could do.

Another holiday I would like to propose is Waterloo Day, on April 30, the day before May Day.  That would symbolize the (hopefully) eventual surrender of men to Women, which I had once personally predicted will occur on April 30, 2030--the end of an error.  (Current events have made me far less sanguine about that prediction, and it is most likely much farther away than 2030, at least 2040 or 2050 if not later.)  Just as that day symbolizes the end of the "darker half" of the year and the beginning of the "lighter half", so too shall it symbolize the end of the 7000 years of darkness known as patriarchy and the beginning of the new earthly paradise known as Matriarchy.  Note too that April 30, 1975 was also when the Vietnam War officially ended, albeit ignominiously, with the Fall of Saigon.  And also there was April 30, 1945 when a certain little painter from Austria did the world a huge favor by offing himself.  And the song "War Pigs" by Black Sabbath was originally going to be called "Walpurgisnacht", which is another name for May Eve, or April 30.  One idea for how to celebrate Waterloo Day would be for the men to get up on a platform or podium, give a concession speech as though stepping down from power, and have all the Women heckle and throw rotten tomatoes at them.  All while the men sing the song "Waterloo" by ABBA, lol.

It also happens to be International Worker's Day as well, by the way..  Workers of the world.....relax.