November 23, 2007
"The DNA is DMA"
After so long and many questions upon the topic I tried long and hard to come up with a fast and easy way to explain the Epical movement and how it can enrich lives.
Many who've tried to explain it, have said empty open ended statements like "It's a new and enriching way of life" or "It's a new philosophy that is both uplifting and fulfilling!" alas, those statements are empty and don't really answer the issue.
The DNA of Epica is the DMA. DMA stands for Dynamic Mental Attitude.
It is NOT the same as a Positive Mental Attitude (PMA). If all it took for an uplifted life was to be positive all the time, then the world would be a whistling Disney tunes all day and giving out flowers and balloons.
Face it, it's a dirty gritty world out there and though it has it's ups and downs, we as a species need a mindset in which we can actually cope with it. By cope, I don't mean happy pills (prescription drugs), I mean having the mental attitude, aptitude and fortitude to go forth throughout the day without a) pretending to see it through rose colored glasses and b) crumbling under the pressure.
What if you could just actually try and enjoy life no matter what it threw at you? Imagine the possibilities?
Remember way back when I first attempted to explain the Epical philosophy? Basically, I was explaining that, as it has been written; " all the worlds a stage and we are mere players in it" and we were here to star in our own theatrical performance. This does not mean "be a Drama Queen". It means simply this: Take the mundane and have fun with it. Change your mindset to as if you always had a movie camera trained on your every movement. Imagine a boom microphone above your head recording what you said for an audience to listen. How would you speak? How would you act? Would you cower in fear or thrust out your chest in pride as if to proclaim yourself a real life thespian?
I'll use this as a preamble as in upcoming posts I will go further in how you can be the role you've always wanted to play... but in real life. Oh and gang? You can play the villain and you don't have to lose to the good guys in this one.
Posted by Darkstar at 12:48 AM | Comments (0)
September 21, 2007
Like Archimedes I say:"EUREKA!"
Many have asked me how to simplify what Epica is when trying to explain it to their friends and spread the word. Well, I've done it. A single sentence will spell it all out and break the ice. Now this post has been made to herald the way and tell you that we're not dead here. You may think the lack of frequent posting means the Church is dead, but it's not. New people come to the site everyday and I would prefer they got to be able to digest what we've discussed so far.
Brace yourself. The answers are on the way.
Either way, there's something big on the horizon. In a few days time, it shall be posted.
Posted by Darkstar at 04:09 PM | Comments (0)
January 07, 2007
Reverse engineering 'God'.
Can you answer this question:
"Who is God?"
I bet you can't. Now I don't mean replying "Hey, everybody knows who GOD is. He's that all powerful guy with the long hair and the white beard that's Jesus' dad!" I don't mean replying that god is Allah, Buddha, Yahweh, Jehovah, Goya, Uranus, Thor, Odin, Satan, Zeus, Coronas, Mattes, Apollo, Aries, Athena, Bast, Belial, Leviathan, Thea or Astaroth, just to name a few.
These names were given by man to give an understandable persona to the forces greater than we believed to exist. A line from the XTC song "Dear God" spelled it out rather poignantly: "Did you make mankind after we made YOU". There is no real proof of these gods or even their names. IN the same instance, technology has not led us to believe differently as to their existence either.
What we DO know scientifically is that there are unseen forces in the universe. What we do know is that first and foremost there are energies abound in the universe and it's dimensions that clearly show themselves however unexplained.
So let us reverse engineer the concept of god. Many of our kind in our time have shown many talents and abilities beyond those of normal men, and yet we consider them heretics or witches or freaks simply because we choose not to understand them. The "norm" was set long ago in the evolution of man and based on events that could probably have been proven through science with today's technology. We now can scientifically fathom the different spectrum of energies from ultra violet, ectoplasm and Electro magnetic. We have created machines to detect such. So let's start with how god was conceived. In a time of a science-less world, anything abnormal or occultist was deemed supernatural and in most cases because of it's rarity, evil. From the belief in Jesus' miracles to the Salem witch trials, man has thought that anything that is not 3 dimensional and tangible was either an act of god or the devil.
Faith was created and fueled by superstition and ritual, based on very little fact and supported by fear. Fear of angering the gods, fear of being against the norm, fear of being unnatural. These fears were culminated for the purpose of mind controlling the masses. The masses who followed like sheep sat and listened to the lawgivers who were in themselves corrupt.
Face it. MAN made god as a control device. God is as much a concept as he/she/it is real. God is a point of view. God is a thought process. God is better left within our hearts as a driving force... A thought... A need... A desire. We control our destiny, but we cannot control fate. We can only shape it and bend it, but never can we, like time, tame fate.
Where does that leave us? Well first, let me tell you where it doesn't leave us. In reverse engineering god, It doesn't leave us under the control of man made religions. It doesn't leave us beholden to societal rule. Nor does it leave us in anarchy. You see, that's the first formula you see when you examine the gods of organized religion. You see them as fear mongering tools. Especially in the Christian sects. If you don't go to church, god will punish you and you're a bad church dweller. Well, considering that a plate goes past your nose to collect "offerings" for which you dump your money, I'm sure that's why it's a sin to them if you don't. Because, you see, if you don't go to church, you can't give them your money. The same can be said for the faith healer believing Evangelical churches. Some have the nerve to charge for "healing holy waters". Were they so magnanimous, they would heal for free. Who paid Jesus to heal? No one. He rode on an ass, not in a large limousine.
These organized religions are some of the most corrupt of all time. They are the biggest hustlers known to man. They are the priests and ministers and reverends that prey on you for your money, so they give you the whole show for the price of admission. One has you singing and dancing or screaming out and another keeps you in line like a good little foot soldier of god. Either way, let's call them what they are..."cults".
Society has no idea how it has been duped. No concept of how it has let itself become sheep. Now the sheep are in control of the world and the populace under it's rule are simply the lambs to the slaughter. This is the result of centuries of bastardized stories from two to three thousand year old text.
My friends... Here we have unraveled our concept of god for just what he is... A concept. Well, if I must have a concept, I want to make MY own god. I want a personal god. I want a god that reflects me and my desires. I want a god that is the same for all, but mine alone. Allow me to tell you about MY gods:
MY gods have no faces. MY gods have no names. MY gods do not follow the doctrines set forth by the predecessors of religious dogma. MY gods fuel my fire. MY gods are my batteries to my inner gifts. MY gods wield the power cosmic. MY gods allow me the sentience of free thought and the free will to do as I instinctively please as long as I do not infringe on the same in others and do not kill my fellow man for sport or gain other than in war to defend what is mine in home, property and country.
MY gods acknowledge my inner gifts and do not hinder nor shun them. They nurture my quest for knowledge, they feel my growth, they allow nature to respond in kind, they allow probabilities to be altered because my gods live within myself as they touch me. MY gods do not believe in idle prayer for they do not wish to be bothered with our menial desires and wants, thus they grant us the abilities to make these things happen for ourselves. They allow us to be satellites of their godhood. They allow us to be as gods on earth in a small way. If it was believed we were made in a gods image, then we should have a fraction of that power we so envy. We are offshoots, fingertips of an un-divine hand or rather, hair follicles of a supreme head. We have been touched by a dark cosmic force. It gives us instinct and our mentality allows us to act upon it within the confines that we do not disturb another's right to do the same.
There you have it. God has been restructured and resurrected in a new image. A personal god.
Posted by Darkstar at 10:34 PM | Comments (0)
December 28, 2006
The Epical spiritual ethos.
Many people ask "where exactly does the epical spiritual ethos lie?" Some may even go so far as to ask if Epicalists are Satanists. Allow me to clarify:
Epicalists or Epicans are "hedonistic humanists". We believe that first and foremost, the answers lie within ourselves. Shakespeare once said: "The fault lies not in our stars, but in ourselves". He could never have been more correct. But not only our faults, but our successes and how we choose to overcome adversity or difficulty.
Epicans are not Satanists under the conventional terms or understandings, nor are they Christians either. They are also neither agnostic nor atheist as they have a belief system in forces of nature and science and the possibilities of beings greater than ourselves.
Epicalists acknowledge that forces beyond our comprehension formed and shaped our existence, yet give no formal names to them. There is no "Heaven" or "Hell". There is no "God" or "Satan". Any god or grouping of such aforementioned would be merely the X factor in an algebraic equation. Whether they are "good" or "bad" is mostly reliant on ones own perception. To say we don't believe in god is not entirely correct nor incorrect. We believe in forces greater than our own and older and possibly than the ones man has attempted to claim and tame the legacies of by giving them names.
In the pursuit of 'god', and Epicalist seeks proof of the metaphysical and even the supernatural. Epicans believe that the bio-electric force that flows through our cerebral cortex is mostly to blame for the gifts we possess, locked within our most powerful tool in the arsenal of the human psyche: the mind. This is different than mere resultless prayer or charlatan faith healing in other religions.
Epicalist belief is that whatever our instincts tell us must be the better answer. Whatever we desire as a human animal should be a reward reaped with no repercussion be they depraved or selfish. Letting our gut reaction be our guide is our credo. In most societies, due to certain acts of selfish hedonism, these actions might be considered dark behavior.
How society classifies Epicalism is not important. It is only dark to them because they are from a different mental structure for which they do not understand freedom as truly being free.
Besides special days on it's own calendar special to the Epican, the Epicalist celebrates the same holidays found on the lunar and pagan/occult calendars. Not for the same beliefs, but for the sheer wealth of ectoplasm and metaphysical energy generated for which to harness.
Posted by Darkstar at 06:57 PM
December 21, 2006
The Epical lifestyle and you.
"How can I be 'epical' and why would I want to be?" you may ask? Well it's a very good question. Although these writings spell out many things, they may seem confusing to some or a more complicated read than what others are accustomed to.
Let me first sum it up that Epicalism is the ability to live life in an epic way. Similar to the drama of a movie only without the chaos. Your life doesn't have to be the mundane humdrum life it seems to be. You seek out Epicalism when you feel depressed or that you have no hope or are seeking answers where you feel there are none. You do not chase faiths that ask for money yet offer no proof for answers or seek unproven deities for help. You seek to find the solutions within you, and recognize that not only is accepting change the secret to success, but that recognizing opportunity and seizing it is the key to luck.
Let's break down a few key aspects of Epicalism:
1) First and foremost: You are the star of your own life story.
2) You can dispel the negative aspects of life and turn them into a positive. This is not ignoring depressing or hurtful issues, merely a way to suppress them and turn them in your favor so that you may find them easier to deal with emotionally.
3) You believe that you are your own savior and that salvation first comes from within you and not the unproven gods of both past and modern day organized religion.
4) You believe that you can be whatever you imagine yourself to be if you only took the moment to actually envision that person in your mind and live as such. You believe that what you perceive yourself to be is so.
5) You believe that within you lies the power to do whatever you set your mind to or are interested in finding out how to tap into those inner gifts. You in turn believe in the forces of nature, both physical and the metaphysical.
6) Lastly, you believe that your human instincts and humanistic urges were given to you for a reason and that you should feel free to act upon them as long as others are not being hurt in any way that infringes on their rights to do the same. No religion or political agenda should be able to sway or guilt you from that.
In those 6 simplifying statements, you are well on your path to endarkenment.
There's excitement in cinema. The movies make life so dramatic, from it's music to its direction. Shakespeare said "all the worlds a stage and we are merely players in it", so why not play the part as best you can?
To do that, first and Epicalist must play the role they were born to. They must play it as well as they enjoy it. There are no critics of this act and no writers for this script.
Live Epical. Live fabulously. Live FREE.
Posted by Darkstar at 03:05 PM
December 08, 2005
Mission statement of Project "Epical"
(official press release)
Project Epical is a culmination of the musical and philosophical thoughts, scribings, musings and sonnets of D'Sar, the Darkstar.
The project itself, simply put, is a music style that celebrates sorrow and exudes raw emotion as a release from day to day stress and tension.
Imagine a subculture more diverse and less restrictive, with a higher thought process yet less predjudice and snobbery. Where it is easier to finally belong. Where there are no age restrictions or fashion criteria. Now imagine a music that uplifts, yet has depth. One that can remedy the depression of every day life. Imagine the return of songs of substance, with actual meaning and engrossing tales in it's lyrics designed for the common mans woes. One that celebrates his or her daily trials and tribulations rather than run from them. One that shows that even the worst , most negative aspects of this world can be embraced and rejoiced!
No... This theory is not simply making lemonaid from lemons, but a revolutionary thought process that embraces the evils of the world, rather than shuns it, disempowering the negativity as one would disempower a racial slur or curse word by using it in a changed context.
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November 12, 2005
Epical mores vs. the 10 Commandments
mores.
mo·res ( P ) Pronunciation Key (môrz, -z, mr-)
pl.n.
1.The accepted traditional customs and usages of a particular social group.
2. Moral attitudes.
3. Manners; ways.
1 Thou shalt have no other gods before me."
I: Gods beyond the reach of mans mind helped set in motion the creation of our life as we know it. Although they will remain mostly unknown and obscure until we come in contact with those that fully know, they were given personas by various churches for the sake of understanding and propaganda.
Thou shalt accept that there are forces beyond our comprehension yet have been factored into the subdivisions of "good" and "evil" or "light" and "dark" forces. The Epical enjoy the unenhampered pleasures of the "dark" force.
2" Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth."
II: Thou shalt not find the vanity of an unfelt, unseen, unproven god and his words appealing, nor shall ye support his folly.
3 "Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me; And showing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments."
III: Thou shalt celebrate ones self as a god amongst men within their right. Though shalt gain esteem by first realizing that their own body is a temple of the mind. The thought of a jealous god should make no sense to you, as those who speak in his name for him would contradict that "jealousy" like "envy" is one of their seven most deadly sins. How hypocritical is it to be condemned for the same sin said god speaks against."
4 " Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain; for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain."
IV: God was created by man as a pseudonym for "the unknown" spawned from books of hear say and speculation from the primitive. To take a pseudonym or pronoun in vain is ludicrous. Do not fall for such folly. The Epicalist is more logical than that.
5 " Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labor, and do all thy work:
But the seventh day is the Sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day, and hallowed it."
V: The calendar we follow is man made. Though shalt do whatever one wants on any day within it. The greatest "sabbats" so to speak, are days which commemorate the passing of useful events such as planetary alignments, dates of astronomical and astrological significance. Thou shalt work when it is most advantageous to gain the most for ones family and ones self without fear of punishment.
6 " Honor thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee."
VI: Honor thy parents if they are parents due respect. Merely bringing you to this planet through their loins or spawned from a carnal accident is not grounds for respect. Many parents are simply full of contempt. The rapist father shall not have your respect, nor the father brought to your mother for one night with no further contact nor attempt to be in your life. Nor the mother who abandoned you on a doorstep or left you in a trash can. Nor the mother who defiled her body during your growth within her. Nor the parents of ill repute, ill will or sans honor. The parents that brought you in the world for the purpose of monetary gain and the like should reap your vengeance if you have survived the horrors they're lifestyle wrought you.
7 "Thou shalt not kill."
VII: Killing is a basic animal instinct. It is a way of survival. Thou shalt kill for food and self defense. Only the lives of those who truly do you harm and wrong are useless to you. You should only kill as a last resort and not without the restrictions of the government within which you dwell. To kill another human physically for sport or in the commission of a crime is frowned upon. To kill using means other than the conventional (i.e.: metaphysical*) is permitted without remorse. For if you are learned enough and emotional enough and skilled enough in the dark arts, then you deserve your kill. But only after your mystic actions have been judged by the deities of the Darkforce. Only they can stay t