Brave-Smoke's Corner

Haunting this night cuz i can't sleep; traumatized by this degenerate fridge, stealing drinks and makin' me think.

Full audio via https://brave-smoke.com/strange-reflections/ under the "SOJOURN TALES ARCHIVE"

G_d - How the jews betrayed mankind Volume 1 of 3 volumes This book reveals how jewish plan for world conquest developed over time. Many people believe that project started with invention of racial religion, but this book proves that world conquest started thousands of years earlier with invention of usury in Sumerian civilization (around 5000 BC). Because of this revolutionary invention whole social stratification in that civilization changed. There emerged a social caste of super rich bankers who over many generations amassed huge fortunes and passed closely guarded secret of usury onto their male children. With usury they monopolized all economy, trade and knowledge of the entire ancient world. Finally these bankers even created a religion for themselves (judaism) and thus emerged entire nation of usurers who are today known as jews. Followers of this judaic religion became programmed bio-robots who are religiously guided toward conquering the world, and this order is transferred by religious indoctrination to successive generations. https://archive.org/details/the-sumerian-swindle-by-g-d-pt-11-18-end/The+Sumerian+Swindle+by+G_d+Pt1-10+(Complete.mp3 https://freepdf.info/index.php?post/G_d-How-the-jews-betrayed-mankind-Volume-1-The-sumerian-swindle

You got a friend in me.

Itching to crack open these bad boys

Etta James: Willow Weep For Me /// Hexagram 28: < Da (Greatness) Guo (in Excess)> aka the GTFO the house's bout to collapse Judgement/Blurb: The ridgepole bends. Beneficial to have a destination. Success. Yao/Line Texts: Top 6/Yin: Crossing too far, the water covers the head. Ominous, yet no blame. 5th 9/Yang: A withered poplar flower. An old woman takes a strong husband. No blame, no praise. 4th 9/Yang: The ridgepole rises. Auspicious. If there is something else, hardship. 3rd 9/Yang: The ridgepole bends. Ominous. 2nd 9/Yang: A withered poplar sprouts. An old man takes a young wife. Nothing is not beneficial. 1st 6/Yin: Use white grass as a mat. No blame. // From Wolfram Eberhard's "Dictionary of Chinese Symbols": The willow, much valued as firewood, is a symbol of spring. As spring is the season of erotic awakenings, the phrase ‘willow feelings and flower wishes’ means sexual desire; ‘looking for flowers and buying willows’ means visiting a prostitute, ‘flowers and willows by the wayside’ are prostitutes, and ‘sleeping among flowers and reposing beneath willows’ is a term for visiting a brothel. The waist of a beautiful woman is compared to the willow, her eyebrows to the curve of willow leaves. A young girl is a ‘tender willow and fresh flower’ while a woman who can no longer claim virginal freshness is described as ‘faded willow and withered flower’. A woman’s pubic hair is ‘in the depths of willow shade’. /// In ancient China, the gourd was an essential ritual instrument used in ceremonies like the imperial ancestor ceremonies and wedding ceremonies. According to the Book of Rites, a gourd was used because it symbolized the nature of heaven and earth. Ancient scholars who studied the Book of Rites noted that the use of gourds in weddings signified the use of household utensils, marking the beginning of a husband and wife's life together. According to the ancient Book of Etiquette and Ceremonies, a crucial part of ancient wedding rituals was wine in gourd ladles, where a gourd was divided into two ladles, each filled with wine for the bride and groom to drink. When these two ladles were brought together, they formed a complete gourd, symbolizing the unity of husband and wife who would share joys and sorrows for the rest of their lives. Over time, this tradition evolved into the modern practice of the wine-sharing ceremony at Chinese weddings. The gourd was also a significant material for making musical instruments. In one ancient text, it is mentioned as one of the eight materials used for creating musical instruments. The eight materials in the text are gold, stone, earth, leather, silk, wood, gourd, and bamboo. In Daoism, the shape of the gourd represents the sky and the earth, the infinite, the universe, a magical world, a parallel universe, or an entry into another world, where immortals or persons practicing Daoism can travel to – signifying self-content and sufficiency. There are old Chinese stories describing people accidentally taking small and narrow paths to enter a magical world, where people enjoy peace and long life. In some Chinese parks and gardens, gourd shaped gates are common, along with other shapes with various symbols. Out of the eight Taoist immortals (八仙 – bāxiān), the gourd personalises Tie Guai Li (鐵拐李), also known as “Iron-Crutch Li”. The story says that one day, Li left his body to visit Laozi 老子 on the sacred mountain Hua Shan (花山- huāshān). Before leaving, he asked one of his disciples to watch his body in his absence, and if he would not return in seven days, the disciple should burn his body. On the 6th day, the disciple found out that his mother was very sick and, as a good son, he returned home immediately, but not before burning Li’s body. When Li returned and found his ashes, he had no choice but to enter the first body he found, of a beggar who had just died. So, he transformed the beggar’s bamboo crutch into one of magic iron that could transform things. He then obtained the potion for immortality inside the gourd he had with him and used it to revive the disciple’s mother. When he wanted to sleep, he made himself extremely small and entered the gourd. The two parts of the gourd also symbolise the immortality potion, obtained by refining the red cinnabar from the upper part into mercury from the lower part.

I slept and dreamt that life was joy. Once I awoke I saw life was duty. I acted — and behold: duty was joy. –Rabindranath Tagore

"Beet It" with Saurkraut and fishy sweet-potato rice.

credit goes to @unklebonehead or Asset01 Got tired of constantly searching for this vid in my journey in promoting web3 and the fediverse. Decided to upload it onto my channel for ease of access.

Out and about foraging for nettles to make nettle fertiliser; then went on a detour to forage some stuffs. PS - shout out to the lady who showed me where the garlic flowers were!

Backstory: https://blurt.media/w/tZtj6JiqqnJ3gxiK1d5jpc Working on many a thang; so much to do, so little time!

never dull a moment

Part I Part II Part III A deep dive into my formative years in the paranormal alongside thoughts on life.

https://theqiflow.com/pages/i-ching-hexagram-3 From Zhu Xi's "Original Meaning Of the Yijing": 屯/Zhun (Difficult Beginning) Kan/Water above Zhen/Thunder below Zhen has a single yang line moving in beneath two yin lines, so it's virtue is activity and it's image is thunder. Kan has a single yang trapped between two yin lines, so it's virtue is being trapped, or danger; it's image is clouds, rain or water. Zhun is the name of this hexagram. It means the point when something is beginning to arise but has not yet fully come through. In terms of the character it represents a sprout beginning to break out of the earth but not yet through. The hexagram is Zhen encountering Kan, hence the name of the hexagram. Zhen is active below and Kan is danger above; this is the ability to act in the midst of danger. Although the ability to act can be successful, when in danger it is better to hold onto correctness (aka correct principles; observe the times before making a move) and not to advance suddenly. Therefore when a divination yields this hexagram, the prognostication is greatly successful, appropriate and correct, but one can not suddenly have somewhere to go. Also 9 at the beginning (first line), the yang residing below the yin and all other lines, is the ruler of this entire hexagram. This is the image of the worthy subordinate who wins the support of the people to become a ruler/leader.

Part I Part II Part III A deep dive into my formative years in the paranormal alongside thoughts on life.

Part I Part II Part III A deep dive into my formative years in the paranormal alongside thoughts on life.

Exploring and Showcasing the various peertube instances i'm on. Instances: Blurt.media https://makertube.net/videos/browse?scope=local https://peertube.linuxrocks.online/home https://share.tube/videos/local https://peertube.wtf/ https://stream.indieagora.com/videos/browse https://indieagora.com/?tab=stream https://video.hardlimit.com/a/brave.smoke/video-channels Other Links https://jointhefediverse.net/learn?lang=en-us https://fediverse.info/ https://joinpeertube.org/instances?profile=viewer&themes=13&nsfw=blur&quota=5000000000&isStreamer=no https://www.pootlepress.com/2025/01/a-complete-beginners-guide-to-activitypub/ https://librarian.aedileworks.com/2025/10/13/how-i-use-activitypub-and-why/ https://seb.jambor.dev/posts/understanding-activitypub/

A Yi "discovery"

soon come...

coming soon....

It's been more than 6 years my brotha...where are you? Tell me you're alive.

Finding purpose in mischief am i bothered? computer says no....

Borges and I: https://gilgens.org/icl/onlinereading/Borges Readings.pdf Felt like reading you a story ya dig?

https://www.magicana.ca/performers/rene-lavand?page=1 https://mubi.com/en/gb/films/the-great-pretender-2013 https://mahdithemagician.com/journal/articles/rene-lavand-lost-photos

From my "Sojourn Tales" archive. Hexagram #28: "Greatness In Excess" [The Image] The lake rises above the trees: the image of "Greatness In Excess". Thus the Exemplary stands alone without fear, and withdraws from the World without melancholy.

Rene Lavand, my heart mentor. So close to meeting this man in real life. I was a couple months too late, though Nora, his late wife did welcome me and my ex-Mentor Michael Vincent to their home in Tandil, Argentina back in 2018. You don't need to understand Spanish to see the poetry of conjuring at work; though if you are wanting to understand Rene, i would highly recommend two books, if you can find them: Magic From The Soul Mysteries Of My Life

Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 These videos are mainly for @yayogerado; the subject matter in response to his response to one of my Yi/IChing related blog posts i recently unleashed onto the masses. Before i hit you with the links used in this video, brotha please find time to download all files in this folder. These are my collection of Yi files, with PDFs to great great books and other resources that i know you'll find useful. May you slap shit up in this Universe wit da Yi! https://app.box.com/s/tga7ujk8inwl8a70ic01aau9ko1pyd6e Links: https://blurt.media/w/7RvyrGx6AAJPAwWj6cPkR3 (skip to around 7mins) https://yijing.website/Pages/deTienVleugels.php (Please read all chapters from "Shuo Gua / DISCUSSION OF THE TRIGRAMS [the Eighth Wing]" and "Da Zhuan / THE GREAT TREATISE [the Fifth Wing] FIRST SECTION" https://www.astrologyiching.com/ https://taoistiching.org/61.html https://theqiflow.com/pages/i-ching (lovely, just lovely) https://100percentastrology.com/plum-blossom-numerology/ (amazing but highly advanced, yet if you master the Plum Blossom Method, you will find much joy in being deeply in tuned with existence via your powers of observation and deducation) /// "You see, but you do not observe. The distinction is clear." — Sherlock Holmes; Arthur Conan Doyle; A Scandal in Bohemia. "A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it." - Thufir Hawat; Frank Herbert "Dune" (book) “It's the questions we can't answer that teach us the most. They teach us how to think. If you give a man an answer, all he gains is a little fact. But give him a question and he'll look for his own answers.” ― Kvothe; Patrick Rothfuss, "The Wise Man's Fear".

Baking my first ever Sourdough Bread from da scratch!

Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 These videos are mainly for @yayogerado; the subject matter in response to his response to one of my Yi/IChing related blog posts i recently unleashed onto the masses. https://www.cttbusa.org/shurangama/shurangama_contents.asp.html https://wenshuchan-online.weebly.com/biography-master-xu-yun-1840-1959.html https://emptycloud.co.uk/ My Old Vids: Traversing A Spiritually Castrated World Wudang Mountains Yi-sources: https://rexresearch1.com/Books/WilhelmIChing.pdf (normally i would not recommend this book to novices, yet Ed. L Shaughnessy offers a very reasonable reason for reasoning with this book. Personally i would highly highly recommend Richard John Lynn's translation of Wang Bi's work from the Three Kingdoms era 220 - 280 AD; this dude was very prolific) https://www.ichi-ng.com/the-great-treatise/preface/ -https://www.reddit.com/r/iching/comments/n35jpe/what_are_the_best_books_or_sources_in_english_to/ https://www.reddit.com/r/IChingDivination/comments/1q4jj8p/three_yi_different_paths_core_differences_and/ https://www.ichi-ng.com/the-great-treatise/preface/ https://100percentastrology.com/plum-blossom-numerology/ https://www.reddit.com/r/iching/comments/14t3r0q/methods_and_books/

Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 These videos are mainly for @yayogerado; the subject matter in response to his response to one of my Yi/IChing related blog posts i recently unleashed onto the masses. Yayo, your sharp mind and awareness, coupled with your ability to absorb data and synthesize concepts; not to mention being able to enjoy the right hemisphere of the creative mind shows that you are a Superman. Here i attempt to direct your attention away from secular charts of bull/bear/beaver/badger runs into charts worthy of your sharp mind. I also attempt to direct you to the hidden systems of this world of existence, which i have been very privileged in my brief life to have been gifted (due to being brought up in Esotericism). Resources: https://www.russellcottrell.com/blog/ShaoYongScript.htm https://taoistiching.org/ https://www.reddit.com/r/taoism/comments/1msokfo/where_did_the_i_ching_really_come_from_meet_the/ https://www.scribd.com/document/360983790/bigua-yinyang-pdf https://guiculture.com/fs09meihua4.htm https://www.biroco.com/yijing/contrast.htm#lynn https://youtu.be/yNn50AbOWhw?si=G9lUg7z1ZZG1_-z1 As for the books and cause and effect/karma references if you would find time to watch these old videos of mine hosted on the hive blockchain, it would set the tone of your spiritual education with the worse guide ever...that's me, Jin Brave-Smoke: In this order (please also check the description box for links): https://legacy.3speak.tv/watch?v=jin-out/bwwnwlip https://legacy.3speak.tv/watch?v=jin-out/xlmrsztz https://legacy.3speak.tv/watch?v=jin-out/fqkaqdsc As for the website i have been frequenting since i was 15 years old (as mentioned in the audio): https://book.bfnn.org/ (right click and translate to English). This website was instrumental in my youth, as a supplementation to my already birth-lineage experience. I was able to source the original commentaries by the Ancient Buddhist Masters, in archiac Chinese on this site, including Buddhist Sutras too. It's how i learnt and honed by Chinese to a level over 9000. By the time i was 20 i was able to read ancient texts like a mfer.

https://www.pantryfields.com/john-seymour https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victory_garden https://thisismold.com/profile/repast/repast-beyond-cottage-core-with-john-seymour https://getrawmilk.com/content/grow-a-lot-on-a-small-plot

Part One: "I Fear The Babylonians II (be continued)" https://odysee.com/$/search?q=jinn mago

I Fear The Babylonians I (March 24 2022): https://odysee.com/ifearbabz:2

w0t iz sauerkraut? https://www.olivemypickle.com/blogs/news/what-is-sauerkraut https://www.webmd.com/diet/ss/slideshow-benefits-fermented-foods

Listen up grasshoppaz! Brave-Smoke here to set your business mind straight! If you don't have a business mindset when it comes to your blurt endeavours, now is your time to shine!

Learning how to make my own Sourdough starter from scratch.