Can George W. Bush Be Purged? by Mark Morford

[madokie]

============= MARK MORFORD'S NOTES & ERRATA =============
SFGate.com - Friday, March 16, 2007

== Can George W. Bush Be Purged? =
Mayan priests purified their sacred land after Shrub scurried off. Can we do the same?
(By Mark Morford)
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/gate/archive/2007/03/16/notes031607.DTL&nl=fix

Sage is always good. Or maybe lavender. Pine is nice, too. Dried, bundled, tied with string, burned with hot, divine intent. Would it work? Do we have enough to go around? This is the question.

I speak, of course, of ritual. Purging and cleansing and purifying and, truly, burning a nicely dried, blessed smudge stick can be a terrific slice of personal magic, to rid a space (or perhaps even your own body) of negative juju or vicious spirits or just to make way for the new and the moist and the good. You can smudge a room. You can create a divine smoldering cloud and then move through the smoke, invoke change, purge the negative, invite hot licks of yes. It is a thing to do.

But here's the thing: Can you smudge an entire nation? Do we have enough lavender for 300 million? It is, all things considered, a big goddamn country. Windy. Rocky, in places. Could be tricky. Not to mention, you know, hazy. From all the smoke. Think of the potential traffic accidents. Coughing.

Important considerations, really, because it is becoming increasingly evident that a great national purifying ritual is just about exactly what we need. We are, after all, almost at that point. The Great Bleakness is nearing its end and you can veritably feel the swarm of uptight BushCo demons and malicious energies swirling around the country like happy karmic leeches, like a giant intellectual rash, like black raindrops of dank sweat from Karl Rove's evil mealy thighs. ...

[yourout]

1. I say we as a country stick our finger down our throat and...

"Puke" up the poison that is in our stomach. Purge the poison that is killing us.

[Jackpine Radical]

3. Political ipecac.

Maybe wear garlic around your neck when you go to the voting booth, too.

[Dora]

2. Yes! n/t

[WorseBeforeBetter]

4. That's not a bad idea -- bush burning festivities (dead ones) on...

inauguration day 2009. And planting new ones to finish the symbolism. I "Baked Back the White House" for MoveOn; perhaps they'll coordinate something for when we finally rid ourselves of that corrupt, incompetent MFer.

Thanks for posting Morford! I loved his bit about Bush being the devil: "Sorry Mr. Chavez, but Bush is no devil. He is not nearly capable enough, sexy enough, charming enough, debauched or gloriously ruined enough. Bush cannot possibly fill the devil's gorgeous, tragic Prada shoes. He's far more akin to something to be scraped from the bottom of them.".

[MuseRider]

5. That was a fun read.

Love Morford. I think I will do just as he suggests. I have a smudge stick that has been waiting for the new house but I think it would better serve to help cleanse the nation of the vileness of this maladministration.

[EstimatedProphet]

6. It won't do any good so long as the freeper poison is still in our system

They need to go too, before we can make any progress at cleaning up

[madokie]

7. Yep, thats why it is so important to take the first step

first things first, the rest will follow

[EstimatedProphet]

8. OK. Can't argue that.

[stellanoir]

9. not with sage alone but perhaps with a surge in consciousness

Somewhere over the past year whilst screwing around on the web, I read an article about a woman who confirmed what I had suspected for a very long time. That is that these usurpers of power were using low level magic to stay in power and that the only way to overthrow them is through massive group focus of consciousness. It resonated with me deeply so I've been posting prayers and visualizations on various sites ever since.

At the bottom of this thread is a suggestion to visualize Nancy Pelosi speaking from behind a podium with the presidential seal on it and links to recent prayer threads.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=389&topic_id=358370

And here's another visualization trick from last year. . .

2. Visualize the planet bathed in a regal violet-purple light at least
momentarily once daily.

(Violet-"Purple rain, purple""reign". . . : )

It can be that simple and easy for those who are unaccustomed to routine
visualization. For reasons I'll explain in far greater specificity in
a subsequent version, violet-purple rays of transmutational light will
gently wake up several sleeping souls and solve problems, ages old in
many places and will ameliorate even circumstances most dire. Focusing
on regions most conflicted (D.C., the MidEast, Iraq. the Gulf Coast ,
and the entire continent of Africa. . .etc) will help as well.

Red + Blue = Purple transmutational, spiritualizing light of unification

(For those of earthier orientations who unlike many spiritualists,
don't necessarily resonate with the violet-purple vibration, another
alternative suggested by a differing source would be to project a
vibrant green around the globe. That color will most likely hasten the
healing of our woefully damaged ecosystems and many sad and bleeding
hearts as well. )

K & R'd