Hospitality?
Back when in my OTO days, and even before that in the Golden Dawn, when at out-of-town member visited, we would offer them hospitality. We'd let them sleep on out couch, feed them and socialized with them during their visit. In the OTO, in particular, we have 'unofficial' events after the scedualled one that were usually some sort of afterparty.
The Hospitally I recieved and exended in the American OTO was the reason it was such a shock to be treated so coldly by the Croatian OTO when I arrived here.
So I just got back from Prague, where I attended a seminar taught by T allen greenfield. As this event approached, I was given the impression that the organizer was an extremely paranoid individual. I'd hoped once we met he'd calm down. But as the event approached, I was having difficulty getting answers to most basic of questions that I need to make araingments for. As a result, I arrived without even a hotel to stay in. The weekend before, I wondered if I would need to walk the street of Prague with a sign saying: "I am looking for the secret meeting with Allen Green field" And once I got to the location of the event. I was in a quandry because I was trying not to reveal what I was looking for to the wrong person, and they were being extremely paranoid and hostile towards me, not telling me if I had found the event I was looking for. I finally got in. But after the lecture, there didn't seem to be any after party, though there was some sort of private event that Allen was going to and I wasn't welcome at. So I was lost on the outskirts of a foreign city. I could tell Michel wanted to abandon me there. But, to his credit, he at least drove me to a hotel before dumping me. (a hotel that cost 3 times what it would have if I had but told what was going on a week before)
So I was left alone in the foreign city with nothing relevent to do until 3 PM the next day. (when the lecture official began)
The next day I tried to engage the attendees in conversation, but they were short with answers and didn't seem to want to try to talk with me. During the actual lecture, Allen was polite with me. But Michel had told me the reason he was acting so strange, because 'Allen is mad' at me. Michel helped arrange a meeting between us after the event. (actually he had been pushing for this meeting from the begining, but since I didn't know Allen was mad at me, I didn't know why) As it turns out Allen was mad because I informed him of my conflict with Tau Sunce, and Michel was mad because I didn't inform him.
Now based on how Tau Sunce liked to spend hours talking about the evils of the OTO, I expect that he probably spends hours talking about how evil I am too. So I expected he might spend time telling people in Prague how evil he thinks I am. I was courious as to whether the the attendees would keep an open mind about me, to take the word of someone they'd never met about someone they'd also never met before. But what I didn't expect was that T Allen Greenfield had stacked the deck against me. When Allen had found out I was coming, he told michel his version of the conflict between Tau Sunce and myself. (At one point in his life, Allen did everything that Sunce accuses me of. This colours his perception of the conflict)
For decades Starhawk, Zell, Dolfyn, and myself have been trying to release people from the prison of the story where the "Great Man" reveals the trust to a chosen people, an elite, a cadre, an inner circle. It's no mistake that "Great Men" are never women. So I supose I can not blame a group of people who believe in the "Great Man" so strongly they imported one, for blindly following their "Great Man"'s story about me.
Still, Allen and Michel arranged things so that I would not be allowed to meet anyone who was not Czech. All of the other foreigners were gone before I arrived.
So on the whole, The Prague illuminists did extend as good hospitality as I recieved and extended in the amercian OTO, but as bad as they were, they were still better than the Croatian OTO.
The Hospitally I recieved and exended in the American OTO was the reason it was such a shock to be treated so coldly by the Croatian OTO when I arrived here.
So I just got back from Prague, where I attended a seminar taught by T allen greenfield. As this event approached, I was given the impression that the organizer was an extremely paranoid individual. I'd hoped once we met he'd calm down. But as the event approached, I was having difficulty getting answers to most basic of questions that I need to make araingments for. As a result, I arrived without even a hotel to stay in. The weekend before, I wondered if I would need to walk the street of Prague with a sign saying: "I am looking for the secret meeting with Allen Green field" And once I got to the location of the event. I was in a quandry because I was trying not to reveal what I was looking for to the wrong person, and they were being extremely paranoid and hostile towards me, not telling me if I had found the event I was looking for. I finally got in. But after the lecture, there didn't seem to be any after party, though there was some sort of private event that Allen was going to and I wasn't welcome at. So I was lost on the outskirts of a foreign city. I could tell Michel wanted to abandon me there. But, to his credit, he at least drove me to a hotel before dumping me. (a hotel that cost 3 times what it would have if I had but told what was going on a week before)
So I was left alone in the foreign city with nothing relevent to do until 3 PM the next day. (when the lecture official began)
The next day I tried to engage the attendees in conversation, but they were short with answers and didn't seem to want to try to talk with me. During the actual lecture, Allen was polite with me. But Michel had told me the reason he was acting so strange, because 'Allen is mad' at me. Michel helped arrange a meeting between us after the event. (actually he had been pushing for this meeting from the begining, but since I didn't know Allen was mad at me, I didn't know why) As it turns out Allen was mad because I informed him of my conflict with Tau Sunce, and Michel was mad because I didn't inform him.
Now based on how Tau Sunce liked to spend hours talking about the evils of the OTO, I expect that he probably spends hours talking about how evil I am too. So I expected he might spend time telling people in Prague how evil he thinks I am. I was courious as to whether the the attendees would keep an open mind about me, to take the word of someone they'd never met about someone they'd also never met before. But what I didn't expect was that T Allen Greenfield had stacked the deck against me. When Allen had found out I was coming, he told michel his version of the conflict between Tau Sunce and myself. (At one point in his life, Allen did everything that Sunce accuses me of. This colours his perception of the conflict)
For decades Starhawk, Zell, Dolfyn, and myself have been trying to release people from the prison of the story where the "Great Man" reveals the trust to a chosen people, an elite, a cadre, an inner circle. It's no mistake that "Great Men" are never women. So I supose I can not blame a group of people who believe in the "Great Man" so strongly they imported one, for blindly following their "Great Man"'s story about me.
Still, Allen and Michel arranged things so that I would not be allowed to meet anyone who was not Czech. All of the other foreigners were gone before I arrived.
So on the whole, The Prague illuminists did extend as good hospitality as I recieved and extended in the amercian OTO, but as bad as they were, they were still better than the Croatian OTO.