RICK CASTRO BY THE DAY

 RICK CASTRO- ANUBIS- 2017 AMMIT- 2017

BIO

FAKIR MUSAFAR- 8/10/1930- 8/1/2018

FAKIR MUSAFAR

 ( August 10, 1930- August 1, 2018) 

 My beloved Fakir Musafar passed away peacefully at home just a bit before noon today. 

Light a candle to guide his journey to the unseen world.

 He was loved, he is love . 

He will not be forgotten. His legacy will live on, his memory will be honored. 

What is remembered lives.

If you light a candle for him that is non electric please do not leave it burning if you are not home.

 We will have a celebration of his like around Samhain/Halloween time. 

I thank again all those who have sent handwritten letters, art cards, 

and told him that his lifework did and does matter.

 Namasté — with Fakir Musafar.

CLEO DUBOIS

Fakir Musafar 

(born Roland Loomis)

performance artist and early proponent of the modern primitive movement. 

He has experimented with and taught body modification techniques such as body piercing, tightlacing, scarification, tattooing, and flesh hook suspension. 

He is involved in the BDSM, kink and fetish communities.

At age four Musafar claimed to have experienced dreams of past lives.  He reports having given himself his first body piercing when he was twelve. Based on his viewing of anthropological works he first performed his idea of a flesh hook suspension in 1966 or 1967.

As an adult he gave himself the name "Fakir Musafar".

 Musafar has documented his experiences in writing about and teaching others "body play". 

In the early 1990s, Musafar appeared in mainstream media shows like NBC's Faith Daniels Show, 

CBS's People Are Talking, CNN's Earth Matters and Discovery Channel's (Beyond Bizarre). 

In 1998 He produced documentary segments for London Weekend Television's Southbank Show and Playboy Television's "Sexcetera". In 2000, 2001 and 2003 he has appeared in documentaries for The Learning Channel (Human Canvas Part I and Part II), TBS, FX Channel and Discovery Channel plus a major appearance in the 2001 documentary film "Modern Tribalism". 

In 2004 became a spokesperson for the National Geographic Channel's Taboo and has expressed "radical contemporary" views on body rituals on the Travel Channel's 

"Eye of the Beholder" series hosted by Serena Yang.

Musafar's writing and photography appears in Theater Journal, Bizarre magazine (fetish and SM exploration), Skin Two and PFIQ (Piercing Fan International Quarterly). He has lectured and performed at London's Institute of Contemporary Arts (Rapture Series, 1995); Copenhagen's International Seminar on BODY:Ritual-Manipulation (1995). 

His photographic art was exhibited at the Fahey/Klein Gallery in Los Angeles.

In 1999 his performance group performed "Metamorphosis" at the Los Angeles Fetish Ball as well as for close friend Annie Sprinkle's Benefit Show at the Cowell Theater in San Francisco.

Musafar lectured at colleges and universities and to New Age and other special interest groups.

 Musafar is considered a Master piercer with over 40 years experience in the body arts. 

He is also the founder and director of the Fakir Intensives which hold training workshops on body piercing and branding in San Francisco, the first in America.

Musafar is featured in Modern Primitives, published by RE/Search, and in the full-length documentary Dances Sacred and Profane.

 He also appears in the movie Modify and Charles Gatewood's documentary, 

Dances Sacred and Profane.

In May 2018, Musafar announced on his website that he was suffering from terminal lung cancer. 

On 1 August 2018, his wife Cleo Dubois announced that he had passed away.

ON A PERSONAL NOTE-
 I HAD THE PLEASURE TO PRESENT FAKIR MUSAFAR'S PHOTOGRAPHY AT MY GALLERY- ANTEBELLUM HOLLYWOOD IN 2007.
FAKIR IS A SHAMAN- 
AN ORGINAL CREATIVE SOUL.
 HE IS ONE-OF-A-KIND.
RIP MASTER.
RICK CASTRO

 

INDIAN NATION: TWO SPIRITS, ONE HEART, FIVE GENDERS

LAUREN'S FIRST WORDS-

Lauren Pine

18 mins · 

Yes, it’s true.

 I’m a bit more of a mermaid now.

 A truck crossed my path while on my bike and took some leg with it. 

Surprisingly I’m feeling well, thanks to all your blessings 

and wishes and wonderful energy. 

I was awake throughout some of it and really felt the overwhelming love, 

you all mean so much to me. 

This has been a testament of the love that our family and community has created. 

All my Love💖✨ — with Lauren Pine.

11/19/2017

LAUREN PINE

LAUREN PINE & ERIKA BRITSCH- "TWINNIES"- 1990 BY RICK CASTRO

LIFE CONTINUES TO THROW CURVE BALLS.

 MY SWEET-DARLING-LONGTIME FRIEND LAUREN PINE 

IS IN INTENSIVE CARE AFTER A BIKE ACCIDENT IN NYC.

I MET LAUREN IN ECHO PARK-1990 @ A LIVE PERFORMANCE OF
 BOB FLANAGAN AKA "THE SUPER-MASOCHIST".

 I ORIGINALLY MET HER @ THE ORIGINAL PATRICIA FIELD SHOP ON 8TH ST, NYC, (WHERE SHE WAS THE MAKE-UP GIRL) BUT SHE DOESN'T REMEMBER. 

LAUREN WAS A WAITRESS @ THE ROXY ON THE SUNSET STRIP. 

ALSO THE ONLY (REAL) FEMALE WAITRESS @ BOYBAR, NYC. 

SHE BECAME A PIERCER @ THE ORIGINAL GAUNTLET IN WEST HOLLYWOOD, 

BEFORE MOVING TO THE GAUNTLET, NYC.  

FOR THE LAST 15 OR SO YEARS LAUREN HAS BE A NURSE. 

SHE WORKS IN THE CANCER WARD, 

WHERE SHE HELPS PEOPLE THRU THEIR DARKEST TIMES. 

SHE HAD A BEAUTIFUL DOG NAMED BERNIE, (RIP) AND IS A HORSE OWNER.

 LAUREN SPENDS HER LIFE HELPING & LOVING PEOPLE & ANIMALS. 

SHE HAS HELPED ME TREMENDOUSLY.

MISS PINE- YOU ARE ON MY MIND. IN MY THOUGHTS, HEART, AND SOUL.

WISHING YOU A STRONG RECOVERY.

RICK CASTRO- 11/17/2017- 6AM 

RICK CASTRO & LAUREN PINE @ THE PALADIUM- NYC- CIRCA 1995

W.I.T.C.H

W.I.T.C.H. 

can stand for any number of things: it can mean

 ‘Witches’ International Troublemaker Conspiracy From Hell"

 ‘Witches Invoking Transformative Channels of Healing"

’ ‘Women Inspired to Tear down Constructs of Hate" 

WE USE ANONYMITY AS A TOOL TO DISMANTLE THE WHITE SUPREMACIST PATRIARCHY

The figure of the witch is a powerful symbol. 

Though most iconic in the popular imagination as a dramatic silhouette with a pointed hat and black garments, a witch can be anyone.

 Witches are not just from Europe, and don’t just practice Wicca.

 We exist in a broad range of cultures and traditions

 (and in fact, black and indigenous witches have historically been persecuted by witch hunts more than anyone else.)

We are everywhere. 

We are your sisters,

 your neighbors,

 your teachers, 

your bartenders, 

your mechanics,

 your check-out clerks, 

your drivers and your nurses.

Our costume is theatrical, instantly recognizable and unifying, reflecting the millions of witches who came before us and the legions of us who exist today. For every black-veiled witch in a pointed hat you may see holding signs on street corners or performing rituals in public squares, there are vast numbers of anonymous witches, solitary or working in covens, sending their energies into the swirling mass from which we draw our inspiration and motivation.

We have always been here. We will always be here.

– shapeshifting along with us.

POW WOW NATION

"THE HUMAN BEING"

 Native American indigenous people often called themselves "the people" or "human beings."

They had an understanding of the world and how human beings can and should conduct themselves within it. Taking up the profound philosophical challenge of the Native American

 “way of the human being,”