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Most civilized people are out of touch with reality, because they confuse the world as it is with the world as they think about it, talk about it and describe it. For on the one hand, there is the real world, and on the other a whole system of system of symbols about that world, which we have in our mind. These are very very useful symbols, all ( Read more... ) -
Sermon #6 (Church Of Euthanasia)
When the white devils first arrived in what is now the United States, the population consisted of approximately 1 million highly evolved and deeply spiritual people, in a state of harmony with the Earth that can hardly even be described in our language. You could drink from any flowing body of water, and there was enough food to last forever ( Read more... ) -
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In my attempt to penetrate the other world I met its natural guardians, the embodiment of my own weaknesses and faults. I first thought these demons were lowly inhabitants of the other world who could play me like a ball because I went into these regions unprepared and lost my way. Later I thought they were split-off parts of my own mind (passions ( Read more... ) -
Kairos & Hierophany
It all had to do with time. "Time can be overcome," Micrea Eliade wrote. That's what it's all about. The great mystery of Eleusis, of the Orphics, of the early christians, of Sarapis, of the Greco-Roman mystery religions, of Hermes Trismegistos, of the Renaissance Hermetic chemists, of the Rose Cross Brotherhood, of Apollonius of Tyana, of Simon ( Read more... ) -
Approaching Gnosticism
Many people attracted to Gnosticism are apt to be put off by the difficulty of defining it. The problem of definition is so bad it can almost immediately spoil interest in the subject.
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Violence Masked As Love
...psychiatry is appealing because it masks
the necessarily evaluative dimension of its activities behind
a screen of scientific objectivity and neutrality . . . It was and is
therefore, of great potential value in legitimising and depoliticising
efforts to regulate social life and keep the recalcitrant and
socially disruptive in line.
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Selling Noise For Nothing
All the 40 hour weeks grinding down spirit for promissory notes stipend out so that we may "live" 52 days a year--Saturday (Saturn/Cronus) being, etymologically speaking, the mythical space for the "straining ones" who would overthrow the Father at the behest of the Mother (perhaps a bastardize interpretation, but so be it). My brethren scattered ( Read more... ) -
Biogenetic Structuralism
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biogenetic_Structuralism
Biogenetic structuralism is a body of theory in anthropology. The perspective grounds discussions of learning, culture, personality and social action in neuroscience. The original book of that title (Laughlin ( Read more... )
