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observed
The ubiquity of leaf-blowers is in fact a tell-tale sign of the imminent demise of civilization.
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Double Binds and Identity Politics
Haydar Khan writes: The way “intersectionality” is used today reminds me of Inigo Montoya, the character in the movie The Princess Bride. “You keep using that word,” he says. “I do not think it means what you think it means.”
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Planetary Trial and Human Error
"We’re the experiment that the biosphere is running now." --Adam Frank ( Read more... ) -
A History of O.T.O.
I'm gradually youtubifying a lot of content that I've previously shared in smaller, more initiated venues. Here's a wide-angle O.T.O. history talk. -
intertextuality
" Be not contented with the image. I who am the Image of an Image say this. Debate not of the image, saying Beyond! Beyond!" --Liber LXV I:7-9
"The universe is the image of God and man is the image of nature. Man is therefore, so to say, the image of the image; in other words a Microcosmos or little world." --Franz Hartmann, In the Pronaos of the ( Read more... ) -
The Feast of Max Heindel
Today is the anniversary of the death of the "Rosicrucian" Max Heindel (1865-1919), an erstwhile Theosophist who lectured, published, and organized in the US in the early decades of the 20th century. My first significant reading in his instructions was the book Freemasonry and Catholicism. When I acquired the volume, I supposed that it would be ( Read more... )
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