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Arthur Koestler’s a Dharma Bum! original incarnation: http://www.earrationalideas.com/2007/03/arthur-koestlers-dharma-bum.html I wrote a long post on DoveTale Writers a few days ago about Arthur Koestler cuz I’m reading his book Janus: A Summing Up. In that post I quoted a long passage from the book. Here’s a short bit: With due respect to Shakespeare’s ‘All the world’s a stage’, one might [...]

MANIFESTO From: http://openanthropology.wordpress.com/   This blog, and this page in particular, are dedicated to the memory and consciousness of Dr. Roi Kwabena. PART ONE, DRAFT ONE: I was a student for three years at UWI-St. Augustine, and my seven years of living in Trinidad are the source of my greatest intellectual debt and inspiration, far outweighing any one of [...]

Ken Wilber ain’t got nothing on Sir Isaac Newton. According to a recent documentary on Newton, he was a very different man than one is taught in school. Usually this turns out to be bad, as in Christopher Columbus’ case. In the light of Nova’s documentary on Newton we see a man who is on [...]

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/camo/ Do you speak cuttlefish? Cthulhu Rising, Ursa Major, and The Golden Compass Cradle Of Filth - Cthulhu Dawn (by Arlekin)

By James Garrison http://www.cantrap.net/theory/danger.html “Magick is dangerous. It’s about change and transformation. It isn’t about conformity and fitting in, it’s about getting past the blinders of conventional [...]

Via: http://www.viceland.com/int/v15n6/htdocs/bless-this-mess-120.php There’s a city in Veracruz, Mexico, called Catemaco, wherein there dwell a multitude of warlocks. That is correct, nonbelievers: warlocks. Men who are wizardly practitioners of magick, mojo, and (if you get on their bad side) mayhem, and they all live in this one place. Some of them are in it for the money, [...]

episode features four underground hip hop artists — Naada, Propaganda Anonymous, 2HL, and iLL SpoKKinN — and producer euphAmism in an animated music video packing lyrical and graphical punch in a call for global awakening.

Okay, there’s this dude, Goatman, who lives in a cave and gets teenagers to smoke up on menthols. Whoa. This is like vintage UMDS.

by Sam Michael Via http://www.realitysandwich.com/kung_fu_preparation_armageddon Suffering is the origin of consciousness. – Dostoyevsky The future is war. According to scientists, think-tank predictions, and the 2003 Pentagon Report , abrupt climate changes and a severely depleted world will cause ever fiercer global resource wars over oil, water, timber, and arable land in the coming decades. This may either be [...]

I have been wanting to learn more about the Zodiac for a long time. Fortunately I have met Michael Ax, the creator of http://zodiacdegrees.com/, late this Spring. We had spoken here and there before, but not about the Zodiac and related topics. One evening we were talking and he showed me how to use his [...]

“Learning How Not to Be You” by Lama Marut from His May Newsletter http://www.lamamarut.org/?page_id=103 It is sometimes said that there are three fundamental teachings that unite and define Buddhism no matter what the lineage or denomination. The first is the truth of suffering or duhkha. The second is the impermanence of phenomena or anitya. [...]

The Cryptic Cosmology of Synchromysticism From http://www.realitysandwich.com/the_cryptic_cosmology_synchromysticism Reid Mukai Synchromysticism is an emerging field of study and subculture existing on the fringe of areas already considered fringe – primarily mysticism and Jungian psychology. The word was coined by Jake Kotze in August of 2006 for an article posted on his website Brave New World Order, who defined it [...]