News of another important death.
One of the greatest anthropologists and original thinkers of the 20th century died last week. Claude Levi-Strauss was one of the first westerners to challenge the notions of primitive societies and to really tackle and try to understand the role of myth in traditional and modern society. He was 100 years [...]
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Claude Levi-Strauss, RIP
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Claude Levi-Strauss, Deaths on November 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Elizabeth Clare Prophet, RIP
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Death, Elizabeth Clare Prophet, Summit Lighthouse on October 30, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I only just found out that Elizabeth Clare Prophet recently died. For those who don’t know her work, have a look at the link. Basically she led the Summit Lighthouse, an amazing, er … group .. religion… cult… depending on your point of view. Her work was guided by her connection with the Masters and [...]
The Sweat Lodge Deaths – who is responsible?
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged James Arthur Ray, New Age, Sweat Lodge Deaths, Sweat Lodge Sedona, Sweat Lodges on October 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
There are now three confirmed deaths from the recent sweat lodge tragedy in Sedona. Many more people were injured during this western styled lodge. When I first read the reports a number of thoughts occurred very quickly: ‘how did such a thing happen?’ and ‘how to prevent it happening again?’ were the obvious ones.
I have [...]
Now this really is Magic
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Humour on October 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Talk about self transformation. Not content with transforming flab into muscle, how about a change of race with that?
I seriously expect a pissed-off or subversive graphic artist behind this one. It made me laugh like a loon
Experts at every turn
Posted in Uncategorized on October 3, 2009 | 2 Comments »
One of my personal failings which I am (hopefully) OK at avoiding is a tendency to become really dogmatic and know it all. To be an expert. Now recently various experts have informed me either personally or via the media I am wrong or delusional. That’s nice of them and I am sure they mean [...]
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"We are tied together in the single garment of destiny, caught in an inescapable network of mutuality. And whatever affects one directly affects all indirectly. For some strange reason I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. And you can never be what you ought to be until I am what I ought to be. This is the way God’s universe is made; this is the way it is structured." ~Martin Luther-King.
“A religion without a goddess is halfway to atheism” ~
"The pseudo-occultism of the present day, with its dubious psychism, wild theorizing, and evidence that cannot stand up to the most cursory examination, is but the detritus which accumulates around the base of the Mount of Vision. All such worthless rubbish is not worth the power and shot of argument; in order to form a just estimate of the Sacred Science we must study originals, and try to penetrate the minds of the great mystics… whose works bear evidence of first-hand knowledge of the supersensible worlds."Dion Fortune.
How does my spiritual practice and daily life serve the earth?
How does my spiritual practice and daily life affect the poorest third of humanity?
How will my spiritual practice and daily life affect the generations to come in the future?
~ Starhawk
"It is through your body that you realize you are a spark of divinity."
B.K.S. Iyengar
“For most of us, however, we only think seriously of food or sex or money when it becomes a problem, which is to say when we feel we are not getting our share. When we find ourselves in that situation then I regret to say that meditational visualisations are really not the best way to remedy the lack. … We are here in a physical condition in a physical world and while in that state we have to abide by the laws appropriate to it.”
~ Gareth Knight
"The biblical texts have been strained out through a Greek/Latin mindset, which is very surface and static. I sometimes think it would have actually have been better if Western culture had based so called "Western religion" on Greek philosophy, rather than middle-eastern, because then at least you'd have all one thing. It would be eternally consistent. But what we have now is sort of half of each. And you're left with a basically schizophrenic tradition." ~ Neil Douglas-Klotz
"The imprisoned Titans underneath the soil, grinding, writhing – take your strength from them, throw aside your petty drawing room point of view. ~ Pixie Coleman-Smith.
"There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex, you have bad religion too."~ Karen Armstrong.
"if a man like the Dalai Lama, who had lost an entire country and countless friends, could still lose himself in gales of giggles, surely there was hope for the rest of us."~ Rachel Louise Snyder.
"We have to “kill” ourselves, often in the most gruesome manner possible, the become more than the bloke produced by the collision of History, Accident and Genetics on the day we were born."~ Robert Anton Wilson.
