January 2010
13 posts
now i hear you singing
clothedinsky:
“In the old days, we called ourselves the people of the circle (=ahmi). We see everything in life as similar to the image of a dog chasing its tail. And we have referred to outsiders as straight-line people (!hui juasi). We have always been aware of how difficult it is for outsiders to understand us.”
via clothedinsky:
In “Passionate Enlightenment” by Miranda Shaw one can read about a social and religious movement in which women were at the forefront. They were considered leaders, very powerful and their sexuality and the whole of the feminine human expression was worshiped. In one of his works Daniel Odier quotes an old myth explaining that the Gods and Goddess gave women divine sexual...
“Feel how the Greater Being comes!
Rejoice and, in rejoicings, die!
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– Brave New World, fifth chapter
Psytrance album cover designer →
Might also be useful in designing tattoos, or flyer graphics.
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Kant's Philosophy of Excellent Dinner Parties
Immanuel Kant was apparently famous for his dinner-parties. In his Anthropology Kant gives explicit advice for a dinner-party (and claims that it’s a bad idea for philosophers always to eat alone):
There should be no more than nine and no less than three guests, and the dinner-party should go through exactly three stages, in exactly this order:
Narration, in which you talk about...
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Contemporary Mandalas →
Blue Moon on New Year's Eve
The Blue Moon is a time of enormous influence for prophecy and divination. Its energies can be summoned for protection, wisdom and love. It is believed that any workings held beneath the Blue Moon are given additional magickal energy, which makes this time magnificent for all work in manifesting goals, passion, healing, strength, and power.