• Red White and Robotic

    Originally posted on Riled Risibility: A well-loved holiday staple in the west, the candy cane elicits in many feelings of peppermint laced winter wonder and sentiments of snow-covered good cheer. Most associate the sugary treats with Christmas cookies, ornaments, and perhaps awkward school and office parties. Rigged elections, sentient roboinsect…

  • Mysterium Magnum

    Another of Jakob Böhme’s ciphers of the mysterium magnum appearing in his Theosophische Wercke (1682). The All Seeing Eye beholds the Phoenix Reborn. This is the Psyche/Soul transcending the encircling lifeworld. The break in the Ouroboros is the Nothing betwixt Alpha & Omega of chronological time. The Soul climbs beyond…

  • Centrum Naturae

    “When thou art gone forth wholly from the creature [human], and art become nothing to all that is nature and creature, then thou art in that eternal one, which is God himself, and then thou shalt perceive and feel the highest virtue of love. Also, that I said whosoever findeth…

  • Zen of Spring

    Originally posted on monk's designs: monk's designs View original post

  • elective affinity

    elective affinity

    “The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.” — C.G. Jung Related articles piercing intension (keithwaynebrown.com) No Nostalgia Sundays: The (Dead) Flowers of Regret (letterstodionysus.com) Companionship (kyohinaa.wordpress.com) Venture into the Darkness – Quote 2 (aaronbergbusch.com) Anima and Animus (carljungdepthpsychology.blogspot.com)…

  • quiet transformation

    quiet transformation

    Silence is the best alchemy. — Rumi Related articles Ageless Wisdom (keithwaynebrown.com) Rabia, Rumi’s Inspiration: How will you ever find peace unless you yield to love (eternalstudentship.wordpress.com) If You Need Me, I’ll Be In Rumi’s Field (lucykaufman.wordpress.com) Let Me Be Mad, Rumi Poem (mantrasandmiracles.wordpress.com) piercing Intension (keithwaynebrown.com)

  • Genesis: Whip of the Wild God – Part I

    Originally posted on mira prabhu: Neither of us being in the mood for the frenetic end-of-year partying for which Manhattan is justly famed, a friend and I decided to spend the last few days of 1993 at Ananda Ashram in upstate New York. It was stunningly beautiful in that snow-blanketed…

  • Summer Solstice

    Originally posted on Keithpp's Blog: Summer Solstice Stonehenge Summer Solstice, 21 June, the longest day. Stonehenge, an ancient astronomical clock. As the sun rises on the Summer Solstice, the sun is exactly in line with the gap in the circle. There is an outlier stone that is exactly on this…

  • What is thesis?

    Originally posted on The Revolution Will Not Be Taylorized: A thesis makes a speculative proposition about what architecture could be. Based upon an informed critique of conventional models (be they conventional models of building, understanding, or designing,) this proposition tests a concise and specific hypothesis. -Ellen Dunham Jones This blog…

  • Article: Stonehenge Revealed: Why Stones Were a “Special Place”

    Stonehenge Revealed: Why Stones Were a “Special Place” http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2013/13/130621-stonehenge-summer-solstice-archaeology-science/ Posted by KWB wandering among the borderlands of the Ether.

  • Article: Happy Supermoon! Celebrate lunar largeness as a planetary holiday

    Happy Supermoon! Celebrate lunar largeness as a planetary holiday http://cosmiclog.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/06/21/19065917-happy-supermoon-celebrate-lunar-largeness-as-a-planetary-holiday Posted by KWB wandering among the borderlands of the Ether.

  • Midsummer Days

    Originally posted on simonhlilly: MIDSUMMER DAYS 1 Heading, slowly north from under the cloud. As the road stretches, the sun breaks through. Heat seeps down and reflects up from the ground. Wild rose and elder The bones deep in my belly Warm and relax. Lazy summer clouds. 2 By nine…

  • Historical Propaganda

    Originally posted on notestoponder: I’ve been thinking about the post I wrote last night, having a day to mull it over led me to ponder historical propaganda. A bitter pill is much easier to swallow with a little sugar. Human nature predictably wants to be on the winning team, and…

  • Decline and fall: how American society unravelled | World news | The Guardian

    In or around 1978, America’s character changed. For almost half a century, the United States had been a relatively egalitarian, secure, middle-class democracy, with structures in place that supported the aspirations of ordinary people. You might call it the period of the Roosevelt Republic. Wars, strikes, racial tensions and youth rebellion…