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The Lives and Ideas of Robert Anton Wilson
Happy birthday RAW! If you have about 90 minutes to spare, you would learn a great deal from watching this little documentary.
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John Dee in circle of skulls
Apparently, in the original version of this old masterpiece depicting Queen Elizabeth watching her court magician, John Dee was standing in a circle of the dead conjuring goddess only knows what. Hidden beneath a painting of the enigmatic Tudor polymath John Dee performing an experiment for Elizabeth I is a dark…
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Loving devotion
Caring for another, being-open for that other and to that other: these are aspects of our animated existence, of our being-with others. Do not fail to see devotion where it appears nor fail to appreciate how all life teaches us lesson in being-here.
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The richest 62
There are 62 super-billionaires at the top of the top of the 1% who are wealthier than half of all other people combined. Leading figures from Pope Francis to Christine Lagarde, the managing director of the International Monetary Fund, have called for action to reverse the trend in inequality, but Oxfam said…
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Seen on the street
For all the free minds out there: Shake off the shackles to liberate the thinking mind Source: Seen on the street
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Star Wars Rebels Season 2 Mid-Season Trailer
So there has been some big discussion on diverse Star Wars boards that continues the notion that only the movies can really ever be considered cannon. This, of course, is in direct contradiction to the new story strategies coming out of LucasFilm (Disney) and the clear history of George Lucas…
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Bitter Lake – Adam Curtis
Politicians used to have the confidence to tell us stories that made sense of the chaos of world events. But now there are no big stories and politicians react randomly to every new crisis – leaving us bewildered and disorientated.
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Rosa Luxemburg Explains Capitalism Using Spoons
In this excerpt, the teenage Rosa Luxemburg teaches her family about Marx’s Das Kapital, explaining material and social relations and the problem of money. Source: Rosa Luxemburg Explains Capitalism Using Spoons
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@tavissmiley critiques #CorporateMedia coverage of #RacialArsonist #DonaldTrump
The broadcaster Tavis Smiley made headlines this week for an appearance on ABC’s “This Week” when he called out Donald Trump for being an “unrepentant, irascible religious and racial arsonist.” Trump responded by calling Smiley a “hater and racist.” Smiley responds to Trump while also criticizing the corporate media for…
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Mystery and Benevolence
Masonic and Odd Fellows folks art about to go on display at the American Folk Art Museum. Enigmatic, evocative, and often simply strange, fraternal references are a rich part of contemporary American popular culture. But the seductive mystique of secret societies, with their cryptic signs, gestures, and arcane rituals, has…
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Jane Bennet on Artistry and Agency in a World of Vibrant Matter
Jane Bennet discusses her broader phenomenology of the material world. Hosted by the New School.
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Synchromusicology, Chromotherapy, Synesthesia, and the Aural Current of Electric Audiomancy (Video)
Delve into the hidden origins of Western music and the power of sympathetic geometry to heal and generate love. Cymatics, chronotropic laser scrying, and acoustic weaponry are just a few modern representations of this ancient understanding that sound generates geometric form and profoundly affects the structure of matter… http://thearcanefront.com/synchromusicology-chromotherapy-synesthesia-aural-current-electric-audiomancy-video-2/ Source:…
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Pantisocracy
[Samuel Taylor] Coleridge and [Robert] Southey believed that contemporary society and politics were responsible for cultures of servitude and oppression. Having abandoned these corrupting influences along with personal property for a fresh start in the wilderness, the Pantisocrats hoped that men might be governed by the “dictates of rational benevolence.”…
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The background of North Korea
The basic history is this: In 1910, Japan colonized Korea, treating Koreans not so much as foreigners but as a wayward subset of the Japanese race now reunited. Imperial Japan’s official worldview was race-based, far-right ultranationalism, obsessed with racial purity and superiority. It was a lot like Europe’s early-1900s fascist…
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#YallQaeda and the Limits of Liberal Laughs | Al Jazeera America
#YallQaeda jokes barter in redneck stereotyping and ignore the more pernicious underpinnings of the patriot movement. “How fucking weird is it that armed militia group in the early stages of what might become a standoff is being laughed at by the world?” tweeted renowned human rights lawyer and activist Stanley…
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Callicott to receive life-time achievement award
Wonderful news concerning my teacher, colleague, and friend J. Baird Callicott. I am very proud to report that the International Society for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture announced that they are awarding J. Baird Callicott their first Lifetime Achievement Award for his outstanding contributions to the study of…
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