Monday, February 28, 2005
Musical Interlude
Global Consciousness Project - Registering Coherence and Resonance in the World.
The Global Consciousness Project, also called the EGG Project, is an international and multidisciplinary collaboration of scientists, engineers, artists and others. This website introduces methods and technology and empirical results in one section, and presents interpretations and applications in another.
We have been collecting data from a global network of random event generators since August, 1998. The network has grown to about 65 host sites around the world running custom software that reads the output of physical random number generators and records a 200-bit trial sum once every second, continuously over months and years. The data are transmitted over the internet to a server in Princeton, NJ, USA, where they are archived for later analysis.
The purpose of this project is to examine subtle correlations that appear to to reflect the presence and activity of consciousness in the world.
Sunday, February 27, 2005
Ceremonial Magick and Sorcery By Manly P. Hall, 33°
An Holy Excerpt from his Greate Alchymeckal Worke of 1928: The Secret Teachings of All Ages: An Encyclopaedic Outline of Masonic, Hermetic, Qabbalistic and Rosicrucian Symbolical Philosophy.
Egypt, a great center of learning and the birthplace of many arts and sciences, furnished an ideal environment for Transcendental experimentation. Here the black magicians of Atlantis continued to exercise their superhuman powers until they had completely undermined and corrupted the morals of the primitive Mysteries. By establishing a sacerdotal caste they usurped the position formerly occupied by the initiates, and seized the reins of spiritual government. Thus black magic dictated the state religion and paralyzed the intellectual and spiritual activities of the individual by demanding his complete and unhesitating acquiescence in the dogma formulated by the priestcraft. The Pharaoh became a puppet in the hands of the Scarlet Council -- a committee of archsorcerers elevated to power by the priesthood.
These sorcerers then began the systematic destruction of all keys to the ancient wisdom, so that none might have access to the knowledge necessary to reach adeptship without first becoming one of their order. They mutilated the rituals of the Mysteries while professing to preserve them, so that even though the neophyte passed through the degrees he could not secure the knowledge to which he was entitled. Idolatry was introduced by encouraging the worship of the images which in the beginning the wise had erected solely as symbols for study and meditation. False interpretations were given to the emblems and figures of the Mysteries, and elaborate theologies were created to confuse the minds of their devotees. The masses, deprived of their birthright of understanding and groveling in ignorance, eventually became the abject slaves of the spiritual impostors. Superstition universally prevailed and the black magicians completely dominated national affairs, with the result that humanity still suffers from the sophistries of the priestcrafts of Atlantis and Egypt.
"The majority of modern mediumistic apparitions are but elemental creatures masquerading through bodies composed of thought substance supplied by the very persons desiring to behold these wraiths of decarnate beings."
"...in the arcanum of magic it is declared that 'he controls the soul who controls the blood of another.' "
CEREMONIAL magic is the ancient art of invoking and controlling spirits by a scientific application of certain formulae. A magician, enveloped in sanctified vestments and carrying a wand inscribed with hieroglyphic figures, could by the power vested in certain words and symbols control the invisible inhabitants of the elements and of the astral world. While the elaborate ceremonial magic of antiquity was not necessarily evil, there arose from its perversion several false schools of sorcery, or black magic.
Saturday, February 26, 2005
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
"What is this place?" she asked.
"One o' th' kitchen-gardens," he answered.
"What is that?" said Mary, pointing through the other
green door.
"Another of 'em," shortly. "There's another on t'other
side o' th' wall an' there's th' orchard t'other side o' that."
"Can I go in them?" asked Mary.
"If tha' likes. But there's nowt to see."
Mary made no response. She went down the path and through
the second green door. There, she found more walls
and winter vegetables and glass frames, but in the second
wall there was another green door and it was not open.
Perhaps it led into the garden which no one had seen for
ten years. As she was not at all a timid child and always
did what she wanted to do, Mary went to the green door
and turned the handle.
Friday, February 25, 2005
How Do I Lick Thee? a lesbian manifesto
by Elizabeth Bare-it Brown-Nose (daughter of Mrs. Brown & Mr. Nose)
Judging beauty by the books
People say they like your looks
But I relate more lingually:
It's through my tongue that you touch me.
You are sweet beyond compare
Your feet may stink but I don't care
'Cause taste, to me, (I've told my nose)
Is all that matters 'bout your toes.
We warm up, kissing, just for kicks
With tongue in cheek I get my licks
And lather up your lips with suds
You make me whet; you burst my 'buds!
I love to nibble on your feets
And eyes and ears and nose and teats!
Then down I go -- I won't be sated
Till on your pubes I've salivated.
And deep into your scrumptious slit
With trembling tongue I smear my spit,
But there I stop; I'm not so heinous
As to eat your awful anus.
You know you'd never find a soul
Who'd rather smoke than stroke THAT hole,
So don't feel bad -- let's keep in touch
'Cause I still lick you very much.
Posted by Ned Netherded
Telos
Thursday, February 24, 2005
Bellona
The Roman goddess of war, popular among the Roman soldiers. She accompanied Mars in battle, and was variously given as his wife, sister or daughter. She had a temple on the Capitolinus (inaugurated in 296 BCE and burned down in 48 BCE), where, as an act of war, a spear was cast against the distant enemy. Her festival was celebrated on June 3.
Bellona's attribute is a sword and she is depicted wearing a helmet and armed with a spear and a torch. She could be of Etruscan origin, and is identified with the Greek Enyo.
Wednesday, February 23, 2005
Blogs-Because The Truth Needs To Be Told!
http://www.daypop.com/
Daypop Blog Search Engine
http://www.blogdigger.com/media/
Bloggdigger Media
http://www.blogospherenews.com/
Blog News
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Blogging Magazine free trial
Tuesday, February 22, 2005
"Free Mojtaba and Arash Day"
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4278241.stm
Global blogger action day called By Jo Twist
The global web blog community is being called into action to lend support to two imprisoned Iranian bloggers.
The month-old Committee to Protect Bloggers' is asking those with blogs to dedicate their sites on 22 February to the "Free Mojtaba and Arash Day".
Arash Sigarchi is still in Lakan prison in the Iranian city of Rashat.
Fellow Iranian blogger Mojtaba Saminejad has been released from prison in Tehran but still faces charges.
They have both been deprived of their liberty by the Iranian government for expressing opinions on their blogs.
http://committeetoprotectbloggers.blogspot.com/
http://iranbloggers.blogspot.com/
http://blogcritics.org/archives/2005/02/22/022429.php
http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=68708
If you are in the United States, contact either the Representative at the Iranian Interest Section of the Pakistani Embassy or the Ambassador to Iran’s Permanent Mission to the United Nations. (Iran has no embassy in the United States.)
Here is the contact information.
Dr. Mohammad Javad Zarif
Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the Permanent Mission of the Islamic Republic of Iran
http://www.un.int/iran/
622 Third Ave. New York, NY 10017
Tel: (212) 687-2020 / Fax: (212) 867-7086
E-mail: Email the ambassador mailto:iran@un.int
Iranian Representative
Embassy of Pakistan
Interests Section of the Islamic Republic of Iran
http://www.daftar.org/Eng/default.asp?lang=eng
2209 Wisconsin Avenue, N.W.Washington, D.C. 20007
Email the Interests Section mailto:requests@daftar.org
Monday, February 21, 2005
Man I've Never Read/Movie I've Never Seen
The Associated Press
Monday, February 21, 2005
DENVER Hunter S. Thompson, the acerbic counterculture writer who popularized a new form of fictional journalism in books like ‘‘Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas,’’ fatally shot himself Sunday night at his Aspen-area home, his son said. He was 67.
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas was 1st published in installments in the November 1971 issues of the Rolling Stone magazine. It was an immediate success as a book in which Hunter S. Thompson?s alter ego, Raoul Duke, and his Samoan attorney Dr. Gonzo (who happens to be Oscar Zeta Acosta) drive from L.A. to Las Vegas with their trunk full of:
"...two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half-full of cocaine and a whole galaxy of multicolored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers.....also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of Budweiser, a pint of raw ether, and two dozen amyls...but the only thing that worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible than a man in the depths of an ether binge..."
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http://www.univie.ac.at/Anglistik/easyrider/data/Fear_and_Loathing.htm#rabbit
Posted by: Beatrix at February 21, 2005 04:48 AM
*****
Charlotte Haze: Do you believe in God?
Humbert Humbert: The question is does God believe in me?
Lolita, Directed by Stanley Kubrick / Writing credits Vladimir Nabokov (novel/screenplay)
Sunday, February 20, 2005
Sweet Disorder by: Robert Herrick
A sweet disorder in the dress
Kindles in clothes a wantonness:
A lawn about the shoulders thrown
Into a fine distraction --
An erring lace, which here and there
Enthrals the crimson stomacher --
A cuff neglectful, and thereby
Ribbands to flow confusedly --
A winning wave, deserving note,
In the tempestuous petticoat --
A careless shoe-string, in whose tie
I see a wild civility --
Do more bewitch me than when art
Is too precise in every part.
(b.1591 - d.1674)
Saturday, February 19, 2005
Thanx 4 Tha Vizual
Salvador Dali
Soft Construction with Boiled Beans:
Premonition of Civil War.
Oil on Canvas 1936.
Friday, February 18, 2005
Quote by: Herodotus - 5th century B.C.
Thursday, February 17, 2005
Unitedplantsavers.org
United Plant Savers' mission is to protect native medicinal plants of the United States and Canada and their native habitat while ensuring an abundant renewable supply of medicinal plants for generations to come.
Wednesday, February 16, 2005
Destroy time, and chaos may be ordered
Norman Mailer’s short story about a comic writer with an ambition to transcend his middle-class existence is at times funny and at times tragic. The snippet of information offered in the ever-useful footnotes of Norton Anthology which tells the reader that Mailer himself planned to use the story as the prologue to a mammoth eight-part novel about the adventures of a mythical hero, Sergius O’Shaughnessy, also casts a comical light over the autobiographical aspects of the story’s main character’s sloppy attempts at starting the ”Great American Novel”.
Mailer’s planned hero, Sergius O’Shaughnessy, is present in The Man Who Studied Yoga in several separate fragments. The protagonist, Sam Slovoda, goes regularly to a psychoterapist called Dr. Sergius, and two O’Shaugnessys appear in the story: Cassius, a near-mythical mixture of Corto Maltese, Gandhi and Hunter S. Thompson, and Jerry, a fallen radical leader of the 30s who has become an alcoholic.
Tuesday, February 15, 2005
The Buddhas of Compassion by Gottfried de Purucker
It is the Great Ones, the masters of life, whose light illumines the pathway, even at its commencement, and grows brighter with each step. Their light shines continuously; and it is only the dark clouds in the minds of men that shut it out. These are the Buddhas of Compassion.
A Buddha is one who has ascended the rungs of the evolutionary ladder of life, rung by rung, one after the other, and who thus has attained Buddhahood, which means human plenitude of spiritual and intellectual glory, and who has done all this by his own self-devised and self-directed exertions along the far past evolutionary pathway. He is an "Awakened One," one who manifests the divinity which is the very core of the core of his own being.
The Buddhas of Compassion are the noblest flowers of the human race. They are men who have raised themselves from humanity into quasi-divinity; and this is done by letting the light imprisoned within, the light of the inner god, pour forth and manifest itself through the humanity of the man, through the human soul of the man. Through sacrifice and abandoning of all that is mean and wrong, ignoble and paltry and selfish; through opening up the inner nature so that the god within may shine forth; in other words, through self-directed evolution, they have raised themselves from mere manhood into becoming god-men, man-gods -- human divinity.
Every human being is a Buddha unmanifest.
Monday, February 14, 2005
Society for Art of Imagination
This art is born of personal revelation and experience, but many will discover an echo in themselves which will trigger their own voyages of discovery, allowing them to use their minds imaginatively, spiritually and joyously to enhance their own lives.
Michel de Saint Ouen
Sunday, February 13, 2005
Musical Interlude
WCPE Classical Music on the Internets 24/7
Saturday, February 12, 2005
Jenine (Ween), Best Friend, Photographer, and Cool Chick
BIO: When realized I couldn't draw performers fast enough to capture all that I saw going on, I taught myself photography. Inside small poorly-lit bars and bookstores throughout Los Angeles in the mid-nineties, I started shooting these alternative comedians as they, too, honed their craft. Most of us were somewhat new to the city, arriving from San Francisco, as I did, or from New York, Chicago, Boston, Toronto and beyond, to form a cozy community insulated from slick industry mentality and personnel. This made for risky behavior on and off stage, brutally honest feedback from peers, and great shows. Eventually, many of these folks became famous while some remain legends to insiders, but all of them herein moved me in some way. Smart, daring and really freakin' funny, I have been lucky to call many friends and all inspiring. This experience has been extended to include those relatively rare musicians who can also be naked on stage (figuratively, I mean, unlike a few comics who shall remain nameless--at least until the book comes out!) AVAILABLE IN STORES AND ONLINE FALL 2005
All Images and Written Material Copyright © Jenine de Shazer
Friday, February 11, 2005
Tomorrow the Dreamers by Joseph D. Greenwood
Sleep child
Dream of times better
Better than our reality today
If you dream of times past
Idealize but don't analyze
Fantasize but please don't realize
Dream of knights and damsels
Rajputs and djinns
Ra the sun god and Musa the explorer
Keep the facade alive
If you dream of the future
Dream in brilliant color
And beautiful landscapes
Dream of what you loved today
Because it may not exist tomorrow
Imagine worlds elsewhere
For ours may not last long
The red planet beckens
Mysteries in the sands beyond
Enjoy your sleep now my child
Tomorrow you will wake up
And all your wonderous dreams
May fade away and forever be lost
Thursday, February 10, 2005
Musical Interlude
Nice words; Nice voice; Nice guitar playing.
Wednesday, February 09, 2005
Thoth Tarot
Take a moment to focus on your question.
Choose your tarot card.
Tuesday, February 08, 2005
Quote by: Blaise Pascal
Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, happiness, which is everything in the world.
Monday, February 07, 2005
Wo/Men's Alliance for Medical Marijuana
Marijuana is frequently beneficial in the treatment of the following conditions:
*AIDS. Marijuana can reduce the nausea, vomiting, and loss of appetite caused by the ailment itself and by various AIDS medications.
*Glaucoma. Marijuana can reduce interlobular pressure, thereby alleviating the pain and slowing -- and sometimes stopping -- the progress of the condition. (Glaucoma is the leading cause of blindness in the United States. It damages vision by increasing eye pressure over time.)
*Cancer. Marijuana can stimulate the appetite and alleviate nausea and vomiting, which are common side effects of chemotherapy treatment.
*Multiple Sclerosis. Marijuana can limit the muscle pain and spasticity caused by the disease, as well as relieving tremor and unsteadiness of gait. (Multiple sclerosis is the leading cause of neurological disability among young and middle-aged adults in the United States.)
*Epilepsy. Marijuana can prevent epileptic seizures in some patients.
*Chronic Pain. Marijuana can alleviate the chronic, often debilitating pain caused by myriad disorders and injuries.
Sunday, February 06, 2005
i carry your heart with me by: e. e. cummings
i carry your heart with me (i carry it in my heart)
i am never without it (anywhere i go you go, my dear; and whatever is done by only me is your doing, my darling)
i fear no fate (for you are my fate, my sweet)
i want no world (for beautiful you are my world, my true)
and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant
and whatever a sun will always sing is you
here is the deepest secret nobody knows (here is the root of the root and the
bud of the bud and the sky of the sky of a tree called life; which grows higher
than soul can hope or mind can hide)
and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart
i carry your heart (i carry it in my heart)
Saturday, February 05, 2005
Musical Interlude
Friday, February 04, 2005
The Magic of Lust by: Mimi
timeless moments in endless thought
heaven-sent dreams deep into the night
erogenous sensations, no longer fought
memories being made, day after day
awash with softness as hearts conspire
growling hunger for one's loved prey
imaginations lit, always afire
carnal desires, a fragrant bouquet
offering ourselves, with no demands
firey passions, seductive plans
luscious cravings, sweetest pain
unleashed ardor always remains
savoring each morsel, craving more
teasing, taunting paramour
Thursday, February 03, 2005
Quote by: Margaret Mead
Never doubt that a small group of committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has.
Wednesday, February 02, 2005
I Need More Cowbell Baby!
k.i.s.s. guide to cat care" by steve duno forward by christopher
imaginary boyfriend
favorite singer: elvis presley
"aaah, you can always smell a graveyard." - the prophecy
hobbies: cooking, hanging around the house, watching the cats
grrrrrrr...(the good kind)
one dance move in the fatboy slim video "weapon of choice" inspired by the way racoons sit up with paws in front!
walken in wonderland
i'd love to do a character with a wife, a nice little house, a couple of kids, a dog, maybe a bit of singing, and no guns and no killing, but nobody offers me those kind of parts.
Tuesday, February 01, 2005
Encyclopedia Mythica
The award-winning internet encyclopedia of mythology, folklore, and religion.
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