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HERE'S THE NEW URL - please update your links and bookmarks. I don't want to lose any of you. http://www.lvx23.com/weblog/ Finally upgraded my ISP account and installed Movable Type libraries. Everything's working (and it only took a day or so). I still need to tackle CSS to spice it up a bit, but the new blog looks pretty good right now (if I do say so myself). And I've got my own domain now,

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I can hear the train wailing through the valley maybe a mile away. A long, dark cry, drawing a line of deep blue night between the redwoods rolling down & out to the coast. This stroke of coal burn is the only echo of blackness on a beautiful sunny Sunday. Indeed, the train itself, if we believe the signs thrown up for this weekend outside of Roaring Camp, is none other than cheery educational

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Today, July 23, marks the historical point when the ancient Egyptians believed the connection with Sirius is greatest. It marks the day that Sirius moves out from behind the Sun, having been in conjunction since July 4th. Sirius is shrouded in mystery and refrences to this, the brightest star in the night sky, can be found throughout many traditions. Most notably, to my mind, is Crowley's

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Salon has a great interview with Alan Moore. Unfortunately they insist on charging people to read it (or you can get a free day pass by watching an ad). This interview is important enough that I've archived it as a PDF for those folks who aren't Premium Subscribers. Enjoy!One of the reasons we singled out media... was because it is one of the most useful tools of tyranny. We invite it into our

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Re-reading Morrison's The Invisibles got me thinking about Aztec dieties. Here's one of the prominent one's in Lord Fanny's shamanism. Seems that he still walks the Earth...TEZCATLIPOCA, (god of Night and Sorcery) "Smoking Mirror" (obsidian), characterized as the most powerful, supreme deity, was associated with the notion of destiny. His cult was particularly identified with royalty, for

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Here's a nice php utility that casts an I-ching hexagram with interpretations based on Discordia.Hexagram 23: John Dillinger This hexagram represents a splitting apart (or a 23-Skidooing). It does not futher one to go anywhere, or you might get shot down in the street in front of a movie theatre or something as equally inconvenient. Just stay at home and play Cooknote Fiberglass or something and

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[Thanks to Boing Boing.]

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Just got caught up on Jason Louv's blog and his shamanic travels through Tibet (which, conicidentally, is a personal fantasy of my own that has been on my mind a lot lately). Yes, today I'm living vicariously through a 22-year old ex-UCSC student living in New York, working for Disinfo, and taking lessons from Tibetan shamen. Louv is currently working on Generation Hex for Disinfo. An excerpt

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This is the type of thing that makes me smile. Another demonstration of the sublime beauty of life's interconnectedness. That's right: you find a tree and I'll hug it!A recent study funded by NASA's Earth Science Department shows that the tiny sea plants release high quantities of cloud-forming compounds on days when the sun's harmful ultraviolet rays are especially strong. The compounds

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The wonders of Creation never cease...A Maryville man spent his 23rd birthday in custody after police said they found him early Sunday running nude from the John Sevier pool snack bar with a box of stolen snacks. Authorities said the man had apparently scaled an 8-foot tall fence while naked and covered in nacho cheese and was seen running toward a Jeep in which officers found clothing and an

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NORML notes that police helicopters transporting confiscated marijuana plants are actually helping spread it's growth....Allen St. Pierre, a spokesman for the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws, says the pot is carried in mesh nets by helicopters for distances more than 30 miles and, in his words, "thousands of seeds fall through the nets to the ground and many of them take

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According to "E.T. expert" Dr. Terry Johnson, " target="_blank">the end of the world will begin this year on September 29th.... E.T. expert Dr. Terry Johnson, who claims various conglomerations of alien races are conspiring to destroy planet Earth on that day -- with the help of a few volcanoes and earthquakes. Johnson says an earthquake is scheduled to take place in Guadalajara, Mexico, and

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[Yes, that's John Kerry kiteboarding.]

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Highlights from humanity's ongoing pursuit for meaning in an increasingly shallow civilization: Blaze in Egypt starts "balls of fire" rumors CAIRO (Reuters) - A series of fires in the southern Egyptian province of Sohag has destroyed some 160 houses, giving rise to rumours that spirits are at work or mysterious balls of fire are falling from the sky, a local official SAYS. But the causes are

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Reuters reports on a Romanian cemetary celebrating death.Visitors stroll past rows of graves, pointing at epitaphs, reading them out loud and laughing unashamedly. But not even a tearful family laying flowers on a fresh grave takes offence because in the Merry Cemetery of Sapanta, tucked in a remote corner of northern Romania, life and death are celebrated equally. Stan Ion Patras, who died in

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I finally watched Waking Life (I know, I know...). I feel that it's a truly remarkable film. The rotoscoping is awesome, but the dialog and the way the story evolves is really engaging and compelling. Such a cool trip through social consciousness. Waking life and the dreaming life as two equal sides of consciousness. Death as awakening into the eternal dream. The dream of freedom and the

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"It does not affect your daily life very much if your neighbor marries a box turtle. But that does not mean it is right. . . . Now you must raise your children up in a world where that union of man and box turtle is on the same legal footing as man and wife." -- Sen. John Cornyn (R-Tex.), advocating a constitutional ban on same-sex marriage in a speech Thursday to the Heritage Foundation.

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KIN

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Alan Moore responds to Joel Biroco's latest edition of the chaos magick journal, Kaos 14. (Although by "latest" I mean in the last 3 years or so at least.)

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Free anti-corporate media stickers over at Freepress.net. [Thanks (again) to EBC!]

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Here's a brief bit from a piece I just wrote over at Future Hi:Our very civilization is merely a blink in the eye of Shiva, a momentary footnote in the galactic record, a spark in a Universe that remains to us quite empty. Our struggles and conflicts, our preoccupations and distractions, are like grains of sand swirling in the tides, slowly and steadily grinding away at the rocks. Over a thousand

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Pop Image has an extensive interview with pop magic guru Grant Morrison. Here are some of the more magickal excerpts:...All the comics are sigils. 'Sigil' as a word is out of date. All this magic stuff needs new terminology because it's not what people are being told it is at all. It's not all this wearying symbolic misdirection that's being dragged up from the Victorian Age, when no-one was

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Cybernetic Culture Research Unit hosts an intriguing article called Lemurian Time War:The account that follows charts William Burroughs’ involvement in an occult time war, and considerably exceeds most accepted conceptions of social and historical probability. It is based on ‘sensitive information’ passed to the Ccru by an intelligence source whom we have called William Kaye. The narrative has

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SRI International is working hard to realize the dreams of roboticists and artificial intelligence researchers.Forget robots that walk. Think robots that swim, fly or wriggle. SRI is developing artificial muscles to give robots the ability to run, jump and climb like biological creatures. In a windowless SRI lab, a small, spider-like robot named Flex sits on a table. It rests on eight legs

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A screenplay originally written by Aleister Crowley is being enhanced and adapted for the big screen by Kabbalist & Thelemite Lon Milo DuQuette & Cinemagic founder Jim Bratkowsky. Revolt of the Magicians seems to be attracting a lot of attention already:"The response to our first press release was so astounding," explains Schrager, "that both of our mail servers were overwhelmed." In order to

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Nature reports that researchers at the California Institute of Technology have wired test monkeys to "think" a cursor around a computer screen. While similar experiments have been conducted wiring up from the motor cortex, this is the first time it's been done from the parietal lobe."It's the difference between thinking 'I want to move my hand to the right' and 'I want to reach for the water',"

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One of the coolest articles on Aleister Crowley I've seen in mainstream media... Of course, it's in The Guardian (you'd never see it in the US press).A hundred years on, Crowley remains one of those figures often dismissed in public, but whose work is collected and studied in private. His immediate following may have been small, but his influence on modern culture is as pervasive as that of Freud

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Southern diners now serving Freedom Brains:A French prisoner serving 30 years for murder and cannibalism is under psychiatric evaluation after killing another detainee and trying to eat his brain. The prisoner... burst out of his cell as dinner was being handed out and attacked guards and convicts serving the meal with an ashtray. After smashing the skull of one of the convicts, he started

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My posts have been a bit light lately due to a few other projects I'm working on at the moment. This will change before too long. Sad to say that Future Hi is still trying to remedy some very annoying ISP problems, so we haven't been able to post anything. But this should be cleared up very soon. Progress is being made... For now (before I head off to see Rush at Shoreline Amphitheater this

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The San Francisco Unitarian Universalist Church will be hosting a "day of exploration & dialog" this Saturday, July 10th, featuring John Perry Barlow, Huston Smith, Erik Davis, and Burning Man founder Larry Harvey, as well as many others. Awe To Action will include a spirited debate between Larry Harvey & John Perry Barlow on John's recent essay about the Burning Man community's political impact

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Michael Moore has pubicly stated that his scorching documentary slamming the Bush administration, Fahrenheit 9-11, should be freely available for download on the web. Someone has taken him up on his suggestion and posted it to Archive.org. It's not entirely complete and it's a cheap theater cam rip but, hopefully, this will be a step towards getting the entire film into the public domain.

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During sunspot activity the Earth is awash in electromagnetic fields and radio-isotopes. We know this affects our electronics but how does it affect our heads? Researchers at the Institute for Astronomy in Zurich have determined that over the past 1150 years the Sun has never been as active as it has been in the last 60 years.In an attempt to determine what happened to sunspots during these

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David Letterman's Top Ten George W. Bush Complaints About "Fahrenheit 9-11":10. That actor who played the President was totally unconvincing 9. It oversimplified the way I stole the election 8. Too many of them fancy college-boy words 7. If Michael Moore had waited a few months, he could have included the part where I get him deported 6. Didn't have one of them hilarious monkeys who smoke

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In an upcoming Christmas Day special of The Simpsons, Lisa Simpson will cry for Cornish freedom.Lisa will run around the Simpsons' home in Springfield shouting "Rydhsys rag Kernow lemmyn", which translates as "Free Cornwall Now." "In an upcoming episode Lisa Simpson briefly takes up the cause of Cornish independence," the e-mail said. "Our hope is to have the character run around the house

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LIMA, Peru (Reuters) - Wearing a poncho and coloured beads, Peruvian shaman Juan Osco takes a swig from a bottle filled with unidentified herbs and sprays the liquid over a soccer ball decorated with flags. A fellow "brujo" whacked the ball with chrysanthemums in a shower of yellow petals. Other shamans, chanting and shaking maracas, sprayed sickly perfume over the shirts and flags of the 12

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40% of Canadian Youth think U.S. is evil:This being Canada, the amount of anti-Americanism that was found is not surprising. What is significant is the high number of teens who used the word "evil" to describe our southern neighbour. As Misty Harris pointed out in her column in the Saskatoon Star Phoenix, evil is usually associated with serial killers and "kids who tear the legs off baby spiders.

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Just got back from some good 'ol fashioned 4th of July beach madness. Santa Cruz beaches (technically a fireworks-free town) turn in to colorful warzones each year, thick with gunsmoke glowing red & yellow & white & green; white shears of light followed by sudden dense thunderclaps, splitting the sky and inspiring ooh's & awes, in spite of a million cops trying vainly to cordone and control the

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Images from Cassini, June 20, 2004.

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The realities of modern war: tanks on your freeways. Imagine seing tanks on the 101, or I-5, or any other average American freeway.

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Cool diagrams at threetwoone.org, including "Hebrew Bible overview", "Descendants of Adam in Genesis", and "Bush dynasty - as described inKevin Phillips' book".

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Real Glastonbury mud only 490 pounds (~$890)."Stored in a plastic bag this should arrive nice and damp with the early Glastonbury dew still soaking into it," reads the seller's description. The mud was collected from the front of the main Pyramid stage where Oasis, Morrissey and Paul McCartney performed.

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Public Enemy has teamed up with Moby to produce the single "Make Love Fuck War", available exclusively on iTunes. From the Apple Music Store:Public Enemy's Chuck D says, "Working with Moby on this theme and project again shows that music can be a universal language of peace. Knowing his great work and concerns of the planet made this project one of like-mindedness and world spirit." Moby says of

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Psyche.com offers an exhaustive resource for the works of 20th century Kabbalist, Carlos Suares. From Saures' revised Kabbalah explicated in his work Cipher of Genesis:This work offers a fundamental new look at the Book of Genesis and contains profound implications for those faiths which are rooted in the Old Testament -- Christianity, Judaism and Islam. It also has something to offer to those

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Swiss researchers in artificial intelligence have created an associative computer capable of displayings it's social interaction through fractal displays, giving their autonomous machine the equivalent of body language.There has been much research and musing about how autonomous machines like robots and intelligent software agents should interact with people. Much of the work focuses on giving

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Former felon and heroin addict, Tommy McHugh, suffered a near-fatal cerebral hemorrhage. Since then he has an uncontrollable urge to create works of art.McHugh's art reveals some aspects of his altered thought processes. He often draws images of faces within faces, which he describes as representing two parallel lines of thinking that seem to run through his brain simultaneously. In cognitive

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Dehiscence The Corridor of Madness Mad Ghoul

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"In the re:evolutionary spirit of festivals such as Burning Man, Tribal Gathering, Woodstock 1 and Earthdance, PHOENIX FESTIVAL is an annual autonomous music and arts festival which takes place over "Independence Day" (4th of July) weekend in the scenic Pacific Northwest, USA. Featuring simultaneous action on multiple stages by local and globally renowned visionary performers, speakers and

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A fine time for those anti-global-coporatism rituals...

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Vladimir Dimitrov has a cool site on emergence and dynamical systems. From the Manifesto:n human systems, emergence implies serendipity and creativity both at individual (intrapersonal) and group (interpersonal) levels of interaction. For creativity to take hold and flourish, emergence needs space and freedom. Emergence cannot be designed. Emergence cannot be imposed. It simply happens - as a

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Another story you won't see in the American media: The Independent reports that more than 4000 scientists have signed a statement accusing George W. Bush of twisting their work to further his political agenda.On issues from global warming to lead in drinking water and the alleged link between breast cancer and abortions, this administration, like no other before it, is turning science into a

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Another Moon is hosting an interview with City Magick author, Christopher Penczak.In my classes I describe the heart of witchcraft as the practice of honoring the divine as both male and female, as keeping rhythm with the cycles of life, doing ritual, honoring nature, practicing magick and looking to serve the greater good. I think most cultures have had those qualities at some point in their

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Swiss neurologist Peter Brugger has submitted evidence that individuals with higher levels of neuronal dopamine are more inclined to find meaning in abstract patterns and more likely to see meaning in coincidence. The inference is that higher levels of dopamine may be associated with tendencies to believe in the paranormal.Believers were much more likely than sceptics to see a word or face when

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The US Armey has developed a tarpaulin woven with it's PowerFilm solar technology, capable of generating up to a kilowatt of juice. I want one for Burning Man.

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Scientists in Japan have developed an electric skin for robots that is supposedly as sensitive as our own."Recognition of tactile information will be very important for future generations of robots," says Takao Someya at the University of Tokyo who developed the skin. A sense of touch would help them to identify objects, carry out delicate tasks and avoid collisions. [The skin] consists of a

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I just got back from seeing the fantastic documentary, The Corporation, and heartily recommend that everyone see it as soon as possible. The Corporation is a thorough analysis of the psychopathic business personalities exploiting world populations, endangering ecosystems and human health, controlling world governments, and plundering the planet. It presents a chilling, but ultimately optimistic

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The Moveable Type libraries need to be restarted due to a server crisis so Future Hi looks like it's done a timewarp back to May. The site will be back up ASAP. Please be patient!

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Niccolo Macchiavelli, The Prince:"But it is necessary to know well how to disguise this characteristic, and to be a great pretender and dissembler; and men are so simple, and so subject to present necessities, that he who seeks to deceive will always find someone who will allow himself to be deceived. .... Therefore it is unnecessary for a prince to have all the good qualities I have enumerated,

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Researchers at MIT have created a process that uses spinach leaves as a power source.[Marc] Baldo's team isolated a variety of photosynthetic proteins from spinach and sandwiched them between two layers of conducting material. When light was shone on to the tiny cell, an electrical current was generated. The proteins were layered on to a thin gold film, attached to a sheet of transparent,

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Australian researchers at the University of Queensland have created a 3D interactive virtual world designed to show psychiatrists what it is like to experience patient hallucinations.The hallucination simulation software is a three-dimensional environment something like the game Quake, said Ericsson. The researchers interviewed a patient to get descriptions of a set of real-life hallucinations,

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[Thanks to Invisible College!]

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Dusting off an old McKenna favorite, New Maps of Hyperspace.

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I've been enjoying the Vortex Egg blog, especially this cool graphic showing the 13 Baktuns of the Mayan Galactic Cycle (wish I could find a larger version though).

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I'm a long-time fan of author William Gibson, having snatched up a copy of Neuromancer my senior year of high school (ca. 1988). But my interest waned around the time of Virtual Light, perhaps because I couldn't remember anything about that book after reading another book a week later. That other book was Neal Stephenson's now-classic Snow Crash. But today I started Gibson's latest, Pattern

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The monster music fest known as Glastonbury will employ a machine designed by persecuted doctor, Wilhelm Reich, to battle the dreary British weather.As rainclouds swept over the West Country, threatening to once more turn the festival's many fields into a swamp, organiser Michael Eavis unearthed from his farmyard an "Orgone Cloudbuster" built for him by hippies in 1971. "It's made out of

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People watch a bonfire during the traditional San Juan's (Saint John) night in Torre de Benalgabon, southern Spain, late June 23, 2004. Fires are lit throughout Spain on the eve of Saint John. People burn objects they no longer want and make wishes as they jump through the flames. REUTERS/Rafael Marchante

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The Dalai Lama has asked Yum! Brands not to extend their Kentucky Fried Chicken franchise into Tibet."It is quite natural for me to support those who are currently protesting the introduction of industrial food practices into Tibet that will perpetuate the suffering of huge numbers of chickens," PETA quotes the Dalai Lama as saying in the letter to KFC. The Dalai Lama, exiled in the Indian hill

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Toshiba has developed the world's smallest methanol fuel cell, paving the way for a new generation of portable devices.The prototype direct methanol fuel cell (DMFC) is roughly thumb size, measuring 22 millimetres by 45 millimetres (0.88 inches by 1.80 inches) and weighs 8.5 grammes (0.29 ounces). It is "small enough for integration into a wireless headset for mobile phones but still efficient

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From Jeff love's book The Quantum Gods:The central hypothesis of the model of Psychometaphysics concerning the Qabalah is this: the personage who is described in the Qabalah, Judaism, and Christianity as God is a metaphor for the essential nature of each individual human being. I am calling that essential nature the Quantum God...The process of personal maturation can be defined as being the

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This article by Robert Bryce, author of Cronies: Oil, the Bushes, and the Rise of Texas, America's Superstate, was in the June issue of Maxim. It's probably the most damning, right-on indictment of BushCo yet printed in the mainstream media. Fingering the real players like Cheney, Baker, Halliburton, Brown & Root, and Senior, Bryce shows how they built Texas Oil into an empire controlling the

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Some links for today: An upcoming Mind States Conference in Oaxaca, Mexico. Online resources for Salvia divinorum. The journal of psychopharmacology and ethnobotany, The Entheogen Review. And finally, some fun shopping at DNT Chemicals.

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New Scientist reports on the new-found ability of some dogs to predict epileptic seizures in children.These dogs not only protect their charges from injuries, such as falling, but also seem to help kids deal with the daily struggle of epilepsy. Nine of the 60 dogs in the study (15 per cent) were able to predict a seizure by licking, whimpering, or standing next to the child. These dogs were

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Nature has an interesting abstract about the mathematical constructs underlying music and the relationships between textual and musical composition. Both seem to rely on repetition and context to establish meaningful phrases.The economist and sociologist Herbert Simon later offered an explanation for this mathematical relationship. He argued that as a text progresses, it creates a meaningful

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I recently ran across Slow Wave - "a collective dream diary authored by different people from around the world, and drawn as a comic strip by Jesse Reklaw". I really like the concept of a collaborative dream anthology, and the comic medium is a great way to express some of the oddities of the inner landscape that unfolds in slumber. It's especially fascinating to see how dreams manifest through

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Thousands of local and foreign revellers celebrate their 'Akelarre' (witch's Sabbath) in the cave of Zugarramurdi as part of a celebration to greet the summer solstice, in northern Spain late June 19, 2004. Every year people meet in the cave to celebrate the arrival of the summer in a festival that commemorates witches that used the cave in the 17th century to celebrate their 'Akelarre'. PHOTO

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A new issue of the excellent online magick journal, The Grey Lodge Occult Review is now available. Some of the included articles: ON THE INVOKATION OF ERIS: CHAOS AS PREREQUISITE TO CHANGE By © D. Rose Hart(wo)man [PDF] Different Models & Different Muddles By Robert Anton Wilson [PDF] Sex Economy In The Fight Against Mysticism By Wilhelm Reich [PDF] Foucault's Pendulum By Umberto Eco (

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LONDON (Reuters) - The Archbishop of Canterbury, head of the world's 70 million Anglicans and a self-declared devotee of the U.S. television hit "The Simpsons", could soon be paying Homer, Marge, Bart and Lisa a visit in Springfield. Producers of the animated comedy have invited Rowan Williams, 54, to take part in an episode after he praised the programme for its humour and humility, the Sunday

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LONDON (AFP) - The lure of Stonehenge seems nearly as old as the stones themselves, and the passage on Monday from spring into summer will uphold that hallowed tradition, with 30,000 expected to welcome in the solstice at dawn. New Age hippies and believers in Druidic, Pagan and other pre-Christian religions are often joined by simple good-time seekers at the Stonehenge Summer Solstice in

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The longest day of the year - the reign of Sol - brings the first day of Summer and the season of fire. The 20th is the last day of Gemini yielding to Cancer on the 21st, moving from Air to Water, Mercury to the Moon. From Risa's Astrology:The Cancer glyph represents the feminine and masculine poles in union, thus producing physical forms. Cancer also represents, through the equality of the

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From The Wheel of Jacob:Shin is important (in certain qabalistic teachings) because it is the Hebrew letter that is added to the center of the Tetragrammaton (YHVH) in order to produce the Pentagrammaton (YHShVH). Here Shin represents the 'spirit principle' which descends into and rules over the realm of the 'four elements' - just as the 'head' rules over the other four members (i.e. arms and

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I had heard that David Best would be on hiatus this year but it looks like he'll be back in full effect with another awe-inspiring temple. The above image is of the Temple of Joy, 2002 (where my wife and I were married!). From Jackit Rabbit Speaks:DAVID BEST SEEKS TEMPLE GUARDIANS Calling all Guardian Angels! David Best is returning with yet another masterpiece and it’s going to be much

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You may have defeated my Southern Hook Palm technique, but can you defeat the 1000 styles of Rumsfeld?

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From The Gospel of Thomas":16 Jesus said, "Perhaps people think that I have come to cast peace upon the world. They do not know that I have come to cast conflicts upon the earth: fire, sword, war. For there will be five in a house: there'll be three against two and two against three, father against son and son against father, and they will stand alone.

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LONDON (Reuters) - A major investment bank is advising clients to have sex, get more sleep and stop equating happiness with money -- turning the industry image of hard-nosed dealmakers on its head. German-owned Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein offers the advice in a note to clients by its strategist James Montier. "I thought it was time that I reminded people there was more to life than watching

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SHANGHAI, China -- The soup wasn't just good. It was downright addictive. Narcotics police in southwestern China shuttered 215 restaurants found to be mixing opium poppy into their soups and hot pot stews, the official Xinhua News Agency reported Friday.

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Scientists have demonstrated the transfer of physical properties between two entangled atoms through the odd phenomena of quantum teleportation.Teleportation between atoms could someday lie at the heart of powerful quantum computers, which are probably at least a decade away from development, [David J.] Wineland said. Although his work moved information about atomic characteristics only a tiny

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Today is the 100th anniversary of the day in which James Joyce set his novel, Ulysses - one of the most celebrated novels of all time. And no, I haven't read it yet. But I will someday...The book has fascinated scholars and baffled readers for decades with its dense prose, obscure puns and allusions to the characters and events of Homer's epic Greek poem The Odyssey. It has also outraged censors

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President Bush got off Air Force One with an animal under each arm the Marine guard at the foot of the stairs saluted: 'Nice pigs, sir!' Bush indignantly: 'These aren't pigs, they are genuine Texas razorbacks. I got one for Rice and I got one for Rumsfeld.' Marine saluting again: 'Nice trade, sir......'

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Author, philosopher, wizard, and grand discordian Robert Anton Wilson has opened an online school. The Maybe Logic Online Academy offers classes and correspondences with the master himself, and by other big names in altertheory for a somewhat nominal fee. Upcoming classes include, "8 Dimensions of Mind", "Ideogrammic Method", and "Conspiracy, Coincidence, and Code".Maybe Logic Academy is an

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