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Iggy and the Stooges released a new album !! You can pre- listen it on their Website. Iggy and the Stooges really kick ass on this album and show that most of the bands that call themselves “punk” these days are pussy’s.
At Amazon: Iggy and the Stooges The Weirdnes
Great movies all for our viewing pleasure at Google.
Seen Through the Eyes of the Orient. Beautiful music from the Al-Kindi Ensemble.
The whole story and the music here.
Tile patterns on middle eastern mosques display a kind of quasicrystalline effect that was unknown in the west until rediscovered by Penrose in the 1970s. Quasi-crystalline patterns comprise a set of interlocking units whose pattern never repeats, even when extended infinitely in all directions, and possess a special form of symmetry.
Read the article on Reuters
is a weekly Radioshow presented and compiled by Henry Rollins. Great music and a lot off background information on the artists and songs (also on the Harmony In My Head Website ). I really recommend it.
Listen to the shows (in mp3 format, so great for on the road): http://www.rollins-archive.com/
The official Harmony In My Head website with information to the shows: http://www.harmonyinmyhead.com/
There once was a man who had a problem. He’d heard about a wise guru that had answers to difficult questions. He decided to find this man.
After a long and difficult journey, he ended up at a temple high on a mountaintop. He entered and found the guru meditating. The guru, sensing the man’s presence, opened his eyes and looked up.
Guru: Ah, I see you have a problem.
Man: Yes. That’s amazing! How did you know?
Guru: Actually, you have 83 problems.
Man: Oh my gosh! It’s worse than I thought! 83 problems! What should I do?
Guru: Solve them.
Man: OK… I guess I can work on that. When I solve my 83 problems, then what happens?
Guru: You get 83 more.
Man: @%#$@!!!
Guru: Actually, everyone, every single human being, has 83 problems, from the homeless peasant, to the leader of your country. And actually, some people have 84 problems.
Man: What’s the 84th problem?
Guru: The 84th problem when you believe that you’re the only person that has 83 problems. This is truly the greatest problem.
Do you have 83 problems? Great. Solve them. Do you believe you’re the only person that has 83 problems? Then you have 84. Solve that one first, then work on the other 83.
is the start of the Spring Festival marking the beginning of the Year of the Boar. In China, the Boar is associated with fertility and virility. To bear children in the year of the pig is considered very fortunate, for they will be happy and honest.
More at Wikipedia: Chinese NewYear Boar (Pig)
“The American Way is to dumb everyone down to consume for their happiness.”
Nevertheless thats also becoming the European Way. I wonder can we escape ?
Public Enemy
All my unity is dissolved; I live in the tips of my feathers.
For though my wings are of fine gold, yet my heart is the heart of a scorpion.
A.C. The vision and the voice, The Cry of the 23rd Aethyr.
I am no doubt not the only one who writes in order to have no face. Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same: leave it to our bureaucrats and our police to see that our papers are in order. At least spare us their morality when we write.”
Michel Foucault in his “Archaelogy of Knowledge,”
“The owl of Minerva spreads its wings only with the falling of the dusk.”
Similar to “vision is 20/20 in hindsight,” Hegel poetic insight says that philosophers are impotent. Only after the end of an age can philosophers realize what it was about. And by then it’s too late to change things. It wasn’t until the time of Immanuel Kant (1724 – 1804) that the true nature of the Enlightenment was understood, and Kant did nothing to change the Enlightenment; he just consciously perpetuated it.
Marx (1818 – 1883) found Hegel’s apt description to be indicative of the problem with philosophy and responded, “the philosophers have only interpreted the world differently, what matters is to change it.”
Jesus Camp is an alarming and fascinating documentary about a “charismatic Christian” summer camp for children who spend their summers learning and practicing their “prophetic gifts” and being taught that they can “take back America for Christ.” The documentary follows a group of children born into Evangelical Christian families as they prepare for and later attend the “Kid’s on Fire” camp in Devil’s Lake, North Dakota. A growing number of Evangelical Christians believe there is a revival underway in America that requires Christian youth to assume leadership roles in advocating the causes of their religious movement. One word comes in mind: scary.
Watch it at Google Video: Jesus Camp
O! the heart of N.O.X. the Night of Pan.
{Pi-Alpha-Nu}: Duality: Energy: Death.
Death: Begetting: the supporters of O!
To beget is to die; to die is to beget.
Cast the Seed into the Field of Night.
Life and Death are two names of A.
Kill thyself.
Neither of these alone is enough.
Aleister Crowley – Book of Lies
– Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 – 1900)
Actually, Nietzsche never issued this famous proclamation in his own voice but rather put the words in the mouth of a character he called the madman and later in the mouth of another character, Zarathustra.
Nevertheless, Nietzsche endorsed the words. “God is dead” is often mistaken as a statement of atheism. It is not, though Nietzsche himself was an atheist. “Dead” is metaphorical in this context, meaning belief in the God of Christianity is worn out, past its prime, and on the decline. God is lost as the center of life and the source of values. Nietzsche’s madman noted that himself came too soon. No doubt Nietzsche, too, thought he was ahead of his time in heralding this news.
A form of Zen meditation which involves sitting in an asana position (commonly the lotus position) and clearing the mind. The word literally means “sitting meditation”.
If you wish to be realized in Suchness, immediately practice Suchness.
A quiet room is good for zazen. Eat and drink moderately, don’t entangle yourself in delusive relationships. Just leave such things to themselves. Don’t think about good or bad, right or wrong. Don’t give rise to the mind’s common concepts, the judging of thoughts and observations. Don’t sit to become an Awakened One because you can’t fabricate a Buddha out of sitting or lying down.
from Leni Riefenstahl. A great book with stunning photos !!
Website from Leni Riefenstahl
The Nuba Survival Project
At Amazon: Die Nuba
In Volume III Number 1 of the Equinox (published in 1919), Aleister Crowley reviewed a paper called “Heavenly Bridegrooms”. In this work, a woman identified only as “Ida C—–” claimed to be the wife of an angel. A scholar named Theodore Schroeder edited the manuscript and published it in a psychological journal, where it apparently attracted the attention of Crowley. In the review, Crowley states that Heavenly Bridegrooms “is one of the most remarkable human documents ever produced.” He goes on to say:
“I am very far from agreeing with all that this most talented woman sets forth in her paper, but she certainly obtained initiated knowledge of extraordinary depth. She seems to have had access to certain most concealed sanctuaries…. She has put down statements in plain English which are positively staggering. This book is of incalculable value to every student of occult matters. No Magick library is complete without it.”
This is quite an endorsement from Crowley, and perhaps even more significant in that he signed the review “Baphomet,” using his magical name as Tenth Degree of O.T.O.
More here:
www.idacraddock.org
At Wikipedia