Month: July 2015
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Damodar and the Hall of Initiation
from blavatskytheosophy.com: FROM A LETTER FROM DAMODAR K. MAVALANKAR TO WILLIAM Q. JUDGE, (June 1881) At about 2 in the morning after finishing my work I locked the door of the room and lay in my bed. Within about 2 or 3 minutes I heard H.P.B.’s voice in her room calling me. I got up with…
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The Occult Roars Back: Its Modern Resurgence
from directionjournal.org: In 1967 Hair exploded like a bomb on the American cultural scene. This hit musical production revealed to the “straight” world that a new world was coming. The Age of Pisces—the era of Christianity, rationalism, and science—would soon be replaced by the Age of Aquarius. This new golden age was to be one…
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@PumpUpThaVolume: Episode166 – This Is What We Want
♫Makin’ a soundtrack for another planet to hear♫ on Episode166 – This Is What We Want which features brand new sounds from Joanna Gruesome, Ash, Heavenly States, Love, Hippies & Gangsters, GospelbeacH, Girlpool, On An On, Desaparecidos, Centavrvs, Noel McKay, Fort Lean, Júníus Meyvant, Parlour Tricks, Saun & Starr and Black Whales… Download/Subscribe Previous: Episode165…
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Gnosis, Love, and The Roots of Chivalry
from peopleofshambhala.com: Denis de Rougemont’s Love in the Western World is in part a critique of fictional portrayals of romantic love, whether in film, TV, novels or plays. He argues that the conception of love perennially served up for our entertainment makes no real sense and in the worst case, make us dissatisfied with relationships…
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Activist group tells Google to offer ‘#RightToBeForgotten’ in USA
from 9to5google.com: It was ruled as part of the ‘right to be forgotten‘ case in Europe last year that individuals could request to have links removed from Google search results, and now another group is calling for that right to be expanded to the United States. An activist group on Tuesday filed a complaint with…
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Esotericism, Freemasonry, And Confusion In The Lodge
from peopleofshambhala.com: “Esotericism” has come to be a kind of “catch all” phrase for alternative and non-Western spirituality, Freemasonry, the occult, and so on, not least of all as a way of making subjects previously taboo within academia acceptable subjects of research for books and PhD theses. While we will undoubtedly learn more and more about…
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Occultist father of rocketry ‘written out’ of Nasa’s history
from www.wired.co.uk: Jack Parsons was a founding member of Nasa’s Jet Propulsion Lab, with some crediting him as being one of the “fathers of rocketry” and others joking that JPL was actually Jack Parsons’ Laboratory, but you won’t find much about him on Nasa’s websites. Parsons’ legacy as an engineer and chemist has been somewhat overshadowed…
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@PumpUpThaVolume: Episode165 – High
♫Makin’ a soundtrack for another planet to hear♫ on Episode165 – High which features brand new sounds from Palehound, Destroyer, T. Hardy Morris, Waxahatchee, Sufjan Stevens, Taylor & The Wild Now, Vince Matthews & Jim Casey, Vaadat Charigim, Royal Headache, Cairo Gang, Nite School Klik, Chet Faker, Janet Jackson, Beach House and Hibou… Download/Subscribe Previous:…
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Anatomy of the Deep State
from mikelofgren.net: There is the visible government situated around the Mall in Washington, and then there is another, more shadowy, more indefinable government that is not explained in Civics 101 or observable to tourists at the White House or the Capitol. The former is traditional Washington partisan politics: the tip of the iceberg that a…
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More Than 11,000 Sydney Dental Patients Potentially Exposed to HIV and Hepatitis
from apperspective.net: More than 11,000 Sydney dental patients may have been exposed to HIV and hepatitis because of unhygienic practices at four clinics across the city. New South Wales (NSW) health authorities said on Thursday the disease risk was caused by poor cleaning and sterilization techniques at the four dental practices. The issues at the…
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More Than 11,000 Sydney Dental Patients Potentially Exposed to HIV and Hepatitis
from apperspective.net: More than 11,000 Sydney dental patients may have been exposed to HIV and hepatitis because of unhygienic practices at four clinics across the city. New South Wales (NSW) health authorities said on Thursday the disease risk was caused by poor cleaning and sterilization techniques at the four dental practices. The issues at the…
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Google’s AI Bot Thinks The Purpose Of Life Is ‘To Live Forever’
from businessinsider.com: This week, Google released a research paper chronicling one of its latest forays into artificial intelligence. Researchers at the company programmed an advanced type of “chatbot” that learns how to respond in conversations based on examples from a training set of dialogue. And the bot doesn’t just answer by spitting out canned answers…
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The Anti-Theology of the Body
from futurisms.thenewatlantis.com: To ask what the legacy of John Paul II’s Theology of the Body might be for future debates in bioethics is implicitly to ask what relevance it has for current debates in bioethics. And this creates something of a problem, because there is a real sense in which it has none at all…