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The Aeon of The Conquering Child

Creative Individualism with a Collective Focus

 

 

  

 

THIS UPDATE: 1. February 2012

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                                                                       I’m an effigy, a parody

                                                                       of who I appear to be

                                                                       place your flaming torches under me...

 

                                                                       from OPHELIA

Special Pick:

 

 

Please, No More

lyrics: David Egan

 

We start a fight, who knows what for
Who knows who's winning, or who's keeping score
You say it's all right, as you slam the door
All I can say is, "Please no more, please no more."

I've had enough after how I swore
I'd never give you up
Loving you was easy, but one thing's for sure
It ain't me, it ain't me, you're trying to please no more.

Passions will burn, burn like gasoline
All that's left behind are these broken dreams
While I still got some pieces laid out on the floor
I'm asking you baby, "Please no more, please no more."

I've had enough, after how I swore
I'd never give you up

Loving you was easy, but one thing's for sure
It ain't me, it ain't me, you're trying to please no more


Please, no more...

 

 

Etta James 1938-2012

Farewell to a Lovely Lady

 

 

 

              

 

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BAHÁ'Í FAITH: The Great Muslim Heresy

2 NON-MUSLIM SECTS IN MIDDLE EAST

SERPENT HANDLERS

THE FRENCH REVOLUTION

TEARS OF CHRIST

   AMISH IN AMERICA

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            Gitmo: Happy 10th     Obama's left-right!

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Sweet Jane's Corner

   

Recent Research on Medical Marijuana

Emerging Clinical Applications For Cannabis & Cannabinoids
A Review of the Recent Scientific Literature, 2000 — 2010

 

 

Pot Culture: The A-Z Guide to Stoner Language and LifeProduct Description

Do you know the difference between burning one and Burning Man? Does using the name Marley as an adjective make total sense to you? Do you chuckle to yourself when the clock strikes 4:20? Are you convinced that the movie Dazed and Confused deserved an Oscar? If you answered "Dude!" to any of these questions, then Pot Culture is the book you've been waiting for.

For those in the know, it's the stoner bible. For novices, it's Pot 101. Either way, Pot Culture encapsulates the history, lifestyle, and language of a subculture that, with every generation, is constantly redefining itself. From exhaustive lists of stoner-friendly movies, music, and television shows to detailed explanations of various stoner tools to celebrity-authored how-tos and an A-Z compendium of slang words and terms, it's the ultimate encyclopedia of pot.

Written by former High Times editors Shirley Halperin (now a senior writer at Entertainment Weekly and a TV talking head) and Steve Bloom (publisher of CelebStoner.com), and featuring contributions by a host of celebrity stoners, including Melissa Etheridge, Maroon 5's Adam Levine, Redman, Steve-O, and America's Next Top Model's Adrianne Curry, Pot Culture provides the answers the everything you ever wanted to know about pot but were too stoned to ask.

"Pass the Dutchie! Marijuana and rock 'n' roll have been joined at the hip, since, well, ever and that link will be explored in the book Pot Culture by journalist Shirley Halperin and longtime High Times editor Steve Bloom. . . . Essentially an encyclopedia of pot, filled with such top 10 lists as "best stoner movies" and "stoner capitals of the world," plus a "pot-parazzi" section with celebrities sneaking a toke . . ."-
-Billboard



Pot goes      

Wall Street  

 

The new marijuana

service industry

 

Will the recession

kill the war on pot?

 

 

Review: Sex, Drugs, Violence and the Bible
Astrotheology & Shamanism: Christianity's Pagan Roots. A Revolutionary Reinterpretation of the Evidence (Color Edition)The Sacred Mushroom and The Cross: A study of the nature and origins of Christianity within the fertility cults of the ancient Near East
Pot Planet: Adventures in Global Marijuana Culture

Would-be pot shops face stringent rules in Arizona

The Pot Book by Julie Holland M.D.

Cannabis; An Amazing Resource 

69 year old get jail time for growing 2 pot plants in his back yard. He was trying to help his wife cope with cancer...

Apothecary Genetics

Barney Frank, Ron Paul Push Marijuana Legalization

 

                                                   

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Marijuana Round-up: Best Pot Stories

 

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Freedom to farm "every herb bearing seed" is the first test of religious freedom. How bad do things have to get before all solutions are considered?
How to grow pot indoors & outdoors

              

 

Growing marijuana in the kitchen.

 

The New Dealers:

Is the recession driving Americans into

the economy's last growth sector?

 

Oaksterdam keeps growing

Oaksterdam keeps growing

 

 

 

 

 

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Places of the Heart

 

Fantasy & Goddess Art
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Venezuelan religion draws thousands to

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Manicheism

 

 

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As he did with the occupation of Iraq in No End in Sight, Charles Ferguson shines a light on the global financial crisis in Inside Job. Accompanied by narration from Matt Damon, Ferguson begins and ends in Iceland, a flourishing country that gave American-style banking a try--and paid the price. Then he looks at the spectacular rise and cataclysmic fall of deregulation in the United States. Unlike Alex Gibney's fiscal films, Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room and Casino Jack, Ferguson builds his narrative around dozens of players, interviewing authors, bank managers, government ministers, and even a psychotherapist, who speaks to a culture that encourages Gordon Gekko-like behavior, but the number of those who declined to comment, like Alan Greenspan, is even larger. Though the director isn't as combative as Michael Moore, he asks tough questions and elicits squirms from several participants, notably former Treasury secretary David McCormick and Columbia dean Glenn Hubbard, George W. Bush's economic adviser. Their reactions are understandable, since the borders between Wall Street, Washington, and the Ivy League dissolved years ago; it's hard to know who to trust when conflicts of interest run rampant. If Ferguson takes Reagan and Bush to task for tax cuts that benefit the wealthy, he criticizes Clinton for encouraging derivatives and Obama for failing to deliver on the promise of reform. And in the category of unlikely heroes: former governor Eliot Spitzer, who fought against fraud as New York's attorney general (he's the subject of Gibney's documentary Client 9). --Kathleen C. Fennessy

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From Academy Award®-nominated filmmaker, Charles Ferguson (NO END IN SIGHT), comes INSIDE JOB, the first film to expose the shocking truth behind the economic crisis of 2008. The global financial meltdown, at a cost of over $20 trillion, resulted in millions of people losing their homes and jobs. Through extensive research and interviews with major financial insiders, politicians and journalists, INSIDE JOB traces the rise of a rogue industry and unveils the corrosive relationships which have corrupted politics, regulation and academia.

 

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— Phantoms & Monsters —

 

The Montauk Project: Mind Manipulation, Alien Beings and Time Travel

 

 

Montauk, N.Y. — like Area 51, written about in Annie Jacobsen’s book Area 51: An Uncensored History of America's Top Secret Military Basehas been the center of an otherworldly conspiracy theory for decades.

Believers say that people were kidnapped at a U.S. Air Force base and subjected to mind control and time travel experiments. And extraterrestrials somehow had a hand in it all.

It’s been dubbed “The Montauk Project,” and is the subject of an upcoming docu-drama, “Montauk Chronicles,” executive produced, directed and written by independent filmmaker Christopher Garetano...

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Pantoms & Monsters

   

 

 

 

 

THE VAMPIRE

HIS KITH AND KIN

by Montague Summers

[1928]

 

 

 

 

 

 

Brigid

 

 

"The Exalted One"
Brigit was one of the great Triple
Goddesses of the Celtic people.
Goddess of the fire.
She was Protectress of smiths,
healers and poets.
She was the High Mother Goddess
of Ireland and survived Christianity.

 

 

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From A DREAM PLAY by August Strindberg [1849 - 1912]

 

The following are passages from August Strindberg's stage masterpiece "A Dream Play." Strindberg might justifiably be called the Father of Modern Drama as his works pre-figure such influential artistic movements as Expressionism, Absurdism, Surrealism and Existentialism (and “A Dream Play” reflects them all.) The Swedish writer's work reflects a creative fusion of Christianity and Hinduism, and often depict the mortal conflict between Man and Woman, and the discord between External and Internal Reality. He was obsessed by the women in his life and experimented with magick and alchemy (at one point actually burning his hands with sulfuric acid in an earnest—and misguided—attempt to perform The Great Work.)

 

 

August Strindberg was a Prophet on many levels. Toward the conclusion of “A Dream Play” the Japanese incarnation is compelled to burn himself alive as the only means of purification.  His name is Hiroshima. Strindberg inspired many famous playwrights and directors in the 20th Century—and his poetic Vision continues to enlighten.

 

In A DREAM PLAY the DAUGHTER (of Indra) travels from the upper realms to descend on Earth in order to see what it's like to be human. During the process she experiences different incarnations--always reaching the realization of the illusory nature of mortal reality ("It's no more real than a dream--but a true dream.") Throughout the journey the Daughter exhibits her compassion by saying, “I pity mankind," while at the same time trying to free her Self from the taint of lower plane material existence.


SCENE ONE. The Descent

 


DAUGHTER

Bourne on a cloud, I followed the lightning's blazing trail from the ethereal heights. But the cloud sank, and still is falling. Tell me, great Father Indra, to what region am I come? The air's so dense, so hard to breathe.

 

INDRA

Leaving the second world you arrived at the third. From the Star of the Morning far have you come to enter Earth's atmosphere. Mark there the Sun's Seventh House that's called The Scales. The Morning Star is at the autumn weighing, when day and night are equal.

 

DAUGHTER

You speak of Earth. Is that the dark and heavy world the moon lights up?

 

INDRA

It is the darkest and heaviest of all the spheres that swing in space.

 

DAUGHTER

Does not the sun shine there?

 

INDRA

It shines, but not unceasingly.

 

DAUGHTER

Now the clouds part, and I can see...

 

INDRA

What do you see, child?

 

DAUGHTER

I see...that Earth is fair...It has green woods, blue waters, white mountains, yellow fields.

 

INDRA

Yes, it is fair, as all that Brahma shaped, yet in the dawn of time was fairer still. Then came a change, a shifting of the orbit, and maybe more. Revolt followed crime that had to be suppressed.

 

DAUGHTER

Now I hear sounds arising...What kind of creatures dwell down there?

 

INDRA

Go down and see. The Creator's children I would not decry, but it's their language you hear.

 

DAUGHTER

It sounds as if...it has no cheerful ring.

 

INDRA

So I believe. Their mother tongue is called Complaint. Truly a discontented, thankless race is this of Earth.

 

DAUGHTER

Ah, say not so! Now I hear shouts of joy, trumpets blare. I see the lightening flash. Now bells are pealing and fires are lit. A thousand, thousand voices rise, singing their praises and thanks to heaven. Your Judgment is too hard on them, Father.

INDRA

Descend and see, and hear, then come again and tell me if their lamentations and complaint are justified.

 

DAUGHTER

 

So be it. I descend. Come with me, Father!

 

INDRA

No. I cannot breathe their air.

 

DAUGHTER

Now the cloud sinks. It's growing dense. I suffocate! This is not air, but smoke and water that I breathe, so heavy that it drags me down and down--and now I clearly feel its reeling! This third world is surely not the highest world.

 

INDRA

Neither the highest, truly, nor the lowest. It is called Dust, and whirls with all the rest, and so at times its people, struck with dizziness, live on the borderline of folly and insanity...Courage, my child, for this is but a test...

 

[INDRA withdraws into darkness]

 

DAUGHTER

I am sinking!

 

[Blackout]


FINAL SCENE: Ascent & Farewell


DAUGHTER

 

The hour has come to leave both friend & place,
how sharp the loss of all I loved,
how deep regret for all destroyed.
This then it is to be a human being--
ever to miss the thing you never prized
and feel remorse for what you never did,
to yearn to go, yet long to stay.

 

And so the human heart is split in two,
emotions by wild horses torn--
conflict, discord, and uncertainty.
It's finished! I truly pity mankind,
but soon with the aide of fire
I will return from whence I came.
Tell all on earth that I shall remember them.
Where I am going, and in your name,
I will carry your petition to the throne.

 

                 New World, I welcome you,

                       Old World, farewell!

 

                                               

 

Inferno / From an Occult Diary       A Dream Play, and Four Chamber Plays (The Norton Library ; N791)        Strindberg: Five Plays

 

Why vote for a lesser evil?

Cthulhu For President!
The Dawning of a New Era

 

 

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Kabul house prices take Praying for a righteous   Mali's music festival       Hong Kong battles

a tumble                       America                        draws thousands           Pregnancy tourism

 

      

Mexico's Raramuri hit     Republican hopefuls      China celebrates Year    New internet policies

hard by draught             head South                  of the Dragon                cause furoe

 

Oscars predictions are here    

'OSACR'' predictions are out                         Moyers & Co CRONY CAPITALISM      Scientists pioneer

                                                                                                                                   'cloaking' technology

Neil Young concert film

 

Happy World Travel In the Age of the War on Terror
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2011/12/16-1

 

Viral Video – Resistance is Victory: The Tide Is Turning

            Ecuador police denounced for arresting video

           

            Kazakh opposition speakers jailed for rally

           

            Brain-Dead Teen, Only Capable Of Rolling Eyes And Texting, To Be Euthanized

            Panelists Discussing GOP Debate Clearly Didn't Watch It

          Embarrassed Steven Chu Accidentally Calls Barack Obama Dad In Cabinet Meeting

 

            Thaipusam Festival - February 6, 2012

            VIDEO: How to Sing a Prayer Song for Ganesha

            Who is Kartikeya or Murugan?

 

 

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A snowy white owl takes flight in this undated handout photo courtesy of U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service. Bird enthusiasts are reporting rising numbers of snowy owls from the Arctic winging into the lower 48 states this winter in a mass southern migration that a leading owl researcher called "unbelievable" according to Denver Holt, head of Owl Research Institute in Montana. (REUTERS Photo/U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service)  Can mystic murals save a UC house?

Rare mass migration of Snowy Owl                                                       Can mystic murals save a UC house?

 

      

''El Gordo' Galactic Cluster     "Fullmetal Alchemist:       100 best comedies before 1960

                                                         The Sacred Star of Milos"

 

                  Day In Pictures Daily Dish Day In Pictures 

Muhammad Ali        Strip for a good cause    Courtney's fight for    It's mob rules                                                                    

turns 70                                               her home

 

Day In Pictures   Day In Pictures    

What is this s**t      Berlin's odd            Ahaaaa...!               Now this is the way Wake me up Monday

on my mouth!?        fashion look                                          to protest!

                                                     

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   David Horsey/Los Angeles Times

Beauty

The Beast

 

A working man's death                                                    World's oceans in peril

 

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EU takes action against Hungary       Four days in Guantanamo              Can you spell h-y-p-o-c-r-i-t-e?

 

    

 Collapse of Celtic Tiger                  Giant sculptures around the world        Le Monde Diplomatique

 

Daily Dish   Eastman Kodak files for bankruptcy protection    

You go, Girl!           China's cultural front  Kodak goes bust       Vangelis: message  OMG, please NO!!!!!

Rihanna with a        against the west                                       of hope

suspiciously rolled

cigarette

 

      

                   The Bigger the Cuts, The Worse

   the Troubles

 

 

 

 

 

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Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen,

or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say? - Kurt Vonnegut

 

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SCHOOL EMPLOYEE FAKED DAUGHTER'S DEATH FOR VACATION TIME/AP

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