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REVIEWS & INTERVIEWS 2007 –
2011 
REVIEW:
THE NEANDERTHAL LEGACY
REVIEW:
REFORMISM or REVOLUTION?
REVIEW:
THE GOD WHO WASN’T THERE
WEB-ESSAYS
BAHÁ'Í FAITH:
The Great Muslim Heresy
2 NON-MUSLIM
SECTS IN MIDDLE EAST
THE FANTASTIC
ART OF HENRY DARGER
MARK FIORE FLASH ANIMATION/SFgate:
Gitmo: Happy 10th
Obama's left-right!
balancing act
Sweet Jane's Corner
Recent Research on
Medical Marijuana
Emerging Clinical Applications For Cannabis
& Cannabinoids
A Review of the Recent Scientific Literature, 2000 — 2010
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Do you
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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
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Pot goes
Wall Street
The new marijuana
service industry
Will the recession
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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
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Would-be pot shops
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Amazon.com
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
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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 Base
has
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...
Read More...
Pantoms
& Monsters
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THE VAMPIRE
HIS KITH AND KIN
by Montague Summers[1928]
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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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Gurdjieff
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!
Why vote for a lesser evil?
Cthulhu For
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take Praying for a righteous Mali's
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predictions are out
Moyers & Co CRONY CAPITALISM
Scientists pioneer
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Ecuador police denounced for arresting video
Kazakh opposition speakers jailed for rally
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