Saturnalius is a 7 day festival running from the 17th (today) to the 23rd of December. It was in honour of Saturn, the God of seed and sowing (and much more). (The Phrygian ‘liberty cap’, from Phrygia, the Balkans and…
Saturnalius is a 7 day festival running from the 17th (today) to the 23rd of December. It was in honour of Saturn, the God of seed and sowing (and much more). (The Phrygian ‘liberty cap’, from Phrygia, the Balkans and…
(Art by Android Jones) Right at the time of his birth Kali carried an Upaasthi (a small bone) and his entire body complexion was sooty and dark. This huge-being, with a terrible tongue and an obnoxious smell about his entire…
Located on 10,000 square miles in a rocky, barren, mountainous place in the North West of Saudi Arabia and spanning territory in Jordan and Egypt, Crown Prince Mohammad Bin Salman Al Saud proposes to build the city of the future – and…
Multiply the grievance groupings to infinity, fractionate, separating the whole into competing parts, differentiate by colour, gender, orientation, identification, intersecting at useful flash points, angles, but never divisible to One. The Holy Individual. Wrong answer. * Add further outrage. Calculate…
She drew open the gate of the compound and the stooped monk came in. His step was slow and shuffling, as if his journey was long. Following in his wake were four attendants, dressed in similar robes, but somehow…
A rather chilling article on possible Russian ideological global intentions…intended to mark the cards of any aspiring Russophiles… It is part 2 of a series. Part one is here. (Note – FG refers to The Foundations of Geopolitics, a book by…
“The mighty choirs who extol Kybele on the mountain tops.” ~ Aristophanes By chance I discovered Kibela while I was away. The last quiet village on the Black Sea sounded like the very place I wanted to go, and when…
It’s a bit difficult to know where to start with this, as there are so many aspects and it has a bit of a historical lead in that is tricky to exactly pin down. I will start by saying there…
First, they said we were savages. But we knew how well we had treated them and knew we were not savages. They they said we were immoral. But we knew minimal clothing Did not equal immoral. Next,…
Passivism – a pattern or attitude of being submissive. (In the context of this post Passivism is not intended to be connected with Passive Resistance.) I was giving out this morning – a bit of a habit of mine, nothing…
Source Some Extracts from Tomberg’s work. The third Arcanum, the Empress, is that of sacred magic. Now, there are three kinds of magic: magic where the magician is the instrument of divine power — this is sacred magic; magic where…
http://somathread.ning.com/groups/yoga-and-tantra/forum/moral-relativism In other places, briefly, I have mentioned this concept, and it is something that returns to me fairly regularly. I have not ”worked out” any theory on it, and perhaps do not even fully understand what it means. Nevertheless…
So, the women of the world came out – apparently – in their hundreds of thousands, if not millions, to protest against Donald Trump, fearing that he is going to roll back feminism into the stone age. The motif they…
Some fragmentary thoughts… Eros ~ appreciation for eternal beauty, life energy, the bright warm force within, passion for living, desire for immortality, libido, will to live, psychic relatedness (from Jung) – that is, interconnection and interaction with other sentient beings,…
http://somathread.ning.com/groups/yoga-and-tantra/forum/father-and-mother The quotes on the home page over the past few days were written more than 1500 years apart. The first is ascribed to the anonymous author(s) of the Chandogya Upanishad in the 8th century BC – ”We should…
This is not a complex exploration of the subject, as I am not a linguist, or a scientist of any kind. This is a short account of recent observations and my initial reactions to them, as I find this subject…
The Bhaddekaratta Sutra 2 Translations. Taught by the Buddha in Jeta’s forest. Buddha said to his monks, ”Let me teach you how to know one single auspicious night…. “Let not a person revive the past Or on the future build…