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The Empty Middle of The Consciousness Revolution: Why We Need To, And How We, Reinvent The Extended Family

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by Mark Josephs (aka Mark the Mystic Activist) The Need for Revolution In my opinion it is utterly unacceptable that people who are psychologically ignorant, emotionally immature, and devoid of communication skills are negotiating on behalf of entire populations – and declaring wars! What kind of a civilization would allow such things?! Yes I want … Continue reading The Empty Middle of The Consciousness Revolution: Why We Need To, And How We, Reinvent The Extended Family

Monsters (The Myth of Philosophy 2)

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by W.D. James Heroes fight monsters. The protagonist of Beowulf must defeat Grendel and then his mother who threaten the mead-hall of a Danish king. The mead-hall essentially represents homeliness and the monsters are those who threaten that. Further, monsters are unnatural; this is reflected in their physiology but also in their perverse values and … Continue reading Monsters (The Myth of Philosophy 2)

The Acorn – 104

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Number 104 In this issue: I can see it all now BritCard: a passport to digital slavery Your government wants you dead When tyranny is disguised as moral necessity Hermann Hesse: an organic radical inspiration Acorninfo 1. I can see it all now by Paul Cudenec I can see it clearly now, with six decades … Continue reading The Acorn – 104

Our sacred belonging

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by Paul Cudenec (who reads the article here) All the folk customs and rituals which today celebrate our belonging to nature are but the scattered and oft-distorted remnants of a primordial nature religion. This is the view put forward by French scholar Alain Daniélou (1907-1994) in his 1979 book Shiva et Dionysos. [1] As the … Continue reading Our sacred belonging

Socrates as Hero (The Myth of Philosophy 1)

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by W.D. James In 399 BC, an Athenian court condemned and then executed a stonemason who had served honorably in several of her wars. The man, like most condemned criminals throughout history, left no written record of his life and doings. His father had likewise been a stonemason and his mother a midwife. Though 70 … Continue reading Socrates as Hero (The Myth of Philosophy 1)

Rooted in our living world

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by Paul Cudenec with photos by Ibraar Hussein [Audio version] "In the time when gods, spirits and human beings lived together in nature with the plants and the animals, everyone communicated, each knew everything about the others". [1] Such is the ancient wisdom of the Kalash people of South Asia, their ancestral memory of a … Continue reading Rooted in our living world

Existing for real in a world of fakery

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by Paul Cudenec (who reads the article here) What would it feel like if, in the eyes of the outside world, you suddenly ceased to exist as the person you knew yourself to be? If your partner, colleagues and family no longer recognised you, if your bank account simply disappeared, along with all means of … Continue reading Existing for real in a world of fakery