history
is technology the biggest ponzi scheme of all?
I’ve been prevented from sharing on the blog recently because of my regimen of finals at University of British Columbia but I had to pass on this talk from Archeologist Sander van Leeuw. Stewart Brand’s The Long Now Foundation is always posting great talks but this one was my favorite on the podcast feed thus far. (Michael [...]
the legacy of Percy Fawcett
As my parents read aloud the story of Arctic explorer Ernest Shackelton on his disastrous journey to the Antarctic during my childhood, I was forever biased towards the world of adventure. A vivid imagination in my little head recreated the peril those men faced in the cold and hopeless situations and that peril became the [...]
surveying illuminated politics
“The larger the mass in movement, the stronger the effect of irrational impulses, the more powerfully the soul’s innermost currents begin to roar… the instinctive forces are reinforced under the influence of comrades striving for the the same good.” – Rudolf Bode
The occult and its societies have dropped away from accepted scientific method and [...]
an animated people’s history of the United States
One of the classes I dreaded the most when I was an undergrad at UNC Charlotte was each session of my American Values course, where we read through Howard Zinn’s People’s History of the United States. Only now do I realize that the instructor introduced me to many concepts that have only now become too [...]
a history of integrative plant psychology
On my recent trip to the American Southwest I was thrilled to learn of the prevalence petroglyphs held in the region. Here was an opportunity to see into the actual minds of the humans that forged the original path for our species many generations ago.
When I found my first set of petroglyphs (my photograph above) [...]
a history of western esoteric thought
This is the type of book I wish I had stumbled across many years ago. A guidebook to the history of the ideas of spirituality.
As a student of esoteric thought and spiritual development, I’m interested in the members of our species that have achieved a particular state of enlightened knowledge, a direct contact with wisdom. [...]
