Aditi sent me this:
Submerged stone structures lying just below the waters off Yonaguni Jima are actually the ruins of a Japanese Atlantis—an ancient city sunk by an earthquake about 2,000 years ago.
That’s the belief of Masaaki Kimura, a marine geologist at the University of the Ryukyus in Japan who has been diving at the site [...]
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Saving The Gnostic Body
A Practical Guide to Gnostic Masturbation
Jesus said, “Whoever has come to know the world has discovered the body, and whoever has discovered the body, of that one the world is not worthy.”
The importance of the body in Gnostic cosmology is cloudy to say the best. Philosophically, it seems like they often describe an existence in [...]
A Girl Runs Every Morning Up Different Trees
Flower Power
My first day back in Seattle I spent in the pavilion (formerly the summer house) behind the Good Shepherd Center in Wallingford. From 1907 to 1973 it was the “Home of the Good Shepherd“, run by the Sisters of the Good Shepherd to “rescue orphans and girls leading an immoral life.” More directly, I’d [...]
Dim Circle Reaches Toward Outward Home
The bad part of going crazy is that it’s so good.
By that I mean that it’s fun to have everything in the world suddenly start communicating with you meaningfully and vying for your attention. As hard as it ever gets to sort through all of it, it’s an absolutely stunning experience of being alive. [...]
