A Guide For The Newly Uplifted
Let’s say, hypothetically, that you have suddenly become enlightened somehow or other. Now what?
First of all, cool! What a struggle to get to this place, am I right? To get here, you very likely had to pass through some serious fires on a personal level. And I commend you for [...]
I am trying to convince Jeremy Puma to get into doing this! He already has a hula-hoop snake in his logo!
{See also: whirling dervishes, kimetikos}
Very interesting:
Islamic civilization extended the notion of guilds to the artisan as well — most notably to the warraqeen, or “those who work with paper.” Early Muslims were heavily engaged in translating and absorbing all ilm (”knowledge”) from all other known civilizations as far east as China. Critically analyzing, accepting, rejecting, improving and codifying knowledge [...]
Lending money at interest - so that the borrower pays the lender more money than was originally lent - is forbidden in Judaism, Christianity and Islam, although details and interpretation on the subject seem to differ. Seeing as these are up there in terms of the “Big Three” religions in the Western world, it’s quite [...]
…“Being Awesome”
I’m totally going to start using that!
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 [...]
