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Speculative fiction and new forms of art and storytelling and innovations in technology and computing are engaged in the work of mad scientists: testing future ways of living and seeing before they actually arrive. We are the early warning system for the culture. We see the future as a weatherfront, a vast mass of possibilities…
Translations from Chinese (Rexroth) TRAVELING IN THE MOUNTAINS Traveling homesick with the West wind, The dust of my cart rises to the evening clouds. The last cicadas drone in the yellowing leaves. In the sunset a man’s shadow looms like a mountain. One by one the birds go to roost. I wander aimlessly and never…
Staying in a Ryokan, a traditional Japanese guest house useful page from JRailpass
The Honest Courtesan> Introduction IMHO one of the best blogs of its kind, ever.
An Introductory Lecture in The Humanities It is very important for you to realize that the Humanities are an inhuman way of becoming human. They require your life before they give you their life. They do not know that they are many and that you must understand them all, but rather each text insists from…
The Inner Kālacakratantra The yogic practices of the ‘Kalacakratantra’ are a form of inner sacrifice, in which regenerative fluids, sometimes called ‘soma’, are the inner offering to the deities dwelling within one’s own body. Likewise, in this rite of inner sacrifice, ‘candali’, or the fire of gnosis, is a purifying fire to which all of…
The art of living is neither careless drifting on the one hand nor fearful clinging to the past on the other. It consists in being sensitive to each moment, in regarding it as utterly new and unique, in having the mind open and wholly receptive. Alan Watts (via lazyyogi)