It is odd or ironic that I've been wanting the Jesus: Apocalyptic Prophet book for a couple years, and for some impenetrable reason -- feeling bad about so ...
Why did the "Christian Jewish" and later "Jewish Christian" apocalyptic-prophet mythic framework become the most popular, compared to other metaphorical...
It was important to the institutional, hierarchical, empire-affiliated and profit-driven state church to literalize Jesus and the pseudo-historical ...
Assessing when the peak was in scholarly breakthrough, and how high the peak: First (3/21/03) you have a couple ideas, seems no more so than usual. Then ...
My theory of religion, optimized for cogent simplicity and experiential effectiveness, has at least four distinctive emphases: o No-free-will (albeit an...
Assessing the extent of communicating "the entheogen theory of religion": Arthur has accomplished a tremendous amount on the popular front: radio, videotapes,...
... they'd start asserting that entheogens are *by far* the main method, most classic method, and most effective method for triggering the intense mystic...
... That must be constantly stated. Everything we think we know about entheogens is heavily colored by the fact that they are illegal. It is all but...
... See http://groups.yahoo.com/group/egodeath/message/1416 ... Add: Luther Martin's book Hellenistic Religions, which shows that their common core engine, the...
When Jesus gives food to others, their eyes are opened. He (or Mary "beloved disciple" Magdalene in one portrayal) gives food to Judas. After the book Mary...
Access Unlimited has 100 copies of Chris Bennett's book Green Gold; then it will go out of print. He is working on a similiar new book. Sex, Drugs, Violence...
... 'comment') and do consider the 'satirical' source. If it is smart and influential then we can hope the readers (who probably also subscribe to Adbusters...
I dont know what this article that is being talked about comes from, but I would suggest anyone wishing to observe shamanistic ingestion of MULTIPLE entheogens...
oh yeah, I forgot to add the main point that I wanted to relay in the last article: have you ever considered the possibility that there may not be a particular...
The moment that "liberation," is mixed within measurements of equality, is the moment that the goodness from compassion sees it's opposite. Understand that it...
There are an unusually high number of relatively positive news articles this week for the drug policy reform movement. If I can only post an occasional ...
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... is evident from what the entheogen newsgroup postings."<<<<< Most definately true.....I don't post to those groups but I do study them. One thing I find...
... not fireworks, but lasting results". For one thing, who is to say what matters? It's debatable. For another, maybe what matters *is* fireworks: the intense...
... start asserting that entheogens are *by far* the main method, most classic method, and most effective method for triggering the intense mystic altered ...
... matters, and how should we define "results"? ... It's impossible to hold Buddhism responsible for delivering on its promise of removing suffering from all...
... intoxicants were forbidden in the monastic vinaya and the fifth major precept for laypeople. Just because a bunch of counter culture armchair Buddhists in ...
Emperor cult and resistance to it are some of the main factors that caused the Christian religion to form. The Hellenistic people admired something in Jewish...
... and mundane life & ethics? When the transcendent butterfly moves out from the more mundane cocoon, nature continues to need caterpillars. High religion...
... on its promise of removing suffering from all beings. If "removing suffering" is taken literally and extremely, Buddhism is an utter, dismal, and total...
... shortcut path is the path that works best, so should be considered the normal path, with the alternative being called "the drawn-out path that never...
... Buddhism succeeds at being a framework of living, but it fails at being a system of deep transformation. This Buddhism in practice provides only a holding...
CHAPTER XI. APPARITION OF A STŪPA. Then there arose a Stūpa, consisting of seven precious substances, from the place of the earth opposite the Lord, the...
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