This is not my idea, it's an NLP model. I can't recall who or where I got it from, and I couldn't find it on a quick google search, so here it is. If you know where I can link to this online somewhere please let me know.

This is sort of a set of levels, each "meta" to the one below it, that you can find in human psychology. It's a model, not a theory, so apply it or not as useful. I follow the…

On Learning And Knowledge

By: J Krishnamurti on Jan 23, 2013

Is not fear also responsible for the accumulation of knowledge? Fear takes the form…

Preamble: An immensely significant phase of science is emerging. It explains why things exist the way they do. Its purview includes everything from the tiniest of subatomic particles to plant and animal species, planets and beyond. The…

 RELIGIONS OF THE ANCIENT MEDITERRANEAN WORLD

Lecture Two - What is Religion?

(The Teaching…

 He made his way down the gently sloping aisle and walked along the edge of the stage, absentmindedly running his hand over the smooth wood floor.  He had done this as a boy also.  By the time he reached the steps his hand was covered in a film of dust.  He mounted the steps into the deeper darkness of the stage, wiping his hand on the leg of his jeans as he went.

     Now the nostalgia hit.  There was a time when he wanted nothing more than to be on stage.  He thought performance…

Dumuzi and Geshtinanna seem to be the origional expression of the gnostic concept of soul body duality as male and female.  I've been pushing closer and closer to the theory that Dionysus and Ariadne are another rendition of this same theme.

In the myth of Inanna she is released from the underworld on the condition that another soul goes back to take her place.  It is origionally her loyal servant that the deamons try to take back with them, but Inanna objects and protects her…

(« Athletics tracks finish line by Petey21)

The eighth and final movement of « Octoccata » is entitled « Multilethalead » and starts on a ostinato-based progression that slowly morphs into a relentless string of offbeat melodies harmonized by an…

(« "8" on the start of a film reel for the projection » by Ryan Baxter)

« Marimbariation » takes its name from the brief passage featuring the marimba that leads this seventh movement of the « Symphony of Eights. »

Once the…

(« Nixie eight » by L. Marie)

How on Earth can a musical movement be named « Progigoriation » you ask ? Well, obviously, because it's the prog rock variation of another similar movement entitled «…

(« behind the eight ball » by eschipul)

The fifth segment of « Octoccata » is entitled « Reoctoverture. » Basically, this section is a reprise of the introduction, hence the name, as it restates the…

(« House number 8 place de la Concorde » by Tangopaso)

The fourth movement from « Octoccata » is entitled « Biorhythalead. » Its title came about from the markers I used to identify each of the sub-sections of the…

(« Octoccata Freeway » based on Interstate Shield)

« Vibrastinato, » the third movement from « Octoccata, » gets its name from the combination of vibraphone and ostinato, and features an…

(« eight » by timlewisnm)

« Igorchestral, » the second movement of « Octoccata, » has been thus named because of the inspiration for the music, and the selected arrangement.…

(« Label from a bottle of O·c·t·a·T·o·n·i·c » based on a picture of William Henry Fox Talbot by Antoine Claudet)

« Octoccata » is an instrumental suite clocking in at a little over…

(« Emblem 45 » from Atalanta Fugiens by Michael Maier)

The fifth and as of yet unwritten chapter is entitled «…

(Detail from « The hares and frogs » by Wenzel Hollar)

The fourth chapter of the series is entitled « Lepufology 401 : Responding To An Invasion. » Having accepted to collaborate…

1. Bring back the elder gods

2. Interdementional rifts open across the earth

3. Instant recall on all past lives

4. Christian rapture happens, Earth becomes progressive pagan wonderland

5. Akashic libraries run by ancient immortal monks open branches in all major cities around the world

6. Fairies, elves, dwarves, gnomes, orcs and tolls march on washington to demand equal rights for magical beings

7. Popular fictional characters begin appearing in…

Orpheus opened the doors of the theater.  It had been thirty years since he had been here and he was suddenly overcome by the strangest sensation, not déjà vu, or nostalgia.  He did not find himself regressed back to his childhood, it was not excitement, or amusement or fear that he felt.  He paused there hovering between the bare stripped lobby and the shabby remains of the once elegant…

Assuming that the gods of classical mythology and tribal lore were vital beings of will and power, how would they cope with the changes of the modern world?  How would they adapt themselves for survival.

In Neil Gaiman's American Gods he explores these themes, giving them a toe hold here or there, a small corner of belief that allows them to cling to existance as manifest beings, but what about thier identities of non-manifest beings?

After discovering Rainer Maria Rilke... I…