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those dodgy heretics: mystic encounters of the third kind
The heretics who dodged the inconvenient texts of Scripture by allegory and symbolism relied ultimately on mysticism. Not all mystics of course were heretics; it seemed to depend on which texts they dodged. But the basic theory of mysticism was … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Alumbrados, Alumbrados burned in Catholic Spain, Bohemian Adamites, Christian Messianism, Christian mysticism, Christian mystics, English Ranters, French Libertines, Gary Cooper, harpo marx, jack benny, Matthew Fox, Pietists persecuted, Quakerism, Sandro Botticelli, The Ranters, The Zohar, Theodore Roszak
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flight into egypt
When a revolution is not a revolution.The Egyptian debt market is stabilizing, the stock market is on the upswing and the army is making ure that the climate is good for trade. The entire initial cause of the revolution, the … Continue reading
silent screams: ROFL
Shock of the new. Something outside the rational, ordered mind, that chaotic zone in the dark sphere of the psyche that can never be expressed or given form in speech and the vocabulary of its desire can never be coherent. … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Charles Budelaire, chico marx, Groucho Marx, harpo marx, Jacques Lacan, Modern Chinese art, Modern Chinese Sculpture, Sigmund Freud, Slavoj Zizek, The Marx Brothers, the three stooges, Walter Benjamin, Wayne Koestenbaum, Yue Minjun
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letting them go: the i’s and thou’s of separation
There is a story of the police commissioner under mayor David Dinkins in the early 1990’s , Lee Brown who visited the famous Chabad Rabbi in Crown Heights. In meeting the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Commissioner Lee Brown asked for a blessing; … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Ariel Zilber, Danny kaye, harpo marx, Kach Party, Kahansim, Lee Brown Police commissioner, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Mayor David Dinkins, meir kahane, Natan Sharansky, Rabbi Shalom Dov Wolpo, Rabbi Sholom Dov Wolpo, Shlomo Carlebach, SOS Israel
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london : read them the riot act?
Mobs and riots are not exactly new phenomenon. It’s had some water under the bridge, most of it undrinkable, to draw on. When the capital of the Roman empire moved to the East, the mob, at Byzantium rioted with unparalleled … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Madame Pickwick Weekend
Tagged Ayn Rand, boris johnson london mayor, Charlie Chaplin, charlie chaplin the kid, chico marx, dacher keltner, Frank Capra, frank capra you can't take it with you, Groucho Marx, harpo marx, Jonathan McIntosh, london riots 2011, mark duggan london riots 2011, Political Remix Videos PRV, Rev. Tim Jones, Reverend Tim Jones, The Gordon Riots 1780, watts riot 1965, Woody Guthrie
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