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THE DARK SIDE OF THE NOON: Nanny State Lullabies
Or are the Golden Days at hand? A gilded age where civilization can be disposed of? Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler. Is the eclipse coming to a country near you? Does what goes around eventually come around? …… As … Continue reading
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Tagged Anne Applebaum, Anne C. Heller, Arthur Koestler, Ayn Rand, Bill Clinton, Charllie Fidelman, Christopher Caldwell, Cristian Mungiu, Daphne Hardy, David Cesarini, George Orwell, Jean Paul Sartre, Ken Starr, Kenneth Starr, Liam Lacey, Michael Scammell, Michael Schaub, Monica Lewinsky, Nat Hentoff, Richard Crossman, Sidney Blumenthal, Solzhenitysn, Timothy Leary, Tom Blackwell, Vanessa Farquharson, Whittaker Chambers, William James, William Skidelsky
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REMEMBER: ECHOES and MEMORIES
In his Rolling Stone interview,John Lennon said that it was pain which had made the great artists what they were. Memory, oh memory, what you do to me? /Today is all I really need to know. /Why do you have … Continue reading
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Tagged A.R. Orage, Andy Warhol, Bernie Taupin, Bob Dylan, David katz, Denardo Coleman, Dr. Arthur Janov, Eliot Mintz, Elliott Landy, Elton John, Gary Tillery, J.G. Bennett, Janis Joplin, Jesse Dylan, John Lennon, John Pohl, LENNONYC American Masters Documentary, Levon Helm, Ornette Coleman, Ouspensky, P.D. Ouspensky, Peter van Schie, Rolling Stone Magazine, Tennessee Williams, The Band, Tim Buckley, Timothy Leary, Two Lefts Don't Make a Right, Yoko Ono
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“TO AWAKE. TO DIE. TO BE BORN”
George Ivanovich Gurdjieff was born in about 1872 in the Caucasus region of what is now Russia. The so called “rascal sage” heralded the coming of ancient and esoteric Eastern teachings to the West. Neither a modernist nor a purveyor … Continue reading
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Tagged A.R. Orage, Aldous Huxley, Avi Solomon, Carl Jung, Dennis Leri, Emma Kunz, Franz Wurm, G.I. Gurdjieff, Georgi Ivanovitch Gurdjieff, Ida Rolf, Ilya Koltz, isadora Duncan, J.B. Priestley, J.Walter Driscoll, Jacob Needleman, Katherine Mansfield, Kimberly Brooks, Malcolm Lowry, Michael Pittman, Michel de Salzmann, Milton Erickson, Moshe Feldenkrais, P.D. Ouspensky, P.L. Travers, Ralph Metzner, Richard Alpert, Roger Lipsey, Rudolf Steiner, Terry Wilson Isadora Duncan, Timothy Hull, Timothy Leary, Timothy Marvel Hull
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TRACKING DOWN THIS “SOMETHING ELSE”
Many contemporary counterculturalists and psychologists who trend towards the ” human potential” camp of that vocation – are obsessed with the idea that people need to be deprogrammed or de-brainwashed from the inherited percepts of their culture, as well as … Continue reading
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Tagged A.R. Orage, Aleister Crowley, Art Kleps, C.S. Nott, Carlos Castaneda, Corey Donovan, D.H. Lawrence, Frank Lloyd Wright, G.I. Gurdjieff, Georgi Ivanovitch Gurdjieff, Helene Petrovna Blavatsky, James Boswell, James Joyce, Katherine Mansfield, Kathy Hurley, Kenneth Cavandar, Kenneth Walker, Michel de Salzmann, P.D. Ouspensky, P.L. Travers, Ralph Metzner, Rasputin, Richard Alpert, Roger Lipsey, Rom landau, Rudolf Steiner, Sigmund Freud, Sufism, Terry Winter Owens, Theodorre Donson, Timothy Leary, William Butler Yeats
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BOUND FOR GLORY?: TALKING ABOUT BAGISM, SHAGISM, DRAGISM…
” Jean Renoir’s Grand Illusion throws many people for a loop the first time they see it. Its reputation as one of the great works of cinema leads them to expect an eye-popper like Citizen Kane, or a work such … Continue reading
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Tagged Albert Camus, Aldous Huxley, Arthur Koestler, Citizen Kane, Edvard Munch, Friedrich Nietzsche, G.B. Pabst, Gordon W. Allport, Heinrich Heine, Herbert Spencer, Jack Kerouac, James J. Sheehan, James Leahy, Jean Gabin, Jean Paul Sartre, John Lennon, John Rader Platt, Joseph Goebbels, Julian Huxley, La Grande Illusion Jean Renoir, Lewis Milestone, Martin O'Shaugnessy, Max Weber, Noam Chomsky, Norman Angell, Orson Welles, Oswald Spengler, Pete Seeger, Robert Brent Toplin, Robin Bates, Sigmund Freud, The Doors, The Doors Jim Morrison, Timothy Leary, Tom Block, Tom Paxton, Viktor Frankl, Yoko Ono
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LISTENING TO THE BACK BEAT
” …and, escorted by two police cars, the group drove to a ball park on the corner of Army Street and Portero Avenue, where they played a game against the Bank of California ‘Nuggets’, to prove to the squares that … Continue reading
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Tagged A.D. Winans, Alfred Jarry, Allan Johnston, Allen Ginsberg, Andre Breton, Arthur Miller, Arthur Rimbaud, Bill Whipp, Bob Kaufman, Bob Margolis, Bob Weir, Charles Baudelaire, David Apfelbaum, Dostoyevsky, Elia Kazan, Eric Big daddy Nord, Ernst Gombrich, gary Snyder, Gerald Nicosia, Gregory Corso, Henry Miller, Herbert Gold, Herbert Huncke, Herman Melville, Hunter S. Thompson, Jack Kerouac, John Clellan Holmes, John Clellon Holmes, Kenneth Rexroth, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Levi Asher, Lew Welch, Lyle Tollefson, Maggie Reiff, marty matz, Michael McClure, Neal Cassady, Philip Whalen, Podhoretz, Scott Macfarlane, Sigmund Freud, Timothy Leary, Tom Christopher, William Blake
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TURN ON, TUNE IN, AND DROP OUT?
According to the “knowability thesis,” every truth is knowable.Frederic Fitch’s paradox refutes the knowability thesis by showing that if we are not omniscient, then not only are some truths not known, but there are some truths that are not knowable. The … Continue reading
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Tagged Akira Kurosawa, Alain Resnais, Albert Camus, Frederic Fitch, Friedrich Nietzsche, Greg Restall, Homer The Iliad, John Zorn, Ken Kesey, Peter Sellers, Pieter Bruegel, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Richard Alpert, Richard Metzger, Stanley Kubrick, Timothy Leary, Toshiro Mifune
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FOOLS ON THE HILL WITH THE KARMA MEN
Tea for two with the Maharishi. The drift along hippie life purported to be inherently religious, but even among the hippies there were always a few who tried harder. These are the various sages of the movement, who appointed themselves … Continue reading
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Tagged Allen Cohen, Art Kleps, Arthur Kleps, Deadheads, Donovan, Eldridge Cleaver, Geoffrey D. Falk, Henry David Thoreau, Hippies, League for Spiritual Discovery, LSD, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Mary Pinochet Meyer, Meyer Feldman, Mia Farrow, Mike Love, Millbrook, R. Gordon Wassman, Ram Dass, Richard Alpert, Richard Nixon, The Beatles, The Oracle, Tibetan Book of the Dead, Timothy Leary
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