So I've talked a lot here about books. But what do women like to read, and what do they like to learn about?
I've actually posted some about this here:
So we have some women here now, and I'm asking this of them. But I'm also asking this of the men, what you you observed that women like to read and to learn about?
SJG
Why not ask one yourself?
Just to clarify I mean ask a female your question yourself directly in person...
I like to read true crime, I also read books about nutrition and diet. My fav book is Devil in the White City by Erik Larsen (I may be spelling his name wrong), based on events of the first World’s Fair in Chicago including America’s first serial killer. I also recently read a book called All the Light We Cannot See, based on a true story about young people in WW2 who changed their lives by learning to repair and use and build radios for communication.
I’m about to read a book that MackTruck suggested for me.
You will never guess what the subject matter is. ;)
I give, what is the topic...
Q. What's the difference between a woman and a book?
A. You can shut the book up.
Is it just me or is pinksugardolls body a 15 on a scale of 1-10?
DC9428, actually it's more like this thread reminds me of phishing for password reset questions. And yes, PinkSugarDoll body is a 15 on a scale of 1-to-10
I'd have to say True Crime books (as PinkSugarDoll mentioned) or something I call Bloodsplatter Series Books. I now a lot of women at work, or guys' wives from work, and even my Missus like them. Not the only genre they read, but it comes up pretty often.
Normally I would think something where the chief topic is often man-on-woman-homicide would NOT be widely liked. It's intriguing. And that's not the only type of crime depicted, but it's kind of common material in the books. Apparently it's common for the women I know to read these late at night or when they can't sleep. You'd think it's scare the bejesus out of them. Quite the opposite.
We went to a author greet with Richard Montanari this week. He was discussing his books, particularly Shutter Man and The Doll Maker.
I bet that book MackTruck recommended was a shit truck book or a Uncle Johns Bathroom reader
Lol, that isn’t the kind of books I’m talking about! There are so many types of crime to be written about, not all us murder. Drug trafficking, organized crime, white collar crime.... the psychological side, the analysis of the criminal mind interests me.
Criminals always start from innocence and in the end they always say, “I never thought it would come to this, it all started with ‘X.’” That’s why this genre is interesting to me, because we all started from the same place and it could be any of us that ended where those people are.
Thank you for the compliments, they are very nice. :)
Pinksugar if you like that genre you have to be a fan if Better Call Saul/ Breaking Bad.
So one girl at the Sunnyvale Sporty's Bar liked Biography, and then another at the Hip Hugger also liked Biography, and she even had a web site with a paid domain name about this.
So then I read here of True Crime. A little surprised that women go for that, for exactly the reasons Dom77 lays out.
DC9428 posted: moronwatch.net
And then on my thread I had suggested: tuscl.net
some will go for classics
Some go for certain types of occult / esoteric / new age
Simone de Beauvoir, in her fiction, is really writing about a feminized world
Normandi Ellis, Nicki Scully, M. Isidora Forrest, DeTraci Regula, Jean Houston
Also, I believe that most women would go for the books written by the British occultist Dion Fortune, and also those of her successor Garth Fowden.
And also Isha Schwaller Delubicz and Lucie Lamay.
Peter J. Carroll, Phil Hine, Austin Osman Spare
Ursula K. Leguin, I have read the Earth Sea Trilogy, but today there must be newer such writers.
There must be more, but it has to come from the women themselves. And I think there probably needs to be some context to it. Interest has to develop.
SJG
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Branching off from an earlier thread
OT: Computer Programming tuscl.net
And also
OT: Programmable Logic Devices tuscl.net
OT: Power Semiconductors, recent books about tuscl.net
Web Programming, HTML, CSS, and more tuscl.net
Programable Hand Held Calculators tuscl.net
Everything for Everyone: The Radical Tradition That Is Shaping the Next Economy, by Nathan Schneider amazon.com
Everything for everyone : the radical tradition that is shaping the next economy / Nathan Schneider. (2018)
Interview democracynow.org
The Power of Cooperatives: Nathan Schneider & Jason Wiener at The Harvard Law Forum youtube.com
Antifa, the antifascist handbook by Mark Bray amazon.com
Antifa : the anti-fascist handbook / Mark Bray (2017)
Steve Jobs ' Most Inspiring Speech EVER ( facebook login required ) facebook.com
I am glad that Steve Jobs was not being subjected to Motivational, Self-Improvement, or Financial Literacy teachers. If he was, then I am sure that he would have known that the best response, really the only response, is the middle-finger.
And some more great threads:
OT: Are Traditional Colleges and Universities Bad Environments? tuscl.net
Incels (Involuntary Celibates) tuscl.net
Vocels (Voluntary Celibates) tuscl.net
OT: Book Publishing Industry tuscl.net
Alternative Educations tuscl.net
While being yourself in a profession isn't always possible , it certainly is to a greater extent than most ppl realize.l tuscl.net
Stop holding doors for us if you don't want to talk about ending rape culture as much as wanna talk about other political issues tuscl.net
So What Do Women Like To Read? tuscl.net
BAKER GURVITZ ARMY - Live 1975 youtube.com
studio youtube.com
In hand right now:
The Wiley Handbook On Violence In Education, ed Harvey Shapiro (2018) Sec 1 Ch 4. Learning To Be A Rampage Shooter: The Case Of Elliot Rodger, by Ralph W. Larkin.
Larkin has previously written about Columbine, and about suburban youth issues.
In hand right now, Postmodern MAGIC, by Patrick Dunn (Llewellyn 2005) Donald Michael Kraig likes this book, more than the Peter J. Carroll Chaos Magic books
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Elliot Rodger Manifesto, 2014, 11 hours, human voice reading youtube.com
youtube.com Baker Gurwitz Army
Clark Kerr: Knowledge Industry youtube.com
Mario Savio on the operation of the machine youtube.com
Mario Savio Memorial Lecture: Robert Reich on Class Warfare in America youtube.com
Generally women are associated with reading fiction. But I don't know that these are the sorts of women I really want to be engaging with.
Esoteric/Occult books have always been good sellers for independent book stores. Whereas the corporate chain stores have Motivational, Self-Improvement, and Financial Literacy books, Esoteric/Occult has always sold well at the independent stores.
Problem is, most all of these independent stores are gone now.
Some women do seem to go for such books
This one here, I think London, Kelly-Ann Maddox, she goes with the Chaos Magick leaders, Peter J. Carroll, Ray Sherwin, Phil Hine, and Austin Osman Spare. She talks about all of these in some of her hundred plus videos.
Most people who go in an occult direction are extremely bookish. Usually they live in apartments which are crammed with books from floor to ceiling. Often into journaling too.
Books are the main way they get occult information.
Thinking now, this was a mistake that Rosicrucian Order AMORC made, making it look like their lessons, monographs, were supposed to be the whole story. Reading books and talking about them are one of the ways such people develop solidarity. Bit as such, there is no way to control what people are reading.
So Carroll, Sherwin, Hine, Spare, and then other related and antecedent stuff.
Anybody here, besides me, read any such?
And then Carroll draws from this:
Pratchett, Terry, The Colour of Magic, 1991
Pratchett has written many dozens of books now, but I think Colour of Magic was his first. I think it is considered fantasy.
Yes, Colour of Magic is his first novel in his Discworld series, and it is considered fantasy, and of a comical nature. Pratchett passed away in 2015.
I believe that some of the readers will be women, but there are other kinds of books also which they also seem to like.
Any body here read Pratchett? I have not yet.
SJG
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Elliot Rodger Manifesto 2014, 11 hours, am listening through this, and I see it differently now. youtube.com
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Answer: authors like Jane Austin and other trashy romance novels
Austen*
Jane Austen is considered classic literature. When people argue against pro-sex and boheminan culture, I always counter that were in not for this, "We would all be living like characters in a Jane Austen novel."
Today though, I guess some women read her, but I don't think the numbers are that high.
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I like classics. Pride and Prejudice is great, but I need to re-read it since I haven't in a long time.
I really love Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut. It makes no sense, but it is one of those books I could read over and over again and not get bored.
I also like well-written books with a female protagonist as it depicts struggles that women have to deal with growing up in different cultures. I loved White Oleander by Janet Fitch, and Memoirs of A Geisha by Arthur Golden. They were both well written enough to get the reader a glimpse or an idea of what the protagonists' worlds were like.
I also like mystery novels.
Your first two mentions I am of course familiar with. The other's I will look into.
How about Margaret Attwood?
Biographies or any other kinds of non-fiction? Occult?
Thanks
SJG
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"because we all started from the same place and it could be any of us that ended where those people are." --pinksugar
...sounds like something somebody who has something to confess would say ;)
both look interesting. Thank you NinaB, SJG
People think of Stephen King's story Misery, and the movie made out of it. Crazy women are a staple of his.
But it is not always this way.
His wife Tabitha has been helping him ever since Carey. And then in Gerald's Game, Tabitha's influence is very present.
SJG
The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx
Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler
Two personal favorites that sparks great conversation everytime it's brought up
I am quite familiar with the Manifesto and with Mein Kampf.
In an early Hugh Hefner Playboy article he suggested discussing Nietzsche with young women. Many like Barbara Ehrenreich have been amused and taken note of this.
Some have written papers based on Donna Haraway at UC Santa Cruz.
Simians Cyborgs and Women amazon.com
Cyborg Manifesto, full text faculty.georgetown.edu
And we must not forget Valerie Solanas 1967 SCUM Manifesto ( Society for Cutting Up Men ) ccs.neu.edu
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BAKER GURVITZ ARMY - Hearts On Fire youtube.com
i used to be really into john grisham and bukowski when i was younger. nowadays my fave is tom robbins which is more light hearted but still philosophical. i was an angry teenager lol
Thanks,
SJG
john grisham bukowski tom robbins
I've actually got some interest in bukowski myself.
Anyone like Ursula K. LeGuin?
Anyone read Esoteric or Occult books?
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testosteronelifeboat.freeforums.net
Martinism youtube.com
Talk Gnosis: The Rosicrucians part 1, Dr. Jeffrey S. Kupperman youtube.com
Killing Me Softly youtube.com youtube.com
Elysian Encounter-Baker Gurvitz Army - playlist full album youtube.com
Well, there is always a steady stream of really good new fiction. I'm not one who really follows that though.
Some women seem to like biography. This at least what they say. And including some strippers.
I have found that reading someone's biography is usually a good first step before reading their own writings. It helps one make good selections.
Non-fiction which women like to read?
SJG
People say that Simone de Beauvoir's novels are based in a feminized world. So if some like Jane Austin, then they should like de Beauvoir.
I think there are 5 of them. From memory here are three:
Blood of Others (Le Sang des autres)
Pretty Pictures (Les Belles Images)
The Mandarins
Of The Blood of Others, she had most of that written by 1943, sitting in the cafe. But the Canadian Film Board made a movie out of it, and I think it is actually better. The director had been a teenager as the events described were going down. He was in a better position now to understand how things were done. I think Jodie Foster looks for these strong characters.
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Vatican Canonizes Salvadoran Archbishop Óscar Romero, Who Was Killed by a U.S.-Backed Death Squad democracynow.org
They tried to film this in El Salvador, but they quickly got ejected. So it was filmed in Mexico.
Romero (1989) Trailer - John Duigan, Raul Julia youtube.com
Pope Francis Canonizes, Oscar Romero ( and this has been long awaited ) youtube.com
and more democracynow.org
Missouri Woman Fired For Blocking Black Man From Entering Apartment Complex yahoo.com
We used to have this book store, Psychic Eye. They got up to about 15 stores in CA and NV. Then the dotcom ponzi scheme crashed and they closed most of them.
But while they were running, one in Mountain View, it has a great selection of occult books. And these were not of the anti-sex books, more pro-sex.
The place seemed to attract quite a few young women, as customers and behind the counter. So I assume then that these women liked thes books, often Goth styled young women too.
Maybe starting to come back now? pebooks.com
Said to be owned by a woman. In Mountain View she kept a bunch of travel trailers. People said she used those to go from store to store.
This is in contrast to East West Books, run by the Ananda Fellowship. Good book store, but to my eyes what they were offering was a kind of desexualized New Age. The opposite of Psychic Eye.
SJG
Remember also, Fairuza Balk used to have her own occult book store.
SJG
Juice read Art of the Pimp, but I've never heard of any women reading it.
SJG
Interesting Old Thread Favorite Strip Clubs of San_Jose_Guy? tuscl.net
TJ Street farm6.staticflickr.com
Nirvana - Aneurysm (Live at Reading 1992) youtube.com
Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit (Live at Reading 1992) w/ surprise into youtube.com
So how about Laura Kipnis? Read some of her earlier stuff myself. It is good.
SJG
Why I’m Proud To Be A Middle-Aged Stripper huffingtonpost.com
Baker Gurwitz Army Live youtube.com
San Jose underground, thanks to Jackslash for finding this: sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com
Howlin' Wolf youtube.com
FIAT Nuevo 500 Abarth c.slashgear.com
Marisa Silver, set by the Salton Sea in Southern California amazon.com
So unless people want to add to this thread, I'm going to let it die and get closed off. I really don't have anything else to add to it.
SJG
Nirvana - Come As You Are youtube.com
This song in my head last night. It must be in the Key of D.
Most everyone can hear relative pitch. But very few can hear absolute pitch. The reason every key sounds different is because the percussion tuning is not changed. Musicians deny that percussion is tuned to any specific pitch, saying that rather it is just tuned until it sounds right. But that is silly, because that is exactly how a violin is played, by making it sound right. Tympani tunes with a crank handle, and it has a gauge right on it. So the kick drum is tuned to A of the 16ft octave, the same as the second to lowest string of a four string bass, 55 hz. All the drums are tuned.
These kind of songs are always in D. I think it has something to do with that A note, the dominant.
So to really know you almost have to play along with it. The D scale has F and C sharped. But it can be done with accidentals too. And some music revolves around other notes than the tonic. Some is Mixolyidian and so it revolves around the dominant and has the 7th ( C# ) flatted. Lots of ways. In the end it is just listening to it and trying to play along which will resolve this.
This ends on the D major triad and the chorus versus end on the D major triad. Usually that is the final determinant of what key it is in.
Alternate guitar tuning is being used, one suggestive of D.
How Life Should Be, welcome back to a much loved company and web site: wickedtemptations.com
Has a lot of books: youtube.com
Anyway, going to let this thread die and close unless other people have something to add.
SJG
Baker Gurvitz Army youtube.com
Jack Kerouac en.wikipedia.org
Beat Generation en.wikipedia.org
Beat Generation Bibliographies web.archive.org
So of Kerouac's writing I have specifically enjoyed The Town and the City (1950; written 1946–1949)( but go for the restored version ) On the Road (1957; written 1947–1951) The Dharma Bums (1958) Visions of Gerard (1963; written 1956)
But it was John Clellon Holmes who was the first of their group to get a novel published, 'Go' (1952) , and who named them The Beat Generation. en.wikipedia.org
Not sure if women like any of this kind of writing.
But then there is also Carolyn Cassady ( Neal's Wife) en.wikipedia.org Heartbeat: My Life with Jack and Neal (1982) ISBN 978-0916870034 ( made into a good movie, much set in S.F. Bay Area ) Off the Road: My Years with Cassady, Kerouac and Ginsberg (1996) ISBN 978-0140153903
Joan Haverty ( Kerouac's second wife ) amazon.com
Joyce Johnson ( Kerouac G.F., English Professor and Writer ) en.wikipedia.org Jack Kerouac; Joyce Johnson (2000).
ALso note a related type of book: Be Not Content: A Subterranean Journal set in downtown San Jose in the mid-sixties, with important use of geography of downtown.
Republished by SJSU Math Professor Rudy Rucker rudyrucker.com
Transreal Books rudyrucker.com
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Lady Zep youtube.com
Led Zeppelin Heartbreaker / Living Loving Maid (She's Just a Woman) youtube.com
Fires Above Hyperion graphic novel, but don't know any more about it
SJG
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Southern Bastards, by Jason Aaron and Jason Latour amazon.com
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Push, by Sapphire, like the next Color Purple.
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Jeff Healey, w/ Toucu youtube.com
A lot of girls use romance novels and erotic fan fiction in a similar way that guys use porn. For me, I just use both lol.
^^^^^ I did know that. Some people call romance novels, "Women's Pornography".
In my opinion though, that kind of stuff really is neurotic.
What I think is good though is real Women's Erotica. I guess it originated with Anais Ninn and Delta of Venus. But it is also stuff like Story of O and 9 1/2 Weeks.
And then what really socked people, about the nature of women's fantasies:
And then it is Susie Bright editing what she calls, "one handed reading material", Down There Press.
And remember, in my organization, when a new woman member is ready for initiation, it will be much like the Castle Initiation in Story of O, serving as a sex slave.
Great Brazilian soft core mini-series made out of Story of O. ia.media-imdb.com
And there are some swinger's clubs which follow the Castle sequence, including the special women's sex slave dresses.
Thanks strippercutie,
SJG
A lot of girls I know use Tumblr for porn too but pretty much all my friends say they watch some kind of porn so I think that attitude is changing.
I am glad to hear that!
I have noticed that if you use some level of female sexyness or nudity in advertising, it totally changes who responds to it.
Stodgy de-sexualized women will quickly reject it, if you have even a PG rated picture of a young hottie. High heels, showing the rear view, that will definitely run them off.
So for example with Swinger's Clubs, you want to look close at what sorts of images of women they use in their web promotions, to gauge what it will be like.
Every society uses images of women for all sorts of purposes, But it is in the details, age, manner of dress, poses.
I know this does not apply to strippers. But most of the time, young hotties dislike online forums. They like f2f, because that plays to their strengths. Most of the time, the women who are spending time online, they are not nice looking at all.
I know this does not apply to our stripper women here.
Club Kiss San Francisco clubkiss.us
Club L'Orage Montreal orage.club
SJG
I prefer real life interactions when it comes to what I actually do with my life. I'm just posting here cause its fun lol.
Personally I am a bit bi although I have a preference for guys and I've found that other bi girls are much more sexually open than straight girls are. Like I will look at a poster of a half naked girl and be able to admire her skin and her beauty just like any guy could. Sometimes I'm out with guy friends and I will say that a certain girl is really hot and its funny because they get excited when they realize they can talk about girls in-front of me.
"I prefer real life interactions when it comes to what I actually do with my life."
Understood, and I like and respect that.
"its funny because they get excited when they realize they can talk about girls in-front of me."
I understand, and I like that.
So my organization will use lots of sexual and naked pictures of young women in its promotions. That's why I'll be doing photo sessions with strippers everywhere I go, US, Mexico, anywhere.
And the reason for our club houses is SEX!
Anything else could be done just as well online. And never will our people ever be expected to listen to anything like a sermon.
SJG
Gul Agha, Actors: A model of Concurrent Computation in Distributed SYstems, 1986
Philip Davis and Reubin Hersh, The Mathematical Expericne, 1981
also their Descarts' Dream, 1986
Arthur Koestler, The Ghose In The Machine, 1967'
Ilya Prigogine, From Being To Becoming: Time and Complexity in the Physical Sciences 1980
Rudy Rucker, Software, 1982'
and Mind Tools: The Five Levels of Mathematical Reality, 1987
Claude Shannon, Warren WEaver, The Mathematical Theory of COmmunication, 1963
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Waring of Rising Nationalism independent.co.uk
Adam Hochschild democracynow.org
Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, underneath the Arch of Triumph, should be visible from this East side angled view google.com
architecturebehindmovies.files.wordpress.com
Theatre Chochotte - Paris a403.idata.over-blog.com
Hookers in Paris smallworldtravels.com
Baker Gurwitz youtube.com
Jacques Lacan, Bruno Bettelheim, Françoise Dolto
Maison Verte maisonverte.org.uk
Dominique : analysis of an adolescent / by Françoise Dolto ; translated and with a glossary by Ivan Kats ; pref. by Robert Coles. (1973)
La cause des enfants (1985) books.google.co.uk
Françoise DOLTO en.wikipedia.org
Psychoanalysis and paediatrics : key psychoanalytic concepts with sixteen clinical observations of children / Françoise Dolto ; translated from the French by Françoise Hivernel and Fiona Sinclair (2013, available )
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JavaScript : the definitive guide / David Flanagan (2011 local )
Kingdom coming : the rise of Christian nationalism / Michelle Goldberg. (2007)
God & the big bang : discovering harmony between science & spirituality / Daniel C. Matt. (2016)
video, Daniel C. Matt, God and the Big Bang youtube.com
Stan Tenen The Alphabet In Our Hands, Part 1: The God of Abraham, A Mathematician's View youtube.com
Bernhard Riemann en.wikipedia.org
Riemann, topology, and physics / Michael Monastyrsky ; with a foreword by Freeman J. Dyson. (1999)
Saturday I reported on a man who had vanished from a 49er's stadium game the previous Monday. Saturday they found a body in the water near the old unused Alviso Marina and some old concrete boat ramps. The stuff is unused because silt comes in from the bay and fills it up.
I have years ago explored all around there. It is interesting, but even in the day time potentially dangerous. I once got stuck hip deep in mud and a shoe came off. Getting my foot back into the shoe I was able to recover it. But I was taking more risks in doing so.
This man was in the military, maybe Special Forces. So likely he handles himself quite well in the outdoors, even at night.
Not sure if any conclusions have been reached, but to me it sounds more and more like a suicide. Left his cell phone, battery run down to zero, in his car at the stadium. Also left his girl friend and her two kids there. But talking on the phone and using video up until the point he vanished.
Here SJPD say that the body was found floating face down about 1 mile out from the Marina and the Ramps. yahoo.com
I believe that police probably have more tidbits of information which they are not going to disclose until they are ready to close the case.
In a homicide it is usually those closest to the deceased who did it, and they are exposed by the contradictions in their stories. To me, this is sounding more and more like a suicide.
Here it sound like he was found at the boat launch, though those concrete ramps are unusable do to silt. thespun.com
Still waiting to hear that they have confirmed the identity, and then of course for any conclusions.
Jeff Healey Band, full concert youtube.com
Theatre Chochotte, Paris bird-production.com
Here, outside view, use zoom outs and changing back to maps to see exactly where this is:
Inside scene google.com
34 Rue Saint-André des Arts, 75006 Paris, France
Here: google.com
Very close to the Seine
and to the Luxembourg Gardens park.
Here, their own page: theatre-chochotte.com
Emmanuel Marcon ‘Patriotism is the exact opposite of nationalism. Nationalism is a betrayal of patriotism’ independent.co.uk
The US and Russian leaders listened in silence as Mr Macron took a swipe at the rising tide of populism in the US and Europe, warning: “The old demons are rising again, ready to complete their task of chaos and of death.”
“In saying, ‘Our interests first, whatever happens to the others’, you erase the most precious thing a nation can have, that which makes it live, that which causes it to be great and that which is most important: its moral values.”
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So in France they do have different ideas, really like a different temperament.
I have read a small amount of:
I am opposed to pedagogy manuals. All they are amounts to advertisements for baby making. They are the essence of child exploitation. But the author is kind of saying that. UK and US people use pedagogy for bragging rights.
So is her book a suitable anti-pedagogy manual. Sort of it is.
In Paris especially I think people are more detached. There is a 'pause' which comes into play. She wanted to call it "Le Pause". As she started seeing it in everything. And as she makes clear, these are not parents who don't care, they just respond to things a bit differently.
My own view, reading her, by US and UK standards, most French, or at least most Parisians, would be considered autistic. And I learn now that in France their really is not an Autism industry, assessment rates much lower, none of the child torture of 'Applied Behavioral Analysis", rather they see it as an issue to treat with psychoanalysis, mostly play therapy.
In the US, the Autism Movement is simply about exonerating parents, and about medially abusing children and adults, and all over a completely bogus condition.
So this has been made into international controversy, because those in the US and UK insist on exonherating parents and promoting this defect, disorder, deficiency, Neurological Difference model. But in France they have never gone along with that.
English lamaisonverte.asso.fr
Here, in the UK.
Autism promoters in the US are very much like the Recovery Movement people, hiding abuse and promoting this idea of innate moral defect.
Pressure has been applied to the French. I hope they have not capitulated and gone with the psychiatric policing which we have in the US and the UK.
I am not actually a fan of psychoanalysis, but it is miles better than the torture regimes and child abuse and scapegoating which are standard now in the US and UK.
Most interesting this, translation somewhere freud-lacan.com
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One Paris-based psychiatrist has been outspoken in his support for psychoanalysis to treat the early stages of autism. Charles Melman is the co-founder of the Association Lacanienne Internationale, which follows the principles of Freud and Lacan. He says, “it's not a question of blaming mothers, but allowing them to live their parenthood in a better way”. Melman says there is “no proof” that autism has genetic origins but instead results from a mother's emotional state or behaviour during pregnancy or in early parenthood. “[Autism] stems from a mother's incapacity to take her child's birth as a joyous occasion”, says Melman. He recently treated one woman whose son was diagnosed with autism at 6 months, using psychoanalysis with the mother and psychotherapy sessions for the child. He says that the child, now 18 months, no longer needs therapy.
Melman says that early detection is key, and that if children with autism receive therapeutic treatment between 3 months and 2·5 years, they can recover completely and return to “normal”. Detection of autism in France is happening too late, says Melman, whose organisation lodged an appeal against the government's Third Autism Plan.
Melman and fellow psychoanalysts—who traditionally wield great power in France when it comes to the treatment of mental illness—have been met with heated criticism in the face of the autism debate. But although opinions differ on the use of psychoanalysis, early detection and diagnosis is deemed essential by both sides. Child psychiatrist Deborah Cohen, who specialises in the treatment of children with autism, says giving a diagnosis is essential. “It allows for the child to receive the appropriate treatment and if it's an early diagnosis, it allows for a better understanding of the person and his specific needs”.
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Jacques Lacan, Mirror Stage youtube.com
More on Lacan youtube.com
Ecrits goodreads.com
The works of Jacques Lacan : an introduction / by Bice Benvenuto and Roger Kennedy. (1986)
Ecrits : the first complete edition in English / Jacques Lacan ; translated by Bruce Fink in collaboration with Heloise Fink and Russell Grigg (2006)
The language of the self; the function of language in psychoanalysis. Translated with notes and commentary, by Anthony Wilden. (1968)
The four fundamental concepts of psycho-analysis / Jacques Lacan ; edited by Jacques-Alain Miller ; translated from the French by Alan Sheridan. (1978)
The ethics of psychoanalysis, 1959-1960 / translated with notes by Dennis Porter.
lacanonline.com "That what appears at first like the abandonment by the mother is actually the abandonment of the mother;"
" The message seems to be: unless the relationship with the mother is relinquished or mastered in favour of the father, bad things will happen. Psychoanalysis knows no better warning of this fate than the myth of Oedipus. Even more recently, a problematic relation to the mother has been used in some psychoanalytic quarters to provide dubious accounts for autism (the so-called ‘Refrigerator mother theory’), which many French Lacanians have had to spend a large amount of time over the last couple of years distancing themselves from. "
A Self Chosen State (Bruno Bettelheim Autism Short Documentary) youtube.com
"Lacanian psychoanalysis and Autism: 'Our Convictions'" youtube.com
Heroism: REFRIGERATOR MOTHERS and Autism youtube.com
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An Introduction to Heidegger: Being and Time youtube.com
Bill Moyers, Forrest Church Interview youtube.com
Stravinsky: The Firebird / Gergiev · Vienna Philarmonic · Salzburg Festival 2000 youtube.com
So you folks like these no proscenium concert halls?
Disney Music Center meyersound.com
San Jose Center for the Performing Arts, not designed that way. c2.staticflickr.com
TJ Street farm8.static.flickr.com
We also have this, memorial tribute to Frances Tustin
Encounters with autistic states : a memorial tribute to Frances Tustin / edited by Theodore and Judith L. Mitrani. (1997)
" Going beyond: notes on the beginning of object relations in the light of "The perpetuation of an error" / Suzanne Maiello -- Unbearable ecstasy, reverence and awe, and the perpetuation of an "aesthetic conflict" / Judith L. Mitrani -- The voice as autistic object / Maria Rhode -- Between two worlds: hope and despair in the analysis of an autistic child / Charlotte Riley -- The analysis of a 9-year-old girl with learning disabilities: reflections on supervision with Frances Tustin, 25 years later / Victoria Hamilton -- Analysis of hard and soft: Tustin's contribution to a Jungian study of opposites / JoAnn Culbert-Koehn -- Autism as a defense against hopelessness / Isca Wittenberg -- Borderline autism as a factor in somatoform disorder / Sheila Spensley -- Understanding varieties of autistic encapsulation: a homage to Frances Tustin / David Rosenfeld -- Some theoretical comments on personal isolation / Thomas H. Ogden -- Themes of being and non-being in the work of Frances Tustin and Jacques Lacan / Jane Van Buren -- A scientific turn of mind: a tribute to Frances Tustin / Susanna Isaacs Elmhirst -- From fear of change to mourning / Renata de Benedetti Gaddini -- Verbal rituals in autism: the concept of the autistic object and the countertransference / Anne Alvarez -- One pilgrim's progress: Notes on Frances Tustin's contributions to the psychoanalytic conception of autism / James S. Grotstein -- Beginning the search for an identity: analysis of a young woman with autistic features as supervised by Frances Tustin / Maria Pozzi -- The absent self / Francis M.J. Dale -- Expressions of annihilation anxiety and the birth of the subject / Bianca Lechevalier -- Thinking: a dialectic process between emotions and sensations / Didier Houzel -- Encounter with Frances Tustin / Genevieve Haag. "
I say that the US and UK organized Autism-Asperger's advocacy is simply the abuse of children and adults, and it is an extension of the Nazi Eugenics Movement.
SJG
I have never read this anywhere. It is just my own observation.
I feel that in some circumstances women can be very harmful to men. That is, women tend to look at the characteristics of men only for their conformity value. Like they look at how something relates to future income potential, not in any other way. So they want a guy to do well in school, but only as that relates to future income, not for the learning in and of itself. They want a guy to do well in academics, but not too well. They want him to be normative. And this really is the problem. They want him to be limited to what they can understand.
And this is not just wives and lovers who do this to a guy. That would be bad enough. But no, it is also aunts and mothers. They really hurt a guy who is developing into something they don't understand.
And so, many guys are really stunted in their development from this kind of female emotional violence.
SJG
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TJ Street
They want to make sure that he is always a guy that they can use, and never anything more than that.
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Females can be very harmful to males. Maybe sometimes it is just ignorance, but I think most of the time they really know exactly what they are doing. And its not just Wives and Lovers, its also Aunts and Mothers.
Males are not like females, we don't live by looks and fertility. It takes more than that. We have to develop ourselves. Men who live just by people pleasing are like females, and they are looked down upon by other men.
But women tend to look only at external appearances and at social conformity. They don't understand how much harm they are doing, or maybe they do. I think they understand perfectly well. It gives them a way of getting back at the adult men in their lives.
Now could an adult man hurt a boy in the same ways? Well hypothetically yes. But I think it less likely. Probably, what the boy knows he knows from adult men. But a woman could be determined to destroy that, to destroy the boy's confidence, to destroy his drive to develop himself and advance himself.
So, I'm surprised if I seem to be saying things which might sound like the Incel Movement. Well, I don't quite mean it the same way. Sure, decades ago, women desperate to get married at any cost, that meant that a guy could count on a certain amount of female chase. So we have had a sexual revolution and it is great. But this does not mean that all were included.
The Incel's are wrong about the interpretation. But they are right in sensing that something has gone array.
If a man has been hurt badly enough, then he will have a very hard time functioning in this newer world.
There have to be some limiting factors on the harm females can do to males, doing it mostly because males are not like females.
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The Masonic Trowel themasonictrowel.com
Kabbalah Online kabbalaonline.org
Driving Distances Between Cities, seems to work, seems to know highway distances, not just great circle distances. Knows Mexican border towns too. worldatlas.com
Border Towns texasmonthly.com
Wicked Lady, Axeman Cometh i.ytimg.com
Full Album youtube.com
Once in a while you will find a woman who has particular research interests. Often involving the use of sources in other languages. I posted before about one who wrote about Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, and about how Kabbalah influenced he and the other thinkers of that era. She has published a number of books. And then there is one who writes at length about the Knights Templar.
And here is one with Oakland's Blazing Star OTO, talking about Kabbalah. youtube.com
But usually this is not the case.
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In a Historic First, Senate Advances Bill to End U.S. Support for Illegal War in Yemen democracynow.org
Dec 7th 1941, a date which will live in infamy youtube.com
Frijid Pink - House of the Rising Sun youtube.com
April Wine - I Like to Rock (Official Music Video) ( Couple of little snippets from other songs in this ) youtube.com
Rare Earth - I Know I'm Losing You (full version) ( first White act signed by Motown. youtube.com
Sugarloaf - Green-Eyed Lady (Original Song HQ) 1970 youtube.com
The Guess Who - No Sugar Tonight / New Mother Nature (Audio) youtube.com
IRON BUTTERFLY IN- A-GADDA-DA-VIDA IN HD BEST FULL VERSION youtube.com
Deep Purple - Child In Time - 1970 youtube.com
Rare Earth - Get Ready - complete track -1970 youtube.com
Steppenwolf - The Pusher youtube.com Does this apply to Donald Trump? Germany already has War Crimes indictments against George W. Bush and Donald Rumsfeld?
Steppenwolf - Magic Carpet Ride (Version 1969) youtube.com
"Lola"- The Kinks ( curious video ) youtube.com
Eric Burdon & War - Spill The Wine ( live, Beat Club ) youtube.com
Paint It Black ( quite good ) youtube.com
A Horse With No Name - America (Lyrics) ( hot girl in white ) youtube.com
Chicago ~ I'm a Man [studio version] youtube.com
Humble Pie-30 Days In The Hole youtube.com
Bad Company - Bad Company (From "Live at Wembley" CD, DVD & Blu-ray) youtube.com
Notice the scene, from Edison's "The Great Train Robbery" youtube.com
Isn't it true that so many of the Western Bad Men had been Confederate Deserters? They were shamed because they were on the losing side, but shamed again and not able to go home, because they had not served honorably?
Do you agree that the states which attempted succession should have been broken up, the lines redrawn, and the land redistributed? Today the political battles we fight still pertain to the underpinnings of slavery.
" Universal jurisdiction is the principle that some crimes are so heinous that the courts of any country can and in certain cases must take jurisdiction over them. Universal jurisdiction is international law’s response to the spectacle of tyrants and torturers who cover themselves at home with immunity and impunity. It is the principle that led to the arrest, for instance, of Chilean General Augusto Pinochet when he traveled to London. It’s the principle under which the former dictator of Chad, Hissène Habré, was prosecuted in Senegal. "
Twisted Romance, a graphic novel
Alex Campi and Alejandra Gutiérrez
( When it is time, I could make a few graphic novels to promote my organization, and even more so to promote its online only version. The Graphic Novels tend to be a little bit whimsical. Good way to promote something which is controversial. )
The above one has some nudity and moderately explicit sex in it.
SJG
If we have justice, then no one will ever be without what they need.
If we do not have justice, then money will never be a reliable substitute.
Medicare For All democracynow.org
Bernie Sanders, Economic Justice democracynow.org
I feel that women have a way of turning to religion which is particularly offensive. Fatalistic, superstitious. And it is so even with Buddhism.
SJG
Graham Bond ✪ Holy Magick [full album] youtube.com
Farm - Farm 1971 (FULL ALBUM) [Psychedelic Blues-Rock] youtube.com
How False Testimony and a Massive U.S. Propaganda Machine Bolstered George H.W. Bush’s War on Iraq democracynow.org
The Occultist Omnibus, a graphic novel by Mike Richardson (Author), Tim Seeley (Author), Victor Drujiniu (Illustrator), Mike Norton (Illustrator) amazon.com
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These prices are insane, $100 for 10 minutes. Who runs MBOT now? Is it going to stay open?
People say that at Venom, Tuscon, it is $15 for 15 min. That is basically AMP pricing, $60 per hour. That could be really sweet.
How goes it now at Club Fantasy Sacramento?
Save this info someplace safe, as the Feds can strike without warning. They took down SF Redbook, and they scared Xoticspot into closing.
testosteronelifeboat.freeforums.net sites.google.com
Making A New Society: Inside the Revolution | The Spanish Civil War (5 of 6) Granada Television
Caltrain Electrification: en.wikipedia.org caltrain.com
So some now see Helena Petrovna Blavatsky as an unrecognized great intellectual influence on the 20th Century. She is the one who put forth the idea that there is this unbroken chain of the initiated and enlightened, which has a preserved teaching. Most esoteric and occult groups do believe this, and it runs along the periphery of religion.
Helena Petrovna Blavatsky en.wikipedia.org
She seems to have influenced most of the founders of the key organizations.
Books readily available:
Isis unveiled : a master-key to the mysteries of ancient and modern science and theology / by H.P. Blavatsky. 2 volumes, (1877)
The secret doctrine; the synthesis of science, religion and philosophy. (1888 2 volumes)
and about her: Madame Blavatsky : the mother of modern spirituality / Gary Lachman. (2012, and Lachman writes good books )
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Nicki Minaj nrg.radio
Merkaba - Chariot of the Gods youtube.com
Ever notice that Stephen Spielberg's films always include appearances of the Chariot, and that always before these there is silence and a void? Often such appearances mean that someone is going to die violently.
Chariot of God: Merkabah Mysticism - Vision of Ezekiel youtube.com
Christ of the Apocalypse, from one of the doorways to Chartres marc-haegeman-photography.com
The Merkaba Explained IN DETAIL From Lightworkers org youtube.com
Manly P Hall - Merkabah, Mystical Disciplines [ MUST LISTEN ] youtube.com
TJ Street farm8.staticflickr.com
Lacanonline lacanonline.com
Lacanian Psychoanalysis: An Introduction (1/2) youtube.com
Lacanian Views, 2012, translated from the French iclo-nls.org
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TJ Street farm8.staticflickr.com
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Okay, so I want to get more about Lacan.
This is all getting into extremely controversial territory. theguardian.com
Probably the same director imdb.com
This is 2018, and involves Immanuel Marcon. So fortunately the French have not been bullied into submission, like back in 2012. medicalxpress.com
"Many psychoanalysts argue that autism is not a neuro-developmental disorder with, as is now globally accepted, a high degree of genetic heritability. Rather, they see it as a psychologically-generated condition originating in a disturbed family environment – specifically, problems in the child's relationship to its mother. "
" As analyst Charles Melman, a proponent of these views, put it in a 2014 interview, an autistic child: "Has suffered from something very simple. His mother … has not been able to transmit the feeling that his birth was a gift to her … the prosody of the maternal discourse plays a role in the development of autism."
Historically, many psychoanalysts – notably in the postwar US – have seen autism as a form of psychosis, or "childhood schizophrenia". Such analysts advocated psychoanalytic psychotherapy as the main form of intervention, rather than the behavioural and communication-focused strategies which have an increasingly strong evidence base today.
Since the 1990s, change in France has been led by organisations formed by parents, incensed that the medical profession appeared to be blaming them for their children's condition. "
(Autism activism is always that way, defensive formations of the parents. The entire concept, the very idea that it exists, is simple organized child abuse.)
Charles Melman (2014 - French ) letelegramme.fr
Probably similar to: thelancet.com
" One Paris-based psychiatrist has been outspoken in his support for psychoanalysis to treat the early stages of autism. Charles Melman is the co-founder of the Association Lacanienne Internationale, which follows the principles of Freud and Lacan. He says, “it's not a question of blaming mothers, but allowing them to live their parenthood in a better way”. Melman says there is “no proof” that autism has genetic origins but instead results from a mother's emotional state or behaviour during pregnancy or in early parenthood. “[Autism] stems from a mother's incapacity to take her child's birth as a joyous occasion”, says Melman. He recently treated one woman whose son was diagnosed with autism at 6 months, using psychoanalysis with the mother and psychotherapy sessions for the child. He says that the child, now 18 months, no longer needs therapy.
Melman says that early detection is key, and that if children with autism receive therapeutic treatment between 3 months and 2·5 years, they can recover completely and return to “normal”. Detection of autism in France is happening too late, says Melman, whose organisation lodged an appeal against the government's Third Autism Plan.
Melman and fellow psychoanalysts—who traditionally wield great power in France when it comes to the treatment of mental illness—have been met with heated criticism in the face of the autism debate. But although opinions differ on the use of psychoanalysis, early detection and diagnosis is deemed essential by both sides. Child psychiatrist Deborah Cohen, who specialises in the treatment of children with autism, says giving a diagnosis is essential. “It allows for the child to receive the appropriate treatment and if it's an early diagnosis, it allows for a better understanding of the person and his specific needs”. "
freud-lacan.com (French)
Dominique: Analysis of an Adolescent, Dolto 1974 books.google.co.uk
Dominique : analysis of an adolescent / by Françoise Dolto ; translated and with a glossary by Ivan Kats ; pref. by Robert Coles. (1973)
Dolto, Françoise
So then specifically about Charles Melman? L'homme sans gravite : jouir a tout prix / Charles Melman ; entretiens avec Jean-Pierre Lebrun (2002)
About Lacan? This actually deals with him by name: Encounters with autistic states : a memorial tribute to Frances Tustin / edited by Theodore and Judith L. Mitrani. (1997)
This is the way one takes down childhood psychiatry. The ones who pay the costs of the Middle-Class Family have always been the children.
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X - The Have Nots youtube.com
X Some Other Time youtube.com
X - Los Angeles youtube.com
Daily Digit: Believe it or not, Chicago is not the murder capital of the U.S. news.yahoo.com
"But when adjusting for its large population, Chicago has fewer deaths per capita than many other cities. St. Louis has had the nation’s highest murder rate for the past four years, followed by Baltimore, Detroit, New Orleans and Baton Rouge."
Farm, Psychedelic Blues-Rock 1971 youtube.com
Song of The French Resistance - "Le Chant Des Partisans" youtube.com
The French Resistance (World War II) youtube.com
SJG
Friend has to settle and estate, in US Virgin Islands. Curious, of course not a state.
St Thomas Virgin Island 2013 Adult Parade (Street Dreams Edition) youtube.com
1:29 / 3:42 Spectrum Band - My Life (Official Music Video) "2017 Soca" [HD] youtube.com
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The Jeff Healey Band - Live In Belgium (Full Concert 1993) youtube.com
Co-Masonry
I think they mean coed. Close to Theosophical Society. ( for me the regular Free Masons are too stodgy and conservative, people like the Bush Family and the Skull and Bones Society )
The International Order of Freemasonry for Men and Women Le Droit Humain, is worldwide. comasonic.org
HQ is in Paris, Women can be Freemasons? comasonic.org
American Federation comasonic.org
Lodges and Bodies comasonic.org
In CA they have Pasadena and Ojai, Los Angeles? comasonic.org
Los Angeles Area losangelesfreemasons.com
facebook facebook.com
alot different from the other Free Masons: facebook.com
insightful facebook.com
neat facebook.com
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So this co-mason group? Came from Paris, associates itself with the 1789 revolution. Seems to have come to the US around 1900. Seems to be closely affiliated with the Theosophical Society.
Observers have said that the main innovation of Westcott and Mathers with their Golden Dawn was to make Masonry Co-ed.
And then people argue if they had sex magic or not, and even if it could be considered a 19th Century Swingers Club.
As I know today, Masonry seems to be Co-ed. I snuck into the Mountain View Temple some years back. :) :) :)
But still to me, the regular Masons seem too stodgy, and offensive in some ways.
So these co-masons?
These three banner pictures, I find TGTBT, how young the people are. Not real. comasonic.org
Their video youtube.com
And then like this image: comasonic.org
Claims 30k members, spread throughout 60 countries, and on 5 continents.
Scottish Rite, 1st to 33rd degree.
Okay here, international web site, English droit-humain.org
New Grand Master droit-humain.org
What really speaks to me though are some of these pictures from their facebook
Might need to log in
especially this scontent-lax3-1.xx.fbcdn.net
These pictures are all from the facebook for their lodge in Los Angeles
Raising Osiris scontent-lax3-1.xx.fbcdn.net
Revelations? scontent-lax3-1.xx.fbcdn.net
temple again scontent-lax3-1.xx.fbcdn.net
Images of Dion Fortune and Theosophical Society figures too.
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As Most Diverse Congress in History Takes Office, Dems Push to End Shutdown Without Funding for Wall democracynow.org
'Leaked' Video Of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Proves She... Has Friends, Can Dance yahoo.com
Edwin Starr youtube.com
War - The World Is a Ghetto 1972 Full Album youtube.com
How To Tell If Someone Is Truly Smart Or Just Average getpocket.com
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Warren Haynes with Joe Bonamassa -- Guitar Center's King of the Blues 2011 youtube.com
Beth & Joe - I'd Rather Go Blind - Live in Amsterdam youtube.com
Beth & Joe - I Love You More Than You'll Ever Know - Live in Amsterdam youtube.com
Amazing Performance by Gary Clark Jr. - When My Train Pulls In youtube.com
Le Droit Humain Universal Co-Masons
Co-Masonry and WWII youtube.com
5 Books Essential to the Study of the Occult youtube.com
Ep. 002 - Masonic Heroes of the Holocaust youtube.com
SJG
Jackslash's thread about TJHK and FKK tuscl.net
30 years ago, bar near where I then lived had a house band which would play this all the time
Michael Jackson - Billie Jean (30th Anniversary Celebration) youtube.com
Curious chord progression, really makes it sound nice, and using 2nd fret capo, with lyrics tabs.ultimate-guitar.com
Trump sends troops for possible 'violent' Congo vote protests yahoo.com
Alexandria Ocasio Cortez en.wikipedia.org
Ep. 002 - Masonic Heroes of the Holocaust youtube.com
Universal Co-Masonry universalfreemasonry.org
Article universalfreemasonry.org
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Baker Gurvitz Army - Love Is / Memory Lane / Drum Solo / People - Live 1975 (Remastered) HD youtube.com
Deep Purple - Lazy youtube.com
THE MOODY BLUES - RIDE MY SEE-SAW youtube.com
THE GUESS WHO - NO TIME youtube.com
Ep. 002 - Masonic Heroes of the Holocaust youtube.com
So women, a certain type of woman, is associated with Self-Improvement books. And Financial Literacy books are a spin off of that.
But I know there are women on this forum who read better stuff than that.
SJG
Its not that I'm against acoustic guitar, its just that I like the electric music so much. And note the 5 string bass. Eric Clapton - Old Love (Live in Hyde Park 1997) youtube.com
Badge youtube.com
Layla youtube.com
Joe Bonamassa - "Midnight Blues" - Beacon Theatre - Live From New York youtube.com Computer Written Music, 1 hr youtube.com
JEFF BECK -Brush With the Blues youtube.com
Move flavors of Aiva generated music soundcloud.com
The Co-Masons universalfreemasonry.org
Masonic Publishing masonicpublishing.org includes Siddhartha and the Communist Manifesto
Watch this video next youtube.com
SJG
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Richard Smoley: The Shamanic Vision youtube.com
Joe Bonamassa - "I'll Play The Blues For You" - Live At The Greek Theatre youtube.com
Nice looking, agree?
So what I had not before known, The Universal Co-Masons, an American org, separated from the Paris based Le Droit Humaine in 1994.
So which has which houses, is Le Droit Humaine still operating in the US, which is closer to the Theosophical Society, and what other differences are there?
So Le Droit Humaine claims to houses in Los Angeles. It is actually one each on Ojai and Pasadena.
And then these real interesting pictures I have found on their facebook are theirs.
The videos with the two guys talking are from the Universal Co-Masons.
But this is from Le Droit Humaine youtube.com
Delacroix's Liberty Leading the People. Guy in the top hat represents the bourgeoisie. upload.wikimedia.org
The secret world of female Freemasons - BBC News ( this seems to be about yet two other Masonic groups ) youtube.com
And then there is: oldtemplarchurch.org
and where is that building?
Now here, from the Universal Co-Masons, about Masonry and WWII youtube.com
The Universal Co-Masons claim and HQ in Larkspur CO.
9070 South Douglas Blvd. Larkspur, CO 80118
interior photo? google.com
They have this college, non-accredited, non-degree. Not sure if it has a bricks and mortar location either. masoniccollege.org
They do have something in Larkspur CO, but the Universal Co-Masons otherwise do not seem to come out and say where their lodges are.
I guess this is all of their videos: youtube.com
Watch this: Ep. 006 - Pythagoras and Freemasonry youtube.com
SJG
Ro Khanna: Regime Change Is Not the Answer youtube.com
The Ancient War Between Gnostics and Neoplatonists youtube.com
Apocalypse of the Alien God: Platonism and the Exile of Sethian Gnosticism amazon.com
Apocalypse of the alien god : Platonism and the exile of Sethian gnosticism / Dylan M. Burns (2014)
jeff healey live at nottoden 2006 youtube.com
The Life of Toussaint Louverture youtube.com
That there is some similarity in the thinking underlying Masonry and Marxism is obvious. But I have never seen that Masonry goes that far, usually being something of the Middle-Class and working as an Opiate just like Religion does.
So, what do others say about this?
Marx on Freemasonry freemasonry.bcy.ca
Why was Karl Marx considered a Freemason? quora.com
Nazi Persecution of Freemasonry freemasons-freemasonry.com
Karl Marx on Freemasonry gnosticwarrior.com
Workers' Movement: Marxism against Freemasonry en.internationalism.org
"Combating the bourgeoisie's fascination for the hidden and mysterious, Marx and Engels showed that the proletariat is the enemy of every kind of policy of secrecy and mystification."
"In France, already after 1968, the bourgeoisie was using its "neo- Templar", "Rosicrucian" and "Martinist" sects in order to infiltrate leftist and other groups, in collaboration with the SAC services. For example, Luc Jeuret, the guru of the "Sun Temple" began his career by infiltrating Maoist groups (L 'Ordre du Temple Solaire, from page 145 on)."
" In fact, the following years saw the appearance of organisations of the type used against the proletarian revolution in the 20s. On the extreme right, the Front Europeen de Liberation has revived the "National-bolshevik" tradition. In Germany, the Sozialrevolutionare Arbeiterfront (Social Revolutionary Workers' Front), following its motto "the frontier is not between left and right but between above and below" is specialised in infiltrating different "left wing" movements. The Thule Society has also been refounded as a counter revolutionary secret society[13]. "
" Left-wing versions of such counter-revolutionary organisations are no less active. In France, for instance, new sects have been established in the tradition of "Martinism", a variant of freemasonry historically specialised in the infiltration and subversion of workers' organisations. Such groups put forward the idea that communism can best be achieved by the manipulations of an enlightened minority. Like other sects, they are specialised in the art of manipulating people. "
" More generally, the development of occult sects and esoteric groupings in the past years is not only an expression of the petty bourgeoisie's hopelessness and hysteria at the historic situation, but is encouraged and organised by the state. The role of these sects in inter-imperialist rivalries is known (e.g the use of Scientology by the US bourgeoisie against Germany). But this whole "esoteric" movement is equally part of the bourgeois ideological onslaught against marxism, especially after 1989 with the alleged "death of communism". Historically, it was in face of the rising socialist movement that the European bourgeoisie began to identify with the mystical ideology of freemasonry, especially after the 1848 revolutions. Today, the unbridled hatred of esotericism for materialism and marxism, as well as for the proletarian masses considered "materialistic" and "stupid", is nothing else but the concentrated hatred of the bourgeoisie and parts of the petty bourgeoisie for an undefeated proletariat. Unable itself to offer any historical alternative, the bourgeoisie opposes marxism with the lie that stalinism was communist, but also with the mystical vision that the world can only be "saved" when consciousness and rationality have been replaced by ritual, intuition and hocus-pocus.
In the face of today's decomposition of capitalist society, it is the task of revolutionaries to draw the lessons of the experience of the workers movement against what Lenin called "mysticism as a cloak for counter-revolutionary moods". And it is our task to reappropriate the vigilance of the workers' movement of the past against the manipulations and infiltration of the occult apparatus of the bourgeoisie. "
**************** The Very Negative View Of Esoteric Groups Which I Would Have Expected From A Marxist Source. And more often than not I think it completely warranted. But does it always have to be that way? ******************************************
staffs.proboards.com "As a dire hard Socialist, the most interesting part of Freemasonry for me is it's deeply Socialist message. All equal, no class nor caste. Of course, the gender exclusion is nonsense but that is mainly a relic of a patriarchal age."
freemasonry.bcy.ca Salvador Allende, founded Chile's Socialist Party in 1933, Mason
" Debray: I've always heard that you've had connections with freemasonry and yet you are a Marxist; you know at one time there was a serious dispute within the international workers' movement. For example, in France in the twenties, the freemasons were expelled from the Communist Party, which was then in its infancy. Do you see a contradiction between your supposed connections with freemasonry and your Marxist position, your class position?
Allende: First, Régis, let me remind you that the first Secretary Général of the French Communist Party was a freemason.
Debray: Yes, yes ...
Allende: And that it was only by the time of the Third International that incompatibility between the two movements was established.
Debray: Yes.
Allende: Now, from a personal point of view, I have a masonic background. My grandfather, Dr Allende Padin was a Most Serene Grand Master of the Masonic Order in the nineteenth century, when being a freemason meant being involved in a struggle. The Masonic Lodges and the Lautaro Lodges were the corner stone of independence and the struggle against Spain.
Debray: Bolivar and Sucre were freemasons.
Allende: Exactly. So you can understand perfectly well that, with this kind of family tradition, and again, since the masonic movement fought for fundamental principles like Liberty, Equality and Fraternity, one can viably have such connections. Now I have maintained within the masonic movement that there cannot be equality in the capitalist régime, not even equality of opportunity, of course; that there cannot be fraternity while there is class exploitation, and that true liberty is a concrete and not an abstract notion. So you see I interpret the principles of freemasonry according to their true content. Now, I know perfectly well that there are countries where freemasonry could not be considered consistent with these principles. "
And guys are posting this stuff while being told that politics is verboten on the Masonic Message Board and in the Masonic Lodges.
"Freemasonry has not, by any stretch of the imagination, been largely associated with the Left. Yes, many of the smaller European Grand Orients and Grand Lodges to take a strong humanist stance, but lets be honest- the bigger, more important Grand Lodges are populated by men who mainly have a particular attachment to the current, capitalist, system. Having experienced Freemasonry on four continents, its not a hotbed of Socialist reform."
Why Do Freemasons Like Pope Francis So Much? culturalmarxism.net
Were Marx, Lenin, or Trotsky Freemasons? forum.prisonplanet.com
Communism and Freemasonry ( seems to be an anti-freemasonry board ) freemasonrywatch.org
from above, "Some Objections to Socialism" hiddenmysteries.com
Communism and Freemasonry en.metapedia.org
Masonic Links freemasonry.bcy.ca
more freemasonry.bcy.ca
Salvador Allende freemasonry.bcy.ca
Universal Co-Masonry, books universalfreemasonry.org
My conclusion, most always freemasonry is a bourgeoisie affair. But built into its core ideas is still the potential for revolution. And we see this surfacing in how they supported the French Revolution. And then we see more of this in how Le Droit Humaine broke away, and then Universal Co-Masonry in the US broke away from that. So it is easy to break away, just get a few Masons, I guess 33rd Degree, and then you can form your own.
SJG
Robin Trower - Full Concert - Rockpalast Crossroads, Bonn - 2005 youtube.com
Floyd, ELP, YES, Genesis K Crimson- 70's Classic ProgRock youtube.com
France. Lacon, Psychoanalysis
Consistent with what they are doing in France, but highly offensive to some in the English speaking world.
Encounters with autistic states : a memorial tribute to Frances Tustin / edited by Theodore and Judith L. Mitrani. (1997)
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BBC computer composed music, 2014 bbc.com
Rebels: A Journey Underground #1 - Society's Shadow youtube.com
TJ Zona doxyspotting.com
like? doxyspotting.com
I think the French are correct and that their American and UK critics have no idea what they are talking about. theguardian.com
But I need to read more, and that takes time.
SJG
Peter Frampton - While My Guitar Gently Weeps youtube.com
Generation Q metroactive.com
There is no way there could have been a group like this for hetrosexuals, and especially back when I was the age of those in the article, like just turning 18.
" It's a Friday night at the LGBTQ Youth Space on South First Street in downtown San Jose, and there are a handful of people watching the most recent episode of RuPaul's Drag Race on a big screen, with the lights dimmed, theater-style. In the bright front room, where the end tables are stocked with homemade glitter snow globes, six young queer people, including Pomariga—all 18-22—are opening up about sex.
Tyree Jackson, 19, is planning to go home after the conversation, but he looks ready for a night out. He's wearing knee-high white Chuck Taylors that zip up his leg over carefully ripped black jeans. He wears a white sweatshirt, a '90s choker, and tiny dangly cross earrings in each ear like George Michael. He works "only on Wednesdays" and, like everyone else in the group, lives at home with his parents. He's got a crush on a close friend who'd planned to join the conversation but didn't. "It's hard to know what's gonna happen," he says.
Jessica, 22, who asked that her last name not be used, met her girlfriend on Tumblr. She appreciates how the Internet connected her to other gay people in the small town in Massachusetts, where she grew up a South Asian kid. "I think it can help people who feel isolated," she says. Some might not have had problems meeting people before online dating, but for the rest of us, it can be a lifeline.
She and her girlfriend both live at home but find time to see each other anyway, taking advantage of their parents' denial. "Both of our parents are pretty oblivious to it, which is weird because I think we're loud sometimes," she says.
It's an oblivion rooted in homophobia, she suspects: "They think we're both girls so it's all innocent." Her mother asks about her "friend" often, though Jessica has come out to her directly before. "She's told me, 'Why don't you try dating a guy,'" though Jessica has, and would rather be with women.
Also interested in relationships is Anthony Francis, 20 and mixed Caribbean-American, who came out as bisexual to his family four years ago. Like Pomariga, he knows his mother wants to meet his dates. "She's like, 'You best take that person home. You better introduce me so I can get to know him or her better,'" he says. Almost all his friends are straight men, but he's found "a welcome family" at the Youth Space. In a sweatshirt and athletic pants, he's cheery and soft-voiced. "I've never really been in a relationship before, so I kind of wanted to experiment with my sexual orientation a bit more to see what it's like." He's not interested in casual sex, preferring instead to "get used to that person and be in a healthy relationship."
Joshua Danner, a black 18-year-old who is also bisexual, is open to casual sex like Pomariga, but he stays away from apps like Grindr. ("All of Grindr is scammers," Pomariga quips, and Danner agrees. Turns out they might have the digital intelligence to know who's real online, unlike baby boomers, who share "fake news" more than everyone else, according to a study published in Science last month.)
In contrast to Alex, a mixed-race 20-year-old who wouldn't mind if a partner asked for a nonsexual but romantic relationship—limited to hugging and cuddling—sex is fundamental for Danner. "I wouldn't be dating them otherwise," he says. Raised a Southern Christian, Danner says he has found no shortage of dates in San Jose, but there's a familiar, youthful grandiosity to his claims. Like anyone in their late teens and early 20s, he and his peers are still figuring things out.
"I get at least two people hitting on me a day," he brags.
"I wish I had that," says Pomariga.
"I have like zero people hitting on me," says Jackson.
Alex, in a Steven Universe T-shirt, seems skeptical of Josh's claim. A student at De Anza college, he asked to use a pseudonym for this article. "Are these in queer spaces?" he asks.
"Really anywhere," Danner says. "It gets annoying." "
You could not have girls talking about sex, and you could not have guys doing it either. And you could not have any kind of a group where there are young people on BOTH SIDES of the age of consent line.
With heterosexuals there will always be the pool of opposite sex potential intimate partners. But then there will also be the same sex group of gossip peers who enforce the normative standards.
For gays, these two groups are the same. That has to make things completely different!
For hets, that group of gossipers, that is the one that enforces conformity.
SJG
The End of Work and the Case for Universal Basic Income Andy Stern, former President of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), author of Raising the Floor: How a Universal Basic Income Can Renew Our Economy and Rebuild the American Dream, and Senior Fellow at Columbia University's Center for Business, Law, and Public Policy youtube.com
How Ayn Rand Became a Hero to Right Wing Nerds -- Thom Hartmann youtube.com
Thom Hartmann: Atlas Shrugged - bizarre philosophy at work -- Thom Hartmann youtube.com
Alec Baldwin: Trump's 'SNL' Attack May Be 'A Threat To My Safety' yahoo.com
Kim Kardashian yahoo.com
Thierry Mugler en.wikipedia.org muglerusa.com livingly.com
Intimidation, Pressure and Humiliation: Inside Trump’s Two-Year War on the Investigations Encircling Him -- New York Times nytimes.com
Venus, Shocking Blue, actually live, with only what you see on stage, and not hamming for the camera, quite good, a coffee house grade performance youtube.com
Alvin Lee – The Bluest Blues youtube.com
JEFF BECK -Brush With the Blues youtube.com
Joe Bonamassa - I'll Play The Blues For You youtube.com
Joe Bonamassa - "Breaking Up Somebody's Home" youtube.com
Joe Bonamassa - The Thrill Is Gone youtube.com
There is no way there could have been a group like this for hetrosexuals, and especially back when I was the age of those in the article, like just turning 18! Heterosexuality was and still is bound up in cultural norms.
SJG
Radio astronomy parabola project youtube.com
How to Build a Radio Telescope youtube.com
How Composers use Fibonacci Numbers & Golden Ratio | Composing with Fibonacci youtube.com
How to Make Plasma, and Vacuum Devices (Fusion Reactors, Magnetrons and More!) youtube.com
Losing Arguments with Your Wife After Her Brain Surgery - Jim Gaffigan youtube.com
A most impressive article:
The origins of freemasonry : facts & fictions / Margaret C. Jacob. (2006)
Ending the Punishment of Poverty: Supreme Court Rules Against High Fines & Civil Asset Forfeiture democracynow.org
Frances Fox Piven, Professor of Political Science and Sociology at the Graduate Center, CUNY youtube.com
NOLO, Bourbon Street doxyspotting.com
AZTECA youtube.com
Peter Green - In The Skies ( Full Album ) 1979 youtube.com
I love the smell of napalm in the morning youtube.com
Usually it is only for gays that things are really that open and discussable. This is my conclusion about that news paper article.
Heterosexuality is still usually bound up in social norms.
SJG
The reason that religion is always so concerned about eradicating homosexuality is that, if they can't do that, they will end up losing their justification for regulating heterosexuality. Heterosexual freedom is still a ways out their yet. But homosexuals are leading the way.
SJG
Joe Bonamassa : Live At The Greek Theatre ( full album) youtube.com
Clark Terry Quartet - Satin Doll youtube.com
Trump's Enemies List theatlantic.com
Oakland CA
I think most of them would like to read your obituary.
So this is SJG coming out of the closet.
His better side was always san_jose_gay to bad he repressed him into not posting anymore at least SJGay was funny.
It’s amazing how this thread has remained so popular for so long
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Zucked activate.metroactive.com
Zucked: Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe amazon.com
"worldwide apparatus of persuasive technology designed to keep users engaged by appealing to lizard brain emotions and modifying their behavior, all while harvesting personal data and metadata to sell to advertisers"
Broken Book metroactive.com
Hidden Camera inside a Freemason Lodge ???? Looks good to me! ( stripper ) youtube.com
Miles Davis, Love for Sale youtube.com
John Coltrane My Favorite Things (1961) youtube.com
Do strippers usually makeout tuscl.net
So many links so little time
So interesting, but I still say impossible with heterosexuals.
SJG
Luke Howard, Talk Dirty To Me a graphic novel for mature readers
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Papi's No Nonsense Stripper Outfit ve.media.tumblr.com
That's a booty to die for. But if you follow the written instructions, you'll get that black paint all over you.
Critical Path amazon.com
Grunch of Giants amazon.com
Los Angeles
This one for me! doxyspotting.com
Jeff Healey youtube.com
Invisibly Visible: Identifying Masonic Symbols 1/3 youtube.com
Invisibly Visible: Identifying Masonic Symbols 2/3 youtube.com
Age of Surveillance Capitalism: “We Thought We Were Searching Google, But Google Was Searching Us” democracynow.org
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Kenneth Grant & Typhonian References youtube.com
Bernie Sanders Kicks Off 2020 Run in Brooklyn, New York
Sen. Rand Paul Likely to Oppose Nat’l Emergency in Decisive Vote
Metallica - Ain't My Bitch youtube.com
Master of Puppets youtube.com
Metallica - Bleeding Me youtube.com youtube.com
Thin Lizzy Full Concert U K 1983 youtube.com
Tillich has to be the antidote to the I am a Christian movement. But so many, like Episcopalians, cite Tillich as their main influcence. But then they promote the IAAC movement.
SJG
Huston Smith, the World's Religions
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Huston Smith talks about the Russian Classic, "Way of the Pilgrim".
People don't know who wrote this. But if one keeps saying the prayer, then their heart begins to beat that prayer.
Smith writes it as, "Lord Jesus Christ Have Mercy on Me a Sinner."
As I have read it is "Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, Have Mercy on Me a Sinner."
But David Steindl-Rast says that these are the two longer forms. He doesn't like this emphasis on sinfulness, so he only uses the shortest form:
"Lord Jesus Mercy"
Smith says that at Mount Athos there are 20 independently run monasteries, one run by each of the National Eastern Orthodox Churches. I had not known this.
SJG
Sister is frightened of her own people youtube.com
TJ Street farm6.staticflickr.com c1.staticflickr.com adelitasbartijuanamexico.com
Pleaser 9" and 10" pleaserusa.com
We're Still Right, They're Still Wrong s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com
So calling it either Jesus Prayer or Prayer of the Heart. Below explains some of the differences:
It was lots and lots of years ago that I first learned about this.
Not thinking this then, but reading Huston Smith today, what I think is that this is all very close to what Gurdjieff taught. Learning to say that prayer constantly, as Paul admonishes in Thessalonians, praying constantly, that is very much like the Gurdjieff self remembering, and also written about by P. D. Ouspensky.
So is there a connection?
Well I find:
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Elizabeth Warren, Town Hall Meeting, Jackson Mississippi, wants to eliminate Electoral College! Wants wealth tax, 2% per year on wealth over $50 Meg. youtube.com
Gary Clark Jr. - Bright Lights youtube.com
Joe Bonamassa - If Heartaches Were Nickels LIVE at the Beacon Theatre youtube.com
Robin Trower - Long Misty Days (1976) youtube.com
Venus, best live version youtube.com
Lady Love ( remaster ) youtube.com
THAVMA: Christian Occultism thavmapub.com
Full text online, good stuff, free:
SJG
Al Jaffee, still going strong:
Born March 13, 1921 en.wikipedia.org
SJG
Kudos to Meat72 for alerting me to Andrew Yang
Democratic Presidential Candidate Andrew Yang’s Campaign for Universal Basic Income | The Daily Show youtube.com
Official Site yang2020.com
SJG
More Andrew Yang youtube.com
SJG
down plays inflationary threat. But i say there still has to be public funding of housing, medial, and education.
SJG
cultural significance of jobs?
Lets put economic value into people's hands and then letting people create jobs and determine their own sense of value.
Creative or artistic, something the market right now won't support.
Opposes jobs guarantee, dividend much better.
SJG
"If you wanna do something that is valuable to you, you're gonna have to fight like mad for it. ... End up with the sort of career that you're actually proud of."
Still more Andrew Yang youtube.com
SJG
"When you do something that's important to you, other people can sense it."
SJG
So what can I glean about Aldous Huxley and his Perennial Philosophy?
published in 1945, and full text online
SJG
Christianity and Unknowing, Richard Rohr youtube.com
Being Stillness and Seeing youtube.com
Pablo Sender - The Secret Doctrine: Part 1 - How to Study The Secret Doctrine youtube.com
Social Entrepreneurship en.wikipedia.org
Robert A. Caro on the means and ends of power nytimes.com
The Irrationality of Alcoholics Anonymous getpocket.com
Origins of the Perennial Philosophy School of Thought youtube.com
Ananda Coomaraswamy en.wikipedia.org
Pretend You Have A Cold, Pelosi to Biden msn.com
Matrinism, French Revolution?
Gnostique.net gnostique.net
Patrick Lepetit - The Esoteric Secrets of Surrealism youtube.com
looks extremely interesting The Esoteric Secrets of Surrealism simonandschuster.com
look at the index amazon.com
SJG
more Le Droit Humain
book and videos julianrees.com
And then with Anslow
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So this Mulla Sadra en.wikipedia.org
developed this "Transcendent Theosophy", leader of the Iranian cultural renaissance in the 17th Century. Created "a major transition from essentialism to existentialism" in Islamic philosophy.
Considered a comparable influence in Islam to what Martin Heidegger has been in the West.
Theosophy (Boehmian), being traced to Jakob Bohem Theosophy (Boehmian) en.wikipedia.org
The term theosophia appeared (in both Greek and Latin) in the works of early church fathers, as a synonym for theology:[5][6] the theosophoi are "those knowing divine things".[5][7] The term however acquired various other meanings throughout its history.[8] The adjective "theosophos" (θεόσοφος) "wise in divine things" was applied by Iamblichus to the gymnosophists (Γυμνοσοφισταί), i.e. the Indian yogis or sadhus.[9]
Scholars of esotericism such as Godwin and Faivre differentiated the tradition of religious illumination from the religious system established in the late nineteenth century by Helena Blavatsky by referring to the latter with a capital letter as Theosophy, and the former with a lower-case letter as theosophy.[10][11] Followers of Blavatsky's movement are known as Theosophists, while adherents of the older tradition are termed theosophers.[10][11] Causing some confusion was the fact that a few Theosophists — such as C. C. Massey — were also theosophers.[10][11]
The term theosophy was used as a synonym for theology as early as the 3rd century CE.[6] The 13th-century work Summa philosophiae attributed to Robert Grosseteste made a distinction between theosophers and theologians. In Summa, theosophers were described as authors only inspired by the holy books, while theologians like Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite and Origen were described as persons whose task was to explain theosophy. Therefore, the terms were the opposite of the present-day meaning.[11]
Faivre stated that "Theosophy is a gnosis that has a bearing not only on the salvific relations the individual maintains with the divine world, but also on the nature of God Himself, or of divine persons, and on the natural universe, the origin of that universe, the hidden structures that constitute it in its actual state, its relationship to mankind, and its final ends."[32]
Theosophy actually designates a specific flow of thought or tradition within the modern study of esotericism. Thus, it follows the path starting from the more modern period of the 15th century onward. Faivre describes the "theosophic current" or theosophy as a single esoteric current among seven other esoteric currents in early modern Western thought (i.e., alchemy, astrology, Neo-Alexandrian Hermeticism, Christian Kabbalah, Paracelsism (i.e., the studying of the "prognostications" of Paracelsus), philosophia occulta and Rosicrucianism).[33]
Faivre noted that there are "obvious similarities" between earlier theosophy and modern Theosophy as both play an important part in Western esotericism and both claim to deal with wisdom from a gnostic perspective. But he says there are also differences, since they do not actually rely on the same reference works; and their style is different. The referential corpus of earlier theosophy "belongs essentially to the Judeo-Christian type", while that of modern Theosophy "reveals a more universal aspect".[34] Although there are many differences between Christian theosophy and the Theosophical movement begun by Helena Blavatsky, the differences "are not important enough to cause an insurmountable barrier".[35][36]
Theosophers engage in analysis of the universe, humanity, divinity, and the reciprocal effects of each on the other. The starting point for theosophers may be knowledge of external things in the world or inner experiences and the aim of the theosopher is to discover deeper meanings in the natural or divine realm. Antoine Faivre notes, "the theosophist dedicates his energy to inventing (in the word's original sense of 'discovering') the articulation of all things visible and invisible, by examining both divinity and nature in the smallest detail."[7] The knowledge that is acquired through meditation is believed to change the being of the meditator.[37]
Faivre identified three characteristics of theosophy.[38] The three characteristics of theosophy are listed below.
Theosophy: 1.Divine/Human/Nature Triangle: The inspired analysis which circles through these three angles. The intradivine within; the origin, death and placement of the human relating to Divinity and Nature; Nature as alive, the external, intellectual and material. All three complex correlations synthesize via the intellect and imaginative processes of Mind. 2.Primacy of the Mythic: The creative Imagination, an external world of symbols, glyphs, myths, synchronicities and the myriad, along with image, all as a universal reality for the interplay conjoined by creative mind. 3.Access to Supreme Worlds: The awakening within, inherently possessing the faculty to directly connect to the Divine world(s). The existence of a special human ability to create this connection. The ability to connect and explore all levels of reality; co-penetrate the human with the divine; to bond to all reality and experience a unique inner awakening.
SJG
Joe Golem: Occult Detective Volume 2--The Outer Dark
Brian Eno ( quite good ) youtube.com
Is it possible to have computers generate such music on their own, and even in real time?
So they say Neoplatonism started with "Ammonius Saccas and his student Plotinus and which stretches to the sixth century AD."
So how much of this is included in Christian Orthodoxy? How much is only part of Esoteric Christianity? How close is this to Kabbalah and Hermeticism? How much is in Esoteric Islam, like with the Niziri?
I have much to learn.
Book(s) about NeoPlatonism, a place to start?
SJG
Stanley Clarke Herbie Hancock & Chaka Khan Live youtube.com
So occult books can be hard to come by. But their is now a copy of Dion Fortune's "Applied Magic" available.
SJG
Free - Wishing Well (Official Video, w/ the Leyland dump truck) youtube.com
April Wine - I Like to Rock (Official Music Video) youtube.com
So "Applied Magic" in an anthology of some of her writtings, being republished. Should be good place to start.
SJG
The Birth of Biopolitics: A Summary youtube.com
SJG
Police live 2018 youtube.com
Biopower: Why We Don’t Revolt youtube.com
SJG
Alvin Lee – The Bluest Blues youtube.com
So in hand right now:
Finite and Infinite Games, by James P. Carse, 1986
small book, 152 pages
retains quite a following, widely seen as a critique of religion and of things which start to look like religion.
favorable review by Robert M. Pirsig, author of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Carse is Professor of Religion at New York University, has written other books before and since.
SJG
Led Zeppelin II - (Full ReMastered ) youtube.com
^^^^^ Book is really interesting, has such a following for a good reason!
"noted the connection between Carse's book and the works of Søren Kierkegaard, Henri Bergson, René Descartes"
SJG
Police - Roxanne - 2008, really altered the phrasing for this performance. Phrasing has always been a big part of their sound. youtube.com
I only like this heavily track overlaid studio recording of this song, not any of the live versions. Cause of the singer's style. And I don't so much like the other guys who usually sings this either. youtube.com
Suspicious Mind - Elvis Presley youtube.com
Glenn Campbell, experience really shows, in my opinion. They have a four string bass player, but notice the guy who solos on the six string bass. youtube.com
Try a Little Tenderness youtube.com
Lauryn Hill - Killing Me Softly youtube.com
I'd Rather Go Blind youtube.com
So, from Finite and Infinite Games, by James P. Carse, 1986
point number 41, quoting about Plato's Republic
"Even the rigid authoritarian shell of Plato's Republic will be "filled with a multitude of things which are no longer necessities, as for example all kinds of hunters and artists, many of them concerned with shapes and colors, many with music; poets and their auxiliaries, actors, choral dancers, and contractors, and makers of all kinds of instruments, including those needed for the beautification of women."
SJG
Michelle Alexander on The New Jim Crow, at Union Theological Seminary ( she wrote a very important book ) youtube.com
Paul Tillich Symposium: John Caputo Lecture youtube.com
Carse is outstanding. Book organized into sections numbered from 1 to 100.
Kind of book you really need to have on your shelf, so that you can read the book over a long period of time, spending a great deal of time on each section.
He has other books too.
SJG
Crow After Roe: How "Separate But Equal" Has Become the New Standard In Womens Health And How We Can Change That amazon.com
The End of Roe v. Wade: Inside the Right's Plan to Destroy Legal Abortion amazon.com
Protect our Reproductive Rights! prochoiceamerica.org
So besides with the biography, where to start with Foucault?
Read a small amount of this long ago: The Foucault reader / edited by Paul Rabinow 1984, 2010
"Truth and Method -- What is enlightenment? -- Truth and power -- Nietsche, genealogy, and history -- What is an author? -- Practices and knowledge -- Madness and civilization -- The great confinement -- The birth of the asylum -- Disciplines and sciences of the individual -- The body of the condemned -- Docile bodies -- The means of correct training -- Panopticism -- Complete and austere institutions -- Illegalities and delinquency -- The carceral -- Space, knowledge and power -- Bio power -- Right of death and power over life -- The politics of health in the eighteenth century -- Sex and truth -- We "other Victorians" -- The repressive hypothesis -- Practices and sciences of the self -- Preface to The History of Sexuality, Volume II --On the genealogy of ethics -- Politics and ethics."
Does not seem to get into Biopower / Biopolitics, Foucault's last stuff.
Well, this is the original, and it circulates a lot, 2008 edition The birth of biopolitics : lectures at the Collège de France, 1978-1979 / Michel Foucault ; edited by Michel Senellart ; translated by Graham Burchell
this is curious
Foucault, biopolitics and resistance / Lauri Siisiäinen (2019)
"Introduction -- Hellenistic-Roman/Enlightenment model of resistance -- Foucauldian self-help? : spirituality and biopolitics in the 21st century -- Politics of Aphrodisia and the gay mode of life -- Aesthetic counter-conduct -- Aesthetic and queer resistance : intersections and further questions -- From cynicism to ars erotica -- Foucault and zen : spirituality, resistance and affirmative biopolitics -- Conclusion"
Here:
Biopower : Foucault and beyond / edited by Vernon W. Cisney and Nicolae Morar (2016)
Biopower : Foucault and beyond
Judith Butler, born 1956, now at UC Berkeley en.wikipedia.org
Wendy Brown's Undoing The Demos, hard now to get on paper. Dang!
another Foucault anthology The essential works of Foucault, 1954-1984 / Paul Rabinow, series editor (2000)
Actually three volumes
" Power, the third and final volume of The New Press’s Essential Works of Foucault series, draws together Foucault’s contributions to what he saw as the still-underdeveloped practice of political analysis. It covers the domains Foucault helped to make part of the core agenda of Western political culture—medicine, psychiatry, the penal system, sexuality—illuminating and expanding on the themes of The Birth of the Clinic, Discipline and Punish, and the first volume of The History of Sexuality.
Power includes previously unpublished lectures, later writings highlighting Foucault’s revolutionary analysis of the politics of personal conduct and freedom, interviews, and letters that illuminate Foucault’s own political activism. "
Might be the place? amazon.com
Few philosophers have had as strong an influence on the twentieth century as Michel Foucault. His work has affected the teaching of any number of disciplines and remains, twenty years after his death, critically important. This newly available edition is drawn from the complete collection of all of Foucault's courses, articles, and interviews, and brings his most important work to a new generation of readers.
Ethics (edited by Paul Rabinow) contains the summaries of Foucault's renowned courses at the Collège de France, paired with key writings and interviews on friendship, sexuality, and the care of the self and others.
How about this
Michel Foucault : key concepts / edited by Dianna Taylor.
and then maybe that Essential Foucault.
Consider: Biopower : Foucault and beyond / edited by Vernon W. Cisney and Nicolae Morar (2016)
and Michel Foucault : key concepts / edited by Dianna Taylor
As places to start.
SJG
These could also be good places to start Resistance and the politics of truth : Foucault, Deleuze, Badiou / Iain MacKenzie (2018)
Between Deleuze and Foucault / edited by Nicolae Morar, Thomas Nail and Daniel W. Smith (2016), start with this.
SJG
Eve Ensler:
born 1953 en.wikipedia.org
Maybe this: eveensler.org
SJG
Ensler on Democracynow
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Eve's Revolution, Bioneers youtube.com
SJG
Maybe read this first, The Apology (2019)
SJG
Videos Which Explain Neo-Liberalism and the Later Foucault:
Neoliberals Rising: The Origins and Context of the Neoliberal Era ( 2 hours ) youtube.com
book: walmart.com
SJG
Nirvana - Reading Festival (1992) youtube.com
This is real good: Neoliberalism 2 hours youtube.com
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California Bans Private Prisons, and the Immigrant Detention Centers youtube.com
I believe that as more comes out about this, it will become clear that a big factor in these immigrant detention centers is just Trump getting to hand out money to his friends.
Neoliberalism 2 hours youtube.com
Neoliberalism in the Workplace: The Political economy of Bullshit - Jim Wolfreys
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Interview with the Neo-Jungian James Hillman scott.london
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Wendy Brown. In the account of Neoliberalism. 2016 youtube.com
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Foucault & Governmentality youtube.com
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Dr. Thomas Lemke: "Biopolitics: Current Issues and Future Challenges" youtube.com
It just so happens that this guy teaches at Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main. This is a most prominent address which I have posted about here before.
goethe-university-frankfurt.de
goethe-university-frankfurt.de
Theodor-W.-Adorno-Platz 6 Campus-Westend – PEG-Building
I believe that this Lemke, interpreting Foucault, sees the Nazi Death Camps as the defining incident of the 20th Century.
Always seemed that way to me, ever since in the 5th grade our Social Sciences teacher first explained them to us in great detail. He was Polish.
SJG
Rolling Stones - Gimme Shelter - Live '95 Amsterdam youtube.com
Here, this is it, drawing from Hardt and Negri, about the Nazi Eugenics,
From Empire page 392
SJG
Thomas Lemke has books, these seem to be the two to read:
Foucault, governmentality, and critique / Thomas Lemke 2011
Governmentality : current issues and future challenges / edited by Ulrich Bröckling, Susanne Krasmann and Thomas Lemke. (2011, book edited by Lemke)
A critique of political reason : Foucault's analysis of modern governmentality / Thomas Lemke ; translated by Erik Butler. (2019)
I believe that these also will in effect destroy the nonsense known as Libertarianism
SJG
Ursula K. Le Guin ursulakleguin.com
Left Hand of Darkness 50th Anniversary Edition
The Left Hand of Darkness Le Guin, Ursula K., 1929- +
Le Guin's Hainish series begins with the assumption that centuries ago humanoids from the planet Hain ventured through the solar system establishing colonies on various planets including Earth. For mysterious reasons these colonies lose all contact and knowledge of each other until the 21st century when an attempt is made to establish a galactic league. Individual stories in this loosely organized series explore the inherent communication difficulties in the mingling and clash of cultures that, over the centuries of separation, have developed widely disparate social and political structures as well as a range of biological differences.
Ursula Kroeber Le Guin was born in Berkeley, California, in 1929. She was the bestselling author of the Earthsea books and the Hainish books, including The Left Hand of Darkness, which was awarded both the Nebula and the Hugo Awards. With the awarding of the 1975 Hugo and Nebula Awards to The Dispossessed, she became the first author to win both awards twice for novels. She passed away in 2018.
SJG
The post is about what women read and he posts a YouTube video about Nazi eugenics.
At least he doesn't post about getting away with rape and doesn't have dancers getting him kicked out of clubs 🤡
Go: A Novel Paperback – September 5, 2002 by John Clellon Holmes (Author)
" Go concerns protagonist Paul Hobbes' struggle to maintain his marriage to his wife, Kathryn, while simultaneously indulging in the world of the 1940s and 1950s Beat Generation. It follows the complications of interpersonal relationships arising from a group of disillusioned and often eccentric young people. Hobbes finds himself in a world of promiscuity, casual drug use and petty crime but retains a certain detachment from it, sometimes to the annoyance of his friends. From wild all night parties to Allen Ginsberg's visions of William Blake to the death of Bill Cannastra, the events of the book are largely real events, some of them alluded to in other beat works, most notably Ginsberg's "Howl". Holmes has said that the only plot element entirely invented by himself is Kathryn's infidelity. "
Go / John Clellon Holmes *
Holmes was the first Beat Generation author to get published. Seems to chronicle marriage unworkability. Always wanted to read this.
SJG
Honeycomb by Joanne M. Harris (Author), Charles Vess (Illustrator)
SJG
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