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Mary, Mary,
Margaret Starbird
An excerpt
from Margaret Starbird’s beautiful book entitled; Mary
Magdalene, Bride in Exile. A portrait of Mary Magdalene and
the controversy surrounding her relationship to Jesus. A heroine
that has been defiled throughout history by religious
authorities has finally staged a startling come back thanks to
Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code. |
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The Second Sex (Introduction),
Simone de Beauvoir
Philosophical discourse on Being
by atheists reveal that some might be more spiritual than
so-called religious people. This observation certainly applies
to Simone de Beauvoir. The Introduction to The Second Sex
shows the depths of her humanity and clarity of perception in
regards to her depiction of the Other as an essential
part of the essence of Being. Our posting of the Introduction
of her book is a small tribute to a most influential philosopher
of the 20th century. |
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The Permanent War,
Michael R. Fitzgerald
It's
tempting to believe that a change in which political party is in
power could bring about a major change in U.S. foreign policy.
But it isn't really so. The problem isn't in the White House or
Congress; it's structural, built into our economy. The fact is,
there are just too many people in the United States who are
dependent on war for their livelihoods. I was once one of them:
My father helped kill children in Vietnam in order to feed his
own kids... |
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Absolute Friends (Excerpt),
John Le Carré
An excerpt
form John Le Carré’s riveting political thriller about loyalty
and deceit. The war in Iraq inspired Le Carré into writing a
passionate book about the war on terrorism and its unsettling
consequences revealed by the ending of his book. Perhaps Le
Carré’s best writing since The Honorable Schoolboy. |
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Zuni Mythology
Thanks to Frank Hamilton Cushing, a pioneer anthropologist who lived among
the Zuni Pueblo
between 1879-1884, who recorded and made available to all the
beauty of Zuni culture. The mythology is a good example of New
Mexico’s Pueblo
lore posted as a complementary text to Zuni Cosmology
found elsewhere on this site. |
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Disinformocracy,
Howard Rheingold
Virtual communities could help citizens revitalize democracy, or
they could be luring us into an attractively packaged substitute
for democratic discourse. A few true believers in electronic
democracy have had their say. It's time to hear from the other
side. We owe it to ourselves and future generations to look
closely at what the enthusiasts fail to tell us, and to listen
attentively to what the skeptics fear... |
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The Military-Industrial Complex,
Dwight D. Eisenhower
We now stand
ten years past the midpoint of a century that has witnessed four
major wars among great nations. Three of these involved our own
country. Despite these holocausts America is today the
strongest, the most influential and most productive nation in
the world. Understandably proud of this pre-eminence, we yet
realize that America's leadership and prestige depend, not
merely upon our unmatched material progress, riches and military
strength, but on how we use our power in the interests of world
peace and human betterment... |
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The Journal of An Iraqi Woman,
Le Monde
The day by
day account of the tragedy of war recounted by an Iraqi woman.
Countering the anesthetized reporting by the media
delivered to an audience sitting in the comfort of their living
room. |
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A Wonderful Message
from George Carlin
The paradox of our time in
history is that we have taller buildings and shorter tempers,
wider freeways, but narrower viewpoints. We spend more, but have
less. We buy more, but enjoy less… |
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Dear Mr. President
Humorous comments about a war
President in connection with a literal interpretation and
contradictory examples taken from the Bible.
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The Inauguration: A Deist
Antecedent,
Joshua Lacroix
The first
President of the US inaugurated the ritual of the swearing-in.
The act of laying a hand on the Bible during the inauguration
was also originated by George Washington. However, Washington
was a devoted Free Mason and the rite of laying his hand on the
Bible contradicts both Masonic and Christian principles.
How we really Shutdown the WTO, Starhawk
It's
been two weeks now since the morning when I awoke before dawn to
join the blockade that
shut down the
opening meeting of the WTO. Since getting out of jail, I've been
reading the media
coverage and
trying to make sense out of the divergence between what I know
happened and
what has been
reported. |
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Cyberspace and the Dream of Teilhard
de Chardin, John R. Mabry
Progressive Catholics have long cherished Teilhard de Chardin
and his unique and mystical vision, and for those of us who have
only recently discovered the New Cosmology, his discovery is as
great an epiphany as the encountering of Hildegard, Julian of
Norwich, or any of the other mystics who testify to Divine
immanence. Teilhard was a man possessed of rare vision who was
capable of remythologizing his faith to fit the "facts" that his
scientific studies convinced him of.
Dancing With The Gods, Eric Raymond
I was raised
Catholic by a Catholic father and a relaxed Protestant mother. I had
my first mystical
experience in 1967
at the age of 10, at an old-style Latin Tridentine mass in the hills
outside
Rome, as the priests
were censing the aisle of the church during the Offertory. It
presented itself
as a sudden, intense
sense of being in a moment outside time, an eternal instant
co-existing with
every other eternal
instants of history, with the illusion of time and change stripped
away. "As
was in the
Beginning, is now, and ever shall be, World without End, amen"
conveys the flavor
exactly. |
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Web-Art
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Uncontrollable Semantics,
Jason Nelson
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Software{ART}Space
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ArtContext
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Turbulence
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