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Vegan UltraMarathoner 19 y
Pretty impressive!
Seattle man amazes everyone in 135-mile marathon--including himself
By KRISTIN DIZON
SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER REPORTER
Look at the photo of the man crossing the tape, arms raised in victory, mouth frozen in a primal yell.
He hardly looks as if he’s just run 135 miles, through 115-degree desert heat, from the lowest point in the United States to the slopes of one of its highest points, Mount Whitney.
You wouldn’t know that this was his first time racing the Badwater Ultramarathon, or that he shattered the course record by more than half an hour, or that he was a full two hour ... read more Andre Gide 19 y
Victories, ah sweet victory....
victory
”Do not scorn little victories.”
-Andre Gide (1869-1951)
visit the page Acharat and Althotas 19 y
"The letter Aleph represents equilibrated unity" as with Kundalini the union of the divine and flesh, in the union of male and female energy-Tantra in the Spiritual Realm
Cagliostro’s Serpent Seal
Dictionary of Symbols
Known as the Seal of Cagliostro, this unusual symbol depicts a serpent, an apple in its mouth, impaled with an arrow. This was found amongst the personal effects of Count Cagliostro upon his death in 195. While the symbol has obvious alchemical elements, its precise meaning is unknown. The well known nineteenth century occult writer Eliphas Levi has this to say regarding this emblem:
As explained by the cabalistic letters of the names Acharat and Althotas, it expresses the chief characteristics of the Great Arcanum and the Great Work. ... read more caduceus.
caduceus.
19 y
I'm the Hermetic Tradition, Rolling, Rolling, Rolling down the Hermes
Caduceus (kerykeion)
The caduceus is the legendary herald’s wand of the Greek God Hermes (Roman, Mercury). This symbol is nearly universal, found in Egypt, Mesopotamia, and India, where it is always a symbol of harmony and balance.
The caduceus has been mistakenly utilized as a symbol of the medical industry in the place of the wand of Asclepius (Asculapius), the Greek God of healing and medicine. The wand of Hermes is winged, and entwined with a pair of serpents; the Asclepius wand is not winged, and has only one serpent. The latter has been a traditional symbol of the medical p ... read more Ancient Mystical
Swedenborg 19 y
There are so many ancient mystical experiencial modes, I am having a heyday...with my process of discovery
Out of Body Experiences
from Dr. Sanjay Parva
Altered States of Consciouness
Socrates, the great philosopher, was known for entering spontaneous cataleptic trances, in which, as he had once explained, he was absorbed by “contemplation of his inner psyche.” Psychoanalysts use an umbrella term for this phenomenon and that is called Altered States of Consciousness, and the occurrence is sometimes equated with self-hypnosis.
There is a very interesting account of Socrates’ contemplation of his inner psyche in Plato’s Symposium where he describes Socrates “frozen in deep meditation en r ... read more Work the Numbers?! 19 y
This sums it up! Simple and if we would put the FEAR aside, and pay attention...Most of us would agree there is the air of overkill to our actions...
COMMENT:
Dear A-Letter Reader:
Someone once said that ”like dreams, statistics are a form of wish
fulfillment.” Often, for those who quote them, that’s certainly true.
Americans especially, seem to love numbers, often unquestioningly .
(Statistics are, in fact, the mathematics of the collection,
organization, and interpretation of numerical data).
What got me to thinking about statistics is an article by Charlie Reese,
a very conservative gentleman who has been a columnist for 49 years,
most recently for the Orlando Sentinel. He suggests that we all take a
closer look at terr ... read more Christ in the Etheric World 19 y
Preparation of Human Beings for the Second Coming of the Christ Through the Development of Etheric Vision
When a person has concerned himself for some time with the world conception of spiritual science, and then permits the various thoughts, ideas and kinds of knowledge which he has thereby acquired to work upon him, this varied knowledge suggests to him the most manifold questions. And, indeed, one develops as a spiritual scientist through connecting such questions -- which are in reality questions of the heart and mind and character, in short, questions of life -- with the ideas of spiritual science.
These ideas do not serve merely to satisfy our theoretical or scientific curiosity. Rath ... read more How little we Know! 19 y
We make many decisions without "knowing", I say, develop your intuition~right decisions will flow easily.
How Little We Know
by Michael S. Rozeff
by Michael S. Rozeff
”How little we know
How much to discover
What chemical forces flow
From lover to lover”
Can you hear Sinatra’s voice? Then tell me, what’s the rest of the lyric? Can’t remember? Join (most) of the rest of us. Those of you who know the whole lyric, tell me exactly what you’ll be doing 2 hours from now. These are hard questions. Maybe for this web site and non-Sinatra fans a political question is fairer. What man is seventh in line to become President should the first six in line die?
I know so very little. How mu ... read more Emerson 19 y
What's in a name-?
Names
”What signifies knowing the Names,
if you know not the Natures of things.”
-Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
visit the page Sovern A-Letter-Rights? 19 y
Left to our own devices...are we a just and moral people?...Or do our corporate cultures reflect the ethics of whole winning at all costs? Also, if such ethics exist in any faction of our culture is the rest refectivly encumbered?
COMMENT: Majestic Congress?
Dear A-Letter Reader:
In 1785, when the United States was yet to be constitutionally formed, a
leading French journalist and politician, Pierre-Louis de Lacretelle,
viewing the infant America from afar, spoke enthusiastically about what
he saw as ”the hope of mankind...an open refuge and a promise great.”
Addressing himself to the members of the American Continental Congress,
Lacretelle, wrote: ”Lawmaking peoples, never lose sight of the majesty
of your function and of the importance of your task. Be nobly proud and
holily enthusiastic at the prospe ... read more Policy supercedes Facts 19 y
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Karl Rove’s America
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By PAUL KRUGMAN
Published: July 15, 2005
John Gibson of Fox News says that Karl Rove should be given a medal. I agree: Mr. Rove should receive a medal from the American Political Science Association for his pioneering discoveries about modern American politics. The medal can, if necessary, be delivered to his prison cell.
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What Mr. Rove understood, long before the rest of us, is that we’re not living in the ... read more Chinese Wal-Mart of Art? 19 y
Chinese copies of the Art Master's, $35-$40 a Painting? China, the Wal-Mart of Art
Own Original Chinese Copies of Real Western Art!
By KEITH BRADSHER
Published: July 15, 2005
SHENZHEN, China - Zhang Libing has painted more van Goghs than van Gogh ever did.
At 26, Mr. Zhang estimates that he has painted up to 20,000 copies of van Gogh’s works in a paint-spattered third-floor garret here where freshly washed socks and freshly painted canvases dry side-by-side on the balcony.
Chang W. Lee/The New York Times
Zhang Libing estimates that he has produced up to 20,000 copies of paintings by Van Gogh. More Photos
Chang W. Lee/The New York Times
Ye Xiaodong, 25, ... read more Taiwan; A-Bombs and USA? 19 y
UNOCAL, TAIWAN, Nuclear Weapons, China, Cnooc?
Chinese General Threatens Use of A-Bombs if U.S. Intrudes
By JOSEPH KAHN
Published: July 15, 2005
BEIJING, Friday, July 15 - China should use nuclear weapons against the United States if the American military intervenes in any conflict over Taiwan, a senior Chinese military official said Thursday.
”If the Americans draw their missiles and position-guided ammunition on to the target zone on China’s territory, I think we will have to respond with nuclear weapons,” the official, Maj. Gen. Zhu Chenghu, said at an official briefing.
General Zhu, considered a hawk, stressed that h ... read more Western Civilization 19 y
Very interesting survival talk-
COMMENT: The Stakes: Western Civilization.
Dear A-Letter Reader:
When Mahatma Ghandi was asked what he personally thought of Western
Civilization, the revered leader of India said he thought ”it would be a
good idea.”
Putting aside Ghandi’s clever, Third World reply, and allowing for many
global cultural differences, we do believe in the superiority of Western
Civilization and the particular cultural heritage that has been dominant
in Europe and the Americas for many centuries and now has spread worldwide.
Even so astute an observer as Pres. George Bush has described the Londo ... read more Med Intuitive "Sees" Cancer 19 y
If you choose to be stuck in your life, your life may respond by morphing your energy into illness
A Medical Intuitive Looks At Cancer
Disease Of Unfinished Business
Guest article by Christopher Stewart
Cancer, the very word creates fear in many of us. We all know someone who has had cancer, or died from cancer. Some of us may even worry each day, “Do I have cancer?” “What’s that lump?” “That pain?”
In my work as a medical intuitive, I have worked with many persons who had cancer. The medical intuition information that arises in their sessions is important, poignant, and always healing.
Healing has to do with a sense of meaning. Healing occurs when suffering no longer causes ... read more Distinctions of Language and Power 19 y
I see a lot of illness, complaint, pain and fear~ Why is this so. How to mend this Maya, delusion? For 5 minutes pretend that you really are the microscosm of the macrocosom, and that we are all One- Are you treating your "other parts" with love. When you look into another eyes Can you see the seed of yourself? It is harder with some than others!
names
”Let us make distinctions, call things by the right names.”
-Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
Language is an art and a science. We have so many words for things, each of which distinguishes itself in some particular way. As we learn and grow, we become more discerning. We understand the differences between the details, and why they are valuable.
-Lissa Coffey
This could be a cold water blog but really who the heck cares...
The more I study about man’s domain over the planes of existence, ie, our spiritual nature and the more I exercise my desires on this plane...I unde ... read more Life and Risk-? 19 y
The bleeting of the small mind, the reactionary I Q, the lesser human is the reaction of those who may have something to gain
The Terrorist’s Rationale
Published: July 9, 2005
In ”The Secret Agent,” published almost a century ago, one of Joseph Conrad’s characters remarks that a terrorist act ”must be purely destructive.”
”It must be that, and only that,” he wrote, ”beyond the faintest suspicion of any other object. ... Madness alone is truly terrifying, inasmuch as you cannot placate it either by threats, persuasions or bribes.” There is nothing remotely articulate in bombings like the ones that took place in London on Thursday. But there is nearly always a goal behind terrorism. In Conrad’s day, it may ... read more |