The Twelve Tribes were funky Christian Marxists who "worked like capitalists, but divided the money like communists." Although they had each taken a vow of poverty, they somehow managed to have "an abundance of everything."
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It may be best to sanctify her scorched shell instead. To turn it into a true sanctuary, a hortus conclusus or enclosed garden, a teaching of the noble truth of impermanence.
From living next door to the Grateful Dead to a 80s new wave band with iconic guitarist Nels Cline to the psychedelic music, and spoken word stream Radio EarthRites to famed acid blotter art, Gwyllm Lwydd exemplifies a certain kind of renaissance man receiving too little attention in the media, and perhaps in history as well.
Sekhmet has reawakened, her devotees say, now when the world most needs the truth and justice Sekhmet represents. We were interested in finding out what Sekhmet’s devotees are experiencing, so we interviewed twelve devotees from around the world.
Sometimes you witness someone overcome endless obstacles, defy odds, swim strongly against the current, and succeed where others have predicted failure. Estela Pangoza is doing exactly that.
The carnival is the shadow of hierarchy. In every age, in every continent, it reappears as one answer to inequality. People return to the very parts of themselves that had to be repressed to fit in and highlight, exaggerate it in order to free themselves. The question today is, how are you going to return to yourselves?
Every object—including every organ, bone, and tissue in our body—has resonance, or a natural vibratory state. When the body is healthy and balanced, these vibrations are in harmony with each other.
Icaros: A Vision is a narrative feature about illness and healing in the Peruvian amazon. Leonor Caraballo, the film’s co-director, passed before seeing it finished. The film’s producer and co-writer Abou Farman sits down with mediums and readers to see how Leonor, his partner in life and art, feels about the film, her afterlife and other issues.
Books about alternative facts, totalitarianism in Western democracies, and slipstreaming into “alt worlds” make this editor’s 2017 reading list.