Wet Dreams: Semen out of Place (SOOP)
Celibacy, seminal retention, castration and Spermatorrhea all come from male-centered cultures and religions. Saving seed/oil/money from spilling and anxiety around wet dreams were also entangled in the cross-cultural need to distinguish dry men from wet women
Black Fire: Women, Tattoos, and the Transformative Power of Body Art
I was fifteen when I flipped through my first tattoo magazine and I remember being most captivated by the female models. They aroused a kind of primal sexual fascination in me because of how closely they lived to their own skin.
perhaps they were not metaphores after all
I can only imagine how Frank Calvert must have felt when he found it that day in the hills of Hissarlik in 1865
March Madness and Muscular Christianity
Presbyterian minister James Naismith is an important Muscular Christian. For him, basketball was a means to evangelize people about morality and Christian values, and to help turn the male body into a strong, Christian, masculine machine.
Oliver Lodge, Psychical Research and German Physicists: Heinrich Hertz and Max Planck
Since its foundation in 1882, the Society for Psychical Research (SPR), the first large organisation to scientifically investigate controversial phenomena associated with mesmerism and spiritualism, has boasted a considerable number of notable physical scientists among its members.
View into Skyland
Sky is a paradox and problem explored by phenomenologists and landscape artists. It blurs the line between self and other, and the specific way we perceive it is partially determined by our history, environment, and embodiment.
A History of Parapsychology and Psychical Research by George Hansen
June 15, 2013, Observatory Room Brooklyn NY, George Hansen, Author of The Trickster and the Paranormal presents – A History of Parapsychology and Psychical Research discussing the storied legacy of scientific investigation into psychic phenomena.
Explorations of Past Developments in Psychical Research: 2013
Carlos S. Alvarado, PhD, Visiting Scholar, Rhine Research Center highlights some of the work he has published in 2013, exploring the history of parapsychology and related areas.
Graham Hancock: The Historical Background for War God
Author Graham Hancock discusses the historical background of his latest novel War God, set in Post-Colombian MesoAmerica. The talk was given at Greensboro College at the invitation of Dr Jon Epstein, on November 11, 2013.
Civilization Class
We have a War on Drugs that includes some holy sacraments, and a War on Terror that might also be a War on Islam. There can be no Santo Daime church in America as a fixed location, and Muslims can't build a mosque without facing protests.
