Browsing the archives for the wisdom category
I’ve been listening to Stephan Hoeller lectures, as I go to sleep at night. This has given me a pretty good introduction to Hoeller’s brand of gnosticism. I have been assailed (in a way) by gnosticism for over 25 years.
I would buy occult books in my idiot teen years, and one of them was [...]
Howdy, Youdopia. I have a dram of wisdom for you Hemlock junkies. Robert Anton Wilson, he of the fnord, completely explains Quantum Mechanics. I can’t recall if I got this from my friend Brigid, or the other way around (probably got it from her) but it’s a nice little slice of clarity in a world [...]
Youdopia, I want to share one of my favorite songs with you. Mr. Bad Example by Warren Zevon. It is funny, frenetic and fantastic cheesy. The video is from an appearance on Letterman, as if that’s not obvious, but you can hear the original by clicking on the image above. Yes, I love easter eggs. [...]
Knock knock. Who’s There? Infinity. Infinity who? Infinity is pretty amazingly large. My dear Youdopia, one of the blogs I read daily, is The Daily Grail. This little video which is a zippity doo dah tour from Tibet to the edge of the cosmic horizon and back, was posted there. I just nicked it and [...]
I have fallen in love with this song, Youdopia. I know it’s like a year old, but I’m in my Forties. I’m not on the bleeding edge anymore. This is a rap about the function of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). That’s the big doughnut made by atheists in Switzerland to bring Satan back to [...]
I wanted to share these George Harrison videos with you, Youdopia. Why? Because I like you. You got a pretty mouth. I’m tired, and grumpy, so I’m not going to say much, other than Prince kicks ass on My Guitar Gently Weeps, which is at the George Harrison Memorial show. I kind of thought it [...]
I cut/pasted the below text straight from Drudgereport. I love the frankness and the obvious intelligence of Obama. I especially like how he answered the last question. He’s cool dude, and he’s from Chicago, so you know he’s crooked.
In a sobering holiday interview with C-SPAN, President Obama boldly told Americans: “We are out of [...]
Well, Youdopia, this is a quicky, but it’s still the Funniest Shit Ever. Well, kind of angry, but funny. Jon Stewart censures the Auto Makers to “Be A Fucking Person!” Humor is truth, sometimes. I saw this on The Daily Show, but I found the video while reading The Consumerist. You should read it too. [...]
This song has been rolling around my head this weekend, Youdopia. I love me some Bob Dylan, and this particular version is off the Biograph Box Set, which I purchased on Vinyl from Lechmere in 1985… to impress a girl. However, the music is awesome, so it was worthwhile. Visions of Johanna resonates with me [...]
This is a PSA by my friend Audacia Ray, who you may remember from the Love Machine viral vid from last year.
She is working with Sex Work Awareness, and the radical notion that sex workers are people too. This is her first one minute PSA, and I think it rocks. Coolest Shit Ever? Hell yes. [...]
When I lived in the ashram, back in 1991-92, my roommate, Richard, would read aloud from the Yoga Vasistha. This story was the first, in my recollection, that gave me the satori experience, and really defined what I had been experiencing in my meditations. Nondualism, nonexistence, existence, turtles all the way down. The nonesense of [...]
A Lecture on the Philosophy of Magick
By
Aleister Crowley
Extracted From The Magical Link Volume 8 No. 4
Copyright © O.T.O.
[Editor's Note: From Crowley's diary: He noted in his diary for August 17, 1932 "Saw Foyle - asked to speak at lunch Sept. 15 on "The
Philosophy of Magick." His hope was, as he wrote an aquaintance a few [...]
ephrix erõti periarchés d’ aneptoman
iõ iõ pan pan
õ pan pan aliplankte, kyllanias chionoktypoi
petraias apo deirados phanéth, õ
theõn choropoi anax
SOPH. AJ.
Thrill with lissome lust of the light,
O man! My man!
Come careering out of the night
Of Pan! Io Pan!
Io Pan! Io Pan! Come over the sea
From Sicily and from Arcady!
Roaming as Bacchus, with fauns and pards
And nymphs [...]
Youdopia, I succumb to shameless pandering at times. I am but mortal. Here is a viral vid of Rachel Maddow discussing the whole Boston Tea Party thing the nazis are doing. Of course, being clueless squares, the conservatives choose the unfortunate verb, “Teabag” as what one does to protest Obama’s attempts to form a more [...]
Hello, Youdopia. This is a cartoon from the Chicago Tribune in 1934. Sound familiar? Click the pic to see from where I ginked it.
From my island home I feel a chance
To kiss the tired ghosts of time and circumstance
So give me peace of mind and let me dance
Bury all my pain of years beneath the sand
Youdopia, This song moves me in its simplicity, vulnerability, and tiny shimmers of hermetic insight that the boys used to provide before Kashmir [...]
You can’t have too much of a good thing, Youdopia. This clip is as close to what I can say that I “believe” as I can get on YouTube. Om Shanti Shanti Shanti.
A little wisdom from Uncle Bob. Robert Anton Wilson changed my world as profoundly and Deeply as Siddha Yoga and Led Zeppelin combined. Taste this tidbit from the Man not long before he died. Fnord, and 23 skidoo, monsignor. Every man and every woman is a tsar, Youdopia. There is much to learn from Robert [...]
Feed Me, Seymour
