The Impeccable Lover
( by Amorah Yin Quan, from the Pleiadian Workbook: )

Since the Autumnal Equinox, my thoughts have again turned towards The Dark Mother & The Divine Feminine.
So I have returned to my research...

Are you familiar with the concept of Dark MatterIt seems curiously similar to some concepts that I have encountered in a number of different cosmologies ( Read more... )

Today is World AIDS Day.

I have been working in healthcare for the past year, and have been devoting my ritual practice to the entity who is appealed to for the treatment & healing of disease: Babalu Aye... who is also known by many other names: Sonponno (Nigerian Yoruba), Omolu (Brasilian Umbanda), Sakpata (Dahomey), Kobayende (et alia: Cuban ( Read more... )

this sort of thing ties my studies together (this semester, i am taking physical anthropology, biology, and philosophy)... thanks to hanzatsu, for providing additional inspiration to explore this topic!

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here's a vague outline of the material covered in this post ...see, sheilagh, i can take constructive criticism!:->

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( sexual paradox (complexity theory, evolutionary sociobiology, etc.) )

i have found that serious intimacy often breaks down severely with more than six or seven people in a group, unless there is some seriously heroic level of commitment to structured cooperation. i have always conceived of this immediate level of social grouping as a "hearth," in the context of a home, as a vital creative center, and with respect to ( Read more... )

x-posted in part from a flame war in polyamory

although there are really quite a few people out there who just don't like to do math... the understanding and implementation of game theory does require a certain degree of mathematical familiarity (even if only on an intuitive level), and some people just don't like to do any sort of number-crunching... ( Read more... )

Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.

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Although Isis is certainly central to the Golden Dawn system... and the Great Whore of Babalon is definitely an important archetype in Thelema... they are but facets of Nuit, who is revered as the supreme feminine force, and to whom the first chapter of the Book of the Law is dedicated...

(  ` ` From the primal Nuit is created Babylon, and from her is Isis, but what of Nepthys? ' ' )

x-posted from an entry in queenofhalves' journal, in a thread sparked by jessicamelusine:

we don't have to re-invent the wheel...

but do we need to refine our measurements (looking at stars with a microscope)?
and do we need more specialized tools (everything looks like a nail)?

my experience when i first picked up TES, was that of validation, ( Read more... )

Back when i started writing in my livejournal, i had just learned about Melanie Klein's theory of "projective identification." Recently, my friend yoginibare mentioned the "Bowen Theory of Triangles" and we talked about how such theories can be applied to organizations/communities. This exploration has also led me to discover the work of Wilfred ( Read more... )

2004-08-12 @ 11:22:00 addendum: further discussion of cooperative communities on 08/12/04

Ultimately, the economy of reciprocal altruism has been proven effective in theory -- whether demonstrated in an abstract sense through the prisoner's dilemma, or in the applied methodology of Bucky Fuller's Critical Path -- communities can be structured ( Read more... )