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Write Post Add Photo Ask Question Write something... UPDATED POSTS Sasha Non Serviat In 2010, every fifth American atheist expressed a belief in God, as did 50 % of the American agnostics. 8 % of the "atheists" were "absolutely certain" of i t, as were 17 % of the "agnostics". (http://religions.pewforum.org/pdf/report2re ligious-landscape-study-key-findings.pdf) A belated addition to the atheism debate. My point in posting this is, that NOTHING is black and white, and no amount of argumentation can make it so. There is indeed a great deal to be said for both ep??? and Pyrrhonism.... http://religions.pewforum.org/pdf/report2religious-landscape-study-key-findi ngs.pdf religions.pewforum.org Like Follow Post Share 20 hours ago 3 people like this. Simon Magus ?Angela Voss - it was a LONG night ;) 2 hours ago Like 1 Angela Voss Can't digest everything, but can make a few points: about an hour ago Like Angela Voss ?1. Rupert Sheldrake's talk I posted above exposes the d ogmas of materialist science and demolishes the 'certainties' built on assumptio ns. about an hour ago Like 1 Fotis Anagnostopoulos ?10 percent of the atheists are praying - to w hat? But the rubric is "Prayer - meditation", things highly divergent. The resea rch in detail would be interesting, but this summary is open to easy misundersta ndings. about an hour ago Like Mark Gordon Angela i would strongly disagree. sheldrake's twaddle ha s been thoroughly debunked, torn apart and thrown down the pan. about an hour ago Like Angela Voss sorry, keep pressing the wrong button! Anyway I am not a scientist b ut I can't see any flaws in his argument about consciousness not being confined to the brain in a physical sense. Given that, we can conisder the possibility th at there ar...See More 50 minutes ago Like 2 Angela Voss It is impossible to discuss things in an open minded fas hion with you Mark, therefore I am not even going to try. If you call Sheldrake twaddle, then there is no hope of opening even a chink of light and I am not was ting my time any further. 12 minutes ago Like Sasha Non Serviat ?(Mark - this is said with the sweetest possible smile. Can you plea se refrain from using pejoratives such as "twaddle", "woo" etc and try to aim fo r slightly more neutral language? I'm not asking you not to say what you believe , simply to ...See More 10 minutes ago Like Sasha Non Serviat And in addition, flawed work is not necessarily us eless work. Freud has been debunked, but his methods are still taught. Einstein has been corrected, but he is still considered unique among scientists. Absolute perspectives are not particularly conducive to dialogue. 9 minutes ago Like

Simon Magus I'm not sure Freud has been 'debunked' - maybe the empha sis and client group employed was suspect. Certainly psychodynamics is pretty mu ch culturally embedded these days. But I agree with the point Sasha. 2 minutes ago Like Mark Gordon Sasha ok. Dear Rupert is wrong. 6 seconds ago Like Write a comment... Andy Green Today is the anniversary of the death of Werner Heisenberg. Might we consider him an esotericist? Many thanks to Payman Akhlaghi for finding this... Oral History Transcript Dr. Werner Heisenberg www.aip.org Oral history interviews with leading scientists (including transcripts and v oice clips) from the Center for History of Physics and the Niels Bohr Library & Archives at the American Institute of Physics Like Follow Post Share 5 hours ago 2 people like this. Andy Green For Antoine Faivre, esotericism possesses 'four intrinsic elements' which are ?(1) correspondences, (2) living nature, (3) imagination an d mediation, and (4) the experience of transmutation. 5 hours ago Like 1 Andy Green If you search for "heisenberg esotericism", in google, it won't come as much of a surprise that top of the list, and almost alone, is a b rief but telling link to Antoine Faivre... 3 hours ago Like 1 Andy Green I feel like a complete idiot. K-C has the book in questio n! 2 hours ago Like Andy Green Anyway, I'd like to quote a couple of passages from Heise nberg's 1942 manuscript, to see if it can step over the boundary between "hard s cience" and "esotericism". 2 hours ago Like Andy Green ?"What we said earlier about how the diverse domains of reality must necessarily fit together most likely also compels us to conclude that the unity represented by a particular human beings' consciousness must have ceased to exi st before th...See More 2 hours ago Like Andy Green ?"At the gate that leads from the domain of simple consciousness to the field of the mind and everything connected to it stands the "symbol". Howeve r little we know for now about this array of connections, it may even be justifi ed to gather...See More 2 hours ago Like Fotis Anagnostopoulos I see you mentioning at times this MS, dear An dy. Is that the one published with the title "Order of reality"? Is it available somehow? about an hour ago Like Andy Green ?Fotis... "http://www.pearlprints.co.uk/TRANSLATION%20PRO JECT.pdf" 31 minutes ago Like Write a comment... Simon Magus http://www.historyofastrology.org.uk/conferences/TimeAndPlace/index.html Like Follow Post 54 minutes ago Simon Magus Astrology in Time and Place: 10th Annual Sophia Centre C onference June 2012

52 minutes ago Like Write a comment... Angela Voss http://sheldrake.meovi.com/live-stream?utm_source=Live-Stream+with+Rupert+Sh eldrake&utm_medium=email&utm_term=Rupert&utm_content=Live%2BStream&utm_campaign= b38255e2ab-NL_LiveStream1_30_2012 Like Follow Post about an hour ago David Metcalfe and Fotis Anagnostopoulos like this. Write a comment... Fotis Anagnostopoulos http://www.archive.org/details/listsofmanuscrip00jameuoft Lists of manuscripts formerly owned by Dr. John Dee; with preface and identi fications : James, M. R. www.archive.org ?26 Like Follow Post Share Yesterday at 6:57am 3 people like this. Andy Green See also: "http://www.bibsoc.org.uk/documents/John%20Dee' s%20Library%20Catalogue%204.pdf" Yesterday at 7:53am Like Andy Green and: "http://www.gutenberg.org/files/19553/19553-h/19553h.htm#page26" Yesterday at 8:00am Like Fotis Anagnostopoulos Many many thanks! Yesterday at 8:24am Like Andy Green BUT, how do we get to see this? "http://books.google.co.u k/books/about/John_Dee_s_library_catalogue.html?id=ttwVAQAAIAAJ&redir_esc=y" Yesterday at 8:27am Like Fotis Anagnostopoulos Speaking of the philosopher of Mortlake... http://www.scribd.com/bobo4660/d/78113288-The-Diaries-of-John-Dee-Ed ward-Fenton-Ed-1998 The Diaries of John Dee, Edward Fenton, Ed., 1998 www.scribd.com Scribd is the world's largest social reading and publishing site. Yesterday at 8:35am Like 1 Fotis Anagnostopoulos Where the "look inside" mode appears, the whol e book is available on line: http://www.springerlink.com/content/?k=John+Dee Search Results - SpringerLink www.springerlink.com International Archives of the History of Ideas / Archives internatio nales d'hist...See More Yesterday at 9:05am Like 1 Fotis Anagnostopoulos In the results of the above link, where the "l ook inside" mode appears, the whole book is available online. Yesterday at 9:07am Like Fotis Anagnostopoulos Not related, but just found: http://researcharchive.vuw.ac.nz/bitstream/handle/10063/1269/thesis. pdf?sequence=1 Yesterday at 9:21am Like 1 Fotis Anagnostopoulos Eccoci qua: http://www.ampltd.co.uk/digital_guides/ren_man_series1_prt1/contents .aspx RENAISSANCE MAN Series 1 - Part 1 www.ampltd.co.uk RENAISSANCE MAN: The Reconstructed Libraries of European Scholars: 1 450 - 1700 ...See More Yesterday at 9:32am Like 1 Fotis Anagnostopoulos I know I become tedious, but couldn't leave th is unnoticed:

http://www.themagickalreview.org/enochian/mss/sloane_31 3 hours ago Like Write a comment... Andy Green There are eight parts to this, but worth persevering. (And although CERN can make a Hadron collider, audio/visual presentation defeats them, so start at 1:5 0). The discussion, which begins in 7, is good. The Strange Friendship of Pauli and Jung - Part 1 www.youtube.com http://www.arthurimiller.com/ - "The Strange Friendship of Pauli and Jung When Physics Met Psychology" A lecture given by Prof. Arthur I. Miller (Universi ty... Like Follow Post Share 8 hours ago 2 people like this. Andy Green ?"The same organizing forces that have shaped nature in a ll her forms are also responsible for the structure of our minds. Werner Heisenberg" 7 hours ago Like 1 Mark Gordon Ive been saying as much all along. 7 hours ago Like Andy Green Mark, no problem with the 1942 manuscript then? 6 hours ago Like Mark Gordon Still some including its density. 6 hours ago Like Sasha Non Serviat No argument with that. Let's not forget that as far as esotericism g oes, Nature is, after all, supposed to be the prime "instructor"...... "In all t hings follow Nature," said Paracelsus. Now if some people wa nt to dress that up in fancy pa...See More 5 hours ago Like 3 Fotis Anagnostopoulos Sasha, you confirm my solitary thoughts of man y years ago, that we can do religion with bare hands and feet, so to say. No dec oration... 4 hours ago Like 1 Write a comment... Sasha Non Serviat ? s? e???? ? ???a ?? st?? ? e??da METACON, e t?t?? "? ?etaf?s??? ????da;" . Te? ? s??? a??t???a se ????? t??? d????a??t??! See Translation Sasha.mpg www.youtube.com ? ? ???a t?? ?a? Sasha Chaitow st?? Metacon 2012. ? Sasha Chaitow e??a? ?p???f ?a d?d??t?? st?? ??t??? ?s?te??s ? st? pa?ep?st? ?? t?? ??ete?, ??t???? MA ??t?... Like Follow Post Share January 28 at 3:59pm 14 people like this. Sasha Non Serviat ? ? ???a t?? ?a????t? St?fa??? ?a?p?t?: http://youtu .be/OH4OYR12zC0 January 28 at 4:00pm Like Iakovos Patiniotis ??st???? ??asa ??? t? p??t? ????. ?ta? ?a ?atap???t ??? e pe???a p?? ?????a st? MetaCon. ???? ???s?, e???? ?a? p???? p?? s????esa? t? s? e ???? event. January 28 at 4:06pm Like 1 Sasha Non Serviat ?, ?p?te de? pa?ap??? t? p??t? ????! ??st???? ??? a? t? ta d?? ??? ?e? se ??te??? (de? ???? a? ??p???? t????e ta ?p????pa!) January 28 at 4:10pm Like Amarissia Sigala ?ta? e?a??et??a!! Sa? e??a??st?? e pa?a p???! January 28 at 10:36pm via mobile Like 2 Sasha Non Serviat St?? ???? ap?????s ? p?? et?? asa ??a t? ?tes??? ? e??da

t??a ??s?ete ?a? t? ?e? e?? t?? ? ???a?: http://phoenixrising.org.gr/en/metacon-2012%CE%AD%CE%BD%CE%B1%CF%82-%CE%BC%CE%B9%CE%BA%CF%81%CF%8C%CF%82-%CE%B1%CF%80%CE%BF %CE%BB%CE%BF%CE%B3%CE%B9%CF%83%CE%BC%CF%8C%CF%82/#.TyWIPlxc8ySunday at 9:56am Like 2 Eleni Tsoukala ??ste?? a??ada?ta ?t? t?t???? e?d??? ?? ata p??pe? ?a ????? ?a? ?????? e?p??s?p??? ?p?? e?sa? es?.Te??? t?? "es?te??s ?" t??e?? p?? e?f?a?eta? ?a? a?a?? eta? ?sa ap? se?a ?a? ta st???e?a ?a?a?t??a p?? se ?a?a?t??????? ?p?? ? se ??t?ta ? a?...See More 5 hours ago Like 1 Sasha Non Serviat ? ? ????? ??. ?,t? p??? ????, ?? e?e?p?st? ?t? ?a p? ?se? t?p?. ???ta ??a t? ?a??te??. 5 hours ago Like 1 Minas Papageorgiou ???a??tata ???? a???? t? ??d? ?a ???? e a?e?se? ??? t? ????? t?? Metacon st? d?ad??t?? :) 5 hours ago Like 1 Eleni Tsoukala ???a? a?t???pt? , ?t? a?t? p?? ???e?? t? ???e?? ?a?? ,?p?? e??a? ?a? e fa?e? ?t? a?t? p?? ???e?? "e?sa? es?",e?sa? ?sa se a?t? ?a? de? t ? ??ta? ap??? ?p?? ?? pe??ss?te???...???a? "st?s? ????" p??? ap ??a ..... 5 hours ago Like 1 Sasha Non Serviat ??t? a????? ?????. ?a? t?sa ?????a p?? e ???e??, ?a' ?e?? ?ata??e? ?t? ?a? ?a ???? de? p??? ?a ?e?t?????s? d?af??et???... 5 hours ago Like Write a comment... Nina McGhie Cooper www.sacred-texts.com/isl/masnavi/ The Masnavi Index www.sacred-texts.com The Masnavi, by Rumi, tr. by E.H. Whinfield, [1898], full text etext at sacr ed-texts.com Like Follow Post Share 6 hours ago Sasha Non Serviat likes this. Write a comment... Fotis Anagnostopoulos http://www.scribd.com/bobo4660/d/79798749-The-Queen-s-Conjurer-Benjamin-Wool ley-2001 www.scribd.com Like Follow Post Share Monday at 7:34am 3 people like this. Andy Green Also I think it is important that Kelley obtained the "ki t" for making gold while next to a Welsh river. Allegedly.... Yesterday at 1:34am Like Simon Magus I didn't know that Andy!! Still, we haven't dug anything out of the Clogau Mine for a long time now. I think Welsh Gold - extemely expen sive - is mostly obtained by electrolysis these days. But if you can afford it, it is rather lovely - RED gold (high copper content) xx 23 hours ago Like Simon Magus Go to the Clogau Mine Website - and scare youself xx 23 hours ago Like Simon Magus That's 'Clog- eye' xx 23 hours ago Like Andy Green ?Simon, it doesn't scare me! To prove it, I'm going to sa ve up for their carrier bag! Hang on though, that's worth 10 cigarettes... 12 hours ago Like Andy Green Seriously though, it seems to me that a good deal of our interpretat ion of "British" attitudes from around 1580, depends on whether Kelley could mak e gold, or whether it was a scam. Dee, Cecil, and the Queen herself, must have b elieved it...See More 12 hours ago Like

Simon Magus Now that you mention it, I do remember that the mud down by the streams in Monmouth (Raglan) where I used to play as a child had that re d sort of mud. Obviously, I think that's due to iron content - rather than 'merc uric' cinnibar! 8 hours ago Like 1 Simon Magus And I love the Prague story, with Kelly falling from the castle tower ( Don't as me to spell Hradchadny!) 8 hours ago Like 1 Andy Green I guess there was plenty of gold in the silt back then. A nd cinnabar was already well-known. 8 hours ago Like Simon Magus Close to where I was born in Newport, down by the Bristo l channel on the coast is an area called 'Goldcliff.' The legend of the name was that a large nugget was found there... 8 hours ago Like 2 Write a comment... Fotis Anagnostopoulos http://www.scribd.com/harvard_press/documents?page=1 http://www.scribd.com/harvard_press/documents?page=1 www.scribd.com Like Follow Post Share Yesterday at 6:55am Simon Magus Haggard, Fawcett and the Black Basalt Idol....Atlantis anyone? http://www.phfawcettsweb.org/basalt.htm The Great Web of Percy Harrison Fawcett www.phfawcettsweb.org Fawcett had an image carved from a piece of black basalt about 10 inches hig h (25 cm) that was given to him by Sir H. Rider Haggard, who brought it from Bra zil and it represented a figure with a plaque on its chest inscribed with a numb er of characters, and which ... Like Follow Post Share Monday at 11:28am Christina Savvani likes this. Simon Magus It isn't the garbled link I'm intrigued by, of course, b ut the 'Archaeology of the Imaginal' ( 'half-castle'...oh dear me....)... Monday at 12:18pm Like Write a comment... Simon Magus If anyone would like to see the slides for my presentation to the Rider Hagg ard Society (September 2011) entitled 'Rider Haggard and the Imperial Occult' or my talk for the PRA Open Day at Treadwells in October 2011 - 'Magic and Madness : A Brief Exploration of Language' - these are now available on my page at Acade mia.Edu. Like Follow Post Sunday at 4:29am David Metcalfe and 3 others like this. Simon Magus I would post them here, but I don't know how. (Not very technical I'm afraid - these new -fangled quills) Sunday at 4:42am Like 2 Andy Green ?"http://exeter.academia.edu/SimonMagus/Talks/69957/Magic _and_Madness_A_Brief_Exploration_of_Language" Sunday at 6:37am Like 2 Andy Green ?"http://exeter.academia.edu/SimonMagus/Talks/69949/Rider _Haggard_and_the_Imperial_Occult" Sunday at 6:40am Like 1 Christian Giudice cheers, Andy! Sunday at 6:45am Like 1 Andy Green I'd love to read the text! Sunday at 6:47am Like 2 Simon Magus There was no text - they were talks....Sasha berated me for this!! It's what I do. But it will be written down in due course xx Sunday at 10:07am Like

Simon Magus I shall attempt to dictate them- and audiotype them at a later stage. Those transcripts will include what I intended to say but didn't h ave the time. xx Sunday at 10:32am Like Sasha Non Serviat Please do - then I can get round to a much-delayed presentation on the website too! Sunday at 11:40am Like Simon Magus Posts appearing and disappearing. There was no formal te xt as they were both talks for intelligent 'lay' people rather than formal paper s: the slides were just an aide memoire for me. However, I shall try to put some thing down on paper in due course. Sunday at 1:56pm Like 2 Andy Green ?Simon, "Magic and Madness" has kept me enthralled since you put up this post. And thanks for the introduction to AOS. It makes me wish I had more time to explore those things that are completely new to me. Monday at 8:24am Like 1 Write a comment... Simon Magus I've just finished reading this. Don't sneer....sometimes these picture book s are really excellent. And I recommend this one... Introducing Hegel: A Graphic Guide www.amazon.co.uk Introducing Hegel: A Graphic Guide: Amazon.co.uk: Lloyd Spencer, Andrzej Kra uze: Books Like Follow Post Share Monday at 7:31am 4 people like this. Andy Green Brilliant! Amazon has Kant as well... Monday at 8:08am Like Simon Magus Well, might just be worth a dip ;) Monday at 8:17am Like Write a comment... Fotis Anagnostopoulos Orlov, Andrei a., From Apocalyptic Ism to Merkabah Misticism Studies in the Slavonic Pseudepigrapha. www.scribd.com Scribd is the world's largest social reading and publishing site. Like Follow Post Share Monday at 7:28am Andy Green So now to consider "hard science and spiritual, or supernatural, elements... " Oh, and it has to involve music - at least to begin with. As Shakespearewrote - "Is it not strange that sheeps' guts should hale souls out of men's bodies?" ...See More Like Follow Post January 27 at 9:17am 3 people like this. Simon Magus Though a 'psyche-iatros' is , of course a 'Doctor of the Soul'....though I'm not sure how many of them know that! :) January 28 at 6:53am Like 1 Fotis Anagnostopoulos You're definitely what the ancients called a i atro-philosophos :) January 28 at 6:56am Like 1 Simon Magus Well, we aim to please..;))) January 28 at 6:58am Like 2 Fotis Anagnostopoulos I have in my hands a old work by Rudolph Haase , Pythagorean harmonic symbolism, translated by a greek esotericist of pythagore an tendencies. I wouldn't know what it worths, though... January 28 at 7:00am Like 1

Andy Green ?Simon, I've never read Kant, that's no surprise. But I a sked K-C whether Basarab had, and she nearly choked on her morning coffee, what with laughing so much... January 28 at 1:04pm Like 1 Simon Magus I diddn't say he had, but I'm glad that I amused you :) January 28 at 1:31pm Like Simon Magus These ideas are pervasive and can be passively absorbed without necessarily being read.. January 28 at 1:33pm Like 2 Simon Magus I haven't read Kant either. I understood, albeit at second hand that the idea of a 'subject' and an 'object' - the 'observer' and the 'observed' was originally a Kantian formulation though it has become so intrinsic to our way o f thinking a...See More January 28 at 2:24pm Like 1 Andy Green I treasure my unopened, beautifully bound, copy of Kant. It reminds me of "Schrdinger". If I open it will I find nothing but a dead cat? Sunday at 6:55am Like 1 Andy Green ?Fotis, your reference to Rudolph Haase led me to the fol lowing website. I have some doubts, but obviously Joscelin Godwin doesn't... "ht tp://hanskayser.com/EZ/kayser2/kayser2/index.php" Sunday at 9:10pm Like 1 Write a comment... David Metcalfe Watching Rupert Sheldrake, a former Research Fellow of the Royal Society, pr ovides a great contemporary view of developments in the metaphysical arguments t hat went on between various expressions of Masonry during the Enlightenment, as outlined by Christopher McIntosh in his Rose Cross & the Age of Enlightenment. (Ignore the become a member description, link leads to archived live-stream from a talk he recently gave at King's College London) Meovi SheldrakeTV sheldrake.meovi.com Become a member of interactive Sheldrake TV and discover the vision of a liv ing, developing universe. Watch high quality videos with first class content of topics like paranormal phenomena, morphic resonance and psychic animals. Have co nversations with the world s most innovative biologist and write... Like Follow Post Share Sunday at 4:56pm 2 people like this. Write a comment... Fotis Anagnostopoulos Luzac, the Reports of the Magicians and Astrologers of Niniveh and Babylon, Vol.I. London, 1900, 110 www.scribd.com Scribd is the world's largest social reading and publishing site. Like Follow Post Share January 28 at 3:19am Simon Magus Western Esotericism rsnonline.org Religious Studies News is the newspaper of record for the field especially d esigned to serve the professional needs of persons involved in teaching and scho larship in religion (broadly construed to include religious studies, theology, a nd sacred texts). Published by the American Academy of Religion... Like Follow Post Share January 23 at 2:29pm David Metcalfe and Yonah Ben-Ashera like this. Sasha Non Serviat ?@David - haven't a clue! Not submitting anything unless funding is forthcoming....spent far t oo much on travel last year. January 23 at 3:06pm Like 1

David Metcalfe ?"Bioepistemological Trans-Esoteric Phisiology in 21s t Century Initiatory Transmission" January 23 at 3:08pm Like 2 Simon Magus ?'PARP' oh, excuse me... January 23 at 3:10pm Like 4 Sasha Non Serviat ?!!!!!!!! January 23 at 3:10pm Like Simon Magus Well, that was so funny it was difficult to - ahem -cont ain myself... January 23 at 3:12pm Like 1 ???a? Te?d???? ?Simon Magus In terms of Cultural Anthropology the best anthropologists IMHO have been mythographers and interpreters of indigenous tradition. Eventually people have attempted to coin phrases to highlight aspect s of this discipline as if ...See More January 24 at 7:48am Like ???a? Te?d???? ?Simon Magus In additional to the new labels for old wine here is an emerging dis cipline which is genuinely innovative : Cognitive Anthropology. Cognitive Anthropology is an approach within cultural anthropology i n which scholars seek to...See More January 24 at 11:56am Like 1 ???a? Te?d???? ?Simon Magus I suppose I would possibly identify with the esoteric branch of cogn itive anthropology - or to use its ancient Egyptian name - hekau. :-) January 24 at 11:57am Like David Metcalfe This is great ???a? , I'm going to have to delve more into this area. Thanks! January 26 at 9:15am Like Fotis Anagnostopoulos There's also a cognitive archaeology, a develo pment of the '80s... January 28 at 3:13am Like Write a comment... Sasha Non Serviat added Hazel Archer Ginsberg to the group. Like Follow Post January 27 at 4:39pm Andy Green Almost coincidentally this turned up yesterday under the guise of fine art ( which is our business). I know almost nothing of alphabets, and certainly nothin g about this one. So any offers? Apparently it derives from the work of Anton Hymers, who can be found at: Like Follow Post January 26 at 8:50pm David Metcalfe and 3 others like this. Andy Green ?"https://sorceryandalchemy.com/childhood-education" January 26 at 8:50pm Like El Ka Intrigued by the letter *S* shape sitting in what looks like C adua Draconis I found that it belongs to the alphabet of the magi http://www.omniglot.com/writing/magi.htm January 27 at 2:58am Like 1

Andy Green ?El Ka, many thanks. I'm a big fan of Paracelsus - but no t big enough! January 27 at 3:17am Like Payman Akhlaghi I wonder if Donna could help. January 27 at 3:38am Like 1 Sasha Non Serviat I don't like adding people without their permissio n - maybe one of you could do so and I'll just approve it? January 27 at 4:00am Like El Ka John Dee seemed to have used some of the 'magi' sigils in his Grimoirium Imperium http://www.golden-dawn-canada.com/pdf/grimoirium%20imperium. pdf (pages 27 onwards) :/ January 27 at 12:35pm Like 1 Andy Green ?Payman, Donna is not available at the moment... January 27 at 12:45pm Like Andy Green ?El Ka, so this is more than a bit of fancy artwork? January 27 at 12:50pm Like Write a comment... Sasha Non Serviat Call for Papers: http://jwmt.org/jwmt12/ Journal of the Western Mystery Tradition - Conference 2012 jwmt.org Since 2001, the Journal of the Western Mystery Tradition (JWMT) has worked t o publish diverse perspectives on the occultisms, magical practices, mysticisms and esotericisms commonly known as the Western Mystery Tradition. The JWMT is expa nding the work of the web journal through its first conf... Like Follow Post Share January 27 at 12:35pm Jeffrey S. Kupperman likes this. Write a comment... Fotis Anagnostopoulos http://www.scribd.com/doc/79541619/Origen Origen www.scribd.com Scribd is the world's largest social reading and publishing site. Like Follow Post Share January 27 at 7:19am David Metcalfe and 2 others like this. Write a comment... Older Posts Facebook 2012 English (US) About Advertising Create a Page Developers Careers Privacy Terms Help Phoenix Rising Academy: Esoteric Studies & Creative Arts Chat (5)

A review of approaches to PKD in Religious Studies 1. Dick's own approaches. Comparative Religion, Heideggerian, Gnostic, etc. 2. Sutin and Rickmann, psychologizing theories? 3. Erik Davis and Terence McKenna two important cheerleaders of PKD the counterc ulture mystic. 4. Gabriel McKee: Christian approach. Rossi on limitations of that approach, nee d for political dimension. 5. With publication of Exegesis we see Kripal's modified comparative religion ap proach, emphasis on Eliade, reading and writing 6. Critchley one of the first medium-name philosophers to evaluate Dick's philos ophizing, hip to the fact that accuracy ain't everything. remarks

I'd like to see approaches that better integrate both philosophical and esoteric aspects. Is the appeal of PKD to contemporary occultists and geeks a reliable guide to co ntent of his works?