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RIPPLE #23: Steve Blaze (1 of 2)
by Aelturnity Audio Production on 2008-07-15 10:57:05 tags: lillian axe, metal, steve blaze Ray and the Rev interview Steve Blaze of Lillian Axe, Near Life Experience, and Angel on his many projects and the upcoming Lillian Axe album and…
Freeman to appear on Alex Jones show July 16th
by Wes Unruh on 2008-07-15 10:40:29 tags: alex jones, conspiracy theories, freeman Updated: Highlights Podcast vis Phase II podcasts
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Dr. Horrible's Master Plan
by Michael Szul on 2008-07-15 07:46:29 tags: buffy the vampire slayer, dr horrible, firefly serenity, joss whedon, nathan fillion, neil patrick harris Joss Whedon is known for his quirky offbeat humor. It made Buffy the Vampire Slayer a cult classic, and made fanboy's wish for more when it came to Firefly and Serenity. Now, Whedon has teamed with Firefly and Serenity star Nathan Fillion, and recent offbeat humor golden boy Neil ...
Myth is Alive and Well in Business
by James Curcio on 2008-07-13 02:27:37 tags: branding, capitalism, fascism, media anthropology, myth For Better or Worse: Myth is Alive and Well in Business. A quick look at the marketing for films, books and music shows the profound value that mythology has within the modern marketplace. This role is made more pervasive – and also more potentially beneficial or dangerous – as ...
Cheating The Ferryman: Life After Death?
by Michael Szul on 2008-07-10 09:09:49 tags: afterlife, anthony peake, cheating the ferryman, life after death Some of my more favorite things to read about involve the intermingling of science with mysticism. Fritjof Capra's The Tao of Physics is probably tops in this category, and a quick look at the television show Lost, and its eternal conflict of "man of faith vs. man of science ...
Cult of Cthulhu Updates
by Venger Satanis on 2008-07-07 08:27:54 tags: cult of cthulhu, venger satanis The updates to the Cult of Cthulhu web site are done. What has changed? The look of the main page has changed, as well as, the addition of a new area - a newsletter sign-up page, which is how people shall receive The Green Trapezoid! Yes, this quarterly e-zine will contain ...
RIPPLE #22: Kevin Booth (3 of 3)
by Aelturnity Audio Production on 2008-07-07 01:10:22 tags: alcohol, american-drug-war, american-drug-war:-the-last-white-hope, caffine, cocaine, cultural-analysis, drug-war, drugs, film, film-documentary, kevin-booth, marijuana, prohibition, sugar, tobacco Today on RIPPLE: Ray and the Rev conclude their interview with filmmaker Kevin Booth of Sacred Cow Productions about his documentary American Drug War: The Last White Hope. (Don’t miss part one and part two of this interview.) | Download
Rainbow Family of Living Light Attacked
by Wes Unruh on 2008-07-06 01:59:46 tags: family, gathering, rainbow Victim Account 6 minute MP3 - Download Fortunately there was a radio show with a contact on a cellphone who were able to cover the event as it happened. Look for the July 3rd episode, with the above victim account taken from a few minutes in during the second hour: Hour ...
Terra: Extremitas - Art Apocalypse
by Michael Szul on 2008-07-02 07:42:52 tags: apocalypse, john harrigan, terra extremitas Fresh from my email bin on Monday, John Harrigan has announced his second Terra Meta-Event in August. This'll be held at the NDSM-werf in Amsterdam.
Benefits of Illegal Mushrooms
by Michael Szul on 2008-07-01 14:48:13 tags: mushrooms, psilocybin It sure is taking a long time for mainstream science to catch up with Terrence McKenna, but according to an AP News article on Wired.com, a recent study has found that the use of hallucinogenic mushrooms has had long term benefits on those in the experiment:
RIPPLE #21: Kevin Booth
by Aelturnity Audio Production on 2008-06-30 08:09:14 tags: alcohol, american-drug-war, american-drug-war:-the-last-white-hope, caffine, cocaine, cultural-analysis, drug-war, drugs, film, film-documentary, kevin-booth, marijuana, prohibition, sugar, tobacco Today on RIPPLE: Ray and the Rev continue their interview with filmmaker Kevin Booth of Sacred Cow Productions about his documentary American Drug War: The Last White Hope.
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Personal "Trip Report" Gaian Mind Summer Festival 2008
by James Curcio on 2008-06-25 07:46:51 tags: gaia, gaian festival So, I've returned from the festival and have recuperated enough braincells to be able to give some kind of recounting of the experience. In a sentence, it was everything I hoped it would be. Or damn close to it. I bought my ticket a day before finding out that ...
The Evocation of Mary Ann Cotton
by Wes Unruh on 2008-06-24 14:17:00 tags: attrition, dark ambient, mary ann cotton, music Attrition's 2008 album, All mine enemys whispers (The Story of Mary Ann Cotton) available via Projekt.com and Attrition.Co.Uk There are tones and ranges of sound that can channel emotional response directly into one's consciousness... Rhythmic entrainment and psychoacoustics are capable of eliciting specific emotional responses ...
The Alien Problem - Problems With the Professor #116
by Gary the Dungeon Master on 2008-06-24 07:47:16 tags: problemology, problems with the professor The truth is out there. That's why it's best to stay indoors.
RIPPLE #20: Kevin Booth
by Aelturnity Audio Production on 2008-06-22 12:41:46 tags: documentary, drug war, prohibition Today on RIPPLE: Ray and the Rev talk to filmmaker Kevin Booth of Sacred Cow Productions about his documentary American Drug War: The Last White Hope. (This…
Problems with the Professor: Retrospecticus Volume 1
by Gary the Dungeon Master on 2008-06-19 13:12:44 tags: problems with the professor A look back at those touched by the Professor.
Lives of Ilya Released
by Michael Szul on 2008-06-19 13:03:37 tags: daniele serra, lives of ilya, mythos media, tara vanflower A special edition of Tara Vanflower's Lives of Ilya has been released by Mythos Media. Illustrated by Daniele Serra, Lives of Ilya is a poetic vampire tale in words and pictures.
Drawing Lines: Magical Tribalism
by Alan Chapman on 2008-06-17 08:22:52 tags: chaos magic, tribalism, western mystery tradition When I was habitually off my face on cannabis and LSD as a youngster, I found my magical centre of gravity in the postmodern corpus of the professionally challenged publishing houses New Falcon Publications and Samuel Weiser, more specifically the works of Robert Anton Wilson and Peter Carroll. The postmodern ...
Curious Serpent #1
by Anton Channing on 2008-06-11 23:16:07 tags: environment, plastic, police state, terror, terrorism, thought crime In between writing regular articles I've decided to write small thoughts on things I've seen in various news media that have given me pause for thought. I have decided to give these musings the title 'Curious Serpent' because I like serpents, and my main personal blog is called ...
RIPPLE #19: Cages
by Wes Unruh on 2008-06-11 20:28:22 tags: ripple Ray and the Rev interview Xander Bennett on his upcomin comic Cages, published by Insomnia Publications Background music by Ikipr, - DOWNLOAD MP3 - 49MB, 53 minutes
Black Light Burns: Cruel Melody Review
by Michael Szul on 2008-06-11 12:11:54 tags: black light burns, cruel melody, the damning well, underworld, wes borland I guess this would be part 2 of the Underworld supergroup reviews (part 1 being the review of Puscifer). Black Light Burns stems from the form supergroup known as The Damning Well, which consisted of Wes Borland (Limp Bizkit), Danny Lohner (Nine Inch Nails), Richard Patrick (Filter), and Josh Freese ...
Alan Moore YouTube Channel
by Michael Szul on 2008-06-06 07:25:48 tags: alan moore, john constantine, swamp thing This is just simply too good not to post in as many places as possible. Thanks to Media Underground and their "Alan Moore - Monsters, Maniacs & Moore" post, I found out that there is a whole Alan Moore Videos channel on YouTube, featuring 12 different videos of the comic book genius ...
Puscifer: V is for Vagina Review
by Michael Szul on 2008-06-05 09:07:13 tags: maynard james keenan, music, puscifer, underworld Asides from being great pop culture horror/action flicks, the Underworld movies were also known to have produced two really good goth-styled soundtracks. Two of the really standout songs on these albums were from Maynard James Keenan's side project Puscifer. Keenan - best known for his work in Tool and ...
Mythos Media Redesign Launches
by Michael Szul on 2008-06-04 09:14:12 tags: fallen nation, james curcio, lives of ilya, mythos media, p emerson williams, the medicine show, tovarich pizor Mythos Media launched its newly redesigned web site yesterday, offering a more in-depth glance at their products and philosophy - including the upcoming releases of Lives of Ilya and The Medicine Show. As some of you might know, Mythos Media is a joint collaboration between multimedia artists P. Emerson Williams and ...
Website Lets You Send a Post-Rapture E-Mail to Friends 'Left Behind'
by Michael Szul on 2008-06-04 08:24:03 tags: apocalypse, armageddon, left behind, rapture Wired.com has an interesting article about a new web site that for $40.00 a year lets you send an email message to up to 62 people after the rapture has cometh. You can even store up to 150 megabytes of encrypted data on their server to be delivered ...
Are Witches "Pagan?"
by Michael Szul on 2008-06-03 09:00:44 tags: gnosticism, jordan stratford, pagan, paganism, witchcraft Some readers of Key 64 might already be aware of the works of Father Jordan Stratford. For those of you who aren't, Stratford is a very pragmatic religious writer and Gnostic Catholic priest, who has gained quite an amount of notoriety in the Gnostic and occult circles online. His ...
Lives of Ilya
by Michael Szul on 2008-06-02 08:23:00 tags: lives of ilya, mythos media, vampires Mythos Media is set to release its first graphical format book from writer Tara Vanflower and artist Daniele Serra called Lives of Ilya. This interestingly designed graphical novella dives into the literal and metaphorical quest of the eternal through a full color journey of words and pictures. From the publisher ...
Plutonica
by Michael Szul on 2008-05-29 07:54:59 tags: magic, occult, plutonica Probably one of the best occult blogs I've come across recently is Psyche's Plutonica. This blog really kind of caught me by surprise. Psyche posts comments here on Key 64, and I've occasionally clicked through to Plutonica just to see what was going on over there. Recently ...
The Ontology of God
by Michael Szul on 2008-05-27 08:44:51 tags: god, ontology, philosophy Philosophy can be disbursed into many subdivisions of scrutiny (logic, epistemology, socio-political philosophy, ethics, metaphysics, rhetoric), but no such category reposes so much substratum for contention and controversy as that of ontology. And no ontological question has been given more cognizance than that of the existence of God. But can ...
Jose Arguelles' Dreamspell Revisited
by Michael Szul on 2008-05-23 08:08:00 tags: 2012, daniel pinchbeck, dreamspell, jose arguelles, mayan calendar The Galactic Research Institute's Rinri Project has released the Rinri Project Newsletter III: Volume 4, Number 3. Jose Arguelles is the founder of Planet Art Network and the Foundation for the Law of Time, of which the Galactic Research Institute is a division. Arguelles gained much notoriety for his ...
Manifesting Prosperity: A Wealth Magic Anthology
by Michael Szul on 2008-05-20 15:04:16 tags: magic, taylor ellwood, wealth magic First, let me applaud Taylor Ellwood for his attempt at breaking through the "poor pagan" stereotype. I've always been rather curious about the perceived correlation between the occult and being poor. It's true that most pagan systems come from the lowlands, and most of these belief systems termed ...
My Mind is Melting With the Meta
by chris23 on 2008-05-15 23:46:08 tags: internet, technology I just had a weird mind-numbing web 2.0 moment. And I know it's a totally overused buzzword but it does describe the wave of network-aware applications and services wiring up across the Web. Data is flowing like mad across the globe. We need to find, sort, collaborate and ...
RIPPLE #18: Mother Tongue
by Wes Unruh on 2008-05-14 07:57:16 tags: interview, mother tongue, ripple Host Ray Carney and co-host Rev. T. Gabriel Williams interview Bryan Tulao ofMother Tongue over Follow The Trail. Don't miss the first part of this interview.
Know Thyself
by Anton Channing on 2008-05-13 22:08:32 tags: alan watts, apollo, comfort, dance, delphi, journey, know, knowledge, music, oracle, self gnothi seauton So read the inscription in the forecourt of the Temple of Apollo at Delphi, according to the travelogue writer Pausanias. But what did it mean? The Temple of Delphi was of course built at the location of the famous Delphic Oracle. So it could be an instruction of ...
Gender Selection in Genetics
by Michael Szul on 2008-05-13 08:14:33 tags: ethics, gender selection, genetics, morality "The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants." --- General Omar Bradley, Armistice Day Speech 1948. Humanity is far from deserving the use of the word “perfection” in its vocabulary. We know not the meaning behind this word, but ...
The Tourism Space Race
by Michael Szul on 2008-05-12 08:30:16 tags: space, space flight, virgin galactic, xcor Yee-haw! Let the tourism space race begin, my friends. I actually appreciate how independent companies and venture capitalists are stepping up in the great space race, rather than being spectators of the slow movement of NASA. There is a certain amount of red tape that an organization like NASA is ...
Guns & Liberty in GTA4
by chris23 on 2008-05-06 12:58:41 tags: grand theft auto 4, virtual worlds
I'm driving along in a 1963 Cadillac trying to hold the lumbering sway of its heavy chassis straight to the road as I rumble down the city street past the usual castaways and early risers. I can't feel it but the steam coming out of their mouths makes ...
The Economics of Green Part II
by Michael Szul on 2008-05-05 07:59:54 tags: ecology, green, hybrids, myers motors I mentioned in a previous article on the "green" fad about how environmentally friendly products aren't necessarily friendly to your wallet; and how "green" seems to be the new catch-word to milk a few more dollars out of your pocket. A good example of the economic inefficiency of some ...
RIPPLE #17: Mother Tongue
by Wes Unruh on 2008-04-30 14:42:24 tags: interview, mother tongue, ripple The latest Ripple: In this episode, Ray Carney and co-host Rev. T. Gabriel Williams interview Bryan Tulao of Mother Tongue over Follow The Trail. Part two of this interview in two weeks.
Beyond Euthyphro: The Socratic Irony with Continual Reference to Kierkegaard
by Michael Szul on 2008-04-30 09:27:48 tags: euthyphro, irony, kierkegaard, socrates Euthyphro: a tale of epistemology, a tale of dialectic regard for piety and impiety, a direct and sudden tale to bring a stunning point across. On the surface, this may be one's first impression of Plato's short play. Further examination, however, reveals that not only is Euthyphro much ...
The Origin of Genies in Islam
by Michael Szul on 2008-04-29 08:54:49 tags: djinn, genies, islam, koran The Djinn (genies) were apparently created two thousand years before humanity. Originally there were held in the same high regard as that of the angels, but in some stories they were downgraded for refusing to kneel unto humans. The Djinn, which refer to the hidden or invisible, are a part ...
The Mystical Paths: Kabbalah and Gnosticism
by Michael Szul on 2008-04-28 08:14:14 tags: gnosticism, kabbalah, mysticism, william paley I was always taught that the greatest of religious thinkers (especially when dealing with Christianity) were the mystics. If you weren’t brought up on charges of heresy, then you didn’t have anything interesting and innovative to contribute. Judaism and true Christianity occasionally seem to be locked down by ...
The Occult Aspects of Artificial Intelligence
by Michael Szul on 2008-04-25 08:20:01 tags: artificial intelligence, egregore, konton magazine Listen to me closely when I tell you that artificial intelligence will not come about from some government scientist locked away deep within a lab in some remote secret mountain complex. Nor will it come from some punk hacker extraordinaire aimlessly tripping through a cyberspace that he doesn't fully ...
State of the Union
by chris23 on 2008-04-22 13:43:40 tags: economics, economy This is what happens when economic interests get to run the country: short-term profits win over long-term sensibility, business contracts define policy spending, and greed wins over social justice & sustainability.
2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl
by Michael Szul on 2008-04-22 09:36:59 tags: 2012, daniel pinchbeck, maya, quetzalcoatl I was phenomenally impressed with Daniel Pinchbeck's Breaking Open the Head, so when 2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl was published, I jumped on purchasing it as soon as I could. It has taken me a while to complete the task of finishing up this book. I had started it ...
The Immanence of Myth
by James Curcio on 2008-04-17 07:31:29 tags: cassirer, generation hex, james curcio, myth, mythos media, nietzsche, philosophy, post-modernism THE IMMANENCE OF MYTH: By James Curcio
The following are in-progress chapters for an upcoming work The Immanence of Myth, which picks up and expands on some of the ideas first presented in "Living The Myth" in Generation Hex. This will be an exploration of myth in ...
5 Dollar Gas is Good for the World
by Mister Resistor on 2008-04-16 09:03:42 tags: dick cheney, energy independence, gas, gasoline, george w bush, oil Last year, as I was bitching and moaning about the price of oil and gas, I came across an optimistic and well written article on Wired.com, telling us about how $5.00 gas was good for America. With a title like Why $5 Gas is Good for America, I ...
Meister Eckhart, God, and the Perils of Atheism
by Michael Szul on 2008-04-15 08:14:46 tags: meister eckhart, ontology, philosophy “Whoever possesses God in their being, has him in divine manner, and he shines out to them in all things; for them all things taste of God and in all things it is God’s image that they see.”(Platt). What problem could a religious philosopher possibly solve? What contemporary ...
The G-Spot #30: The Art of Memetics
by Wes Unruh on 2008-04-14 12:01:50 tags: edward wilson, egregor, egregore, marketing, mastermind, meme, memetics, piracy, ray carney, sigil, sigilization, wes unruh In this episode, Joseph Matheny conducts a GPod Radio installment interviewing artist Ray Carney and co-authors Edward Wilson and Wes Unruh about their upcoming book The Art of Memetics. Why are the authors glad that the book is being downloaded for free? Is piracy a viable marketing strategy? What, exactly ...
Ripple #16: Pelican
by Wes Unruh on 2008-04-14 08:15:01 tags: aelturnity, music, ripple The latest Ripple podcast release is out. In this episode, hosts Ray Carney and Ryan Dawson interview musician Trevor de Brauw from the Chicago band Pelican about the recent album City of Echoes (an 8 track CD available from Hydra Head Records). You can play it on the web at ... |
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