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Ray and the Rev interview Oliver Ackermann from the band A Place To Bury Strangers about touring this year and
Death By Audio, the Brooklyn-based effects…

A few months ago I signed up for the newsletter at Set America Free - a coalition of individuals and non-profit organizations fighting to stabilize America's energy. This coalition includes Senators Sam Brownback and Lincoln Chafee, former Senator Tom Daschle, former US Secretary of Energy Admiral James D. Watkins, amongst ...

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Freeman writes:

It was bound to happen and the time has come. I have been invited to be a guest in the studio with Alex Jones. The show airs at 1pm CST (check infowars.com for local listing) Wednesday July 16th. This will ...

For Better or Worse:

Myth is Alive and Well in Business.
By James Curcio.

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 ...

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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.)

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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:

Scientists reported Tuesday ...

The truth is out there. That's why it's best to stay indoors.

A look back at those touched by the Professor.

Ray and the Rev interview Xander Bennett on his upcomin comic Cages, published by Insomnia Publications

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Lacondon were told that when we start losing sunspots we will begin to receive radiation. The Lacondon were told to measure so many cycles of Venus and then to go into the ground, for the earth will protect them from the radiation… It is when the full radiation of ...

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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 ...

Who doesn't love the rich mythology and power of H.P. Lovecraft's work? For those of you clammering for more information and content from the Cult of Cthulhu, High Priest Venger Satanis has made some excellent video posts in his YouTube channel.

And for those of you whose ...

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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.

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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 IMMANENCE OF MYTH:
INTRODUCTION
BEYOND REPRESENTATION

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 ...

“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 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 ...

Klint Finley has made some annoucements about the upcoming Esozone event in October. The dates are October 10th - 12th, and the even is being held at the Watershed Building at 5040 SE Milwaukie Ave. in Portland, Oregon.

So far, the confirmed speakers include Dennis McKenna, Antero Alli, Paul Laffoley, Rex ...

Is Reverend Wright a racist? Even if he is, who really cares? Rev. Wright is not Barack Obama, and I’m actually pretty tired of politicians trying to shoot magic bullets, and media moguls trying to drum up ratings, by playing six degrees of separation and trying to draw guilt ...

There is an obsession in the occult world with a text known as The Necronomicon thanks to the literary works of H.P. Lovecraft. It is an obsession that survives and grows with each passing day despite constant refutation of its existence.

To chronicle its history we must first look ...

With the 2012 meme hot on the minds of alternative archeologists, occultists, religious fanatics, and the rest of us crazy people, the Mayan civilization has started its steep upward climb back into the minds of modern civilizations. Mel Gibson - fresh off of his Passion of the Christ work, in which ...