Ape With AK-47

Mystical initiation and wholeness

Bataille's atheistic religion and despair from Jennifer Frances Armstrong on Vimeo.

What shamanic initiation is technically like

The universe's disequilibrium: on guilt and limits

On Revolutions | Clarissa's Blog

On Revolutions | Clarissa's Blog


There were also some good changes in Zimbabwe, in that even though the majority population only became marginally better off materially, they are happier and more relaxed in the new Zimbabwe. But so far as the ruling class goes, it is clear they just wanted to emulate the colonials as closely as possible. Also they do this rather crassly and chaotically. The tone is lowered.

On Revolutions | Clarissa's Blog

On Revolutions | Clarissa's Blog


Supposing you get rid of the authority that defines your limits, how will you deal with your new limits? Many people respond by contracting not expanding -- thus Zimbabwe has many of the qualities of colonial hierarchy reimposed. People think they desire unlimited freedom, but the majority do not know themselves very well at all, and actually do not. They want restrictions -- something to fight against and to feel morally outraged over. That is why it is advisable to give a lot of radical liberal movements a wide berth, too. They absolutely do not want what they think they want.

Making hay (re. society's imposition of non-being)

Subjectivity and the Western problem of narcissism

TRUE RELIGION AND SHAMANIC INITIATION

Three More Years of This You Say – Fair Dinkum. « The Australian Independent Media Network

Three More Years of This You Say – Fair Dinkum. « The Australian Independent Media Network: "‘’If the economy is in such a dire state, how did it retain its triple-A credit rating throughout the turbulent post-GFC years? And was the IMF mistaken in asserting only this month that Australia is expected to outperform all major advanced economies until at least 2018? Please explain this apparent contradiction to those of us who don’t have the benefit of an economics degree”."

'via Blog this'

Hard science and the metaphysics of gender

Ascent and Descent / open & closed modes of being

Skepchick |

Skepchick |

As a woman who has opinions online, I get rape and death threats on a fairly regular basis, mixed in amongst the barrage of gendered slurs and comments about how fat I am. For the most part, the “threats” are obviously empty attempts to scare me into being silent – just another aspect of the usual bullying. Every now and again, though, there’s a threat that sounds just a bit more legitimate.The first one came back in 2005 when I lived in Boston and had just launched Skepchick. I was able to write up a short article about the project for an issue of eSkeptic, Michael Shermer’s free email newsletter. Within a day of that eSkeptic hitting in-boxes, I received a brief email from a man calling me a cunt. I responded with a chipper “Thanks for taking the time to write!” He responded with, “If I lived in Boston I’d put a bullet in your brain.”

What is genuine religion?

A detached take on morality

Take care not to erase yourself as a subject

Modernity and the erasure of the individual

Life, modernity and the limit of the feminine condition

On the devaluing of "the personal" & lack of defensive capability

The Children of the Intellectual Class | Clarissa's Blog

The Children of the Intellectual Class | Clarissa's Blog

The funny thing about the military is that in theory, and in any case when it is working effectively, you have an impersonal identity. So identity is not gendered. That is why the military is often the first place where racial segregation breaks down.