On one occasion, at one of these meetings, someone asked about the possibility of reincarnation, and whether it was possible to believe in cases of communication with the dead.

“Many things are possible,” said G. [Gurdjieff], “But it is necessary to understand that man’s being, both in life and after death, if it does exist after death, may be very different in quality. The ‘man-machine’ with whom everything depends upon external influences, with whom everything happens, who is now one, the next thing another, and the next moment a third, has no future of any kind; he is buried and that is all. Dust returns to dust. This applies to him. More »

“Berlin in 1701 was visited by a man called Lascaris who performed many transmutations in public, in front of witnesses whose testimony would not be questioned. He gave a small sample of the heavy, dark reddish, crystalline grains to a student named Johan Friedrich Böttger who proceeded to perform openly, claiming that he was the adept who had produced the Stone. For this lack of caution he was imprisoned in Dresden by the Elector Augustus II, and ordered to produce more of it. Böttger labored for years, an unsuccessful Rumplestiltskin, but no Stone was made. His experiments did bear some fruit though. He was the first to devise ways to color porcelain, for which the city of Dresden remains famous.” – Jim Melodini, “The Age of Gold”

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Although the Olympic Resistance Network (ORN) has successfully integrated a massive base of anti-capitalism, indigenous rights and environmental justice, they’re having trouble getting people over the border: More »

“Information is not knowledge. Knowledge is not wisdom. Wisdom is not truth. Truth is not beauty. Beauty is not love. Love is not music. Music is the best.” – Frank Zappa

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