Reikai Monogatari in English. Book 64-2, Chapter 1
Reikai Monogatari, the Tale of the Spirit World, is an enormous sacred text by Onisaburo Deguchi, “the Gurdjieff of the East.” The Oomoto (“Great Root”) religious movement in Japan, from which...
View ArticleAcademic institutionalization I
One of the most complex maneuvers of modernity is the reduction of original thought and creativity to a quantifiable labor product. An apprentice in a Renaissance studio, placed in a time machine and...
View ArticleSigns of the End, according to the Muslims
A recent discussion on Gornahoor, which was scrubbed from the site’s comments section, makes this quite relevant: SAHIH BUKHARI, Volume 9, Book 88, Number 237. Narrated by Abu Huraira. The traditions...
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Lamps: The Ruin of the Nation 「ランプ亡国論」の真実
邦訳は以下である。 You may be familiar with Jun’ichirō Tanizaki’s essay In Praise of Shadows (1933). But were you aware that Tanizaki had a predecessor in the form of a Meiji period crank? I think not! Kaiseki...
View Article2014 news on peak oil, resource scarcity, etc.
I had a little bit of free time after church on Sunday and decided to see if there was any interesting resource extraction news I had missed in the past few months. Here is what I found. A January 2014...
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