The Devil's Advocate

Avalonian Aeon

2010-10-13T14:41:00.000-07:00

Seriously good blog to check out..
Please take a long and careful read of every single post.. oh, and buy the books. They are great. I have read them all.

Avalonian Aeon, by Paul Weston, where all 3 of his books are available to buy.

Happy Crowleymass for yesterday!

Here is a little something else that makes for interesting reading!

Bodhisattva on the Metro

2009-05-19T14:54:00.000-07:00

What to do with your morning commute...

Tired of Speaking Sweetly ~Hafiz

2009-04-03T09:56:00.001-07:00

Love wants to reach out and manhandle us,
Break all our teacup talk of God.
If you had the courage and
Could give the Beloved His choice, some nights,
He would just drag you around the room
By your hair,
Ripping from your grip all those toys in the world
That bring you no joy.
Love sometimes gets tired of speaking sweetly
And wants to rip to shreds
All your erroneous notions of truth
That make you fight within yourself, dear one,
And with others,
Causing the world to weep
On too many fine days.
God wants to manhandle us,
Lock us inside of a tiny room with Himself
And practice His dropkick.
The Beloved sometimes wants
To do us a great favor:
Hold us upside down
And shake all the nonsense out.
But when we hear
He is in such a "playful drunken mood"
Most everyone I know
Quickly packs their bags and hightails it
Out of town.

Cooperation

2009-01-19T11:27:00.001-08:00

Lipstick on which pig exactly?

2008-09-18T15:47:00.000-07:00

Butler on McCain

2008-09-10T11:30:00.000-07:00

Here's a man who should know.

Art by Daniel Eatock

2008-09-03T14:14:00.000-07:00

Join the Family

2008-08-21T16:30:00.000-07:00

Look who you can be friends with on MySpace...

Gypsy: www.myspace.com/manonminette
Squeaky: www.myspace.com/lynettefromme
Sandra Goode: www.myspace.com/dachauwilllooklikeapinic
Process Church: www.myspace.com/processchurch
ATWA: www.myspace.com/officialcharlesmansonatw

Beyond Believing

2008-08-19T14:06:00.001-07:00

Got to give my good friend Chris a plug here, and get you to take a look at his great book, "Beyond Believing", that I think directly answers a lot of the most nagging questions people have about organized religion, spirituality, and also why Atheism is a healthy thing, that doesn't disclude you from a genuine spiritual life.

It's very well written, and very astute and relatable to. No matter what you believe or don't believe in. I think it's something that needs to be out there and read by many people. Chris has a lot of genuine Wisdom.

George Bush Sewage Works

2008-07-08T11:47:00.000-07:00

This is a fitting tribute, in my opinion..

Optimism vs Pessimism

2008-07-03T14:41:00.000-07:00

Self Portait

2008-05-09T10:00:00.000-07:00

Elephants painting a self-portrait?

935 Lies

2008-01-25T10:11:00.000-08:00

935 lies told by the Bush administration, in the run-up to the war in Iraq, and 260 of them told by Bush. Just how, exactly, is that acceptable?

Chickens are smart

2007-11-20T16:44:00.000-08:00

Chickens are very intelligent. Here's how they know.

All You Need...

2007-10-21T12:42:00.000-07:00

Thanks to Toner Mishap for this one..

Peace is Child's Play

2007-10-08T09:54:00.000-07:00

Peace is child's play. This is an article from the Dharma Cafe website on the difference playing with children can make to all our lives. A must read for all of us.

Self-Immolation

2007-10-02T14:50:00.000-07:00

Self-immolation?

Such is the danger of the spiritual metaphor.

Is God the Creator of Conditions?

2007-09-14T10:39:00.000-07:00

Human Evolution

2007-09-05T11:26:00.000-07:00

Is human evolution speeding up? Here is an interesting article.

Richard Alpert (Ram Dass) on LSD

2007-08-23T17:01:00.001-07:00

The Heart of Understanding

2007-08-17T15:48:00.001-07:00

Third Reich N Roll

2007-08-09T21:07:00.000-07:00

Army tires slashed

2007-07-30T12:09:00.000-07:00

42 tires slashed at Army recruiting office, by teenager mad about the Iraq war.

Spiritual Realization Requires a Realizer

2007-07-28T14:14:00.000-07:00

Operation Barbarossa

2007-06-25T13:16:00.000-07:00

Operation Barbarossa as you've never seen it.

The Odyssey

2007-06-21T15:59:00.000-07:00

The Odyssey and 2012. What will Armageddon look like?

"Gradually, in a tightening spiral, responses constellate the collective wisdom of what 12/21/12 may portend astronomically, hermetically, spiritually, environmentally, and humanly. Will it be a collective human/terrestrial metanoia, abolishing the illusion of separation and unifying us in a grand telepathic noetic jewel net—a kind of Teilhardian omega point—or, failing that, global apocalyptic destruction?
Rich food for thought!"

Deborah Forman

Eli Israel

2007-06-21T11:14:00.000-07:00

Courage to Resist. June 21, 2007
On June 19, Army Spc Eleonai “Eli” Israel put himself at great personal risk by making the courageous decision to refuse further participation in the U.S. occupation of Iraq. Having already served over a year in Iraq, the 26-year-old from Arlington, Virginia told his command that he will no longer be a combatant. Eli is stationed at Camp Victory in Baghdad with JVB Bravo Company, 1-149 Infantry of the Kentucky Army National Guard and intends to seek a discharge as a conscientious objector.
Yesterday, Eli’s urgent message from Baghdad buzzed around the Internet:
I have told them that I will no longer play a ‘combat role’ in this conflict or ‘protect corporate representatives,’ and they have taken this as ‘violating a direct order.’ I may be in jail or worse in the next 24 hours. Please rally whoever you can, call whoever you can, bring as much attention to this as you can. I have no doubt that the military will bury me and hide the whole situation if they can. I'm in big trouble. I'm in the middle of Iraq, surrounded by people who are not on my side. Please help me. Please contact whoever you can, and tell them who I am, so I don't ‘disappear.’
After receiving support and advice from a number of organizations, including Courage to Resist and Iraq Veterans Against the War, Eli has sent this update today:
Thank you for your support. I am currently "OK", thanks in no small part I'm sure to the voices that have spoken up in the name of peace. I don't know what the military's next steps are going to be.....
I have been in Iraq for over a year. I have served in combat. I have been awarded the Combat Infantry Badge, for my actions in Combat. I have been recommended for other medals, that I will now probably never see (nor do I want). I regret having ever taken part in a war....
It would have been a lot "easier" for me to simply keep doing combat missions for a couple more weeks, and be done with things. Moral convictions are not based on timing or convenience, and I thank all of you for your being here for me now.
Read more, including Eli's recent blog posts from Iraq