So XK pointed out the obvious - that in addition to calling our government representatives (when applicable) about how to resolve the Oil Spill disaster in the Gulf of Mexico and how to treat BP, folk ...
For me:
1. Even Cowgirls get the Blues
2. The Matrix
3. Fight Club
4. Metropolis, (Anime Version and early film version)
5. Donnie Darko
6. Steam Boy
7. Spirited Away
8. Princess Mononoke
9 ...
Who is that knocking on my head? What's the best way to approach this Power I am drawn to?
Here is where you can come for a bit of help getting started with a new Power in your life.
Note: This ...
A friend of mine, Fuensanta Plaza, died recently after a long illness. My thoughts and prayers are with her friends and family of choice, who lost far more than I have.
I can't boast of any great ...
I plopped this in MS rather than Theory because I would like us to source our direct experience rather than arm chair it.
I study European Geomancy that borrows a great deal of terminology from Chi ...
So I was doing the LBRP this morning, and I got wondering about the origins of the four Archangels section. Does anyone know where this idea of four presences, relating to the four elements and positi ...
So, not been around here, except to lurk, for a while. But that's all tied into why I'm posting this. I've had a massive run of bad luck lately. I'm not going to whinge about this, or spell beg, but I ...
Not long ago, I was having a discussion over cocktails with some friends when the subject of people resembling animals came up. "Resembling" in this case meaning both physically and otherwise. Somet ...
So I guess my first question is what is a hypersigil? What makes one *hyper*? I have a vague notion that they can be audio (music), visual (video) or more, but since the only example I can think of ...
So I'm trying to write an article on historical perspectives on 2012 (that is, on the idea that this particular year will mark the radical transformation of life on earth in some manner), and I was ho ...
New book (in Hebrew - hopefully there will soon be a translation):
Automatic Writing in Zoharic Literature and Modernism, by Amos Goldreich (Sources and Studies in the Literature of Jewish Mysticis ...
I thought that we could use a thread about dreams: the discussion of, importance of, dissection of, unloading of, and use of in magical practice.
I admit that a dream prompted me to start this thre ...
I've decided to make a proposal to a local college to do some sort of presentation on the I Ching. I've been working with the thing and reading around it for a few years (barely scratched the surface, ...
There is much talk of ancestor veneration and contact on Liminal Nation, and it is something that I know little about and have never bothered to look into. I sometimes wonder if that is because I kno ...
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"'Surgery' is commonly used non-medically to mean a place where you go to get something looked at or fixed or improved, generally by consultation with an expert."
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So I was reading the .pdf of Alan Chapman's Three Steps to Heaven: How to Practice Magick and one of the basic core practices he mentions is creating a Book of Numbers.
I've never really go ...
A companion to Princess' Meatspace: UK, this thread is for folks who live in (or are visiting) the US to tell us whereabouts they are (or will be) in the country. Here we can arrange meet-ups as well ...
Opening up this thread after an important drift on the Dionysian thread.
Do people agree with the generalities here? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhism ...
This morning I was paging through Robert Anton Wilson's Cosmic Trigger and happened on a page in which he describes a conversation with Grady McMurty, and McMurty asks his "$64,000 question": ...
Short version: I need to get the other tenants of my mother's house to LEAVE asap and on their own motivation.
Long version: My pot smoking, early 20's, brother and his pregnant 18 year old girlfr ...
Know any academic happenings? Spiritual symposia? Occult convocations? Here's the place to tack a note up about it.
To start with , here are two things ganked off an email list to which I subscrib ...
Hie there Liminal Nation,
I have been recently studying various Indian books recently, particularly Ramana Maharishi and Nisaragadatta Maharaj.
And have benefited a great amount from their dialog ...
It came to my attention that some Liminal Nation members have just been published in an anthology.
Personally, I like the idea of reading a book or article written by someone I may interact with. I ...
So... Hi! Long (l-o-n-g) time lurker, not great poster, but I have a question.
A while ago, the lovely XK made me the most beautiful charm for safety during travelling. It made me think; I'm not w ...
Musing, the other day, on Burroughs' axiom "we are here to go" and the Wu Tang 'Liquid Swords' tune "Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth", I started to ponder future space exploration progammes. ...