Posts by Rev Illuminatus Maximus
Human-Animal Embryos A Step Closer
Found : Human-Animal Embryos A Step Closer | Home | Sky News Scientists have been given the go-ahead to create human-animal embryos. The hybrid embryos will be produced by mixing human cells with animal eggs. Controversially, the embryos will only be 99.9% human. Around 0.1% of the DNA will be from the animal. The Human…
Read MoreThe Mind Vampires as Hungry Ghosts
Found : Mind Parasites, Energy Parasites and Vampires We have said very little so far about the possible etiology or origin of the mind parasites. One intriguing theory of origin is presented by Dr. Samuel Sagan (clairvision.org). According to this theory, at the time of human death, there are denser, darker fragments of consciousness that…
Read MoreSpecial K could be used to treat depression
Found : Special K could be used to treat depression LONDON (Reuters) – Scientists have unraveled how a horse tranquilizer and hallucinogenic night club drug known as "Special K" can ease depression, researchers said on Friday. Ketamine, which can also cause feelings of detachment, could pave the way for new treatments for people suffering from…
Read MoreSensuality in World War II Bomber Girl Nose Art – Northstar Gallery
Found : Sensuality in World War II Bomber Girl Nose Art – Northstar Gallery Within the Death and the Maiden Theme, a dark bound between sexuality and death is explored. In this iconography, the young girl is not involved in “the dance of death” but enters into a sensual relationship with death, which becomes increasingly…
Read MoreGnosticism as critique of Paganism (Snakes & Ladders)
Found : Gnosticism as critique of Paganism (Snakes & Ladders) Embedded within gnosticism's almost maniacal hostility to the ecosystem is a beautiful and compelling cry for freedom, a libertarian drive towards unmediated lucidity and intuitive knowledge. Gnosticism were antinomian – against the law. The gnostic distrust of the world was not simply asceticism, nor simply…
Read MoreBataille on God, Satan and antinomianism
Found : Bataille on God, Satan and antinomianism Kojève’s student Georges Bataille (1897-1962) was a sociologist and anthropologist. Drury writes, “In Bataille’s view, the deathlike state of modern life has its source in the undisputed triumph of God and his prohibitions, reason and its calculations, science and its utilitarianism…. The first task at hand is…
Read MoreAre We All Aliens? The New Case for Panspermia
Found : Are We All Aliens? The New Case for Panspermia Somewhat lost in the current panspermia revival is the intriguing flip-side of the "ubiquitous life" idea: If life could have come here from somewhere, why couldn't an Earth rock have been dislodged long ago, sending life to another planet or star system? "It is…
Read MoreCreation Ex Nihilo or from Wheeler's 'Pregeometry'?
Found : Creation Ex Nihilo or from Wheeler’s ‘Pregeometry’? In a 1975 article entitled Is Physics Legislated by Cosmogony? J. A. Wheeler and C. M. Patton use the term "pregeometry" to refer to "…something deeper than geometry, that underlies both geometry and particles." And they suggest that "For ultimately revealing this structure, no perspective seems…
Read MoreAlain De Benoist on Totalitarianism, Polytheism and Paganism
Found : Alain De Benoist on Totalitarianism, Polytheism and Paganism Totalitarianism grows out of a desire to establish social and human unity by reducing the diversity of individuals and peoples to a single model. In this sense, he argues, it is legitimate to speak of a “polytheist social arena, referring to multiple and complementary gods”…
Read MoreTranshumanism : The next great threat to human dignity.
Found : Transhumanism : The next great threat to human dignity. In recent years, scientists have mixed the DNA of a jellyfish with that of a monkey, creating a "transgenic" animal that glows in the dark. ("Transgenic" means possessing the genes of more than one type of organism.) Scientists have also inserted spider DNA into…
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