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The Incan Empire: Wealth Without Money 27 Aug 2013 | 01:36 pm
For students of economics and ancient civilizations alike, the strange economy of the Incan Empire is fascinating. Annalee Newitz writes for io9: In the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, the Inca Em...
“I’m not sure if Lemmy will ever die.” – An Interview with Tim “Ripper” Owens 27 Aug 2013 | 05:00 am
As I passed through the swinging door following Tim “Ripper” Owens and Don Jamieson through the kitchen and to the upstairs office of Ripper’s Rock House I couldn’t help but have a Spinal Tap moment. ...
Lord Steven Christ: Heaven is Only a Tattoo Away 27 Aug 2013 | 04:00 am
There’s nothing novel about someone claiming to be the returned Messiah. In fact, with the dissemination of information being what it is these days, it’s hard to throw a palm branch without hitting o...
Manly P. Hall Gets to the Heart of Homer’s “Odyssey” 27 Aug 2013 | 03:00 am
You won’t hear this interpretation in the storied halls of academia. Manly P Hall – author, mystic, examiner of all things esoteric – teases apart the obscurities of Homer’s epic to reveal its secret...
Novels of The Coming Transhuman Mind Meld 27 Aug 2013 | 02:00 am
This week sees the release of Crux (Aug 27), the second title in a transhumanist trilogy featuring a mind-linking, mind-expanding, nano-drug that its author believes theoretically possible – and he ma...
In the Center of the Fire: Aeons 27 Aug 2013 | 01:00 am
James Wasserman is the founder of the Ordo Templi Orientis’ (O.T.O.) NYC Tahuti Lodge and one of the foremost practitioners of the magical system of Aleister Crowley. His most recent book is In the Ce...
Groundbreaking Genuises And The Drugs They Say Inspired Them 27 Aug 2013 | 12:00 am
This is your brain on drugs, via Alternet: Sigmund Freud — Cocaine. To Freud, cocaine was more than a personal indulgence; it was a veritable wonder drug, and for many years he was a huge proponent o...
NSA Officers Have Stalked And Spied On Their “Love Interests” 26 Aug 2013 | 08:53 pm
Via the Wall Street Journal, presenting your creepy ex who works for the NSA: National Security Agency officers on several occasions have channeled their agency’s enormous eavesdropping power to spy ...
Against Drug-Free Spirituality 26 Aug 2013 | 05:00 am
I don’t do either drugs or religion, so I guess I’m headed for Hell. Michael Hoffman writes at egodeath.com: My mood of late against meditation and post-1960s American spirituality: I’m sick and tir...
Apparently Some People Still Can’t Differentiate Between Actors and the Characters They Play 26 Aug 2013 | 03:00 am
How is it that I figured out that Mark Hamill wasn’t Luke Skywalker as a little boy, yet what I’m guessing are full-grown adults are still struggling with the “actor does not equal character” lesson i...