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She was the gatekeeper at the edge of the world. The final human hymn before all fell to wind and shadow and the strange creaking of stars. She was a pagan chorus. An older song.
Hannah Kent • The Good People
In a large meeting at work, people hold back their honest opinions. The resulting conversation offends the fewest people but is often not the truth.
Smaller groups are more likely to find truth than larger ones.”
Farnam Street • Your Mental Diet
Before the Councils of Hippo and Carthage, it wasn’t clear that 1 Timothy was more authoritative than the Acts of Paul and Thecla. By choosing to include 1 Timothy in their recommendation list while rejecting the Acts of Paul and Thecla, the assembled bishops and theologians shaped Christian attitudes toward women down to the present day. We can
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Ervin Laszlo in The Chaos Point.
Barbara Marx Hubbard • Emergence: The Shift from Ego to Essence
On the Genealogy of Morals (1887), Nietzsche argues that morality is determined not by objective truths but by the interests of the moralizer.
David Shields • How We Got Here: Melville Plus Nietzsche Divided by the Square Root of (Allan) Bloom Times Žižek (Squared) Equals Bannon
Self-authenticating mystical experiences have always been threatening to existing hierarchical structure; it’s the same old tension between Dionysus and Apollo that never goes away.
Richard Holloway • Stories We Tell Ourselves: Making Meaning in a Meaningless Universe
lo tanto, todos los evangelios que habían existido prácticamente a lo largo de tres siglos, y considerados como escrituras sagradas por el movimiento cristiano más antiguo –como el Evangelio de María Magdalena, el Evangelio de Tomás, el Evangelio de Felipe, Los hechos de Pablo y Tecla o El trueno, la mente perfecta– se convirtieron repentinamente
... See moreMeggan Watterson • María Magdalena Revelada: La primera apóstol, su evenagelio feminista y el cristianismo que aun no hemos experimentado (Spanish Edition)
One by one the various cults are being involved in materialism and commercialism, among which by necessity they have been established.
Manly Hall • What the Ancient Wisdom Expects of Its Disciples: A Study Concerning the Mystery Schools
The frightening reality beneath Diarna’s efforts is the same one that haunted me as a child. The disappearance of these communities is just an acute (and sometimes violent) version of what eventually happens to every community, everywhere. All of us will die; all of our memories will be lost.