You can be a guru!
Every time I feel incredible wise and ready to start the spiritual movement of the century I think about this poster :-) :
Mind Games – Short Fiction about Bizarre Mental Health Disorders
Mind Games – Short Fiction about Bizarre Mental Health Disorders, is a brilliant tour through some of the rarest but existing mental diagnosis. The stories are written by the Czech philosopher and psychologist Sam Vaknin, who has allowed me to post the book here. Read for instance about the condition that a small number of […]
This guy walked around an entire continent
Our friends over at GreatestAdventurers.com just posted the book about a journalist who in 1921 walked around Australia alone and unassisted. The Amateur Tramp – The man who walked around a continent
Doktor Johannes Faust’s Magia Naturalis et Innaturalis
Magia Naturalis et Innaturalis (~Natural and non-natural magic) was written in 1505 in Germany by a Doktor Johannes Faust, an alchemist and devil worshipper from the village of Knittlingen, Württemberg. It is said that he was a genius but several but after he had fled a teaching position in Kreuznach after molesting several of the boys […]
The spiritual writings of Wassily Kandinsky
Wassily Kandinsky was a Russian painter, art theorist, and poet. He became famous for painting the first purely abstract works as part of the Soviet avant-garde that flourished until about 1930. Kandinsky’s experiments became too much for Stalin’s increasing political control over the art-scene and also Kandinsky’s spiritual outlook was not comme il faut for the trending Soviet Realism. […]
The Solar Anus
The Solar Anus, originally L’anus solaire is a very peculiar work in the surrealistic genre. It was written in 1927 by the French author Georges Bataille and illustrated by André Masson in a later edition. From the book: “An abandoned shoe, a rotten tooth, a snub nose, the cook spitting in the soup of his masters […]
Ye Magick Mirrour of Old Japan
Ye Magick Mirrour of Old Japan is a very special little book about the Japanese tradition of sacred mirrors. The book was privately printed in 97 copies and it is based on a discourse delivered at a Meeting of the Sette holden at Limmer’s Hotel (from where we also got the Limmer’s Gin Punch) on […]
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