A rather shocking video…

I came across this video at http://p6jun.wordpress.com.

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guru

guru, originally uploaded by earthpages.
This frog let us get really close to him. I have closer shots but this one most reminded me of those misguided gurus who are probably suffering from inflation (look it up… it’s a Jungian term).

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Eliade’s From Primitives to Zen online!

From the introduction:
The instigation for this anthology of religious texts came during my first years of teaching History of Religions at the University of Chicago… It seems to me that only by reading a certain number of religious texts related to the same subject (cosmogony, initiation, myths on the origin of death, etc.) is [...]

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Mary and Jesus

mary_jesus, originally uploaded by Michael Clark.

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About face…

I just touched up the ‘About‘ page at my relatively new photoblog, Just my pics.
And I do some tech talk about free photo-editing software and wax philosophical about religion and related issues…

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just another future song

just_another_future_song, originally uploaded by earthpages.

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it’s time

it’s time, originally uploaded by earthpages.
I was in a coffee shop today and thought this was sort of interesting… most people don’t know it but coffee shops are actually places where people time travel… aided by that hallucinogen known as caffeine… just kidding, btw!

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Sometimes Satan comes as a man of peace – Bob Dylan

You know, as a practising Christian I try hard not to judge others.
But there’s always the reality of people who are not sane and really quite bent on evil.
If you think I’m being xtreme, just take a look at this document. It’s a letter of agreement signed by Adolf Hitler and the British PM Neville Chamberlain.
And we [...]

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How to tell a great leader from an evil genius…

I was browsing through A Critical Dictionary of Jungian Analysis and came across an interesting passage that got me thinking…
Jung’s main theoretical contribution to group psychology lies in his claim that it is the influence of insufficiently integrated archetypal tendencies that leads to mass phenomena such as fascism.
And that really is the bottom line.
A great leader [...]

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a priori knowledge

You know, I’ve been thinking about Wikipedia and have decided that it’s not the be all and end all. In fact, I get bored if I always use the same reference source. It’s good to see how different writers and thinkers approach an issue.
Here’s a nice little article from Britannica about knowledge supposedly independent of [...]

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