On Finding Your Purpose: An Extraordinary Letter by Hunter S. Thompson. In April of 1958, Hunter S.
Thompson was 22 years old when he wrote a letter on the meaning and purpose of life when asked by his friend, Hume Logan, for advice. In just a few paragraphs, Thompson’s letter offers deeply thoughtful ideas, and what makes it all the more profound is the fact that at the time the world had no idea that he was about to become one of the greatest writers of the 20th century. Thompson was not successful when we wrote this letter, so his beliefs on purpose were just hypothetical, or maybe statements of faith. But if the idea that we become what we fervently believe holds true, then Hunter S. Thompson is perhaps the best example of a man who lived totally reaching his highest potential. Theomagica - Overview. An exploration among multiple cultures The Holy Guardian Angel (HGA) has become the most commonly referred to spiritual concept in Western Magic.
In fact, it has become so common that few practicing magicians actually dare to ask any essential questions about it. Other than how to get in touch with it and achieve 'knowledge and conversation'? * ALAN MOORE WORLD *: Moore & Coulthart and... the lost Crowley. Surprised by the discover, I contacted Coulthart to know more about it.
In the following you can read his feedback posted on this blog with the artist's permission. Thank you, John! Imaginos. Imaginos is the eleventh studio album by the American hard rock band Blue Öyster Cult (commonly shortened as BÖC).
It was released in 1988, and was their last recording with their original record label, CBS/Columbia Records. Dark Journalist: The Truth Is Never Easy. Reagan’s Rules for Military Action. They are Reagan’s Rules.
There are four of them, all concerning the use of American military force. The House Where You Live Forever : Longreads Blog. Photo courtesy of Alan Prohm.
Amelia Schonbek | Longreads and The Awl | August 2016 | 28 minutes (7,065 words) This story was co-published with The Awl and funded by Longreads Members. The Stargate Conundrum. The Stargate Conundrum The US Government’s secret pursuit of the psychic drug.
The week democracy died: How Brexit, Nice, Turkey, and Trump are all connected. Animation by Slate.
Photos by Getty Images, Reuters. There are years, decades even, in which history slows to a crawl. The Trolley Problem Meme: What Do You Do? A scenario: A runaway trolley car is careening down a track.
Five people stand in its path, unaware of the imminent threat. Propublica. Sometime during the past few years, the country started talking differently about white Americans of modest means.
Early in the Obama era, the ennobling language of campaign pundits prevailed. There was much discussion of “white working-class voters,” with whom the Democrats, and especially Barack Obama, were having such trouble connecting. Every Number Tells a Story. “We depend on numbers to make sense of the world, and have done so ever since we started to count.” — Alex Bellos The earliest symbols used for numbers go back to about 5000 years ago Sumer (modern day Iraq). They didn’t really look far for names. Ges, the word for one, also meant man. Min, the word for two, also meant women. Joanne The Scammer Lives For Drama. Branden Miller Is Just Trying To Live. Branden grew up in Hopewell, a small city in Virginia. He was adopted as a baby by an older white couple: Buddy, who died of cancer when Branden was 12, and Veronica, a stay-at-home mom.
Branden didn’t learn he was adopted until age 17, when a family friend broke the news. 15 Years After 9/11, Is America Any Safer? Fifteen years ago this September 11, 19 terrorists, using four jetliners as guided missiles, killed 2,977 people—and enveloped the country in fear. It was the first sustained attack on American soil since the bombing of Pearl Harbor, which was a far-off military base. This massacre hit the center of our government and blasted away part of our most iconic skyline.
Lee Harvey Oswald Proved Innocent: He Worked for RFK & Saved JFK from Assassination in Chicago. Framed by the CIA Because He Infiltrated Their Assassination Conspiracy Oswald Worked Directly For... Framed by the CIA Because He Infiltrated Their Assassination Conspiracy Oswald Worked Directly For Robert F. Synarchy: The Hidden Hand Behind the European Union. While questions remain about the existence of a single global elite with an agenda that goes beyond ...
While questions remain about the existence of a single global elite with an agenda that goes beyond simply keeping itself very, very rich, there are certainly groups that want to run the world for quite other reasons. And with the increasing globalisation of political and economic institutions, it has become easier for a relatively small group to inveigle itself into quite staggeringly influential positions. One cabal in particular reveals – alarmingly – what a small group, driven by a fanatical belief system, can achieve from the shadows. And writing as we are in the United Kingdom, this group is on our doorstep, and has been for over a century. And although perhaps small in number, its reach is big. But this isn’t just about politics. He believed that his perfectly balanced society reflected deep cosmic laws, with which his elite perfectly resonated. Towards Europe’s ‘United States’ So… El Chapo and the Secret History of the Heroin Crisis. 6 Billion People Do Not Meet Vitamin E Levels Necessary for Cognitive and Cardiovascular Health.
Secrets of the Subterranean Cities. Ganzfeld effect. The ganzfeld effect (from German for “complete field”) or perceptual deprivation, is a phenomenon of perception caused by exposure to an unstructured, uniform stimulation field.[1] The effect is the result of the brain amplifying neural noise in order to look for the missing visual signals.[2] The noise is interpreted in the higher visual cortex, and gives rise to hallucinations.[3] It has been most studied with vision by staring at an undifferentiated and uniform field of colour. Paranormalia: Bengston's Energy Healing - Too Good to be True?