Peter Brook Peter Stephen Paul Brook CH, CBE (born 21 March 1925) is an English theatre and film director and innovator, who has been based in France since the early 1970s. Biography[edit] Life[edit] Brook was born in London in March 1925, the son of Simon Brook and his wife Ida (Jansen), two Jewish immigrants from Latvia.[1] He was educated at Westminster School, Gresham's School and Magdalen College, Oxford. In 1951, Brook married the actress Natasha Parry; the couple have a son and a daughter. In 1970, with Micheline Rozan, Brook founded the International Centre for Theatre Research, a multinational company of actors, dancers, musicians and others which travelled widely in the Middle East and Africa in the early 1970s. Influences[edit] Brook was influenced by the work of Antonin Artaud and his ideas for his Theatre of Cruelty. His major influence, however, was Joan Littlewood. The Mahabharata[edit] Tierno Bokar[edit] Work[edit] Major productions for the RSC[edit] Other major productions[edit] Awards[edit]
Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh Chandra Mohan Jain (11 December 1931 – 19 January 1990), also known as Acharya Rajneesh from the 1960s onwards, as Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh ( pronunciation ) during the 1970s and 1980s, and as Osho ( pronunciation ;) from 1989, was an Indian mystic, guru and spiritual teacher. His international following has continued after his death. A professor of philosophy, he traveled throughout India during the 1960s as a public speaker. Rajneesh's ashram in Pune[6] is today known as the Osho International Meditation Resort. Biography[edit] Childhood and adolescence: 1931–1950[edit] University years and public speaking: 1951–1970[edit] In 1951, aged nineteen, Rajneesh began his studies at Hitkarini College in Jabalpur.[19] Asked to leave after conflicts with an instructor, he transferred to D.N. After calling for a greater acceptance of sex in a 1968 lecture series (later published as From Sex to Superconsciousness), Rajneesh was dubbed "the sex guru" by the Indian press. Bombay: 1970–1974[edit] Peter B.
Isha Upanishad The Isha Upanishad (Devanagari: ईशोपनिषद् IAST īśopaniṣad) is one of the shortest of the Upanishads, in form more like a brief poem than a philosophical treatise, consisting of 17 or 18 verses in total. The Upanishad constitutes the final chapter (adhyāya) of the Shukla Yajurveda and survives in two versions, called Kanva (VSK) and Madhyandina (VSM). Like other core texts of the Vedanta, it is considered revealed scripture (Śruti) by diverse traditions within Hinduism. The name of the text derives from the its incipit, īśā vāsyam, "enveloped by the Lord". It is grouped as a "Poetic Upanishad" with Kena, Katha, Svetasvatara and Mundaka by Paul Deussen (1908).[2] Its composition dates roughly to the second half of the first millennium BCE.[3] Text[edit] In the two shakhas of the Shukla Yajurveda (called the VSK and VSM) the order of verses 1–8 is the same, however VSK verses 9–14 correspond to VSM verses 12, 13, 14, 9, 10, 11. Content[edit] The first verse reads: See also[edit] References[edit]
Walter Wriston Walter Bigelow Wriston (August 3, 1919 – January 19, 2005) was a banker and former chairman and CEO of Citicorp. As chief executive of Citibank / Citicorp (later Citigroup) from 1967 to 1984, Wriston was widely regarded as the single most influential commercial banker of his time.[1][2] During his tenure as CEO, the bank introduced, among other innovations, automated teller machines, interstate banking, the negotiable certificate of deposit, and "pursued the credit card business in a way that no other bank was doing at the time".[3][4] With then New York Governor Hugh Carey and investment banker Felix Rohatyn, Wriston helped save New York City from bankruptcy in the mid-1970s by setting up the Financial Control Board and the Municipal Assistance Corporation, and persuading the city's union pension funds and banks to buy the latter corporation's bonds.[5] Personal life[edit] In 1942, Walter Wriston married Barbara Brengle, with whom he had one daughter. Politics[edit] Quotes[edit]
The Electrical Dance of Uranus and Pluto The electrical dance of revolutionary Uranus and transformative Pluto outlines revolutionary phases in the development of human consciousness on a global scale. We are soon to enter the next stage of this cosmic quadrille. Richard Giles examines the trends... Historical cycles' beginnings and endings are very hard to spot from our narrow day-to-day perspective. From an astrologer's viewpoint, these cycles' directions are not always clear until afterwards. A few months ago I watched the movie Bobby, the story of Robert Kennedy Jnr, the second of the Kennedy brothers to be shot dead in the USA by an assassin. Uranus and Pluto, two of the most graphic of our outer planets in their cycle of conjunction, square and opposition, play a major part in establishing the impact of the new trends downloaded into our historical and social collective; and when they do, they cause massive alterations in our social and political fabric. Lessons and Testing Times The square occurs seven times: -
Bill Herbst, astrologer A Rare Look at Venus, June 5/6, 2012 | Rose Marcus, evolutionary astrologer, Vancouver Venus Transit June 5, 6, 2012 Creative Transformation: The Rebirth of Solar Feminine and the New Age Dawn (A brief synopsis) This article can also be found in the following publication: Science to Sage International Themed Edition Science to Sage Vancouver Edition On June 5 or 6, 2012, depending where on the planet you live, Venus will cross the face of the sun. One of the first photographs of the transit of Venus 1882 Unlike the short interval of an eclipse which takes just under a minute to a few minutes to view, Venus will take six hours to complete her passage. from: Astronomy: Although Venus and Sun meet up every couple of years, we have only witnessed this event six times in recent human history. The Venus/Earth orbital 3/2 ratio replicates the perfect symmetry we know as the Golden Mean. Last Pair Current Pair Next Pair
Banana mangante Samuel Zemurray: Rich Cohen’s The Fish That Ate the Whale Photograph by Eliot Elisofon/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images. Samuel Zemurray took his money and went south. Wisteria bloomed along the railroad tracks. Towns drifted by. He could smell the ocean before he could see it. He was 17, a big kid, 6-foot-3 in boots, the wingspan of a condor. Mobile was booming in the last years of the 19th century, a seedy industrial port filled with all the familiar types: the sharpie, the financier, the scoundrel, the chucklehead, the sport. One evening, Sam stood on the wharf watching a Boston Fruit banana boat sail into the harbor. In the South, in the days before mechanical equipment, bananas were unloaded by hand, the workers carrying the cargo a stem at a time—from the hold, where the shipment was packed in ice, onto the deck of the ship. Sam would have watched closely as the workers formed lines that snaked from the deck of the ship down a ramp, and across the pier to the waiting boxcars. Photograph by Rich Cohen. Stop lights.
Swedes spend their lunch breaks clubbing Photograph by Kirsten Eddyson Photography. When it comes to lunch breaks, the laissez-faire French like to take two hours out of their workday to savor their food in the company of colleagues while workaholic Americans prefer dining solo in front of their computers. Well, in Sweden we have a whole other vibe going. Here, more and more workers are forgoing both leisurely lunches and "al-desko" dining in favor of daytime raves. It started in the fall of 2010 when 14 friends decided to dance their lunch breaks away in their office garage. The basic idea behind Lunch Beat is that workers take an hour out in the middle of the day to let loose in the company of fellow dance-enthusiasts. With its strobe lights, smoke machines, funky wall projections, pounding techno music, and crowded dance floor filled with fist-pumping, sweat-dripping revelers, Lunch Beat recreates the atmosphere of nightclubs. I attended the latest Lunch Beat on April 24, in Stockholm.
Transformational Festivals - 4-Part Documentary Webseries by Jeet-Kei Leung Transformational Festivals are a potent phenomenon blossoming on the west coast and beyond and playing a profound role in hundreds of thousands of people's lives. Our new 4-part documentary video series sets out on a journey over summer 2012, exploring 10 to 12 of the premier festivals of this kind to illuminate this remarkable phenomenon. Joining the forces of TEDx presenter Jeet-Kei Leung as narrator/host and videographers Syd Woodward (Grounded TV Network) and Akira Chan (Akira Chan Arts), the "Transformational Festivals" series will bridge the gap in articulating the profound nature of this burgeoning movement. The 4 parts explore key themes related to the transformational nature of these festivals, combining Jeet-Kei's insights with inspirational interviews and the evocative, magic moments captured through the Syd and Akira's lens. www.transformationalfestivals.net
Wixarika | The Esperanza Project Story and photos by Tracy L. Barnett REAL DE CATORCE, Mexico – They came by the hundreds from the Western Sierra Madre, native Wixarika or Huichol people on a spiritual quest, seeking to consult with the spirits of their ancestors and of the land where their world began. They came in their ceremonial dress, colorfully embroidered with their sacred symbols of the deer, the eagle and the peyote. This year, however, would be vastly different from years past. What was different about this ceremony – besides the context of the proposed mines – was that they would converge at the Cerro Quemado, the mountain said to be the birthplace of the sun, and perform the ceremony together, instead of coming in small groups throughout the year. It might happen that we would be invited up to the peak during the night to join the ceremony. It was nearly sundown when I started up the mountain on horseback, along with Wirikuta Defense Front leader Carlos Chavez and his family. More dancing, more singing.
Huichols slam Mexican government for “media masquerade” | The Esperanza Project Above, Rubén Albarran from the rock band Café Tacvba confers with Wixarika leader Santos de la Cruz at a press conference regarding the government announcement. MEXICO CITY – It sounded too good to be true – and, indeed, it was. The mining company First Majestic Silver was handing over its mining concessions in the sacred lands of Wirikuta, and the government was declaring 45,000 hectares a National Mining Reserve, which would be protected from exploitation. The news went out in the international media on Friday: Mexico promises to protect Huichol indian lands,” reported the Washington Post, Associated Press and ABC News, among others. “ Minera cede concesiones en el territorio protegido de Wirikuta” (Mining company cedes concessions in the protected territory of Wirikuta), proclaimed CNN Mexico. The social media were on fire; messages circulated on Twitter and Facebook faster than you could refesh your screen: “Aho!