Month: March 2023

β€œYoga” by Emmanuel CarrΓ¨re: I meditate, therefore I am

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Emmanuel Carrère's novel is a delusional journey into his inner abyss that each of us can recognize and pity. But it is also a joyful vibrant invitation to accept life, to observe it in its entirety, just as one observes one's thoughts while meditating. Every day sitting, motionless, in silence. 

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Kenneth Anger, the "Hollywood Babylon" and the end of the "Aquarian dream"

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On the intricate relationship between the American director Kenneth Anger, author of the two volumes Hollywood Babylon and of shorts like Invocation for My Demon Brother e Lucifer Rising, Aleister Crowley's Thelema, Charles Manson's Family, film score composer Bobby Beausoleil and the infamous free Rolling Stones concert in Alamont, which in the late 60s would spell the end of the "Aquarian dream" of the hippie counterculture stars and stripes.

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Lo-Shu and the labyrinth

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A journey from the primordial China of the legendary rulers to the maze of the palace of Knossos to the sovereignty of Saturn, in an attempt to unravel a plot which - like a dance - turns out to be based on rules animated by a lost science of rhythm whose vestiges are manifested in diagrams cosmological information informed by the observation of the highest heaven: the circumpolar region as it must have appeared in 3000 BC, different from the current one due to the precessional cycle.

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Live video: β€œThe dark throne. Magic, power and technology”, with Andrea Venanzoni

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Tomorrow night we will have the pleasure of hosting sul our YouTube channel Andrea Venanzoni, author of the essay The dark throne. Magic, power and technology in the contemporary world, recently published by Luiss University Press. Appointment starting at 21:30.

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EVERY SOUL IS A STAR β€” 2) Mircea Eliade

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Welcome back to the second appointment of the astrological column "Every soul is a star”. After having analyzed in the first article of this cycle the Gustav Meyrink's birth chart we can move on to an equally suggestive birth chart: born on March 13, 1907 in Bucharest, Mircea Eliade was one of the most important authors of traditional thought of the last century. Here we will talk about his birth chart in relation to his biography and thoughts about him.

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