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My Right Foot, or the Potentially Awkward Issue of Inappropriately Adoring Body Parts

Feb 23, 2013

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There has been a bunch of activity around the notion of a Queer Gnostic Mass lately. The notion seems to be that the Gnostic Mass is not currently LGBT friendly because of particular policies, but that it should be. There is a book, Priest/ess: In Advocacy of Queer Gnostic Mass by Michael Effertz, that has…

Societies with secrets, security culture and online social media

May 12, 2012

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John Bell

in Books, Esoterica, Freemasonry, Labor, Ordo Templi Orientis, Politics, Portland, Technology

There’s a post about a new Social Media Code of Conduct for Massachusetts Freemasons [PDF] (HT @Masonictraveller) over at Freemason Information, part of The Beehive series by Fred Milliken. This document mentioned is particularly interesting to me because it touches on some issues I think are important; and the reactions to the document are also…

Superstition

Jun 17, 2011

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John Bell

in Journal

For me, superstition is not characterized by choosing one metaphor over another labeled wrong, but rather in mistaking perception and metaphor for an objective reality; and to banish superstition is to realize this: that truth is never without subjectivity because any truth understood by a mind is conditioned by the limitations of mind, that metaphors…

The point is not to deny another’s perception of the elephant

Aug 27, 2010

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John Bell

in Journal, Notebook

The point is not to deny another’s perception of the elephant, but to see all viewpoints as gifts which lead toward a better understanding of elephant-ness. Like the oath of the Magister Templi, where all phenomenon are messages from god, all viewpoints are reflection of that message since they are facets of perception which lead…

Paradigms 2

Apr 1, 2010

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John Bell

in Esoterica

I previously posted some initial thoughts about paradigms in, honestly, a kind of screed. From the content of that post, it may not be clear why I think the topic relates to my category of esoterica, I think this continuation will tie those together usefully. I note that Mark over at Darkline made some of…

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My Right Foot, or the Potentially Awkward Issue of Inappropriately Adoring Body Parts

Societies with secrets, security culture and online social media

Superstition

The point is not to deny another’s perception of the elephant

Paradigms 2