The Holy Solar crew trucked down to Hopland, California, for the annual SolFest celebration at the Solar Living Institute & left with this song and video. Feel free to share it with other alternative energy enthusiasts.
Eco-Friendly Portable Solar-Powered Readers
Current mood: excited
Category: Writing and Poetry
The irony of reading pro-ecology literature printed on virgin tree paper at the expense of a small grove has penetrated to the core of the green movement, torn between love of knowledge and responsibility to the planet.
Fortunately, the Green Tech revolution has brought about the worlds first hand-held tree-free reading experience. Electronic books convey the same information as bound editions, without the printing costs to the publisher…or the planet.
J.K. Rowling Pulls Muggle's Move with Punitive Lawsuit
Okay, we're not fans of the Harry Potter books here at Easy Witchcraft. Never mind that the series, which has enjoyed unprecedented marketing and therefore sales, is little more than rehashed old fantasy standbys peppered with embarrassingly awkward proper nouns. We'll also set aside the disturbingly elitist premise of inherited "magical-ness.'
At Easy Witchcraft, we firmly believe everyone is born with the capacity for magic.
Yet another reason for Harry Potter to wake up and try some of the more advanced flavors of magical fiction. You'll be surprised at how good some of it is once you get your head out of the Hog's Warts. See some of our favorites below.
The mystique of a prehistoric advanced society has captured the imaginations of the metaphysically inclined and confounded scholars for a score of centuries. There are more versions of what that ancient civilization entailed and how the remains might be encountered than nearly any other tale of primordial people. Yet the tale of a genius race which predated our earliest records has engaged the imagination of generations exactly for the reason that it resonates so clearly in the New Age.
New Age book fans have at their disposal a vast array of works addressing the enigma of Atlantis, both non-fiction and a more fantastic angle. The subject is frequently associated with reincarnation, and often figures in World Rebirth prophecy.
The Greek philosopher Plato first began to write about a mythical continent, that he named Atlantis, about twenty-four hundred years ago. Plato claimed the lost Island had been in the Atlantic Ocean and met a fateful end over one hundred centuries prior.
Renowned prophet Edgar Cayce wrote of Atlantis as a large land mass, rivaling the dimensions of Greenland. As it is told in the prophet's amazing vision, the inhabitants of the Island had mastered many advanced telepathic qualities and tools, and gave rise to the oddly congruent solar-worshipping cultures of the founders of Western Civilization and the Empires of native America.
Speculations on the location of this culture's remains stretch from the coast of India to the Americas, although the most intriguing possibilities, as might be expected, are European islands, most notably the Azores and Cyprus.
We may never know the facts, nonetheless one thing seems clear: the cycle of development and decimation has previously culminated, possibly many times, long before what we commonly regard as "history," even began.
Off the Beaten Paths - No Way by Ram Tzu
Current mood: amused
Off the Beaten Paths No Way by Ram Tzu
Whatever your beliefs… Ram Tzu will find a way to disabuse you of them. This hysterical anti-Tao combines mystical satire and a firm disavowal of all truths.
An irreverent guru being channeled through a Southern California cynic, Ram Tzu sets the very idea of wisdom on its ass.
"This book will slap you back into your senses. To quote from the book: 'You are your own worst enemy. Ram Tzu is your friend, so he will have to kill you to save you from yourself.' "
Blues4Kali Tour Book Tips
Current mood: creative
Category: Writing and Poetry
TOURBOOK TIPS
DANGER:READING THIS BOOK WILL PISS YOU OFF!
THESE THOUGHTS ARE SUBVERSIVE AND INSUBORDINATE
This novel is intended for mature audiences, and contains, like the world, a great deal of gratuitous sex and violence, as well as unflinching frankness and mind-bending ideas of every kind.
If you are not mature, please conceal this book, and the fact that you are reading it, from whatever authority figure is keeping you that way.
YOU CAN GROW UP RIGHT NOW!
The greatest truths are the most difficult to accept. Readers are asked to courageously consider the changes we all need to make, if we are serious about a better world.
Some readers, through inattention, may miss the many levels of meaning and subtle implications contained in each sentence of this novel.
For them, Blues4Kali will suck like cheap porn.
The publisher and author would both like to praise the medicinal herb, cannabis sativa, for providing much-needed anxiety relief and spiritual healing during the dangerous and action-packed events depicted herein. All hail the Kali flower! Om Shakti Kali Kali Ganja!
Due to the highly metaphorical nature of this work, the author advises reading this text in a relaxed, meditative state. Blues4Kali is best experienced to the tune of musical accompaniment, of a rhythmic and sacred nature, and with ready access to an encyclopedia and a text on comparative mythology.
The author recommends live recordings of Vedic chanting. It's even cooler than you'd think at first.
If you find that type of repetitious music annoying, we enthusiastically endorse the poetic albums of Dar Williams and Ani Difranco, and specifically the live recordings of the Grateful Dead and The String Cheese Incident.
These artists had what it takes to serve as background music for the majority of the composition of this work, which was rhythmically generated to these inspiring sounds, and the author would like to bless as well as thank them for supplying the soundtrack to this exploration of the soul.
Savor this experience. What's your hurry?
Some sentences deserve a second look. Speedreaders will waste everyone's time, by hustling to the destination, without being able to understand what the journey means. Invest your time in a truly transformative perspective. There is no prize for missing the point of this exercise.
Kali has something very important to tell you. Please take the time to understand this most maligned Mother Goddess, for your own sake and that of our crumbling world. She has waited six thousand years to tell Her side of the Story, and She is quite cranky about interruptions.
PAY ATTENTION! PAY ATTENTION! PAY ATTENTION!
BOOKWIDE SPEED LIMIT: 75 WPM (words per minute/white powder molecules)
Reality Exchange Program
Current mood: awake
Category: Writing and Poetry
"The South Side of Time..."
Crazy Bear said there'd be days like this. As usual, no one believed him. Now, all I want to know is: where IS that lifeboat, and how DO I ditch this ship of fools, without any of these bliss ninnies noticing that I'm already gone?
Captain, my ass. We are equal in this sea of madness.
That iceberg is looking awfully big.
Amana Mission is on a quest to save the world, and the only problem is, she can't remember why she got involved with such an obvious scam in the first place. Jesus saves. Christ. What a loser.
Kali kills first, and recycles later.
Hitchhikers, load up for a ride to the Other Side. You may wish you had gone Greyhound.
"What the...?"
A cranky band of prankster peace warriors who absolutely cannot resist messing with each other's minds, no matter the cost.
Cocky alchemy-dabbling quantum surfers, navigating the Ethersphere with hand-held computers, seamlessly switching timelines to find a better party vibe and swap tips about the best temporary toilets for use as interdimensional portals.
A burnt-out visionary hippie millionaire on a mission from Gaia to build a better "communitopia" by underwriting a convoy carrying busloads of telepathic priestesses.
A wheelchair-bound mindpilot propelling a crystal-powered Seed Bank toward the post-Apocalyptic Garden, with psychic precision...and a predilection for high-velocity extreme driving.
Hermaphrodite time-jumper fleeing a fate worse than death.
Anarchist ghettoes where anything goes-except escape.
Ancient Principals vying like sweatsoaked carpetbaggers for our loyalty as the Final Vote is tallied.
Long-haired security patrols collecting a cannabis tribute tax from all pilgrims to the Valley of Fun.
And an underground meat mafia bringing a black magic revival to a bloodless dreamworld gone bland.
All brought together by a secret psychedelic superdrug that tunes users in to reality through the eyes of another archetypal avatar inhabiting a different state of space and time. Mahayana made easy. Budding Buddha natures are running amuck on a virtual superhighway where all roads lead to the Bo tree and singularity.
Twenty-first century Tantra is about more than sex, drugs, and rock and roll.
Confronting the Karma of every wasted breath is only the first step.
Welcome to the End Times. Kali awaits. She already knows who you are.
Do you?
The 21st century counterculture is even weirder than it appears on the surface. This is not your mommy's MTV Road Rules.
Ride along on this mesmerizing, metaphor-packed bus trip toward ecstasy and enlightenment, as three real-time guides-Amana, Sissy, and Deva, let you in on what they learned when they asked what It was really all about, after all.
Become them for a multilevel metafictional tour of infinity and awaken yourself to the miracle-a-minute magic of mighty Mother Kali!
Transcend all prejudice and descend into the Mind of the Mother at the Moment of Death and Rebirth.
No Penalty for Early Withdrawal
Current mood: defiant
Category: defiant News and Politics
No Penalty for Early Withdrawal By Indi Riverflow
The Congress of the United States has finally voted for troop withdrawal from Iraq, marking the first official recognition that the citizens of the U.S., as well as a majority of recently elected representatives, are ready and eager to end the illegal occupation of ancient Babylon by a more modern version.
Not always the opposite of Progress.
The Resident-in-Thief, predictably, has used his ill-gotten veto to flaunt the expressed will of the people, but a milestone has been passed for the peace movement. Reality has finally caught up with the imperialists, and by continuing the hostilities in defiance of the timeline, the Administration will be further exposed for a rogue regime operating in open violation of laws domestic and international.
The next step is to defiantly and unapologetically refuse to offer any additional war spending bill at all, letting the buck fall squarely in the lap of the paper tiger. Let history reflect that, in the end, Dubya himself vetoed the appropriation for his own pet vendetta.
The more gullible of us are expected to believe that disaster will ensue in the wake of troop withdrawal. Insurgents, and civil war, will tear apart the fragile fabric of the infantile Iraqi society.
What this really means is that the unpopular puppets and collaborators, whose power in Baghdad derives entirely from the barrels of American guns, will fall faster than Enron stock without our dupes to support them.
Hashing out a new government will doubtless be a struggle in Iraq. After all, practically everyone with experience in public service has been executed or arrested. But if democracy, instead of merely an Orwellian inversion of it, were ever to prevail in the Persian Gulf, we can be sure that expelling Dubya's cronies would be the order of the day.
Who, exactly, is the enemy in Iraq? The invasion was originally mounted, in theory, to prevent the use of non-existent weapons of mass destruction. Now that the dictator and most of his family has been wiped out, gangland-style, the question begs like a displaced refugee: why should sectarian violence erupt now, when the cause of all the land's woe has been stuck in the ground?
Round and round, this circular speciosity goes. Withdrawing troops is tantamount to abandoning the locals to the violence that foreign presence inspires.
We are begged to give time for the troop surges to "work." What would this mean? Escalating the raids and martial law to the point that partisans are too cowed to bomb Parliament?
Progressives who oppose the occupation but apologize for continuing it appear to be plagued by a sense of responsibility to the region, an obligation to clean up the mess we have made.
Indeed the responsibility is great. Will anyone support a budget which expends peacetime dollars in foreign aid to help an independent Iraq rebuild, at the rate that wartime funds ravaged it? Can any hawk be delusional enough to actually believe that invading forces are a stabilizing force, let alone the mealy-mouthed moderates who have let this travesty go on for over four years now?
We remember who has abided the war crimes, and who spoke out. Let us remember them well in 2008. The articles of impeachment have been filed; let us convene our Nuremburg.
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