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This journal is for a free exploration, in the company of friends, of Reality. It's mostly about magical spirituality and the fires of inward transformation. A lot of what I consider most interesting is "friends only," so add me and tell me about yourself if you'd like to read more. You can also get a taste of where I'm coming from by following the link to my more polished blog, Manifold Oneness. I'm here for social networking, especially with Pagans. So there's fun and chatter and silliness here, too.

I hope it goes without saying that I don't agree with all the political opinions expressed by people on my "Friends List".

I love all freaky mystical folks and believe that despite all appearances, the future is ours.

I hold a PhD in English and am a professional copy writer and editor. Editing is work I don't enjoy very much, so I don't do much of it here. My spelling is Wyrd.

The Infinite Whole alone is unchangingly Real. Nothing matters but love of the Infinite Self in all Its particulars.

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23rd-Apr-2009 02:45 pm - Pease lecture as MP3
The Donald Pease lecture I mentioned back in February (text of that reproduced below) is online for anyone who might like to take a listen... It's the first thing on this page. 


Antigone's Kin from Abu Graib to Barack Obama
by Donald Pease  (Prof. Engl. Dartmouth)

Friday Feb. 27, 2009
130 Colson Hall
WVU Downtown Campus/12:00-1:00 PM

Through a discussion of Abu Ghraib, Cindy Sheehan's protest in Crawford Texas, Hurricane Katrina, the Home finance crisis and Barack Obama's "movement", his lecture will explain how the composite of these events resulted in the undermining of President George W. Bush's "fantasy" of a Homeland Security State.

More specifically, in "Antigone's Kin: From Abu Ghraib to Barack Obama", he will discuss the ways in which the compact that President Bush established with the American people after 9/11 came apart.

In explaining how the Bush compact came apart, he will interpret Cindy Sheehan's refusal to mourn the death of her son as a reenactment of Antigone's confrontation with Creon, and he will locate the origins of Obama's movement as starting in New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.


scholar
9th-Feb-2009 04:00 pm - My kind of lecture... Sheehan as Antigone
I might have to go out of my way to hear this very tantalizing academic lecture... been a very long time since I've been able to say that!   It's free... any of you local folks interested?

Antigone's Kin from Abu Graib to Barack Obama
by Donald Pease  (Prof. Engl. Dartmouth)

Friday Feb. 27, 2009
130 Colson Hall
WVU Downtown Campus/12:00-1:00 PM

Through a discussion of Abu Ghraib, Cindy Sheehan's protest in Crawford Texas, Hurricane Katrina, the Home finance crisis and Barack Obama's "movement", his lecture will explain how the composite of these events resulted in the undermining of President George W. Bush's "fantasy" of a Homeland Security State.

More specifically, in "Antigone's Kin: From Abu Ghraib to Barack Obama", he will discuss the ways in which the compact that President Bush established with the American people after 9/11 came apart.

In explaining how the Bush compact came apart, he will interpret Cindy Sheehan's refusal to mourn the death of her son as a reenactment of Antigone's confrontation with Creon, and he will locate the origins of Obama's movement as starting in New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

scholar
22nd-Jan-2009 09:33 am - Access to Water, Air and Soil Pollution journal...

This may be of interest or use to some:

In 2009 our esteemed journal Water, Air and Soil Pollution celebrates its 200th Volume over 38 years of publication. To celebrate we invite you to read the journal – at no cost to yourself – for a period of 30 days. In the right-hand column you will also find a list of the most cited articles from the journal.

http://springer.r.delivery.net/r/r?2.1.Ee.2Tp.1hiRVL.BxVOnm..N.GiWk.36Ne.MDYEfA00

ouroboros
29th-Jul-2008 09:32 pm - Relational Model of Sexualities

Here's a now-archaic graphic from a Master's Thesis project that illustrates my concept of gender; I still see things like this 15 years later.  (Back then, "Queer" meant to Gay what Black once meant to Negro, and was about anti-essentialist, anti-assimilationist identity--that needs to come back in some newer, broader way that seeps into every bedroom and promotes a Reichian revolution of self and social world, orgiasm and polis).  The bar on the right hand side represents a "genealogy" of gendered consciousness, at least in the panoramic version.   The single line connecting male and heterosexuality was meant to imply its evolution within patriarchal constructs.




pea close
14th-Jul-2008 10:34 am - Data and Narrative: The Problem with the West
will x-post to Manifold Oneness

( Get your longish but carefully written essay on Western epistemology right here... )
bruno
7th-Apr-2008 12:33 pm - Worlds Turn Upside Down

And here's one from the Chronicle of Higher Education reviewing a book about Whitman worship (the real thing, not a metaphor...Finally !  It only took 100 years for this topic to become acceptable again.  Maybe there's a new market for my dissertation in the wake of this business... 8 years ago, even "serious" Whitman scholars sometimes knew nothing of this)

http://chronicle.com/free/v54/i31/31b00601.htm
whitman
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