I would imagine that it wasn't intentional for the podcasthost giving some kind of a Crowleyianwink to the chapter 69 of 'The Book of Lies'mythistory surrounding Crowley's magickal career ... but I guess only he knows the real history behind the numbering of his podcast episodes, right?-)
I found a heap of interesting podcast shows when doing a podcast search for podcasts on Theosophyand Gary Lachman, including a podcast show called 'CULTure' that did a couple of episodesaboutCrowleyand one onTheosophy, not that they seemed to know much at all about either, apart from some personal observations and speculations.
Don't you just love listening to our fake history and CULTure ... or do you think that it sucks, too?-)
I went to bed late last night after watching the Melbourne Demonsdreamof winning their first AFL Grand Final in 57 years come true and with my iPadresting on top of my blankets and then waking up this morning rather late with my iPad blaring out a brand-new old Rudolf Steiner lecture about sleep that must have downloaded overnight while I was sleeping:-)
While I have never been a member of the Theosophical Society I was a member of their library in Brisbane for a number of years in my late teenage years and borrowed books and cassette tapes(That's right cassettes ... I did say my late teenage years:-) of lectures that were given in their lodges -
While I thought Blavatskyand Co's stories about the Hidden Masters were as likely as Santa actually living and working with elves at the North Pole, I liked their open-minded(although sometimes too open-minded) search for the truth, and their motto of "There is no Religion Higher that Truth"even though I didn't think they were much closer to the truth than many man-made religions and faiths of the world at that time, or since.
I still have this trinket pictured above which I bought off some jewelry store on the net years ago to remind me of my TSbook borrowing days, even though this seal happens to be missing the reverse swastika on the original TS seal.
The book I have been reading lately
Being from a mixed secular Jewish family background I can't say that I'm too worried about the swastika missing from the seal, to be honest, but I've never seen the TS seal as being a Nazi symbol anyway.
I started reading the book after hearing Garry Lachman talking about the Theosophical Society in the latest podcasts I have been listening to lately.
The book was written by the late Joy Mills and reads like a series of boring financial minutes of the years since the founding of the American TSand is a real slog to get through, even for me.
I have to often battle to stay awake while reading it ironically:-)
The time I woke up this morning, minus a minute or two
When I was wondering what time it was when I woke up in bed this morning, I saw it was 8:15 and thought to myself, of course it's 8:15, as that's the time that it has always been;-)
I decided I would take a photo of my bedside table with the clock showing 8:15, but by the time I had switched my phone on, and it had booted up, the time was 8:16, nearly 8:17am, which made me think of my old BTTF post and the first bomb that was dropped on Japan -
And while I know even less about Rudolf Steiner and his beliefs, I am finding some of his re-read lectures an interesting and thought-provoking listen.
Especially this latest one which dropped onto my iPad overnight about sleep.
Which makes me ponder just where I have consciously been for over a third of my 57 years of life on this planet when I have drifted off to sleep and where I will consciously be tonight once more when I can't stay "woke" any longer;-)
DEMOlitioN of theRational?-)I thought that I would write this post about the 'The Weekend University' podcast for high school dropouts like me who find these lectures at the podcast site interesting listening.
I also found a 'Crawlspace'podcast featuring Gary, plus another episode about the topic of synchronicity, which seems rather weird considering that 'Crawlspace' seems to be more of a "true crime"podcast, something I'm not into listening to, or reading about all that much, to be honest.
