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• Dark Omen: Climate Chaos Converges with Solar Eclipse Wisdom
  Posted on September 13, 2017 | No Comments

  Since the solar eclipse of 2017, climate and tectonic instability has accelerated across the Earth: Rehearsal for the End Times? Predicted fossil fueled climate disruption and superstorm cataclysm? Sun-Moon alignment that bulged the Earth's crust, precipitating earthquakes? What really is happening here? We survey scientific, religious, and  traditional indigenous belief for answers.

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• Hindu Epic ‘Mahabharata’ in Balinese Shadow Theatre and Dance
  Posted on August 14, 2017 | No Comments

  The timeless brilliance of the Hindu epic Mahabharata, illuminated by the mysterious art of Balinese shadow theatre, enacted to the percussive metallophones of traditional gamelan ensembles.

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• Gogol’s Vision of Metaphysical Unraveling Amid the Dark Arts
  Posted on August 9, 2017 | No Comments

  Watch the 1967 supernatural horror story "Viy" based on the 1835 novella by the Russian writer Nikolai Gogol, where a student philosopher from the Christian seminary encounters a young woman with dark powers who can summon the ogre, King of the Gnomes, which the author claims comes from Ukrainian folklore tradition.

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• Monsanto’s RoundUp: Collusion, Corruption, and Lies Revealed
  Posted on August 5, 2017 | No Comments

  Law firm releases trove of "secret documents" detailing Monsanto employees' attempts to influence writers and scientists on the safety of the popular, and carcinogenic, herbicide Roundup.

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• Aleister Crowley’s Secret Society of Magick and Excess
  Posted on July 24, 2017 | 1 Comment

  Self-promoted as the “Great Beast 666" from the Bible's Book of Revelations. Slandered by the British press as the “Wickedest Man in the World.” Yet, theatrical occultist Aleister Crowley pioneered a radical re-imagining of self determination through managing paranormal spiritual entities, shaking up early 20th Century polite society. He founded the libertine religion of Thelema, and through sex rituals and extreme drug abuse emphasized the not-necessarily-wicked ritual practice of Magick. 

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• Jerry Brown Passes Cap and Trade Written by the Oil Industry
  Posted on July 23, 2017 | No Comments

  California extended its Cap and Trade system until 2030, a symbolic move that actually allows grave concessions to the oil industry, ties the hands of local agencies ability to regulate greenhouse gases, and threatens both the state’s climate goals and the health of communities, ecosystems and the planet. RL Miller unveils the ugly political process where the Jerry Brown had the oil industry write the bill and forced the rest to go along.

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• Jean-Michel Basquiat: Poverty and Power, Scrawled on Walls
  Posted on July 11, 2017 | No Comments

  Living and dying close to the edge in the 1980s Manhattan world of art and culture, Jean-Michel Basquiat moved from guerrilla street artist to producing innumerable works worth millions, until his drug-induced end in 1988.

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• LA Poet Wanda Coleman on Smog Addiction and Angel Wings
  Posted on July 7, 2017 | No Comments

  In "Angel Baby Blues," from Wanda Coleman's collection Heavy Daughter Blues, she offered a take on the failed promises of her home in Southern California. A prolific poet, fiction writer, and journalist, she was considered for a time Los Angeles' unofficial and controversial Poet Laureate.

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• Benefits of Coconut Oil Versus the Detractors
  Posted on July 4, 2017 | No Comments

  While health benefits of coconut oil through scientific, peer-reviewed analysis outweigh concerns about saturated fat from the American Heart Association, its obsessive use is not without impacts to the environment.

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• Poet Antonio López on the “Road Rage” of Clashing Histories
  Posted on June 30, 2017 | No Comments

  Antonio López won the Poetry Award at the 2017 Santa Barbara Writers Conference with 'Which Cobija Feels Most Comfy?: A Letter to Sister Nabra', about the murder of a teenage Muslim girl beaten and killed by a bat-wielding motorist near a Virginia mosque.

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