Initium, or how I learned to love the Kali-Yuga

“..Without knowledge action is useless and knowledge without action is futile…” Abu Bakr
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http://www.strongerman.com/
I am not an affiliate, nor have I commercial interests in this site. The guy behind it has some useful instructional quick videos on various Kettle bell based conditioning workouts - basically just working the ever so humble swing.
Myself, [...]

Caveat lector..
“..Truly created beings are meanings set up in images.
All who grasp this are among the people of discernment..”
Ibn Habib: al-Maghribi. Gnostics see from the heart, which is the intellect’s seat.
‘ahlil ‘ibar - people of discernment, people of discrimination.
I discriminate.
“..Smash the control images. Smash the control machine…”
William S. Burroughs: Gentleman Junkie? Slacker? Poet? [...]

“..I bit my tongue and stood in line
With not much to believe in
I bought into what I was sold
And ended up with nothing
This is not my idea of a good time ..”
- Garbage, “not my idea”
This started as a comment at Poetry of Flesh’s blog… but it got too long, and meandered in different [...]

Benazir

dissolving

When walking in Melancholia, I tend to listen to Death In June’s NADA! on a repeat loop. Something about that record is kind of soothing to me.
NADA is, I’m convinced, one of the best Industrial and dark synth-pop records of the 80’s, and one of Death In June’s own masterpieces. Though the collaborations with Albin [...]

Tension generated as the coil is pressed down. It quivers and is sprung. Released in a direction it exerts force. The coiled spring, the tensed muscle, the panther on its haunches waiting to leap.
With the tension unleashed, the energy is transferred. The spring is sprung. The fist, it flies forth. The cat leaps through the [...]

“Romantic love is much more, however, than the union of sexuality and affection, since this union itself requires a sublimation and refinement of soul. Nor is romantic love necessarily young love, nor adulterous love, nor love framed by war, nor even passionate love in the usual sense. Rather, it is that mode of love which [...]

Disclaimer: It needs to be stated that while this method has proven personally effective, this blog’s author is not a medical doctor, and cannot be held liable for any possible side effect of this treatment. Use common sense, maintain a reasonable level of personal hygiene, and you may also find the method effective.
There comes a [...]

In our society, as young men, there is much about the arts of love that we are not taught, or at least are taught very badly.
Contrast this with previous civilizations such as ancient China, ancient India, medieval Islam, and the Hellenic civilizations.
Even in many primitive tribal cultures there exist formal initiations into manhood, instruction [...]