If we don't have a planetary extinction event or a nuclear war, I don't follow politics for another reason. Western Civilization ends in 200 years. If you know the inevitable outcome, why try to stop the inevitable? "God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to cha... Read More

Havelock Ellis (Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Vol. 3, 1906) wrote ... "It will be seen that the most usual method of attaining tumescence — a method found among the most various kinds of animals, from insects and birds to man — is some form of the dance. Among the Negritos of the Philippi... Read More

Sophia Wellbeloved (Gurdjieff: The Key Concepts, 2003) wrote ... "There are three excrements. The first is the result of ordinary food and must be eliminated each day. The second is sexual and must be eliminated in the bathroom, for some every day, for others every week or month or six months. Th... Read More

Adano Ley (Swami Nitty-Gritty) taught us The Elemental Song. The Elemental Song (usually sung to the tune of My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean) goes ... We love you, we love you, we love you, Our dear Elementals, we do. All beings of Air, Fire, and Water, And beings of Earth, we love you. I Am... Read More

I asked Adano Ley (Swami Nitty-Gritty) for Initiation. He said he only did Initiations during the annual summer retreat in Tyler, Texas. Along came the summer of 1976. Gerry Thomas and I drove north to Tyler to experience the retreat. Gerry and I were in a Gurdjieff group led by Bob Hohenberge... Read More