Thanks gain mrtn.
The German team has already noticed your new translation.
It is published now here! Thank you mrtn!
Thanks gain mrtn.
The German team has already noticed your new translation.
Sheesh.... this whole thing about maximum pain and suffering while being sliced up is making me feel a bit nauseous.... Am I totally mad for thinking about killing myself beforehand to avoid this or what?
Ride the Wave instead. It' less painful and much more rewarding IMHO!
, also would give them bad digestion: ¨Then there was the doctor at a university hospital in Munich who wrongly believed that he was hot on the trail of an important medical discovery after an intensive study of bowel movements: "The duration of defecation also exhibits differences between the two groups, taking only a few minutes on average for type A, but often much longer (20-40 minutes) for type B." Researchers believed that individuals who spent extended time on the toilet were found more often among the residents of large cities to the east, such as Berlin and Leipzig, while the supposedly more elevated people with blood group A existed in greater frequency among the rural population in the west of the country. ¨
Why is this important for you to know?My ex-husband, to whom I was still married at the time, had been trying to convince me for a long time that we ought to sell everything we owned, pack up the children, and move to the rain forest in British Guyana.
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I imagine he maybe liked Jim Jones. thinking he was innocent and the Jonestown deaths were actually caused by CIA.
Other than Jim Jones, what other source could have sparkled such excitement about going to Guyana?
Why is this important for you to know?
Why is this important for you to know?
Always adding small commentaries on anything that comes to my mind.
Every day I read at least one new session!
Just posting about anything that comes to mind is what we call noise. If it has nothing to do with the main focus of the session, it really is irrelevant. This is a research Forum based on 4th way principles, not a chatroom.I like to speculate on every detail.
Not that is important to know
Sorry. I would delete it then, if that was possible.Just posting about anything that comes to mind is what we call noise. If it has nothing to do with the main focus of the session, it really is irrelevant. This is a research Forum based on 4th way principles, not a chatroom.
Yes, feel free to ask questions that are serious and have to do with what the sessions are about. But, please, refrain from just random noise.
There's nothing to be sorry about. You are new and finding out how things work here. Also, this is good for others who are new so they can also find out how things work here. It's all good.Sorry. I would delete it then, if that was possible.
Q: (L) What planet is it described in several books as a desert with huge spiders with legs like tree trunks?[5]
A: Uzuli.
[5] See Whitley Strieber's Majestic.
The Spider World stories are set in a future Earth where some calamity has caused invertebrates, such as insects, arachnids, centipedes, and other creepy-crawlys, to grow to sizes considerably larger than their current dimensions.
Flies are as big as a man’s fist; dragonflies are a foot long; centipedes can reach a yard in length; some wolf spiders are as big as ponies. Even some plants have mutated into carnivorous species capable of capturing and digesting a full-grown man.
The protagonist of the series is a boy named Niall, who lives in a desert burrow with his family. They are one of an ever-dwindling band of humans who have managed to escape discovery and extinction by the overlords of this new earth: a race of telepathic spiders, similar in size and appearance to giant black widows.
Every day, as they struggle for sustenance against the ever-hungry and ever-lethal animals of the desert, Niall and his family keep watch on the skies overhead.
For the Spider Lords, in their far-off City, send out scout spiders in balloons. Their mission: locate the last remnants of humanity and make them slaves and victims of the Spider Lords. For the Spider Lords have a special liking for human flesh…
I won’t disclose any spoilers, save to say that over the course of the four US volumes of ‘Spider World’ Niall learns how, and why, the Spider Lords came to rule mankind.
As Niall grows in age and wisdom, his goal of simple survival is transformed into something more ambitious: wrest control of the Earth from the Spider Lords, and restore humanity to its place as the rulers of the planet.
Throughout the series, on the whole, Wilson’s writing is clear and well-paced. There is plenty of action and danger for Niall and his compatriots, and plenty of revelations with each new chapter.
The only real weakness of the Spider World series comes with volume 4, ‘The Delta’, where the narrative becomes too encrusted with detailed expositions about Wilson’s pet philosophy, a unique brand of humanism he dubs ‘New Existentialism’. This philosophy derives from a peculiar mélange of old school ‘occult’ doctrines, such as Theosophy and Rosicrucianism; modern academic disciplines, such as existentialism; and parapsychology.
In Wilson’s philosophy, Man is hindered by his inability to recognize that he possesses an innate mental power, something Wilson refers to as ‘Faculty X’, that, once engaged, enables him to see the world without the blinders of self-destructive emotions and attitudes. When in possession of Faculty X, Man can enter a state of acute awareness of the world and its surroundings, and participate in this fully actualized world in ways otherwise unavailable to the Unenlightened.
Throughout ‘The Delta’, various confrontations between Niall and the forces of the Spiders are couched in terms of our hero’s struggle to define and implement his understanding of ‘Faculty X’. As a consequence, the narrative loses momentum, as the reader is forced to wade through rather lengthy segments of text dealing with the subtleties of New Existentialism.
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Spider World by Colin Wilson
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By the late 1960s Wilson had become increasingly interested in metaphysical and occult themes. In 1971, he published The Occult: A History, featuring interpretations on Aleister Crowley, George Gurdjieff, Helena Blavatsky, Kabbalah, primitive magic, Franz Mesmer, Grigori Rasputin, Daniel Dunglas Home and Paracelsus, among others. He also wrote a markedly unsympathetic biography of Crowley, Aleister Crowley: The Nature of the Beast, and biographies on other spiritual and psychological visionaries, including Gurdjieff, Carl Jung, Wilhelm Reich, Rudolf Steiner, and P. D. Ouspensky.
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Colin Wilson - Wikipedia
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