Dear Gillian I am slowly reading my way through Abbot Andre Louf’s book entitled ‘In the School of Contemplation’. In Chapter 8 – ‘Notes from a Pilgrimage’
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Dear Gillian I am slowly reading my way through Abbot Andre Louf’s book entitled ‘In the School of Contemplation’. In Chapter 8 – ‘Notes from a Pilgrimage’
Following Communist China’s successful handling of the Covid19 Crisis, and the abject failure of the capitalist West to follow suite, a new propaganda offensive has
The defeat (and the nature of that defeat) of the Japanese Imperial System in 1945, led to one of the most comprehensive (and ambitious) colonisation
‘We live in a world where there is more and more information, and less and less meaning…’ Jean Baudrillard: Simulacra and Simulation, University of Michigan
No one resisted and the general atmosphere was one of ‘stunned’ bemusement. This is when the torturing began. Although there is no objective evidence that any of the allegations are ‘true’ (including the nonsense of worshipping Mary Magdalene), when Pope Clement V finally returned, he was provided with thousands of coerced confessions and literally ’threatened’ into agreeing with King Philip’s actions and decisions. As a consequence, the Pope dissolved the Templars in 1312 – but by this time thousands had been tortured or starved to death in French prisons, or publicly executed. Grand Master Jacques de Molay was burned at the stake in 1314 for daring to ‘retract’ his confession and stating that the Order was ‘pure’. He added that the devil moved within the Catholic Church and was ruling France!
Marx encountered Buddhism through the work of his close friend Karl Koppen – an early European expert upon Early Buddhism and Tibetan Buddhism.