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Porn and ESP, together at last

Monday, December 13th, 2010

Now if this isn't a near perfect combination of topics to attract my attention, I don't know what is.  Scientists are Cornell University have been using porn as part of an experiment to see whether subjects had any ability to predict future events.  Simply they had to predict whether a blank screen or a porn [...]

Hermetic Library under threat

Thursday, November 25th, 2010

Over at Heterodoxology they have concerning news that a famous library of occult and hermetic works is under threat. The Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica (BPH, or Ritman Library) in Amsterdam has been a very important institution for research into hermetic philosophy and related currents, particularly early modern Rosicrucianism and alchemy, for decades. In a dramatic and [...]