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Stone Faces
Not a new psych-stoner outfit but a romantic visual essay on anthropomorphic simulacra in stone, such as this fine fellow. ‘Stones have life, they can suffer illness, old age, and death. When cut, stones can grow. Stones cover themselves with …
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Walter Murch & the heliocentric Pantheon
A fascinating interview with famed film and sound editor Walter Murch (Apocalypse Now, The Conversation, The Godfather, er Return to Oz) in which he outlines, amongst many other things, his theory that Copernicus’ 16th century ideas about the heliocentric solar …
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Paintings by insects
In the somewhat obscure world of animal art — where chimps, horses and elephants learn to grip paint-laden brushes and thrash randomly at a canvas to create abstract paintings — Steven Kutcher’s “bug art” stands out. Commanding a team of …
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Darklore journal
Greg Taylor, curator of the excellent Daily Grail site and editor of Sub Rosa online magazine has produced another manifestation of his broad fortean and esoteric interests – and this time it’s physical… “Darklore, a journal of exceptional observations, hidden …
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Zetetic Scholar online
Serious, scholarly writing and research into anomalous phenomena is a rare thing though, like a daylight UFO, it does still flash across the bows occasionally in journals and magazines like The Anomalist, Magonia (web site currently down), Fortean Times, Dark …
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We burn to remember
[photo: Mark Bennett] As the UK gears up for bonfire night (here in London it usually means fireworks being fired into or from buses) Mike Jay presents a rollicking history of the wild anti-papist celebrations enacted every 5 November in …
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Inside Silbury Hill
The souls of Silbury Hill are bared in burial mound dig By David Keys, Archaeology Correspondent The Indepnendent, 25 October 2007 Archaeologists are unlocking the secrets of Silbury Hill, one of Britain’s greatest historical mysteries. Researchers have long been mystified …
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Padre Pio: acid monk
Padre Pio ‘faked his stigmata with acid’ By Peter Popham in Rome, The Independent, 25 October 2007 Padre Pio, the friar with fingerless gloves whose image is found on a million Catholic key chains; who was canonised before 200,000 ecstatic …
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The Last Cargo Cult online
Historian, adventurer and SAJ contributor Mike Jay has launched a web site featuring a number of his articles that should interest anybody visiting here. First up, now that SAJ1 is out of print (at least for the time being) those …
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Argentinian tree-folk
A great report of high strangeness in Argentina, emerging from Scott Corrales via Greg Bishop. This one is positively humming with resonance, featuring tropes from faery lore that would appear to stretch all the way from Iceland to South America. …
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More from Shayler
“To clarify the position: I am the last incarnation of the Holy Ghost (aka the Holy Spirit) or the Yeshua or Jesus Spirit (aka the Christ consciousness). As the Holy Spirit is God incarnate as essence, I am God incarnated …
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God is… David Shayler!
Not content with making a chump of himself promoting 911 conspiracy theories, ex-MI5 whistleblower David Shayler is now proclaiming himself to be the Messiah, as well as numerous other mystical figureheads in human history. He’s even dragged crop circles into …
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