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A little light summer fare.... If you have the time and interest! (Might be controversial....)

[betty boop]

Quite inadvertently, your name did not appear on my original "bump list." (But then, I really don't keep a formal ping list, and so make glaring omissions every time....]

Don't know whether you've got the time or the interest. The piece really does run long. But to my mind, it's a worthwhile investment of energy....

[unspun]

Neo lives! and he is in Hungary

"He then criticises this interpretation by reference to existing pagan folk customs (descriptions of which tend to resemble the shamanpunk concerts). Grandpierre seeks to demonstrate that the shaman does not call on powers beyond himself but more exactly on powers that he himself possesses: with the imperative call of his chant, “the shaman’s text magically comes true and transforms him [the shaman]. By speaking the text and performing the actions marked in the text, the shaman heightens his own dispositional, emotional readiness”(p. 92). [And presumably communicates and shares that experience with others.]"

Jung, Neitzche and Rock and Roll! "Riders on the storm...."

Just today I replied to an email regarding the miscreant, narcissitic, guru pastor of a church fellowship in which I've been involved:

Alas, an expert counterfeiter will become more apt at conveying the designs of truth than most, who dispassionately and unintently regard the truth honestly. That is a horrible and outrageous observation, but outrageously accurate I think and descriptive of much "lukewarm" church life.

[Alamo-Girl]

Thank you so much for the heads up! I remember this article. It is a fascinating analysis and description of Grandpierre's music!

What is happening with this music reminds me of the last scenes in Quigley Down Under where the Australian aborigine house servants, having been set free by Quigley, leave the Marsten ranch - dropping all their civilized clothes.

In the next scene, the British are fixing to arrest/kill Quigley - a dust storm comes in and when it clears, the hills are lined with aborigines facing down the soldiers (who of course leave.)

The message of course is that no artificial social order can eradicate the spirit of a man. Change in the human spirit must come from within.

Changing from within, being born again, is central to Christianity. The greatest testimony of the faith is changed lives.

Tyrants can't kill the human spirit, man can't kill his own spirit, but Christ can make him a new creature! Praise God!!!