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She wasn't THAT bad, all things considered. She said a couple of stupid things - most likely worsened by frustration and/or fatigue at the time - but no human being deserves to have their entire lives judged on one or two stupid utterances..
And I know her work with AIDS charities might not seem like much now (and thanks to the idiots behind South Park, could even be seen as trendy bullshit), but at the time when she was photographed hugging and loving on children and cradling babies with full blown AIDS (not just HIV), it was downright revolutionary. And courageous. And beautiful
streeb » Sun Apr 22, 2018 8:30 pm wrote:Yes, but she ate them afterwards.
8bitagent » Mon Apr 23, 2018 3:51 pm wrote:so funny how the neo nazi alt right calls the bush families "globalist zionist cucks", the neo nazi alt right should worship the planned parenthood nazi loving genocidal war criminal bush family
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/ ... ndworldwar
Jerky » Sun Apr 22, 2018 10:14 pm wrote:I have a deep respect for Tobias Churton, one of the most important academics of the history of Gnosticism.
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Overview
An exploration of Crowley’s relationship with the United States
• Details Crowley’s travels, passions, literary and artistic endeavors, sex magick, and psychedelic experimentation
• Investigates Crowley’s undercover intelligence adventures that actively promoted U.S. involvement in WWI
• Includes an abundance of previously unpublished letters and diaries
Occultist, magician, poet, painter, and writer Aleister Crowley’s three sojourns in America sealed both his notoriety and his lasting influence. Using previously unpublished diaries and letters, Tobias Churton traces Crowley’s extensive travels through America and his quest to implant a new magical and spiritual consciousness in the United States, while working to undermine Germany’s propaganda campaign to keep the United States out of World War I.
Masterfully recreating turn-of-the-century America in all its startling strangeness, Churton explains how Crowley arrived in New York amid dramatic circumstances in 1900. After other travels, in 1914 Crowley returned to the U.S. and stayed for five years: turbulent years that changed him, the world, and the face of occultism forever. Diving deeply into Crowley’s 5-year stay, we meet artists, writers, spies, and government agents as we uncover Crowley’s complex work for British and U.S. intelligence agencies. Exploring Crowley’s involvement with the birth of the Greenwich Village radical art scene, we discover his relations with writers Sinclair Lewis and Theodore Dreiser and artists John Butler Yeats, Leon Engers Kennedy, and Robert Winthrop Chanler while living and lecturing on now-vanished “Genius Row.” We experience his love affairs and share Crowley’s hard times in New Orleans and his return to health, magical dynamism, and the most colorful sex life in America. We examine his controversial political stunts, his role in the sinking of the passenger ship Lusitania, his making of the “Elixir of Life” in 1915, his psychedelic experimentation, his prolific literary achievements, and his run-in with Detroit Freemasonry. We also witness Crowley’s influence on Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard and rocket fuel genius Jack Parsons. We learn why J. Edgar Hoover wouldn’t let Crowley back in the country and why the FBI raided Crowley’s organization in LA.
Offering a 20th-century history of the occult movement in the United States, Churton shows how Crowley’s U.S. visits laid the groundwork for the establishment of his syncretic “religion” of Thelema and the now flourishing OTO, as well as how Crowley’s final wish was to have his ashes scattered in the Hamptons.
Grizzly » Sun Apr 22, 2018 11:07 am wrote:
Some of you guys may remember the dirty tricks and subliminal messages from that era...
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