James Wasserman
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Aleister Crowley wrote the Gnostic Mass in 1913. He described it as the central ritual, public and private, of Ordo Templi Orientis (O. T. O. ). It is a mythic hymn to the wedding of scientific truth and religious aspiration; the celebrant is encouraged to leave superstition and dogma at the door and join in an ecstatic tribute to the glorious nature of reality. The Gnostic Mass offers a truly modern spirituality and it is being performed on a regular...
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The Unsung Heroines
Have you ever stood in a redwood grove and wondered how it was saved from the loggers' saws? The answer isn't as simple as a few famous names or a single act of government.
Who Saved the Redwoods? tells the gripping, untold story of the women who formed the front line of the forest conservation movement in the 1920s. This was an era of intense, industrial-scale logging, when it was seen as inevitable that the ancient forests...