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Peter Autier spent eight months in prison before being burnt on 9 April 1310 in Toulouse.
Sean Martin • The Cathars: The Most Successful Heresy of the Middle Ages
I try to assess the role and – to a limited extent – the impact of these religious and secular civil-society movements upon contemporary Asian societies.
Prasenjit Duara • The Crisis of Global Modernity: Asian Traditions and a Sustainable Future (Asian Connections)
Following another set of arguments, I turned to older models of religious and cultural expression that focused on alternative models of the self in relation to the transcendent beyond the exclusive community.
Prasenjit Duara • The Crisis of Global Modernity: Asian Traditions and a Sustainable Future (Asian Connections)
Tryptamine Palace: 5-MeO-DMT and the Sonoran Desert Toad by James Oroc. Martin considers this a fantastic read because it looks at the 5-MeO-DMT experience from a Buddhist and Hindu perspective. The Toad and the Jaguar by Ralph Metzner. A quick read on 5-MeO-DMT from a pioneer
Timothy Ferriss • Tools of Titans: The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers
Five people (Madame Blavatsky, Annie Besant, C. W. Leadbeater, H. Olcott, and A. P. Sinnett) wrote most of what we know to date of the etheric web, auras, magnetism, chakras, spiritualism, psychic perception, and reincarnation. These people took the ancient wisdom of the Hindus and translated them into a language Westerners could understand.
Stuart Wilde • The Quickening

In March 1913, a high court of South Africa declared invalid the marriage of two Hindus—and, by extension, invalidated the marriages of Ganda and Amba Kapitan and every other Hindu and Muslim couple in South Africa. A stroke of the judicial pen rendered illegitimate any marriage conducted by rites of "a religion that recognizes polygamy,"
... See moreMinal Hajratwala • Leaving India: My Family's Journey from Five Villages to Five Continents
Waïtari lui avait donnée : « Nous avons fait cela pour en finir avec le mythe des éléphants. On s'efforce de cacher notre lutte pour l'indépendance sous le rideau de fumée d'une prétendue campagne pour la protection de la nature. C'est une manœuvre classique de l'Occident : dissimuler sous de grands mots et de grands principes humanitaires des réal
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