Somebody must trespass on the taboos of modern nationalism, in the interests of human reason. Business can't. Diplomacy won't. It has to be people like us.
Robert ByronTags: reason nationalism diplomacy taboos
This (...) had made me aware for the first time of the well-disguised myth that they and the academic institutions they represent are bastions of a free exchange of ideas. They are -but only of those ideas that don't 'rock the boat', that refrain from challenging hallowed taboos.
Jack KevorkianTags: science medicine taboos bioethics medical-ethics medicide
If a man isn't willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he's no good
Ezra PoundTags: writing courage thought opinion criticism intellectuals controversy taboos
You Are What You Eat
Take food for example. We all assume that our craving or disgust is due to something about the food itself - as opposed to being an often arbitrary response preprogrammed by our culture. We understand that Australians prefer cricket to baseball, or that the French somehow find Gerard Depardieu sexy, but how hungry would you have to be before you would consider plucking a moth from the night air and popping it, frantic and dusty, into your mouth? Flap, crunch, ooze. You could wash it down with some saliva beer.How does a plate of sheep brain's sound? Broiled puppy with gravy? May we interest you in pig ears or shrimp heads? Perhaps a deep-fried songbird that you chew up, bones, beak, and all? A game of cricket on a field of grass is one thing, but pan-fried crickets over lemongrass? That's revolting.
Or is it? If lamb chops are fine, what makes lamb brains horrible? A pig's shoulder, haunch, and belly are damn fine eatin', but the ears, snout, and feet are gross? How is lobster so different from grasshopper? Who distinguishes delectable from disgusting, and what's their rationale? And what about all the expectations? Grind up those leftover pig parts, stuff 'em in an intestine, and you've got yourself respectable sausage or hot dogs. You may think bacon and eggs just go together, like French fries and ketchup or salt and pepper. But the combination of bacon and eggs for breakfast was dreamed up about a hundred years aqo by an advertising hired to sell more bacon, and the Dutch eat their fries with mayonnaise, not ketchup.
Think it's rational to be grossed out by eating bugs? Think again. A hundred grams of dehydrated cricket contains 1,550 milligrams of iron, 340 milligrams of calcium, and 25 milligrams of zinc - three minerals often missing in the diets of the chronic poor. Insects are richer in minerals and healthy fats than beef or pork. Freaked out by the exoskeleton, antennae, and the way too many legs? Then stick to the Turf and forget the Surf because shrimps, crabs, and lobsters are all anthropods, just like grasshoppers. And they eat the nastiest of what sinks to the bottom of the ocean, so don't talk about bugs' disgusting diets. Anyway, you may have bug parts stuck between your teeth right now. The Food and Drug Administration tells its inspectors to ignore insect parts in black pepper unless they find more than 475 of them per 50 grams, on average. A fact sheet from Ohio State University estimates that Americans unknowingly eat an average of between one and two pounds of insects per year.
An Italian professor recently published Ecological Implications of Mini-livestock: Potential of Insects, Rodents, Frogs and Snails. (Minicowpokes sold separately.) Writing in Slate.com, William Saletan tells us about a company by the name of Sunrise Land Shrimp. The company's logo: "Mmm. That's good Land Shrimp!" Three guesses what Land Shrimp is. (20-21)
Tags: perspective food culture desire taboos disgust
Zeena believes that the breaking of taboos creates access to blocked energy that is let loose in a forceful way. The left-hand path is about consciously breaking with a ‘sleepwalker orthodoxy’ to be able to act as a fully awaken and conscious individual. In her book, George Orwell (1984) is quoted: “Orthodoxy means not thinking – not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.” At the same time she notes that the left-hand path is the ‘way of action’. It is not about intellectual contemplation, or worse, just reading about action.'
About Zeena Schreck by Malin Fitger from: Contemporary notions of Kundalini, its background
and role within new Western religiosity, University of Stockholm, 2004
Tags: buddhism magic spirituality liberation action theology initiation magick taking-action revolutionary self-examination shamanism subversion outcasts taboos sorcery tantra dissident women-warriors materialism-versus-spiritualism left-hand-path zeena-schreck magick-and-faith spiritual-transformation spiritual-journey jivanmukti tantric-buddhism vamamarga taboo-breaking
Nothing could be easier than disturbing a status quo instituted by others; the real work of the sinister
current is to break the rules we rigidly establish for ourselves.”
-Zeena Schreck for "Contemporary notions of Kundalini, its background and role within new Western religiosity," University of Stockholm, Malin Fitger 2004
Tags: buddhism magic spirituality liberation action theology initiation magick taking-action revolutionary self-examination shamanism subversion outcasts taboos sorcery tantra dissident women-warriors materialism-versus-spiritualism left-hand-path zeena-schreck magick-and-faith spiritual-transformation spiritual-journey jivanmukti tantric-buddhism vamamarga taboo-breaking
In Demons of the Flesh, Zeena describes how Shiva and Shakti are actually ‘two sides of the same deity’. The goal of the initiate on the left-hand path is to become ‘this bisexual twin godhead’ and activate a state of perceptual sexual ecstasy within one's own consciousness. Zeena points out that a corresponding symbolism is found in the western hermeticism in the idea of ‘the inner androgyne.’
--About Zeena Schreck by Malin Fitger 'Contemporary notions of Kundalini, its background and role within new Western religiosity,' University of Stockholm, 2004
Tags: buddhism magic spirituality liberation action theology initiation magick taking-action revolutionary self-examination shamanism subversion outcasts taboos sorcery tantra dissident women-warriors materialism-versus-spiritualism left-hand-path zeena-schreck magick-and-faith spiritual-transformation spiritual-journey jivanmukti tantric-buddhism vamamarga taboo-breaking
Zeena Schreck believes that the right-hand path and the left-hand path have traditionally had the same end goal; it is only the method that is different and the fact that adepts on the lefthand
path seek liberation in this life.
--About Zeena Schreck by Malin Fitger 'Contemporary notions of Kundalini, its background and role within new Western religiosity,' University of Stockholm, 2004
Tags: buddhism magic spirituality liberation action theology initiation magick taking-action revolutionary self-examination shamanism subversion outcasts taboos sorcery tantra dissident women-warriors materialism-versus-spiritualism left-hand-path zeena-schreck magick-and-faith spiritual-transformation spiritual-journey jivanmukti tantric-buddhism vamamarga taboo-breaking
Zeena Schreck believes that the right-hand path and the left-hand path have traditionally had the same end goal; it is only the method that is different and the fact that adepts on the left-hand path seek liberation in this life.
--About Zeena Schreck by Malin Fitger 'Contemporary notions of Kundalini, its background and role within new Western religiosity,' University of Stockholm, 2004
Tags: buddhism magic spirituality liberation action theology initiation magick taking-action revolutionary self-examination shamanism subversion outcasts taboos sorcery tantra dissident women-warriors materialism-versus-spiritualism left-hand-path zeena-schreck magick-and-faith spiritual-transformation spiritual-journey jivanmukti tantric-buddhism vamamarga taboo-breaking
One of the biggest dangers on the left-hand path, according to Zeena, is that the initiate often adheres to the need of ‘maintaining his personality’, even when consciousness expands beyond every known border. The left-hand path requires, [...] that certain aspects of the self dies, something which she believes to be elucidated in the tantric death symbolism.
--About Zeena Schreck by Malin Fitger 'Contemporary notions of Kundalini, its background and role within new Western religiosity,' University of Stockholm, 2004
Tags: buddhism death magic spirituality liberation action theology initiation magick taking-action revolutionary self-examination shamanism subversion outcasts taboos sorcery tantra renunciation self-identity dissident women-warriors materialism-versus-spiritualism left-hand-path zeena-schreck magick-and-faith spiritual-transformation spiritual-journey jivanmukti tantric-buddhism vamamarga taboo-breaking death-symbolism
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