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"Self-constructing bodies, collective minds: the intersection of CS, cognitive bio, and philosophy"
Madame de Brinvilliers, the incomparable poisoner: “Great crimes, far from being suspected, are not even imagined.” They seem digressions—and are a prelude.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madame_de_Brinvilliers
Was "Mother Teresa" actually "Father Teresa" WTF?
Sworn Virgins: Men by Choice in the Balkans
https://slate.com/culture/2012/12/jill-peters-documenting-sworn-virgins-women-who-live-as-men-in-albania-photos.html
“Sworn virgins” (burrneshas in Albanian) are Albanian women who decide to ignore their female identity and live as men in the Balkans. Photographer Jill Peters traveled to Northern Albania to meet and photograph these women. The decision to live as men is more related to gender roles in the Albanian culture rather than a statement of sexuality; these women live their lives appearing as men.
Sworn virgins have existed for centuries. According to tradition dating back to the 15th century developed out of the Kanun, a tribal code of law, tribal clans from the Balkans considered families without a male presence as pariahs. When blood feuds decimated all the men in a family, the only way to salvage their honor was for a woman to become the patriarch of the clan and start acting like a man.
“Becoming a sworn virgin or burrnesha elevated a woman to the status of a man and granted her all the rights and privileges of the male population,” Peters writes on her website. “In order to manifest the transition, such a woman cut her hair, donned male clothing and sometimes even changed her name. … Most importantly of all, she took a celibacy vow to remain chaste for life.”
The shills are huffing tire sealant again.
"After the war, Cameron moved to the Los Angeles area to join her family, who had moved there in the interim. While at the unemployment office, Cameron ran into an old acquaintance who asked her to drop by the house of a “mad scientist” that he wanted her to meet. That mad scientist was Jack Parsons, and his home was the Agape Lodge, which Cameron described as huge house that had supposedly been built by Anheuser-Busch. It was the U.S. outpost of the Ordo Tempi Orientis, a secret society run by Aleister Crowley (1875-1947)."
Parsons and Cameron instantly fell in love, spending two straight weeks together holed up inside the “lodge” in Parsons’ bed, which he claimed once belonged to Cardinal Borgia. Soon, the pair were married in a civil ceremony on October 19, 1946 in San Juan Capistrano.
Not long before his wedding to Cameron, Parsons had begun associating with science-fiction writers, who were, as Cameron explained, “rather bemused over the occult connection.” L. Ron Hubbard, who later founded Scientology, was one of them. “He and Hubbard had been doing this invocation, and I had walked in.” Parsons and Hubbard later had a falling out, and the exact nature of the secret ritual in which Cameron unwittingly took part continues to be shrouded in mystery, as secret rituals tend to be.
At Parsons’ urging, Cameron then traveled to England in 1947 to meet Aleister Crowley, but the 72-year-old British occultist died before she arrived. Cameron then spent three weeks in Lugano, Switzerland before coming back to the States. Not long after her return from Europe, Cameron left again to live in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, this time staying for two years—without her husband. When she moved back, the couple returned to Pasadena, and Cameron found herself becoming part of a burgeoning artistic milieu. Through Parsons, she met people who were involved in jazz, poetry and the visual arts, including Wallace Berman (1926-1976), whose contribution to American art history remains firmly entrenched in Southern California’s cultural landscape.
Tragically, Jack Parsons was killed on June 17, 1952 in a mysterious explosion at his home laboratory at the age of 37. It was the day before he and Cameron planned to leave together for Mexico. Immediately after Parsons’ death, Cameron went to Mexico alone for three months in order to escape the media, who hounded her as stories developed concerning Parsons’ sensational occult connections and bizarre death. Still grieving, she then spent the next year in the then-barren landscape of Beaumont, California making art and exploring her spirituality.
When Cameron came back to Los Angeles, a friend she met in Mexico named Paul Mathison introduced her to Kenneth Anger. Though he later became infamous for a pair of books called Hollywood Babylon, Anger was then focused on pursuing another profession. He used part of his $28,000 inheritance from his recently departed mother to further his career as a filmmaker, directing seminal psychedelic art films such as Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome (1954), which initially featured French writer Anaïs Nin in the lead role.
While Anger himself has since declared himself a devout Crowleyite, Cameron said she was the one who introduced Crowley’s work to Anger. “He claims now that he knew about it earlier, but he didn’t,” she said. Nevertheless, under Crowley’s posthumous tutelage, the original plot of Pleasure Dome changed to replace Anaïs Nin with Cameron in the 38-minute avant-garde film.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marjorie_Cameron
In December 1952, Cameron moved to a derelict ranch in Beaumont, California, about 90 miles (140 km) from Redondo Beach.[42] With the aid of Druks and Paul Mathison, she gathered a loose clique of magical practitioners around herself which she called "The Children". Intentionally comprising members from various races, she oversaw a range of sex magic rituals with the intent of creating a breed of mixed-race "moonchildren" who would be devoted to Horus.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/the-trippy-art-and-trippier-life-of-occult-artist-marjorie-cameron/
Brick every pacemaker in the senate with one shot.
clouds above the atmosphere?
we haz ALLIUMS!