Steven Otero
Steve’s Weekly Dish 203.0
September 2nd, 2010
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What Women Want - The Ten Secrets Every Husband, Lover, or Partner Needs to Know!
Thanks Lasára Allen!
Hey guys,I know you sometimes feel mystified by what is expected of or desired from you.Here are ten secret desires that may change your life forever.
Money Grows on the Tree of Knowledge Part 2
Thanks Tracy R Twyman
It is thus that the word “cheque” entered into the English and French languages.In the case of “cheque”, it came from the chequerboard clothe which Templar merchants and bankers used to square their accounts – to “check” their assets and liabilities.
Remembrances of Lives Past
Interest in reincarnation is on the rise, and its purveyors are not monks or theologians, but therapists.
Sensual Shaman Interview
Isis Phoenix is interviewed by Steven Otero of Sexy Spirits on Shamanism and Sexuality and the integration of dualities on the spiritual path
At Bookstore, Even Nonbuyers Regret Its End
One result of the book chain’s uncertain year may be that much of the old animosity toward Barnes & Noble, once seen by some residents as a corporate bully that helped squash small, independent bookstores, has lately been replaced with affection.
Steve’s Weekly Dish 202.0
August 26th, 2010
The 1960s Redux: In our new age of apocalypse, is the consciousness revolution back on?
“I wished fervently that I could have lived through that heady period, when it seemed as if the collective cranium of Western and global civilization was primed to erupt in a psychedelic expansion into new realms of thought, experience, and being that would inevitably lead to new patterns of social, political, religious, and cultural arrangement”
Death of the ‘McMansion’: Era of Huge Homes Is Over
Well, count 2010 as the year the last nail was hammered into the McCoffin: In its latest report on home-buying trends, real-estate site Trulia declares: “The McMansion Era Is Over.”
Real Gurus “Couldn’t care less”
Dzongsar Rinpoche candidly discusses what it takes to fulfill his role as guru and explains why the greatest challenge, East or West, is to have the courage to completely disengage from public opinion and attain “a genuine indifference.”
Clandestine cuisine
The economic slump hit the restaurant business hard: diners cut back, and investors practically stopped putting money into startups. In London, that led to a boom in “pop-up” dining — places where top-notch chefs temporarily took over alternative spaces, from friends’ apartments to greasy spoons to construction sites. This is fine dining’s equivalent to the speakeasy
In the Living Room, Hooked on Pay TV
It is a fantasy shared by many Americans: dropping cable television and its fat monthly bills and turning instead to the wide-open frontier of Internet video. Some are finding that the reality is not that simple.
Steve’s Weekly Dish 201.0
August 19th, 2010
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Money Grows on the Tree of Knowledge: Part 1
Thanks Tracy R Twyman In a way, money itself is like this. It is intrinsically a Faustian, Promethean symbol of man’s rebellion against God in his quest for more knowledge of the world and control of his surroundings.
The American: New Norman Mailer documentary
Thanks Richard Metzger
Norman Mailer claimed he was “imprisoned with a vision” which would “settle for nothing less than making a revolution in the consciousness of our time.” Unfortunately for Mailer, he was far too good a writer to ever do that.
The Book is Dead! Long Live the Book
Did you hear that Barnes & Noble is up for sale? It foretells a future where the book of yesterday and today will look very different from the book of tomorrow.
SEX EDUCATORS DOWN– It’s Your Turn To Stand Up For Sexual Freedom
Susan Crain Bakos asks “Is Facebook Censoring Sex Educators”?
What’s Up With Twentysomethings? In A Word, Economics
Anya Kamenetz College costs 1000% more money than it did 30 years ago, yet it’s required for most living-wage jobs. Young people work longer hours while they’re in school, so it takes them longer to finish. Getting married, let alone starting a family, is difficult, even inadvisable, when you’re not financially stable.
Steve’s Weekly Dish 200.0
August 12th, 2010
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Secret Confessions of a high-priced Call Girl
She entertained some of the most powerful men in the world.
She fulfilled their deepest erotic fantasies.What do you suppose high-priced call girls think about in bed?
Weapons of Mass Deception
Washington, 1952: How the CIA created the flying saucer craze
Max Headroom predicted my job, 20 years before it existed
The entire 80s cyberpunk Max Headroom TV series is available today on DVD, and one of the pleasures of rewatching the series is discovering how many things it got right about the future.
Rogue JetBlue flight attendant hailed as working-class hero
And as is the case with anyone who stumbles upon sudden infamy in the digital age, Slater has been the subject of much discussion in the past 24 hours or so. To many, he’s a working-class hero in the mold of the fed-up Peter Gibbons from the Mike Judge cult movie hit Office Space.
Ergo, the Ego
In the latest episode we discuss the Ego, ergo the name of this episode, and we explore some of the issues surrounding it with prominent occult author and musician Lon Milo DuQuette as well as talk about his new book titled Low Magick: It’s All In Your Head … You Just Have No Idea How Big Your Head Is.
Steve’s Weekly Dish 199.0
August 5th, 2010
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The Science Of Pleasure: Part One- The Allure Of Asymmetry
Why are fantasies so powerful? Why do our brains love dopamine so much? Why do some images arouse, while others turn us off? Why are the most attractive people often not the ones we are most drawn to sexually? How can you create the longest neurological orgasm possible?
Shattering Subconscious Isolation: Inception, Lucid Dreaming and the Collective Unconscious
Does lucid dreaming allow us access to another person’s mind, as the new movie Inception suggests? Or do we all connect subconsciously in a meta-web, mind-grid of a Collective Unconscious? Could we use lucid dreaming to provide scientific evidence of a mental realm or shared inner dimension?
Cutting off your vagina to spite your Face(book)
Facebook battles the power of the frightening and dangerous vagina
Why It Is Wise to Worship a Woman
The short guide on how to worship a woman, and why it’s the wisest thing that a man can do.
The summer of Stieg Larsson
This year’s seasonal obsession is with the Millennium trilogy’s crusading Swedish journalist and his butt-kicking Goth heroine
Steve’s Weekly Dish 198.0
July 29th, 2010
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Invisible Hand Episode 18: Interview with Christopher Knowles Part 1
Tracy introduces her listeners to Christopher’s work and they trace out the origins of the memes and symbols that deal with human origins & the human mind & how our belief systems shape & often limit- our perceptions
Fifth Avenue, 5 a.m.: How Truman Capote Changed Life for the Single Girl
It’s not that women weren’t having sex in the movies of the 1940s and ’50s, it’s just that the ones who did typically ended up damned, destitute or dead. Audrey’s Golightly changed that.
Married, but Sleeping Alone
What happened in the last decade, said Dr. Meir Kryger, is that people are suddenly making their own sleep a priority. If their rest is being impaired by their partner, the attitude now is that I don’t have to put up with this.
Doomsday shelters making a comeback
There are signs that underground shelters, almost-forgotten relics of the Cold War era, are making a comeback.
Monogamy unnatural for our sexy species
Few mainstream therapists would contemplate trying to persuade a gay man or lesbian to “grow up, get real, and stop being gay.” But most insist that long-term sexual monogamy is “normal,” while the curiosity and novelty-seeking inherent in human sexuality are signs of pathology.
Steve’s Weekly Dish 197.0
July 22nd, 2010
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What Philip K, Dick’s vision was not
It’s time for us to stop looking in the finite world for what Dick’s gnosis was and to start figuring out what it was that God was saying to him.
U.S. District judge drops porn charges against video producer John A. Stagliano
U.S. District Court Judge Richard J. Leon said evidence presented by
the Justice Department’s Obscenity Prosecution Task Force in the
four-day trial was “woefully insufficient”
Orgasm Just by Thinking: Is it Medically Possible?
Barbara Carrellas more than thinks so. She says she knows so, since
she’s been “thinking herself off” for more than twenty years.
The Secret Connection Between Highlander And Duran Duran
Long before directors like Spike Jonze and Michel Gondry made the jump from music videos to movies, Russell Mulcahy innovated on MTV and directed Highlander. What would movies even look like without him?
World Gnosis: The Coming Gnostic Civilization
Gnostic Templar Grand Prior Mark Amaru Pinkham presents the amazing history and teachings of the Left Hand Path —which includes the world’s gnostics, alchemists, secret societies, and mystery school initiates—and its continual battle with the patriarchal adherents of the Right Hand Path.The final piece of the plan is destined to soon fall into place, when the Right and Left Hand Paths come to a peaceful resolution of their ancient battle and work together to create a gnostic civilization that is the union of both paths.
Steve’s Weekly Dish 196.0
July 15th, 2010
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Is Sitting While Autistic a Crime?
Law-enforcement officials often misinterpret the language and behavior of people on the autism spectrum, with serious consequences. One activist hopes to change that.
Reading the Bible (Or the Koran, Or the Torah) Will Make You an Atheist
Thanks Richard Metzger Happy Birthday Dangerous Minds The magician was asked to leave his Christian youth group by a pastor who told his parents: “He’s no longer learning about the Bible from me. He is now converting everyone in the class to atheism.”
In Defense of the Penis
Susan Crain Bakos On Facebook, Male Sexuality, Phallic Worship–and Man Bashing
Why I Hate Tantra. ~ Robert Allen
Since when does a spiritual system cost money, and lots of money?
Since the promise of quick sex and a quick fix We like quick fixes in America. Rugged individualism and manifest destiny can turn easily to entitlement. We want it, and we want it now. And we don’t want to have to work for it. That said, I hate tantra. But not for those reasons. They’re just the surface of the theological iceberg
Dreaming And Your Sexual Energy – part two
In part two Vidar reveals more about dreaming and the rising of your sexual energy.
Steve’s Weekly Dish 195.0.
July 7th, 2010
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The Gnostic influence on the founding of the USA
The chief inspirer of the American Republic was Hermes Trismegistus
What Robert Anton Wilson Taught Me
Replace the on/off switch of your belief system with a variable capacitor
No Sex Please, We’re Middle Class
What extent do these complaints about sexual apathy reflect a medical reality, and how much do they actually emanate from the anxious, overachieving, white upper middle class?
The End of Men
Earlier this year, women became the majority of the workforce for the first time in U.S. history. Most managers are now women too. And for every two men who get a college degree this year, three women will do the same. For years, women’s progress has been cast as a struggle for equality. But what if equality isn’t the end point? What if modern, postindustrial society is simply better suited to women?
America’s Masonic Foundations
How Masonic thinking contributed to the founding of the United States of America and the construction of Washington, D.C.
Steve’s Weekly Dish 194.0.
July 1st, 2010Here’s my picks
Do we want real history or lucid dreams?
Sure, anything might be possible, but that was not the same as accepting that anything was probable.
Freedom from Sexual Self-Denial: Why Not Have Sex With People Who Aren’t Your Partner?
Infidelity is treated as selfish, while monogamy is celebrated. But what’s so great about living a life of self-denial?
Crises of Capitalism: An animated talk by David Harvey
Watch this and get a lot smarter in just 11 minutes! Radical sociologist David Harvey asks: is it time to look beyond capitalism towards a new social order that would allow us to live within a system that really could be responsible, just, and humane? Thanks Richard Metzger !
Sex at dawn why monogamy goes against our nature
monogamy and the nuclear family are more recent
inventions and far less natural than we’ve come to believe
Yoga improves sex and helps prevent and treat sex problems.