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    You should definitely read this short piece in The Atlantic called "1491", and the book of the same name, if you're interested in the subject. Having eaten from chinampa gardens, I can confirm they...
  2. Re: Watching Eurasia and the New Silk Road / One Belt One Road (OBOR)

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    I would much recommend you see this analyst's talk (he gives the same talk many times over, with small tweaks by audience), or read one of his books. His point is that China has a lot of...
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    Re: What book changed your life?

    Chronologically:

    -Joseph Campbell's "Hero with a Thousand Faces", in high school. Dropped Catholicism like the hot rock it was after learning there were so many other stories.

    -Aldous Huxley's...
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    Re: Monks that mummified themselves to death

    Kukai himself didn't do this, from my sources (Nicholoff's "Sacred Koyasan"), or at least the body is never visible to the public, they send in a new robe every year but it only gets to the nearest...
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    Re: Anyone like John Dee?

    He got the mirror from the Aztecs, who thus had their revenge upon the Spanish.. and if you follow the story with calendar in hand, every time a Native American empire was toppled in the Americas,...
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    Re: Moths, Castaneda, Synchronicity

    https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6a/Ageha-cho.svg/506px-Ageha-cho.svg.png
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taira_clan
    "The moths are the heralds or, better yet, the guardians of...
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