Psychedelics and Religious Experience by Alan Watts The experiences resulting from the use of psychedelic drugs are often described in religious terms. They are therefore of interest to those like myself who, in the tradition of William James, are concerned with the psychology of religion. For more than thirty...

Publicado em: 14/02/14

“Most of human life”, Simone Weil wrote in her essay on The Iliad, “takes place far from hot baths”, but her own discomforts were mainly self-inflicted. She was born in Paris in 1909 into an assimilated, well-to-do Jewish family. (…) Simone Weil was a gifted child, graduating first in...

Publicado em: 08/02/14

“A poet always knows that what in the vernacular is called the voice of the Muse is, in reality, the dictate of language; that it’s not the language that happens to be his instrument, but that he is language’s mean toward the continuation of its existence. Language, however, even...

Publicado em: 05/02/14

CANÇÃO DE BOAS-VINDAS Tradução de Mário Sérgio Conti Eis sua família, sua mãe, seus pais, seus avós. Bem-vindo a esse sangue, esses ossos. Por que você perdeu a voz? Eis sua comida, eis sua bebida, eis o jantar. E uns pensamentos, se quiser pensar. Bem-vindo ao lar. Eis sua...

Publicado em: 02/02/14

RIFLES Based on Bertolt Brecht’s Señora Carrar’s Rifles Written by Nicolas Billon and directed by Michael Wheeler. Cast: Kate Hennig, Ben Sanders, Cyrus Lane, Araya Mengesha and more. Seen at The Next Stage Theatre Festival,January 18th, at The Factory Theatre in Toronto. Article by Eduardo Carli de Moraes: Bertolt Brecht‘s work is...

Publicado em: 30/01/14

“Few forces in the world are as potent, as influential, as religion. As we struggle to resolve the terrible economical and social inequities that currently disfigure our planet, and minimize the violence and degradation we see, we have to recognize that if we have a blind spot about religion...

Publicado em: 30/01/14

O sociólogo franco-brasileiro Michael Löwy, um dos maiores pesquisadores da obra de Walter Benjamin, esteve no Brasil em 2013 para debater “O capitalismo como religião”, livro de ensaios inéditos de Walter Benjamin, organizado e comentado por Löwy. No dia 25 de outubro, ele se reuniu com a psicanalista Maria...

Publicado em: 25/01/14

Caros leitores, o rio sempre-corrente da vida segue carregando minha barcola a peregrinar por novas paragens: por cerca de um ano, estarei às margens do Lago Ontário, em Toronto, encarando pela primeira vez uma experiência “na gringa”. Sair das tórridas temperaturas de Goiânia, onde é verão o ano inteiro,...

Publicado em: 11/01/14

Utopia’s dangers and toils: some remarks on Hawthorne’s “The Blithedale Romance” (1852) Reproduzido do Awestruck Wanderer In 1841, Hawthorne moved to Brook Farm, an experimental socialist community in Massachussets. This Utopian rural commune, connected with the Transcendentalism movement, drew inspiration from the ideas of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Charles Fourier,...

Publicado em: 05/01/14

“Plato’s Utopia is more terrifying than Orwell’s 1984 because Plato desires to happen what Orwell fears might happen. ‘That Plato’s Republic should have been admired, on its political side, by decent people, is perhaps the most astonishing example of literary snobbery in all history’, remarked Bertrand Russell. In Plato’s...

Publicado em: 28/12/13