A search for the poetic facts of heresy in Islamic history, ranging from sacred pederasty in Persian sufism and forbidden imagery in Islamic art to the inner teachings of the Assassins, the heretical influences on Shiite terrorism, and the mystical uses of wine, opium, and hashish.
Throughout the ages the presence, seen or unseen, of winged beings hovering between the human and divine worlds has been recognized. Peter Lamborn Wilson reveals their role in all the great religions, as the mediators, the protectors or if necessary the punishers. He considers their function as messengers: carrying a Greek hero to the realms of ...
From the 16th to the 19th centuries, Muslim corsairs from the Barbary Coast ravaged European shipping and enslaved thousands of unlucky captives. During this same period, thousands more Europeans converted to Islam and joined the pirate holy war. Were these men (and women) the scum of the seas, apostates, traitors - Renegadoes? Or did they abandon ...
Folklore/Mythology. The Rig Veda, written in India about 1500 BC, praises a holy plant called Soma, which, when consumed, grants the drinker an experience of enlightenment and ecstasy. In Ploughing the Clouds, Peter Lamborn Wilson investigates the possibility of a Soma cult in ancient Ireland, tracing dues in Irish (and other Celtic) lore. By ...
This collection of writings, assembled at a time of crisis for NYC community gardens, imagines the radical possibilities of urban gardening. Bringing together NYC history, political analysis, utopian schemes, poetic accounts of what gardening can create, and investigations into the dynamics of sustainability, community, high and low technologies, ...
Sufism can be seen to have functioned as a positive and healthy reaction to the overly rational activity of the philosophers and theologians. For the Sufis, the road to spiritual knowledge could never be confined to the process of purely intellectual activity, without the direct, immediate experience of the Heart. In this book we are concerned ...
Fiction by Peter Lamborn Wilson, Maggie Estep, Jennifer Kabat, Claude Taylor, Judy Nylon, Hakim Bey, Lynn Crawford, Thaddeus Rutkowski, Bruce Benderson, Harry Mathews, Tom Savage, Lynne Tillman, and Bart Plantegna.
One of Italys leading feminist thinkers critiques the traditional Marxist category of productive labor and examines the effects on the capitalist reproductive roles of womens labor and bodies, with illuminating consequences for the received understanding of society and the modern nuclear family.
Did the nineteenth century ever come to an end? Was the twentieth century just a re-run? If to know History as tragedy is to escape its repetition as farce, then perhaps we need to look more deeply at this Past that wont stop haunting us. Two illuminated madmenCharles Fourier and Friedrich Nietzscheand two too-sane geniusesJ.-P. Proudhon and Karl ...
A tradition of intentional and initiatic dreaming, stretching from present-day dream-interpretation booklets back to ancient Sumerian and Egyptian practices, connects the Sufism of Ibn Arabi, medieval Kabalah, hemp-inspired Taoist scriptures, Afro-Brazilian spirit cults, and early Christian angel alphabets. Shower of Stars pulls from this history ...
Peter Lamborn Wilson proposes a set of heresies, a culture of resistance, that dispels the false image of Islam as monolithic, puritan, and two-dimensional. Here is the story of the African-American noble Drew Ali, the founder of "Black Islam" in this country, and of the violent end of his struggle for "love, truth, peace, freedom, and justice." ...
A series of gatherings took place in 2006 to discuss the contemporary relevance of the ancient sacred science of hermeticism, or alchemy. This book is a partial record of those meetings, focusing on finding a spiritual and cultural path for the healing of the current ecological crisis. Peter Lamborn Wilson, explores the many ramifications of the ...
A treasure chest of angelic lore and an exquisite introduction to the divine messengers and the heavenly hierarchies. This inspiring "Little Book" collection of sayings, poems, prayers, and teachings makes an ideal gift or constant companion. Illustrated in color throughout.
The most in-depth and scholarly panorama of Western spirituality ever attempted! In one series, the original writings of the universally acknowledged teachers of the Catholic, Protestant, Eastern Orthodox, Jewish, Islamic and Native American traditions have been critically selected, translated and introduced by internationally recognized scholars ...
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