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From RACE - The Power of an Illusion . Background Readings | PBS: From here we see the structuring of the ideological components of “race.” The term “race,” which had been a classificatory term like “type,” or “kind,” but with ambiguous meaning, became more widely used in the eighteenth century, and crystallized into a distinct reference for Africans, Indians and […]

Commonly held stereotypes about Asian men include that they’re not masculine, that they’re small and that they have no beards or body hair. Street life in inner city Sydney has many examples of tough, macho, masculine looking and acting Asian guys, hairy and bearded Asian guys (including gay Asian men on the scene) and tall […]

The notion that the species “homo sapiens” is divided into significant groupings called “races”, each of which is associated with certain cultural traits, distinguishable by certain superficial physical features (hair colour, skin colour, eye shape, body hair and so on) and more or less homogenous is accepted by most of us ordinary folk. Among population biologists […]

(Posted to Sydney Integral) Long ago back at Integral Practice Sangha number 1, I ran an exercise on subtle energy practice drawn from the Western Esoteric tradition. I was being a little coy, because the tradition is more commonly referred to as Magick. Simon, in particular, started asking questions during discussion about what we were really talking […]

So, I just put in a little effort to roll all my blog posts from prior blogs over to this one. You’ll notice a hole in 2003-2004 where I just didn’t post anything. Also, I omitted any post whose only topic was about how little I blog or that I’m not blogging. Didn’t seem that […]

The latest step in my blogging software migration saga is that I’ve moved from blosxom+BXR+ecto to Wordpress+ecto. Hopefully, my five readers might have noticed.