An Array of Utopian Flowers
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The Truth About Hydrogen: Green Fuel or Greenwash?
Posted on January 17, 2023 | 1 Comment - Burning Cedar: Revitalizing Indigenous Foodways & Sovereign Wellness
Posted on January 11, 2023 | No Comments - ZeroHouz: Ditching Fossil Fuels for a Zero Emissions Home
Posted on December 19, 2022 | 1 Comment - Healing the World’s Ecosystems with the Soil Food Web
Posted on December 9, 2022 | 3 Comments - The Literary Labyrinth of Stephen T. Vessels
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WilderUtopia in 102 Languages
Tales of the Fifth Dimension – The Fifth Fedora
Transformative tales that thrive in the world of Lost Souls, Fallen Angels, Shapeshifters, Extra-Planetary Dragons, and Lucky Charms. From an assortment of writers, now available from Borda Books and WilderUtopia Books is The Fifth Fedora: An Anthology of Weird Noir & Stranger Tales, curated by Jack Eidt and Silver Webb. BUY THE BOOK – CLICK HERE‘Medicine Walk’ Featured in SBLitJo
Santa Barbara Literary Journal released ‘Bellatrix: Volume 3’ in June 2019, which among adventurous fiction, poetry, essays, and lyrics, features an excerpt of Jack Eidt’s psychic-animism fiction, Medicine Walk. Buy the book!
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Tibetan Skeleton Dance: Cemetery Protectors of Truth
Posted on October 25, 2014 | 8 CommentsIn the sacred Tibetan Skeleton dance two Dharmapalas (Protectors of Truth) appear, played by Monks, deities whose role is to protect the cemetery grounds. Their presence also reminds the audience of the ephemeral nature of this world and of their own mortality. The cult of ?the Se?cond Buddha?, Padmasambhava, initiated the practice through the rich mythological literature. -
Legong Film: Balinese Dream Dance of Nymphs in Heaven
Posted on August 17, 2013 | No CommentsFilm and music of shimmering yet jarring beauty play together on a South Seas beach in "Legong: Dance of the Virgins." It's a rarely screened 1935 silent movie, shot entirely in Bali with a Balinese cast, mixed with a new score by Club Foot Orchestra and Gamelan Sekar Jaya. Presented in a crude but rich two-strip early Technicolor process, one of the last silent films made by Hollywood, it depicts Bali as Westerners idealized it at the time. -
Day of the Dead: Mexica Dance Honoring the Soul’s Rest
Posted on October 29, 2012 | 26 CommentsIn the pre-Hispanic era, skulls were kept as trophies and displayed during the rituals to symbolize death and rebirth. These ancestors passed down the knowledge that souls exist after death, resting in Mictlan, the land of the dead, not for judgment or resurrection, but for the day each year when they could return home to visit their loved ones. -
Kumeyaay People: Traditions Survive in Baja California
Posted on October 22, 2012 | 10 CommentsGroups of Kumeyaay People live in the isolated canyons of the Tijuana River watershed, high in the Baja California peninsula. They harvest acorns and pine nuts, hunt rattlesnake and small animals, collect grasses to weave baskets. They allow a glimpse of what life in Southern California before the Spanish arrived was like. -
Maya Deren: Divine Horsemen Dance the Living Gods of Haiti
Posted on June 1, 2012 | 4 Comments"Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods of Haiti" journeys into the world of the Vodoun religion, communing with the drums and loa rituals, made by avant-garde filmmaker Maya Deren between 1947-1951. -
Caribbean Garífuna: Masked Warriors Dance into the New Year
Posted on April 27, 2012 | 19 CommentsThe masked dance ritual called Wanaragua, takes place as part of the New Year's celebration among the Garífuna villages on the Caribbean Coast of Central America. -
Day of the Dead Ofrendas: Calavera Fashion Show and Walking Altars
Posted on November 9, 2010 | 3 CommentsShort poems, anecdotes, mocking or reverent tributes, called calaveras or “skulls,” are given to celebrate public or private figures. In Los Angeles, for the last seven years Tropico de Nopal Gallery has taken the custom into the realm of performance art-fashion show-walking altar display.
