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Asocial Contract : Antinomian Transgression in Buddhism

Found : Asocial Contract : Antinomian Transgression in Buddhism How can a Buddhist monk who drinks alcohol, fornicates with women, eat meat, kill, or acts generally irreverently still be considered a Buddhist monk? Recent scandals of Buddhist masters sleeping with … Continue reading

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Miss California USA Carrie Prejean nude photos surface

Found : Miss California USA Carrie Prejean nude photos surface With partially nude photos of her popping up on Web sites questioning her Christian credentials, Miss California USA Carrie Prejean has fired back, claiming the racy pictures are just modeling … Continue reading

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Festival and Sacred Transgression in rural Japan

Found : Festival and Sacred Transgression in rural Japan [T]here is also generally an expectation of a thorough liberation of mind and body, a destruction of the existing order. Festival days involve a kind of public license for the casting … Continue reading

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Where perverse impulses and urges come from

Found : Where perverse impulses and urges come from Perverse impulses seem to arise when people focus intensely on avoiding specific errors or taboos. The theory is straightforward: to avoid blurting out that a colleague is a raging hypocrite, the … Continue reading

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Dattatreya the sadhu and the antinomian impulse

Found : Dattatreya the sadhu and the antinomian impulse The main work attributed to Dattatreya is the Avhadhuta Upanishad, which describes the conditions of the liberated soul, one who is unfettered by dogma, habit, ritual or conventional morality. According to … Continue reading

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T-Shirt + Gift Shop

Created by Rev. Illuminatus Maximus Welcome to the official Gnostic Friends Network Cafepress store, where you can buy t-shirts, postcards and posters illustrating a variety of strange and shocking scenes from the occult gospels of the Gnostic heretics. Annoy your … Continue reading

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Key Concepts

Cognitive frames of reference informing the design and purpose of this web site: Antinomianism – taboo-breaking as a means to wisdom, e.g., the “transgression” of Georges Bataille, Ikkyu , the “left hand” or “short path” of Tantra and Vamamarga. Animism … Continue reading

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Antinomian Antics: Sabotaging the Matrix

Reprint of an article originally published in New Dawn Magazine #85, expanded and revised with original illustrations. An overview of the antinomian strain of gnostic Christianity, touching upon a variety of scintillating and outrageous themes! Continue reading

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