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Personal Reflections on the Existence of Chi
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Gus diZerega
A couple of days ago I came across two Youtube videos of Qigong masters using chi to perform extraordinary feats. One, in which I have enormous confidence, is from China, and was linked to by a man I worked with for many years while doing a lot of healing work, Larry Wong. The other was next…
Individuality, Freedom, and Superiority: Returning to Ayn Rand’s Problems
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Gus diZerega
Because this Rand issue has played such an important part in my own intellectual and moral history, and because my discovery of the Hickman stuff helped solve a puzzle for me about the contemporary political right, I will answer the critics at some length. I assume you have read the first post and perhaps the…
Ayn Rand, the Philosophy of Freedom, and a Serial Killer
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Gus diZerega
This will be a very personal post. I have just come across a very disturbing article: a description of conservative and libertarian heroine Ayn Rand’s early and passionate admiration of a serial killer because of his lack of empathy towards other people. In her words, “Other people do not exist for him, and he does…
Back From the North
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Gus diZerega
Back from wonderful Vancouver, British Columbia, my favorite city. I got there as the last tourists visiting for the Olympics were departing, parking was becoming available again, and life began returning to normal. I was there for non-Pagan reasons – I am co-authoring a paper using emergent order theory to explain why Vancouver is the…
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