"The Book of Aquarius" (alchemy on the radio)

Wisdom Quarterly
Alchemist Jay Weidner interview, really gets going at Minute 8:00.

Alchemy and the Philosophers' Stone are real. We are not joking. This book covers the full theory and practice of alchemy. Instructions include how to make the Philosophers' Stone, which is capable of reversing the aging process and curing all disease. The effect of this is that it become possible to extend life. These are ancient secrets that have never before been released to the public. Read before judging. This world is not what it seems to be. The Book of Aquarius is free and public-domain (no copyright). Read it online, or download the PDF, HTML, buy it in paperback from Amazon, or list to the audiobook (163 MB). Copy and distribute it in any way.

• The Book of Aquarius
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• Last updated on Aug. 21, 2011

A Stone of truth and rarity,
Given freely with sincerity,
Few believe or understand,
For [it's] evidence they demand;
So here it is, as you ask,
Truth for you I [will] unmask;
Nature's simple, certain way,
Gives life and hope out of decay;
For those who hear Nature's call,
Stand up strong and stand up tall;
With little time left in this world,
All the secrets will be unfurled;
From this book the wise will see
Life is not what it seemed to be.

(TheHallOfRecords) William Henry interviews Jay Weidner (for Whitley Strieber) on the Secrets of Alchemy and the Cross in Hendaye, France. He reveals the secrets of the alchemical traditions, Fulcanelli, 9-11, climate chaos, 2012, and the Mayan predictions [on the end of the age] in the Cosmic Calender of the Ages.

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Coachella is no Woodstock (video)

Wisdom Quarterly (REPORTING) WARNING: F-word. Cee Lo Green and his all-girl band CUT SHORT at Coachella 2011

The camera adds 90 percent of the excitement to Warpaint on a hot afternoon.

What can't be seen is the heat and a palpable sense of disinterest (with boredom creeping in). For example, notice the chinks in the armor: At minute 2:40, people are walking by without looking, cars are passing, big swaths of empty lawn lay barren, and massive numbers of yellow-shirted security dudes staring at hipsters have nothing to do but sip on solar-irradiated plastic water bottles full of xenoestrogens. Love you all! Wish you were here! Yawn.

No peace, no love, and very little rock 'n roll, it's all about looking for DJs in humid circus tents to get out of the sun. It gets better at night, but only if we have been sleeping all day.

Flogging Molly "Seven Deadly Sins," live at Coachella 2011

Fun is what we make of it: friends, good company, finding in the right tents, getting good phone reception, and keeping laptop batteries from overheating in the desert while trying to recharge them using a photovoltaic device hanging off a backpack. Dehydration makes one dizzy.

But the shocking thing is how well behaved everyone is. Woodstock was all about gate crashing and being so wet and muddy in the middle of August that nothing mattered. Of course, in those days, there was a war going on. Now we have three wars (not counting the secret ones). Coachella security won't let anyone within a mile of the gate without a wristband. We were born too late. We miss the myth of the 60s. Who even played Woodstock 1969?.

Techno, the real reason people drive out to Coachella

Coachella Music Festival (Info Central)

Wisdom Quarterly Coachella Information Central (courtesy of KROQ), coachella.com

Cee Lo Green(!), Ms. Lauryn Hill, Chemical Brothers, Kings of Leon, Ozomatli, and the Black Keys rock the lawn on Friday as temperatures soar to 99 degrees Fahrenheit. Earth Day, Go Green Expo in Los Angeles, New Year's Day in Sri Lanka (celebrated for children at the Los Angeles Buddhist Vihara in Pasadena, California)... as well as an enormous multi-religious festival on the other side of the planet in Dhaka, Bangladesh, make this one enormous weekend of possibilities.

Going to "Woodstock" West

Wisdom Quarterly (REPORTING)

Save the $250.00 and watch it at home. It's boring walking around a giant manicured lawn, actually a massive polo field in the desert, going from tent to tent or being crushed in front of various temporary stages. There's too much sunlight for all the drunkards and people trying to scam up some free love. It looks much better than it feels to be here! Meditating in concentric circles, with strangers joining in, is the only thing making it worthwhile. It's an art festival, but the only "art" we see is on stilts surrounded by police and guys in cargo shorts.

Cee Lo Green sings his megahit "Crazy" as part of Gnarls Barkley in Roskilde, Denmark

Advice: How to Survive NOT Going to Coachella

(SFweekly.com) The time is almost upon us. This week, tens of thousands of beautiful indie kids will descend on a patch of desert in Indio, California, and bear witness to some of the finest music the modern world has to offer at the 13th annual Coachella Festival. For those who didn't manage to get a ticket (because they sold out in one week!), couldn't get the time off, or couldn't wrangle a guest pass from that guy who's friends with that dude you know from work who used to do merchandise-sales for [insert band name here] back in [insert year here], here's some helpful advice for not turning green with envy once Friday rolls around.