April 2011
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Barnes & Noble makes Nook Self-Publishing easier...
I have Three eZines live on Barnes & Noble Nook Marketplace. It is more streamlined than the Amazon Marketplace. For Instance my last book went on sale almost immediately after I uploaded it. Amazon takes at least two days. Nook also supports the open ePub standard so you can read my nook Books in the reader of your choice (ie, Stanza, apple iBooks is a great epub reader). You can read...
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American Millenarian Social Movements (The New...
The 3,000 year old Prophecies of the Iranian Zarathustra/Zoroaster, contain an earlier draft of the Christian Revelations of Saint John. the following text gives a great rundown of Zoroastrian Eschatology and the battle of the forces of Light and Dark. reprinted from http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com The Kingdoms of Good and Evil. One of the characteristic features of Zoroastrianism is the...
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Mobile Engineer/E-Publisher Available For...
I published the following advertisement on sfbay.craigslist.org. I am looking for gigs where I can use my Bleeding Edge Media skills. I want to make interactive books that run on tablets like nook, kindle and Ipad. There is a lot of money sloshing around in the San Francisco Bay Area. Who is making the next generation of HTML5 eBooks with interactive atlases and GPS/Audio tour books? How about...
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Book Review: Esoteric Religions Cross-Breed and...
*make sure to get the 2010 version. Global History is being re-imagined at a breakneck pace. I blame the Internet. This is highly readable, short and guaranteed to re-orient your view of Human history over and over again. The silk route was the perpetual Deleuzian Periphery where the Heretics fled. A periphery of last resort in the foothills of the Himalayas for much of recorded history. *This...
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I published a new Kindle Mini-Book. it is $2.99 at...
via amazon.com Product Description A beautiful photographic journey through underground San Francisco. 17 Beautiful and Transformative photographs from the Queer, Fetish, Pagan underground in San Francisco. Including “Three naked men and a cranky homeless guy.” Something is happening here which is truly new and unique. Jasper Gregory is a living Artist representing worlds...
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800's, Jewish Slave Traders called Radanites...
via books.google.com It is unclear when the Radanites first appeared. They were from Roman France and Spain. They monopolized the trade in slavic slaves. They even had a “factory” set up to castrate their “human capital” and manufacture Eunuchs. Their trade and finance network spread all the way to China. They even converted a turkish tribe called the Khazars to...
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Don’t Let Me Be Lonely: A Photography Exhibit | UC...
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Demons, Archangels, Satan and the Apocalypse came...
Rabbinical Judaism formed in Sassanian Iraq and produced canonical texts in the same period that Zurvian Zoroastrianism became codified as the state religion of the neo-persian Sassanids. Canonical Christianity, Gnostic Christianity, Jewish Christianity, Mani’s mix of Zoroaster, Buddha, Judaism and Christianity, and Plotinus’s Neo-Platonism were all fermenting in the Middle East of...
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My Speculative Media Architecture: I am using...
my eBook publishing process: import wordpress, tumblr, posterous posts into my Local wordpress application through the import admin system. clean up, edit, and tag posts. use anthologize wordpress plugin to create a an ordered list of posts. this is your book. export Html versions of the book. add kindle specific html tags.(pagebreak!) use kindlegen from amazon to transform html to...
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Lost Asian Civilization Discovered in the 1990's...
I have always loved lost civilizations. I even visited the remains of Indus Valley Civilization in Mohenjo-Daro India. We do not know who these people were. Now it appears that another River Civilization thrived around the rivers leading from the Himalayas north to the Aral Sea. These people built sophisticated hydraulic works and mined the Tin that fueled Mesopotamia’s Bronze age. in the...
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231 BC, Indian Emperor converts to Buddhism and...
Map Reprinted from http://www.cemml.colostate.edu/cultural/09476/afgh02-05enl.html The people in Kandahar built some of those huge standing buddhas that the Taliban blew up. The Greco-Bactrian area of Afghanistan became one of the strongest centers of Buddhism until it fell to Arab Armies in the late 600s. This was the missionary base through which Tibet, Mongolia and China were converted....
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300s B.C. Northern India - Siddartha Guatama...
Alexandria was joining the Hellenistic world to India and China as Buddhism was taking route. So, buddhism took route in Afghanistan while it was still part of the Hellenistic empires of Parthia and Seleucid. A Parthian Noble from Central Asia was responsible for the first Buddhist translations into Han Chinese the 100s B.C. I wonder what happened to the Buddhist missionaries that were sent to...
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300's Tunesia - Puritan Christian sect would...
The circumcellions were bands of Christian extremists in North Africa in the early- to mid-4th century.[1] They preferred to be known as agonistici (“fighters (for Christ)”).[1]… They condemned property and slavery, and advocated canceling debts and freeing slaves.[2] Donatists prized martyrdom and had a special devotion for the martyrs, rendering honours to their graves…...
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763 Mongolia - The Gnostic, Fire Cult of "Jesus...
The Prophet Mani’s mix of Plato, Jesus, Zoroaster, Paul, and Buddha spread to China and Rome within decades. Mani’s innovative Buddhist inspired cell structure allowed a viral epidemic of syncretic religion to spread faster than any earlier Social Movement. Within a few decades of Mani’s death in the third century a Social Movement had missionary cells linking France to China....
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Map of 329 BC, Alexander's Greek Empire reached...
via cemml.colostate.edu The Sassanid Zaroastrians looks a lot like the Eastern portion of Alexander’s reign. The Bactrians in the NorthEast eventually embraced Buddhism and made “greek” sculptures of the Buddha, as well as the massive standing Buddhas of Afghanistan. The Chisitan Prophet Mani learned about buddhism in Bactria. It is also a gateway between India, China and...
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600 C.E., Rome has fallen. Constantinople has...
via upload.wikimedia.org This map shows the world in 600, 50 years before Islam sweeps the Middle East. The Sassanid Empire’s westernmost region in today’s Iraq has become a haven for Heretics, Alchemists and Religious Dissenters like Hussite Prague in 1400s or Holland in the 1600s. Aramaic Christians and Greek Philosophers who were repressed in Athens, Constantinople,...
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200s Iraq & Iran, Prophet Mani founds Manichaeism,...
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