M.J. Rose

…The power of words is no less potent than a love potion. I think it’s quite obvious that Virginia Woolf knew the secret to writing an effective love letter –

Throw Over Your Man: Virginia Woolf’s 1927 Love Letter to Vita Sackville-West

by Maria Popova

“…and I’ll tell you all the things I have in my head, millions, myriads.”

“What makes an extraordinary love letter? After Monday’s omnibus of famous correspondence, I revisited a lovely decade-old book titled The 50 Greatest Love Letters of All Time, which features missives from icons like Ernest Hemingway, Jack Kerouac, Frida Kahlo, Franz Kafka, and Mozart, covering everything from tender love to lust to bitter breakups.

Among them is this 1927 letter from Virginia Woolf to English poet Vita Sackville-West, with whom Woolf had fallen madly in love….”

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Graham Hancock is one of the foremost scholars of alternative history and unconventional theories regarding ancient civilizations. One of the main themes of his work is the idea that a possible “mother culture” is the origin of all global culture and civilization.

Hancock is a very compelling lecturer and his knowledge of worldwide mysteries is vast – please enjoy the following talk. (This lecture was apparently banned by TED for being too “alternative” – What do you think?)…

The War On Consciousness: Graham Hancock Talks Ayahuasca, Shamanism, Society, Consciousness

As we discover more ancient sites in the Americas, we see that the ancient ones were more advanced than we ever could have imagined…

The lost city of Cahokia: Archaeologists uncover Native Americans’ sprawling metropolis under St Louis

By DAILY MAIL REPORTER

“A sprawling Native American metropolis which lay hidden beneath a modern city for a millennium has been uncovered.

Archaeologists digging in preparation for the Mississippi River spanning bridge – which will connect Missouri and Illinois – discovered the lost city of Cahokia beneath modern St Louis.

Their findings pointed to a ‘sophisticated, sprawling metropolis stretching across both sides of the Mississippi’, Andrew Lawler told the journal Science…”

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