Xavier Rudd

Xavier Rudd has a sweet, soulful voice that carries with it the cries, hurts, and hopes of Aboriginal Australians. The purity of the emotion oozing from the singer is clear and his multi-instrumental skill is mesmerizing; Xavier Rudd is one of those artistes to fall in love with, a  rare gem. With a knack for connecting with people on the soul level and even bringing concert goers to the point of tears.

The British author Aldous Huxley (1894–1963). With the publication of "The Doors of Perception" in 1954, Huxley became an early exponent of drug-induced alterations of conscious states, a position he maintained and expounded upon toward the end of his life, as he lost his own visual capacity and the psychedelic movement embraced him warmly.

Yuri Bezmenov

Subversion & its four stages. Yuri Bezmenov's four stages of ideological subversion are a model for understanding how Marxist-Leninist doctrine can be used to influence and undermine a target country or institution from within. He outlines these stages as demoralization, destabilization, crisis, and finally normalization. 

“Loving anybody and being loved by anybody is a tremendous danger, a tremendous responsibility,” James Baldwin reflected in his final interview. “An honorable human relationship — that is, one in which two people have the right to use the word ‘love’ — is a process, delicate, violent, often terrifying to both persons involved, a process of refining the truths they can tell each other,” Adrienne Rich wrote in her superb meditation on the dignity of love.

The Voyage of Life: Manhood

Cole's renowned four-part series traces the journey of an archetypal hero along the "River of Life." Confidently assuming control of his destiny and oblivious to the dangers that await him, the voyager boldly strives to reach an aerial castle, emblematic of the daydreams of "Youth" and its aspirations for glory and fame