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...The truth is that Davos is losing its relevance and increasingly seems out of touch with the spirit of the times....
...He moves smoothly between his points of interest: on one wall a depiction of Dantor, a senior spirit in Haitian voodoo cradling her daughter Anais; on another the battered Toyota in which William — who says...
...Its mission is in part to aid a search for extraterrestrial intelligence....
...commodity led her to think about the “double meaning of possession both as ownership, as something that could be claimed or owned, and the other meaning of something that has a hold on you, perhaps an idea or spirit...
...And Artemide’s new Huara table lamp is a high-tech reminder that humans’ first source of light was the stars....
...Above all he symbolised the ability of the human spirit to rise above severe physical disability....
...Certainly, anointed the radiant child of SoHo bohemia, he played the part: self-portraits as a gorgeous inky black silhouette on wood, or as a black boxer, fist aloft, skull head recalling a Voodoo spirit...
...“I wanted with all my heart to paint the drama of my country, but by thoroughly expressing the negro spirit, the beauty of the plastic art of the blacks....
...Exploring space or finding extraterrestrial life? Cleaning the oceans or clearing the atmosphere? Curing disease or looking for the key to immortality?...
...They included Eliezer Yudkowsky, the guiding spirit behind Miri in Berkeley....
...She focuses on soil – or more precisely the relationship between healthy soil and healthy humans....
...At some points we’re more human and at others more spirit-like, and we play with both of those worlds. What makes us powerful is being able to transform.”...
...“But I make sure that I drink human blood every Friday night as a supplement to protect me from these thoughts and other evil spirits.”...
...And human beings....
...Then come filmed interviews with a dozen living shamans, including a Bengali singer-poet, a voodoo priest in Togo and a Libyan mystic....
...Voodoo holds that human beings never truly die – instead their spirits simply migrate to another dimension of existence....
...An unsettling kind of magic permeates much of this work, an insistence on drawing out the animal spirit that pervades even dead objects....
...The Liberators , by Philip Womack, Bloomsbury RRP£6.99 Womack brings Greek myth to life with this tale of two sinister brothers who unleash the spirit of Dionysus in modern London....
..., by Paul Davies, Allen Lane RRP£20 This is the best of a bunch of books about life on other worlds marking the 50th anniversary of Seti, the search for extraterrestrial intelligence....
...But humans haven’t unmasked its enigmas: there begins fiction....
...(She: “Are you ever human?” He: “From time to time”). But hold the front page, or tear it up for bivouac kindling....
...What if you find yourself unable to trust the Kethani’s gift, fearing that they must have a hidden extraterrestrial agenda?...
...They reportedly involve extraterrestrials who lived 75m years ago and sent spirit clusters (called “thetans”) to earth....
...Greeting me is a statue of Legba, an intermediary between humans and the spirit world, complete with huge bull horns and erection....
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