Re: psychoceramics: Re: psychoceramics-digest V1 #110

[acb @ cs.monash.edu.au (Andrew C. Bulhak)]

[Bruce Ediger]
> 
> Has anyone heard of the "Aetherius Society"?  If not, it might be
> worth looking at their URL: http://www.rain.org/~brianck/aetherius.html
> 
> The attached usenet article is pretty nutty, but the web page goes
> way beyond it, in many different directions.  The web pages mentions
> a lot of stuff that I heard from some crackpot New Ager last spring:
> Cosmic Masters, Great White Brotherhood, aliens and/or very old
> humans helping the rest of us through this Time of Great Danger.
> 
> At first, I thought this was the same gibberish that Donna Kossy
> outlined in "Kooks", the chapter called "Dr Doreal and the Brotherhood
> of the White Temple", but after glancing over it, I'm sure it's not
> related.
> 
> PS
> Is this list dead?

It wasn't last time I looked...

> PPS
> Now that the 'alt.usenet.kooks' group is overrun with spammers, flamers
> and dickweeds of all varieties, is it ok to discuss usenet related loons
> in this list?

I have no objection, as long as it's the discussion of genuine kooks.
This does not include sociopathic cascaders, spammers, self-styled 
net personalities, whiners or other mal-aligned normals.  Basically,
the likes of McElwaine, Grubor, Stollman and Neutopia would qualify.


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