tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-44450876083995889772024-02-07T00:18:26.673-08:002nd Mynd2nd Myndhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08006138142422955227noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445087608399588977.post-24202556424155851022009-06-04T14:51:00.000-07:002009-06-04T14:59:38.367-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiN6txj3uQRhfGycTNykXW0GIKzzX7GFLi2L89lRgyacJnfWrGg_Md4KnIl4AL0sKZwZoxLgZNrvQmH0T2Fv0e1mvGo74Jy-oR-BHYEzLkeedFbu9opRsQKw5wJ5VgfDyRzO_RQ0vp09o0/s1600-h/P1010029.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiN6txj3uQRhfGycTNykXW0GIKzzX7GFLi2L89lRgyacJnfWrGg_Md4KnIl4AL0sKZwZoxLgZNrvQmH0T2Fv0e1mvGo74Jy-oR-BHYEzLkeedFbu9opRsQKw5wJ5VgfDyRzO_RQ0vp09o0/s320/P1010029.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5343595339900597106" /></a><br /><!--StartFragment--> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">Second Mynd Manifesto<o:p></o:p></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Semina is seminal.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>We live in the world of human hands.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal">The Second Mynd dwells in the forest of Eros and sips Dionysian nectar of the infinite under leaves of mystery, stirred by the breeze of Thanatos.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal">We walk by the grace of Saturn alone and are humbled by his gifts.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">We do not linger in the soporific hotel lobby of irony.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>We visit, take what we need and leave.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>It is a dead place full of prisoners that have mistaken it for home and wander its enclosures endlessly.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">We are various: collectivists, pantheists, animists, alchemists and naturalists.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">The Second Mynd is the sur-real manifested as the super-natural.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">The Second Mynd permeates all things and is made of vibration, of sound; it emanates from the earth from hollows and caves.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>From one caldera to another, it moves, molten linga.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>And we are sacred to it.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Nothing moves, and is something. Breath quivers into song and in the next moment is still. All that dies, endures in its transience. Our bodies are shaken from breath into the realm of the seen and there fade from sight at their own exhaling. The breath doesn’t seem to last, but we are always breathing it. And at the intersection of stillness and breath is love, always about to begin, always about to end, and in that, immortal, and what we are made of.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p> <!--EndFragment-->2nd Myndhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08006138142422955227noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445087608399588977.post-73571904705453790842009-02-09T19:28:00.000-08:002009-06-25T20:52:19.670-07:00Second Mind 2nd Mynd Second Mynd<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgscQSZIw8k4COgH8etiQip84KKixAyFWoPLFrV41nQ9dHmVTtxFVjZceSY6ykV-btipahqPUvXydFC-WF5RuGlnI6pNRtWLGHGKXPJ-rRGomlcFziUt0KPkfP7zvBtq7Ui8qcOuXsWrDw/s1600-h/Hieroglyphs.jpeg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 306px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgscQSZIw8k4COgH8etiQip84KKixAyFWoPLFrV41nQ9dHmVTtxFVjZceSY6ykV-btipahqPUvXydFC-WF5RuGlnI6pNRtWLGHGKXPJ-rRGomlcFziUt0KPkfP7zvBtq7Ui8qcOuXsWrDw/s320/Hieroglyphs.jpeg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5301005759446850226" border="0" /></a><br />First Issue Available Now<br /><br />Report from the 2nd Mynd<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Pamphlets, chapbooks, photos, broadside, postcards, and a CD-R!<br /><br />Texts written, translated, or found by:<br /><br />Sotere Torregian<br />Ruy Ventura (tr. 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