Maurice Nicoll (Psychological Commentaries on the Teaching of Gurdjieff and Ouspensky, Vol. 1, 1952, 1980) wrote ... "You cannot imagine what hardships fakirs undergo. I do not know whether you have seen real fakirs or not. I have seen many: for instance I saw one in the inner court of a temple i... Read More

George Ivanovich Gurdjieff (Meetings with Remarkable Men, 1963) wrote ... "If a Yezidi is forcibly dragged out of a circle, he immediately falls into the state called catalepsy, from which he recovers the instant he is brought back inside. But if he is not brought back into the circle, he returns... Read More

George Ivanovich Gurdjieff (Meetings with Remarkable Men, 1963) wrote ... "I learned that the boy in the middle was a Yezidi, that the circle had been drawn round him and that he could not get out of it until it was rubbed away. The child was indeed trying with all his might to leave this magic c... Read More

Weston A. Price advocates don't tell us anything about White Men's Taboos, such as coprophagia — consuming feces as food. It's also called coprophagy, a common practice among many so-called "primitive" cultures. The Bedouins ate camel feces as a remedy for dysentery. Vihjalmur Stefansson ... Read More

I have a love-hate affair with Wikipedia. Any internet researcher who avoids Wikipedia is working with one arm tied behind their back. But when it comes to Alternative Medicine, you might as well be doing your research on Quackwatch. Case in point — Yellow Fat Disease, listed on Wikipedia... Read More