Who s To Say What Is Really Art?
A comment from the archives that I came across totally accidentally. It was written in 2011 by Steven Halpern. I m a long-time student (and licensed instructor) of
chanoyu ( Japanese tea ceremony ). Even among tea people there s no agreement on what
chanoyu is: a polite accomplishment? A kind of meditation? A performance art? But for those who respond to it, cramming oneself into a tiny room with a few other like-minded people, drinking tea the consistency of applesauce, and discussing works of art that make no sense in Western terms is as soul-restoring as Angelico or Alvarez Bravo, even though it all vanishes when the tea gathering ends. So who s to say what is really art? Better to appreciate as much as possible, I say, than to limit oneself by setting up categories of better and worse (although the exercise can be thought-provoking).
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UFO Takes Man s Wife : When the Heaven s Gate cult recruited in the Bay Area Katie Dowd
As Robert Balch stepped into the Orinda post office in November 1975, he didn’t know what to expect. The cult members told him to search for a ZIP code book. Inside would be his next set of instructions.
He found the book and hurriedly flipped the pages. There, on page 100, he found the words: “Meet us at the top of Mount Diablo.”
Balch tells the story of his unlikely undercover operation in the new HBO Max docuseries “Heaven’s Gate: The Cult of Cults.” At the time, he was a sociology professor at the University of Montana, and he’d been looking for a cult to embed with for further study. One day, he saw an advertisement for a meeting of what would become Heaven’s Gate.