True Resistance Begins With The Mind...

Welcome to Steep Path, a repository of knowledge where we can help each other gain a deeper understanding of our social, mental and spiritual environment. The polluted condition of the modern environment has greatly impeded our ability to realise our potential as individuals and as a society. By sharing our insights from our varied walks of life we can create a community that can be a source of nourishment as we each continue our solitary journey along the Steep Path.

To get you started here is some content you might find interesting;

articles:

by Jim Loretta, 9 November 2010

A Scientific Approach to Tai Chi and Chi Gong

A more scientific approach to tai chi, this article explains how we are essentially beings of energy as opposed to matter, which makes energy focused exercises like tai chi and chi kung not only useful but even more beneficial than purely physical exercises.  [ read full article ]

keywords: the body, felt sense, sensation, excersise, bioenergetics,

by Ruth Phillips, 17 November 2010

Mastering the Urban Jungle

In this article Phillips discusses parkour and dérive and how they can help us to break our subservience to our artificial surroundings. Concerned mostly with the demoralising infrastructure of large cities, Phillips draws heavily on Debord’s Theory of the Dérive and argues that while both are important forms of resistance, parkour requires a certain amount of fitness and dedication, whereas dérive requires only an open mind.  [ read full article ]

keywords: the body, felt sense, sensation, mental environment, phenomenology, modernity, urban, activism, excercise, resistance, psychogeography

audiobooks:

by Audio Anarchy

Thoughts On Society Of The Spectacle

The Society of the Spectacle (La Société du spectacle) is a work of philosophy and critical theory by Situationist and Marxist theorist, Guy Debord. It was first published in 1967 in France.
Instead of a direct recording of the text, here a collection of people read some of their favorite aphorisms, and tell stories about how those aphorisms relate to their lives.

by George Orwell

1984

Nineteen Eighty-Four (sometimes written 1984) is a 1949 dystopian novel by George Orwell about the totalitarian regime of the Party. The novel depicts an oligarchical collectivist society where life in the Oceanian province of Airstrip One is a world of perpetual war, pervasive government surveillance, and incessant public mind control.

ebooks:

by Archibald E. Roberts

The Most Secret Science

Archibald E. Roberts’ rare and explosive book The Most Secret Science is probably one of the finest exposes of how control of the wealth via central banks ultimately ends up with control over a nation’s economy, political parties and people in general. This is his most important work which addresses the most important science in the world - the science to control people.

by George Orwell

Nineteen Eighty-Four

Nineteen Eighty-Four (sometimes written 1984) is a 1949 dystopian novel by George Orwell about the totalitarian regime of the Party. The novel depicts an oligarchical collectivist society where life in the Oceanian province of Airstrip One is a world of perpetual war, pervasive government surveillance, and incessant public mind control.

videos:

by Red Ice Creations

War on Consciousness

A look at how modern slavery is orchestrated through control of the mind.
(edited from Architects of Control)

by Adam Curtis

The Century of the Self

The Century of the Self is a British television documentary film that focuses its attention on Sigmund Freud's family, especially his daughter and nephew, who exerted a surprising amount of influence on the way corporations and governments throughout the 20th century have thought about, and dealt with, people.

 

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