I had a thoroughly enjoyable last couple of days at the 'States of Belief' conference in Sydney. The highlight was a Mandaean dude from the University of the Emirates. Here was a live gnostic, dressed in pure white (with even a white golf cap and shoes) putting up these images of wierd and wonderful trees, systematic diagrams of their mythology and great shit like that.

All the same he wasn't the wanker. Actually they weren't there, thankfully, but I discussed them at length Diego Bobbio. The wa
Published on February 28, 2009 01:08