Conspiracy: Experience and Reality

There is something on my mind that I’m reluctant to try to write about. It’s a complex subject that would take a book to provide the necessary cited data and analysis. Besides, it’s a topic that I feel few are inclined (able? willing?) to understand. I’m not even sure what to call the subject. The [...]

Coast to Coast AM with George Noory: some recent interesting shows

I listen to Coast to Coast quite often as I have a late night schedule. These two shows intrigued me. One is about the future of where humanity is heading and the other is about the world of humanity’s past. The following are the description of the shows from the Coast to Coast website. If [...]

What I’ve been doing lately

I’ve had a bunch of stuff on my mind lately.  I’m being my normal distractable self. I was reading about the Monomyth in terms of fiction.  Along with this, I’ve been visitng the TV Tropes site which is always enjoyable.  I’ve been trying to refocus on fiction and I’ve been working on a story.  For [...]

Human Stupidity

Humans are strange.  We collectively seem almost incapable of preparing for the future.  We either just react out of fear (such as the War on Terror or War on Drugs, but these are impotent acts that serve no purpose) or we don’t even notice (sometimes actively avoiding aknowledgment of) the real threats. I hear people arguing [...]

Alchemy and Suffering

The Philosopher’s Secret Fire by Patrick Harpur Page 32:  “Besides, it is doubtful whether voluntary disciplines can ever do more than prepare the way for initiation – which, like the shaman’s call, is, finally, involuntary.  We cannot will to die to ourselves.” Page 33:  “There are the experiences we must not seek to cure or [...]

Gnostic Quotes

Beloved, now are we the Sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be; but we know that, when He shall appear, we shall be like Him; for we shall see Him as he is. -I John 3:2-     ‘Gnosis is the knowledge of the heart’ —Valentinus– That is the [...]

Anti-Folk

I discovered a new genre of music: anti-folk (Wikipedia article).  My friend was playing some music from Juno which I’ve seen before.  The movie is decent, but the music is great.   I looked up music related to Juno.  I first came across The Moldy Peaches (their page on Last FM), and I really enjoyed the [...]

The Many Rooms of Time (fiction by Ben Steele)

He had inherited this old house from a side of the family he didn’t even know existed. Apparently, his name had been at the end of a long list of heirs. It was fortunate for he needed a place to stay. His landlord, prior landlord that is, had recently evicted him. He had taken in [...]

Mother’s Voice (fiction by Ben Steele)

I’m standing in a kitchen, but it isn’t familiar.  I’m on the phone talking to my mother, but she isn’t my mother… she is all mothers, a piecemeal recollection of primal longings for mother.  Her voice is, at first, the voice of a mother from a tv show… now, shifting, the voice of the mother [...]

I started some blogs elsewhere, but I’ve been mostly blogging at Gaia.com. The Gaia blog is fairly basic and I don’t always feel like I fit in with all the New Agers that are members there. Nice people and all, and its good for general blogging. I just want to have a more serious blog [...]