The Iron Lady: The View of a Bleeding Heart

“They’re casting their problem on society. And, you know, there is no such thing as society.”  ~ Margaret Thatcher * * * I watched Iron Lady, the biographical movie of Margaret Thatcher. My following thoughts are mostly a response to the portrayal of Thatcher in this movie. Besides some limited websearches done in the process of [...]

God & Freewill, Theists & Atheists

God and freewill, two things that will forever perplex me. I see them as basically on the same level, theological concepts. God is the faith of the theists. And freewill is the faith of the atheists. I don’t mean this in a necessarily dismissive way. I actually am affirming the notion of faith. We humans aren’t [...]

Dark Imagination

The Darkness. The Blackness. The Dark Mother. The Black Goddess. All Devouring. All Giving. She who is the Blackness, the Emptiness, the Void. Ancient memory, bodily impulses, guts and groin. Deep in the Earth, the Womb of the Mother of us all, the Virgin Mother. Caverns where all light is extinguished, where the force of [...]

What is a Church? Soul vs Spirit

This post is third in a series, but it is more narrowly focused than the previous posts. I wanted to isolate a single issue that I presented in my first post: “Many people have a nonchalant attitude about community. They just don’t understand its value or they don’t appreciate how difficult it is to create and maintain. This is [...]

The Spirit and Spirits of the Season

The following is my response to Matt Cardin’s post, ‘This myth is realized today in us’: On the deep meaning of Christmas.  * * * I listened to an interview with Varla Ventura on Coast to Coast AM. She was discussing her book about Christmas stories and folklore. Between Varla Ventura and the people calling in, [...]

The Monstrous, the Impure, & the Imaginal

This interview about the ‘monstrous’ made me think of a related idea. The monstrous is a more extreme version of the ‘impure’, whether impure in terms of the physical, psychological, social, religious, etc. The monstrous and the impure are both in some way ‘wrong’ at a gut level. They just feel wrong causing an instinctual [...]

Re: Ideas are alive. We are their hosts.

I recently noticed another interesting blog post by Matt Cardin: Ideas are alive. We are their hosts. I posted it on Facebook which led to a conversation with a friend. She wrote: “So, ideas as a kind of AI…” I responded with: “Yeah, something like that. Ever since I heard of the theory of memes, it’s [...]

Fortean Curiosity: Liberalism & Intelligence

I was hanging out with a friend and chatting about important issues of life… such as the existence of Men In Black and the nature of Fortean realities. Ya know, important issues. My friend mentioned an author he had come across who described his own supposed experiences with Men In Black. He portrayed them as being [...]

American Liberalism & the Occult

I just watched this video about American liberalism having some origins in the occult. It reminds me of some passages from books I was recently reading (the passages are below the video). American history is a lot more interesting than they teach in school. By the way, the guy in the video seems to be partly talking [...]

NDE: Spirituality vs Religiosity

Last night, I was listening to Coast to Coast AM. The host mentioned a study in passing which caught my interest. The study was about the impact of NDEs on spirituality and religion. He said the results of NDE experiencers was the opposite of those church attenders who never had an NDE. After their NDE, experiencers were increasingly interested [...]