In Phillip K. Dick’s novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, which is the basis of the classic sci-fi noir film Blade Runner, the figure of Mercer looms large. He is the focal point of the universal religion of humanity in the novel, the savior and God. He is a figure that the [...]
Archive for August, 2008
Mercer and Krishna: Blade Runner & The Bhagavad Gita
Posted in Consciousness & Alternate Perception, but NOT The Big Something, pointing at The Big Something, religious history, spirituality on August 31, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Disconnected Thoughts on Current Spectacular Maneuvers
Posted in Personal Speculation, conspiracy poetics, politics on August 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
“The trick to being a politician in a representative democracy is to get the people to believe that you represent them while making them really represent you.”–Neole Strathmore
“We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of. We are dominated by a relatively small [...]
Shout Outs: Noble Savagery
Posted in shout outs on August 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
One of my favorite blogs I hadn’t visited for a hot minute wrote a little something that I just had to commend. It made me smile, made me laugh, and, damnit, I’ll admit, it preached to this choir of one just a little bit. So I’m giving a shout out to the folks over at [...]
Necessary Pain
Posted in Consciousness & Alternate Perception, everyday life, pointing at The Big Something, pro-peace/pro-people, psychology, spirituality on August 29, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Come to realize something about pain: sometimes it is unavoidable to cause pain to yourself or to others. At those instances, it’s better to get it out of the way, to inflict the wound now and let the healing begin rather than trying to avoid or hide from it. It’s the avoidance and [...]
Mercer and the Andys
Posted in Consciousness & Alternate Perception, Personal Speculation, pointing at The Big Something, psychology, spirituality on August 27, 2008 | 7 Comments »
Just read Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? a few weeks ago. It’s a very different story, on the whole, than Blade Runner, the very excellent movie adaptation of the novel. Sure, there’s still a bounty hunter out to “retire” androids on the run, but there’s so much more going on. [...]
Being Read
Posted in Consciousness & Alternate Perception, but NOT The Big Something, everyday forteana, everyday life, mysticcult, pointing at The Big Something, spirituality on August 22, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I”m standing in a botanica deep in Brooklyn half a decade ago. I’m out of my ken and more naive than I’d like to think I am now.
I’ve just asked to get a reading.
The black man behind the counter, dissuades me.
“What do you want to get a reading for?”
I explain, with a little less than [...]
Prepare to Float for Lightening Love Life
Posted in Consciousness & Alternate Perception, Personal Speculation, late night, pointing at The Big Something, psychology on August 14, 2008 | 6 Comments »
I feel a great tension in my head–and electricity. I’m reminded of Roy Sullivan, the man who held the Guiness World Record for most times struck by lightening. He could feel it was going to happen moments before it did–that feeling in the air, that strong buzzing, coalescing around him, a subtle sound gathering into [...]
