At it’s best, conspiracy theory can take on the quality of a “trial by fear.” The unnerving cognitive dissonance between the information and interpretations it presents and what is shelled out by corporate/governmental media and schooling can seriously scare the shit out of someone. This, in turn, can loosen up perceptual imprints and make way [...]
Archive for the ‘Consciousness & Alternate Perception’ Category
People Magazine for Paranoids
Posted in Consciousness & Alternate Perception, Personal Speculation, a very minor farewell tour, but NOT The Big Something, celebrity idolatry, conspiracy poetics, late night, media, shout outs on November 29, 2009 | 8 Comments »
Marcus Garvey, Initiation and Child Abuse
Posted in Consciousness & Alternate Perception, Personal Speculation, a very minor farewell tour, history, initiation, media, mis-education vs. raw learning, occult, pointing at The Big Something, propaganda, religious history on November 28, 2009 | 4 Comments »
A few years back I remember watching the PBS special on Marcus Garvey called Inherit the Whirlwind. One particular turning point in Garvey’s life has always stayed with me because it seems, clear as day to me, to be a trace (could one call it an “African cultural survival“?) of an initiatory rite of passage [...]
Blunts and Blindspots: Conspiracy Porn
Posted in Consciousness & Alternate Perception, Personal Speculation, Wilhelm Reich, a very minor farewell tour, late night on November 27, 2009 | 3 Comments »
It’s a few quasi-paranoids in a basement, smoking White Owls and cloves, listening to one of those unsung classics of early millenium hip-hop with a conspiratorial-satori-al thread. The smoke is weaving through the air like needle and thread through a mended shirt or a rug.
Grizzly Adam, he whose beard made him look like a Russian [...]
Michael Jackson Died A Long Time Ago
Posted in Consciousness & Alternate Perception, celebrity idolatry, pop culture, religious history on June 26, 2009 | 6 Comments »
Around these parts, we honor the dead by consuming their image and their artifacts.
Just like Biggie, Tupac, Kurt Cobain, John Lennon, Elvis, his death has led to a massive uptick in record sales. Thus, he has been granted a sort of Spectacular Immortality.
And just like so many celebrity totems, in death all his sins, real [...]
Michael Muhammed Knight Does It Again: A Tribute to Father Allah
Posted in Consciousness & Alternate Perception, gratitude, history, mis-education vs. raw learning, pointing at The Big Something on April 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Michael Muhammed Knight, the provocative author of Taqwacores and The Five Percenters, (interviewed on my site a couple years back) has just written a great article over at Killing the Buddha about Father Allah. If you know nothing about this Harlem God, Knight’s piece is a great primer. And if you are familiar, as a [...]
When You Are Called “Them”
Posted in Consciousness & Alternate Perception, conspiracy poetics, end times fandango, everyday forteana, everyday life, late night on April 7, 2009 | 4 Comments »
It’s bound to happen eventually and my turn comes near Rockefeller Center. I remember the day because it is the Feast of the Virgin of Guadalupe. I am doing an errand when I come across a woman with short, curly hair who is stretching her arms out at all and sundry who pass by. At [...]
Being Born Again Usually Isn’t (At Least Not Yet)
Posted in Consciousness & Alternate Perception on February 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Though the term “born again” usually gets attached to particular Christian individuals of a certain bent, I’m not really talking about these folks, at least not exclusively. I’m talking about all of us, we “born again” people. The born again Christians just highlight the point, the title, of this piece a little easier [...]
What’s With That Epoch Times?
Posted in Consciousness & Alternate Perception, Personal Speculation, conspiracy poetics, propaganda, sub cult-sure on February 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Man, the following writing is so 2007, but I just had to unburden myself of it so I can move on. Expect more unburdening of past curiosities of mine over the next month.
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T’was back when I lived in Japan that the first news began to percolate about the Chinese Communist campaign against the Falun Gong [...]
Where They’re Crazy, We’re Crazy
Posted in Consciousness & Alternate Perception, Personal Speculation, Wilhelm Reich, but NOT The Big Something, everyday life, gratitude, mis-education vs. raw learning, pointing at The Big Something, pro-peace/pro-people, psychology, spirituality on December 30, 2008 | 6 Comments »
Here’s a basic viewpoint I hold most of the time: people are generally good and want to do what is best.
Here’s another basic viewpoint I carry around in my brain-bag: Although people are generally good, they are also generally mentally deranged. I don’t mean that they are bat-shit crazy all the time or about everything, just that [...]
Working with a Broken Door and an Open Bible
Posted in Consciousness & Alternate Perception, everyday life, gratitude, late night, magick, pointing at The Big Something, pro-peace/pro-people on October 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I get home late to find that the front door key to the apartment building just won’t work. The key goes into the cylinder. I turn the key and the cylinder turns with it. And I’m stuck outside. This has already happened once before, about a month ago. Buzzing the super’s apartment led nowhere. Buzzing [...]
