I’m in high school and I’m in speech class. I’m supposed to give my five minute speech on a historical figure today, only, uncharacteristically for me, I have arrived utterly unprepared. My procrastination binge the night before ended in a procrastination overdose straight into a deep, albeit short, night’s sleep.
So I’m up this morning, [...]
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Drinking a ginger ale at an old-man bar with my friend Z, he says:
“I’m walking through the neighborhood the other night, and there are a bunch of cops hanging out across the street from a nightclub. And I overhear one of the shorter cops standing in the middle of the group say, ‘You know, [...]
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Kudos to Ty Brown at Dreamsend for this great essay. It’s nice to see someone has come around to seeing in this Britney Spears spectacle as the kind of destructive magic I’ve been noticing. (Not that I really needed anyone else to see it to intuit the dark truth I’ve noticed, but [...]
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Adam Gorightly is a writer on conspiracies and high weirdness and the author of The Shadow over Santa Susana as well as The Prankster and the Conspiracy, the only biography of the late, Discordian co-founder and alternative-culture innovator, Kerry Thornley. A self-described “crackpot historian,” Gorightly also hosts the popular podcast Untamed Dimensions.
I [...]
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“Anything you can do with hypnosis, you can do without it,” says the Affable Trickster.
After he gives the class this ungussied wisdom, he launches into a story about a boxer he works with, a contender.
See, he arrived with this young pugilist before a big fight at Atlantic City or somewhere.
The story was already out and [...]
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Habit is mechanical, blind, sleeping action. It feels like it’s from you, but it ain’t. You may have put it there, but it’s not you. It’s a compulsion: a desire of your monkeys, the nafs, those processes that you’ve imprinted or programmed within yourself that operate apart from you as if they had a mind [...]
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I’m almost whole disconnected from the realities spun by TV, though the realities weaved by the spider’s web of internet often catch me in their snares, so pleasing they are to the monkey’s of comfortable habit that lie within me. Nevertheless, I have found myself flipping through the channels recently now that I’ve moved [...]
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Knowing the script of Spectacular Reality many in the United States are living through now, the little boys of the 80’s may have learned what to expect and even what parts to play from watching the cartoon programming on TV. Specifically, I’m referring to the 80’s cartoon version of G.I. Joe and its [...]
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If you’re even superficially aware of William S. Burroughs, you know of his heroine addicted years and the inside view of the shady side of our Spectacular Culture (the deep political, occult and conspiratorial) which that, coupled with his privileged pedigree and the bizarre accidental shooting of his wife Joan, allowed him. You will [...]
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Posted in Consciousness & Alternate Perception, Dreams, Personal Speculation, but NOT The Big Something, everyday life, high weirdness, magick, mysticcult, pointing at The Big Something, spirituality on July 13, 2007 | 3 Comments »
While going through my dream journal, I came across a record from the beginning of the year. Though it had felt quite important at the time, I’d managed to let this dream slip from my consciousness until this morning. With six month’s distance, I have even more respect for the dream’s deeper possible implications:
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