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 [...]
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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 »
Wolves and Dogs and Things
Posted in Consciousness & Alternate Perception, Dreams, Personal Speculation, everyday forteana, everyday life, high weirdness, history, initiation, late night, mysticcult, pointing at The Big Something, psychology, religious history, spirituality on May 31, 2008 | Comments Off
The Symbolic Powerhouse Unseen
Posted in media, movies, mysticcult, pop culture, provocative filler on April 28, 2008 | 3 Comments »
On my way back. Give it a few weeks. In the meantime, here’s one of the most arresting segments from Richard Kelly’s ambitiously uneven, much-maligned and little-seen Southland Tales. Those of the rabbit hole persuasion and well-read arch-ironists alike should appreciate the movie immensely, what with its multiple layers of symbolism and the use of the Eye-in-the-Pyramid as symbol of [...]
Hail Eris! Hail Crockpots!: An Interview with Adam Gorightly
Posted in CIA, Consciousness & Alternate Perception, JFK assassination, conspiracy poetics, high weirdness, interviews, magick, mysticcult, occult on January 7, 2008 | 1 Comment »
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 [...]
Shout Outs: Promising New Masonic Resource
Posted in Consciousness & Alternate Perception, mis-education vs. raw learning, mysticcult, shout outs, spirituality on December 30, 2007 | 4 Comments »
It’s basically some pretty useful online resources for those interested in studying the craft–the curious, the wanna-be, the initiate, the skeptic, the cynic and the paranoid alike.
It’s called An Unconventional Masonic Education: More Light in Masonry. (You can find it by clicking this here link or by going to the blogroll on the bottom right [...]
Mysticult Geography: The Cooper Union Cube, NYC
Posted in mysticcult on November 15, 2007 | 1 Comment »
It’s one of four cubes created and installed by artist Tony Rosenthal over the years. The three others are located at the University of Michigan, the University of Miami and at the suggestively mysticultish-sounding Pyramid Hill Sculpture Park in Hamilton, Ohio.
Known usually as just the Cooper Union or Astor Place Cube, it’s actual name, suggested [...]
Say Hello to Your Ancestors
Posted in gratitude, mysticcult on October 31, 2007 | 2 Comments »
It’s Halloween today. Make sure to remember your ancestors and give them a good hello.
Now, maybe you might say, “Hey! That’s crazy. I don’t need to be talking to myself.”
Well, okay, if that’s how you take it. But here’s a question for you.
If you could talk to your ancestors or give them some thanks, what [...]
Baby Zoroaster
Posted in mysticcult, religious history, spirituality on September 28, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The Persian Prophet, Zoroaster (aka Zarathustra, aka Zoraosht), has a special place in my heart. Part of that is because I went through a phase of wanting to be Zoroastrian after figuring out in high school that the Christianity I knew was just warmed over and distorted Zoroaster. I fancied that the older [...]
Fragments of An Unknown Something Or Other: Thoughts on Donnie Darko
Posted in Consciousness & Alternate Perception, but NOT The Big Something, conspiracy poetics, counter-initiation, end times fandango, everyday life, initiation, mis-education vs. raw learning, movies, mysticcult, pointing at The Big Something, pop culture, pro-peace/pro-people, psychology, spirituality on September 26, 2007 | 6 Comments »
Disclaimer
This stream of consciousness conspiracy poetics is nothing but spoiler, so if you haven’t seen the movie a million times (or even once), you read the rest at your own peril.
One more thing: whether you choose to believe what follows is entirely up to you.
The Players
In Donnie Darko, Donnie plays our resident Christ. His story [...]
An Interpretation of Dried Spaghetti Stick Throws (a.k.a. Improvised Yarrow Divination)
Posted in Mundane Poetics, mysticcult on September 7, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The three-legged horse speaks to the plain.
The middle pillar falls
in view of the solitary fourth:
the one below.
Two rays rise and converge behind the back of the prophet,
listening to the messenger above.
The hammer:
The broken cross:
The rifle:
The tool
of an execution of the young [solitary]
witnessed from above
as well as from below,
though the angles are different.
Sky’s[1] messenger
and the [...]
