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 [...]
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 [...]
Posted in Personal Speculation, everyday life, media, politics, propaganda on December 12, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Call me a crazy, recovering conspiracy poet, but that’s how I’m reading this news:
” A former Nasdaq stock market chariman arrested on a securities fraud charge Thursday, accused of running a phony investment business that lost at least $50 billion before he confessed to senior employees it was a “giant Ponzi scheme” authorities said.
Bernard L. Madoff, [...]
Posted in Consciousness & Alternate Perception, Personal Speculation, conspiracy poetics, everyday life, late night, pointing at The Big Something, politics, pro-peace/pro-people on September 2, 2008 | 22 Comments »
Oftentimes, conspiracy researchers/theorists (it’s so hard to tell where the line between “us” and “them” is these days) are just as much in service to the Spectacle as anyone else.
Here’s another thought from a regular reader, Ian, that makes another pretty good point:
In both mythology and conspiracy theory, people are taking facts, stories, images from the world around [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
Posted in Consciousness & Alternate Perception, Personal Speculation, hypnosis, psychology, spirituality on June 19, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Chapter Four of Jeff Warren’s illuminating Head Trip, he pays a visit to Dr. Herbert Spiegel, a clinical psychiatrist and contemporary of the late, Milton Erickson, in order to experience a hypnotic trance. Part of what brings Warren to Spiegel’s office is the search for a desire to find and understand a reliable standard [...]
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
Posted in Consciousness & Alternate Perception, Personal Speculation, but NOT The Big Something, mis-education vs. raw learning, pointing at The Big Something, positive aphoristics, pro-peace/pro-people on February 15, 2008 | 9 Comments »
I remember it said, by various people, of no more authority or wisdom than I, that people die in threes. Usually, I’ve heard that sort of thing out of the mouth of someone I worked with round about the end of the year after the death of a celebrity of some stripe. And [...]
