Posted in Consciousness & Alternate Perception, but NOT The Big Something, everyday forteana, gratitude, high weirdness, initiation, late night, pointing at The Big Something, psychology, spirituality, sub cult-sure on June 16, 2008 | 13 Comments »
First time I saw a gray, “for real,” I was in the middle of a deep meditation, at a moment in my life when I also found myself to be, willingly, though perhaps less than consciously, a gypsy’s mark.
The second (and third and fourth…) time I saw a gray happened like this.
Riding to the Japanese [...]
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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
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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The first time we went to kindergarten, a year young, was a presidential election year. It wasn’t just an election year for the grown-ups, no. See, they just can’t help but find it adorable to provide little children with a tiny-person version of their own, hollow, big-person rituals. So it was that [...]
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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 [...]
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Old Thyme-y Crypticisms are not intended to cure, eleviate or illuminate any spiritual, physical or existential maladies nor to provide love, money and ridiculous amounts of sex. Anecdotal accounts of their efficacy as a mouthwash, healing bath or hair tonic are neither verified nor countenanced.
Old Thyme-y Crypticisms are intended as a cure-ee-yo own-lee.
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Old Thyme-y Crypticisms are not intended to cure, eleviate or illuminate any spiritual, physical or existential maladies nor to provide love, money and ridiculous amounts of sex. They are meant neither to entertain nor to train, entrain or outertrain. They are not a train, a plane, or an automobile. They neither move nor are [...]
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The Psychopath’s Bible, despite the scary title and the way your nervous system and habitual thoughts may interact with it, remains one of the most illuminating books I’ve read.
Courtesy of one of our readers, alsancax, I got tipped off to the video below. It’s an interview with the controversial doctor Dr. Hyatt conducted by [...]
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I recently found a good essay from the world of the non-believer (as opposed to the world of the disbeliever, which is a beast that is covertly a believer in sheep’s clothing). The piece, called “Spiritual cross-dressing,” is notable for the wider implications for personal and social reflection it provides for [...]
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DISCLAIMER
Old Thyme-y Crypticisms are not intended to cure, eleviate or illuminate any spiritual, physical or existential maladies nor to provide love, money and ridiculous amounts of sex. They are meant neither to entertain nor to train, entrain or outertrain. They are simply presented as a curio. No claims are made whatsoever, [...]
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