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 religious history on February 26, 2008 | 11 Comments »
I admit it. I like the Hari Krishnas. At least, I like hanging out at the temple now and again for some chanting and some pretty damn, good vegetarian food. And I’ve seen so many interesting cross sections of people at the temple I slip into now and again, some of the [...]
Posted in religious history on February 14, 2008 | 2 Comments »
In case this is new information to anyone, figured I’d share some information I found on ol’ Saint Valentine, he whose name now graces the day of chocolate consumption, floral industry profits, and, you know, love and hook ups.
The Catholic Encyclopedia online tells us that there were “at least three different St. Valentines, all of [...]
Posted in Consciousness & Alternate Perception, celebrity idolatry, conspiracy poetics, politics, religious history on January 30, 2008 | No Comments »
As the whole dog-and-pony show of the presidential (s)election season heats up, I’m re-reading the abridged version of Frazier’s Golden Bough. Specifically, I’ve been going over the section entitled “MAGICIANS AS KINGS.” As always, reading Frazier is illuminating for the unspoken connections it demonstrates for me between the magical and so-called primitive past [...]
Posted in Consciousness & Alternate Perception, pointing at The Big Something, pro-peace/pro-people, religious history on January 14, 2008 | 2 Comments »
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 [...]
Posted in mysticcult, religious history, spirituality on September 28, 2007 | No Comments »
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 [...]
Posted in Consciousness & Alternate Perception, everyday life, high weirdness, interviews, mysticcult, pointing at The Big Something, religious history, spirituality, sub cult-sure on August 12, 2007 | 6 Comments »
Michael Muhammad Knight is a progressive Muslim, author of the novel The Taqwacores and a recent book on the history of Father Allah (Clarence 13X Smith) and the Nation of Gods and Earths, The Five Percenters. Via e-mail, we discussed his conversion to Islam at a young age and his time studying Islam in [...]
Posted in celebrity idolatry, conspiracy poetics, counter-initiation, end times fandango, history, hypnosis, marketing, occult, politics, pro-peace/pro-people, propaganda, psychology, psyops, religious history, spirituality, world government on June 27, 2007 | 17 Comments »
In the near future, true believers in Christ all over the world will mysteriously disappear from the earth. Jesus will descend from heaven and take his brides (Born-again Christians) into His kingdom…Anyone in whom the Lord Jesus Christ does not dwell will be left on this earth after the Rapture…The shocking effect about the [...]
Posted in 9/11, Consciousness & Alternate Perception, but NOT The Big Something, celebrity idolatry, conspiracy poetics, mysticcult, pointing at The Big Something, pop culture, pro-peace/pro-people, psychology, psyops, religious history, requiem, spirituality on June 25, 2007 | 7 Comments »
Grok and grow silent.
We now present to you some conspiracy-themed, pseudo-Zen-Sufi (Zufi) Aphorisms written by cadeveo, with remembrance to Pir Robert Anton Wilson, and all the ancestors, whether of soul, spirit or blood…
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You came to this planet in a hurry. And still you hurry. Slow down and remember.
What did you come here for?
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If you want [...]
Posted in religious history on June 23, 2007 | No Comments »
Today is the annual Mermaid Parade at Coney Island in New York City. The parade was founded in 1983 by Coney Island USA, a non-profit organization dedicated to preserving the American sideshow as an art form. The festival itself, though, is done as an homage or perhaps commemoration of New York City’s very [...]
