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 [...]
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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
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 [...]
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I’ve been having very big dreams lately which, like a sandcastle too close to the water, almost completely wash away the minute I wake up. Even before I have the presence to write them down, they’ve washed away and all I have is the certainty that the dream happened, but not much else. [...]
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Consider this.
Scientology has coined a term for itself. It’s a pretty neat marketing term, but it equally applies to potentially every fully-formed religion: religious technology.
Every religion is a technology of internal psychology and personal power leading to true individuality, which, by the way, opens the field for the possible of conscious community.
Each religious system [...]
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From Freedom from the Known, I’ve found this amazing passage:
Most of us are frightened of dying because we don’t know what it means to live. We don’t know how to live, therefore we don’t know how to die. As long as we are frightened of life we shall be frightened of death. The man who [...]
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Ever wonder why there are more denominations of Christianity? Sure, there’s the story of the Reformation and the Counter-Reformation and the rise of individualism wrought by these changes and so on and so forth. And the socio-dynamics of leadership succession and the politics around that certainly have a part to play in branch offs 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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Zoroaster, Peace Be Upon Him!
Back in my “yoot,” when I read all things about Zoroaster, I came across a beautiful description of the End of the World or the Apocalypse/ Judgment Day. Since it’s the original upon which the muddled Christian version likely is based, I figure that’s one good reason to describe [...]
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