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 [...]
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Where They’re Crazy, We’re Crazy
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 »
The Invisible Boulder and The Imaginary Fakir
Posted in Consciousness & Alternate Perception, everyday life, late night, spirituality on September 4, 2008 | 5 Comments »
I spent two weeks once balancing an invisible boulder on my right index finger. Someone in the lobby of a theater had mimed throwing a boulder at me, because that’s what happens in theater lobbies–didn’t you know? I’d mimed suspending it in the air with the power of my breath. Huff and [...]
Mercer and Krishna: Blade Runner & The Bhagavad Gita
Posted in Consciousness & Alternate Perception, but NOT The Big Something, pointing at The Big Something, religious history, spirituality on August 31, 2008 | 4 Comments »
In Phillip K. Dick’s novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, which is the basis of the classic sci-fi noir film Blade Runner, the figure of Mercer looms large. He is the focal point of the universal religion of humanity in the novel, the savior and God. He is a figure that the [...]
Necessary Pain
Posted in Consciousness & Alternate Perception, everyday life, pointing at The Big Something, pro-peace/pro-people, psychology, spirituality on August 29, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Come to realize something about pain: sometimes it is unavoidable to cause pain to yourself or to others. At those instances, it’s better to get it out of the way, to inflict the wound now and let the healing begin rather than trying to avoid or hide from it. It’s the avoidance and [...]
Mercer and the Andys
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. [...]
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 »
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 [...]
The Dead Will Pull Your Leg Till You’re Standing
Posted in Consciousness & Alternate Perception, everyday forteana, everyday life, high weirdness, initiation, late night, pointing at The Big Something, requiem, spirituality on July 16, 2008 | 2 Comments »
“Get your ass up.”
I’m tempted to drift back to sleep. I feel spent, wind blown out and gone away. It’s five a.m. and I’ve got to get up. A busy day ahead. I’m laying there, eyes open, staring at the ceiling, exhorting myself under my breath.
“Get the fuck up. Come on.”
And there it is.
A tug [...]
Rolling Your Eyes Up to Trance-Heaven
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 [...]
Here’s Where We Meet the Grays Again, Pt. 2
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 | 14 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 [...]
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
