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Terence McKenna Channels John Dee
Good morn, good readers. I woke early to a cloudy Sunday in the Old South, however, this dark little gem has polished my resolve. Wrap yourself in melancholy and join Terence McKenna for this trip through the history of The Great Work. Terence McKenna’s The Alchemical Dream: Rebirth of the Great Work is a 2008 [...]
Graham Hancock's Secret
Hello, brothers and sisters. The good folks at Bear and Company recently mailed us a new release that’s been keeping us up nights. Lost Knowledge of the Ancients is a collection of essays curated by Graham Hancock at his website. This volume gathers these contributions together in print for the first time and the whole [...]
Sleepless Book Club Selection: Alejandro Jodorowsky's Psychomagic
Welcome back, Today, I’m pleased to announce the first entry in our new Sleepless Book Club. Sleepless Book Club posts will feature reviews of books by diverse authors that write on the subjects of art/culture/music/the occult/the unexplained/sub-cultural history/drugs/cutting-edge science and consciousness. We like poetic fiction. We like musical poetry. We can’t wait to discuss all [...]
Teeth Baby
The herd of gazelle charges through my living room; all snort and grunt and gallop and black horns swaying above white-panicked eyes. I can smell that cheetah smell: bad news and spotted speed. A small calf strays in the back, passed the coffee table, towards the kitchen, away from the crowded safety of the herd. [...]
Ex-Quiz-It-Corpse
Bless you, As our our post-title implies, this entry will be an “exquisite corpse”. The Wiki-Wik has a pretty good take on this process: Exquisite corpse (also known as exquisite cadaver or rotating corpse) is a method by which a collection of words or images is collectively assembled. Each collaborator adds to a composition in [...]
I Remember Jacques de Molay
Bonjour et bonsoir, mes amis, Welcome back to another post-it note here where the photons do glow. Just wanted to drop a few lines about Friday the 13th. Fridays and the number 13 have been characterized by negative superstitions since before The Da Vinci Code was published. Long known as a kind of “day of [...]
Our Somnambulant Republic
Hola, mi amigos As promised, here is a new post offering up some more goodies that spilled over the edges of my latest installment of Insomnia for the Disinformation World News podcast. Thanks to Raymond and Joe for putting up with two rather lengthy segments on a subject that is as vast as the Earth [...]
Neda/Nada
Hello again, God bless us every one. Inshallah. Love to you all. Just a quick note. And a few shouts. First things first. All my love to the people on their feet in Iran. I wish them the best and I salute their bravery, their resourcefulness, their tenacity and their sense of justice. I am [...]
Where Does True Freedom Lie – Consequence and Necessity
Ahoymatey! Welcome aboard the good ship gollywog! Morning in the Old South. You can smell the smell of people smelling for the smell of the the idea of magnolias in bloom. Not yet children. One should not be impatient with the Sun. PUCK 42 Thou speak’st aright; 43 I am that merry wanderer of the [...]