This site has been folded and will not be updated any more. If you’re looking for a site in the same spirit as this, go check out Reality Sandwich, as they are making a go at what my original intention for this site was - and doing a better job with it to boot!
Reality […]

Just a quick note to let anybody visiting here: I am in the middle of figuring out what to do with this site.
I originally wanted it to be a collaboratively authored site which built on themes from my other main blog, as well as the sites of other people interested in these sorts of […]

Prophets, Procreation, & Parallel Worlds
“I am created by Divine Light. I am sustained by Divine Light. I am protected by Divine Light. I am surrounded by Divine Light. I am ever growing into Divine Light.”
~Swami Sivananda Radha,
“Realities of the Dreaming Mind” (1990)
This is Your Brain on Youth
We are hardwired to seek pleasure, to seek ecstasy. […]

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about what it must have been like to be a caveman. Not so much in terms of the primitivist “I hate hate civilization” angle, where I’ve been trying to re-construct their social organization or talk about their ecological footprint. Something much more elemental than that. What did it feel […]

This book is a classic, but for the life of me, I can’t figure out why.
I mean, it’s not that it’s a bad book. But neither is it especially gripping, despite the claims to the contrary included inside the covers in the 1975 4th edition printing I recently picked up as part of […]

“All right, but apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, a fresh water system, and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?” - Life of Brian
I have been thoroughly enjoying the conversations held here lately about the crash of civilization both as a fantasy and as a […]

1973, Colour, 99 min.
With a new version of The Wicker Man to be released in theatres September 1st, I thought it would be appropriate to review the original in the hopes that others will see the classic horror flick for what it’s not. It is not a typical, generic, movie that carries itself on […]

[Listen to or download Diatribes’ “Interconnexions” at Stomoxine Records]
I really wanted to write a nice thorough review of the netrelease “Interconnexions” by Diatribes. I went about the project the way I usually do, listening and making notes and trying to decide upon a theme or two around which I could construct an essay of six […]

I just finished reading Accelerando by Charles Stross. It is a fairly long sci-fi novel in the cyberpunk subgenre that deals with the concept of the Singularity. It traces a family through successive generations of existence and… non-existence.
What I mean by that is that in Stross’s futuristic world, the definition of human has modulated […]

Have you ever wondered why the evening news programs are filled with stories about children drowning in pools or being visited by similar easily preventable tragedies? Have you ever noticed too, that in between those news stories are commercials for products and services designed to keep kids safe and happy and taken care of? If […]

PRELUDE: A LOVE STORY OF GENDER REUNION
“The modern androgyne, seeking only self-realization, forfeits the energy of opposition and conflict.” (Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae)
This is a stream of unconsciousness essay on the Self, illustrated by the kaleidoscopic sexual personae of GENESIS P-ORRIDGE. Always the mercurial Magician, Gen has been associated with the art and decadence of […]

LUNCH: Beyond the Pale
“The dread and resistance which every natural human being experiences when it comes to delving too deeply into himself is, at bottom, the fear of the journey to Hades.”
- C. G. Jung, Psychology and Alchemy, CW 12: 439
“The Hades within Dionysus says that there is an invisible meaning in sexual acts, […]

The translation of one of Philip K. Dick’s finest works of literature to film has almost been like one of those old good-luck/bad-luck stories. Hollywood is making a movie of Scanner, one of his most personal and erudite works? That’s terrible. Richard Linklater, director of the utterly Phildickian Waking Life, will be […]