“Traumatic injury in childhood has been equated with a kind of unconscious initiation ceremony—not because it is a spiritual or ceremonial experience, but because the movements within it mimic the movements of the first two stages of real initiation. Understanding the stages of initiation (and the ways in which…
Rabbi Jeffrey Salkin writes in Religion News criticizing the Israeli Ministry of Education for earmarking money for a youth biblical leadership program in the West Bank developed and lead by evangelical Christians. To put it simply, the Israeli government is giving money to evangelical Christians to run a summer camp…
Jacques Vallee, hyperdimensional physics, The Multiverse, physics of information, consciousness, mysticism, space-time continuum, animism, archetypes, Charles Fort, Exopolitics, high strangeness, magic, materialism, Mythology, Ontological Flooding, paranormal, Parapsychology, Paranthropology, Project Stargate, Psi, the weird, UFOs, weird naturalism, synchronicity, Eric Wargo, Philippe Guillemant, time loops, retrocausation
“that’s what space-time is…[space-time is] consciousness traversing associations in this world of information creating the illusion of space and time.” —Jacques Vallee Jacques Vallee is arguably the most important researcher on the question of UFOs (or as he prefers to call them UAP, Unidentified Aerial Phenomena). In this…
animism, Exopolitics, the weird, high strangeness, occult, mysticism, Charles Fort, Parapsychology, Erik Davis, weird naturalism, Jeffrey Kripal, Whitley Streiber, Eric Wargo, Psi, Project Stargate, Jacques Vallee, Lovecraft, Ontological Flooding, Jack Hunter, Paranthropology, paranormal, Deep State, materialism, modern philosophy, Nature, The Sith, UFO, Trauma
The unofficial motto for the city of Portland is "keep Portland weird"– a unique weirdness was hilariously captured in the show Portlandia. The argument of this piece is that Portland is a microcosm of the macrocosmic whole. In other words, existence itself is weird, very weird. I’ve explored notions…
Imagine this scenario (this is based on a true story): A presenter (a white woman) is asked to speak to a group of undergraduate university students. She prepares for the speech and then gives it. She has some initial remarks and then wants to have some discussion and conversation with…
“The moon was shinning on the lake at night, My Slayer T-Shirt fit the scene just right…” —Weezer, (If You’re Wondering If I Want You To) I Want You To Let’s start with an etymology and a kind of psychospiritual techno-political mathematical equation. Etymology of the word attention:…
In his book on the philosophical concept of the “event”, Slavoj Zizek defines an event as “The surprising emergence of something new which undermines every stable scheme” (1). Later Zizek says, “At its most elementary, an event is not something that occurs within the world, but is a change of…
This piece is in many ways the inverse of my piece on Deadpool as the perfect postmodern movie. Star Wars did (most) everything wrong that Deadpool did right when dealing with our contemporary postmodern zeitgeist. Whereas Deadpool wasa postmodern triumph, the new Star Wars trilogy is a postmodern disaster. This…