I am large. I contain multitudes. —Walt WhitmanMerriam Webster’s page on the singular they is actually quite thoughtful and well balanced:"We will note that they has been in consistent use as a singular pronoun since the late 1300s; that the development of singular they mirrors the development of…
“The astral plane and devachanic plane are in fact densely populated worlds. We find many kinds of beings there whose effects are manifested here on the physical plane though not obviously, and who have much to do with the physical plane, with our whole modern human life. One does not…
“We believe in nothing, Lebowski. Nothing. And tomorrow we come back and cut off your chonson”. –The Big LebowskiA specter has been haunting the West for a hundred and fifty years- the specter of nihilism. The belief that life is meaningless and devoid of purpose. This is usually extended to…
In this piece I want to look at some core aspects of the thought of Jordan Peterson. Peterson is a very polarizing figure. But what I find odd is that rarely, if ever, do people take a more balanced view of the strengths as well as the limitations (and in…
After twenty-six hundred years travelling the bardo, God brought me back in a sleepy Toronto suburb in 1973, in the body of a mediocre hockey player. A dose of psilocybin mushrooms once again loosened the Word, and my chariot was flying again. From then on I’ve been hunting the…
“Well, I tried to start a revolution, but didn't print enough pamphlets so hardly anyone turned up.”—KorgI am Kronan, what you humans would call an extraterrestial rock being. I am descended from my father Korg. Like my father I have had interactions with your Earth world and you human…