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Friday, November 11, 2011

Herman's Hermits and Harry's Parasites

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Slept too long because I stayed up too late viewing the documentary Who is Harry Nilsson? , which I'd been wanting to see ever since I...
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Thursday, November 10, 2011

By the Power Vested in Me, I Declare Myself God

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In Letter VII, the Chariot, our Unknown Friend -- although we are getting to know him better -- tells us that this arcanum has to do with t...
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Wednesday, November 09, 2011

Between Thought and Expression

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Between thought and expression lies a lifetime . --Lou Reed, Some Kinda Love That pregnant line pretty much encrapsulates the horror of t...
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Tuesday, November 08, 2011

A Total Mess Calls for a Total Solution

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Why is the left -- particularly leftist intellectuals -- so easily deceived? After all, Obama was their dream candidate. Before him, if th...
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Monday, November 07, 2011

Neurotic is to Psychotic as Leftism is to ?

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Correct! Totalitarianism. This is one of the many truisms that occurred to me in reading through the essays in The Great Lie: Classic and...
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Friday, November 04, 2011

To Hive and Hive Not

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Arcanum VI, l'amoreux. Oops, pardon our French. We mean zee lover . Our unKnown Friend from an alternate vertical future -- our ow...
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Thursday, November 03, 2011

If Nothin' Ain't Broken, Can't Nobody be Fixed

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On to the Pope. The central lesson of this card has to do with "vertical respiration," or what our unKnown Friend describes as ...
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Wednesday, November 02, 2011

Shock Treatment and Mystical Obliturature

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We are still mulling over the meaning of the passage from Monday's post, "Nine out of ten authentic mystics agree that the unKnown ...
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Tuesday, November 01, 2011

My Absolute Can Beat Up Your Absolute!

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I woke up late and just commenced to typin'. This post is probably all over the place. I'll try to tie it together tomorrow, when ...
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Monday, October 31, 2011

The Coming Present Collapse of the Spiritual Bubble

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Well, everything appears to be back to normal. With the exception of the will to blog, the absence of which may well be the new normal. It...
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Friday, October 28, 2011

Viral Adventures!

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Time enough for a comment on this strange malady. No, not that one! This viral syndrome or whatever it is. It began quite suddenly Sunday ...
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Thursday, October 27, 2011

Another Open Thread

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while I cope with this annoying viral syndrome of the indeterminate sort. Can sill master the basics, but not the extras.
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Monday, October 24, 2011

Open Thread

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Too much to do. It occurs to me that Beatle George was the first person who got me interested in religion, what with his lifelong passion ...
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Friday, October 21, 2011

The Accidently-on-Purpose Essence of the Left

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To summarize yesterday's post, "the subject partakes of the Absolute through its capacity for objectivity" (Schuon). And as...
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