Author (A): Hello Sia Sia (S): Hey. A: Thanks for showing up – much appreciated. S: No worries. We’re always around anyway, in one form or another. Anything on your mind? A: Yes, I was thinking about how life is right now – as I always am! And I was thinking that life is quite [...]
Author (A): Hello Aranyani. Are you there? Aranyani (Ai): (short pause) Hello…hello! A: Hello Aranyani. How are you today? Ai: Today? Why today? I don’t have days like you do. A: Ah yes, sorry. I was thinking in my own terms of time. It’s a frequent trap! Ai: That’s okay, we understand. [...]
Crazy Horse dreamed and went into the world where there is nothing but the spirits of all things. That is the real world that is behind this one, and everything we see here is something like a shadow from that one Black Elk, Black Elk Speaks Modern man, I dutifully noted, is in search [...]
Author (A): Hello Hecate Hecate (H): Hello there. A: It seems like these are haunting times we are in. H: What do you mean? A: Well, as I’ve been saying many people are now feeling somewhat lost. We are in a pace of change so rapid, with distractions, contradictions, misinformation, deliberate false information, and so [...]
The sacred, the sublime, has always walked amongst the profane. The signs are everywhere, blended into the sidewalks, pulp fictions, and the kitsch trappings of the art world. For iconic sci-fi writer Philip K. Dick, most of the sublime things of his world were disguised as trash that seamlessly slipped into the background of a [...]
The spiritual imagination seizes information technology for its own purposes. —Erik Davis, Techgnosis In much of our thinking, the sacred world is divorced from that of secular technologies. And yet the sacred can be equally at home among our technologies since technology, in some form or another, has always been present alongside humanity—from fireplace [...]
Every society has a cognitive structure of permissible knowledge that is managed by an elite and forbidden knowledge that is distributed in black or shadow markets by cognitive outlaws, heretics, revolutionaries, or just plain crazies William Irwin Thompson Our human concepts of truth are always partial, always fragmentary and incomplete, for they are [...]
When we look up into the night sky and see the sparkle of stars, we are awed and enchanted. There is grace, there is wonder, and there is the excitement of the unknown. Everything comes alive with possibility. There is an enchanted world out there, and it beckons to us through a communal mystery. And [...]
O Awaken not the Beauty until the time comes Inscription in Chartres Cathedral Let’s be honest on the matter – as a dominant species on this planet we haven’t been very nice of late to the feminine. And by the word ‘feminine’ I don’t just mean the woman – or even the body of [...]
God is alive, magic is afoot God is alive, magic is afoot God is afoot, magic is alive Alive is afoot, magic never died Leonard Cohen The sense of the sacred does not require any image of the gods. There will be no more gothic cathedrals built to exalt humankind to the heavens; no more [...]
Over the course of history the world has been appearing and disappearing to us. We have attempted to map the world, to frame and understand it, as it slips out of one hypothesis or grand narrative into another. The world as we know it has gone from being flat to round; from being the center [...]
‘It is the tragedy of our time that the average individual learns too late that the materialistic concept of life has failed utterly in every department of living.’ Manly P. Hall We have entered times of incredible change, readjustment, and upheaval. There are many contrary forces pushing through our diverse societies and straining to [...]
