[Warning: Potential Spoilers Below!] Last year when the reimagined Battlestar Galactica came to an end, there was a wide ranging response mostly peaked by WTFs at the deus ex machinas, Baltar’s referral to God or gods as an explanation of plot events, and, perhaps more agonizing, the impossibility of knowing whether Kara Thrace was really [...]
The Hierophany Flash Fiction by Tait McKenzie Johnson Friedrich Carter was nearing retirement and he still hadn’t met a god. Not that he ever spoke of it, not in lectures or in private, he was far too serious to say such things out loud, but I could tell by the tone of his voice, the [...]
Earlier I read an article from a skeptic who, distraught that 80% of Britons believe in Heaven, discussed the history of the concept of Heaven in order to disprove it, showing Heaven as at best a comforting bedtime story and at worst as cause for endless wars. While the same could be said of technology, [...]
In the 1940s, when Alejandro Carpentier developed his concept of Marvelous Realism, it was in response to the European Surrealists, who he saw as trying to hold onto an Old World magic that was rapidly vanishing into the logic of modernity. The New World, however, Carpentier felt, was still a fertlie ground for the exploration [...]
“What was unreal is real, what was real is unreal.” -Jung, from the Red Book Prior to the fantastic experiences he would later illuminate as the Red Book, Carl Jung considered himself a wholly rational man, a trained scientist and critic of Christianity and other forms of religiosity. Yet through his visionary adventures he was [...]
Thursday, January 21, 2010
1. In life never do as others do 2. Seek out the cause of every suspicious “actual fact” 3. “If you go on a spree, go the whole hog, even the postage” (ie go all out) from Beelzebub’s Tales to his Grandson
Wednesday, December 16, 2009
Christmas One God is born. Others die. TruthDid not come or go. Error changed.Eternity is different now.What happened was better always. Blind Science plows the useless sod.Fool Faith lives the dream of its observance.A new God is but a word.Search not, nor believe. All is hidden.
Friday, December 11, 2009
I finally started reading the text of Jung’s Red Book last night, and it is as revelatory, revolutionary, and vitally important as I suspected it would be, not just in terms of Jung’s psychological theories but in taking a stance for a broader spiritual approach to reality that is even more lacking now than when [...]
Wednesday, December 9, 2009
APA Philosophy Referee Hand Sginals (above)Rumors that first Dark Matter Particle has been discoveredUS finally to settle Native American Trust LawsuitWhat Philosophers BelieveHow the iPhone could Reboot Education (which I’ve already seen with my own eyes at Pitt)Tom Waits may be up for a role in the HobbitDavid Bowie and the OccultThe Fortsas BibliohoaxThe Milky [...]
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