Author Archives: Joel Wendt

In my book: American Phoenix, I write about the collapse of civilization, followed by an interval, before a more steady-state “civilization” appears. This stead-state “civilization” is dominated by machine-like hives, of enormous scale. If seen from space it looks like a couple dozen huge spiders, ravaging the Earth, and devouring it to the core. In […]

How do spiritually oriented people fight back against the …. the what? In the martial art of Akido, the Way is to move around the attack, move in such a way that it goes by and we remain as we wish. “Give me a fulcrum,” Archimedes is reported to have said, “and a place to […]

The Lost Landscape of Mystery I know, talking to the Fae is not always good idea. Same with not talking to the Fae, if by that term we mean a whole host invisible to our senses entities with their own interior sentient self-consciousness, and lets be honest: opinionated, on occasion unruly, wise the way only […]

Fight or Flight: the post pandemic-Pandemonium Culture 2020 – 1776 = 254 years since the 4th of July, at which the Declaration of Independence was signed in America. A moment when a Nation’s People, via representatives, declared themselves free of the machinations of the English Crown, and the Bank of England. Eight years of bloody […]

I occasionally write comments in a black hole of whiteness. They disappear, although I very much liked them. I am now beginning to copy them here, … although I apologize for only giving a link to the offending op-ed piece. If you read here, … who is to know what kind of cord may be […]

Please Be Advised: Due to the Ongoing Calamity the Future is Being Rebooted Dreams need rebuilding on the compost of the past. This is actually an immediate moment to moment process. We don’t notice it because what we get as general information is about trends, and possibilities, and who is taking advantage of who; and […]

The Doors in the Sky & the Keys to the Cave Under the Mountain Most everyone has some personal idea of spirit, and of mind. We may not believe in spirit, only if we no longer believe in mind. Further, there is no reason to not believe in either. There is no reading of this […]

Rage, Impotence, and Depression I scream at the TV’s Evening News. There is a part of me that wants to kill, murder, and maim – the news readers, who obviously are in thrall to the millions they get paid to mouth the accepted Narrative are high on my list. Then there are the politicians, who […]

Once Upon A-Cross the Pond … a Faerie Tale America is an odd place in which to grow up. We are not English, or French, or other national identity as a People. In harsh truth we are the wild adolescent child of the other world cultures, who then are our spiritural Mother and Father. We […]

Faerie Tales According to Tiger-Saucy, the last Faerie teacher of shamans, even in the way back long ago when before, the Weeping of the Mother could be heard. Yet never so much experienced as is revealed in the dream-songs of the Age of the Fall of Western Civilization, where that Trial always lurked at the […]