The Barbarians are Inside the Gate (“Barbarians” in ancient times meant) a member of a community or tribe not belonging to one of the great civilizations (Greek, Roman, Christian). “We have met the enemy and he is us.” Walt Kelly’s Pogo. There is a joke about a guy who wakes up several centuries in the …
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“are we having fun yet?”
I’ve been trying to figure out – if I get to be 100 – how I would describe these daze of trump&gang to the young naifs that live in the debris of the collapse of civilization, an event that some of us have come to sarcastically call: the Punch Line. After I explain to them …
Fate, Fortune, and Politricks
Fate, Fortune, and Politricks… There’s a lesson in the Trump election that goes unnoticed … a game changer as it were. Neither he, nor his gang of moral children, expected the win. There was no transition team, not even at least small and ready. There was no organized venue for a victory celebration. No sense …
I would like some help, for which I have no money to offer in exchange …
I would like some help, for which I have no money to offer in exchange … What I want is to have a small selection of my recent work translated into German and made available to German readers, either on the Internet, or through magazines and such. What follows is what I want translated, which …
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Helping Boys Become Men, as Civilization Evolves
Helping Boys Become Men, as Civilization Evolves. Women (the feminine principle, specific types of equipment not always necessary) need to help men (or the masculine principle) grow up. The masculine principle – in politics and religion – being out of balance with reality, for the reason of the loss of wisdom in our understanding of …
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Pain, Pleasure, Consciousness
Pain, Pleasure, Consciousness In the Light of the Eight Gates to Faerie We see. We hear. We touch. We smell. We taste. We balance. We think. We move. Our senses are open wounds of the soul. What seems to not be us, invades our consciousness. Light hurts when we move from darkness into the light. …
Reality’s Open Secret
Reality’s Open Secret The Labyrinth of the Day and the Maze of the Spirit We associate the idea of a labyrinth as something that is walked, and can be walked again, and each time is its own teaching. We associate the idea of a maze with the solving of puzzles. There are what might be …
The Tree as Symbol in the Song of the World
The Tree as Symbol in the Song of the World musings out of Pagan Anthroposophy Easily the most important way to study is to look at trees themselves. Spiritual literature is full of names given to this expression of the divine in the material world, but words are not the same as seeing, touching, planting, …
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the Judith von Halle Mystique-Mistake
The Judith von Halle Mystique-Mistake. When Rudolf Steiner died, the core folk leading the Anthroposophical Society and Class fell into conflict. Within ten years folks had been booted out of these communities, and National Societies had left/been forced-out of the dying social form. The is no greater fact revealing the failure of the Christmas Conference …
the undertow of great events
The addiction to wealth and power leads to madness. To want to travel in those circles is also madness. To be born to wealth and power is a fate worse than death. How do you learn to strive if everything is given? Families swimming in the seas of wealth and power are in shark filled …
Fake Ancient Alien Theorist Foolishly Visits the Collective Imagination 