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i never adopted any stance or any pose. i always make sure to give birth to them myself.

Jesus can only be the foundation for an illegal order

Jesus was saying the opposite

the real fertility crisis is the obsession with quantity and the disregard for quality

a cloud of mushrooms

splitting into ...

The thinking of typical modern Man, and indeed of everyone here-and-now for most of the time; is a mundane business - a shallow, superficial, and malign affair.

Mundane Thinking consists of little more than semi-automatic processing of materials given us from externally (eg from mass and social media, or some other ...

In the End Times all institutions will be controlled, either directly or indirectly, by demonic intelligence. They will ostensibly function as before but their influence and effect will be spiritually corrosive. In few cases will the reality behind that influence be obvious to the ordinary person but it will be ...

My mention of a "Buddhist text" in my last post was probably misleading, making it sound like I was poring over Mahayana scriptures in Chinese or something. In fact, the text I was trying to decipher was an extremely short one:

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The character that caught my attention because of the blue-green ...

I recently spoke on the phone to a very, very Buddhist former student of mine to ask about an unfamiliar archaic Chinese word in a Buddhist text. It turned out to mean nothing more interesting than “and” in context, which made me feel kind of foolish for asking her to expound on it.

During the call, I could hear ...

A clear statement description of the way that human consciousness has changed throughout recorded history (and inferred from pre-history) is something I associate with Rudolf Steiner and his later follower Owen Barfield; who both explained it in terms of each human being having undergone multiple reincarnations. The ...

I dreamt that I was reading a history book, and one of the sections had the heading “The Gorming of Jeff, afterwards known as the First Gorming.”

My understanding in the dream was that this was some sort of assembly or parliament convened by a person called Jeff. Upon waking, I thought gorming might come from the ...

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Miles Davis did many different things, at different times, and innovated a lot. then everyone copied him. but Charles Mingus did everything at once. an integrated whole of past, present and future. unsurpassed and uncopiable. this kind of thing (Mingus being one example) has always been where i felt real genius ...

Given that it is intrinsically evil; why are so many people so keen on totalitarianism; being actively supportive in practice, if not necessarily in theory?

I think the answer is related to the unacknowledged reality of changes in human consciousness.

Changes in human nature have led to mass alienation - with the ...

I've often said that Mozart's opera The Magic Flute is perhaps my favourite piece of music, and an opus I regard as one of the greatest achievements of Man. So in my mind there is no doubt that - weird hybrid that it is - Flute is a supremely successful work of art.

But when you know a work well, it is easy to ...

I had to do a Google News search for something related to my job, and this article was there on the homepage. Of course I know Google owns Blogger and knows I've been interested in "amber" these days, but I suppose it's still a bit of a sync that an article about amber, with a focus on color, was published just ...

The weather has slowed us down a bit here and there, but we are making good progress on the roof overall. About 60% of the tiles are up. If all goes well, we should finish the project this week.

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The new tiles are anthracite in color. My wife insisted on something dark, and I think her ...

Once someone has absorbed the assumptions of mainstream modern materialism, he cannot believe in Heaven - and, much worse, he does not even want it to be true!

That is a Big Difference between recent generations, and people of the past. In the past, people might not believe resurrected eternal life in Heaven was ...

There’s been a lot of discussion in comments on my last post about Moby-Dick and Ahab’s missing leg. I mentioned that Herman Melville was one of the many past lives others (in this case my Uncle Bill) have proposed for me, and Bill Wright (too many Bills!) said he considered it significant that Melville wrote in ...

The work of some insightful people, even some geniuses, is lethally flawed by their compulsive need to justify themselves -- past, present, and future.

And this compulsion works like a cancer on integrity and honesty; until it has subverted then destroyed a person's ability to make a positive and valuable ...

A flaw of Christianity is its refusal to accept the pre-existence of the soul. There may be a reason for this. By focusing entirely on just this one life, you can potentially speed up spiritual development for the more passive form of consciousness that most human beings possessed before the expansion of egoic ...

Amber is the resin of long-dead trees, preserved in the form of a stone.

The Silmarils were stones preserving some of the light of the Two Trees of Valinor long after the trees themselves had been destroyed.

The word amber originally referred to ambergris, a substance produced by sperm whales. In a comment on my ...

​both sides to an argument are wrong because they are arguing

The title of this post comes from the latest collection of Laeth’s aphorisms over at his Trees and Triads blog.

Laeth’s observation resonates with me, particularly as it pertains to religion and metaphysics.

I have no qualms about ...

I ran across these two titles today in the very small English section of a used bookstore in Taichung:

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Robin Hobb, by the way is just about the most hobgobliny name ever.

I also noted the rather Numenorean imagery (Tolkien always specified a green wave) on the cover of this ...

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if the solution involves 'AI', i prefer the problem

nature will worship man again, when we are worthy, and will gladly give her plentiful bounty out of love once more. we will all pull together in the same direction, after we are sanctified.

both sides to an argument are wrong because they are arguing

i am not ...

Before learning the true (ultimately Greek) etymology of Tychonievich, I had assumed for a long time that it derived from a native Russian/Ukrainian word meaning “calm, peaceful” — plus, of course, the patronymic “son of” suffix. When I was involved with the Esperanto movement, I used the name Trankfilo, ...

My insight against groups - i.e. the fundamental nature and potential of human groups* as of 2025 - is solidifying.

Until not many years ago, I desired to be part of a good group, perhaps especially a church - but if not that then some other kind of fellowship; but I have gradually firmed my sense that - ...

Yesterday I posted “Raising Atlantis,” in which I explained (though the explanation was surely unnecessary for most of my readers) that the Akallabeth was “Tolkien’s version of the Atlantis story.” I mentioned first learning about Atlantis when I read all the dialogues of Plato as a child. The larger context ...

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Following on from my earlier Juniper meditations; here is Juniper Suite from the first album of the 1970s medieval-folk band Gryphon.

It's an unusual (and quite brief) example of the kind of "concept" music that was popular at the time; (according to the sleeve notes) meant to be illustrative of ...

As anyone who has been following developments here will know, Bill Wright has decided that I'm the reincarnation of the Tolkien character Ar-Pharazôn the Golden, who in Daymon Smith's interpretation (though not as far as I know in canonical Tolkien) literally dressed up in gold-colored clothing and makeup. I'm not ...

Due to recent events and conversations, some described here, I found myself thinking about how exactly mormonism and Joseph Smith influenced my life. Because there was another surge of interest in the article I wrote about it two years ago (which is still my most widely read, and most commented piece on this whole ...

I continue to cycle back to consider that the New Age of human consciousness, so eagerly anticipated by "spiritual" people of the late 20th century to be coming-upon Mankind at about the millennium - and by which we would cross a kind of threshold into a qualitatively different relationship with reality... actually ...

Yes but what shall we do about it?

People are so eager to jump onto this question of what should we do, that we routinely demand action without understanding.

For people of 2025; "doing" means: "Give me a blueprint!"

Doing apparently begins with a blueprint, and happens via a blueprint.

Advice and instruction ...

In Joseph Smith’s Enoch material, there is an account of an island that rose up out of the sea:

There also came up a land out of the depth of the sea, and so great was the fear of the enemies of the people of God, that they fled and stood afar off and went upon the land which came up out of the depth of the ...