In Egyptian symbolism, the right wedjat-eye is associated with the Sun and the left wedjat-eye with the Moon. This fits with the two-eye symbolism of recent posts.

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The above illustration follows the Pyramid Texts in making one eye white and the other black. I thought I'd seen wedjat-eye amulets ...

If Romantic Christianity is an insistence that the individual (rather than any external authority, such as a church or a prescribed-interpretation of Scripture), and his deepest intuition (rather than e.g. "evidence" or "reason"), ought to be ultimately responsible for his Christian belief...

Then is this not ...

In spiritual life here-and-now; it seems to be A Bad Idea to be too specific about what we want to achieve; because then there is a danger that we will achieve it!

To make conscious choices of what is "needed" is good; so long as we don't suppose that we already-know exactly what it is that we need (because, if we ...

William Wildblood has published an excellent post about a subject that almost nobody (in Western civilization) thinks about, except when compelled: death, and how we ought (yes ought) to prepare for it throughout our mortal lives.

And by death, I don't mean dying.

Dying - and especially the fear of suffering when ...

My last post, "Squaring the circle, and more red and blue eyes," begins with a photo of a 1996 newspaper clipping reporting on the Unabomber, which includes this sketch of him wearing his iconic aviator sunglasses:

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Before seeing that post, Debbie had left a comment on "More Urim and Thummim syncs" ...

​Why, Christians, of course—meaning individuals committed to following Jesus to resurrected life in Heaven.

I mention this because the Apostle’s Creed did not, apparently, become a mainstay of Christianity until sometime in the second century A.D. The Nicene Creed appeared much later in the fourth ...

Having recently reached my three score years and ten I've been thinking about how to prepare for death. Not because I think I'm due to go anytime soon, but as you grow older you start to understand that the way you die is the whole point of life. By that I mean the state of your mind which is all you'll take with you. ...

Last night, after posting "More Urim and Thummim syncs," I went into my study and saw on one of my desks a small stack of books which I had bought secondhand last month and hadn't gotten around to shelving yet. I had a sudden hunch that one of those books would contain an illustration relevant to imagery of the ...

We want significance in our lives; but we fear it too.

Significance implies that what we think, say and do has permanence and universality; but that clashes with a sinful desire that we can act without consequences, avoid responsibility.

A desire for significance also gets mixed-up with the desire for esteem, ...

My January 14 post "Red and blue spectacles" featured two similar images, one from a YouTube review of the 2011 movie The Ides of March, and the other from the 2004 movie National Treasure.

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This morning (January 20), the preschool asked if I could read to the kids a story of my ...

I have noticed a big difference in the way I think about the way I think about theology, compared with almost everyone else.

Which is: that I think like a scientist - whereas they think like theologians!

I state this as a matter of observation, rather than trying to assert the superiority of the way that I think - ...

The basic problem afflicting the "traditional" ways of theorizing about Jesus; is that they were doing theology or philosophy without Jesus, then trying to insert Jesus into the scheme.

Therefore; insofar as they have been successful at providing a model of reality without Jesus (e.g. pantheism or monotheism) then ...

Denzel Singer only ever really loved two things, jazz and Attie. And for a time, it was more like they were one and the same. He was a talented saxophone player and a rising star before he met her, but the music he made after her, and for her, and about her, and because of her, made of him a virtuoso, a visionary and ...

It seems to me that the religion of Christianity - as expressed in the major churches (variously, since very early in church history); was formed from people who wanted several different and mutually incompatible things.

There were "pantheists" who believed in one deity which was everything - so it was vital that ...

Worth trying next time you are assaulted by a member of the lying class via the media or wherever. Guaranteed to soothe the nerves.

A little silliness. Enjoy.

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Video link: ​https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8t4pmlHRokg

This afternoon I was browsing /pol/ and found a thread, posted today (January 18, 2026) claiming (falsely), "Prime minister of Quebec FRANCOIS LEGAULT shot dead in his home!" Apparently it wasn't the first such claim, given some of the responses:

Again? Sacre bleu!

but this also happened yesterday, he seems ...

This afternoon I was reading a brief overview of the development of modern remote viewing in Dean Radin's 2018 book Real Magic -- which included this invitation for readers to try some remote viewing of their own on the fly:

One of [Ingo Swann's] earliest techniques, designed to baffle the analytical mind, was ...

That we spontaneously take sides is evident whenever we watch any kind of contest - such as a sport...

We find-ourselves rooting for one or another person or team - even when we know nothing about that sport and have no reason to care who wins, one way or the other.

We are all and often manipulated by our ...

Joining-up a couple of dots from what I've said; when Jesus met Nicodemus and told him that Men need to be "born again" - Jesus meant that we must die first, in order to attain resurrected eternal life.

And, if we follow Jesus; this second birth will be into the Second Creation; the creation by Jesus - which is ...

To begin with a digression, when I typed that post title I noticed that it was a spoonerism for "whack that Crip," raising the possibility that Devo songs are actually encrypted gangsta rap. This thought led me to the Wikipedia article on spoonerisms, which led to the one on crash blossoms, which led to the one on ...

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The Irish Papist recently featured a post called Reading Is About Much More Than the Classics, which inspired me to reflect on various classics and ponder my reading habits these days.

I will forgo my thoughts on the former here and focus instead on the latter; specifically, my ...

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unlike a machine, i can do things unprompted

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out of sight, out of mind

over matter, out of touch

going under, hard of hearing

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a touch of genius, a taste of madness

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the spirit never changes, the body is always changing.

thus an individual soul can be an eternally moving slice of eternity.

to ...

My understanding of dreams is that their specific content, their details; are much less important than their general theme and emotional tone that they leave behind. This is why many people (including me) don't remember their dreams, or else have only hazy and partial memories.

Indeed, the unreliability of memory - ...

In a recent comment, Bill writes, in part, "Red and Blue correspond to Fire and Ice, Hot and Cold. Maybe something there as we think about worlds." He then goes on to propose identities for a "Red" world and a "Blue" world.

This got me thinking about my "first sync" -- the first one that really got my attention -- ...

Last night I dreamt that I was in a forest and encountered some sort of overwhelmingly powerful female presence. She seemed partly human and partly more visually complex and "psychedelic"-looking, somewhat reminiscent of Blake's The Four and Twenty Elders Casting their Crowns before the Divine ...

Today I started reading Dean Radin's book Real Magic. The preface, supposed to be an editorial written in the year 2915, portrays a future in which the Statue of Liberty has been retroactively transformed into a "large green plant":

We now know that the universe is far more flexible than our ancestors could have ...

John 14: [3] And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.

[4] And whither I go ye know, and the way ye know.

[5] Thomas saith unto him, Lord, we know not whither thou goest; and how can we know the way?

[6] Jesus saith unto him, I am ...

Pete the Cat's blue shoes (see "Fools and wise men on hills, planetary shoon, and a literal Blueberry Hill") made me think of the song "Blue Suede Shoes," most famously sung by Elvis Presley, which begins thus:Well, it's one for the money, two for the show

Three to get ready, now go, cat, go

But don't you step on my ...