Saturday, March 1st 2025

Author iconWinking Back from the Dark: A blog about Whitley Strieber
Wm Jas Tychonievich

On p. 208 of The Fourth Mind, Whitley Strieber writes:

The diameter of the Earth times 108 equals the diameter of the Sun. The diameter of the Sun times 108 equals the distance between the Sun and the Earth. The diameter of the Moon times 108 equals the distance between the Earth and the Moon.

The diameter of the ...

Saturday, February 22nd 2025

Author iconThe Notion Club Papers - an Inklings blog
Bruce Charlton

It has been insightfully suggested by "Mikke" that the moment when Frodo claimed for himself the power of the One Ring actually happened a little earlier than most people realize.

The usual reading is that Frodo makes this claim inside Mount Doom, standing next to the Cracks of Doom - just before he puts The Ring on ...

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Monday, February 10th 2025

Author iconTaking the Book of Mormon seriously
Wm Jas Tychonievich

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Gustave Moreau, La fille de Jared dansant devant Akish (1876)

1. The dancing daughter of Jared

Here's a tale of Jaredite devilry from the Book of Ether. See if it reminds you of anything:And it came to pass that he begat Omer, and Omer reigned in his stead. And Omer begat Jared; and Jared begat ...

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Tuesday, October 22nd 2024

Author iconOwen Barfield blog
Bruce Charlton

Edited from this post and its comments:

...‘wrt. the evolution of consciousness’ and "final participation"...

The first bit that seems important to me is that [modern consciousness] is not a general state, by which I mean, it’s not defined by the age but it depends on the people. Not every human alive ...

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Monday, October 21st 2024

Sunday, March 10th 2024

Author iconWilliam Arkle - Theologian, Mystic, Philosopher, Painter
Bruce Charlton

William Arkle distinguished a way above and out-from the traditional dilemma of obedience versus disobedience to God; by considering the question from the larger perspective of God's creative intention with respect to Men (discussed in the post following this).

In an letter to Jon Flint* (that I have slightly edited ...

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Wednesday, June 21st 2023

Author iconBrief Outlines
Amadeus Bodenstein

It is the convention of map reading to place North at the top of the page. But everyone knows that this has no bearing on anything beyond convention. For example, if we ascend in a hot air balloon and look down at the fields and roads bellow, then "up" is not where north is: "Up" means ascending higher into the sky. ...

2.5m (680 words)

Sunday, April 2nd 2023

Author iconFourth Gospel First
Wm Jas Tychonievich

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James Tissot, La flagellation de dos (1886-1894)

This is from the Passion narrative in John 18:38-19:6.

[38] Pilate . . . went out again unto the Jews, and saith unto them, "I find in him no fault at all. [39] But ye have a custom, that I should release unto you one at the passover: will ye ...

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Thursday, December 29th 2022

Author iconThe Magician's Table: A Tarot blog
Wm Jas Tychonievich

In my reading for 2022, I drew these two cards for the birdemic: the Four of Swords for the beginning of the year, and the Sun for the end.

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My interpretation was as follows:

The Four of Swords often indicates rest and recuperation, corresponding to the widespread sense at the beginning of the ...

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Thursday, June 16th 2022

Author iconNo Longer Reading
Kevin McCall

On a post by Wm Briggs, about artificial intelligence, a commenter with the monniker "ItsAllBullshit" writes: "AI is a smoke screen for what they really want to do, control who works where. If you are familiar with the way that algorithms work, you will understand that AI today is simply an inefficient ...

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Monday, April 20th 2020

Author icon Albion Awakening
William Wildblood

John Fitzgerald and I have compiled a book from our posts on the Albion Awakening blog and Bruce Charlton has written an introduction for it.

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The paperback version can be found here.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1708664955

for the UK market

and here for the American ...