Friday, October 30th 2026

Francis Berger - Blog Belong to a Single Bird Flying in One Direction

Left wing.

Right wing.

Makes no difference.

Both are attached to a single bird that is using them to fly in one direction and one direction only.

(Overheard somewhere this past week.)

Wednesday, October 28th 2026

Rudolf Steiner and the Symbolic World

Tuesday, September 29th 2026

The Notion Club Papers - an Inklings blog The heartless laughter of elves in Tolkien

The elves of folklore in the British Isles (i.e. fairies of various types) are very variously depicted, but quite often evoke fear from humans, and may be depicted as having an uncaring attitude towards humans.

This can be seen in the superior, heartless, sometimes cruel, way that elves laugh at mortals.

In contrast; ...

Monday, July 6th 2026

Fourth Gospel First Who is ascending to whose Father?

The lack of modern punctuation in biblical texts is not ordinarily a problem, but in the case of the following verse, it creates significant ambiguity:

Jesus saith unto her, Touch me not; for I am not yet ascended to my Father: but go to my brethren, and say unto them, I ascend unto my Father, and your Father; and to ...

Monday, June 29th 2026

Taking the Book of Mormon seriously Did Alma the Younger expect everyone to have experiences like his?

Here is the first speech of Alma the Younger after his conversion.

And it came to pass after they had fasted and prayed for the space of two days and two nights, [that] the limbs of Alma received their strength, and he stood up and began to speak unto them, bidding them to be of good comfort:

For,

said he,

I have ...

Sunday, February 22nd 2026

The Magician's Table: A Tarot blog A darker view of the Three of Pentacles

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Since June 9, 2024, I have seen the Three of Pentacles as being primarily a dark or negative card, even though Waite's Pictorial Key to the Tarot assigns it a positive meaning. Here I want to explore this darker view of the card, incorporating some comments by Bill Wright on my post "All the pebbles I have ...

Friday, October 24th 2025

Owen Barfield blog Distinguishing Final Participation from Original Participation

It was Owen Barfield who defined Original Participation - characteristic of young childhood and the early states of Mankind's development of consciousness (roughly, the nomadic Hunter Gatherer stage); and Final Participation - which was the divinely-intended future development of consciousness that was posited to come ...

Saturday, March 1st 2025

Winking Back from the Dark: A blog about Whitley Strieber Astronomical ratios misrepresented

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 ...

Sunday, March 10th 2024

William Arkle - Theologian, Mystic, Philosopher, Painter Abraham gets only 60% for "obedience" with respect to sacrificing Isaac; because God Most values "un-obedience"

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 ...

Thursday, June 16th 2022

No Longer Reading The real AI agenda

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 automatic ...

Monday, April 20th 2020

Albion Awakening Albion Awakening Book

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 market.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/1708664955

Kindle ...