Right, so I have this “nasty” habit of making tons and tons of shortcuts to things and just leaving them on my desktop for all eternity. The thinking is usually that “I’ll come back to this later,” but it’s extremely rare that I do. So yeah, what can I say? Anyway, in the interest of clearing off my desktop, I’m gonna just dump all this stuff into one blog post. Here goes. Some of it, I’m not even sure why I was interested in it in the first place. But oh well…

1. Oh, this is a great one to start with. It’s called Scare Factory. It seems that they make life-size and larger than life size like monsters and stuff. You know, the sort of shit you see in like amusement park haunted houses. Something about the idea behind this reminds me, oddly enough, of this other company called Real Doll. In case you’re not familiar with them, they make “life-like” positionable women dolls for men to “put their penises into” in various ways. It’s actually even creepier than it sounds. In fact, I think these two companies should join forces to create some kind of “fuckable monster series” for true connoisseurs of weirdness.
2. While we’re on the topic of monsters, I recently came across an interesting article about monsters in Japanese culture. The term they’re using is “yokai”. I thought it was interesting, because there is a variation of their term for monster which includes within it a statement about the mental state of the monster-perceiver.
3. An online version of the Golden Bough, although I’d much rather get it in book form.
4. One of my favorite paintings, which I recently rediscovered: “Sin” by Franz Von Stuck
5. A blog I always meant to look more at, but never got around to: Technoccult
6. I’ve always loved this site, All Consuming. It lets you keep track of what books you’ve read/are reading, and review them, as well as some javascript stuff too, so you can show off what you’re reading on your blog. The reason I stopped using it though, was cause it wouldn’t recognize my Amazon Associate ID, like it’s supposed to, so the guy who runs the site was getting credited for sales which I sent there way. Not a big deal, cause it’s a cool website though, and he deserves the support.
7. A thing about how to do a sage smudge. Plus a place to buy sage and other herbs online, and another one (I also saw some good deals on ebay).
8. A website called “Successful Schizophrenia” with a lot of good articles and testimonials by people who’ve lived through it, and think convential psychiatry goes about treating it all wrong.
9. There’s some controversy around a small town in Georgia over whether or not a 1,000 pound wild hog was recently killed by a hunter. They’re calling the beast, “Hogzilla,” due to its immense size.
10. Some time in highschool, I heard this really interesting interview with a Native American medicine man/healer. He was talking about how its considered sacreligious to accept money in exchange for healing services. What people would do instead is to furnish supplies for the ritual, and bring food for everyone who was going to be participating in the ritual. Anyway, I recently may have tracked down which episode this was on the NPR website. I think the guy’s name was Jones Benally, based on this. Unfortunately, you can’t get free transcripts. You have to pay like 5 bucks, which really irks me. I hate when organizations which are supposed to be all about keeping people informed restrict their content. It makes me weep for joy that the BBC is currently working so that their entire archival content will be available for free use online. Fuck NPR!
11. This website has tons of cool heraldry stuff on it.
12. This Robert Moss guy has some good new-agey articles on dreams
13. Anybody considering self-publishing a book should look at this FANTASTIC resource, comparing all the different Print On Demand (POD) publishers out there and their programs. It rules!
14. The artwork on this Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab website is totally damn awesome. It’s basically some kind of online occult shop.
15. This guy named Lord Raglan put together a point scale to rate how archetypal a mythological hero is, based on common characteristic’s. It’s sort of interesting. It’s called, “Lord Raglan’s Scale.” Also interesting is the list of different heros and how they figure on this scale.
16. A page I was looking at last night about the ajna or brow chakra, which is sometimes called the third eye.
17. Encyclopedic Theosophical Glossary: an absolutely phenomenal source of information I found last night. Covers all kinds of different areas in great detail, from Hindu, Buddhist, Taoist, Persian, Greek, Hebrew, Babylonian, Egyptian, Roman, Gnostic, Celtic and other mythological systems. I want to find this in book form as well, or something like it. It’s incredible.
18. A list of Persian Gods and Goddesses, which I found last night while I was looking for info on the Chinvat Bridge, and Daenas
19. The Weston A Price Foundation, which has a bunch of information about natural foods and other stuff, sent to me by Laura Jane. It reminds me of when I worked at Whole Foods for a couple months several years back.
20. This SharpeWorld website has some cool stuff on it.
21. This scharftastic blog is totally awesome and only getting better.
22. I really really want to come back and read this article about near-death experiences and UFO encounters as modern shamanic initiations. Great damn topic…
23. This Generation Terrorists website has all kinds of great quotes from different movies, comics, and other stuff. Excellent resource.
24. A fun semi-hysterical rant about mass media & brainwashing.
25. A more pop-culture centered take on mind control. Sort of a fun read.
26. Principles of brain-based learning
27. The Eight Basic Scripts according to Robert Anton Wilson’s eightfold model of consciousness. I mean, its not really “his” model, but he popularized it. It’s good as a quick intro to the whole system of thought.
28. I like the content on this site called the Nothing Network. It’s about like angels, and celestial magic and a bunch of other crap. I know, sounds kooky, but it’s interestingly done, I think.
29. A site called Dumb Laws, which has - you guessed it - a collection of “dumb” laws from all over.
30. Memepool’s Occult Archive has some fun links to check out
31. A page about letter-color synaesthesia, which I’ve had since I was a little kid, along with a bunch of other kinds. For example, I can occasionally (especially when stoned) physically taste things with my hands. This is NOT me imagining. This is an actual real experience. In fact, I’ve heard the theory put forth that synaesthesia (confusion of the senses between one another) is one of the root forces behind the development of language. That deserves more looking into by me at a later date.
32. One of those sort of sites about new-agey sort of philosophy that uses a lot of different colored fonts, huge lettering and all caps. And theres always like just too much scrolling. All the content is on one page it seems like. Just a lack of awareness of information design, and how people read things. A lot of these kinds of authors also seem unaware that this “style” of “outsider design” makes them seem like more of a crackpot than they, perhaps, really are.
33. A page with a lot of (mostly) retarded quotations from different sources, about different things. Honestly, it’s not really that good, but it got me thinking about like what if these (largely inane) sayings were like the Bible of some future civilization. You know, like they looked at these as like weird axioms about how to live life. It’s kind of neat to look at in that context.
34. Another occult blog, called MadGhoul. I don’t know, it’s just okay. I’ve not yet found another occult blog that I absolutely went ga-ga over, or wanted to look at more than a couple times. They’re usually surprisingly boring, I find.
35. A really cool article on About’s Paranormal section, about “The Real X-Men,” different people in history who have been “documented” to have extraordinary powers. Totally worth reading.
36. Something in psychology called the Karpman Drama Triangle, which consists of the roles of aggressor, victim and rescuer. I thought it was interesting because this game I was taught as a kid. It’s like a little play you act out with a bowtie, where you have the evil landlord (aggressor) who wears the bowtie as a mustache and says “You must pay the rent!” And you have the girl (victim) who wears the bowtie in her hair as a bow, and says, “But I can’t pay the rent!” And the final character is the handsome man, who saves the day (rescuer) who says “I’ll pay the rent.”
37. This Kristo’s horoscope site had some interesting stuff on it that I want to come back and check out, about dreams, astrology, alchemy, intuition and some other junk.
38. A tarot site which I also want to come back and check out more.
39. Periodically, I will save Google search results pages for queries which I didn’t have time to follow up on. Here’s a few:
    1. polytheistic psychology
    2. participation mystique
    3. monoalphabetic substitution cipher
    4. Brain alpha state while watching tv
    5. “One can be frozen.”
    6. I was also gonna do one a while back based around a theory my brother had. Basically, we wondered whether any modern Italian mafia families could be traced all the way back to important families in the Roman Empire, and whether any of their cultural customs were remnants from that time.

Phew! That was way more than I expected. Well, that’s most of them, so let’s leave it right there for the time being. I have now cleared up a ton of space on my computer desktop. Which I’m sure I will immediately just clutter up again, but oh well.