I just put up a new question on my brand new FAQ page, the response to which I rather like. It’s probably the first or second most popular criticism/question that I get: “How come you don’t always talk about the occult?”

First of all, what are you, the occult police? Last time I checked this was an extremely wide open field with pretty much no restrictions or even rules. I don’t have to meet your expectations or weird quotas for content. I am what I am, and I’m having a good time with it. What I investigate also changes all the time, so don’t try to peg what I’m all about based on only one thing you read out of thousands of posts.

Second, If you want something different, feel free to go ahead and start up a rival occult investigator website that conforms exactly to your own peculiar definitions. I would absolutely love to have somebody to ‘battle’ with (although I promise I will ’slay’ you), and more than likely I would enjoy reading your work. But of course, then I will come over, pull out my microscope and fine you for not having the right amount or type of ‘occult’ content.

There’s that line in the Outkast song “Humble Mumble”, ‘She said she tought Hip Hop was only guns and alcohol - I said Oh hell naw! but yet it’s that too - You can’t discrimahate cause you done read a book or 2.’ In other words, I don’t think that the ‘occult’ consists only of ghosts and goblins and witches and full moons and fairies and crystals. I mean, all that stuff’s all well and good, but really it’s a way of thinking and feeling. It’s a way of looking at and past the world. It’s a way of uncovering connections. And it’s something you’ve gotta cultivate and develop. It’s not just right there for the grabbing. Occult means ‘hidden,’ afterall. You’ve gotta turn over all the rocks in the garden before you find where the leprechaun hid his pot o’ gold.