Archive for April, 2005

Celebrity Tarot - Kundalini Rice

Wednesday, April 27th, 2005

A while ago I posted an idea about creating an esoteric system which used celebrities as carriers of secret symbolic messages. Through it, you could communicate information which would basically go unnoticed by anybody not initiated into the esoteric meanings. It would just seem like your average boring mindless chatter. It would simultaneously be a […]

The Gnostic X-Men

Wednesday, April 27th, 2005

Wolverine was always my favorite X-Men character. I’ve always gravitated towards “dark” heros who border on moral ambiguity, or who sometimes cross the line: Batman, the Punisher, John Constantine are also good examples. I never much cared for Wolverine as portrayed by X-Men comics though. Weapon X was pretty awesome, but I always liked […]

A Marine In NYC

Wednesday, April 27th, 2005

A couple days ago I had a dream that I was in New York City again. Actually, I have these dreams all the time. Had one this morning in fact. They often involve a particular section of the city (which is probably imaginary - a hybrid of many points, and many cities) and an elaborate […]

Rebunking the Debunkers

Wednesday, April 27th, 2005

I’m so bored with people who try to suck the mystery out of everything. What good comes from removing multi-layered complexity, paradox and im/possibilities? Simplicity, reduction and literalism are no substitute for the weird, the wild and the wonderful. It’s one thing to train a skeptical eye and apply a critical analysis to the arcane, […]