Shit, when you find yourself agreeing with esoteric points made by Charles Manson in a prison interview, you can be pretty sure you’re out on the fringe:
Tempt me not. Do you remember the story about Jesus on the hill? You know, the devil takes Him to the edge of this cliff, [Charlie leans over […]

I think I fixed the display problem that was happening in IE and possibly other browsers. I use FireFox myself, and had no trouble. But I dusted off my useless hunk of junk that is IE and fired up my page and had a display problem. I think it relates to new ad code that […]

Another interesting item from Pesce’s article “The Executable Dreamtime” (from Disinfo’s Book of Lies):
It seems that although we like to perceive ourselves as rational, reasonable creatures, carefully weighing our decisions before we commit, the fact of the matter is precisely the inverse. We arrive at our decisions through emotional sensations, acting “from the gut” at […]

Just got the Disinfo Book of Lies. There’s some good stuff in it. And fortunately a lot of it relates really directly to the lines of study I’ve been following lately. This bit comes from Mark Pesce’s article, “The Executable Dreamtime”, and should be a good follow-up to some ideas I’ve been touching on with […]

I’ve been thinking a lot about power, especially in terms of individuals and groups, and how and why individuals end up surrendering their power. In the past, I’ve always assumed this was all based on coercion. While some of it may well be, I’m trying to explore the finer points of other possibilities. If you’re […]

A family member of mine has been involved in the Landmark Forum for a couple years. He raves about it, but I’ve never had a special interest in going. When I recently started reading about Scientology, I began noticing a lot of similarities to what I’d heard about Landmark. From what I understand, both organizations […]