Just thought I’d share a small design I put together for my brother’s stained glass company. It’s nothing terribly intricate, but it’s the first window design I’ve done myself.
The linework was all done in Illustrator and the coloring in Photoshop. My brother actually has a funny story about this technique. It seems that […]

While eating the chicken and pasta I cooked tonight, I had the pleasure to catch a few minutes of the local Christian programming on television. That stuff really confuses me, I’ll tell you what. It’s not just that I don’t agree with it, or think that it’s a totally whacked-out bullshit version of Christianity, it’s […]

Garrett has some cool thoughts on the idea of interpreting waking reality in the same way that you’d try to decode the meaning of dreams. He asks some great questions at the end:
Is this a type of maddness that I’m moving into, or is it, like the Tarot, a way to use the symbols around […]

Speaking of meditative imagery, I saw this yesterday morning while using the John the Baptist/Isaiah mantra “Make ready the way of the Lord! Make His paths straight!” while concentrating on the idea of beginnings, finding the right path, and finding a teacher.

I was awake, and my eyes were closed when I suddenly found myself […]

Max’s comments on the post about spirits include a really awesome item:
It is difficult for people to see and sense spirits, sometimes I wonder if it might not also be difficult for spirits to see and sense people
Perhaps human efforts to contact them seem like paranormal intrusions from their POV [point of view] as well
That’s […]

In keeping with our recent conversation on prayer & meditation, I’d love to hear about other people’s meditation techniques. I only recently found something that works for me, via a book by Robert Laremy called Spiritual Cleansings and Psychic Defenses. Laremy’s book is written from the perspective of Catholic syncretized Afro-Carribean religions, so he uses […]

Another great quote from an essay entitled, The Charlatan and the Magus:
The very idea of objectivity is a trick; the researcher imagines he is in a sort of condom that gives infinite sensitivity to what he is studying, yet perfect protection against contaminating the subject.
This is an idea that I’ve found again and again in […]

This essay, the Charlatan and the Magus is phenomenal. I have a few different things I want to post from it, but let’s start with this:
I am sure that, in terms of sheer numbers, the majority of mankind probably subscribes to some religion that insists that the world is an illusion; even our own scientists […]

I got an email from somebody loosely connected to the making of that Catholic Matrix poster that we talked about a few days ago. If you don’t remember it, it was an ad for the Catholic Priesthood which spoofed imagery from the Matrix movies, setting up the figure of the priest as a sort of […]

I just signed up for Netflix again, after a several year hiatus. I got back on board after a recent visit to Blockbuster proved they don’t even carry the Last Temptation of Christ, or more than one or two old Clint Eastwood movies. I mean, what the hell… none of these things are obscure at […]