The Fall, revisited

Always a lover of books, but having neglected taking in some new ones until recently, I’ve been getting a lot out of Gurdjieff [interjected with] Ouspensky [injerjected by] Mouravieff {I’ll get back to reading those too, just a more interesting selection on the night table for a while} - and these have been great for sort of coming round full circle ; getting back to introspection-proper - the ways I liked to spend my time thinking about myself and the world before the practical survival stuff of adult life took center stage. This post relates to some new insight about older OBEs and mostly one particular dream that has been left suspended for want of fitting analysis and meaning, until now..

I don’t imagine that I’m completely unique in this regard, but as a young child and here and there as the years go by I’ve enjoyed tapping into mind and mental organization. Just sitting and tuning into information as …

May 4th, 2009

giving self help books a bad name

So I picked up a few books which fall into the category ’self help’, lent to me over the last several months. You know, now that I think of it I haven’t read a book that I’ve gotten a lot out of that fits solely in the ’self help’ category. As I wrote this title I had in mind many of the books in which I have found a lot of useful perspective, but now that I think more about it, pretty much all of those would be categorized primarily under another label, such as metaphysics, psychology, spirituality.

So what’s the difference? It seems the difference is that with books that are most helpful and interesting, the information was presented either objectively, as in data presented and perspectives of said data explored, OR the information was clearly qualified with the author’s statement: here are some of my experiences.

What about examples of ’self help’ books (of the first type)? Well, not …

February 15th, 2009

the art of wasting time

well, not a post on slaying/transforming Chronos, but more like some of the games I’ve been into lately ;P

Besides completing my zombie clothes in Runescape, and Chad’s find, the very hilarious text-based Kingdom of Loathing (.com)…

a few weeks ago I was looking around ebay and came across these dual NES/SNES systems which stoked fond memories of games from years ago. So I got one for my b-day and have been revisiting some of my favorite games…

Dungeon Master (SNES) is one of thee greatest games. One of the first first-person type of games as far as I know, with a sort of freeform symbol based magic and other nifty things. Basically, you start off reincarnating 4 characters from the Hall of Heros and then it’s down down down through the levels of a massive dungeon, conserving food and water (strategy sometimes being mostly about how to make to the next …

February 10th, 2009

Closed System?

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February 2nd, 2009

Hoodie Tug from the Beyond

[imagine eerie sound to go with title]

As I’m walking with Chad to see a movie I felt this tug on the hood of my sweatshirt hanging down behind me. It was strong enough that it could not be dismissed as twig falling or other ‘likely’ explanation –strong enough that I sort of scuttle walked a bit faster for a few steps as I turned to see if someone was behind me. If I had to label the strength of the tug I’d say it was exactly strong enough that I cannot doubt its having happened. Of course there was no one there and no people or obstacles for such to hide behind anywhere near our path, so WTF was it?

Well, on first intuitive match, as I run through past experiences for anything even remotely similar is my run-ins with the Blue People. Ok, so there aren’t really any blue people, but this is a term I use to explain …

January 11th, 2009