Archive for September, 2009
haven’t we all thought about it?
We’ve all thought about it from time to time… you can admit it: running into a random funeral and carrying out a ritual on the dead body. But who actually acts on that impulse?
surveying illuminated politics
“The larger the mass in movement, the stronger the effect of irrational impulses, the more powerfully the soul’s innermost currents begin to roar… the instinctive forces are reinforced under the influence of comrades striving for the the same good.” – Rudolf Bode The occult and its societies have dropped away from accepted scientific method and [...]
Mysterious Universe is back!
The first podcast I subscribed to when I bought my Creative Zen Vision: M in 2006 was Mysterious Universe. One of the things that got me through the work week was listening to Ben Grundy’s reports on the mysterious and the paranormal. After his mysterious exit from the podcasting world, pledging to record a final episode [...]
an animated people’s history of the United States
One of the classes I dreaded the most when I was an undergrad at UNC Charlotte was each session of my American Values course, where we read through Howard Zinn’s People’s History of the United States. Only now do I realize that the instructor introduced me to many concepts that have only now become too [...]
interview with John Taylor Gatto on the problems of US schooling
The Living Hero podcast has quickly become one of my favorite monthly listens. Host Jari Chevalier interviews pioneers from various fields that have the ideas and actions with world changing potential. Some of you that know me personally may know that I’m a big fan of John Taylor Gatto and his books about challenging the [...]
