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In late 2011, not long after I had given a talk at the Esoteric Book Conference in Seattle on the topic of “The Library Angel & It’s Oracle,” my life took an unexpected turn. My step-daughter had joined the Junior Roller Derby Girls and on Wednesday nights we started taking her to practice up the road at one of the local roller rinks. Following the practice of the junior team,…
American Psychogeography VI: Jerry Siegel, Joe Shuster and Laurie Anderson.(With a detour into Reagan and Iran.)In the age of science we never lost our myths. They just shape shifted into new forms. Superman is one of the mightiest myths to have been born in the twentieth century and it came from the minds of two science fiction fanatics who had met in Cleveland, Ohio.How to begin with this? In…
Leonora Carrington (1917–2011) was a British-born Mexican artist, a surrealist painter, novelist and short story writer. and founding member of the women’s liberation movement in Mexico during the 1970s. She was an esoteric explorer of the inner worlds. The Carrington Event was the most intense recorded geomagnetic storm so far in our known history. It peaked on September 1st and 2nd…
American Psychogeography V Roads in America have long symbolized the ideal of freedom. Just like the pilgrims who came here to escape religious persecution, and the pioneers who wanted to homestead their own way in life, the idea of traveling down the road to get away from one place and go to elsewhere, the notion of liberty has always traveled along with the people who take to the roads to find…
“There is in fact a sort of harmony discoverable between the capabilities of the landscape within a circle of a ten miles radius, or the limits of an afternoon walk, and the threescore years and ten of human life. It will never become quite familiar to you.” -Henry David ThoreauTwo of the books that were background inspiration for this article, along with my pocket protector.There is a very…
The text below is transcribed from radio broadcast I picked up while on a recent time travel DX foray into one of the futures of northern Ohio, about the Lighthouse Coastal Academy, a school set up to train the mentat minds of Generation Q:Calling all parental units! Calling all parental units!We know you want the best for your kids and at Lighthouse Coastal Academy they receive the best: the best…
New World Records and the American Experimental Tradition part 4It’s hard enough to be a composer. Have you ever tried writing music down on paper from your head and then finding, and asking, a bunch of highly trained and skilled musicians to play the stuff you heard inside your head? The opportunities to write a symphony or chamber work were there- finding the opportunity to get it performed and…
A Short Piece of Dark Deindustrial Cli-Fi Fiction The following story may be considered offensive or unsuitable to some readers. If you find the following short story offensive or unsuitable please tune away from it at this time and go read something else. Now on with the story. I was new at the refujaunt camp, so I tended to keep my mouth shut, at least with regards to casual conversation. I…
A Secret History of the LOUTS Research UnitAhistorical Immaterialism is a temporal theory about the way that immaterial forces make impacts on the physical plane and manifest throughout human society at all levels. First postulated by ancient shamans, mages, priestesses and priests in times immemorial, the idea that forces of the unseen beyond the ken of the rational mind might just have something…
STEM Education Gets Probed Àla Marshall McLuhan & HEM Starts StitchingIn an ever-changing, increasingly complex world, where enshitification keeps hitting the fan, where infrastructure keeps falling apart, where polarizing politics put people in disarray, where environmental empathy leads to feelings of despair, it’s more important than ever that the citizens of the world find ways to stitch back…