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“I found it difficult to suspend my disbelief in man-made climate change for the first half-hour—and utterly impossible after that—which makes for a movie-going experience that’s far more educational than it is enjoyable,” - via The Onion

I just tried to give ~C4Chaos a little magickal push in his quest for a visa to Ireland and I tried looking up gods and patron saints of bureaucracy. Curiously, apart from totally fictional deities like Amaunator (D&D) and Omphalan (Exalted) I don’t seem to be able to find either. There must be deities of bureaucracy […]

In Two Gods?, the newly married Jordan Stratford+ debunks the oft-repeated nonsense that Gnostics believe in the Manichean notion that there are two gods, one good, one evil, locked in endless battle. Along the way, he name-checks Blake, Yeats, the Rastafari and the Wachowskis and posts a great chart diagramming different conceptions of the Divine. […]

Thanks to ~C4Chaos, I’ve been watching this rather topical clip of Dan Millman talking about spiritual teachers and living out what you teach. He talks a lot of sense.

I’m fantastic Since last we spoke, I’ve been away to the countryside for a few days, had a birthday and been working like a demon. Things are good! Oh, and I booked my flights to the US for this in Denver - which is exciting. If you’re in Portland, Seattle or Denver/Boulder and you’d like to […]

Tom Coates posts a lengthy meditation on Paul Graham’s talk about environmental conditions for technology start-ups (transcript by Suw Charman) which led to a long thread of comments by clever people like Julian Bond and Cory Doctorow. I chipped in something, perhaps not as clever, too. Technorati Tags: enterprise, entrepreneur, research

In Kosmic Blogging: Blogging Down to the Metal Jay Allen of The Pagan Bodhisattva talks about how and why he blogs, partly in homage to ~C4Chaos’s manifesto on Kosmic Blogging. Jay’s is another voice pointing to using tags in place of categories on your own blog in addition to participating in the tag-o-sphere. He also points out […]

So when I work at home, I used to sit on a kind of crappy gas-lift chair that I bought from a chain office supply store. My beloved, in his endless quest to look after my back and shoulders, has expressed annoyance at the chair, the long hours I spend at it and my work […]

From Grant Morrison’s “The Invisibles”, one of my favourite quasi-mystical re-readings of an action film (and I am very fond of mystical re-readings of actions films). What is it with Keanu and Gnostic myth? So the bus is the world. Keanu is sent into the WorldBus by beneficent forces in order to oppose the Dennis who […]

I’ve been experimenting with online organic grocers the last few weeks and I’ve been really surprised by how fresh the fruits and vegetables have been. Whenever I’ve tried shopping for organics at one of the larger supermarkets the organic stuff has always been fairly drab-looking. It occurs to me that the length of the supply chains […]

I’ve always had narrow shoulders. My bone structure’s not sensational, I’ve got a lot of old stress and fear repression habits that hold tension in my shoulders and neck and somehow despite a couple of decades of weight training, the muscles in my shoulders have always been hard to work. In the last few years, I’ve […]

So many reasons to love Wikipedia when you’re an unreformed obscurantist like me. I start with an innocent enough question to answer about the key forms of Yoga. That leads me to Agni Yoga, which leads me among other places to Oomoto (and on to Shinshukyo), Burkhanism, stuff about the Holy Grail, Akbar the Great. Burkhanism […]