sad minds think alike, Mary Ruefle

Nah, I'm not underestimating my own magic anymore.

The bare bones, most direct path to the achievement of personal, cultural and planetary human awakening is remarkably simple. #spirituality #spiritualawakening #enlightenment #mindvirus #memetics #freeyourmind

Jill Osier 🤎 Beautiful poem, beautiful poet. @bullcitypress.com

“The UFOs do not come from outer space. They come from the collective human psyche—and they have been with us for thousands of years, wearing whatever mask the times demand.” – John Keel

A #triolet #poem about identity. I might find a place for it somewhere. I may play with the concept and refrain line again. Who knows. Enjoy the #poetry all the same 🤗

Manifesto's have changed the world, Jack. You put into words a lot of how I've tried to live. Idealists and idealism have changed the course of society, it's the dreamers, poets, and artists who have pointed the way. Yes, there may be suffering involved but it's the hero's path.

Can you keep a secret? #neuroscience

Poem For your Thursday - 🔥 ~ Jessica L. Walsh When My Daughter Tells Me I Was Never Punk —I say, hon, my being alive is punk. I made my life out of grudges when I saw the odds placed against me, when my role was to marry a man who'd kill me/ How did I get here? I say, By my fucking teeth.

Delighted to help make this happen! I studied Jann Haworth and Peter Blake’s Looking Glass School when I was an art student. Jann and I shared a friendship with Sir Ken Robinson and later we ended up working together on various experimental arts education projects. www.brlsi.org/whatson/jann...

How Hookland Works – you all own it, fill you boots. Now updated to reflect how AI means Arseholes Involved. #Hookland

‘Pan is not dead ... in every wood, if you go with a spirit properly prepared, you shall hear the note of his pipe.’ Robert Louis Stevenson was born #OTD in 1850. 🎨John Singer Sargent

A recent review of my work

In clown testing, it's important to have two treatment groups. One gets a genuine clown, and the other gets a placebozo.

This essay is me standing up against all the cynics of the world. This is literally what every individual person can do to save the world, maybe the *only* thing we can all really do to save the world. Stand up against the cynics!

I think a little passionate idealism may be exactly what we need today. #philosophy #spirituality #politics #hope #SaveTheWorld

The thing about #dreams is that every human, all 8 billion of us, go to another world and live another life in dreams EVERY SINGLE NIGHT. From birth to death. Yet when awake we just agree to discount that experience. That's a remarkable feat of socialization. We agree to disregard 1/3 of our lives.

This is rad!

What we need is more people who specialise in the impossible. - #TheodoreRoethke, 'On Poetry and Craft'

“Mulder, what are you talking about?” “Geist, Scully! What if this only looks like an unintelligible heap of contingencies? What if its really immanent logos of history moving toward self-consciousness… of freedom?” “Mulder, I don’t know what that means. Haven’t you heard of verificationism?”

My #BookReview of The Unseen, by Mike Clelland #paranormal #fiction #UFOsky #Booksky

Arthur Rackham: Autumn fairies dancing in the wind

According to legend, a French merchant stole the Hope Diamond from a Hindu idol and sold it to King Louis XIV in 1669. Now in a museum, the diamond is believed to be cursed, as past owners have died by murder, suicide, torture, lynching, or decapitation. #WyrdWednesday

𝑊𝑒 𝑓𝑒𝑑 𝑓𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑠𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑝ℎ𝑜𝑡𝑜𝑔𝑟𝑎𝑝ℎ𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑙𝑑'𝑠 𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑚𝑜𝑑𝑒𝑙𝑠, 𝑜𝑓 𝑓𝑎𝑚𝑜𝑢𝑠 𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑒𝑠, 𝑜𝑓 𝑤𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑛 𝑤𝑒'𝑑 𝑠𝑒𝑒𝑛 𝑚𝑒𝑛 𝑜𝑔𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑜𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑒𝑒𝑡, 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑛 𝑠𝑛𝑎𝑝𝑠ℎ𝑜𝑡𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝐽𝑖𝑙𝑙𝑦, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝐽𝑜𝑒'𝑠 𝑤𝑖𝑓𝑒, 𝑆𝑖𝑐𝑖𝑙𝑦, 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑜 𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑒𝑛𝑑, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝐹𝑊𝑈𝑀𝑃, 𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑒𝑛𝑑 𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑝𝑝𝑒𝑑 𝐾𝑎𝑡ℎ𝑦. #sciencefiction

Agatha plays for keeps! 😂

thinking can kill the soul if the heart is ignored

I ran from love because I knew it would destroy me. -Kafka I ran into love because I needed it to destroy who I used to be. -Dostoevsky

Happy 80th birthday to Neil Young youtu.be/uX9k9aoX6gk

On Friday, Erica Lukes & I will be chatting live with Adam Gorightly & Christopher Graybill about adapting “Saucers, Spooks and Kooks“ into a film. We’ll also tap Gorightly’s knowledge of the contactee era in the context of FBI investigations as documented at the Expanding Frontiers Research blog.

"Think before you speak. Read before you think." ~ Fran Lebowitz

There are infections of blood. There are infections of the soul. There are I believe, infections of the place. For the land itself may be wounded by our traumas. Where its psychic skin cracks, the spoilings of rot and wickedness can set in. We call such infections hauntings. – Rev. A. Morley

[W]e have become more cerebral, and retreated more and more from the senses—especially from smell, touch and taste—as if repelled by the body; and sight, the coolest of the senses, and the one most capable of detachment, has come to dominate all. — Iain McGilchrist

For anyone who is like “the creature is also named Frankenstein”; Mary Shelley went to see a play version of Frankenstein and was tickled that they listed the creature as “———“ in the dramatis personae: “this nameless mode of naming the unnameable is rather good” www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/3...

‘I know that I have died before—once in November.’ Anne Sexton. Falling leaves, Olga Wisinger-Florian, 1899.

‘Man stands in his own Shadow and wonders why it is dark’ (Zen Teaching)

What a spiritual practice actually looks like:

She's a poet. Sometimes truth comes in that way.

I imagined a ghost. It didn’t exist & knew it didn’t. It knew it was impossible. The ghost wasn’t violent but very discreet & didn’t intrude on privacy. But it loved to haunt. It wanted to see how we handled things, specifically the fact that soon we’d also be impossible ghosts, haunting impossibly.

What face are you seeing when you look into the mirror of your dreams? #dreams #dreaminterpretation #Jung #Jungian #psychology

"phillip k dick, but stupid" describes everything now

I'm looking forward to speaking on November 20th at Dark Star Magick in Portland, Oregon, on Jung and magic. You can attend in person or online, so I hope to see many of you there! Details and scan code to purchase tickets below (Oh--and please consider helping me out by sharing this!) 🥰

Major baby formula recall: Byheart infant formula has tested positive for botulism and has already hospitalized 15 infants in 12 states. PLEASE spread the word. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/h...

#Gurdjieff had once said that the only hope for the world was that man should eventually reach a higher level of being, in other words, that he should wake more out of his sleep. - #MauriceNicoll, in #KennethWalker, ‘The Making of Man’

Friendly reminder that you have every right to DNF a book you aren't enjoying 💙✨

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"People nowadays think that scientists exist to instruct them, poets, musicians, etc., to give them pleasure. The idea that these have something to teach them — that does not occur to them." ~ Wittgenstein

A wallop of silence within your mind

If you struggle to bring your great ideas for stories, poems, paintings, pottery, sculptures, movies, songs, etc. to life, know this: you are not a failure. #art #writing #writingcommunity #creativity