They say you can’t dream of your own death. Last night I had a dream, though I now only remember the ending. My comrades and I were in an apartment; they were in the anteroom and I was sitting alone by the dining room table. A half-wall separated the two … Continue reading
Category Archives: Musings
Cosmic Telepathy
She revealed to him remarkable facts about the universe in general and her own planet in particular. Furthermore, in the middle of every night, she reported on her experiences of Earth life back to her own planet, on their equivalent of television via mental telepathy. Continue reading
Let no one ignorant of Geometry Enter
The spirit of the Gileadites is quite active today. The use of words “as a test” is still in force: if you look a certain way and hold to certain opinions, then you are “one of us”. As such, it is a low level of discrimination. Yet, in a war, it may be the most important. Continue reading
Signs of Intelligence
Imagine, as philosophers postulate, that the earth is another moon. Continue reading
I had too much to Dream last Night
I had a dream last night that has left me bemused. Without going into what happened before, most of which I have immediately forgotten, the dream ended with a brief conversation with a friend at a café. I was explaining to her that she had two ways to look at the world. Continue reading
The Black Mass
Satanists have their heretics, that is, those who revert to nature worship. A true Satanist, however, understands its supernatural origins. Satan does not ignore God, rather he puts himself at the same level. Continue reading
Nothing new under the Sun
The idiot simpliciter is a man who cannot follow a logical argument. The idiot savant is a man who can say the words, without understanding what they mean. And the useful idiot is the man who does someone else’s dirty work in the mistaken belief he is working towards his own ends. Continue reading
Dying as you live
A gentleman who recalled this story. He was called upon to give an impromptu talk on the question, “If you had just 5 minutes to live, what would you do differently with your life?” He recalled that he stumbled through some explanation about seeing life more clearly and changing his values. What is more significant is that he remembered the critique I made to his talk. Continue reading
Tilting at Windmills
The real difficulty [in understanding metaphysics] is the mental assimilation needed to arrive at this result; there are certainly many minds that are quite incapable of it, and it is easy to gauge how far this effort transcends the scope of mere works of erudition. There is only one really profitable of studying doctrines: in order to be understood they must be studied so to speak “from the inside” Continue reading
Dialectics Redux
The Hermetic method is the way of depth, not confrontation. If we have two opposing view, each of which seems reasonable or even unrefutable, then we try to go deeper to determine what they have in common. A frequent example involves the debate between believers in religion and believers in science. Continue reading