Gary Lachman’s ‘In Search of P.D. Ouspensky’: Gurdjieff manipulating different sides of Ouspensky; Ouspensky giving up on the ‘work’, saying ‘there is no system’; Gurdjieff reworking Ouspensky’s ideas, parallels in Strieber; Strieber’s concept of viewing human life ‘outside of time’, time having a shape, taken directly from Ouspensky; Strieber as reader of Ouspensky; time as … Continue reading "Mar 23 2018 – Whitley Strieber series"

Gurdjieff: essence and personality; Jean Vaysse, inheriting essence vs. acquiring personality; personality murdering essence, the walking dead; Gurdjieff’s examples in ‘In Search of the Miraculous’; raspberry jam; experiment left unrepeated; question as to essence and reincarnation; where Strieber got the modified notion of essence; the oral tradition; essence and the ‘solar’ level The evolution of … Continue reading "Mar 21 2018"

Contact/disclosure producing a Copernican event, decentering Mankind; the range of possible contact/disclosure scenarios; mankind’s origins, confronting a demiurge; essential vs. cultural changes; religious impulse: UFO cults, Strieber, prayer-as-petition; transhumanism, transgenderism, scientism, the internet as steps toward the Grays; scales of evolution, comprehensibility; impossibility of contact at certain scales; contact a crisis for humanism; contact as … Continue reading "Feb 24 2018"

Parmenides, Heraclitus, choosing sides; the achievements of antiquity, the question of Time; Kantian antinomies; the possibility of multiple ontologies, empirical verification; Hegel and truth in stages Whether past, present, future exist; Time as decompleted present, dissipating; past not existing, future never arriving; skepticism and fundamental ontologies; the ‘there is’; iterative skepticism (systematic doubt) vs. skepticisms … Continue reading "Feb 15 2018"

Whitley Strieber, Jeremy Vaeni, bad faith; criticizing Strieber equaling anti-Semitic neo-Nazism; daring to question the Great Man; bad experiences with Strieber; Strieber’s Journal “Attacks on The Key”; Strieber’s self-parodizing; Strieber as omnisicient; Robert M. Price, Bible Geek’s take on “The Key” The Master of the Key’s delivery; speaking at the speed of thought; the ‘true … Continue reading "Jun 09 2017 – Whitley Strieber series: Reaction to “Problems with Strieber and The Key”"

Impending doom and personal despair; the freak show and the missing ideal; dropping IQs in France; failure of collective response to political problems; omnipresence of stupidity; WW3 and Syria; propaganda on all sides; Notes from a Dying Planet video diary; ISIS as exciting invitation for genocide; ISIS conquering the world, wild ambition to be saluted; … Continue reading "Nov 27 2015"

Skype issues, lousy wine, Buddhist podcasts; Daniel Ingram, arhat; rediscovering the tradition; practical and actual Buddhism; how the West has absorbed Buddhism: religious and ritual-oriented vs. convert counter-cultural Buddhism; the new mainstream: meditation for stress reduction, increasing productivity; Science and its one-sided relation to Buddhist tradition; cultural mixing as clusterfuck Contrasting Buddhism’s spread with Christianity’s … Continue reading "Aug 03 2015"

Meditation, truth pursuits, and loneliness; rejoining the Gurdjieff group; compartmentalization in everyday life; experience as shared experience; the dangers of isolation in meditation as lifestyle; lessons learned in their own time; human life social by definition; loneliness outside of everyday experience; experiences formed and thoughts conceived always in relation to some Other; suffering in silence; … Continue reading "Aug 01 2015"

Customer service success stories: raccoons, hostages, sores, Keanu Reeves; putting homosexuals on the moon; defecation on a dare; the nature of people and of the world; obese albinos, Abe Lincoln in drag; midgets in wheelchairs stealing food; pregnant women wandering barefoot and bewildered; the Monkees and the Gays; hot dog phobias; sex advice to kids; … Continue reading "Jun 27b 2015"

Topless sunbathing culture and American imperialism; breasts oppressed in the Netherlands, Sweden, Italy; police functions and toplessness Philosophy’s rejection of mysticism; the central place of demonstration; metaphysics as the mythology of the mathematical; the colonization of wisdom traditions by formalism; the dominance of logic: reason as formalism; logic in the Stoic period; 20th century philosophy … Continue reading "Jun 27a 2015"