See Jim Harold’s Campfire #215: A Night on the Queen Mary (link at bottom) Psychedelic experience: to what degree self-generated or external; the ‘unmistakable spontaneousness’ of real inner vision; the complexity of the mind/brain; the mind as epiphenomenon Two sets of encounters: vaporizing DMT while on LSD, DMT by suppository; trepidation leading up to first … Continue reading "Apr 05 2015"

Nature’s End vs. The Key and Superstorm: ‘true encounter’ or shift in mainstream science news? Strieber reacting to new material at the edges of the mainstream, transmuting it into prophecy; Prophecies that never came true; Strieber and appeals to secret knowledge; the disingenuousness of Strieber: successive stages including initial dismissal, ‘truth stranger than fiction’, believing … Continue reading "Mar 28b 2015 – Whitley Strieber series"

The Key and Gurdjieff, physical exercises and attention, essence and aim; appropriation and ambiguity when it comes to Gurdjieff; strangeness of Strieber’s lack of reaction to Gurdjieffian ideas in the ‘conversation’. Two kinds of appropriation: direct, gross appropriation and unconscious appropriations sometimes given different meaning; law of three and seven as ‘giveaway’: the case of … Continue reading "Mar 28a 2015 – Whitley Strieber series"

The Modern Major-General and flying saucers; phony insiders with aliases and fishy backgrounds: Dan Burisch, Bob Lazar; MK-ULTRA, multiple personalities, and Manchurian candidates not as assassins but for disinfo; MK-ULTRA as a possible response to alien abduction, recreating the breaks in memory and personality observed in abductees; State’s concern over abductees as Manchurian candidates; fears … Continue reading "Dec 06 2012"

Devolution of consciousness; forensic reconstruction of drunk binges; reconnecting with old friends; the ‘12 steps’ and physical dependency Conspiracy theory and taboo; origins of the term ‘conspiracy theory’; CIA Dispatch 1035-960 from 1967; discrediting critics of the Warren Commission Report; Karl Popper and the ‘conspiracy theory of society’; conspiracy theories as employed by totalitarian regimes; … Continue reading "Oct 24 2012"

Steven Greer the action hero; the UFO ghetto; Willie Sutton: ‘that’s where the money is’; crazies mixed with good honest folks; psychosis in the paranormal: the disappearance of the big Other; writing and the Other; others as refutation of the Other; writing in the absence of the Other Paranormal as roach trap; weeding out craziness … Continue reading "Oct 9 2012"

The porcelain idol; Man’s detachment from the natural order reflected in the disappearance of shit; the life cycle perturbed; decay and death under fatwa; the parable of the young Buddha; no negative, no positive; science as insulating factor; consumerism and the law; incinerating dead relatives; hanging out at the crematorium Strieber and “The Key”: the … Continue reading "Sept 26b 2012 – Whitley Strieber series"

Momma and birthdays; the beginning of the end; the sloppy finish; the Crowley bungalow; satellite link-ups and William Henry’s portal; DMT and the cult leader switcheroo Kephas as the One; feeding salvia divinorum to followers as the ‘red pill’; the Kephas documentary; Kephas as the cause of 9/11 because 9 + 11 = 20; being … Continue reading "Sept 26a 2012"

New Age counter-culture and its frustrations: potent experiences vs. lack of thinking; the Pope clearing the Jews from Rome: an anecdote; universes of discourse; speaking at cross-purposes Economics of New Age spiritualism; nature of consumption entailing separate, closed universes; the New Age Happy Meal; narcissism and intellectual relativism; ultimate truth lost to the ineffable; private … Continue reading "Sept 13 2012"

Marfan syndrome; Lincoln impersonators; hyperdimensional nature of Kennedy assassination; Star Trek three-dimensional chess; the artistry of suicide; suicide hoax as proximate cause for marriage; human improvement in a variety of spheres; unreported stories of human evolution Personal or individual power obscured by propaganda; human folly as favored meme; news reporting without context, without beginning or … Continue reading "Sept 12 2012"