And the priestess spoke again and said:

"Speak to us of Reason and Passion."

And he answered saying:

Your soul is oftentimes a battlefield, upon which your reason and your judgment wage war against passion and your appetite.

Would that… Continue reading →

And a poet said, "Speak to us of Beauty."

Where shall you seek beauty, and how shall you find her unless she herself be your way and your guide?

And how shall you speak of her except she be the… Continue reading →

This is my prayer to thee, my lord – strike, strike at the root of penury in my heart.

Give me the strength lightly to bear my joys and sorrows.

Give me the strength to make my love fruitful in service.… Continue reading →

    From the ancient mystical traditions comes the idea of the Cosmic constant, the prime vibration, the word. The Sanskrit root word or seed sound symbolizing that aspect of the Godhead, which creates and sustains all things is called… Continue reading →

The Seth Material

In late 1963, Jane Roberts and her husband, Robert Butts, experimented with a Ouija board as part of Roberts’ research for a book on ESP. According to Roberts and Butts, on December 2, 1963 they began to… Continue reading →

Light up: George Michael smokes cannabis during the TV interview

Astonishing photographs today showed George Michael openly smoking a cannabis joint during a television interview.

The 43-year-old star, who has twice been cautioned for possessing the drug after being found… Continue reading →

In the latter half of 1838, Cherokee People who had not voluntarily moved west earlier were forced to leave their homes in the East.

The trail to the West was long and treacherous and many were dying along the way.… Continue reading →

Salvia divinorum

Salvia divinorum, also known as Diviner’s Sage, Magic Mint, Sally D, Ska María Pastora, or simply Salvia (although the genus name is shared among many plants) is a powerful psychoactive plant, a member of the sage genus… Continue reading →

Peyote (Lophophora williamsii) is a small, spineless cactus whose native region extends from the southwestern United States (including the states of Texas and New Mexico) through central Mexico. It has been used for centuries for the psychedelic effects… Continue reading →

This posting is a section of personal writing that I completed on October 27th, 2006.  In it I use my own words and experiences to tell a sort of existentialist worldview that I’m coming to embrace.  I talk of the… Continue reading →