
Wednesday, December 22, 2010
Secret Sun Picture Parade: Omens and Portents

Tuesday, December 21, 2010
Nightmares in Camelot: Sometimes We Can See Them
Perception has been a major part of what I puzzle over on this blog. Specifically, how perception determines reality or at least how we describe reality.
Wednesday, December 15, 2010
Astronaut Theology: Liverpool, Egypt
Some things don't make sense until such time that they suddenly do.
For instance, here's way too much sun-drenched Egypt in the ancient rain-soaked British isles, from the Druids to Queen Scota to the Celtic Church to Egyptology craze of the 18th and 19th Centuries.
Sunday, December 12, 2010
Secret Star Trek: The Oldest, Deadliest Myth
You might think being a geek should prime you for the Transhumanism Revolution, but in reality it should also prime you against it.
For every Six Million Dollar Man there's a race of Cybermen or Borg or take your pick. William Gibson's Sprawl novels presented Transhuman modification as a ubiquitous consumer product, but what part of "dystopian" do you not understand?
Friday, December 10, 2010
Scrying the Outer Limits: Angelic Alphabets
I'm not going to try to define what magical thinking should be in terms of method or dogma. I don't really subscribe to either. But I do have what I think is a very practical goal or result that magical thinking should lead you to, and that is a sense of possibility.
Fringe: Never Surrender
Fringe wrapped up its alt.universe mytharc this past Thursday with an absolute stormer of a conclusion. Cyberspace was glowing with recaps and round tables and hardcore Fringers were left gasping.
Tuesday, December 07, 2010
The Expanding Human
It's mind-boggling how many syncs and connections erupt when you deal with issues of consciousness.
This episode of The Outer Limits is obviously drawing on the then-contemporary controversy over the Harvard Psychedelic Club, yet it also prefigures many of the plot strands in Altered States (which itself took place at Harvard).
Transhuman Apotheosis/Transhuman Apocalypse
It doesn't bother me that Transhumanism meddles with the forces of nature - bending nature to our will has been the human story since the first tool was made or the first potion was brewed.
Thursday, December 02, 2010
Alien Dreaming & the Widening Gyre: Break on Through
Have you heard about Dark Jupiter? It seems that we're closer to isolating the Sun's "companion," a giant planet that is hurling comets toward the Sun, like some great mythic war in Heaven. Scientists seem to believe there's something out there- something huge- but there's no agreement on what it may be...
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