As you get older, it's all too easy to get lost in routine, to anesthetize yourself with ritual and television. It's why creativ...

"The Great Stone Face," 1957 Ancient Aliens is now in its seventh season. I DVR it, but don't really watch it that ofte...

New York Magazine spends the slow weeks of midsummer declaring "The End of UFOs!" The title is a major misnomer, as the artic...

There's a running joke in comics fandom that Rohrshach from Alan Moore's Watchmen is not based on Steve Ditko's Charlton cha...

One of the main tenets of my research is that our most resonant pop culture is a kind of lucid dreaming, in which the creator acts as a ...

  From 2001: A Space Odyssey #2 I realized I left this series hanging and didn't adequately wrap it all up.  Seeing as how Synchroni...

I don't get asked much who my favorite superhero is, but the answer's a no-brainer: it's Doctor Strange.  

Forming is one of those webcomix that I'm not sure I'm not hallucinating. it seems to have emerged from my unconscious, or perhaps...

We've looked at Jack Kirby several times in the past here, most notably in his startlingly accurate (if not often allegorical) predicti...

We looked at Jack Kirby several times in the past here, most notably in his startlingly accurate yet allegorical predictions of the Face o...

I've thought for years that conscious attention is only a tiny fraction of our consciousness.  Turns out I may be right.  Check out this...

Ockham's Razor is one of those famous dictums that people use in arguments and often do so incorrectly.  

Self-portrait, 1985 I came to a stunning realization over the weekend; my most vivid memories are of nightmares that I had as a child.  

Back sometime in halcyon days of the 1990s (you know, back when everyone had "jobs" and "money") comics superstar Grant ...

  Perception has been a major part of what I puzzle over on this blog. Specifically, how perception determines reality or at least how we d...

So I woke up in the middle of the night and realized I was dying of a heart attack. Or at least that's what I told myself was happening...

Have you heard about Dark Jupiter? It seems that we're closer to isolating the Sun's "companion," a giant planet that is ...

Well, it's Sync Log time here on The Secret Sun : the previous post dealt with my encounter with a ghost-like anomaly , and sure enough ...

In the previous post, we looked at what reads like the minutes from an technoccult ritual in which young hippies contact alien artificial i...

So after all the shouting and controversy, could it be that the "Ground Zero Mosque" is a hoax ?