"I dreamt I was walking with my father to his house and we got lost in a church basement that opened into a marsh.

I began writing Our Gods Wear Spandex on September 11, 2001 . For some reason I can only ascribe to my Holy Guardian Angel, I wasn...

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 ...

During my Operation Trojan Horse re-read I kept seeing the year of my birth- 1966- recur throughout the text. 

I wanted to keep the latest installment of Wizards, Workings and Walk-Ins above the fold because the feedback it inspired was so fantastic ...

Maurice Masse's passport to Magonia, July 1, 1965 This series -- which started as a look at comic book sorcerers and their real-world ...

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...

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.  

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...

You find wisdom in  the strangest places Well, it's that time of year again; Slave to the Gods mode. Plenty of hot coffee and too m...

When you sift through all of the strange symbolism manifesting itself in the culture you have to ask yourself two questions- what does it me...

The Zeros were a decade in which memes from the underground bubbled up into the mass media and took over the mainstream in a way I would nev...

At a point when lesser shows begin to bleed away their mojo, Fringe continues to conjure up the numinous counter-reality of a dream within ...

  Hmm. Well, The Red Book is the big story in publishing this season , which on one hand is exciting because it seems such an opportune tim...

  I've talked a lot about Jack Kirby on this blog, but haven't done much on Ray Harryhausen, who wasn't quite as ubiquitous in ...

There was a time in my life when I lived Dub morning, noon and night. I'm talking the old school Dub mainly, but also a lot of the work ...

Front row: Christopher Partridge, Jeff Kripal and Michael Murphy  Second row: George Stephanopolous, Ed May, Dulce Murphy, Dean Radin, Vic...

First of all, let me apologize for the extremely infrequent updates here. I've been working seven days a week, anywhere from 12 to 17 ho...

I set out at the beginning of the summer to figure out what this blog was going to be about and what it was meant to accomplish. 

I'll be at the New York Comic Con this weekend so I asked Joe Linsner to do a guest spot eleaborating on some interesting points he rais...