A photo showing a 10-year-old Canadian drag queen posing next to a half-naked adult performer sparked outrage online. But the boy’s mother thinks it’s all OK and the child is not overtly sexualized. The world of drag queens – male performers taking on exaggeratedly female personas and taking to the stage – may seem like Read More…
Outside the Box
Dive Manual: A Prose of Alchemy & Analytic Psychology – Chapter Six
Songs of the Soul & the Syren [Dive Sickness] “Stage Four begins where many modes of therapy end. It is called ‘From Vision to Commitment’. Here is where the insights are tested and reinforced so that the process envisioned can move from the hypothetical or imaginal realm into the phase of intention and then into Read More…
Uncle Sam Doesn’t Want You Anymore
OK, I’ve got some good news and some bad news. Which do you want first? The good news? OK, no problem. You know that old anti-war cliché about “Suppose They Gave A War And No One Came“? Well that slogan might be closer to becoming reality than you think. Exhibit A: This story from Japan Read More…
Beginner’s Guide to Metaphysics – Part 7: Secret Societies – Freemasonry, Illuminati and Bohemian Grove
Originally posted April 25, 2016 In discussion of the occult, and especially occult history, the ideas would be incomplete if they did not take secret societies into account. Quickly, let’s dispel with some misconceptions here. This is not going to be a rant about the “New World Order,” although the relevancy of this topic will Read More…
Dive Manual: A Prose of Alchemy & Analytic Psychology – Chapter Five
Divination Arts & Modern Science [Dive & Submergence] “I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea, and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the Stern Fact, the Sad Self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self Reliance “7 AM, The garbage truck beeps Read More…
Dive Manual: A Prose of Alchemy & Analytic Psychology – Chapter Four
Initiation & the Pilgrimage of the Fool [Setting Sail] “This town don’t feel mine I’m fast to get away far I dressed you in her clothes Now drive me far away It feels good to know you’re all mine Now drive me far away I don’t care where, just far away.” ~Deftones – Be Quiet and Read More…