My Default Interface
“Gnothi seauton.” That’s Latin for, “know thyself.” It’s a pearl of wisdom from antiquity that admonishes one to be honest with oneself so that one may know humility, but also to ignore the opinion of...
View ArticleOn Being Inspired
I just got to watch an unreleased video by a guy who I might get to work with in the near future. Excitement about the new gig aside, I found myself very inspired by the guy’s story, and sharing. I got...
View ArticleFishing for God
“A man without God is like a fish without a bicycle.” ~ Found on the men’s room wall, Larry Blake’s Pub, Berkeley, 1977 The Sufi’s say that every story has seven levels of meaning. The above quote is...
View ArticleLooking Up
As a wee lad, I was painfully shy and introverted. I was terribly scared of the world. My personal horizon was about thirty feet from my feet because that’s about as far I ever looked. Needless to say,...
View ArticleHitting the Drum
In a valley with five doors Among one thousand temples The Buddha rings still Thrumming with one beat of the drum One moment everlasting. In a park with deers A dog leads the way Walking the pilgrims...
View ArticleDo It Every Day
The things that get to me most, are the most simple. The minimal is what seems to me to work best. I am speaking about ways to work on myself so that I can craft a better me. I often write about habits...
View ArticleBack in my day!
“Back in my day!” How many of us have heard that admonition? It’s so commonplace that it’s gone beyond a cliche, and recently seems to be fading from the general zeitgeist. I think there are...
View ArticleEvolution Moves In Leaps
The normal understanding of evolution is that it proceeds through random mutations imparting an advantage to individual members of a species who are then able to leverage that advantage to more success...
View ArticleHow Long Should We Wait?
I am having a quiet day while I wait for the inauguration of doom to deal with itself. I am staying away from TV, and YouTube, and keeping a distance from Facebook. I have decided, along with many...
View ArticleSome But Not All
I have been a student of Robert Anton Wilson’s work for a couple of decades now. I have read all his work, watched all his videos, and listened to all his interviews, most of them more than once. I...
View ArticleThe Law of Fives and How Cool It Is
Being it’s a Friday, and being that I am a Discordian, and being that Fridays are a minor holy day to Discordians, and being that today is the 27th of January (2 from 7 is five), I thought I would...
View ArticleDon’t Make A Big Deal Out Of It
The Buddha was not the first buddha. The Pali word “buddha” means “awakened.” The term existed before Gautama Siddhartha became the person we know as, “The Buddha” and founder of Buddhism. This...
View Article5 Things a Sick Writer Can Do
Some days you’re just too sick to write an interesting post. However, you may also want to follow the advice of Dr. Robert Anton Wilson and “do it every day” to make your writing improve. In the spirit...
View ArticleOne Possible Strange Benefit of Religion
I think it’s pretty apparent that some sort of religious impulse exists in many human beings. I don’t think there is any single definitive cause for this (though there may be). It seems to come from...
View ArticleGaming as Training for Model Agnosticism
I’m a gamer. Always have been. Always will be. Gaming has taught me a great many things. At the moment I am thinking about having flexibility in my world view, and lack of dogmatic obedience to a set...
View ArticleFiction Predicts Reality
There has been a piece circulating around about the effects of big data on the 2016 election. (You can check it out here.) It tells the tale of the work of Michal Kosinski and the extensions of...
View ArticlePeople Pleasing Does Not Lead To Success
I had a shift in perspective last year while publishing my coloring books. It’s made my life much better. I think it’s due to a distinction I picked up from Gary Vaynerchuck. You see I am what is...
View ArticleOne Month Down, Eleven to Go
So, I am just a smidge past the one month mark with my experiment of putting up a blog post every day of 2017. It’s been a thing. I’ve learned some stuff along the way. First, this is a patience game...
View ArticleDo It Until You Know What’s Next
Today I’ve been poking away at a fiction story about an accidental guru, and blog posts about not second guessing your happiness, realizations versus answers, some possible trajectories about...
View ArticleUnsettling Consciousness
“We don’t know who discovered water, but it wasn’t a fish.” ~ Anonymous (often attributed to Marshall McLuhan) At what point did humanity become aware of consciousness? In many ways, consciousness is...
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