The crux of this whole inadvertent series of writings is giving attention to words that resonate in my head, revealing themselves as very potent portals to understanding particular dire or…
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I’m not sure when I became cognizant of the concept of discipline, but I remember instances in my childhood that would fall under the portion of its definition that relates…
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Franklin D. Roosevelt once said, “There is nothing to fear but fear itself.” But recently I watched this old Eastern Wisdom and Modern Life episode, hosted by Alan Watts, that…
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Roughly in the middle of the 1980s I became a part of the earth, a ‘slice of life.’ Reagan’s reign, his empty actor vial of a self funneled Milton Friedman’s…
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Recently I quit a job. I felt slightly bad about it, sort of screwing over some people. The burden placed on those people, though, is not as large as the…
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The generally accepted archetype for all heavy music is Black Sabbath, and rightly so. Chuck Klosterman claims that Sabbath is the most underrated band in the history of rock music,…
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Growing up with a mother who regularly taught Sunday School meant that I didn’t get to skip church much as a child. Faith was a word that circled around me…
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The first time I ever heard the word java it was as a slang for coffee. Probably on a cartoon or something. I avoided coffee until I was about 18…
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When I was a twenty-two year old senior English Lit major, wanting to get all my credits squared away, I disinterestedly signed up for a class called ‘British Literature: 1800-1900.’…
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Read Part 1 here. *** Love Meetings (1964) Around the time that Pasolini was scouting locations for The Gospel According to Matthew (1964) he was also doing interviews all throughout…
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Since my fascination with Italian writer, director, poet Pier Paolo Pasolini has grown at a steady pace from when I first discovered him some six odd years ago upon watching…
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George Méliès’ most popular film, and likely for most the earliest film that has images still haunting our collective consciousness—thanks in part to a Smashing Pumpkins music video—is Le Voyage…
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In Meditations on the Tarot: A Journey Into Christian Hermeticism, the anonymous author says the following during his chapter on the Sixth Major Arcanum, The Lover: Regarding the antichrist, this…