In another group I belong to, the following quote was posted:

By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired. ~ Nikos Kazantzakis

...followed by the question: to what extent do you think this is a true statement? To what extent DO we create our own reality ( Read more... )

I see a lot of movies, but very seldom do I feel sufficiently moved to write what amounts to a review of one. Yesterday, Wendy, myself and another friend went to see the new Kevin Costner film, SWING VOTE, and despite myself, I just can't seem to keep my mouth shut.   Nothing new there, I suspect.

Overall, the movie was pretty damn funny.. Costner ( Read more... )

 What is lettuce, Young Grasshopper?

Well, if you ask me, it's something that should probably be eaten BY grasshoppers, rabbits and other marauding rodents & insects, because to the human palate, lettuce is rather like congealed water rendered into some manner of crunchy leaf through the mysteries of nature and the marvels of modern horticultural ( Read more... )

 ANONYMOUS WROTE:

I agree that one aspect of genuineness is not putting on an act to please others because I'm afraid of what they will think of me.. we all have dual personalities, both pos. and neg., but many are afraid of exposing their negative personalities, probably because they feel it does no good only harm.

In itself, that is just another ( Read more... )

The demons are back again.

But as I look at those words on this cyberpage, I cannot help but see the programs inherent even in that single sentence. To call them demons is to relegate them to some nether-realm of imagined evil, replete with gargoyles and denizens of the night. To say they are "back again" implies that they went away, but it would ( Read more... )

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In a recent series of discussions at my new online forum, THE SORCERER'S WORLD, the topic of "the flyers" or "the foreign installation" has come up several times.  Some insist that the flyers are inorganic beings who essentially eat our awareness, steal our energy.  That has not been my experience, and so I have come under no small amount of ( Read more... )

There are few things scarier on planet Earth than "southun' wimmen".  Not to be confused with perfectly fine women who happen to live in the south, "southun' wimmen" are a species unto themselves, and indeed they are one major reason I left the south and  broke all contact with my family (other than my mother) 33 years in the past.  But more on ( Read more... )

In the course of running my forum, THE SHAMAN'S RATTLE, as well as in the course of talking to spiritually-minded people I meet every day, I encounter a lot of people who are afraid of "brainwashing" who never stop to consider the fact that they have been brainwashed, programmed and duped since they first poked their head out of their mother's womb ( Read more... )