My body’s experience is that everything around me is filled with layers of meaning. But not all meaning is made equal. The type of meaning that resides in the natural world is honest and straightforward, even when deception is involved. The kind of...

I always thought this story was fascinating. From Doug Boyd’s Mystics, Magicians, and Medicine People: Tales of a Wanderer. Doug Boyd was also the author of the famous book, Rolling Thunder. Rolling Thunder often repeated, “We do so many unnatural...

I’m trying to research more fantasy novels to read. Fantasy novels are my way of unwinding. But a good book can be hard to find. Found this system of classification on the blog of fantasy author Steven Brust: I spent a delightful morning hanging...

My experience is that the world is filled with hidden mysteries, which in and of themselves are neutral. My experience is also that the world is filled with forces that threaten to take my life or life-energy. These things combine to form a world...

Satan is considered the Great Deceiver. The Demiurge of the Gnostics, ruler of this plane of existence, likewise is said to have fooled people into thinking that he is God. The concept of Maya, in Buddhist and Hindu philosophy, holds that the world...