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Another View of Inception
Well, I finally saw Inception. I hadn’t planned on writing about it, however, as everyone from fanboy to critic to armchair PhD has already weighed in. Still, Christopher Nolan’s latest certainly squeezed my mind grapes, so I figured I’d throw some ideas together. ++Dream a Little Dream++ Artists of all kinds have long been fascinated with dreams [...]
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Linkdump: Things Are Not As They Seem
Posted by Norton on Mon, Apr 19, 2010
The Council On Spiritual Practices offers information on psychoactive sacramentals in their Enthogen Project. While the New York Times reports on emerging studies with psychoactives. This is much along the lines of Aldous Huxley’s beautiful deathbed experience. Troublesome Creek could be the name of your next band/novel/screenplay. Maybe this is where the term “blue blood” originated, though I [...]
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Pseudonyms and Fuzzy Memories
Posted by Chris Parizo on Thu, Mar 11, 2010
Over the past two years, I rode the rollercoaster of being a “professional” paranormal investigator. I joined and left three different paranormal groups: one documented in earlier Contrarian posts, and two recent groups where I used a pseudonym and a fabricated personal history in the hopes of hiding from my very “Googleable” existence (19,800 results [...]
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On Sonic Aesthetics and Musical Craft
Posted by Casey Rae-Hunter on Sat, Jan 30, 2010
This morning I awoke to a head full of thoughts — not an unfamiliar phenomenon, I must say. During coffee, something drew me to an online collection of interview snippets about/with Syd Barrett — the late psych-pop acid casualty and leader of the original Pink Floyd. Actually, I know exactly how I got there — [...]
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Merry Christmas from the Process Church
Posted by Casey Rae-Hunter on Thu, Dec 24, 2009
The Process Church of the Final Judgment was one of the more enigmatic of the Aquarian-age neo-Jesus cults to bubble up from the psychic well of the 1960s. It is my belief that there are points in history when societal structures — cultural mores, spiritual tenets, control apparatuses — go haywire, resulting in a funhouse reflection [...]
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Posted by Casey Rae-Hunter on Sun, Aug 1, 2010
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