A couple of days ago I came across two Youtube videos of Qigong masters using chi to perform extraordinary feats.  One, in which I have enormous confidence, is from China,  and was linked to by a man I worked with for many years while doing a lot of healing work, Larry Wong. The other was next…

Because this Rand issue has played such an important part in my own intellectual and moral history, and because my discovery of the Hickman stuff helped solve a puzzle for me about the contemporary political right, I will answer the critics at some length.  I assume you have read the first post and perhaps the…

This will be a very personal post.  I have just come across a very disturbing article: a description of conservative and libertarian heroine Ayn Rand’s early and passionate admiration of a serial killer because of his lack of empathy towards other people.  In her words, “Other people do not exist for him, and he does…

Back from wonderful Vancouver, British Columbia, my favorite city.  I got there as the last tourists visiting for the Olympics were departing,  parking was becoming available again, and life began returning to normal.  I was there for non-Pagan reasons – I am co-authoring a paper using emergent order theory  to explain why Vancouver is the…

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