The Taybor and the Rainbow Body
PadmasabhavaI've been rewatching Space 1999, mostly as an exercise in nostalgia and to amuse my inner child. My inner child loves her some Space 1999. It's not a terribly deep or esoteric show,...
View ArticleGalaxy Quest Through the Wormhole
In keeping with my new hobby -- identifying obscure archetypes and esoterica in pop culture -- I noticed a sequence in Galaxy Quest the other day depicting wormhole travel. It's really intriguing....
View ArticleA West Memphis Courtroom and a Wild Story
Michael Moore, Stevie Branch, & Christopher ByersPam Hicks (formerly Hobbs) would like to see the evidence pertaining to her son Stevie Branch's murder.Pam Hicks, the mother of Stevie Branch, wants...
View ArticleTED: So Cowardly, So Cultish -- UPDATED
Click to EnlargeWell. It's official. TED will not be putting anyone forward to debate Rupert Sheldrake or Graham Hancock, despite their generous offers. It does not appear that they told either of them...
View ArticleFurther Adventures in a West Memphis Courtroom -- UPDATED
Judge Victor Hill denied a motion from Pam Hicks (previously Hobbs) and John Mark Byers to see all the evidence in the murder of their sons Stevie Branch and Christopher Byers, as well as Michael...
View ArticleTED: A Postmortem... of the Censorship Debacle
The issue of TED's pulling the Hancock and Sheldrake lectures isn't dead. It's still proliferating through the mainstream press and the blogosphere. But as far as TED is concerned, it's a wrap. They...
View ArticleSelf-Deportation from TED?
I was wondering if and when we might start hearing from the other TEDx Whitechapel speakers. In their open letter, discussed here, the Whitechapel team said that a number of the speakers were unhappy...
View ArticleExTEDx West Hollywood Live Stream ~ Sunday 2:00pm ET ~ UPDATED
Apparently the whole thing is embeddable so it can be viewed from this page. If that doesn't work out, here are the direct links: ExTEDx West Hollywood and Live StreamUPDATE: This program has been...
View ArticleOf TED, Militant Atheists, and the Revenge of Woo
The controversy over TED's censorious nature just refuses to die. Over the past week, Deepak Chopra stepped into the fray and incorporated the voices of a number of credentialed scientists who aren't...
View ArticlePerspectives on Evil from Hancock and Levy
Graham Hancock on Good and EvilIt's hard not to be at least a little preoccupied with evil right now. There's no escape from images played over and over of the carnage in Boston. The explosions there...
View ArticleTED Finds Deepak Chopra's Lost Talk
Click for VideoAs discussed, one of Deepak Chopra's criticisms of TED's censorship referred to his own talk, in which he rebutted Richard Dawkins in 2002. He apparently shamed Chris Anderson into...
View ArticleBecause Everyone Should See Dead Can Dance
Okay, this isn't quite as good as sitting under the stars with my beloveds for the concert of a lifetime but this I can post.The KCRW copy is hilarious.The Australian duo of Lisa Gerrard and Brendan...
View ArticleWarren Jeffs's Estate: The Grand Tour
Willie Jessop exercised his option to put a credit bid on his former boss's auctioned property. As discussed, the former bodyguard of the currently incarcerated Warren Jeffs won a 30 million dollar...
View ArticleGE: Plug Yourself Into the Matrix
"Brilliant machines are transforming the way we work" ~ General Electric"We marveled at our own magnificence as we gave birth to AI... artificial intelligence." ~ Morpheus, The MatrixHey Coppertop,...
View ArticleThe Labyrinth of Warren Jeffs: Another Tour
The other day I posted a video tour of Warren Jeffs's estate conducted by Willie Jessop who recently claimed it at auction. The new video above was shot by Jim Dalrymple of Salt Lake Tribune's Polygamy...
View ArticleGraham Hanock on TED Censorship
Two of my favorite writers, Graham Hancock and William Henry, discuss TED and its censorship of talks that deal with non-local consciousness. I won't belabor this, because I have a nasty head cold and...
View ArticleWho Will Hold the Bishops Accountable?
It turns out that the disgraced Cardinal Roger Mahony, who actively conspired to protect abusive priests from prosecution and then spent untold millions in an attempt to conceal that fact, also tried...
View ArticleHuffPo to Broadcast Eclipse
Buy From Art.comNext best thing to being there... Well, not really, but it'll have to do.While some Aussies will be able to witness the annual "ring of fire" eclipse first-hand, the rest of the world...
View ArticleSheldrake's View From TED's "Naughty Corner"
In very pointed comments, Rupert Sheldrake takes aim at the New Atheist cabal that co-opts the authority of science to advance their cause. He explains that there is a lengthy history of New Atheists...
View ArticleBroken Things
Buy From Art.comSome years ago, I found myself living in an area that, let's say, would not have been my first choice. Dog owner. Sometimes you have to take what you can get. It wasn't a bad little...
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