Brooke Candy, ‘Opulence,’ and the Work of Integrating the Shadow
Jason Louv of Ultraculture teases out the Occult, Jungian undertones from Brooke Candy’s “epic piece of corporate artifice,” ‘Opulence.’
Scientific Ufology Waves White Flag
As Teeming Brain blogger Matt Cardin brilliantly, eloquently and rather optimistically illuminates, several British Ufologist leaders have informed the mainstream media that primarily immaterial 'paranormal' occurrences are simply too much for objective scientific thinkers to handle. I offer a more pessimistic, and probably less brilliant, view.
The Egyptian Pursuit of Happiness
Consciousness is a continuous process of unfolding, punctuated by
dislocations and reunions; the Osiris myth marks many of the key points in this
evolution. Indeed, it is a priceless alchemical myth of existence given to us
by nature and sculpted by humankind.
Sleep Paralysis Visions: Demons, Succubi, and the Archetypal Mind
Have you ever woken up in the middle of the night and found you can’t move, or even cry for help, you might have experienced sleep paralysis.
Shamanic Transference
To deny or distrust our own perceptions is to reject our authority as author of our own experience. It takes courage to stand for our experience when our perceptions are not validated by others. In not disassociating from our experience, we are on our way to becoming autonomous individuals.
The Immanence of Myth
Life is a dream you won't remember upon awakening, and myth is that dream retold. We transmit our living mythologies to each other through our art, but equally so through our impact upon one another in our day-to-day lives.
The Sacred Art of Alchemy
To the alchemists, creating the philosophers' stone was analogous to waking up to the dreamlike nature of the universe. Becoming lucid in the waking dream is seen as a reflection of God's ongoing creation of and incarnation into the world.
