Lucid Dreaming and Mental Illness
The editor of Gawker called me. He said he was doing a piece on Jared
Loughner, who was sentenced to life in prison without parole
for his deadly rampage in Tuscon in January 2011. Gawker had got a hold of some emails from Loughner. He said, "We have an email from him to you."
The Sikh Temple Shootings and Daemonic Possession
This
Summer in the USA we've now witnessed our second public shooting spree. A Sikh temple in Oak Creek Wisconsin became
the target for another attack. In a broader, evolutionary context these
attacks aren't about darkness or evil as much as they are about daemonic
possession.
The Batman Shootings and Crossover Effects
Some movies that have high
access to the contents of the collective unconscious are "window zones"
or portals between realms, and weird and uncanny things happen in their
wake. Particularly, movies about dark, occult things have a long
history of these crossover effects.