Feeding the Psi God: Precognitive Dreaming, Memory, and Ritual
Because of our natural ‘temporal bias,’ we seldom consider the possibility that our dreams (let alone our waking thoughts) refer to future events. This is the main reason precognitive dreams are so seldom reported. We simply don’t notice them.
William Gibson Talks Fashion, Futurism and Science Fiction
William Gibson writes for the Wall Street Journal, “We Can’t Know What the Future Will Bring,” using this fall’s “mind bending” fashion styles to reflect on how we imagine the future to be.
Romancing the Biomechanoid: H.R. Giger’s “San Gottardo”
Artist H.R. Giger left his mark on movies forever, through his contributions to Alien and other classic science fiction films. But he never got to make The Mystery of San Gottardo, the movie he was working on since the 1970s.
R.S. ReReads: VALIS — Chapters 8 & 9
R.S. ReReads examine your favorite media: counter-culture classics, science fiction, films, T.V. and video games in search of gnostic insights and portals to the Otherworld hidden in the plain site of pop. This month we take on Philip K. Dick’s VALIS.
R.S. ReReads: VALIS — Chapters 6 & 7
R.S. ReReads examine your favorite media: counter-culture classics, science fiction, films, T.V. and video games in search of gnostic insights and portals to the Otherworld hidden in the plain site of pop. This month we take on Philip K. Dick’s VALIS.
R.S. ReReads: VALIS – Chapters 4 and 5
R.S. ReReads examine your favorite media: counter-culture classics, science fiction, films, T.V. and video games in search of gnostic insights and portals to the Otherworld hidden in the plain site of pop. This month we take on Philip K. Dick’s VALIS.
Will You Swallow Google’s Edible Microchip?
Forget the mediocre Tom Cruise movies that barely justified their rental fee, this truly might be one of the creepiest ‘future is now’ transhumanist magic acts to date. Head of advanced tech at Google-owned Motorola, Regina Dugan tells us to swallow the pill!
Cyborg Monkeys
Mental augmentation for animals is no longer a science fiction fantasy plot, but a scientific fact.
Radiation: Metaphysical Energies and Super Sexualities
Einsteinian physics and the atomic bombing of Japan birthed an era of global anxiety and metaphysical awe. Thus the major mythemes of science fiction and the comic book superhero came to play a special role in the early 1960s and the American counterculture.
Do Visionary Shamans Dream of VALIS?
Most people know Philip K. Dick through films like Blade Runner, Total Recall, Minority Report, and
A Scanner Darkly, which were all based on his writings. The
Matrix and Vanilla Sky also owe a debt to his work. What is not so well
known is that he spent the last
decade or so of his life struggling to come to terms with a series of visionary
experiences.
