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Through a Fractured Glass, Darkly (Part Two): Whitley’s Onion

The desire to find a higher purpose is the same desire that draws people to join cults. If an individual is more inclined to lead than to follow, he can start his own following. Although Strieber's case is extreme, it is also typical. Patterns laid down in childhood by trauma and neglect lurk beneath all such pursuits, spiritual, political, artistic, sexual, or financial.

Through a Fractured Glass, Darkly (Part One): The Facts in the Strange Case of Whitley Strieber

Well-known for his horror fiction, Strieber underwent some extremely unusual personal experiences in 1985 and wrote a book called Communion, after which his name became synonymous with alien abduction. Yet Strieber is far more than just a man who claims that aliens did strange things to him. This is Part One of a two-part article.

A Sorcerer’s Corner: Carlos Castaneda’s Doomed Romance with Knowledge

Carlos Castaneda was called "the godfather of the New Age" by Time magazine. He has also been denounced as a hoaxer, opportunist, and liar. But there is simply too much in the books of obvious merit for me to believe that he made it all up.

The Serpent’s Promise: The Oldest Exchange of All

This in-depth exploration peers into the complex relationship between psychedelics, consciousness, and death.

Skywriters in Hades (Pt. 2)

The discovery of mirror neurons marks an Archimedean point (a God's eye view) from which all human knowledge can now be rethought and all our models of reality must be reformulated. The reason, in simple language, is that mirror neurons present us with a solid scientific basis for telepathy, and the existence of telepathy changes everything.

Skywriters in Hades (Pt. 1)

Magic, shamanic trance, lucid dreaming, meditation, psychotropic plant use, and writing are all ways to remember how we tricked ourselves into getting lost in a language-based reality construct. By adapting our consciousness to accomodate unfamiliar brain states, we can "write" a more cohesive narrative of reality.

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Articles by: aeolus kephas

Through a Fractured Glass, Darkly (Part Two): Whitley’s Onion

Through a Fractured Glass, Darkly (Part One): The Facts in the Strange Case of Whitley Strieber

A Sorcerer’s Corner: Carlos Castaneda’s Doomed Romance with Knowledge

The Serpent’s Promise: The Oldest Exchange of All

Skywriters in Hades (Pt. 2)

Skywriters in Hades (Pt. 1)

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