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Yesterday, in my last post, I noted that Jim Jones and his People’s Temple conceptualised themselves as a “rainbow family”, a place...

A few years ago, I observed that America is Jonestown; since that time, America has only become Jonestown but more so. Jonestown was an...

About two years ago, I happened on a YouTube channel called “London Real”. The channel is run by a glib American, Brian Rose, who is a...

Words are the currency with which we negotiate reality; and, for the most part, words are debased. Behind each word should be a certain...

To return to experience: I intellectually abandoned my teenage Marxism by the time I was twenty-one, but I only felt it experientially...

You decide to be a mountaineer, so you go to your local climbing wall to start your lessons. A staff member takes you over to the wall,...

Christopher Hitchens was keen to note that God—particularly the Old Testament God—is cruel, capricious, racist, homophobic, war-like, and...

We are now almost two decades away from the period dominated by the so-called New Atheists: Christopher Hitchens, Daniel Dennett, Sam...

Liberalism functions as an abusive parent, for at liberalism’s heart lies the double bind. The liberal tells us that under liberalism we...

CG Jung’s Aion is itself an alchemical work from its very metastructure: the book has 333 pages, a reference to the highest principle in...

In a large London department store, I found myself trapped in a maze-like path to the tills. The set-up was, I suppose, a deliberate ploy...

A man enjoys pie and chips with a beer; he celebrates this as a typical British meal. Asinine nihilism: another man comments that beer...

What is Prince Harry’s problem, anyway? To understand Harry, you must understand inter-elite struggle in the West. There are two elite...

“The problem today is that too few people look at the stars,” a Catholic priest once said to me. This statement is often made, perhaps so...

Apocalypse Now (1979) is about a quest for the Holy Grail; as with all true quests for the Grail, its purpose is disguised. The Grail...

For a brief period, about two months, I slept in my car as an experiment. There was no necessity in this action, I had oodles of cash...

Adorno looks at the Enlightenment’s promise to dispel myth and concludes that far from being a strong sun that burns away primeval myth,...

A common assumption is that Taoist balance means to take a little from Column A and a little from Column B. The Yin and the Yang...

An English sea captain who visited America in the mid-1800s observed that locals near Boston had recently broken into and destroyed a...

Imagine that I decide to integrate into a Bedouin tribe; perhaps I have had a catastrophic breakup, perhaps I want to “find myself” but...