An introduction to Bernardo Kastrup, the scientist and philosopher whose writings on the nature of reality are presenting a major challenge to the materialism and realism that dominate western thought. Philosophical idealism,…
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John Davis is the President of The Flat Earth Society. Need I say more? I would give anything to have that business card. This interview is from the book Subversives: Interviews with…
Can Tamarian language and memes give us a clue as to how we might evolve towards telepathy? If there is anybody out there who has been as critical of memes – as in macro images and…
From Modern Mythology: Part 1: This Is Only A Model Wehave a serious problem brewing. We are living in alternate realities. In one reality people see Trump’s incessant lying, and no one in power…
The eight circuit model of consciousness proposed by Timothy Leary and championed by Robert Anton Wilson is fraught with issues, even as an analogy. One of the first things to consider when…
I used to live in the woods, and drank directly from a stream. I hunted deer, fished for salmon, gathered herbs, Roots and mushrooms for food and medicine. Life was beautiful. There…
Great news! Scientists from Oxford University in the UK believe they have proven in principle that our universe cannot be a program in a super computer run by intelligent machines or some…
(Originally posted at Modern Mythology) Science. Does the word bring images of space ships and high-tech equipment doing miraculous things? Wonder drugs and new solutions to old problems? Good, because this article…
This is an excerpt from Narrative Machines, available now on Amazon.com. “The television screen is the retina of the mind’s eye, therefor the television screen is part of the physical structure of…
This is an exclusive excerpt from Narrative Machines: Modern Myth, Revolution & Propaganda, available now from Mythos Media: Dreams, memories, the sacred—they are all alike in that they are beyond our grasp….
Memento mori is Latin for “Remember Death”. We come to the term specifically from a tradition of medieval Latin Christian practices but similar concepts are found among many religions and philosophies, that…
From Modern Mythology “If men define situations as real, they are real in their consequences.” — The Thomas Theorem, formulated in 1928 by William Isaac Thomas and Dorothy Swaine Thomas The world of…
There are few things in life as unpleasant as fear. Real, gut-wrenching fear. Horror. Anxiety. Despair. Dismay. Dread. Worry. We have taxonomies of fear, categorizations of concern, systems of aversive suspicions, and…
(Original, much shorter version published on Boundary Crosser) A friend recently pointed me to the moral alignment test that’s been so popular lately on Reddit and Buzzfeed. At first, it gave me a good chuckle…
Interview By John Wisniewski, first run on AM/FM Magazine. John Wisniewski: Could you tell us about working on an upcoming book, “Masks”, James? James Curcio: The tentative title is Masks: Bowie and…
From Modern Mythology: From his days as a cyber-gothic acolyte of Leftist thinker Gilles Deleuze to his reinvention as an Austro-libertarian Sithlord heralding a Right-wing “Neoreaction” (NRx), the controversial English philosopher Nick…
Neuroscience has enabled us to explain how the brain affects the body. Yet there is no theory to explain how the matter of the brain creates thought and experience.