I started this blog five years ago yesterday [What?!? Where does the time go? We’ve had like four apocalypses since then. Where have I found the time?] and in those five years I have only written two posts on it that I have felt met criteria for me to tag them #religion. I think itContinue reading “On Being Religious OR Things that Thinking People Should Know Not to Talk About in Mixed Company”
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Reality, Mysticism and Psychedelia
The first time I ever “tripped” I was sitting in a university classroom. I went on a mystical journey to a time before time, where the totality of what would have been existence represented itself to me as a tableau my mind could comprehend: a committee meeting to choose the laws of physics where godContinue reading “Reality, Mysticism and Psychedelia”
Why an oracle [and what’s a(n) hierophany]?
When you are raised by atheists in the Bible Belt you can’t help but be a little religio-curious [pretty sure that is a new coinage, but it’s my language too]. Religio-curious adjective. (of a secular person) interested in or curious about having a religious experience or in religious persons, groups and history. As a youngContinue reading “Why an oracle [and what’s a(n) hierophany]?”
The Oracle of Z 