PROLOGUE TO A NOIR HAUNTED HOUSE My vaunted journalism professor insisted that we read H.L. Mencken for our education in media and culture before inflicting ourselves on society. And for our journalistic ethics. There was still such a thing in those days. In fact Prof. Nathaniel Blumberg had just won some awards for his coverage of the Chicago protests in 1968. I wasn't paying much attention so I didn't know that H.L. Mencken had started a magazine in 1920 called "Black Mask" to feature works that were "the best stories available of adventure, the best mystery and detective stories, the best romances, the best love stories, and the best stories of the occult." The dime paperbacks of those authors populated libraries and kitchen tables for quite some time. CEDAR CHEST IN THE BASEMENT. FIRST SIGHTING OF GRIMNIR Mom's Maytag ringer washer circa 1952 was by the basement floor drain. My errant ways meant she had to take me down the stair...
I'm adding George S. Patton to my presentation of New Thought leaders. His faith was born of experience with memory and purpose. Past lives were accepted as a given. He saw his purpose as a continuation of what he had done before. Mission does not end when there is purpose in a continuation. Destiny and Fate are permutations of what one has as a given duty and what one does to take action on that duty. Conditions, luck, and resolve are situations of faith. A profound faith that is not limited by opinions or dogma or how one is expected to think. The clear distinction between Orlog and Wyrd as representing Fate and Desiny (respectivley) is something I've tried to clarify, but I owe this representation to Robert Blumetti. Orlog is the fate you are given by generational and civilizational past actions. Wyrd is the web you weave within that fate to form a destiny of your own choice and effort. My father was visited by...
COMPUTER COLLAPSE. REMEMBERING PREVIOUS CONNECTIVITY Voluntary or tech-situational separation from internet and computer dependence can renew a previous level of connectivity. Functions of social/natural perceptions and modes of creativity are still available. This is an information-rich domain that had accelerated in awareness until we looked so strongly to the electronic materiality. My computer collapse forced me to remember why life was worth living at a different time. We know that TV and public radio are owned by forces detrimental to life-condition so there is nothing there that should occupy our time. Yes, there are hard copy physical books which force us to awaken thought to a level that we previously took for granted. This synthetic thought is important because it can verify experiential perceptions. The actual perception of fields of Being is still available with enough attention and a belief that it can be done. This awa...
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