[This post was originally for my Paranormal blog. It will still appear there because the implications and benefits of advanced human ability are an important aspect of this work. However, statistics and protocols are secondary to just plain living well. How we live in a way that is practical transcends any 'science' as a limited field. Living well is the best paranormal.] Here is a version of that essay. Thomas Carlyle's advocacy of the heroic in our culture is no longer mentioned in our schools. In fact few teachers, much less students, know who Carlyle was. Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881) was a contemporary and friend of the American transcendentalist, Ralph Waldo Emerson. I believe that to a student in the mid-1960s Carlyle was still known in literature until his banishment at some later time. His heroic standards for the West seems to have been too much for our emerging Liberalism. But this is not a grievance stu...
I'm creating Gumroad books. It's where I live now. Most of these books can be found for free with pretty much identical stuff on my blogs. This post is where I'll list my books with the blogs for quick access. Everything is a work in progress. Everything. ANCIENT WAYS TO NEW THOUGHT Coincidence brought this book to my attention today. That's how this Cosmic stuff works sometimes. My main interest for more than 30 years was with Germanic Mythos and runes, and the Return of a people. Mostly esoteric but with the practical results required of anything valid. At some point I insisted on mentioning that some of the ancient rune formulas were similar to what is called 'New Thought.' This is a concscious identity with the God aspect that one is most happy with. This work is similar to another Gumroad book, 'Cosmic Spirit Tech.' Separation of related fields is not the way. There is a continuity that ...
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...
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