New podcast: Jezmina Von Thiele and Paulina Stevens discuss Roma culture and fortune-telling, addressing stereotypes, discrimination, and offering advice for aspiring fortune-tellers, highlighting resilience and cultural significance..
Absolutely incredible. Alzheimer's is likely caused by *gum disease* - when the same bacteria that breaks down gum tissue gets into the brain. Beyond earth-shaking
“The real problem of humanity is the following: We have Paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions and godlike technology. And it is terrifically dangerous, and it is now approaching a point of crisis overall.” ― Edward O. Wilson
Alex Jones is talking about wizards on psychedelics using crystal balls as psychic foci to talk to evil entities on Joe Rogan right now way to give away the plot of John Dee and the Empire of Angels buddy, also Eddie Bravo is talking about Jack Parsons and Crowley wtf is going on
Duncan Trussell's nuclear enlightenment bomb MIDNIGHT GOSPEL drops TONIGHT at 12 AM! Netflix!!! There's a whole episode with me! I'm in the trailer! EEEEEEE
"Just be yourself" is the worst life advice ever. If I followed that advice I would literally play PS4 and eat peanut butter out of the jar until the electricity got shut off
If you like
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, CBS' new show about Jack Parsons, you will LOVE
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's hilarious take on Jack Parsons from Comedy Central's Drunken History. Funniest thing I've ever seen (I helped a tad with research):
99% of the so-called occult world is saturated with "grue." Creepy aesthetics, arcane-for-their-own sake spooktastic grimoires, people furtively hinting they might know something they can't tell you, demonism, malice... it sucks and I hate it. Help the world or forever shut it
Indian Buddhists, 500 BC: The universe is an incomprehensible black vastness of lies and torment and as the human mind is part of it, it is complicit in the scheme. American Buddhists, 2019: Here is how to have compassion for people who do not buy Fair Trade coffee
As I'm reorienting myself to a future where I can hopefully be as helpful as possible, I'd like to finally address a skeleton that has been lurking in my closet for like 17 years now. With hindsight, I was actually one of the very first people to be 'cancelled' (that word didn't
At long last! I'm on a brand new episode of the Duncan Trussell Family Hour! Duncan and I talk about the Third Mind, the Third Temple, the Fourth Industrial Revolution, and my plan for building a government-funded corps of NEET sorcerers
For the first time in my life, I feel zero need to keep up with the mass culture, outside of a cornerstone Marvel movie or two. Mass culture is no longer relevant, because it no longer holds people together for watercooler conversation. It's just more "content." Bad content.
I've been involved in a total war with culture since the day I started ... I am at war with the status quo of society and I am at war with those in control and power. - Genesis Breyer P-Orridge
New rule, never throw out books. Hoard them. Everything from now on will either be rewritten by the self-appointed morality Stazi or written by AI. Only the untouched past can be trusted
For all its darkness and failure I feel indescribably lucky to have been a part of the chaos culture of the 90s-00s. We will not see that kind of savage and frightening freedom again
80s music still sounds futuristic because it was the last time anybody made mainstream music that was legitimately optimistic about the future and going into it
Magical people spend their whole lives being dismissed by the "rational" people around them. But they are right. Magick, spirituality, is not only real—it is the most important thing there is.
Until you understand that the "news" is a distortion layer on top of actual information sources like market data and scientific studies, you'll never even begin to see clearly.
In an overflowing media landscape, the narratives you consume and propagate are largely all about class and status signaling, not truth of information.
People love to point out that humans are the most dangerous animal like wow OK, but no, actually, mosquitos are the most dangerous animal. They kill more than 2x the number of people a year than humans do. Seriously, fuck mosquitos
People think metal and 80s industrial is okkvlt but damn, 60s folk music went deep, like listen to one Pentangle track and you'll be in a robe gazing at the moon all night while calling the Green Man to reduce the population of rabbits around your crops or some shit
Odessa shooter was a trucker who had been fired from his job hours before going on a spree. Oh hey: There are currently 3.5 million truck drivers employed in the US, and they are nearly ALL going to be out of work due to automated trucks – enough to form an army. Hey sleep tight!
The fact that people not only care that Elon smoked dope on Rogan's show but are actively trying to narc on him shows how doomed SOME members of the human race are. Don't narc on the guy building your lifeboats, troglodytes
How to better understand history: Every time the history books claim something terrible was abolished (slavery, mass warfare), read it as "abolished in *that* form – because a more efficient and less easily detectable form was developed."
Due to ongoing and catastrophic lack of adult supervision in this country I have invoked Esoteric Order No. 23 and appointed myself acting Head of State effective immediately
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Mushrooms are a terrible gateway drug to realizing you have everything you need and then deciding to opt out of the debt economy by lowering your overhead. Just unbelievably destructive to our communities
Having watched everything disintegrate in accelerated time since 2010, I feel the only public statements I should make are of eternal truths (ie Hermeticism, Taoism, the Enlightened Republic, and so on). They're the only ideas that survive past a week, let alone a lifetime
It took me seven years to do 67 episodes of my podcast; now that I've moved out of LA, I've bumped that to 146 in under 2 years. I'm really happy about this. Any thoughts on what you would like to hear/not hear going forward?
On this Memorial Day I remember all the brave soldiers' lives who have been wasted on completely pointless wars created by arms dealers, bankers and financial speculators, which is all of them
One thing I've struggled to teach myself over the last few years, with low success rate, is: Don't knock or judge the shit other people are into. It may be the life preserver they are clinging onto for dear life.
Having just turned 41 today, I really am at the point in my life where I just do not care what people think of me. My political views are clear: I think the Masonic system on which the US is founded is a work of genius as written, and anyone undermining it is a bad actor.
So I begin again from first principles: What actually reduces suffering? And what can actually, reliably wake somebody up to the point where they are capable of reducing suffering for others? And how do we realistically do this in the context of imminent global collapse?
Here is the way out of our cultural impasse, take it or leave it: To learn to live together, we must recognize and ultimately accept, with compassion and hopefully a bit of humor, the darkest aspects of each others' shadows. That includes both people and groups.
Real spiritual practice means taking a neurotic and useless product of modernity and getting them to surrender to the unavoidable pain of existence to the point that they can see through their own bullshit and actually begin to see and effectively help other beings.
The most important music genre of 2020s is and will continue to be the "lofi beats to study/relax to" genre and all similar hours-long mixes designed as background music for computer work. That's where people are actually at, not CBGB's in 1977 or something
I cannot even begin to communicate the sheer hatred I feel watching Assange become a butt of jokes on SNL, Jimmy Fallon and the entire allegedly "journalistic" media, who chortle and snicker and congratulate each other over the squelching of our last bits of information freedom
Nothing could now be more important than real-world networking - the creation of positive voluntary associations of people willing and daring enough to cut through the social trance. Nothing!
Real spiritual practice means waking up on a planet that produced Auschwitz and Nanjing. It means forcefully ceasing all strategies for pain avoidance—in the middle of a hopeless situation. All stick. No carrot. Try doing THAT while staying as meek and neutered as a yoga teacher
If America was really committed to democracy, you would get an IRS form allowing you to allocate how your taxes would be used when you filed every year
The counterculture has for years been focused on tearing things down. Why? If you're so clever, build. Build people up, build your community up, build up your world
So many problems in our economy could be solved by people slowing down and building sustainable businesses by actually serving customers instead of coke-addict-hoovering funding to "10x" dumb moonshot ideas. Enough with your moonshots. Make chairs
A New Aeon is coming—it is already here, if you choose. Of radical liberation, of individual awakening. Of insurrection against the Slave Gods. It is as real as you Wish it to be.