Happiness and the riddle of experience versus memory – Daniel Kahneman’s model of selves.

Called one of the most influential psychologists of our time, Daniel Kahneman has been appearing in articles from Freakonomics – yes because of a recently released book, Thinking Fast and Slow - and here’s an example:

http://www.freakonomics.com/2011/11/28/daniel-kahneman-answers-your-questions/

Q. You recommend the use of checklists in business decision-making to counteract a number of the [...]

Programming the Mind of God – yeah that’s right…

So – if we are software, then all kinds of interesting things become possible, is I suppose the takeaway from this piece. It does still posit something outside, tinkering with what’s inside.

Inherently unsatisfying or supremely satisfying, depending on your favorite imprinted storylines.

How to Build a Computer Model of God

Can Souls [...]

“Stairway to Eleusis – the EXEGESIS exegesis and the dharma of Philip K Dick”

 

I attended a lecture given by Richard M Doyle - ”Stairway to Eleusis – the EXEGESIS exegesis and the dharma of Philip K Dick” – as I understood it, he was part of a team of researchers who had the opportunity to go over the infamous and near mythical 9000 page book written by PKD [...]

Tim Leary reappears in Truth Out

Good old uncle Tim gets reprinted by truthout – nice to see him again. His ideas will reappear in time to be studied anew. This snippet starts with some mention of his idea of neurogenetic castes and stages.

http://www.truth-out.org/timothy-leary-wall-street-occupation-movement/1319050501

After the tribal (familial) and feudal (childlike) stages of human evolution came the industrial [...]

Aleister Crowley photos from Life magazine

Life magazine has been posting photos from it’s older collections, and a recent one featured Aleister Crowley. Yeah yeah, spooky right? No. Crowley was a jerk, a freeloader, and a drug addict, and a bit of a religious crank, but some of his work is brilliant, and like a lot of the creative people [...]

The 2012 “apocalypse – apotheosis” – an interesting article by Gary Lachman at enlightennext

Here’s my prediction – December 21st 2012 will come and go like every other solstice. Things here in the US will be just as messed up as they have been, but that’s because of our political and economic choices in the face of peak oil and other macro economic forces and resource depletions, not so [...]

Selena Fox on the CNN beliefnet, responding to McDonnells “satanic altar” idiocy.

It was sweet to see Selena Fox in the news. And on the autumnal equinox as well.

Gotta love the autumnal equinox – a mysterious time of the year, the day’s length changing so fast.

http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2010/09/22/gop-candidates-witchcraft-dabbling-worries-wiccan/

Selena Fox on Beliefnet

There’s an irony to the timing of this hubbub, says Selena Fox, [...]

Erik Davis writes an interesting article on the Rider-Waite (or Waite-Smith) Tarot

Erik Davis is often interesting, tho arguably forced by his circumstances to focus on creating popular content – and he’s an excellent writer and considerably-better-than-average thinker – so even tho it’s an old and much discussed topic, his latest article on tarot and it’s most well known deck is worth reading.

I especially enjoyed the [...]

Issac Bonewitz (correction, Isaac Bonewits) died after ‘a short struggle with cancer’.

If you don’t know who Issac Bonewitz is, that’s not necessarily a surprise, for he represents an earlier more idyllic time in the study of the art form of intentional religion.

(I mispelled his name – my apologies, spelling is a personal weakness. His name was Isaac Bonewits. I leave my original mispelling as evidence [...]

Luck can be made – in the brain and mind

Several articles about the mental differences between lucky and unlucky people have come out recently, all apparently triggered by the book the author of this current article is trying to sell. However, the ideas involved are worth thinking about for esoteric practicioners and explorers, so I picked this article as an example of the bunch, [...]

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