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Psychic or psychological entropy is a state of mind first written about by Carl Jung and later developed by Mihály Csíkszentmihályi in his concept of Flow. A state of psychic entropy is characterized by anxiety, sadness and boredom and typically includes looping negative thought tapes. Psychic entropy is a state that leaves us hampered in…

I Stood Upon a High Place I stood upon a high place, And saw, below, many devils Running, leaping, and carousing in sin. One looked up, grinning, And said, “Comrade! Brother!” — Stephen Crane (1871-1900) The dark side of the force is implicit in the Babylon Matrix. We must accept it, but not allow ourselves…

Glamour and death energy are aspects that don’t have to go together, but often do. Their intermingling is a magnetic coupling favored by both cosmos and psyche. Glamour and death energy synergize into a precious, an all attractive jewel glittering in the night of time which mesmerizes my gaze, compelling me to forever reach for…

It is a common and limiting assumption that only one interpretation of an event or situation is correct. But the phenomenal world is rarely, so cut and dried. Interpretation may often be more usefully regarded as a choice rather than flattened into what is believed to be the single correct answer. For example, I recently…

The heart has two phases, contraction and expansion, systole and diastole. Mammal incarnation has two phases it cycles through on a daily basis — waking and dreaming. We are interdimensional travelers, arriving from another dimension at birth, departing to other dimensions at death. The cycle of the day recapitulates the cycle of a life. At…

Someone wrote the last stanza of Tennyson’s classic poem “Ulysses” in a Burning Man temple: Tho’ much is taken, much abides; and though We are not now that strength which in old days Moved earth and heaven; that which we are, we are; One equal temper of heroic hearts, Made weak by time and fate,…

Avoiding the vampire path is not as easy or as obvious as it might seem. For example, someone scanning personal ads looking for someone that will make him feel better could be said to be on a vampire path. Whenever our focus is on what we want, or feel we need from others, we have…

The value of perseverance has been recognized by people of every culture and every period. If plants and animals could articulate the key principles they live by, perseverance would be chief among them. The I Ching is the world’s oldest book and the mother source of almost all Eastern thought and culture. Hexagram 32 is…

According to the I Ching, you have only one obligation in life — to get your relationship to yourself right. Do that and your relations to sex, time, money, power, food, body, career, society, the cosmos, etc. will all be as good as outer conditions allow. Omit, distort or neglect any part of your relationship…

This is a propitious time to consider the direction you are going and to make course corrections. To make a course correction you need to first establish your present trajectory. Stop and consider what you have spent time, energy, and money (a form of energy) on in the last day or week or other unit…