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It takes courage to look into the unknown. If we don’t have that courage, we attempt to cauterize and bandage the unknown. We paste labels on the unknown, and want it to flow into the shape of our expectations. When we attempt to gaze into the future we encounter the horizon line of the unknown.…

The potential for magical manifestation is inherent in the universe. In the New Age this has inflated into the mantra, “You create your own reality.” But if this were the case, wouldn’t some sufficiently positive-thinking New Ager have created a world without pollution? To a great extent you do create your own inner reality, and…

In what areas of your life are you under the power of malign conditioning? We are constantly being bombarded with toxic conditioning in the form of advertisements and societal/social pressures of all sorts. We may be under the insidious influence of “mind parasites” which could take the form of memes (units of cultural transmission) or,…

Summon your will to cross the threshold. Change is our only true constant. Sometimes change is gradual, in other cases life demands from us a major transition in a compressed period of time. While it is certainly foolish to rush into a major transition, to act before we really know, it can also be foolish…

“Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.” — Tolstoy Subclinical depression is almost the norm in our society. Many people go through their days burdened, their gaze lowered, suffering under a generalized feeling of oppression. Although it is easy to attribute much of this to fractured, alienated lives,…

“Murmur at nothing: if our ills are reparable, it is ungrateful; if remediless, it is vain.” Shakespeare “Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood or appreciated.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson “What poison is to food, self-pity is to life.” — Oliver C. Wilson “Self-pity is a death that has no resurrection, a sinkhole…

Don’t let the matrix castrate you. Many forces seek your disempowerment. One of the most basic forms of castration (for males or females) is to keep your attention focused on the pursuit of a glittering external object — the hottie, money, social status, worldly power, consumer goods, etc. In this position your head is captured…

It just occurred to me that this might be the first Zap Oracle card, created long before the oracle came into being, and also probably my oldest surviving art project. I was probably in first or second grade when I made this card, probably six or seven, and I remember the moment — I was…