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The cycle end-date of the Mayan Long Count calendar, an authentic artifact of an ancient Mesoamerican culture worthy of serious investigation, became the focus of contemporary psychopathology and cultural projection in a way that is fascinating as its own artifact worthy of serious investigation.

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Western romance mythology centers around being in love as an ecstatic state in which we feel we have been completed, found the ultimate meaning in life, and have larger than life feelings of intensity. Unconsciously we have the expectation that our lover provide us with these feelings continuously. We also assume that our model of romance is the best and that love relationships not based on “being in love” must be pale, insignificant shadows by comparison. We are convinced of this despite all the evidence that tells us that few enterprises, besides diets, begin with such high hopes and typically such dismal results as the falling in love sort of romances.

This is going to be a bit of a quickly thrown together rant on a subject that no doubt deserves long and thoughtful consideration, but some strong differences in how people view and act on love happens to be very much on my mind at the moment.

a rant against the well intentioned impulse to "regularize" human sexuality and conduct

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This article derives from a discussion I had with Alex in 2005 and an interview I did with George Noory and Alex in 2006.. Alex narrates an out of body vision which lead to his painting "Demons and Dieties Drinking from the Milky Pool." I provide some analysis of his experience and comments on two other paintings of his which have mind parasite imagery.

The phenomenon of “energy sappers,” of people who are energy drainers, is well known to many from real life experience. The most insightful discussion of the subject I have to date encountered is in Breakthrough to Creativity, a wonderful book on parapsychology which was copyrighted in 1967 by Shafica Karagulla, MD.

This is Part II of an ongoing dialogue with Ron Lampi on Mythos

A young woman I know sent me a dream this morning with themes that resonate with dreams of other young women I have interpreted, and now I wish I had written down more of them because so many of them have been so powerful and illuminating of the state of the feminine after six thousand years of patriarchal history. In this essay I will discuss what I have learned from these dreams and from other cultural observations. I will conclude with analysis of two of dreams, including the one from this morning. Like most of my web-posted documents, this is a work in progress, and I expect to add to and revise this document as more dreams and observations come up.

This is Part II, so don't read this until you've read Part I!

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This is chapter IV of my book, The Capsule of Intentionality, in which I present a summary of the warrior stance from personal experience and a variety of traditions.