Author Offers Information About His Evolving Philosophy Today I present quotes for contemplation from Julius Evola, a problematic but fascinating 20th century Italian philosopher and esotericist in whose works I’ve nonetheless managed to find quite a bit of wisdom. Despite elements of his thinking which don’t jibe with my view of humanity at all, his […]
Local Author Extols Virtue of Rest Ever start your day by cracking open a book and achieving instant satori, like being in the glare of a white-hot spiritual follow spot, and placed there by the voice of a long-dead author? Welcome to my world. But today’s pre-dawn reading, from Rumi, landed in a manner most […]
Local Author Discovers 50 Year-Old Truth-Drop in SF Novel I first read The Lathe of Heaven, a fine science fiction novel by the inestimable writer and thinker Ursula K. Le Guin, as a curious teenager and fan of such speculative fiction. I read the book after watching a television adaptation which had compelled my imagination, […]
Author Transubstantiates Depression into Stark Megalomania No question I have put in the ‘time’ to achieve all which now lies before me. A nice little shelf of books, as I keep saying. But more than mere quantity—I managed to manifest literal dreams.
