Category Archives: reality hacking
Adam Phillips: Happiness is always a delusion
The psychoanalyst author of On Kissing, Tickling and Being Bored has a new one coming out. The subject is the ever-popular pursuit of happiness, and the news isn’t good, but it might set you free. “I don’t want happiness to … more…
Gary Gygax, World Dictator?
You wouldn’t necessarily know it if, like me, you’ve been visiting Charlie Stross’s long-established blog address and waiting for something to happen, but there’s a fairly major post in the provisional post-migration-from-Blosxom version of the blog, on the his work-in-progress, … more…
Magicians in the air tonight
Channel 4 – Real Lives – Jasper Maskelyne In 1941, Maskelyne was involved in an elaborate operation which diverted German bombers from the port of Alexandria by setting up a fake harbour in a nearby bay; this involved constructing dummy … more…
photographical evidence, ladies and gentemen
I believe this has already been slashdotted over the weekend, but there’s a blinking world exclusive at ufomag.co.uk, where they will shortly be revealing photographical evidence, ladies and gentemen, of UFOs taken by satellite and analysed by somebody called EUROSETI, … more…
SELFS: Michael Staley on Initiation
Attended another meeting of the South East London Folklore Society last night – Michael Staley gave forth on the subject of initiation, with particular reference to an Austin Osman Spare drawing called The Background of Prescience. I’ve been unable to … more…
Phil Hine
Here, mostly because I spotted a guy on the train home who looked a lot like him but probably wasn’t, is the links page to the Fifth Aeon Agregore, which is Phil Hine’s home on the web, and a useful … more…
Robert Anton Wilson links
disinformation has pulled together a very respectable collection of Robert Anton Wilson links, with a little light commentary by Richard Metzger.
Mystery over German guerrilla’s brain
BBC NEWS | World | Europe | Mystery over German guerrilla’s brain In which Bettina Roehl, daughter of RAF ideologist Ulrike Meinhof (who allegedly commited suicide at Stammheim prison in 1976) claims that illegal post-mortem tests on her mother’s brain … more…
What Did Poe Know About Cosmology?
Nothing. But He Was Right. it seems that Edgar Allen Poe ‘prediscovered’ (horrible word) what we now understand as the Big Bang in 1848, and published his thoughts as a prose poem called Eureka. “From the one particle, as a … more…
Plan Plant Planet
Our present global crisis is more profound than any previous historical crises; hence our solutions must be equally drastic. I propose that we should adopt the plant as the organizational model for life in the twenty-first century, just as the … more…