On Demons, Evil Spirits, and Possession

Tonight, I kicked back and watched an ABC Nightline episode called Beyond Belief: Battle With the Devil. Sadly, as expected, I was less than amazed by it. It took things from the standard wacky Christian playbook that’s been around as long as I can remember (at least since the 80s), didn’t include any good interviews […]

Spinning Up, Getting Back on Track

Like many things, this blog kind of fell by the wayside over the past year or so. I’ve been more concerned with more immediate needs–like paying the bills, staying employed, and, somewhere in there, moving. When life gets crazy, it’s far too often our personal development and spiritual questing that falls by the wayside first. […]

Long Time Silent

Yes, it’s been a bit quiet here for a long time. But the winds are changing, the wheel turning, and I hope to be back on track shortly with all of this. I’ve been living in “interesting” times. Look for some reviews and writings in the next week or two.  

A Reintroduction

In life, it is always good to regularly take a long, hard, look at where you are, where you’ve been, and where you’re going. Regular re-evaluation of oneself is one of the common-sense keys to positive growth and self-knowledge. Often, that leads to the realization of a bit of change. Other times it makes clear […]

Time Warp

New monthly bit here. Just a quick note catching up and looking ahead. A kind of regular check and balance to make sure things are moving in some direction that vaguely resembles “forward.” Looking Back OK, it’s been very quiet here. Mostly because the mundane world has kept me more than a little busy. There […]

Before Dawn

The Winter Solstice once again finds me looking back on the past months during the wee hours of the night. It just so happens that this late December, the world around me has been encased in a certain amount of snow and ice. Enough to disrupt pretty much everything in the region. I’ve actually never […]

No Nightmare Because of Christmas

PC110022, originally uploaded by KierDuros. When Tim Burton’s Nightmare Before Christmas hit the screens, it very quickly became one of my all-time favorite holiday films. Mostly because it had my favorite holiday (Halloween, in case you can’t tell) blended in with the much more popular one. Mostly, but not entirely. The movie (if you haven’t […]

Certified

As someone who stands outside of all the mainstream religious institutions, there are some things that, once upon a time, were kind of tricky to do without bending or breaking either one’s beliefs or the law. Back in the early days of the World Wide Web, a group came along that made doing at least […]

Baseline Readings

Whenever I go into a new place for the first time, be it a public space or a private one, I like to get there before the big crowd shows up. If at all possible, being there alone is preferable. In that time, before the rolling froth of individuals churns through the aether, I can […]

Around and Back Again

Just this past weekend, while on my way out of a party for a friend of mine, I was stopped by a lovely young woman. “I know you,” she said. “From where?” I was curious as I had noticed her a little while earlier and couldn’t shake the feeling that she seemed a little familiar. […]