Gods and Men https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Apr19_Post.mp4 What do super heroes do? Protect the weak against the evil. What do super villains do? The use their powers to amass power and wealth, at the expense of the law abiding citizens. Modern comic book superhero’s represent the absolute idealized version of a more standard, mythological […]
Custom Built Heroes
Unlimited Supply https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Apr09_Post.mp4 The entertainment industry is a kajillion dollar a year industry. Movies, books, TV shows, music, etc. These are sometimes purely “escapism.” You watch a movie that has no bearing on reality whatsoever. But at least for a couple hours, you can forget about life. This is why […]
The Most Coveted Human Instinct
The More Things Change https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Mar10_Post.mp4 One of our best features as humans is something called a collective memory. Many animals can learn. One common things many “wild” animals learn is a simple equivalency. Humans = Free Food They see humans, and if they’ve learned this, the start to carefully move close. […]
End Times Theory
Corner Guy Once there was a street preacher. Who was very charismatic. Who stood on many corners. And delivered many sermons. To many people. Some walking past. Some standing transfixed. His storytelling method was perplexing. Within each story. Were many nested stories. Some very short. […]
Metaphorical Money Streams
Two Stage Learning Once there was a communication seminar. To uncover deeper ideas. Below the surface. Of normal communication. The first task. Was to draw certain shapes. Only from verbal descriptions. And zero visual connections. Once this was mastered. Getting Harder https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Dec17Loop.mp4 The next task. […]
Magic Money Man
Master of Skills Once there was a magician. Who did tricks. And real magic. Mostly from the stage. Sometimes on the street. Sometimes it was real. Mostly sleight of hand. Secret Magic Gifts https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Nov27Loop.mp4 But sometimes. When he was feeling particularly generous. He would perform his […]
The Once And Future Postman
Delivery Friend Once there was a mailman. He’d been a mailman for many years. He didn’t have many friends. He really only had one friend. An old lady on his route. She was also lonely. Daily Conversations https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Oct09Loop.mp4 They would talk when he delivered her mail. He was […]
Spinning Trances
Imaginary Helpers I have a friend that bought a hypnotic archetype book. It’s a self hypnosis based meditation on how to create a collection of helpful archetypes. The more you mediate on them, the more they’ll become real. Eventually, they’ll exist as coming from the unused portion of your brain, so they’ll […]
Square Root Thinking
Unlimited Energy? There’s a theory about how to get energy from a black hole. It involves sending something close to a black hole, and using the slingshot effect to orbit once around the black hole. As it does so, it picks up, or it can pick up energy through various energy collection devices […]
Mental Maze
Older Than You Think I went to a maze seminar recently. It was not just how to create mazes, but to think and speak in maze like linguistic structures. To seduce and draw others in, or to trap them in a web of metaphors from which they can never escape. First we […]