Book Club People I have a friend who is a very die-hard, old school, book lover. She belongs to a book club and none of them like to use any technology. They only read hardback books, they don’t have smartphones, and they even refuse to read books written after world war II. […]
Pythagorean Mysticism
Triangle Cult Pythagoras is credited with discovering the secrets of the right triangle, namely A^2+B^2=C^2, but this is not likely true. Not only was Pythagoras likely a fictional creation of the Pythagorean cult who worshipped numbers, but this same idea was discovered by plenty other ancient cultures. For example, long before the Greeks […]
Reverse Engineered Cult
Free Seminar The other day I went to a free seminar at a local community center. Since it was free, I didn’t expect much. Usually at these things, they have some basic ideas in the first half, and then the second half is some kind of upsell. Only at this one, there […]
Alchemist Cult of Metallurgy
Novel Writing Secrets If you were to decide to write a novel, so you become famous, or maybe if you only wanted to become rich, you’d have unlimited options. But your unlimited options would necessarily be constrained within common story structure. There’s basically seven story types, 14 archetypes for the good guy, 14 […]
Alarm Clock Hibernation
Daily Struggle Everybody has their own unique, highly calibrated strategy for making the transition from sleeping to waking up. Because of this, you can find pretty much any alarm clock that will accommodate this strategy. Few people leap out of bed in the morning with an excited feeling of bliss and anticipation. […]
Network Marketing Occultists
Old Pyramid Schemes Back during the seventies, pyramid clubs were very popular, but they were made illegal very quickly. The concept was simple. Show up, pay ten bucks to get in, and try and recruit more members. If you ever got to the top, you would get all the money from everybody […]
Self Replicating Cults
Secret Psychology There is this psychologist who has been studying cults for a long time. His angle is to compare their origin stories and their underlying mythological identity structure. For example, Heaven’s Gate had the idea that dying meant going to a higher plane, and that involved aliens. Famous Cultists https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Nov22Loop.mp4 Jim […]
Return To Mars
Old School Ideas A very interesting idea from antiquity, made famous by Plato, is the idea of the lost city of Atlantis. These idea of an underwater ancient city that was far more advanced is very compelling, and surrounded in tons of mythology. We humans seem to have a very keen interest in […]
Cult of Sacred Geometry
Taco Party I went to a friend’s retirement party a couple weeks ago. When she called to tell me about it, she made it sound like it was no big deal. Like it was a small party or something. She said show up whenever, wear whatever, bring whoever, don’t worry about brining […]
CIA Street Magician
Micro Brew Pub There’s this new micro brew pub downtown I went to the other day. I don’t normally go to these kinds of places, but I’ve heard some pretty cool stories about this. So I wanted check this out. Spiritual Center https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Sept13Loop.mp4 There’s an interesting spiritual center I’ve been going to. […]