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BLACK VORTEX
Many years ago, during the time that I had been rudely drafted into the question of the end of the world, I suffered the following…
Near Death Experience
Sometimes you must wait for many years to get further hints from the “beyond” after having a particular dream or vision. In 2011 I dreamed…
The Mother
You want it darker?…. Leonard Cohen Many people tuning into the looming catastrophe are focussing on our relations to the Mother, or mother nature. There…
Nightmare Time
I recently came across an essay written in Aeon magazine: Nightmares Becalmed by Michelle Carr. True to its title, the thrust of the essay is…
Healing Trauma
HEALING TRAUMA: a response to Richard Polt’s Being Who You Were I recently came across a very clear description of trauma by Existential…
The Virtual Rhizome
Over years, decades, I have dreamed many versions of this repetitive dream: Homeless, wandering, some connection with others who then are gone. I am in…