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How the West Learned to Plunder the Sacred Spiritual Shoplifting: How the West Learned to Plunder the Sacred When the New Age movement decided that indigenous traditions were a spiritual buffet, it forgot that some dishes belong to people who might object to having them stolen, repackaged, and sold at £180 a head. There is a peculiar kind of audacity that belongs almost exclusively to the Western spiritual seeker. It is the audacity of a person who, having grown bored with their own cultural...

Poltergiest : A Kind of Haunting THINGS THAT GO BUMP IN THE NIGHT - POLTERGIEST (And Throw Your Crockery at the Walls) A Rational Mystic's Guide to the Poltergeist Phenomenon Somewhere in Germany, in the year 1599, a farmer sat down to breakfast. Before he could reach his porridge, the bowl levitated off the table, sailed gracefully through the air, and deposited itself, with some force, on the back of his head. The farmer was not amused. Historians, however, very much are! Welcome, dear...

A Manifesto for the Rational Mystic I think, therefore I am confused I think thereore Iam Confused On Why the Universe Probably Doesn't Exist — But You Should Probably Still Pay Your Council Tax "Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away." — Philip K. Dick (A man who spent considerable time testing this hypothesis personally) The Problem With Reality (Besides Everything Else) Let us begin, as all good philosophical investigations must, with an admission of profound...