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- 123 Psaltery & Lyre: “Agricola Dreams of Flying” by J. Rose Lara
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- Book Review: Philip Metres’s Sand Opera
- 121 Psaltery & Lyre: Rachael Matthews, “Horsehead Nebula”
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- 120 Psaltery & Lyre: Rachael Matthews, “Return, pt. III” and “Gaia”
- Book Review: Claudia Rankine’s Don’t Let Me Be Lonely
- Book Review: Matthea Harvey, If the Tabloids Are True What Are You?
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Cipher on a Wall Archive
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Joseph Smith and the Archetypes of the Collectively Unconscious Male
In their 1990 publication, King, Warrior, Magician, Lover: Rediscovering the Archetypes of the Mature Masculine, Robert Moore and Douglas Gillette... -
Stories and Stone
Having arrived in London last week on an ordinary mid-week mid-morning, I exited the lofty frame of St Pancras International... -
Battles – ‘Gloss Drop’ Tour, London
From the packed-in floor of a dark club (under Victorian railway tracks), and through the dancing columns of sound and... -
On Shoes
According to their origins, shoes are functional items. They give a degree of protection against the chance of you stepping... -
‘We Have Won’: The Spirit of the Marathon
In the year 490 BC, so the story goes, a herald from Athens named Pheidippides, already having run 150 miles... -
The Illusion of Equality
Today, a guest post from Helen. I read a review of Rebecca Asher’s book the week it came out in... -
Love letters to Amy Poehler
A few years ago I was crossing Castro street in San Francisco after a yoga class when I was stopped... -
A System
In the 2000 Christopher Nolan film Memento, the central character (Leonard) has a big problem with his memory. After an... -
What Dreams May Come
There are two ways into the world of dreams. The first is to walk in consciously, the second is to... -
Marshmallows, Obedience and You
In the famous Stanford Marshmallow Experiment (1972), Professor Walter Mischel gave four year-old children a marshmallow, and instructed them that... -
The Good Book
I love getting books in the mail. No seriously: I feel like no one could possibly understand how much I... -
“Come to Zion”
‘Zion’ has become a dirty word in our world: now it is shorthand for the displacement of native peoples from... -
Time’s Fractal Line
‘I wish I had more time in my life.’ A friend wrote this on his Facebook wall yesterday. It’s a... -
The West
Yesterday on ‘Rogue Cinema’ I wrote about one of my Granddad’s favourite films, the 1955 version of Oklahoma!, and pondered... -
Let’s Walk Together
It’s easy to be unconscious about our consciousness. The stories that we tell ourselves make up our world, but it’s... -
Family Home Evening at “God’s Favorite Musical”
Guest Post: by Ian – An Early Review of The Book of Mormon Musical. This past Monday I had quite... -
A Prophet at Wartime
What does this Prophet deplore in war? The actions of the enemy? The actions of the US-led coalition? War in... -
Adam-God Theory
What we believe truly matters. Most of what we believe has its roots in what we were taught as children... -
Leaving
I’m in the process of choosing to leave. I’m almost there. There’s only a consideration of the cost. -
Mirror
When the Universe ends-or re-begins?-how will we know? Who will write the history of it? And what is the basis... -
The Golden Rule
[UPDATED] I am bound and cannot escape. I live in shadows and mists along the edges of that magical world of... -
Scapegoats
“Don’t blame it all on the devil” seems a reasonable enough point for mature minds. Maybe too obvious a point?... -
The Power and the Glory of Quirky Observation
I’ve recently been reminded of how some, more quirky observations can easily lead to delightful moments of wonder and a... -
Bake-ru
‘Bake’ isn’t just about changing, its about the charm that transforms everyday innocuous items into unrecognizable, uncooperative objects through unknown... -
Mojibake!
[Updated with Bad Religion] The Holy Bible tells a story rich in metaphor which marks the tendency for information to... -
London Calling
[UPDATED] I took a call from London at four this morning — that’s 11 AM London time. It was my... -
Wish I Had A River
Taking a break this week but I want to share just a little something anyway. Because it’s Christmas and not... -
Lamb Chop In The Sky
If a boy becomes a man and can still feel the tug of an emotion from across 40 years, one... -
Golden Slumbers
Golden slumbers kiss your eyes, Smiles awake you when you rise; Sleep, pretty wantons, do not cry, And I will... -
Penelope’s List
Is the desire to be happy a human universal? Or is it just another one of those preferences that arise... -
Device
Birthdays are a natural time to put one’s current moment into the perspective of history. This past week I’m realizing... -
Blessed Eve, Mother of All Living
The opposite of life is not death, rather never knowing. Yet knowledge has been called a forbidden fruit and a... -
A Man of Letters
Everything I have learned about God is written in a book. In fact, it’s difficult to imagine how my worldview... -
Golem
There is a story among my people of the time before. It is a story meant to answer the youthful... -
Seeing
Clouds are not spheres, mountains are not cones, coastlines are not circles, and bark is not smooth, nor does lightning... -
Foreplay/Long Time
How the mind trips on time. This message was set to appear live on the web at 11 AM GMT... -
Forgotten
Light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul laments Humbert Humbert. The recollection of Lolita draws... -
Cipher on a Wall: Of Mind, Memories, and Dreams
The mind is a stage. Does this sound familiar? Descartes continues: where ideas are illuminated by the inner light of...