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Thursday, January 12
Bye-bye blog
by
skeptical theurgist
on Thu 12 Jan 2012 06:13 PM CST
BlogHarbor is closing its service at the end of March. After mulling my options for six months, I've decided to ... more »
Monday, December 5
A few quotes
by
skeptical theurgist
on Mon 05 Dec 2011 11:18 AM CST
This is a small selection of things other people have written that strike me as worth repeating. I don't necessarily ... more »
Tuesday, November 22
The silent stones of Xtul
by
skeptical theurgist
on Tue 22 Nov 2011 03:19 PM CST
The village of Xtul isn’t even a village. It’s a location on the Yucatan coast, near an actual village called ... more »
Thursday, September 15
Storyteller
by
skeptical theurgist
on Thu 15 Sep 2011 04:42 PM CDT
Across the street, workmen are finishing the stage for the Independence Day celebrations, anxious to be done before the sunlight ... more »
Wednesday, August 24
Like, that complicated science stuff
by
skeptical theurgist
on Wed 24 Aug 2011 12:11 PM CDT
Something that often drives me to muttering in frustration is mainstream science reporting. Scientific illiteracy descended on us around the ... more »
Tuesday, August 23
Unspecified conditions
by
skeptical theurgist
on Tue 23 Aug 2011 04:07 PM CDT
Three of us sit in the Café Buenos Tiempos (Good Times Café). One is, like me, from Canada, but from ... more »
Thursday, August 18
The plotters
by
skeptical theurgist
on Thu 18 Aug 2011 06:16 PM CDT
Around 20 years ago, I worked briefly as an editor for a man who produced a newspaper the homeless could ... more »
Tuesday, August 16
Reconstruction and emerging power
by
skeptical theurgist
on Tue 16 Aug 2011 05:52 PM CDT
A follow-up post to Dominionist sharia:
The word “Dominionists” is one term that can be used for the emerging ... more »
Dominionist sharia
by
skeptical theurgist
on Tue 16 Aug 2011 02:24 PM CDT
The sea-change in US politics is such that things have now veered from the political and solidly into the theocratic. ... more »
Saturday, August 13
Reverie
by
skeptical theurgist
on Sat 13 Aug 2011 02:52 PM CDT
This afternoon I was on the verge of a siesta, and my mind drifted into a reverie that, circuitously, twisted ... more »
Friday, August 12
We believe not
by
skeptical theurgist
on Fri 12 Aug 2011 05:40 PM CDT
According to the US sociologist Barry Kosmin, non-believers in religion are the US' fastest growing category in the area of ... more »
Tuesday, August 9
A grim shrug
by
skeptical theurgist
on Tue 09 Aug 2011 02:51 PM CDT
Suddenly, there are things I am not inclined to read any more. My omnivorous fascination with global politics has hit ... more »
Saturday, August 6
Honey
by
skeptical theurgist
on Sat 06 Aug 2011 11:46 AM CDT
She guides me through the market, looking for one specific honey seller. I’ve bought honey here before that was little ... more »
Tuesday, August 2
Vidas breves
by
skeptical theurgist
on Tue 02 Aug 2011 03:17 PM CDT
City dwellers occasionally see animals that are dead or dying, but a move to a rural area opens up the ... more »
Wednesday, July 27
From Sex to the Apocalypse - a comment
by
skeptical theurgist
on Wed 27 Jul 2011 11:37 AM CDT
For 25 years, I have been trying and failing to expunge the spell of The Process through writing and talking. ... more »
Monday, July 25
From Sex to the Apocalypse
by
skeptical theurgist
on Mon 25 Jul 2011 05:27 PM CDT
This post was to have been about the Norwegian massacre, but it changed direction. For one thing, as I read ... more »
Thursday, July 21
The gringo secret
by
skeptical theurgist
on Thu 21 Jul 2011 04:00 PM CDT
Often, he hangs out with us, the grumbling geezers, in the café. He says he wants to work on his ... more »
Wednesday, July 20
Afternoon light
by
skeptical theurgist
on Wed 20 Jul 2011 06:05 PM CDT
The air changed today, with a light breeze blowing in. After the usual cloud-clogged start to a rainy-season day, there ... more »
A quasi-paranoid reverie
by
skeptical theurgist
on Wed 20 Jul 2011 11:54 AM CDT
There are some ideas that may be intrinsically beyond empirical proof. The ever-transforming universe theory (ETU) is one of them.... more »
Tuesday, July 19
Who watches the watchers?
by
skeptical theurgist
on Tue 19 Jul 2011 03:53 PM CDT
Like Max Aitken (Lord Beaverbook) a generation before him, Rupert Maxwell can be a repulsive man in the way he ... more »
Monday, July 18
Sounds of the human dawn
by
skeptical theurgist
on Mon 18 Jul 2011 03:10 PM CDT
Returning from town this afternoon, I met Charlie, the Cosmic Mechanic on the microbus, and we began talking about poetry. ... more »
Sunday, July 3
We is what we wuz
by
skeptical theurgist
on Sun 03 Jul 2011 02:41 PM CDT
The recent pieces on The Process and Scientology brought some interesting exchanges with friends on the topic of reincarnation. My ... more »
Friday, July 1
Wet socks
by
skeptical theurgist
on Fri 01 Jul 2011 03:44 PM CDT
The past 36 hours have seen non-stop rain here. A tropical storm’s remnants have moved over central Mexico, and hanging ... more »
Thursday, June 30
Questioning the grey forces
by
skeptical theurgist
on Thu 30 Jun 2011 05:13 PM CDT
Housebound by an all-day downpour, I ended up going through some old Processean archives, and found a photocopy of Process ... more »
Monday, June 20
The trance shifted
by
skeptical theurgist
on Mon 20 Jun 2011 11:25 AM CDT
In A shifting trance, I made the following observation about the inner state of Scientologists I had encountered while ... more »
Sunday, June 19
Roots and branchings - 2
by
skeptical theurgist
on Sun 19 Jun 2011 10:35 AM CDT
The Process had no fixed notion of deity or deities when it began. Hovering in the background, however, were various ... more »
Roots and branchings - 1
by
skeptical theurgist
on Sun 19 Jun 2011 10:30 AM CDT
Yesterday's post, Shifting Trance, brought several emails, and obviously struck a chord. The following two posts are edited extracts ... more »
Saturday, June 18
A shifting trance
by
skeptical theurgist
on Sat 18 Jun 2011 09:58 AM CDT
As a result of my time with The Process, I have had a lifelong fascination with Scientology, whence some Process ... more »
Wednesday, June 8
Zopilotes
by
skeptical theurgist
on Wed 08 Jun 2011 10:09 AM CDT
There has been some rain in this part of central Mexico, but only intermittently. The
Sunday, May 29
Whirring wings
by
skeptical theurgist
on Sun 29 May 2011 07:27 PM CDT
The swallows came back about a month ago, and in mid-May it was possible to see four small heads with ... more »
After nightfall
by
skeptical theurgist
on Sun 29 May 2011 01:56 PM CDT
Our town, Tepoztlan, has never had a railroad station, and the main highway from Mexico City only touches its outskirts. ... more »
Wednesday, May 25
Dusty bottles
by
skeptical theurgist
on Wed 25 May 2011 06:43 PM CDT
Wine is an odd thing in Mexico. For a start there isn’t much, compared to Canada, the US or Europe. ... more »
Sunday, May 22
Apocalypse yesterday
by
skeptical theurgist
on Sun 22 May 2011 07:43 PM CDT
There was a global party yesterday to celebrate the non-Rapture. There hasn’t been this much mockery directed at a form ... more »
Changing light
by
skeptical theurgist
on Sun 22 May 2011 06:27 PM CDT
The light here changes with very day and every hour. It has taken me most of the past year to ... more »
Friday, May 20
Evening
by
skeptical theurgist
on Fri 20 May 2011 09:25 AM CDT
Almost evening. When I came here, I would have stayed on the paved roads at this time, but the silhouettes ... more »
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