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View Article  Paris for Prez
Sometimes, in times of desperate earnestness, it takes something silly to save the world. Or at least, to save America. ...   more »
View Article  Article of faith
Over the past couple of days, I’ve read interviews or book reviews concerning two Jewish writers: Holland’s Leon De Winter ...   more »
View Article  Arriving at Toronto
I am halfway through Orhan Pamuk’s Istanbul: Memories and the City. While Turkey has never particularly fascinated me, and I’ve ...   more »
View Article  Omar and Dan the Poor Taxpayer
There are very few news sites today without a comments section. Recently, I’ve started to find this depressing. My preferred ...   more »
View Article  Doubtful investment
Anonymous, that prolific begetter of worlds (or at least, of online comments), suggested in a comment: “Skepth - talk to ...   more »
View Article  A doorway to Tehran?
I have seen almost nothing in mainstream media regarding the content of this StratFor report today: https://www.stratfor.com/campaign/war_iran_coming_7. In fact, ...   more »
View Article  Long-sell, this day, our daily bread
The German newsmagazine Der Spiegel had an item today on the commodities business. In part, it read:

“In keeping with ...   more »

View Article  The Process and Jung
The first book by or about Carl Jung that I ever read was the illustrated Man and his Symbols. ...   more »
View Article  Strauss, Freud and chocolate
Vienna is a city I’ve visited three times, most recently last week. I always try to like it, and I ...   more »
View Article  Faith, atheism, phone bills
Every week, it seems I come across reviews of more books on the atheism vs. faith debate. I stress the ...   more »
View Article  Zen-mind, brain chemicals and love
Ken Wilber is one of the more intimidating sages of our time. I’ve tried to get into his books and ...   more »
View Article  Rough Beast
One of Yeats’ best known poems is The Second Coming. Online, it is one of the most commented upon, ...   more »
View Article  Men of magic
There is currently a major exhibit on the life and work of William Butler Yeats at the National Library of ...   more »
View Article  Darling, you're mine
My weekend newspaper had an article on marriage customs in Chechnya, where a traditional way of getting married is for ...   more »
View Article  Repeat as necessary
I stated a couple of days ago that I was agnostic on the topic of reincarnation. That is, over the ...   more »
View Article  Reasonably unreasonable
Since my last post generated more comments than anything else I've posted this year, I felt moved to re-examine it. ...   more »
View Article  Reason and Thelema
Thelema is still a minority among minorities as sects, faiths and movements go. But because of its core concept - ...   more »
View Article  Change is stability
Identity is a remarkably insubstantial thing. We spend enormous amounts of time bolstering whatever identities we feel we have (and ...   more »
View Article  Waiting for the January springtime
With nine months still to go before the passing of the torch in Washington, we're all reading increasing numbers of ...   more »
View Article  Language and lies
George Orwell began writing 1984 a year or so after C.S. Lewis published the third part of his SF trilogy, ...   more »
View Article  Earth Hour - II
Okay, I blew it. I turned everything off bar two clocks, and went out for a walk. A lot of ...   more »
View Article  Geert's let-down
Geert, I'm disappointed. I just wasted 15 minutes watching your film, Fitna, and ... Well, what is it you ...   more »
View Article  Earth Hour
Next Saturday, we have Earth Hour. For 60 minutes, the city of Toronto, along with other places, will extinguish many ...   more »
View Article  Happy New Year
Last evening, I happened to be at a dinner at an Ontario university. I ended up sitting with a group ...   more »
View Article  A full-time job
Writing in a Toronto Life profile of the activist and author Naomi Klein last October, Philip Preville observed, “...democracy, once ...   more »
View Article  Crowley in Mexico - III
As noted previously, the Crowley of 1900-1901 still fit the notion of “callow youth,” even if he had already formed ...   more »
View Article  Crowley in Mexico - II
One day, Crowley tells us on the last page of Chapter 24 of his Confessions, the unnamed Indian girl who ...   more »
View Article  Crowley in Mexico - I
“Oh Mexico, my heart still throbs and burns whenever memory brings you to my mind!” Thus Aleister Crowley in his ...   more »
View Article  Mountain of smoke and snow
We develop affection for mountains in idiosyncratic ways. I have always wanted to see an active volcano, so my first ...   more »
View Article  Hermann's hermits
Right now, I'm listening to Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde. It's not my favourite music, but by mood ...   more »
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