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View Article  Heeding Father Jacobus
“To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning. It is a very serious ...   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  Doubtful investment
Anonymous, that prolific begetter of worlds (or at least, of online comments), suggested in a comment: “Skepth - talk to ...   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  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  Anonymous attacks
Back when The Process was in full swing, in the early 1970s, it was a frequent target for Scientologists. We ...   more »
View Article  Arrivederci Xtul?
Checking the Wikipedia entry on Xtul this week, I noticed the following note on a link:

The article about Xtul, ...   more »

View Article  The tortilla deficit
Some of you may have noticed the demonstrations in Mexico this week over the price of tortillas. The Mexican equivalent ...   more »
View Article  Xtul Dialogue VI
Xtul Dialogue VI continues on from Dialogue V, covering themes that seem to relate to The Process’ impending re-engagement with ...   more »
View Article  Xtul Dialogue V
In posting the previous Dialogue from Xtul, I speculated that Robert De Grimston was questioning his wife, Mary-Ann, the Oracle ...   more »
View Article  A dialogue from Xtul
The place called Xtul, or sometimes Punta Xtul, is near Sisal on the coast of Yucatan. As the Processean ‘holy ...   more »
View Article  Identity and grace
Yesterday’s post touched on a topic I’ve avoided - how much the Skeptical Theurgist and my personal self are/aren’t the ...   more »
View Article  Charlie's horse
Despite the Processean connection - or maybe because of it - I've never paid much attention to the Charles Manson ...   more »
View Article  Holger's nightmare
The Process often said it was a mirror in which people saw themselves. That, it claimed, was a function of ...   more »
View Article  A Space In Time I Saw
I've often criticised The Process for being too psychologically oriented, and lacking in true spirituality. There were, though, aspects of ...   more »
View Article  Patterned by Gods
The Process had one GOD (always capitalised) but four Gods. Jehovah, who always had a kind of practical primacy, was ...   more »
View Article  The Process' Satan
Satan, The Process taught, was the receiver of transcendent souls and corrupted bodies. He represented the extremes: the desire to ...   more »
View Article  Obituary - Mary-Ann
Mary-Ann De Peyer died on November 14, 2005. She had reportedly been in a comatose state for two years prior ...   more »
View Article  Cultic retrospection
We don't hear about cults the way we did when I was a young lad. Or an old lad, for ...   more »
View Article  Best Friends and The Process
In March 2004, the Rocky Mountain News outed the people running Best Friends Animal Sanctuary in Kanab, Utah, as The ...   more »
View Article  Moon unseen
Thou moon unseen of men! Thou huntress dread!   more »
View Article  Mary-Ann's picture
In the early spring of 1971, The Process held a celebration because it was finally out of debt. When it ...   more »
View Article  Hidden connections
One day in Toronto, back in 1972, six or eight Processeans went out onto the streets for 'donating' - selling ...   more »
View Article  Narrative again
Let's go deeper into this one. Thelemically speaking, we all have a True Will, an essential raison d'etre that is ...   more »
View Article  Truth and narrative
For the time being, the Processean section of this blog has taken over, as more memories and reflections come up. ...   more »
View Article  The Process' Christ
The Process never referred to Jesus Christ - the personal name was dropped. The idea of Christ that emerged was ...   more »
View Article  God-patterns
Personality typing is one of the oldest ideas in psychotherapy. If we can classify people or their behaviour, there's half ...   more »
View Article  The twelve reasons
My friend's call came late on a Saturday evening, but I was home so I picked up the phone.
"Go ...   more »
View Article  Meaning and Silence
I didn't start this blog with the intention of writing endlessly about of The Process, but the subject won't leave ...   more »
View Article  Robert
When Robert De Grimston came to Toronto in 1975, I was told where he was staying, and invited to meet ...   more »
View Article  Lucifer
The Saturday night I was made an Acolyte was June 13,1970. I wasn't told beforehand, but this was the official ...   more »
View Article  Ed Sanders
The year 1968 wasn't the best for Ed Sanders. His band The Fugs    more »
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