INITIATION? The year was 2004. Blindfolded, knees knocking, heart beating fast, maddening images of terror flashing through my imagination, I sat in the cold lobby, waiting for the initiation to start. It was the first of many I’d undergo. Maybe it was the sense of adventure, or the unfathomable curiosity about the unknown that drove my quest. I…
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“I won’t bore you with my life story because, frankly, it’s as dull as fuck. Let’s just say I’ve spent the last 30-plus years trying not to let anybody down. I’ve made ‘sensible’ choices about my education and career, I’ve avoided unnecessary risk, earned my keep, planned for the future, sought approval constantly and generally…
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Stop ignoring the magic inside and around you. Finally, a failsafe way to separate the fake news from the real. No more will you suffer under the ravages of information attack. No more will you believe in the lies cascading across your Facebook feed. No. You’ll be the one in a million who can tell…
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It’s your natural state. You’re an explorer. Don’t realize it fully? Maybe you’ve spent too much time living like a corpse, mouldering around in graves and mausoleums with other corpses. My friend Claude (author of Just Because Club and the Original Handbook for the Recently Deceased) and I were talking about this the other day.…
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The lesson goes like this: Those who don’t unleash and master the imagination will suffer unto death. And die you will anyways, so cut out the suffering. Like one of the guys at last year’s U.K. Workshop. He saw that the only way other people’s actions could hurt him was in his own mind. He…
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Remember those old commercials for Eggo Waffles? This one is particularly funny, even a little disturbing: I’m afraid to get into the whole Ego thing because words fail at this every time, and yet the emptiness of words hints at something you already know–something you can’t describe either. Somehow, the book The Self-Overcoming of Nihilism ended…
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