Jun
02
Moving To Substack
I gave in and moved my newsletter to Substack. If you're already subscribed here, you don't need to do anything,
Guy James
Apr
03
The Black Iron Prison
PKDs idea is that humanity is under a spell, or has become infected with a 'mind-virus'. This virus has colonised our psyche, and one of its main effects is that it tells us that there is no mind-virus.
4 min read
Nov
22
Part Eight: Egregores
Imagine that the psyche as a whole is outer space, and the stars and planets are the egregores; each has a ‘gravity’ which pulls thoughtforms with lower ‘mass’ towards them. The more people who are attracted to an egregore, the more power it has.
6 min read
Jun
09
Scapegoats, Royalty, and a Summary of the Series So Far
We apparently need a scapegoat on whom to blame 'the bad stuff', whether or not there is one single entity at fault for what ails us. Does the devil have goat's feet by coincidence?
8 min read
Mar
01
Make the Darkness Conscious
We glimpsed the world that could be, a world that most of us have borne at least brief witness to. Where wordless harmony calls the tune and our eyes are fixed on the same light beyond the horizon, a light that comes from a place deeper than our differences.
4 min read
Dec
31
Do Look Up: Dr. Lilly and the SSI
Lilly closed the toilet door and locked it hurriedly from the inside. He knew there was no time to lose. He took out his syringe, already prepared with a dose of ketamine, slapped his arm until a vein became visible, and injected himself quickly and expertly.
8 min read
Nov
10
Chained To The Earth
This is Part Four of the investigation into Moloch, the Solid State Intelligence, Ahriman, and other dark forces which are either a kind of shorthand for coordination failures, or, from another viewpoint are in a very real sense evil entities.
5 min read
Oct
29
All You Need Is Power
In this third part of my series on Moloch and co-ordination failures I would like to dive into what I see as the fundamental issue relating to what appears to be the problem of evil in this world. No pressure, then. ;)
6 min read
Oct
22
Making Sense of Dark Forces
Part two of 'The Solid State Entity, or the real reason why we can't have nice things.'
4 min read
Oct
11
The Solid State Entity, or the real reason why we can't have nice things.
There are two separate but intertwined ideas which I hope to explore in this series: that the unforeseen consequences of our individual(ist) decision making are creating a nightmare world, and that this encroaching darkness has some kind of identity or will of its own.
4 min read