Issue #40

Subscribe Issue #40 Mar 2025 “The strangest and most fantastic fact about negative emotions is that people actually worship them.” ~Peter Ouspensky Hi Spring officially began a handful of days ago on March 20th. It was a biological dawn, a delicate...

Drinking Alone with the Moon

Drinking Alone Li Bai (also known as Li Po or Li Tai-po) was one of the most celebrated and influential poets in the entire history of Chinese literature. He lived during the Tang Dynasty (618–907 CE), which proved to be a golden age for Chinese poetry. His poems are...

Beelzebub Almost Dies

In Trouble in a Diving Suit In the chapter, The Arch-preposterous, (p158), we read the following account of how Beelzebub almost died while assisting Gornahoor Harharkh in one of his experiments. It is notable, for many reasons, not least of which for the description...

The Enigma of Being

In Search of Being The Enigma of Being The concept of “being,” as presented in the Work, is a complex and multifaceted idea. It defies simple definitions. It’s stated that “your being attracts your life,” a phrase awash with layers of...

Issue #39

Subscribe Issue #39 Feb 2025 “Roll your triangle.” ~Jane Heap Hi In Roman times, February was, to some degree, a month of purification. On the 15th February – not the Ides of February, by the way, which was the 13th of February (the Ides meaning “the...

The Amino Acid Story

The Structure of Amino Acids How life formed on planet Earth is not known by science. The fossil record shows the existence of Archaea and Bacteria in rocks that are very old. It also suggests that there was a “prebiotic world” when the Earth was just...

The Shadowed Self

Acceptance of the Shadows of the Self A chill wind whips through the bare branches, and the fire crackles in the hearth. Awake and aware, you survey the moment. A question hangs in the air: “Is self-observation a moment of accepting oneself, or does that come...

Belcultassi

Belcultassi and Friends in honest Discourse “My elucidation of all those inner and outer being-impulses and manifestations which caused this Belcultassi then to found that truly great society of ordinary three-brained beings—a society which in its time was throughout...

Where There is Beauty

The Beauty of the Lake Where There is Beauty… Where there is beauty, there is ugliness.When something is right, something else is wrong.Knowledge and ignorance depend on each other.It has been like this since the beginning.How could it be otherwise now?Wanting...