Most of us are locked into a tunnel reality created by our upbringing and designed by the originators of our native religions. Do you want to break free? Choose “Bob” as your short-duration personal savior and never fall into the trap of straight thinking again.
You can watch the full movie on Tubi for free here.
It’s been getting a little deep around here, so here’s a little Troma perspective on Yoga.
A friend needed a guided meditation video to help her focus and not fall asleep so I thought, why not make use of that neglected youtube handle and post a video. So here it is in all its AI enhanced glory. Enjoy.
It was the 1980s and every holiday season, school would get out on the Friday before Christmas, which meant I’d spend the next 2 weeks with my grandparents while my mom was at work. My grandfather, a computer engineer (read as: middle class hacker), would pirate movies with his coworkers in their downtime. As soon as I arrived to their house, he’d hand me a box filled with VHS tapes, with titles written heiroglyphically on masking tape, plastered to the sides of them. I’d look into the box, see all the tapes, and look up at him, BEAMING with joy. The first film I plucked from the box: The Adventures of Mark Twain.
For those who’ve never seen it, it’s the tale of the famed American writer, Mark Twain, coming to the decision that humanity is utterly irredeemable, and so he plans his death by meeting up with Halley’s Comet, while some of his most famous literary creations aim to convince him otherwise.
One of the best scenes is where Mark Twain, Huckleberry Finn, Tom Sawyer, and Becky Thatcher are at a special machine, viewing the various tales that have come from the depths of Twain’s own mind. At one point, they land on ‘The Mysterious Stranger’; a tale that Twain never actually finished, but featured a character he called both “Satan” and “No. 44”.
My pirated copy of this tape found its way over to my friend Lindsey’s house, which was just 3 doors down. Her mother ooohed and ahhhed over the tape, curiously praising Twain’s literary legacy as “wholesome” and “exemplary of “traditional Christian values.”
Obviously, having never actually read any of his work, she was quite disturbed when, one day, after I’d left the tape at their house, Lindsey’s mother declared a family movie night. As the movie went on, she proceeded to get more and more uncomfortable, finally ejecting the tape after the scene described above. I wasn’t allowed to play at their house after that due to my new “child of Satan” status. My grandpa just laughed. Frankly, so will you after you watch this awesome film!
The artistry of the claymation figures is just wonderful, the story is thought provoking and poignant, and despite all the dark content, it’s a great movie to watch with your kids … or you can just send them off to your parent’s place, pour a drink and smoke hashish, and enjoy it. It is your winter time holiday.
You can watch the full movie here while it’s available.
Janelle Shane started to train a GPT-3 on its headlines, just to see which ones it’d come up with on its own, and I honestly can’t think of a more insightful way to end this ridiculously miserable, hell hole of a year than that.
Reading through the rest of her tumblog is a jaunt through brilliance … AI creating recipes and recipe reviews, AI creating romantic how-tos based on Victorian tutorials, Halloween costumes that AI thinks your friends and neighbors will notice and hate, even AI generated posts about her AI posts.
The description on this latest YouTube find states: “Through the magic, or rather, science of bio-data sonification, this flush of oyster mushrooms get a shot at playing a eurorack modular synthesizer before they become dinner.”
Sigh … I think I just found my new favorite channel. This guy’s hooking friggin’ cordyceps mushrooms and giant amethysts up to this synth! New channel, but even with only 19 videos in as of this article, I’m subscribed.
On the latest episode of ‘Excuse me,what?’, they visit the people of the “psychic capitol of the world.”
Cassadaga, Florida, USA … a tiny, 57 acre, unincorporated community, built by a leader in the American Spiritualism movement, which peaked in popularity in the latter half of 19th century. This town has more psychic mediums per capita than anywhere else in the world, and quite an interesting past.
A Mr. George P. Colby was a famed, travelling Spiritualist medium (1848-1933). At the bright age of 12, he was baptised at a church in Minneapolis. Minnesota, and soon afterward, began to experience the abilities of clairvoyance and psychic healing.
According to him, he was visited by many spiritual guides, but the most clear and frequent called itself ‘Seneca’ and described itself as the spirit of a great Native American chief. George said that Seneca had told him as a child that he’d found a great Spiritualist community in the American South, and in 1894, that’s exactly what he did.
The Southern Cassadaga Spiritualist Camp Meeting Association was founded by George in December of 1894, and has remained something of a refuge for the psychically inclined ever since. It even found a place on the US National Registry of Historic Places.
I noticed the other day that the YouTube channel AfterSkool had created a condensed version of Randall Carlson’s work, and thought you’d appreciate it. Watch that new video featuring Randall Carlson and his work here.
I had the opportunity to see Randall Carlson in Minneapolis, back in 2014, at the (now defunct) Paradigm Symposium . The lecture he gave was exciting, rife with geology, the occult traditions, semiotics, myths and legends and more. He really encouraged the audience to look at human history from a perspective using modern science and technology to unravel ancient tales and symbols in order to understand ancient human experiences, and apply them to our future understanding of the world around us.
However, not everyone agrees, of course. A quick Google search of his name immediately brings up everything from questions of his sanity to the breadth and depth of his actual knowledge, and all the Joe Rogan pocasts he’s been on, including the 3 episodes he did with the writer Graham Hancock.
You can find Randall’s website here, his old YouTube channel GeoCosmic Rex there, and his new YT channel, plus his podcast ‘Kosmographia’ here.
In order to try and make a place for discussion of these posts and topics and in order to avoid running a forum or allowing comments on the site itself we’ve created a subreddit devoted to just those things. Come by have a visit and make your voice heard. We take suggestions and criticism well, so feel free to chime in on what we post. Reddit community guidelines do apply, but we won’t ban your post just because you didn’t like something. Join the conversation!