• Ventura: This really does change everything

    MICHAEL VENTURA – LETTERS AT 3AM THE REVOLUTION WILL BE PRINTED Austin Chronicle – Feb. 8, 2013    That headline has been digitally duplicated (plagiarized) from  David Bjerklie’s essay in Time’s special edition: “100 New Scientific Discoveries.” Bjerklie’s headline says it all.    Three-dimensional manufacturing is the making of something out of practically nothing. This…

  • Carl Jung on religion and the unconscious

    [From an interview of CG Jung by Georg Gerster conducted on June 7, 1960, for broadcast on the Swiss radio network, as found in the book C.G. Jung Speaking.] GG: “When I asked you earlier about a critique of our civilization I… was thinking of the problem of our time, as they say. There must…

  • In Praise of Sylvia Beach

     I found myself almost wanting to say “my friend Sylvia Beach,” because having read her memoir “Shakespeare & Co,” and having read how good she was to Papa (before he was Papa) and so many writers, I have become very fond of her. http://www.thehemingwayproject.com/in-praise-of-sylvia-beach/  

  • Jung’s wisdom in his old age

    From an interview with the English journalistFrederickSands in 1955. “At my country retreat I do as I please. I write, I paint — but I spend most of the time just drifting along with my thoughts. “It seems to me we have reached the limit of our revolution — the point from which we can…

  • Alien Messages and Our Genetic Code

    i like anybody’s thinking that is outside the box. Particularly when it is scientific speculation, i sometimes get my hopes up. But usually it turns out to be about half an inch outside the box, as here. How’s this for a stupid quote? (My boldface):  “Biological SETI inevitably smacks head-on into an idea that is completely…

  • Ventura on Rukeyser’s “Elegy in Joy”

    MICHAEL VENTURA LETTERS AT 3AM – ME, MYSELF, I, AND MURIEL Austin Chronicle – April 5, 2013  When I taught high school, I’d go to the blackboard, choose a white stick of chalk, and draw a cube. In its center I’d write an upper-case I.    Then, with my white chalk, I’d draw a figure…

  • Yeats, Working Magic

     I find it a great pity that so much experimentation and discovery by men and women who become famous in other fields is disregarded and ignored as though by a conspiracy to silence testimony of the existence and interaction of the non-physical world. You see it in people’s non-quotation of Lindbergh’s out-of-body experiences over the…

  • The practical use of energies

    Always interesting how quickly i can forget what i know, and then unexpectedly remember it. Today I had two teeth extracted, and implants put in. They came out easily, as i expected, even though one had broken off at the gum line and the other, a bicuspid, had split down its length. I asked the…

  • Sheldrake, TED, and paradigm wars

    This from philosopher Christian de Quincey, anent Rupert Sheldrake’s censored TEDx talk. For what it’s worth, Yeats in his old age speculated that there is something in the nature of the times (any given times) that makes certain people unable to entertain certain categories of thought. I suspect that is true. We’re not nearly as…

  • Ventura on the lost right of privacy

    MICHAEL VENTURA LETTERS AT 3AM AN ARBITRARY NATION – PT2 Austin Chronicle – May 3, 2013     In this series, I examine the Constitution of the United States to demonstrate that it is no longer a functioning document of law. While I’m making my case, entertain this question: If the Constitution is no longer the…