• Where is your faith?

    I thank God that there are men such as Michael Ventura in the world. Thoughtful, fierce, gentle, sincere, troubled, grounded — and one foot in the air, where it should be. From the Austin, Texas, Chronicle, via a friend:  http://www.austinchronicle.com/gyrobase/Issue/column?oid=oid%3A777882 Letters at 3AM: ‘Where Is Your Faith?’ BY MICHAEL VENTURA My brother Aldo returned again and again…

  • The new Star Trek movie….

    leads me to reprint this conversation with Gene Roddenberry that I made into a column for The Meta Arts online magazine last December. Star Trek, the individual and the community by Frank DeMarco Gene Roddenberry was a visionary. The man who created Star Trek set out to influence American culture in certain very specific constructive ways,…

  • Speaking of “Star Trek”

    Saw the movie today. Won’t say much about it, lest I spoil your experience, but I will say that the kid who plays James T. Kirk as a young man is going to have a big career. He has that certain something — the sort of appeal shared by actors as diverse as Tom Hanks,…

  • This business of psychic readings

      Some thoughts from my book The Sphere and the Hologram, just published. The following is the conclusion of that book of transcripts. Process When I was young I didn’t understand why Edgar Cayce had so many perplexities, hesitations, and fears about what he did. It seemed clear to me that he had been given…

  • Why “The Sphere and the Hologram”?

    Enigmatic title, right? Here’s a quote from the guys upstairs, trying to give us analogies so that we could get a sense of the nature of physical reality. “The only things that come to mind now that are going to help are the sphere and the hologram, those two concepts. If you see yourselves as…

  • Sure is a complicated way to people the world…

    Last night my elder child, my daughter Sarah, gave birth to a daughter, Emma. None of the things that might have gone wrong, did. Mother and child are healthy and that’s all that really matters. The fact that Sarah seems happy and that Emma seems placid (clearly, practicing how to say my name) is just…

  • Paul Hawken’s Commencement Address

    [This came while I was at my daughter’s, waiting for the new arrival. I don’t have the ability to bother you all from there, so it had to wait till I returned. [Paul Hawken was famous, some decades ago, less as the co-founder of Smith & Hawken, a supplier of quality tools, than as a…

  • Something else took over — Michael Ventura column

    pA good example of how life really works in practice – pretty neat./p

  • Emma

    Grandmoms getting their first glimpse Fresh from the warmer, courtesy of the nurse holding her up. At this point (and until Friday, actually) we hadn’t gotten to see Sarah. Father and father Grandmom Hilfer Grandmom DeMarco and little stranger. Sarah, Matt, and Emma Mom, looking a little tired, a little smug Pop and his new…

  • Calvinism in China!

    pAn extraordinary development, as reported by the Guardian,/p