• Dion Fortune: How it works

    Haven’t been posting. Writing another novel. This popped up, though, and I thought I’d mention it. This passage is from Dion Fortune’s novel The Goat Foot God (p. 365-6) “…one expects psychic phenomena to be reasonably tangible and to have something of the miraculous about them. We’ve had nothing of that…. We’ve had nothing that you can’t father onto the…

  • Greer on The Trouble with Binary Thinking

    John Michael Greer is an interesting thinker, whose column The Archdruid Report appears Wednesdays at http://thearchdruidreport.blogspot.com/ My friend Rich Spees sent me an email reminder that the weekly column had been posted, saying, “Oh, you’re going to like the latest druid.” I don’t always, but this time, he was so right. The spooky thing, as…

  • Letting go

    One night in the middle of the night I was looking through a beautiful book a friend sent me, The Blue Heron Book Of Love And Gratitude. And there, on page 39, was my spiritual autobiography, in these words from psychologist William James. “The transition from tenseness, self-responsibility, and worry, to equanimity, receptivity, and peace,…

  • A day

    My friend Karl Boyken send me this link, saying “Frank, I do believe you’re going to love this video.” Very true. Inspirational without being sappy. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXDMoiEkyuQ&feature=share About 10 minutes.

  • Hemingway on the fourth and fifth dimension

    Monday, October 31, 2011 5:45 AM. Papa, the fourth and fifth dimensions: Time, and then Beyond Time? Close enough. Or you might say viewpoint over time, viewpoint beyond viewpoint, or overall viewpoint, or really view without the distortion of viewpoint. Now, you can see that to write in such a way as to hint at (for…

  • The cracks in the system

    Last August, , in a talk with Whitley Strieber, I said the mind could travel in time but the body couldn’t. In response, his wife Anne sent me an e-mail link to his description of two instances in which he apparently time-slipped to another century, and was told if he did anything he’d wind up…

  • One man’s task is another man’s evasion

    This month’s column in The Meta Arts magazine. (If you’re a regular reader of this blog, you read this here a while ago.) It’s always a question: Among the competing demands on our  time, how can we tell which are legitimate demands for us? Naturally, the guys upstairs had an opinion. http://www.themetaarts.com/pages/frankdemarco.html

  • Hemingway on the price of the ticket

    Papa, I can see that my work is being sabotaged by my own self-doubt. (Is it really Hemingway online? Will anybody believe it? If they do, will they care? If they would, can I put the material into an enjoyable, accessible format? Etc.) How would you expect to avoid such doubts? That’s part of the…

  • Fly with a bird

    This 1.5 minute clip is wonderful! Not, at all, a self-consciously “inspirational” clip, but if it doesn’t set up your day, I don’t know why, maybe you’re dead. http://www.wimp.com/flybird/ If the download falls behind the play, just pause it a few seconds. (I go back to the beginning and start again.) Truly wonderful, via wimp.com

  • TGU on illness, health and magical images

    Thursday, November 10, 2011 6 AM, nearly. All right, I’m here. [Psychic] Katherine[Rone] said my higher self is mad at me for not listening. I am listening at least at this moment, so please do tell me what I need to hear. You don’t need to sacrifice your own well-being for the sake of concentrating…