Just a few weeks ago I made a blog post entitled "I Wouldn't Have Seen if If I Hadn't Believed It." I'm surprised that I need to revisit it so soon after posting it, but after the furor resulting from a side issue related to my post last week, I feel it's important to do so. The statement that was the title of last week's post was by Marshall McLuhan, and it's something I agree with. The same idea is presented in NLP where there is a belief that "perception is projection." The basic concept is very simple: if you have an idea or perception of the way things should be—that is, if you have a belief or set of beliefs about something—you will project that on your own actions and the

I just read yet another supposed justification for stealing people's hard work. This was written on a blog, itself a response to a post by Andrieh Vitimus. It begins with several paragraphs describing the hard life of a young college student who is only working part time at a minimum wage job. I understand. I've been there. I remember days of living on spaghetti with a little ketchup and garlic powder. I remember visiting my girlfriend's college dorm's lunch room and making a dozen PB&J sandwiches to take so I'd have something to eat for the next several days—and I didn't even like PB&Js. So the person the blogger describes doesn't have much money left over to spend on

As a fairly visible and accessible writer, primarily of non-fiction, I get questions about what I've written. In fact, I get lots of questions. I used to get stacks of snail-mail letters. Now I receive lots of email. While many of the questions are not connected, it seems like I'll go through periods where I'll get questions from different people that have similar themes. Here are a few of the ones I've been receiving recently and my responses to them: 1) Author X wrote something that disagrees with what you've written. What did that author mean? Who is right and who is wrong? I have been giving Tarot readings for decades so I can get a grasp on potentials for the future. As an NLP

According to Thelemites, followers of the beliefs of Aleister Crowley, we entered the new age (or more accurately, New Aeon), in 1904. According to astrologers, we are either at the cusp or beginning of the new Age of Aquarius. Some say that this new age is an era of invention and universal brotherhood. Others say it is an age of advanced spirituality where love will be part of all levels of life. Soon we'll all live together in peace with our human brothers and sisters, our animal brothers and sisters, and extraterrestrial brothers and sisters. Life is on the way to becoming beautiful and we're all going to live in an impressive Garden of Eden that is both natural and futuristic. I