Reincarnation Two articles I found on the web drew my interest. The first is quite simple. It's 30 Quotes on Reincarnation. The quotes—made by famous personalities ranging from Socrates, Emerson, Thoreau, and Whitman to Charles Dickens, Henry Ford, James Joyce and Carl Jung—all support the belief. Quote #15 is taken from the Zohar, one of the most important Medieval Kabalistic texts: The souls must reenter the absolute substance whence they have emerged. But to accomplish this, they must develop all the perfections, the germ of which is planted in them; and if they have not fulfilled this condition during one life, they must commence another, a third, and so forth, until

Readers, please enjoy this guest blog post by Donald Tyson, author of The 13 Gates of the Necromicon. Ask most fans of H. P. Lovecraft and the Cthulhu Mythos (as it is generally but erroneously called) who Lovecraft was, and chances are they will say he was a science fiction writer. While it is undeniably true that Lovecraft wrote science fiction, that’s not all he wrote. Many of his stories are fantasies patterned after the model of the Arabian Nights, or outright occult horror stories. Even his science fiction is very unlike the science fiction of Clarke and Heinlein. In Lovecraft, science and the stars are both regarded as realms of unutterable horror, and those who delve too deeply

Confession: I am a Men in Black fan. I love both of the movies and would be hard-pressed to say which I like better. The second one does hold a special place in my heart though, as it has given me a practice that affects my life in a fairly significant way. In the movie, Agent J, anticipating the erasing of memory and the eventually needing of that memory afterwards, very cleverly left “notes to himself in the future.” For some reason, that phrase stuck in my head…since 2002. Until last year, it was just there, in my head, a cute idea. Then, last year, I realized that there were things I would want to remember in the future. I realized that I have a calendar on my email program

There is a joke for the digerati that goes: "There are 10 types of people... Those who know binary and those who don't." Some of you reading this may get a laugh out of that...well, at least a snicker. The key to understanding it is the concept of "binary."Binary refers to the number 2 and especially numerical systems that use "base 2." Our regular counting system is "base 10" and has ten digits (0–9). Base 2 uses only two digits (0 and 1). In base 2, writing "10" is the same as writing "2" in our regular base 10 system. Understanding binary is important for some people today because most computers, at their deepest levels, are binary. Microprocessors that run the computers