http://sashen.com/blog Investigations on the Psycho-Spiritual Life Fri, 14 May 2010 15:18:34 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en First of all, another comment that my lack of blogging results from: Getting a bit tired of rehashing the same themes (there are only so many ways that thinking goes awry in the New Age and "spiritual" world, really) Being busy with things like Invisible Shoes running sandals Nothing ... http://sashen.com/blog/157/now-this-really-bugs-me/ I've had it with homeopaths. The one group of people who could fix all the world's problems, but, do they? Noooooooooo. How dare they hoard their knowledge and mastery over the world in exchange for the selfish act of earning a living and supporting their families? Look, I like being able to pay the ... http://sashen.com/blog/149/homicidal-homeopaths/ I'm confused. If positive thinking is supposed to be so powerful that it can bend the molecules of the universe to its will, magnetize money, eradicate disease, overpower anyone else who wants the same thing you do, and otherwise exert more control over the external world than all other forces combined... Then ... http://sashen.com/blog/146/98-pound-positive-thinking-weaklings/ Keeping the theme from my post about creationists co-opting reality to support their beliefs, let's quickly visit the 12/21/2012 gang. Here's my prediction about that upcoming non-event. Unless the upcoming movie 2012 is a documentary made in the future and sent back through a wormhole (or put in the mailbox shared by ... http://sashen.com/blog/141/oh-and-lets-be-prepared-for-12222012/ Must be something I ate, 'cause I'm still on a writin' roll (and using lot's o' apostrophes). I have a flyer that I got 25 years ago. It was for some transformational workshop. I can't tell you what it was for because "have" means that it's packed away in a box ... http://sashen.com/blog/134/add-this-to-my-11-year-history-of-alien-abduction/ Whattya know, even though it's Fall, I found a bee in my bonnet today. Actually, I'm writing this post just so I have the ammunition later to say, "I told you so." I was thinking about how proponents of Intelligent Design (a.k.a. creationism, a.k.a. religious fiction), like to look down their nose ... http://sashen.com/blog/132/you-heard-it-here-first/ Personal note: You may have noticed that the frequency of my posting has diminished quite a bit. In part that's because I started this blog to have a way to get out of my head the various rants that make appearances while I'm in the hot tub or in the ... http://sashen.com/blog/126/the-confidence-con-game/ If a picture is worth 1,000 words, this video must be worth 1,000,000... each one better than what I could have come up with, so here it is: I'd like to hear a Homeopathic doctor on the witness stand for malpractice: "What do you expect?! I did as little as I could ... http://sashen.com/blog/124/i-couldnt-care-less-really-i-tried/ For years, I've had a fantasy about being able to write a SHORT blog post. Well, today is that day! I just saw an ad for a Law of Attraction workshop, and all I could think was: If the LOA REALLY worked, then why would the guy need to advertise? If he REALLY ... http://sashen.com/blog/121/sitting-in-a-room-all-alone/ So, in my last post, I mentioned my desire to be so divorced from all things spiritual and personal development-ish, that I couldn't even be called a critic. But before I could do that, I need to know the terrain I'm leaving. After all, if I want to get out of the ... http://sashen.com/blog/118/spiritual-schmiritual/