Upward Spiral #4 – The Sound of My Voice, Cults and Corruption
In our fourth episode we discuss the film The Sound of My Voice, and the issues therein, including cults, the nature of history and rationality. With your usual co-hosts Ken Vallario and Eric Duffy, expect wild tangents, but there will be no spoilers in this episode, but as always Byron King will deliver another excellent [...]
Weekly Product Post #2 – Microcosms
This week I am very excited to be offering original paintings. These 6 inch star portraits are a rare chance to purchase original works at a great price. There are four pieces each capturing a different set of stars and colors. This is one of my favorite subjects, so a lot of love went into [...]
Movie Review – A Dangerous Method
It is often the case when we think about Freud and Jung that we project backwards our ideas about what it means to be a doctor, what it means to provide treatment, as the world in which we live, at least in theory, has very rigid notions about how we are to relate to medicinal [...]
Nature vs. Nurture
Our feelings about animals and industry are not solely about the animals. No, the rising distaste surrounding our treatment of animals in the meat industry reflects our own experiences within a world of concrete and steel. Humans are shuttled to and fro within a mechanized world that extracts their life essence to unknown ends, in [...]
The Physics of a Movement
As I continue to watch this Occupy Wall Street movement unfold, I cannot help but feel it is time to create a movement within a movement. It is time for us to move from solidarity that arises from dissatisfaction toward the unity that comes from shared vision. This is difficult, but it is made [...]
Self Diagnosis
If I grew up in today’s world I would be diagnosed as having Attention Deficit Disorder because of my daydreaming…I would be diagnosed with Asperger’s because of my fantasy life…and I would be diagnosed with bipolar disorder because of the intense despair I felt about the way people treated one another. When I was a [...]
Paragraphorism #1 – Parable of the Truth Seeker
Parable on the Truth Seeker Imagine one day you decided you wanted to see the sun up close, that you wanted to look right at the surface of the thing. So you left Earth and entered the vacuum that exists between knowing and unknowing, setting your eyes directly upon the goal. Not bothering to notice [...]
Akbar’s Book Club #2 – Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
In this continuing series, I will share the book I am currently reading and invite others to read it, and have a discussion below. Remember, no spoilers. I chose this book because I have heard, like many books, that this one suffers much from over-saturation in our culture and that it is a classic for [...]
The Terminator
1. I’ve argued before that the current Occupy Movement is a struggle against an economic system driven by computational devices…machines. Now, we see the development of a computational/mechanized army. In other words, the machine war is becoming more real by the day…it is no longer a metaphor. 2. People who are versed in history are [...]
The Universe as an Unknown Quantity
As part of an ongoing conversation here at Akbar Lightning Headquarters, I present the following video from Youtube…As I’ve said before, as influenced as I have been by T. Winston Sayer, I cannot speak to anything factual about what I am presenting…but it is in my view, it is part of my human experience, and [...]
On the first day of a new era – 2012 begins
I awoke this morning with a feeling that perhaps there is no word for…a mixture of cautious excitement and an intention to focus on the tiny sensations of being, as I knew this was the start of a momentous year. I bless this year with a video of Terence McKenna asking the question that will [...]
Wish You Were Here….
I tried to do a short rap related to this picture, but i got nowhere….and after seeing Universaltron’s post, i realized we were resonating in a similar place…this image is amazing to me…taken by the Nasa Messenger Mission, a satellite that is orbiting Mercury…so this is a picture of how our Earth and Moon would [...]
Akbar’s Fake Science #1 – Christian Science
After seeing a bumper sticker the other day, that read ‘Keep Christ in Christmas’, I realized that when we remove ‘Christ’ from Christmas, that leaves us with Mas…which would normally be equal to Energy divided by the Speed of Light squared…but Mas is missing one S, so this makes obvious the idea that Jesus Christ [...]
JESUS CHRIST!!!!!THAT’S HILARIOUS….
HOLY FUCKING SHIT BATMAN…I HONESTLY CANNOT BELIEVE IT….I AM LOSING MY MARBLES….AAAAAAHHHH….HAAAAAAAA, AND BEGINNING TO FIND IT ALL SO FUNNY….
Reductio Ad Absurdum
My dear Globatron Citizens, I am very happy to present my latest book Reductio Ad Absurdum – Five Considerations for the 21st Century Philosopher Sage. It is available for purchase from lulu.com at the link below. I will be giving a free preview as a series of posts through the next few weeks. After the [...]
Scientific Skepticism – Early Man
I have always wondered about the limited fossil resources and how they are used to draw a picture of Man’s development as a primate…I have always wondered about how scientists account for individual variation…and how they caution themselves against speculation. Many of the fragments I have seen that scientists use to reconstruct prehistoric primate history [...]
The Face of Akbar Lightning
A lot of our readers have asked to see the face of Akbar Lightning….well, if you want to know what he looks like, check out these photos of him in action. Remember not to make the genetic fallacy, associating his presence with the cause of a disaster. What you are seeing in these photos is [...]