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Buy Me a Beer: Just $2 While Supplies Last BYCU Canadian provinces kill trade between themselves with barriers. Trump's tariffs are forcing them to re-think this arrangement. Thursday Substack Edgar Cayce: The Sleeping ProphetProfiles in Right HemispherismEric Scheske's Outside Modern LimitsEric Scheske Birzer on Sci-Fi I’

Edgar Cayce: Sleeping Prophet

Edgar Cayce: Sleeping Prophet

Edgar Cayce, the “Sleeping Prophet” (1877-1945), was a peculiar figure, a lanky Kentuckian who slipped into some kind of trance-like stupor and spouted answers to life’s mysteries like a backwoods oracle. Over 14,000 of his mutterings were scribbled down by diligent stenographers, responses to questions from 6,000

A Hemisphere Hypothesis Meditation on Pieper's Abuse of Language

A Hemisphere Hypothesis Meditation on Pieper's Abuse of Language

Attempts to define the Tao are like a retard trying to stick his head out of a closed car window. Sad, pitiful, and comical. Until he gets so frustrated that he smashes the window with a hammer. Fresh air rushes in but so do shards of glass. Bust up the

Why June 1 is a Great Day to Honor the Copts

Why June 1 is a Great Day to Honor the Copts

A little Coptic history, a feast day to remember, and a great drink I concocted from my garden produce.

Two Learned Men; Six Volumes

Two Learned Men; Six Volumes

I only have the single volume "Section," but it's enjoyable

We Value Knowledge Like the Jerk-Off Values Porn

We Value Knowledge Like the Jerk-Off Values Porn

A mini-meditation on Josef Pieper's "Knowledge and Freedom"

More Snoring, Less Beltway Whoring

More Snoring, Less Beltway Whoring

The Hemisphere Hypothesis won’t teach you how to wrench a lug nut off a busted tire and it won’t tell you how to deal with the beard in your daughter’s locker room. For all its highfalutin talk about brain wiring and reality, it’s about as useful

Are You Trapped in the World of Total Work?

Are You Trapped in the World of Total Work?

Josef Pieper (with a G.K. Chesterton kicker) teaches us the importance of leisure It’s commonplace knowledge that many of our best ideas hit us in the middle of the night or in our first waking moments. While we are completely at rest, not obsessed with ourselves or our

The Silence of St. Thomas, by Josef Pieper

The Silence of St. Thomas, by Josef Pieper

A Micro-Review/Essay

Majeres Applies McGilchrist

Majeres Applies McGilchrist

Back in 2009, Iain McGilchrist unleashed The Master and His Emissary upon a world too distracted to notice its own decay. This bestseller was merely a prelude to his magnum opus, The Matter with Things—a sprawling, 1,500-page odyssey that starts with the Master’s Hemisphere Hypothesis and ends