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Updates on my work and works.

UPDATE VII: “What is Thelema? (Redux)”

Today I published an article on Medium titled “What is Thelema? (Redux),” a do-over of my 2018 article on that site, “What is Thelema?

This article addresses the topic of the nature and general description of Thelema, without being as tangential as its previous incarnation.

Enjoy.

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UPDATE VI: “Learning the Joy of Existence in Thelema”

I am happy to report that Thelemic Union has published my essay “Learning the Joy of Existence” (site founder and manager IAO131 renamed it “Learning the Joy of Existence in Thelema,” presumably to make it appear more relevant) on their site.

This essay covers the notion that existence is inherently joyous from a Thelemic perspective, and how to view it as such by engaging in the trances that Crowley discusses in his short book Little Essays Toward Truth.

Feel free to check it out.

UPDATE V: “There’s Nothing Special About Meditation”

I have published an article in Thelemic Union: “There’s Nothing Special About Meditation“.

This briefly covers the connection between Zen master Eihei Dogen’s notion of meditation as perfection and founder of Thelema Aleister Crowley’s idea of one’s present incarnation being “perfect”.

Feel free to read it!

UPDATE IV: “Bugs” and a Few Other Stories

I am pleased to announce that my e-book “Bugs” and a Few Other Stories has been published online through BookRix and BookRix affiliates.

“Bugs” is a very short collection of some half-dozen stories. Read through and delight in the silliness of these mostly short-lived, unashamedly shallow, and absurd tales, and find a little respite in the breathtakingly brief flash fiction piece “Acceptance (At Donato’s),” a meditation on the the mystical transience of life.

It’s free!

Feel free to rate and review it on Goodreads!

UPDATE III: Apologies, Excuses[?], and a Potential Return

Hello everyone. (No-one—let’s be real: in the years since I’ve started this blog I’ve had few if any people actually follow it. I’m talking to a brick wall. I always have been and I likely always will be.) I’d like to apologize for my extended absence.

Since December 2018 (so about a year and two months ago) I haven’t written anything on this blog, and in a little less time I haven’t put anything up on my LOGOS! blog, either.

I don’t like to make excuses, but between my lifelong issues with ADHD and continued problems with debilitating depression, I found myself unable to write much of anything for the past year. A horrific breakup at the beginning of last year put me in the shitter and I really haven’t been the same since.

Here’s hoping I can soon return to form and turn my life around.

Frankly, time management, commitment, compartmentalization, and maintaining a schedule have been nearly impossible for me my entire life, and still prove the greatest of difficulties for me at the age of 28.

So, going forward, it’s going to be an uphill battle, as always, making this and LOGOS! really work. (Much less gaining followers!)

Anyway, I’d ask you to forgive me, though I know no-one is really reading this, so I guess the most I can ask is for me to forgive myself.

That’s much harder.

All the best.

— V.

UPDATE II: LOGOS! is Online

LOGOS!, my blog on skeptical spirituality, is now online. I plan to do my best to update it on at least a weekly basis.

Feel free to check it out!

Also, don’t forget to like me on Facebook.


DISCLAIMER AND SITE-MAP:

I am no longer blogging via this blog. I will continue to make blog posts in the form of updates on my work and works—these will appear here, on the main page, or blog feed page, of The Grand Tangent website.

I will continue using this website to showcase my works. They can be viewed on the WORKS page and its sub-pages: § POETRY, SHORT STORIES, AND MISCELLANY; and § SELF-PUBLISHED BOOKS.

My publication credits can be viewed at § {PUBLICATION CREDITS}.

A list of blog posts featured on this website can be found at the {TANGENTS} page.

A list of news and updates can be found at the HAPPENINGS page.

Information about me and this blog can be found at the ABOUT page.

The ABOUT page contains a sub-page featuring a selection of quotes: § ΛΌΓΟΣ.

View my links ate the LINKS page.

View promoted authors and works at the PROMOTED AUTHORS AND WORKS page.

UPDATE I: The Future of My Work and This Blog

I am no longer blogging via this blog. I will continue to make blog posts in the form of updates on my work and works—these will appear here, on the main page, or blog feed page, of The Grand Tangent website.

I will continue using this website to showcase my works. They can be viewed on the WORKS page and its sub-pages: § POETRY, SHORT STORIES, AND MISCELLANY; and § SELF-PUBLISHED BOOKS.

My publication credits can be viewed at § {PUBLICATION CREDITS}.

A list of blog posts featured on this website can be found at the {TANGENTS} page.

A list of news and updates can be found at the HAPPENINGS page.

Information about me and this blog can be found at the ABOUT page.

The ABOUT page contains a sub-page featuring a selection of quotes: § ΛΌΓΟΣ.

View my links ate the LINKS page.

View promoted authors and works at the PROMOTED AUTHORS AND WORKS page.