I got an interesting request recently. I’ve mentioned in past episodes that I was, for a time, enlisted in the United States Army as a propagandist, but I’ve never gone into depth on that experience. One of my patrons requested an episode covering that part of my life, and was actually not the first to…
Category: personal experience
Hypoptosis and the Phenomenology of Grief
This essay is also available as a podcast on anchor.fm, Spotify, and other platforms Hail and welcome. This episode marks a bit of a departure from where I was planning to go with the ecumenical phenomenology series. Unfortunately my partner and I have been faced with a major loss and this episode is one of my ways…
Pema Chödrön and the Sublation of Mental Illness
This essay is also available as a podcast on anchor.fm, Spotify, and other platforms Hail and welcome to A Satanist Reads the Bible. I’m back after a somewhat longer-than-expected break. Fortunately this one wasn’t the result of any sort of catastrophe in my personal life but rather from a confluence of factors: one, I’ve been focusing a lot…
Pilgrimage to Kathmandu
In the summer of 2013, I arranged a pilgrimage to a religious monument: the Boudhanath stupa in Kathmandu, Nepal.