(audio available for paid subscribers) Ten Forward Picard stands at a window in Ten Forward, staring out at the stars in contemplation. Picard (with quiet intensity) All visible…
(audio available for paid subscribers) The Holodeck Picard and Ned McFeely on the Holodeck. Ned is dressed in sandals, cargo shorts, and a t-shirt that says “God was…
(audio available for paid subscribers) The Borg Picard, Riker, Worf, Troi, Data and La Forge on the bridge. The Borg ship looms large on screen. Borg We are…
(audio available for paid subscribers) The Song of the Borg Picard, fallen, and the Borg Queen, standing, on the forebridge in a pool of soft light, the rest…
(audio available for paid subscribers) Enlightenment The bridge returns to normal lighting. The Borg Queen peels off her mask and becomes the Director. She starts slapping Picard/ Patrick…
Away from the Things of Man Jed McKenna (audio available for paid subscribers) includes Deception “Your Mind is the Scene of the Crime” A play in five acts.…
“God is a comedian, playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.”” H. L. Mencken In a rather unsettling development, an Indian religious leader has now debuted on…
(audio available for paid subscribers) “All genuine learning is active, not passive. It involves the use of the mind, not just the memory. It is a process of…
(audio available for paid subscribers) “What I talk about doesn’t always make sense when I’m talking about it. Don’t worry about that too much. It makes sense when…
(audio available for paid subscribers) “A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a…
“If you would die to the past, if you would die to every minute, you would be the person who is fully alive, because a fully alive person…
(audio available for paid subscribers) “Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems.” René Descartes Here are some of the maxims…
(audio available for paid subscribers) “Once you realize that the road is the goal and that you are always on the road, not to reach a goal, but…
(audio available for paid subscribers) “There’s no such thing as not-being. You can’t not be, right? There’s only what is, there is not what’s not. Don’t break out…
(audio available for paid subscribers) “I found myself desiring and knowing less and less, until I could say in utter astonishment: “I know nothing, I want nothing.” Earlier…
(audio available for paid subscribers) “It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.” J. Krishnamurti The dominant system of medicine today…
(audio available for paid subscribers) “The great majority of us are required to live a life of constant duplicity. Your health is bound to be affected if, day…
(audio available for paid subscribers) “Science is the art of creating suitable illusions which the fool believes or argues against, but the wise man enjoys for their beauty…
(audio available for paid subscribers) “If one’s bowels move, one is happy; and if they don’t move, one is unhappy. That is all there is to it.” Lin…
(audio available for paid subscribers) “Do you know how dumb it is of me to be talking about this? Very dumb. It makes no sense, but I do…
(audio available for paid subscribers) “My father says that almost the whole world is asleep. Everybody you know. Everybody you see. Everybody you talk to. He says that…
(audio available for paid subscribers) “I saw the moon when we were out there in the ocean, shining down on everything. I’ve been miserable so long, years of…
(audio available for paid subscribers) “Listen to me. If you have a choice between killing yourself and doing something you’re scared of doing, why not take the leap…
(audio available for paid subscribers) Opium Den DOM and ARIADNE strolling along crowded city sidewalks. Dom Let me ask you a question: You never really remember the beginning…
(audio available for paid subscribers) Loading Program After the explosion at the cafe, Ariadne and Dom wake up on lounge chairs in a clean white warehouse. Sitting open…
(audio available for paid subscribers) Dream Factory MARION and LEO sit in raised director’s chairs. An Inception movie poster hangs behind them with the tagline: Your Mind is…
(audio available for paid subscribers) The Help Wizard Bob, Leo and Marion sit in raised director’s chairs waiting for the Help Wizard to boot up. An OLD FELLA…
(audio available for paid subscribers) Asshole, Kansas After Leo detonated his bomb vest, we find two fat slobs slumped on a couch surrounded by crushed beer cans and…
The Tao of the Large-Breasted Goddess with the Shapely Behind Jed McKenna (audio available for paid subscribers) includes The Tao of the Large-Breasted Goddess with the Shapely Behind…
(audio available for paid subscribers) “Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.” C. G. Jung We’re somewhere in the mountains, an hour by…
(audio available for paid subscribers) “Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts.” Albert Einstein I figured out pretty early in…
(audio available for paid subscribers) There was something undifferentiated and yet complete, which existed before Heaven and Earth. Soundless and formless, it depends on nothing and does not…
(audio available for paid subscribers) “The big secret is no secret at all. It’s just sitting there in case you want to look. I’m looking at it right…