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A Catalog of Jedi Mind Tricks
This issue takes a look at the proverbial “Jedi mind trick.” As it turns out, there are quite a lot…Read More $8.00 Add to cart -
A Decentralized World Order, Part 1
Thomas Jefferson once noted that "We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed."…Read More $8.00 Add to cart -
A Decentralized World Order, Part 2
Thomas Jefferson once noted that “We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed.”…Read More $8.00 Add to cart -
A Decentralized World Order, Part 3
Thomas Jefferson once noted that “We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed.”…Read More $8.00 Add to cart -
A Decentralized World Order, Part 4
Thomas Jefferson once noted that “We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed.”…Read More $8.00 Add to cart -
A Decentralized World Order, Part 5
Thomas Jefferson once noted that “We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed.”…Read More $8.00 Add to cart -
A New Theory of Knowledge
In our issue, Our Theory of Knowledge Has Failed we discussed how the 20th century dogma that knowledge was a…Read More $10.00 Add to cart -
A Practical, Positive Philosophy
Most people, most of the time, focus on the negative things we don’t want in life, while ignoring thoughts about…Read More $6.00 Add to cart -
A Report From Kabul
I came to Afghanistan in March of 2007 for that best and worst of all reasons... for a friend. I…Read More $8.00 Add to cart -
A Tale of Two Systems
The two structures we've depicted here produce vastly different results. On the left is a system in which the nodes…Read More $8.00 Add to cart -
A User’s Guide To The Subconscious Mind
This issue examines precisely how we can operate significantly better, right away. That “right away” part, however, can be troublesome:…Read More $10.00 Add to cart -
An Emergence of Consciousness
Human consciousness, at least toward the leading edge, is pushing through ancient obstacles and is emerging in a new way,…Read More $6.00 Add to cart -
Bacon’s Gift
As Francis Bacon defined the scientific method, Europe remained an agricultural civilization. Things were changing in the cities, but people…Read More $6.00 Add to cart -
Being Ruled Degrades Our Health
As radical as it may sound, it is now beyond factual argument that being ruled degrades your health. Fearful and…Read More $6.00 Add to cart -
Bits and Pieces
Most of our issues have been dedicated to a single subject. This issue answers questions and covers some very interesting…Read More $6.00 Add to cart -
Civilizational Change at The Personal Level
Civilizational changes are very hard to understand for those who haven’t been through them. Replacing the world view of millions…Read More $8.00 Add to cart -
Commerce: The Permanent Rebellion
Commerce, by its very nature, is born free. And more than this, it forever fights to remain free. At almost…Read More $6.00 Add to cart -
Cultivating Your Inner Life
If and when we encounter more advanced beings from other worlds, it’s highly likely that they’ll be people of advanced…Read More $8.00 Add to cart -
Cultures that Thrived in Peace
Warfare cultures are something that all of us know about. Not only do we study them in history books and…Read More $6.00 Add to cart -
Descartes’s Demon
“To every thing there is a season,” wrote Solomon in Ecclesiastes; and that includes warnings. This issue is one of…Read More $6.00 Add to cart -
Einstein And His Theories
Neither Albert Einstein nor his theories are quite like people expect. Nor do the facts of his life match what…Read More $6.00 Add to cart -
Escaping The Siren’s Song
Sirens, in ancient stories, were woman-like creatures whose singing so entranced sailors that they would blindly crash their boats into…Read More $10.00 Add to cart -
Exiting The Bronze Age
The way we are organized, the way we cooperate, the way we judge ourselves as good or bad… all of…Read More $10.00 Add to cart -
Forty Years Gone: A Lamentation
It is tragic beyond measure that human exploration has been neutered since 1972. Sure, we’ve sent out a few probes…Read More $6.00 Add to cart -
How Slavery Ended
Slavery, among the most ancient of evils, reigned through all the ancient millennia and continued through Greece and Rome, as…Read More $6.00 Add to cart -
How They Became Exceptional (Part 1)
The really important thing about great people is seeing how it was they became great. This issue examines precisely how…Read More $6.00 Add to cart -
How They Became Exceptional, Part 2
As we noted in Part 1 of How They Became Exceptional, it's a great tragedy that so many people feel…Read More $6.00 Add to cart -
How They Became Exceptional, Part 3
This is our third issue (not counting the one on Einstein) on how people became exception. This issue covers a…Read More $6.00 Add to cart -
How to Be a Genius… Even if You’re Not
Geniuses have a trick that enables them to produce exceptional results. Super-fast brain cells are not really required – it’s…Read More $6.00 Add to cart -
How to Be a Successful Heretic
Most people think of heresy and heretics only within a religious context, but that’s an unnecessary limitation. It is the…Read More $6.00 Add to cart -
How to Become Inspired
Just about everyone wants to be inspired, and people pay eagerly to obtain inspiration. The problem is that they're paying…Read More $6.00 Add to cart -
How to Escape the Tyranny of Fear
Humanity has a problem with fear. We all know this from experience, though we seldom discuss it. But whether we…Read More $6.00 Add to cart -
Judging the Present World Order
Man may not be the measure of all things, but he is certainly a fitting measure of things that pertain…Read More $8.00 Add to cart -
Locke’s Natural State, Redefined & Proved
John Locke’s brilliant tool for finding the right was to turn away from the political wranglings of his day and…Read More $6.00 Add to cart -
Observations at the Extreme
The Nazi Holocaust meant all but nothing to me as a child (even though I had close associations with survivors),…Read More $8.00 Add to cart -
On Human Evolution
“Evolution” is a tremendously loaded word. The mere act of pulling it out inspires raw emotional responses. What we address…Read More $6.00 Add to cart -
On Infrastructure And Action
This issue was a surprise. It’s title comes from a fictional book I mentioned in The Breaking Dawn. Somehow I…Read More $10.00 Add to cart -
Our Ascent From Primate Culture
This issue took me by surprise. Not only was it deeply fascinating and even revelatory, but so far as I…Read More $8.00 Add to cart -
Our Theory of Knowledge Has Failed
Our conventional wisdom regarding knowledge and ignorance - that ignorance underlies human problems and that knowledge is the solution -…Read More $10.00 Add to cart -
Our Unknown Ancestors
The origin of the Western world is so poorly covered that I’ve sometimes wondered if it was being concealed on…Read More $6.00 Add to cart -
Power Versus Subversion In America, Part 1
The story of America is the story of subversion versus power. It began that way and it remains that way.…Read More $6.00 Add to cart -
Power Versus Subversion In America, Part 2
The story of America was, and remains, a story of subversion versus power. The subversives of America (and of the…Read More $6.00 Add to cart -
Reopening Channels of Intellect
There is a passage in the Bible’s letter to the Ephesians that has loomed over me for decades, ever since…Read More $6.00 Add to cart -
Rulership’s Last Stand, Part 1 – Peak Rulership: The 1950s
The 1950s were a peak of faith in the institution. The large organization was seen as inherently superior. Economies of…Read More $6.00 Add to cart -
Rulership’s Last Stand, Part 2 – The Crackup of the 1960s
Every rulership portrays itself as inevitable and eternal, and yet they all come and go. As will those which currently…Read More $6.00 Add to cart -
Rulership’s Last Stand, Part 3 – The Reordering of the 1970s
Every rulership portrays itself as inevitable and eternal, and yet they all come and go. As will those which currently…Read More $6.00 Add to cart -
Rulership’s Last Stand, Part 4 – The Great Waiting
Every rulership portrays itself as inevitable and eternal, and yet they all come and go. As will those which currently…Read More $6.00 Add to cart -
Rulership’s Last Stand, Part 5 – Predatory Breakdown
Every rulership portrays itself as inevitable and eternal, and yet they all come and go. As will those which currently…Read More $6.00 Add to cart -
Society’s Problem with Sex
This issue differs from most others because it describes our problems and asks questions rather than coming to conclusions. That…Read More $8.00 Add to cart -
Staring Down Death
Death is certainly is major issue in human life. I had considered it when I was young, but was never…Read More $10.00 Add to cart -
Technology and Culture
Technology is far more than devices and specifications. In fact the scientific details, while necessary, are mere sideshows to the…Read More $6.00 Add to cart -
The ‘Little Man’ Problem
One of the most persistent problems of human society is what we might call the little man problem. Generation after…Read More $8.00 Add to cart -
The Agent of Evolution
As I’ve tried to understand what Jesus’s real mission was, I’ve settled in to a single conclusion: He was the…Read More $8.00 Add to cart -
The Anatomy of 21st Century Power
This Century's defining characteristics are just starting to show. We came to know how power worked in the 20th century,…Read More $8.00 Add to cart -
The Aristocracy of Violence
Today we’ll dig into something so pervasive that we hardly notice it. And because we barely notice it, it runs…Read More $6.00 Add to cart -
The Birth of Neo-Lockean Civilization
We are, right here in our own place and time, witnessing the birth of a new civilization. This is occurring…Read More $6.00 Add to cart -
The Bourgeois Coup D’ Etat
The bourgeois coup d’etat of Florence is an almost forgotten historical moment, but it’s an important one for us, as…Read More $10.00 Add to cart -
The Challenge of a No-Frills Christ
Jesus provided a serious challenge to people of his time: he was simply too advanced. And so they added supplemental…Read More $6.00 Add to cart -
The Contentment Revolution
“Contentment”… Sounds a little dull, doesn’t it? This issue may convince you otherwise, because within this “boring” word is a…Read More $6.00 Add to cart -
The Dark Ages Liberation
The European “Dark Ages,” roughly the years between 500 AD and 1000 AD, is a much maligned period. Popular “knowledge”…Read More $6.00 Add to cart -
The Death of Innovator Zero
His name is lost to us. The only record of his existence is found in a history of inventions written…Read More $6.00 Add to cart -
The Economics of Rulership
As strange as it may seem, government is, and by far, the most profitable business activity on planet Earth... ever.…Read More $6.00 Add to cart -
The Education of a Sociopath
Sociopaths hold an inordinate amount of power and influence in the present world, and so it behooves all normal people…Read More $6.00 Add to cart -
The Epoch of Confusion
At some point in the distant past, good triumphed over evil in the human species. This is not to say…Read More $10.00 Add to cart -
The Era of Fiat Currency Capitalism
If we were to give a name to the last two generations of Western history, we’d have to call it…Read More $6.00 Add to cart -
The European Anarchy
Continuing from The Dark Ages Liberation, this issue examines a time that was massively better than people imagine, and for…Read More $6.00 Add to cart -
The Fall from the Natural State
In this issue we show precisely how organized aggression overtook men in their natural state. That is, we look back…Read More $6.00 Add to cart -
The First City Was A Peaceful Anarchy
We are not doomed to live forever in a world of control – of central governments telling us how we…Read More $6.00 Add to cart -
The Forbidden History of Smuggling
Smuggling has been one of the most common economic activities of all time. It fed the poor and provided a…Read More $6.00 Add to cart -
The Foundations of Natural Religion
Referring to man’s natural state has been crucial to human development over the past few centuries. One aspect of the…Read More $6.00 Add to cart -
The Gift of the Hebrews
The origin and development of the Hebrews is immensely instructive but almost wholly unknown. And, surprisingly enough, we have quite…Read More $6.00 Add to cart -
The Golden Age is Here… Waiting for Us to Grasp It
A golden age is upon us. We haven’t seen it because we’ve been looking at the wrong things and in…Read More $6.00 Add to cart -
The Great Operating System Hack
This issue dissects no less than a hack upon the human operating systems... a manipulation of the basic assumptions that…Read More $8.00 Add to cart -
The Harnessing of Mankind, Part 1
Mankind is presently harnessed by its elites more completely than ever before. And yet, the belief in authority that gave…Read More $6.00 Add to cart -
The Harnessing of Mankind, Part 2
Mankind is presently harnessed by its elites more completely than ever before. And yet, the belief in authority that gave…Read More $6.00 Add to cart -
The Heaven-Hell Dipole
This month, we’re going to tackle an image that is long overdue for critique. Its importance goes far beyond questions…Read More $6.00 Add to cart -
The Hidden Topography of Human Cultures
When you’re on foot in the wilderness, knowing the elevations in front of you is crucial, not only for walking,…Read More $6.00 Add to cart -
The Institutional Suppression of Talent
Human civilization has featured a long and difficult struggle between the individual and institutional mind… a fight that suppresses our…Read More $6.00 Add to cart -
The Law & Its Cycle
Modern people tend to know something of the minutia of law and of legal actions, but they generally know nothing…Read More $6.00 Add to cart -
The Long Calendar – Entropy, Cycles & Escape
Imagine what life would be like if the seasons were each 400 years long, instead of a few months. We…Read More $6.00 Add to cart -
The Lost Art of Living with Intent
This map shows just a fraction of the utopian communities created in America during its expansion westward in the 19th…Read More $6.00 Add to cart -
The Lost Philosophy of Jesus of Nazareth
Very few people think of Jesus of Nazareth as a philosopher. They may see him as a mystical figure or…Read More $6.00 Add to cart -
The Mystery of Iniquity: Cultured Sociopathy
When thinking about evil, people nearly always think of obvious, nasty villains: powerful, vicious monsters. They do this because it…Read More $6.00 Add to cart -
The Narrowing of Capitalism
Capitalism can be properly appreciated only in a historical context. And we’re seeing a historic change in Western capitalism just…Read More $8.00 Add to cart -
The New Model of Self-Experience
It’s hard to imagine something more fundamentally human than self-experience. But as it happens, we’ve been doing self-experience wrong. Not…Read More $8.00 Add to cart -
The Other Side of Scarcity
Scarcity on Earth has been transcended by technology... it has been overcome. Many people are still experiencing scarcity, but it's…Read More $8.00 Add to cart -
The Other Side of the Heart
The words “heart” or “from the heart” have, throughout my lifetime, referred almost exclusively to sympathy, pity, or guilt. This…Read More $6.00 Add to cart -
The Phenomenon of The Fiat-Driven Welfare State
We’v been living through a strange experiment that took me a long time to put into a proper context: The…Read More $10.00 Add to cart -
The Phoenicians’ Commercial Civilization
As I've read history and looked for the origins of things, again and again I've found the Phoenicians waiting for…Read More $8.00 Add to cart -
The Post-Scarcity Society
One of the most important challenges for us at this moment is to forge images of post-scarcity life. Until we…Read More $10.00 Add to cart -
The Real Problem with Conspiracy Theories
The real problem with conspiracy theories is not that they are scary – it’s that they are too comforting. The…Read More $6.00 Add to cart -
The Rise of Christian Capitalism
This issue explains how our Western Civilization formed and why it is a far more ethical and just civilization than…Read More $6.00 Add to cart -
The Spiritual Instinct
Spirituality can be difficult to discuss. Even the terms we use are terribly indistinct. Nonetheless, this instinct is not mere…Read More $8.00 Add to cart -
The Strange Case of Mart Laar
The highly successful East European economic model began with a history teacher, a man who freely admitted that he was…Read More $6.00 Add to cart -
The Strangest Liberation
Some of the things we see as weaknesses are not actually weaknesses. Seen in a different light it becomes clear…Read More $6.00 Add to cart -
The Surprise of Natural Religion
The great surprise of natural religion - of any life-based religion - is that it runs opposite to what most…Read More $6.00 Add to cart -
The Systemic Abuse of the Productive Class: It Ends when We Say it Does
The controlling group of Western Civilization, and the world in general, is the productive class: the people who produce and…Read More $6.00 Add to cart -
The Tragic And The Transcendent
One day, when I was eight or nine years old, I noticed something that I never entirely forgot. You may…Read More $10.00 Add to cart -
The Truth About Democracy
Democracy, since World War I, has been foisted upon much of the world as an idol... an object of worship.…Read More $6.00 Add to cart -
The Tuskegee Experiment
Imagine someone saying to you: “The US government is keeping a group of men sick with a horrible, disfiguring disease.…Read More $6.00 Add to cart -
The Twilight of Authority
Authority has made for a great show, but its present cycle is nearing completion, and once it is complete, the…Read More $6.00 Add to cart -
The Two Incarnations
Incarnation means embodied in flesh. We’re familiar with the Christian use of this word (God taking on flesh), but this…Read More $6.00 Add to cart -
The Two Types of Religion
This is another of those subjects which should be obvious, but have been covered little, if at all. Strange though…Read More $10.00 Add to cart -
There Were No Cavemen
Images of cavemen (wearing loin cloths during an ice age!) have corrupted our view of the past, burying the truth…Read More $6.00 Add to cart -
Transcending Idolatry
Whatever we place above reality... whatever we place above examination... we are idolizing: placing it as a god. We've all…Read More $8.00 Add to cart -
When The Foundations Are Being Destroyed
This issue was released in August of 2020 and explained that we were experiencing a no-turning-back point for Western institutions.…Read More $8.00 Add to cart -
Why Freedom Slides Backward
We've all seen it: some person or group moves forward into liberty, then, after some time, begins sliding back to…Read More $10.00 Add to cart -
Will And Apathy In Human Society
If you want to predict the direction of human affairs with some accuracy, one of the first things to do…Read More $10.00 Add to cart -
Woit’s Warriors
Beginning in the late 1960s, something exceptional happened in Chicago. The story was reported widely in the 1970s, but always…Read More $6.00 Add to cart