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Designer Kate Spade, whose handbags can be seen everywhere, has died of an apparent suicide at the age of 55. A fashion designer for many years,in 2006 she sold the successful company that she started with her husband in 1993. Their more recent endeavors had not been as well received.
I recently did a session for a client who was very depressed and wanted to know if her chart showed a tendency towards suicide. […]
The Bionic Man
Oscar Pistorius is in jail right now awaiting trial for the Valentine’s Day shooting of his girlfriend, Veena Steenkampf. Previously he rose to fame as the first double amputee to win a medal in an able bodied world track event.
Pistorius is a Bionic Man as befits a transhuman athlete in the Aquarian Age – fitted with artificial limbs that some argue give him an unfair advantage over mere mortals. (See my posts on Transhumanism here.)
Pistorius was profiled in the New York Times last year […]
photo montage from CNN. Andrew Koenig, the son of Walter Koenig who played Pavel Chekov in the original Star Trek series, has been missing since February 14th. He was last seen at a bakery in Vancouver. Koenig is an actor who is best known as Kirk Cameron’s sidekick in the long-running television series “Growing Pains.” Some of Koenig’s friends fear the worst, reporting that he had been depressed and fed up with his life in California. He sold all of his possessions and walked away from his home in […]
The death of Jim Morrison was one of the first really sad events of my young life. As a young and lonely wPlut hippie, his music took me to places beyond my reality that really did open the doors of consciousness. I discovered Jim Morrison’s music at the same time I discovered Aldous Huxley and psychedelic pharmaceuticals, which began what was to become a lifelong exploration of the mystery of life. Huxley wrote, “When the doors of perception are cleansed /Things will appear as they are: Infinite. ”
Jim Morrison […]