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The great coastal spirit, Raven, and his friends, famous for their transformational powers, realize that the world itself has now been transformed from the outside in. Raven then finds himself confronting the greatest mystery of all: Why did the newcomers appear and what do they want? Through a series of novel encounters and adventures, Raven uses all his legendary acumen, cleverness, and insight to solve the challenges set before him, his fri...

Paul Andrews is a man who isn't careful what he wishes for. The results are a spouse whose loyalty has been worn to a thread, an adoptive daughter who adores him too much, a therapist who looks the other way while he cheats with his wife, and friends who will do anything for him, including all the wrong things. Experiencing disturbing hallucinations and dreams, Paul is about to lead all of them and others straight into an existential abyss. Th...

Philosophy/Ethics The 'sacrifice of the intellect' is today mostly either a convenience or a contrivance. The marketeer assuages the consumer by her own feigned idiocy, the parish pirate invites the listless into his own fraudulent faith. It is exceedingly rare, in my estimation, to discover an authentically latter-day saint. But the ignominious fate of faith in our own time is mimicked by the corresponding downfall of reason, which in its t...

Careful. There is a lethal weapon in your hand. This book kills. If you read it, you will murder some of what you thought were the most obvious truths. Stuff you have lived your life around. You may have wondered about some of it. But in the end, you have accepted it. Are you sure you want that stuff dead? Maybe not. But find out for yourself. You might find you need to replace the old "truths" with something new. Teenagers are always on the l...

Education, Philosophy This is a book very much of the moment. It presents a third way of teaching ethics for a modern world rife with the forces of suppression. Critiquing both neo-conservative and "neo-liberal" fashions, it puts forward in their place a pedagogy inspired by art and based on interpretation theory, dialogue, and dialectic. A Pedagogy for the Suppressed encompasses the broadest and deepest issues of our times, linking them to an...

A book like this should not exist. Its topic does not exist, nor does its experience. Yet it is too quick, possessed too much of the now to simply iterate the banality of speculation. Futurology is not futurity, and though it is true by definition that the object of the first remains unknown in the present, the experience of the second is, in fact, what we are. For our being is, in its essence, a being ahead of itself. It is at once always and...

Philosophy/Criticism "Any institution that centers itself by reproduction is immediately suspect. Criticism, if directed at the unpolished edges of an organization, edges which either sabotage or yet defeat the institution's ability to reproduce itself, can certainly be found in abundance. But critique, authentic and reflexive, that which calls into question not merely the goals of government or like edifices but indeed their very existence,...

And when we do perceive the wholeness of the present in its very presence - this is not at all to suggest that we regularly do so, all we have to do is consider when the last time was that we felt we had truly understood everything that could be known about this or that aspect of our existence or the world at large - we ourselves are enlarged, for a corresponding moment, in our consciousness. We know what it means to know something. We underst...

We have established what our general expectations of 'the past' are to be, given that it is our creation and thus it 'owes' something or other to us. It is at first motivated by resentment, tends toward reification, and divulges reconciliation. It has the character of a 'space, ' it is something more 'moral' than we, and is also possessed of the variety of other traits, including it being a space of acts rather than action and also of the myst...

This was the truer source of Evelyn's tears, that she couldn't communicate with the dead. Been there, done that, she thought of human history. And wouldn't you know it, contact, a second sun, a new world for humanity to live upon, none of that stopped history. Maybe time, for a moment, was stopped. The destruction of god and the devil both, the vanquishing of Seryxim, the loss of these two heroines for all time, the greatest beings who had eve...

Do not love the dead. Do not hate the living. For life and world are one thing, and you are both, present in the second but the fullest presence of the first. Now the jaguar stood up and swaggered her tail back and forth. "Some of you might imagine that my speaking with you is a miraculous thing, or the work of an occult force. It is neither. It's simply our new friend's technology, discovered and sharpened in the same way that we make better ...

At some length Kristen managed some small revenge by grabbing onto Mary and fingering her little friend to a decent climax of her own, realizing only afterwards that Evelyn had been helping out from behind, as it were. Which then left the dark-haired mortal enemy of all that was evil in the world. Evie, the avenging angel, the fullest-blooded princess of the night, fearless, peerless, faultless. Yes, faultless, by gods. Blood lust be damned, I...

The back-stage people must be so used to not only seeing beauty but also constructing it that they never seemed to even glance at Kristen and the other models. But with Michelle it was different. With her, one didn't see beauty, but rather felt oneself in the presence of the Beautiful itself. The truth of beauty. For a long while, in human consciousness, beauty, truth and the good were so associated with one another as to be the same thing. Ha...

Does it matter? You can read the message we're sending out." Kristen was now suddenly bored. Tired out. Killing was not really her thing. She didn't enjoy it, like Evie, and she didn't remain unaffected by it, like her sister. She wasn't much good at it technically either, like Mike. It didn't give her something to hang her hat on, like it had for Kylie for a while. And shamefully, she felt little remorse in it, even after all the other possib...

You don't need lauding, Kristen Anne. Good fucking Christ, didn't you get enough of that at school? And then who takes up with Mr. Perfect, letting yet more time slip by before you even thought to look for me? And then when your precious friends pushed you to confront your bad conscience, you did everything you could to avoid it. I know, sister. We merged, right? I know everything about your feelings regarding me. Then when I thought we were t...

Time. I can have it. I can give it. It can be taken from me, or it can be allowed for me. I can save it and I can lose it. I can make up for its loss, or I can waste it. I can arrive when it is right, or be somewhere when it is wrong. I can even stop it, or it can run on so quickly that I could never catch up.More obscurely, a stitch in it saves nine.Time flies and yet drags, but mostly it simply passes. It could come again, or it might never ...

Cultural Criticism In the two dozen essays written over a nine-month span, from 2020 to 2021, G.V. Loewen attempts to cast the darkest denizens of our own dubious days into the less lurid chiaroscuro of cultural critique. The sense throughout that saying is also doing and that words thus carry a greater gravity than is often given them, should be kept in mind. For us, if the word and the deed are to be brought together, at once ethics and aest...

With a decaying corpse washing up on a secluded beach, and a woman from the Renaissance era flinging an infant off the cliff above it, the heroes know they are in for a death-defying journey that will embrace the very source of death itself. The origin of human darkness in their world is actually an entirely other world, replete with soulless duplicates of themselves, ready to conquer and enslave everything they previously fought for and loved...

Ethics, Cultural CriticismThe critical social philosopher is the auditor-general of contemporary society and culture. These essays speak for themselves. Their content may be popular, but their reflections may not be. By promoting our abject failures as successes - my children respect me, our schools are superior, we love nature, we defend freedom, our God is great, and so on - we have found a way to bypass the critical reality check that the w...

The drive to overcome nature is a projection of the anxiety about succumbing to our own nature. Inevitably, this conflict creates a vicious circle. For in subduing nature to our technical goals - themselves arranged so that our human frailty is to be overcome - we end up destroying the world in which we must live.Of late, we have begun to recognize this viciousness, both in our acts and more profoundly, in our thoughts. Yet the attempt to lose...