I look around and see my men, nervously puffing cigarettes faster than they can buy them. Fear and reluctant excitement thicken the air. We’ve logged hundreds of hours in this steel tube and flown clear across the ocean, but never into enemy territory.  The stories from returning crews are either heroic or tragic. There is […]

Here We Go Again: VL2020 Wouldn’t it be lovely to reset yourself, to gain absolute control of your future? Now you can—trust me. Why bother, you say, since the body replaces its cells every 7-10 years? True, however, brain cells keep multiplying and need pruning and reconfiguring. That’s why my new app This is Your […]

Three Ideas that Explain Who You Are 1: You are the product of your genetic code, hardwired to behave in certain ways. 2: You are the product of your environment, the sum total of your influences. 3: You are the product of your choices. It is your preferences, not your surroundings, that define you. I believe […]

I want to come to the Wizard Academy and marinate in the secret sauce you’ve concocted, the stuff that creates such tasty storytellers. I want to write good, thought-provoking posts that will engage readers  and I think you could really help sharpen my pencil.  Here’s a story about a gift that took 50 years to […]

Opening Chapter of The Temple (an allegory of the Fall of Adam) The Hydrox breathed darkfire that sucked the light out of the cave. Adam’s diamond sword Gleamer refused to be sucked into the darkfire breath. Adam swung the sword and the light within the sword extended beyond its size and reached to the Hydrox, forcing a […]

Modern Love I´d rather get a toothache than perspective 2017 was the year I went around wishing I would die. My eleven year marriage to the man I had loved since I was 18 had fallen apart, and I did not have horses or men to put it back together again. What remained after the […]

Pink Skies at Night It was probably illegal, yet still I clambered out into an opening of Chapel Rock along the Pictured Rocks of Lake Superior and wedged myself into position of mediation. Then again, it was after Labor Day and the trolls had returned below the bridge. I had the bay all to myself. […]

 Tandem  Miguel’s arms were short. Too short. He was always rolling up his cuffs, and he was never picked for basketball. Why couldn’t he have arms like Jack? Instead he had inherited his mother’s short stature and his grandfather’s thick eyebrows. Jack, on the other hand, had gotten the best of everything. Long legs, long […]

We are going to print one copy of this commemorative book for each guest at our May 2nd event. It will be full-color throughout and a fat 8 x 8 inches with 132 pages including a detailed explanation of all the symbols hidden throughout the campus. And there are LOTS of them. (The 52 full-page […]

Materials for the 6 cabins will be $30,000 each. Each of the builders of these 6 cabins will each receive:  A 2-day private Academy class of your choosing for up to 24 people, including use of the entire Wizard Academy campus for 2 days and 3 nights. (A $30,000 value) Your private Academy event will […]

Hollister, the oldest of the grandkids, is handing out gifts on Christmas Eve. These 3 photos comprise Grandkids Corner in the rabbit hole of Indy Beagle for 2019. Happy New Year, all! – Indy

FOREWORD:   WHO WE ARE AND WHAT WE TEACH 1. A LANGUAGE OF ARCHITECTURE 2. GO UP FOR CELEBRATION. GO DOWN TO FIND DEPTH OF MEANING. 3. THE TOWER (STUDENTS ONLY INSIDE) 4. WALKING TO CHAPEL DULCINEA 5. CHAPEL DULCINEA 6. EXPLANATION POINT, AND MY HEART IS IN YOUR HANDS  7. ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE […]

Will it be obvious when robots have free will? I think the first evidence will be if robots start communicating with each other counterfactually, like “You should have done better.” If a team of robots playing soccer starts to communicate in this language, then we’ll know that they have a sensation of free will. “You […]

“There was something that He hid from all men when He went up a mountain to pray… There was something that He covered constantly by abrupt silence or impetuous isolation… There was some one thing that was too great for God to show us when He walked upon our earth, and I have sometimes fancied […]

On the campus of Wizard Academy, we travel upward to study and celebrate, downward to find meaning and rest.  According to Carl Jung’s theory of depth psychology7, life is a journey on water.  Water: that transparent portal separating the objective reality of the conscious mind from the subjective reality of the unconscious mind. Above the […]

“It was a bird-chirpy morning in early May. Sunshine elbowed through the stained-glass windows of the Capt. Kendrick Memorial Hot Dog Wildlife Preserve. Sweet smells rose stiffly from the fields outside and unfurled above the cafe like banners. Random notes of cheerfulness sailed through the air like paper airplanes. One landed in the steam pot […]

Take Your Inspiration From Wherever You Find It, No Matter How Ridiculous I have no idea who created the image, but there it was: a boy sitting on a tower at night with a book in his lap, looking up at the stars, contemplating the meaning of life. I looked at that cartoon image and […]

Here’s Molly’s story: Jeff Bezos’s Lazy Saturday Morning Routine

SEEING CHRIST IN QUIXOTEby Roy H. Williams The literary world has been drawn to Don Quixote for more than four centuries. It’s the most widely read book on earth, second only to the Bible. John Steinbeck said, “A story has as many versions as it has readers. Everyone takes what he wants or can from it and […]

It’s funny that you mentioned Fritz White in the Rabbit Hole last week. Fritz was famous in Loveland, Colorado. In 1980 he bought a run-down 1909 brick church and made it his home and studio. I now manage this church as an Airbnb.Funny little world we fart around in, huh?  🙂 Christina Gressianu 

The Wood-Pile BY ROBERT FROST (1912) Out walking in the frozen swamp one gray day, I paused and said, ‘I will turn back from here. No, I will go on farther—and we shall see.’ The hard snow held me, save where now and then One foot went through. The view was all in lines Straight up and down of tall slim […]

Here’s Jay’s Quick Test

Listen to Part One of Blaine and Honey’s Interview of Pennie and Roy Listen to Part Two of that same interview.

This is a feel-good story worth reading.

Never heard of the Kolbe action modes?