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Jack Preston King @jackprestonking.bsky.social · 6h

This story is straight-up literary magical realism, BTW, written in third person present tense, IMHO the most magical POV from which to tell a story.

#Halloween #fiction #shortstory #magicalrealism

Jack Preston King @jackprestonking.bsky.social · 1d

It’s #SpookySeason! Read "Night Fall, Moon Rise," a brand new 2,000 word story set on #Halloween night!

#HappyHalloween #shortstory #HalloweenStory #HalloweenFiction #magicalrealism #weirdstories #weirdfiction

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Night Fall, Moon Rise

A Halloween Vignette

In Defense of Magical Thinking

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Jack Preston King @jackprestonking.bsky.social · 6h

What if magical thinking is the key to spiritual development, and a critical factor in our successful evolution as a species?

#spirituality #religion #supernatural #paranormal #God #childdevelopment

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What if Magical Thinking is the Key to Spiritual Development?

Slouching Towards Bethlehem

Jack Preston King @jackprestonking.bsky.social · 7h

My #BookReview of Joan Didion’s Slouching Towards Bethlehem

#GonzoJournalism #NewJournalism #JoanDidion #essays #Booksky

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IN 1990, maybe 1991, I stumbled across Joan Didion’s Slouching Towards Bethlehem in my college library while doing research for a project on the psychedelic flower power Counterculture of the 1960s.…

Ethel Craigge, Palm Reader to the Dead

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Jack Preston King @jackprestonking.bsky.social · 1d

𝑱𝒖𝒔𝒕 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒊𝒎𝒆 𝒇𝒐𝒓 #𝑯𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒐𝒘𝒆𝒆𝒏!

Read "Ethel Craigge, Palm Reader to the Dead!"

#psychic #medium #mortician #paranormal #flashfiction #300WordSory #2MinuteRead

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Her assistant had done a fine job massaging away rigor mortis, and Ethel turned the right hand up, so she could see the deep-lined palm.

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Jack Preston King @jackprestonking.bsky.social · 1d

It’s #SpookySeason! Read "Night Fall, Moon Rise," a brand new 2,000 word story set on #Halloween night!

#HappyHalloween #shortstory #HalloweenStory #HalloweenFiction #magicalrealism #weirdstories #weirdfiction

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Night Fall, Moon Rise

A Halloween Vignette

Four essential tools for your poet’s toolbox

Jack Preston King @jackprestonking.bsky.social · 12h

𝑃𝑜𝑒𝑡𝑟𝑦 𝑖𝑠 𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑛 𝑠𝑖𝑚𝑝𝑙𝑦 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑠𝑒 𝑏𝑟𝑜𝑘𝑒𝑛 𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑜𝑚𝑙𝑦 𝑎𝑡 𝑤𝑒𝑖𝑟𝑑 𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑒𝑠 𝑡𝑜 𝑚𝑎𝑘𝑒 𝑖𝑡 “𝑙𝑜𝑜𝑘 𝑙𝑖𝑘𝑒 𝑝𝑜𝑒𝑡𝑟𝑦.”

#poetry #poets #writing #writingcommunity #Poetrysky

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Build Better Poems

I wanted to love Kurt Vonnegut’s Sirens of Titan, but I didn’t. In light of the book’s million glowing reviews, I accept that it’s probably me, not Kurt.

Jack Preston King @jackprestonking.bsky.social · 17h

My #BookReview of The Sirens of Titan, by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

#Booksky

The Sirens of Titan

‘Dark Star Rising’ by Gary Lachman — Paralibrum.

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C-3PeOr @c3peor.bsky.social · 1d

El meowjor cantante de blues de Michicago.

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Gary Lachman @garylachman.bsky.social · 5d

A remarkably perceptive review of Dark Star Rising which I have only just come across: www.paralibrum.com/reviews/dark...

While Lachman has deep-dived before into little known occultist tenets informing various political movements in history as a contrarian underground ontology of sorts, Dark Star Rising is rather diff...

www.paralibrum.com

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Sophiacycles @sophiacycles.bsky.social · 20h

Jung represents human consciousness as something like a field, a magnetic field, so to speak. As soon as a content enters the field of consciousness, it falls into a web of associations.~Marie-Louise von Franz, Creation Myths

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Sarah Nour @sarahnour.bsky.social · 1d

The Addams Family actually made their first animated appearance in an episode of Scooby-Doo. The following year, they got their own animated show. #FlashbackFriday
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FRINGE QUEST @fringequest.bsky.social · 21h

"Vimanas, Devas, and UAPs: How Hindus, Buddhists, and Jains Are Likely to Respond to Non-Human Intelligences"

Dear Community, We are honored to announce that Dr. Jeffery D. Long, of Elizabethtown College, will deliver the November 2025 SUAPS Colloquium on Vimanas, Devas, and UAPs: How Hindus, Buddhists, and J...

Dr. Long is the Carl W. Zeigler Professor of Religion, Philosophy, and Asian Studies at Elizabethtown College. He earned his Ph.D. in the Philosophy of Religion from the University of Chicago Divinity...

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Jack Preston King @jackprestonking.bsky.social · 1d

It’s #SpookySeason! Read "Night Fall, Moon Rise," a brand new 2,000 word story set on #Halloween night!

#HappyHalloween #shortstory #HalloweenStory #HalloweenFiction #magicalrealism #weirdstories #weirdfiction

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Night Fall, Moon Rise

A Halloween Vignette

Ethel Craigge, Palm Reader to the Dead

Jack Preston King @jackprestonking.bsky.social · 1d

𝑱𝒖𝒔𝒕 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒊𝒎𝒆 𝒇𝒐𝒓 #𝑯𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒐𝒘𝒆𝒆𝒏!

Read "Ethel Craigge, Palm Reader to the Dead!"

#psychic #medium #mortician #paranormal #flashfiction #300WordSory #2MinuteRead

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Her assistant had done a fine job massaging away rigor mortis, and Ethel turned the right hand up, so she could see the deep-lined palm.

Jack Preston King @jackprestonking.bsky.social · 1d

We would live in a much better world if everyone could just accept that "reality" is never in the room when humans discuss things and not get so hot about "my way or the highway!"

Jack Preston King @jackprestonking.bsky.social · 1d

What got me was that bit about "allowing reality to be the only voice in the room," as if we humans with our limited senses and intellect are capable of knowing objective reality. The greatest human delusion of all is believing the world humans are capable of experiencing is "the real world." LOL.

The Secret Teachings of Plants

Jack Preston King @jackprestonking.bsky.social · 1d

My #BookReview of The Secret Teachings of Plants: The Intelligence of the Heart in the Direct Perception of Nature, by Stephen Harrod Buhner

#science #spirituality #botany #consciousness #Booksky

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I had two very different reading experiences working my way through The Secret Teachings of Plants: The Intelligence of the Heart in the Direct Perception of Nature, by Stephen Harrod Buhner.

“How do you plead?” The judge straightened in his bowl. His eye stalks pivoted in unison toward the defendant.

Jack Preston King @jackprestonking.bsky.social · 2d

“𝑌𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝐻𝑜𝑛𝑜𝑟, 𝐼’𝑚 𝑎 𝑡𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑖𝑠𝑡 𝑡𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑒𝑡. 𝐻𝑜𝑤 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝐼 𝑡𝑜 𝑘𝑛𝑜𝑤?”

#flashfiction #puns #100WordStory #1MinuteRead

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Don't Drink the Water

Why Love Is So Difficult and What We Can Do About It?

Jack Preston King @jackprestonking.bsky.social · 2d

I'd say the opposite of delusion is to sanely question the veracity and authority of anyone claiming to have a monopoly on the definition of "reality," though. Most people just define reality as "what I believe" and delusion as "what people who disagree with me believe." That's no good.

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GorgonGoddess_The🐍 @avngmedusa.bsky.social · 2d

Delusion isn’t about ignoring reality it’s about refusing to let reality be the only voice in the room.

-case kenny

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FRINGE QUEST @fringequest.bsky.social · 2d

Do you have the patience to wait
till your mud settles and the water is clear?
Can you remain unmoving
till the right action arises by itself?
– Tao Te Ching

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Jack Preston King @jackprestonking.bsky.social · 2d

“𝑀𝑦𝑡ℎ𝑠 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑐𝑢𝑙𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑎𝑙 𝑠𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑜𝑟𝑖𝑔𝑖𝑛𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑝𝑢𝑟𝑝𝑜𝑠𝑒. 𝑈𝑛𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑠𝑐𝑖𝑜𝑢𝑠𝑙𝑦, 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑠𝑒 𝑠𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑠 𝑖𝑛𝑓𝑙𝑢𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑚𝑎𝑦 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑛 𝑟𝑢𝑙𝑒 𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑙𝑖𝑣𝑒𝑠. 𝑇ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑑𝑒𝑓𝑖𝑛𝑒 𝑤ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑖𝑠 𝑝𝑜𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑏𝑙𝑒, 𝑠ℎ𝑎𝑝𝑒 𝑤ℎ𝑜 𝑤𝑒 𝑎𝑟𝑒, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑑 𝑢𝑠 𝑡𝑜 𝑤ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑐𝑎𝑛 𝑏𝑒.” -- Anodea Judith

#love #myth #mythology #psychology

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