In 1974, Francis Ford Coppola made a movie about surveillance called The Conversation in which Gene Hackman plays a surveillance expert named Harry Caul. Surveillance is the art not just of listening, but of pinpointing which sounds, which signals, which frequencies are the important ones. To Harry, this is only a job, and just as he absolves…
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Orpheus: with the 6th generation, cease the glory of my song
The ancient Greeks were the first to discover and articulate a need for musical temperament. However, other forms of music evolved alongside tempered music without recognizing any such need. Music we might describe as indigenous or native is usually untempered and every bit as beautiful; in some ways, maybe more so. This is the music…
Decoding madwoman chess
The first thing the Red Queen says to Alice in Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking Glass tells us everything we need to know about the story and the hidden messages encoded within. When the Red Queen says all the ways belong to her, she’s referring to her power on the chessboard, as she has the most mobility, being able…
First Amazon review!
Inflationary Faeries did get another review, though, from BookLife Prize: Inflationary Faeries bursts with creative worldbuilding, boasting mythical creatures, lords and ladies, and shape-shifting faeries. Petersen weaves storytelling magic into this dreamlike tale. ~The BookLife Prize Visit my YouTube channel: Stephanie McPeak Petersen
Moriarty, rotary, and foolscap
[A video of this post is available here: https://youtu.be/6tD7mIxCTYE ] Just over a year ago, I mentioned in a short teaser video that the name of the Sherlock Holmes character, Professor Moriarty, was an anagram for “I M Rotary.” But did the author, Arthur Conan Doyle, encrypt this anagram on purpose? And if so, what…
The hero of the story is a man we never meet
When the faery Brighid is tasked with stealing wealth from afar—and without using faery magick—new strategies emerge from her prolific and poetic mind. Ultimately, she settles on the formation of a central bank and the real magick of monetary inflation: a policy that would steal wealth from unsuspecting shirefolk for centuries to come. But before…
Francis Bacon, Shakespeare, and Tartarian economics
I’m a Baconian, meaning I believe Sir Francis Bacon either wrote the Shakespeare works single-handedly or contributed to a collective Shakespeare literary mask. To further support my position, I’d like to focus on Bacon’s unusual and unpopular economic views, and see if similar views are expressed in the work of Shakespeare. (This blog post is…
Harmonics & the human head
The GnosticAcademy YT channel recently pointed out some ancient knowledge that was new to me: when you divide the 22 bones of the human skull (not counting the mandible) by the 7 orifices of sensory input in the head, you approximate Pi, the result being 3.142. When I heard this, I wanted to know how…
Controlling inflation with spirit
(This is an excerpt from Chapter 11 of my book, The Next Octave.) “The experience of the fifth as a spiritual experiencewas the first to be lost to humanity.” –Rudolf Steiner Ideally, music and economics are driven by the power of 2, but regulated by the power of 3. We do not, however, live in…
The chymical wedding of sylvanite
(this blog post is also available as a video) In my last video on Cripple Creek’s relatively small mudflood, I discussed the gold telluride found there known as sylvanite — a compound of gold, silver, and tellurium — and showed the four main locations of sylvanite, according to the mainstream narrative. Those locations are Transylvania…