They’re needed, the odd strange birds that dares to fly higher than others — closer to the sun, but also closer to heaven. 2020 marked the year of the release of Johan Von Sydow’s documentary Tiny Tim: King for a Day, which tells the strange, somewhat dark and sad, but also hopeful tale of Herbert Khaury, known to the world as Tiny Tim. An ukulele playing, androgynous romantic — stuck in a world that loved him, but also considered him as a freak. He flew, and he crashed, but kept going always hoping to get his big comeback once again…
Who am I to look back at 2020 and bring forth my successes (and maybe failures), just like I’m some ordinary Joe in Sweden with who lacks fame and fortune? Well, that’s what I thought when the idea for this text entered my mind. First of all, I am an ordinary Swedish Joe — but that does not stop me from feeling I’m someone special, at least to myself — and as an individualist I try to see myself as someone that is important for my own wellbeing. It’s the rational thing to do, even if it might seem a…
Even if I heard about them way earlier, through lots of UFO-literature I devoured at my local library as a kid, the Men in Black phenomena wasn’t something that entered my pop culture mind until Barry Sonnenfeld’s blockbuster Men in Black (1997). The concept there was from a hero’s viewpoint, and the elusive so-called MiB’s was portrayed as the saviours of the universe and all around good guys — even with a tendency to erase the memories of people from time to time. It’s a great film, I must admit it. …
It’s so elusive, the feeling of happiness. Like a rare fish hurrying away into the depths of murky water, getting away before we get a chance to look at the details. Most of us striving to catch it, but it easily slips away no matter how hard we hold on to it. In a world like this it’s not easy to stay happy considering the turmoil around us, but there are a few things you can do to gain personal peace. As I see it, happiness comes through insights and it can sometimes be a long process to reach certain…
Being conscious is awareness, to be able to perform actions and think thoughts, process life and death and be a part of everything — and the latter is no matter what. We can’t stop ourselves from being there, being now, even if our thoughts most of the time unnecessary travels to the past and the future. It takes energy, but also triggers the imagination. To envision the future basically uses the same parts of the brain that tries to puzzle together the past, and that’s closely related to imagination. …
Ideas are traveling too fast nowadays, with no time to evolve and end up in the hands of the receivers through a proper distance. There was a time when we wasn’t so interconnected, when an idea could travel for weeks, months, years from one point to another, with the help of human carriers — stopping for a rest here and there, sharing that idea and letting it spread organically, until it continues to move to its destined location. Once upon a time, when the idea reached its end station, it was left there to evolve among new users, who then…
We’ve all dreamed about traveling in time, into the past to change something or into the future to see how it all ends. It’s part of being a human, it’s part of our existence. There’s always been dreams that wanted to take it further, either by creating stories — books, movies etc, that shows us that good and the bad with these journeys, and from time to time rebels who worked hard in their barns, in labs or in theory to solve this enigma. Most of them have been laughed at, scorned and ridiculed. But as we progress as humans…
Monuments.
I don’t believe in eternal life, not as the Christian belief system says at least. Actually, I have no idea what will happen after death or in the moment of it, but I tried DMT a couple of times and it feels like there’s something going on there on the other side — but it’s neither heaven, hell, God, Jesus, the Devil or some other place or being meeting us with open arms or glowing pitchforks. I leave it to that, let’s see what happens — and if possible; report back.
But there’s a way to create some kind…
Mankind is fooled into the need of control. Who fooled them? It’s a long process of subtle (and very unsubtle!) brainwashing — part religion, part political ideologies. But most of all it’s themselves, in their eternal quest for what’s most comfortable to them at that very moment. It can be food, sex, power, money — things that’s basically short term highs, emotionally charged volcanos violently erupting sticky serotonins and endorphins.
Giving up freedom for control might feel safe at the time, but subconsciously the feeling of being helpless will grow and grow until the almost unexplainable frustration leads to anger…
I’ve been down in conspiracies recently and it’s all a mess. Not my own perception of it, but the community itself. There’s voices from everywhere, bringing up everything and connecting it to something; from UFO’s and assassinations, Illuminati and the New World Order (is that the same thing?), ancient astronauts, ultraterrestrials, cryptids, big pharma, flat, hollow and inner earth and so on. It’s a quite insane concept to merge with it, but also very fascinating to read and listen to. …
Fred Andersson
Author, thinker, television freelancer, mystery aficionado and cat lover.
