There is a difference between psychedelic experiences and psychedelic people

In the beginning, there is only the event: the Order of the Solar Temple's mass demise by fire, drug, and bullet. Forty-eight corpses in Switzerland, divided almost evenly between a farmhouse in Cheiry and a cluster of gutted chalets 100 miles to the south in Granges-sur-Salvan; plus five more bodies in two torched homes in Morin Heights, Quebec. But before that cool newsprint ax attempts to fall between clarity and madness, information and cult, there is nothing but a kind...

But what if the medium is the message?

In the beginning, there is only the event: the Order of the Solar Temple's mass demise by fire, drug, and bullet. Forty-eight corpses in Switzerland, divided almost evenly between a farmhouse in Cheiry and a cluster of gutted chalets 100 miles to the south in Granges-sur-Salvan; plus five more bodies in two torched homes in Morin Heights, Quebec. But before that cool newsprint ax attempts to fall between clarity and madness, information and cult, there is nothing but a kind...

“Messages from beyond” are forms of information, and information is a trickster

In the beginning, there is only the event: the Order of the Solar Temple's mass demise by fire, drug, and bullet. Forty-eight corpses in Switzerland, divided almost evenly between a farmhouse in Cheiry and a cluster of gutted chalets 100 miles to the south in Granges-sur-Salvan; plus five more bodies in two torched homes in Morin Heights, Quebec. But before that cool newsprint ax attempts to fall between clarity and madness, information and cult, there is nothing but a kind...

Terminal. What other journey, you might ask, begins at the end?

In the beginning, there is only the event: the Order of the Solar Temple's mass demise by fire, drug, and bullet. Forty-eight corpses in Switzerland, divided almost evenly between a farmhouse in Cheiry and a cluster of gutted chalets 100 miles to the south in Granges-sur-Salvan; plus five more bodies in two torched homes in Morin Heights, Quebec. But before that cool newsprint ax attempts to fall between clarity and madness, information and cult, there is nothing but a kind...

It is too close, too far-out, its sacred transmissions too muddled with the scandalous grit of its concrete historical unfoldment

In the beginning, there is only the event: the Order of the Solar Temple's mass demise by fire, drug, and bullet. Forty-eight corpses in Switzerland, divided almost evenly between a farmhouse in Cheiry and a cluster of gutted chalets 100 miles to the south in Granges-sur-Salvan; plus five more bodies in two torched homes in Morin Heights, Quebec. But before that cool newsprint ax attempts to fall between clarity and madness, information and cult, there is nothing but a kind...