No Shortcuts to Now

Author: K. L. Homme

Waypoint 1.5: No Shortcuts to Now

Jun 17, 2025

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K. L. Homme

in Uncategorized, Waypoints

From Chapter 1, “Standing in The Ancient Shadow“ “We live only now. Everything else is either passed or unknown.” — Marcus Aurelius We welcomed our first break at the first switchback, where a posted sign warned hikers: Stay on the trail. Like an open history book, it traced a scar across the mountain’s face —…
Field Note 1.4: After The Map Burns

Jun 13, 2025

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K. L. Homme

in Field Notes, On Language and Manipulation

No — the word knowledge should carry a higher standard than opinion. They aren’t synonyms. And when we use the word knowledge, we should have a good sense of what we mean by it.
Waypoint 1.4: The Map Is Not the Mountain

Jun 10, 2025

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K. L. Homme

in Chapter 1.4: The Map Is Not the Mountain, Waypoints

What is knowledge, really, but a certain something that works? Something woven from within, spun out spider-like, from the silken stuff of experience, stories, legends, and dreams?
Field Note 1.3 (b): The Ratatoskr Files

Jun 8, 2025

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K. L. Homme

in Field Notes, On The Inner Tyrant

Think of Trump’s makeup as a kind of seismogram — registering a tremor in his earthen heart.
Waypoint 1.2: Trees of Forbidden Knowledge

Jun 8, 2025

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K. L. Homme

in Chapter 1.2: Trees of Forbidden Knowledge, Waypoints

With delight, we watched our scientifically-inclined boy turn into Vulcan’s evangelical— a pint-sized prophet of sulfur and smoke.
Field Note 1.3 (a): When the Messenger Divides

Jun 6, 2025

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K. L. Homme

in Field Notes, On Language and Manipulation, Uncategorized

Have you lost connection with someone because of the rhetoric they trust — or the truths you can’t agree on?
Waypoint 1.3: The Trailhead

Jun 3, 2025

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K. L. Homme

in Chapter 1.3: The Trailhead, Waypoints

Ratatoskr, the trickster squirrel — a kind of mythic pundit — dashes between the world-tree’s top and bottom, stirring chaos.
Field Note 1.2: Limbs of An Old Tree

May 30, 2025

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K. L. Homme

in Field Notes, On Forbidden Knowledge

What counts as forbidden knowledge today?
Field Note 1.1: Goodnight Moon, Hello Caligula

May 27, 2025

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K. L. Homme

in Field Notes, On The Madness of Power

In his time, Caligula invited the moon into his bed — What happens to a culture when reality bends to serve power’s dreams?
Waypoint 1.1: Vulcan’s Evangelist

May 26, 2025

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K. L. Homme

in Chapter 1.1: Vulcan’s Evangelist, Waypoints

Some of us pause to wonder what heated nightmare it was that moved the mad god-emperor Caligula to invite the moon into his own amorous bed.