Are you going to let them get away with that? Didn’t think so. — The Clem Samsons - Illuminated Manuscripts Listen to Illuminated Manuscripts by The Clem Samsons.artists.landr.com So while I was out in Los Angeles recording my album with my band The Clem Samsons, I met a wonderful piano player who also happened to be a Hollywood writer. It’s what they call a “hyphenate” out there. I liked that. We don’t really have hyphenates back here in…

And the video is pretty interesting too. — So maybe you have heard about this crazy guy Clem Samson who put out his first record at age 62. He truly is an inspiration to older folks everywhere. Because despite all odds, and despite everyone saying he’s crazy to have such a far-fetched dream, he persists. But we do…

I am living proof that you should follow your dream, no matter what your age — BIG NEWS! Just dropped the first album for my new band, The Clem Samsons. It’s on every conceivable format — just click the album below and it will bring up a menu to select your music service. …

Why would I want to get rid of my ego? — You are not alone if the thought has occurred to you during the reading of this series that the ego is getting a bad rap here. Most people come up to me after their first meeting at Post-Ego and present me with the idea that their ego doesn’t deserve this…

Oh boohoo, go cry, ego-baby. — Our ego is so confused. It walks around the world thinking that it’s special — the center. And much beloved, of course. A lot of people care about us, we’re quite sure of that as we march around self-important and self-absorbed and self-enamored. …

Vanity and grandiosity and specialness and false pride and star f**king are the order of the day — The problem with egoists is that they suck all the attention in the room onto themselves, and the room is left seeming empty. The world right now seems a very hollow empty place. There are maniacal billionaires challenging each other to a wrestling match to great fanfare and adoration. There…

The evidence is incontrovertible — If there is a God, then… A lot of strange conclusions follow from this premise. For instance, if there is a God, then God created atheism. God wanted there to be a bunch of doubters. Why not? God’s not afraid of no doubters. God also created science. What? You think God is afraid of a bunch…

Jung disproved in latest experiments — Scientists at MU (Materialists University, Michigan) have been doing animal experiments for years searching for the shadow self. Jung proposed the existence of this alter ego self about a century ago. Presumably, we have something called a Superego which suppresses all our darker and antisocial urges into our unconscious and…

Sorry, not sorry. — A fascinating study suggests it’s possible that we might remain conscious after death. Patients who died after cardiac arrest revealed a surge of conscious-like brain activity in the part of the brain associated with dreaming and altered states of consciousness. Areas of the brain associated with cognitive processes were involved…