Secretorum
happy the dumb beast, wretched the mortal. Click to read Secretorum, by Roger’s Bacon, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.
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- 171 from 7 Feb 2021 to 14 Oct 2026
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2026 16
- STILL HACKING THE VATICAN
- Arthur Koestler: Life, Mind, and (ego) Death
- An Absurd but Unerring Conclusion
- MAD LADS (part 3)
- The Message of the Medium
- Prajāpati (who?)
- The Barbarian
- The Two Methods of Literary Composition
- MAD LADS (part 2)
- Are Black Holes Souls?
- You are Gods (I made a human)
- And you don't care?
- a dream within a dream
- Notes on a Secular Age: the Death of Carnival and the Birth of Modernity
- Japanese Death Poems (part 3)
- Japanese Death Poems (part 2)
2025 34
- a nest in time
- The Experience of God
- The Asymmetry
- Sweet Child O' Mine
- HACK THE VATICAN
- a wild god who waits for us
- American Gods
- a laughing god, a dancing god
- there are elves in the woods
- MAD LADS
- A New Cosmogony
- The Dawn of Play
- Play is the only way (paradise theory)
- WILD, WILD WOMEN: FEMME FATALES (PART 4)
- Liber Ludens
- On Fairy Tales
- Links and Tingz (May '25)
- Time held me green and dying
- Behold the Pale Child
- The Grand Encyclopedia of Eponymous Laws
- More Than Allegory: On Religious Myth, Truth, and Belief
- WILD, WILD WOMEN: TECHNOLOGY SISTERS (PART 3)
- We are the machines that die for love
- O' Dark Riddler
- The Machine vs. the Dream: a Dialogue
- Dream now or forever hold your peace
- Human Sacrifice
- Links and Thoughts (February '25)
- WILD, WILD WOMEN: FLORA AND FAUNA (Pt. 2)
- Nomen est Omen (repost)
- Nevermore
- Japanese Death Poems
- Gnosticism: Awakenings
- WILD, WILD WOMEN
2024 35
- Gnosticism: Convergences
- Gnosticism: Inversions
- Gnosticism: Origins
- The Mountain
- Immediatism
- SPOOKY SEASON EXTRAVAGANZA BONANZAHHHHHHH!!!!1!!!!1!!!!1!!
- The Orbis Tertius Society
- All the affairs of the King's domain are safe and sound
- A World of Pure Imagination
- A New World
- human=two
- REJECTED: an O'Shaughnessy Fellowship Application (The Orbis Tertius Society)
- SUMMER PICTURE PARTY!!!!1!!1!!!!!
- Hateful Dreams of a Drug That Could Be
- The Great Organism Theory of Evolution
- People Just Fuck Everything
- Morning of the Mutants (repost)
- Links and Thoughts (July '24)
- Reflections on Ājīvikism
- The Last Story
- How to be a Poet
- Against Computers (infinite play)
- Becoming the Crocodile
- INFINITE BALLS
- INFINITE DICK
- Dick was Touched: a Trash Philosophy
- It slithers through us
- The Most Dangerous Idea
- Links and Thoughts (Feb '24)
- Hunger Games
- The Journal of Dangerous Ideas
- Epistemic Hell
- Hatching the Cosmic Egg (Hymn to Dionysus) (BOP #4)
- Research papers used to have style. What happened?
- TOTAL PLAY (BOP #3)
2023 33
- Oblique Strategies
- The Chameleon or The Egg (BOP #2)
- Sweet Child O' Mine (BOP#1)
- the final nine
- Life on the Grid (Part 2)
- SPOOKY SEASON EXTRAVAGANZAAAHHH!!!!
- THE BOX
- Mariccus.
- The Great Disembedding
- The sentence that destroys you
- Links and Thoughts (August '23)
- Later they will understand
- I am stone in my room
- Dreamtigers
- Science Links and Thoughts (August '23)
- Life on the Grid (part 1)
- THE DAY IS COMING
- Links and Thoughts (June '23)
- if you're reading this it's too late
- Musical Heresies (Part 2)
- Musical Heresies (Part 1)
- The Eden Project
- What comes after?
- The Soul of the Writer
- The One Heresy to Rule Them All
- Links and Thoughts (March '23)
- Pedophile Problems (v2)
- The Tale of the Shaman: Science, Magic, and Super Placebo (v2)
- Are Stars Conscious?
- Cosmic Connection
- (((((((0)))))))
- Links and Thoughts (Jan '23)
- Is Progress Real?
2022 25
- MAKE IT BETTER
- On Stories and Histories: Q&A
- I, Creature
- Friendship Forever
- An Observation on Kyrie Irving
- Links and Thoughts (Spooky Season '22)
- Nothing
- Living and Dying with a Mad God
- A Simple Plan to Save America and the World
- The Ego is the Enemy
- Morning of the Mutants
- Research Papers Used to Have Style. What Happened? (NewScience)
- How to Become a World Historical Figure (Péladan's Dream)
- Word and Wheel
- The Cult Deficit: Analysis and Speculation (v2.0)
- Links and Thoughts (June '22)
- Nomen est omen
- Stories as Technology: Past, Present, and Future (v2)
- Fuck Your Miracle Year
- Links and Thoughts (April '22)
- 20 Modern Heresies
- The Lottery in Babylon
- Links and Thoughts (February '22)
- The Tale of the Shaman: Science, Magic, and Super Placebo (v1)
- Predictions for 2050: Black Swan Edition
2021 28
- Links and Thoughts (December '21)
- Exegesis
- Randomness in Science (v2.0)
- The Last Questions (Part 2)
- The Last Questions (Part 1)
- China is Playing Video Games with God
- Ideas are Alive and You are Dead
- Born Again: Disconnected Psychology, Martian Science, and the Order of the Phoenix
- The Blind Spot of Existence
- Blind Spots in Science and Culture
- The Man, The Myth, The Salamander
- The Most Racist Team Name Ever?
- Snosh
- Value
- The Cult Deficit: Analysis and Speculation
- Us vs. Them at My Lai
- God is a Salamander
- Exploring the Landscape of Scientific Minds (Let My People Go)
- Two quotes about Humans
- The Genetic Origins of The Nerd Stereotype
- I have gotten out of the box.
- The Myth of the Myth of the Lone Genius
- GET OUT OF THE FUCKING BOX
- The Wolfman Cometh
- Ex Machina and Embodied Cognition
- Something is Not Right
- The Future: Where are the Colors and the Sports? (Part I)
- The Life and Times of Roger Bacon