Rob Brezsny

Author of Free Will Astrology column (used to be called Real Astrology), and book the Televisionary Oracle.

http://www.freewillastrology.com/pages/stories.shtml

20 questions : I created some great music but couldn't get my message - that entertainment criminals are unintentionally conspiring to create the genocide of the imagination, that the picture of a future we want to create is awash in dazzling but inane images blast-furnaced into our psyches by multi-million-dollar corporations - out. For me to get that message out, I had to get out of the music biz. I had to keep myself from believing the persona of the Rockstar yet still work its black magic.

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My philosophy holds that one of the most effective weapons against evil is humor. That's why all the major religions are useless to me: At best they all regard laughter as irrelevant to the spiritual quest, whereas I give it a central place.

One of my favorite authors, Robert Anton Wilson, talks about how what we really need on this planet are six billion different religions. Six billion names for that Tricky Omnipresent Intelligence some people call God. Six billion highly personalized paths to seeking union with the Divine Wow.

QUESTION. Everyone has a secret agenda. What's yours? ANSWER. To show what a moral vision would look like if it were rooted in the quest for beauty, truth, love, pleasure, and liberation instead of order, control, politeness, fear, and self-denial.