Stone Riley

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April 11, 2008
Stone wrote Freud believed in mental telepathy. Can you?
Freud believed in mental telepathy.  Can you? Of course, I might properly have said "Freud accepted ..." rather than "Freud believed in ..."  And I might have made the point that Freud was driven... Read More 
April 6, 2008
Stone wrote I have seen racism from the inside
I grew up as a white boy in the Jim Crow South so I saw racism from the inside.  It was astonishing and painful to see my people, including my own parents, trying to make sense of the nonsense of ... Read More 
April 6, 2008
Stone wrote Actual fact: People have very realistic experiences of talking with the dead
All over the world, and probably all though human history, a great many people have had a very realistic experience of talking with dead loved ones. I am not here saying that the experience is wh... Read More 
April 4, 2008
Stone wrote A poem on the current state of poetry
A Note On Verse Style (Written in 2004 as a preface to a chapbook.) In many of the poems here, I've used a verse style drawn on the ancient mode: declaiming for a present audience from memory, i... Read More 

About Stone Riley

Stone Riley Old gray ex-hippie pacifist multi-disciplinary artist active in the Pagan movement. I paint, write and perform as a storyteller.  I self-publish mostly on the web and lately (circa 2008) I'm doing lots of "web art" designed specifically for that medium. My front page:  www.stoneriley.com  The Pagan movement is very interesting stuff.  Proposition:  A large percentage of humans have a natural talent for mysticism.  Question:  What would natural mystics do if all the results of current worldwide scientific inquiry and humane scolarship were available to them in a society with very broad freedoms?  Partial answer:  Many of them would meander into something like the Pagan movement.