#October7wasPutin'sBirthdayBetween the Tick and the Tok ...So many among us have been so deeply played. Victims of a powerful PSYOP. Lost inside digitally disseminated delusions specifically… Read More

alive.#October7wasPutinsBirthdayIn the Fascists' Wide War on Women There is Through Line to HamasPutin and the “Islamic Republic” are sponsors of Hamas. And lo and behold, here a… Read More

The Greatest Bi-Partisan Action in American History“Historically speaking, it is very significant when conservatives break with fascists.” – Tim Snyder (@timsnyder)"I think… Read More

The Goddess JusticeMueller Report. The 448 page investigative report, including 10 actionable incidents of Trump obstructing justice.Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Report on Russian… Read More

There is a through-line from Putin's war on Ukraine, to Putin ally Iran's war against its own female population, to the Putin/Iran Sponsored Hamas femicidal attack on 10/7, to the Putin spon… Read More

Altruism v. Sociopathy, Democracy v. AuthoritarianismIt is very important that you understand what MAGA may try to do between the election and the inauguration, & what they are preparing… Read More

Treachery Last summer, on Fox News, in an "Exclusive Town Hall" moderated Sean Hannity (I know, WTF?!?!), RFK Jr. blamed the war in Ukraine on the United States. "Because of our pu… Read More

   Three DeadlinesIn “Secret Engine of the World, published in 2021, I articulated “Three Deadlines.” Two for this country, the 2022 and 2024 federal elections. W… Read More

Three DeadlinesIn “Secret Engine of the World, published in 2021, I articulated “Three Deadlines.” Two for this country, the 2022 and 2024 federal elections. Without signif… Read More

  Blood-stained copy of the lyrics of "Shir LaShalom" ("Song for Peace"), found in Rabin's pocket after the assassinationAnwar Sadat was buried in the Unknown Soldier Memorial… Read More

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San Francisco Theosophical Society Lodge, 6/16/17"Thank you for being everything you are and upholding this world, you secret tsaddik ... Deep bow to the living mystery school that you are… Read More

VIDEO: Gaian Poetics, Gaian Politics (SFTS, 11/13/22)[NOTE:  On November 11, 2022, I was honored to speak at the closing reception for MPOWERDANCE Project's year long year long exh… Read More

VIDEO: Emerald Tablet: 21st Century Insights on Its True Nature and Meaning (SFTS, 3/26/23)Emerald Tablet - LegendTabula Smaragdina (Latin)Lawḥ al-zumurrudh (Arabic)Attributed to Herme… Read More

An orc assassination attempt on the Speaker of the House of Representatives. 2nd in line of succession. Most powerful female political leader in U.S. history. Have u voted? Do u understand w… Read More

 I live in the Real World. And I fight for the Future. Many among us do.We fight for our country, and for all of humanity, for all of the other species and for Gaia Herself.We live in t… Read More

I live in the Real World. And I fight for the Future. Many among us do.We fight for our country, and for all of humanity, for all of the other species and for Gaia Herself.We live in the Re… Read More

 This is not a transcript. These are my notes for the talk. I post them here in the hope that they might be useful to you for your own clarity and in your efforts to engage other voters… Read More

 I live in the Real World. And I fight for the Future. Many among us do. We fight for our country, and for all of humanity, for all of the other species and for Gaia Herself. … Read More

"Secret Engine" Update: What You Need to Know As We Hurtle Toward 1st of 3 Doom-Defying Deadlines (VIDEO LINK) This is not a transcript. These are my notes for the talk. I publish them in… Read More

Sophia. Goddess of Wisdom. She is 24 feet tall and stands on a 48 foot pedestal. She was erected in 2000. (A statue of Lenin had previously occupied that spot.) Six years later, in 2006, I s… Read More

This is Anastasiia Yalanskaya  She was killed yesterday, just outside Kyiv, delivering supplies to a dog shelter that was without food for 3 days. The car she was in was targeted at clo… Read More

VIDEO: "Secret Engine of the World" In High Gear (Facebook Live, 2/15/22)This need for this presentation arose from recent developments relating to three of the numerous themes I explored in… Read More

"Secret Engine of the World: Further Notes on Primal Reality, Gaian Politics & the Arc of Human Evolution" by Richard Power. Available via Amazon.com[NOTE: Late last year, I was honored… Read More

Richard Power - "Secret Engine of the World: Further Notes on Primal Reality, Gaian Politics & the Arc of Human Evolution" Available from Amazon.com        80. Evelyn… Read More

Amanda Gorman recites her inaugural poem, "The Hill We Climb," during the 59th Presidential Inauguration ceremony in Washington, Jan. 20, 2021. President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala… Read More

Kamala Harris rode the buses that integrated Berkeley schoolsBefore I lay out my recommendations for the "First 100 Hours ..." let's take a snap shot of this moment at what is hopefully the… Read More

NOTE: The views I will articulate in this talk are mine, and although they are in accord with the Three Avowed Objects, they are not the views of the Theosophical Society of San Fr… Read More

"You are the light. Never let anyone—any person or any force—dampen, dim or diminish your light. Study the path of others to make your way easier and more abundant. Lean toward t… Read More

Kadir Nelson, "Say Their Names," New Yorker Cover, 6/22/20The ugliest claim made by John Bolton in the former national security adviser’s new “tell-all” book is that Presid… Read More

PreambleFrom the nineteen nineties, through the twenty-aughts, and into the twenty-teens, I traveled the world, I briefed officials of allied governments and executives of major corporations… Read More

"Rise of Skywalker" Movie Poster, Sonoma, California, 2020."We are at the point where we are not living in a constitutional republic anymore...if we don’t reverse this in this upcoming… Read More

[NOTE: This is the expanded, full text version of a talk delivered on September 20th 2019, in celebration of the Global Climate Strike and my birthday. Video artifacts are forthcoming via th… Read More

The Problem with Men (And Some Radical Remedies)Have you seen the Gillette commercial that was debuted recently?It reflects an important shift in our culture.Gillette's latest commercial que… Read More

Salvador Dali -- Nike, Victory Goddess of Samothrace, Appears in a Tree Bathed in Light (c. 1977)“The moon in all her immaculate purity hung in the sky, laughing at this worl… Read More

Edward S. Curtis - Mohave Water Carrier (1903)Former President Jimmy Carter questioned the legitimacy of Donald Trump’s presidency on Friday, adding that a full investigation of the 20… Read More

Thomas Cole - The Course of Empire: Desolation (1836)Former President Jimmy Carter questioned the legitimacy of Donald Trump’s presidency on Friday, adding that a full investigation of… Read More

Available in Both Black and White and Full Color Editions from Amazon.com "His was the first language that worked on my body like yoga, a poetry that explained little and somehow stil… Read More

Dragon Bone BrothLast year, I published “I, the Dragon: Chronicles of An Epic Life Among the Humans.” One of the threads that runs throughout the narrative is a shamanic tale, a… Read More

In the Palace of Mirrors Consciousness has numerous attributes, numerous powers, numerous functions; e.g., it pierces through, analyzes, dissects, it computes, it conceives and creates… Read More

STDs (Spiritually Transmitted Diseases)STDs. Spiritually Transmitted Diseases. Or Spiritually Transmitted Delusions. They’re synonymous. (I see that my friend, Alita Arose, a gifted pe… Read More

The Problem with Men (And Some Radical Remedies)Have you seen the Gillette commercial that was debuted recently?It reflects an important shift in our culture.Gillette's latest commercial que… Read More

Toward A Taxonomy of Magical Beings, Notes from A Field JournalAn Exercise in Creative ImaginationNow for an exercise in creative imagination.We are a research team of occult anthropologists… Read More

Olga Lautman‏ @olgaNYC1211: "I just fired the head of the FBI. He was crazy, a real nut job," Trump said, according to the Times."I faced great pressure because of Russia. T… Read More

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez‏Verified account @AOC Jan 2. Sí, se puede. Sharice Davids, Ayanna Pressley, Ilhan Omar and Deb Harland"Every two years we gather in this chamber for a sa… Read More

Time Magazine Cover, October 15, 2018"For me — and I suspect I’m not alone — the Women’s March had the taste of salvation. Every day, for more than two months, I&rsq… Read More

"I see the world being slowly transformed into a wilderness; I hear the approaching thunder that, one day, will destroy us too. I feel the suffering of millions. And yet, when I look up at t… Read More

"I, the Dragon: Chronicles of An Epic Life Among the Humans" http://GoFundMe.com/wordsofpower The dragon within you knows the truth of this world. Hatched in the nest of sorrows, it fe… Read More

Wall Mural in Chinatown. San Francisco, August 2018.New Moon, Partial Solar Eclipse, August 11, 2018.The great wheel turns, turns with it. New Moon. (With a partial Solar Eclipse approximate… Read More

Thomas Cole - The Course of Empire: Desolation (1836)Drought turned the surrounding woodland into fuel, strong winds fanned the flames and in just a few hours this week fired consumed the G… Read More

At the Golden Gate. San Francisco. April 2018. Crimes against Nature = Crimes Against Humanity.Resistance = rEvolution.Defining principles from a vital text, Vandana Shiva's Earth Democ… Read More

This first photo of these two works side by side in the physical universe marks the culmination of a nine-year run of intense creative endeavor. Part autobiographical novel, part world histo… Read More

I, the Dragon" is part autobiographical novel, part world history, a fierce exploration of psyche (creative imagination), soma (embodiment) and spanda (divine pulsation). "I, the Dragon"… Read More

This first photo of these two works side by side in the physical universe marks the culmination of a nine-year run of intense creative endeavor. Part autobiographical novel, part world histo… Read More

Star Wars: The Last JediKylo Ren: Did you come back to say you forgive me? To save my soul? Luke Skywalker: No. [they draw their lightsabers and fight] Luke Skywalker: I failed you… Read More

Judy Chicago -- Earth Birth (1983)My sixty-fourth birthday fell on the New Moon. Another priceless boon from the Dark Goddess. But there's even more to it. When you turn thirty-two, Venus… Read More

                  Turning and turning in the widening gyre        … Read More

 Jan Brueghel and Peter Paul Rubens - Nature Adorning the Three Graces (1630-1635)In "Five Survival Tips for Your Journey into the Wilderness of Revelation" (embedded below), I offer pe… Read More

On June 16, 2017 (Bloomsday), I announced two major new publications, Wyrds of Power: New Language for A New Reality (available now) and I, the Dragon: Chronicles of An Epic Life Among the… Read More

Vanity Fair (August 2017) Time Magazine (Jul 3, 2017Vol 190 No 1) If there were ever a doubt that a traitor now occupies the Oval Office, Tuesday’s assault on the exercise of a f… Read More

Harriet Tubman, c. 1885Photo: H. Seymour Squyer, Source: National Portrait GalleryIf you hear the dogs, keep going. If you see the torches in the woods, keep going. If there's shouting afte… Read More

Arnold Böcklin - Nymph (1875) From coast to coast and across continents, people marched for environmental justice on Saturday, sending a clear message to the climate-denying Trump adm… Read More

March for Science. Earth 2017. San FranciscoThe foundation of empire is art and science. Remove them or degrade them, and the empire is no more. Empire follows art and not vice versa as En… Read More

Woman's March, San Francisco, 1/21/17Excerpt from the opening remarks of Sen. Mark Warner (D-Virginia), ranking member of U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee, on the first day of hearings int… Read More

All Five Volumes of Richard Power's Primal Reality Series are Availablefrom Amazon and Barnes and Noble in Both Softcover and Kindle Editions The five volumes of Richard Power's Primal Real… Read More

Simone Weil in 1921.Notebooks of Simone Weil. Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1956Simone Weil (February 3,1909 - August 24,1943). French philosopher, anarchist, feminist, christian mystic. … Read More

Woman's March, San Francisco, 1/21/17Woman's March, San Francisco, 1/21/17Woman's March, San Francisco, 1/21/17"Freedom," John Paul Sartre (greatest Western philosopher of the 20th Century)… Read More

Dorothea Lange - Mother and Child, Great Depression, California (1936)Do the math.The poor are getting poorer.In a recent survey, 56 percent of Americans said they have less than $1,000 in t… Read More

 Edward S. Curtis - Sioux Child (c1905)"Wes Clark Jr., the son of retired U.S. Army general and former supreme commander at NATO Wesley Clark Sr., was part of a group of veterans at S… Read More

Edward S. Curtis - Prayer to the Mystery (Sioux, 1907)Cannon Ball, N.D.— The department of the Army will not approve an easement that will allow the proposed Dakota Access Pipeline to… Read More

Pelican. Lake Merritt. Oakland, November 2016."There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how… Read More

U.N. Plaza and Market Street. San Francisco, November 2016.“Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.” -- Jean-Paul SartreAltar. San Francisco, November 2016. "Your own Self… Read More

Georgia O'Keeffe - Autumn Trees - The Maple (1924)"I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way,"  said Georgia O'Keeffe, "things I had no words fo… Read More

Super Moon. November 2016."Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes." -- Walt Whitman.Super Moon. November 2016."Sanity is a valuable possession; I hoard it the way… Read More

Eliza Byard (@EByard), 11/19/16. This is how the future voted. This is what people 18-25 said in casting their votes. We must keep this flame… Read More

Rene Magritte - Pure Reason (1948)Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) plans to hold the liberal establishment's feet to the fire come January, vowing to work toward making the political revolution… Read More

Stage at Mandala. Red Lightning Camp. Photo Credit: Richard PowerNOTE: At Burning Man 2016, I taught my "Yoga of Primal Reality" workshop in the beautifully adorned Mandala space at Camp Red… Read More

Guardian (8/23/16): "America’s Olympic heroes, clockwise from left: triathlete Gwen Jorgensen, the all-conquering gymnastics team, hurdler Nia Ali, fencer Ibtihaj Muammad, and swimmers… Read More

Elizabeth Bast and Chor Boogie speaking on Bast's book, Heart Medicine: A True Love StorySan Francisco Theosophical Society, March 4, 2016My friend and ally Elizabeth Bast has a deep magic i… Read More

NOTE: Here are five images from my Instagram feed, crows and gulls soaring in Sol and Shadow, over Ocean Beach; with accompanying excerpts from four of the five volumes in my Primal Reality… Read More

NOTE: Here are five images from my Instagram feed, crows and gulls soaring in Sol and Shadow over Ocean Beach; with accompanying excerpts from four of the five volumes in my Primal Reality s… Read More

Full Moon, Solstice. San Francisco, June 2016.The Great Wheel rolls on. Ceaselessly. Move with it. The Grail overflows. Lift it to your lips.Full Moon and Solstice on Monday, 6/20/16 and Tue… Read More

A terracotta sculpture of Hanuman, the Monkey God, in Panchamukhi (i.e., five-faced) form. Hanuman took this form to slay an evil sorcerer who had captured Rama and Lakshmana and taken them… Read More

Evelyne Axell -- Angela Davis II (1972)“Now it’s just an oligarchy, with unlimited political bribery being the essence of getting the nominations for president or to elect the… Read More

A terracotta sculpture of Hanuman, the Monkey God, in Panchamukhi (i.e., five-faced) form. Hanuman took this form to slay an evil sorcerer who had captured Rama and Lakshmana and taken them… Read More

Richard Power, San Francisco Theosophical Society, 3/18/16 Photo: Brenna GeehanRichard Power's Primal Reality series constitutes a significant contribution to the emerging global wisdom tra… Read More

A terracotta sculpture of Hanuman, the Monkey God, in Panchamukhi (i.e., five-faced) form. Hanuman took this form to slay an evil sorcerer who had captured Rama and Lakshmana and taken them… Read More

A terracotta sculpture of Hanuman, the Monkey God, in Panchamukhi (i.e., five-faced) form. Hanuman took this form to slay an evil sorcerer who had captured Rama and Lakshmana and taken them… Read More

New Moon (U.S. Naval Observatory)New moon.In the darkness. Another beginning.Life is not a straight line. Life is a circle.When you realize this, "end" and "beginning" take on different me… Read More

Your browser does not support this audio NOTE: Here are three artifacts from a talk given on Friday, 1/31/14 - my thirty slide presentation, the audio tape of the live talk, in which I skip… Read More

Botticelli - Primavera (1482)This is the Vernal Equinox in the north of the world, and the Autumnal Equinox in the south of the world. Dynamic polarity! This is also Persian New Year (Now… Read More

Rene Magritte - Le Parfum de L'Abîme "The Perfume of the Abyss" (1928)This whatever I am, this "being" that has been called by the name "Richard Power" for sixty years, this whatever I… Read More

All five volumes of Richard Power's Primal Reality series are availablein both soft cover and Kindle versions from Amazon.comThe five volumes of Richard Power's Primal Reality series constit… Read More

Available via Amazon.com in Both Softcover and Kindle EditionsSolstice. December 2015.Cauldron Yoga, Gaian Poetics and the Way of the Ancient Future is the fifth and final book in Richard Po… Read More

Nike of Samothrace. Louvre Museum. Paris.In a literally world-changing deal that was almost unthinkable just a year ago, some two hundred leading nations unanimously embraced a plan that w… Read More

All four volumes of the Primal Reality Quadrilogy are available now from Amazon.com in both soft cover and Kindle editions.My quadrilogy. Dispatches from the #ancientfuture. New languag… Read More

Brassaï - Night View of Paris from Notre-Dame (1933)Baghdad and fellow Arab states warned US President George W. Bush yesterday that attacking Iraq will 'open the gates of hell' in the… Read More

Edward Hopper - Two Figures at Top of Steps in Paris (1906)"President Obama’s decision to reject Keystone XL because of its impact on the climate is nothing short of historic -- and… Read More

Sunset. Pacific Ocean. October 2015. When an Empire wants to lie to itself (i.e., always) it calls itself a "Civilization." But an Empire is not a Civilization, it is just a killing machine… Read More

Here is the video recording of my recent talk on "Cauldron Yoga, Gaian Poetics and the Way of the Future" (see below). I have also included the presentation itself (see above). In this talk… Read More