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Wet Ink

Body Politic

Collective Wisdom

Savvy Spirituality

Total Tomfoolery

Pronoiac People

Rob's Summer Vacation

Pagan's Progress

Rob no longer can afford the time-luxury of doing personalized horoscope readings, but he highly recommends his astrological colleague Ro Loughran

That succulent wild woman SARK is out on the road to promote her new book, "Prosperity Pie." Urging readers to stop sweating the small stuff, SARK interviews such smarties as Rob in a quest to discover how to live with ease and joy, even if you have very little. Her monthly e-letter is also a graceful treat. Check it out.

KATHERINE reminds that it's time to give another shout-out to Randy Cassingham's free e-newsletter, Heroic Stories. Katherine writes, "According to the Web site, their mission is 'restoring faith in humanity, one story at a time' and in the time I've been a subscriber, they have had a profound affect on me -- they have helped me to see how powerful the repercussions of even little acts can be, and have inspired me to try and treat others with kindness, no matter what the situation. I can truly say that these stories have helped me become a gentler, more compassionate person." Good enough!

We also like Fluffy Singler's page. Contributor to the literary magazine Karawane, Fluffy is devoted to poetry and performance.

One of the main elements against which the concept of PRONOIA wages is the Genocide of the Imagination. Award-winning young adult author Philip Pullman ("The Golden Compass") is evidently an unknowing Pronoiac Warrior, as excerpted from his Carnegie Medal acceptance speech

Read why Pullman worries that his own daemon might be a slug.

MELODY nominates Raymond Kurzweil as a genius for the smart pronoia of his essay, The Law of Accelerating Returns.

For our first Woman of the Year, we are humbled by the ongoing work, power, and vision of 90-year-old visual artist Louise Bourgeois. Neither age nor tragedy nor any of life's other trials have stopped her from working exactly as her soul dictates.

We love the creamy goodness of old-pro Steve Gladstone. Seemingly specializing in black and whites of people, Gladstone also shoots the annual instant art nation of Burning Man, and offers an elegant portrait of the late artist Paul Bowles.

And hey, speaking of Bowles, reader ANNETTE SOLYST traveled to Morocco with a stranger's innocent intention of meeting him. Armed only with good will and a desire to connect with one of her favorite writers, Solyst was lucky enough to obtain her perfect moment with the great man, in his own spider's house.

We salute poet, novelist, renegade, radio essayist, bohemian, and a living example of an exquisite corpse, Andrei Codrescu.

Hail to historian, scholar, and activist Howard Zinn.

Rob's colleague, astrologer Antero Alli, offers timely astrological updates on the world around us, and is the co-creator of the Vertical Oracle cards that accompany most of Rob's horoscopes on this site.

Michael Moore for president or whatever he'd like best.

British rocker Julian Cope does more than sing silly love songs.

Theravada Buddhist monk of the Thai Forest tradition and Abbot of the Dhammasala Forest Monastery near Perry, MI, Ahjahn Khemasanto has created a calm spot in an otherwise difficult world.

As the creator of the Virtual Reality Modeling Language (VRML), Mark Pesce actually is a bonafide genius-type. Rob directs you to Mark's informative and thought-provoking Web site for a glimpse into his fevered world. Full of essays, intellectual papers, and interviews, this is a beneficial timewaster, easy to justify to boss and spouse alike.

Consultant Joe Pruett, whose Q7 Web site often offers free hosting and consultation to worthy causes.

Jon Hanna exposes the empyrean of visionary art.

ZOE7 tangles electronic wires and neural nets, explaining how brain technology devices and pharmacological substances led him to the mind of God.

This panel of elders restores faith in old-school psychedelia, with Michael Horowitz, Laura Huxley, Cynthia Palmer, Ann Shulgin,Alexander Shulgin, Huston Smith, and Myron Stolaroff discussing the wisdom of the ages, where religion and pharmacology trip the light fantastic.

Archaya tells the truths to some.

Columnist Molly Ivins is a national treasure.