The Philosophical Ramblers Club

Neal Pearce is a writer, poet, artist, Mouth of Open Doors/Universal locksmith/Cosmic Emissary, prophet (self-proclaimed!)... and obviously slightly mad too!

photo of the top of a gold urn

12 September 2011

Alpine sorrows

And so in desperation - because it feels like the last resort...in darkest deepest Peru or somewhere, you phone The Samaritans. Now, I'm not knocking the sterling, (often thankless) service they...

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dusty photo of a painting of a tawny owl

26 July 2011

The bearer of good fortune

I am Tawny Nine-hoots, the owl in the old beech tree. You have not been watching out for me, as I have for you; observing most keenly everything all around, from my high vantage. Few among you know...

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black and white image of Clint Eastwood

20 April 2011

A Fistful of Doughnuts starring Flint Feastgood

And out of the town of horses rode another: A hero on a sturdy mare (neither black nor white, nor grey) weilding his sword of truth with words. And he wore a coat from a not-to-distant time and...

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gold design on a blue pair of jeans titled horizons of the unfixed eye

14 April 2011

The Mouth of Open Doors opens his mouth to speak about fixed (inflexible) beliefs and horizons of the unfixed eye

It is essential that everybody acquires some fixed/set beliefs through childhood into adult life. As individuals and in society our survival depends on it. Without absorbing common truths and...

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Gold Buddha statue

7 April 2011

Jolly Captain Seamus O'Nemesis: Starfleet Commander USS Altercourse; star date 6561

Few people stop to think why it might be that humour is such a boost/lift for ones spirits. It's really simple. The answer lies in the fact that humour (often precipitating laughter - even tears!)...

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28 March 2011

Professor Stephen Strangely chats about the impending spacetime tsunami, over a pot of tea...

Hopefully it's all just a storm in a tea cup; but apparently something's been going on... a little hiccup, you might say. It started at the furthest reaches of the ever expanding universe (it...

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a book of thirty small black and white diagrams made of short lines - all slightly different from each other

10 March 2011

The Mouth of open doors (one man) speaks

"I will have this to say when they descend on me in their hacking, vulture-like hoards... "You will hear much said about me, I'm sure; some of it no doubt uncomplimentary. "What can I say except:...

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10 March 2011

That ol' chestnut, by doctor and sexologist Rodger Sucksmutt-frottage DP, SnM

It may come as no surprise to you, to learn that the spectrum of sexuality is as broad as it is Rubenesque... and too, surprisingly blurred...or is it just my glasses? Unfortunately in the pursuit...

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cover for a fistful of dollars with a picture of clint eastwood, photographed on a shirt

2 March 2011

Neal Pearce: The man with no lame horse

And out of the town of horses rode another:  a hero on a sturdy mare (neither black nor white, nor grey) wielding his sword of truth with words. And he wore a coat from a not-too-distant time...

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picture of an old key, a gold cross and and white crystal against a red backgorund

10 February 2011

Wise words from Ozymandias Wizard (little big man in the shoes of Shelley)

The First address This is Neal Pearce (rearrange the letters) cosmic emissary/mouth of open doors/universal locksmith etc,etc. Having spent nearly 44 long hard years of quiet, patient observation,...

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illustration of a 17th century pirate

31 January 2011

The Sea of Time Prophecies of Catesby, stills and Nash

Picture this: it's an ordinary Monday afternoon; the time could be 16:05,and I could be John Johnson (aka Guy Fawkes) undiscovered. But don't be mistaken - I'm no terrorist bent on murder and...

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30 January 2011

Professor Stephen Strangely chats about the impending space-time tsunami, over a pot of tea...

Hopefully it's all just a storm in a tea cup; but apparently something's been going on... a little hiccup, you might say. It started at the furthest reaches of the ever expanding universe (it needs...

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Victorian medical drawing of a spleen

26 January 2011

Dark Lord Darth Sarsen catches up with his spleen in this latest offering from the ramblers club

My Morbid Spleen The stars looked beautiful tonight; but for some strange reason the dead man at the bus stop came to mind again I keep seeing myself giving him a gentle nudge; but the lemons in...

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Fred photographed on a wooden throne in Winchester Cathedral

23 January 2011

Fred Schnitzel ponders the expansion of the universe in his new DAO blog

Today my uncle (whose recently been tinkling around with reverse engineering) told me that he'd sooped up his vacuum cleaner to such a degree that he was concerned he might be held accountable for...

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