FOR EXAMPLE, these pieces:
The Next Fifty Years: Why I’m Optimistic Because Everything Will Be Terrible…
The Shadows of Ideas: A Distant Glimpse of Gurdjieff
Ecstasy and “Being Congruent”
Curmudgeon or Culture Critic?
My Exercise in Constructive Megalomania
Douglas Adams and the Wisdom of Madness
Those and more at:
http://www.darkecho.com/JohnShirley/jsnonfic.html