I have been a practicing um, occultist, for more than 50 years. (really). there is about 95% bullshit around this stuff, but there is a thin thread of valid information, and influences on our lives. most everything can be dealt with by common sense and reasoned thinking. there are a few things which aren't affected by these tools, and for those, magic, alchemy and astrology...
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is that it suddenly struck me tonight, as I have been watching youtubes of Spiti
this is actually a crappy introduction, badly edited etc. but it's reasonably short so...
--anyway... looking at this desert landscape--using the original meaning of 'desert' as in 'deserted' or 'not habitable' (hence some jungles are actually deserts!)--looking at this desert landscape and hearing the Tuva singers, the Tibetan Chanters, the...
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LISTEN!
Last night I dreamt that I was called to a one-on-one meeting with my boss--my own Unconscious, who was a woman. She presented me with a very detailed and carefully reasoned paper on just exactly why getting up early was bad for me... starting with the eyestrain it caused in trying to determine the color of my shirt in the dark. I have taken her...
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if you made it this far... one more... you *will* be glad you listened to it!
I wrote this in response to a client despairing over the ongoing nature of the Covid crisis. My own prediction? the virus will never be cured by a vaccine. Vaccines are not the protocol needed at this time--a paradigm shift has to happen so that there are ways of preventing cancer, aids, and these 'new' viruses that our wanton destruction of nature are producing. I...
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even when you are old... it don't hurt none!
I saw that "music which inspires me" is a recent homework assignment. Welp, as a person who listens to 18 hours of music - on average - per day, i'd have to say there's a lot of music that inspires me from a lot of genres. But when i ask myself what is the essence of inspiration, no matter how much I am about rock-n-roll,...
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