What really fucks with my head, dude, is the existence of a whole damn industry dedicated to publishing book of nonsense like picrelated, for the ostensible purpose of extracting value from people in vulnerable head states. (Shout out to all "my" human traffickers with a sideline in homeopathy, and that one hereditary KGB dude who wrote furry fan fiction, yall know where you are)
Shit so dark that one can't help but wonder what other things this industry interfaces with, and what insane purposes the whole apparatus might be said to accomplish. (A purely teleological perspective would converge on realpolitik stuff, but Shirley it can't all be black masses all the way down - or can it?)
The Socialist Patients' Collective got nothing on ancient organized insanity 😄
Im not sure it’s necessary to made a hard line between artistic and spiritual pursuits, between pagan ritual’s metaphysical good sense but failure at being a religion. and it may be true that senses are for making one’s way in *this world* not one above or below, but sensory range may expand to see things that are not always seen by everyone but are nonetheless there. https://www.ecosophia.net/the-ritual-of-high-magic-chapter-14/ Then again there’s a lot of nonsense in the world of modern gurus. And a lot of sense in McLuhan’s work [grin emoji]
I know that guy, he's one of my harbingers!
What really fucks with my head, dude, is the existence of a whole damn industry dedicated to publishing book of nonsense like picrelated, for the ostensible purpose of extracting value from people in vulnerable head states. (Shout out to all "my" human traffickers with a sideline in homeopathy, and that one hereditary KGB dude who wrote furry fan fiction, yall know where you are)
Shit so dark that one can't help but wonder what other things this industry interfaces with, and what insane purposes the whole apparatus might be said to accomplish. (A purely teleological perspective would converge on realpolitik stuff, but Shirley it can't all be black masses all the way down - or can it?)
The Socialist Patients' Collective got nothing on ancient organized insanity 😄
Im not sure it’s necessary to made a hard line between artistic and spiritual pursuits, between pagan ritual’s metaphysical good sense but failure at being a religion. and it may be true that senses are for making one’s way in *this world* not one above or below, but sensory range may expand to see things that are not always seen by everyone but are nonetheless there. https://www.ecosophia.net/the-ritual-of-high-magic-chapter-14/ Then again there’s a lot of nonsense in the world of modern gurus. And a lot of sense in McLuhan’s work [grin emoji]