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Stuck In The Metaphor
Submitted by Khu on Thursday, June 17, 2021 10:09 AM
Image by himmlisch from Pixabay Escaping Inertia … Henry David Thoreau calls them “ruts of tradition.” Joseph Campbell talks about being “stuck in the metaphor.” Yogi Berra famously phrased it as “déjà vu all over again.” The same old, same old. Evolution comes from evolvere, Latin meaning to unroll. In itself, evolution/unrolling is a neutral concept. Read More…
Shadow Reflections
Submitted by Sol on Wednesday, June 16, 2021 10:50 AM
Image by cocoparisienne from Pixabay Each of our minds contains shadows which limit, hold us back, and influence us whether we are aware of them or not. These shadows can be conscious or unconscious and hover between the foreground and the backgrounds of our minds. Shadows can be loosely defined as “things in your mind Read More…
The Word
Submitted by SALAAM – Presider on Tuesday, June 15, 2021 11:43 AM
Derivative Images In the East it is believed by the Vedantists that the creation originated from what they called word, or sound. The same idea has prevailed among the Semitic religions from the earliest times. This word is described as Ismi Azam. The fact that the mysterious always attracts, leads some people to make things Read More…
Signs From The Serpent: Honing Your Intuition
Submitted by Mythos on Monday, June 14, 2021 11:05 AM
Derivative Images One thing that folks who are newer to Witchcraft and other magical practices often ask me: how do you really know when your intuition speaking to you? How can you tell that sense apart from your fears or some other aspect of your personality that may lead you astray? It’s no wonder we Read More…
“Sissy” Resilience: On Becoming Antifragile
Submitted by Arlkh Anpin on Sunday, June 13, 2021 12:01 PM
Image by saarvendra from Pixabay What’s the opposite of a person or organization that’s fragile? If you ask most people this question, they’ll likely say “robust” or “resilient.” But philosopher Nassim Nicholas Taleb would say that’s not the right answer. He argues that if fragile items break when exposed to stress, something that’s the opposite Read More…
UFOs Interfering With Nuclear Weapons?
Submitted by Beldar on Saturday, June 12, 2021 3:14 PM
Image by kalhh from Pixabay The first nuclear weapons were successfully tested in the 1940s and have been designed with increasing sophistication and lethality ever since. They allow great powers to dominate smaller ones. They also risk the lives of everyone on the planet as even a ‘small’ nuclear exchange by accident or war could Read More…
Earworms
Submitted by Guy Smiley on Friday, June 11, 2021 2:20 PM
Derivative Images Listening to Music Near Bedtime Could Lure Sleep-Disrupting ‘Earworms’ … Most people have had a song stuck in their heads at one time or another. These persistent melodies, commonly called earworms, can be amusing distractions or intrusive annoyances. New research published in the journal Psychological Science, however, reveals that earworms can sometimes interject themselves into our dreams, where they can negatively impact our quality of sleep. “Our brains continue to process music even when none Read More…
Nietzsche And The Machines
Submitted by The Mechanic on Thursday, June 10, 2021 1:50 PM
Image by Jean photosstock from Pixabay There is a lot of grandstanding going on today about the ethics of machines. Intellectuals have developed a taste for presenting the question of the moral status of machines as a kind of futuristic spectacle that may become reality any time now. Arguments that try to persuade us of Read More…
Little Green Men: A Thought Experiment
Submitted by Oz on Wednesday, June 9, 2021 11:04 AM
Derivative Images Imagine living in ancient Greece and being asked to speculate about Earth being round. What might that discussion entail? Well, there likely would not have been much of one since most educated Greeks then believed Earth to be spherical. Project 2000 years into the future, say around the 16th century and you were Read More…
Alice A. Bailey: Mother Of The New Age Or The New World Order?
Submitted by Morgana on Tuesday, June 8, 2021 11:38 AM
Derivative Images One of the most controversial figures to emerge from the Theosophical Society (TS) in the early twentieth century grew up a devout Christian far removed from occult circles. For many decades her faith was unshakeable, yet the seeds of her conversion lay in her introspective nature and sensitivity to mysticism. In the scholarly Read More…
