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Practices of Mortification of the Flesh
To speak more on mortification of the flesh practices, they often show that there is more to us than our desires. Practices served as rites of passage, much like tribal ritual scarification. It still is practiced in the Opus Dei. They are flagellates, if I recall. Opus dei, work of God in Latin. Some say…
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Experience over Practice
Are you advocating for self-mortification? No. I am advocating experience. No one practice. When you are impassioned, and begin cleaning house despite physical fatigue, you restructure your whole living space. You ache miserably after pushing yourself so hard, but from somewhere not explained by your body, something moved you. Experience of this I see as…
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Natural Rhythm
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Feeling Safe
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Religion as Addiction
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Virtue and Vice
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Elemental Nature
Having an elemental nature is just being alive. All people have an elemental nature, in that they break down into elements and merge uniquely. Life is a dance and everything dynamic. One may be an oceanic soul, another more earthy. Earth is very staid in your ways, resist pressure, firm in opinions. They like structure and…
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Three Personality Types
There are three personality types over the two genders: phalic hysteric schizoid None are mental health issues and it could be said that: phalic = rage hysteric = feeling schizoid = cerebral Do you feel non identification with gender impulses? You may be genuinely and naturally schizoid. It doesn’t mean the other factors don’t matter.…
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Place of Humanity
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Brain, Mind and Experience
Can we say that ‘mind’ is just another word for ‘brain‘? I would debate that myself. I would say mind would be more akin to the morphogenetic field, and the body including the brain more of a mechanism and memory storage device. This is perhaps why the mind-body connection seems so mysterious. If you must…
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Attention and Intention
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Getting over Tragedy
Do people get over tragedies or do they just move on? The idea you forgive and forget is a lie, and an injurious one. You can forgive and let go, but the delusion that you can forget makes people feel bad about themselves. Faith can be a strength, but understanding is still necessary, and organized…
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Do the Opposite
The shamans knew about the full mind. Do everything counter to the way that everybody else did. This is the path of the Heyoka. Sacred clown. They support their tribe by showing them how things are undone, keeping them alert. They were tricksters, but because they went backwards. They just “undid” things. People kept aware…
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Power Beyond Measure
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Church of Antiantiismism
I live in America. A stronghold of religious weirdness, and quite feral about it. I hear India has cows. Poor people who break and deform their own bodies to get daily bread. We do it here also, just not for faith and with more refined methods. We should be proud of ourselves. Advanced self destruction.…
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Halloween History and Tradition
Halloween is very much ingrained in our collective unconscious, and has a very long history. It was basically the Celtic New Year (Samhain). Like the Norse legend of the world being born of ice, they see winter as the first season, not the last (or rather they did). Halloween is more like the traditional Thanksgiving.…
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Voodoo Practice
Voodoo is basically African Shamanism. There was a first great spirit, the source of all life and creation, but he created the world not as separate from himself but as an act of self expression. Dancing. As he revealed more of his inherent power, or ‘ashe’ as it’s known, he took the form of various…