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One Living World
Atavism is something to consider in your daily activity. The gifts of nature are still available to us, and we can use our awareness to join our brothers and sisters in this one living world. People assume that any student of the shadows is interested in or invested in evil. I have no interest in…
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Repurposing Adaptations
Anthropomorphising animals is so natural as to be instinctive, but rather than dismiss it as irrationality, as hard nose materialists do, the reason is that our mirroring nervous system can imitate and recognize the states of living things that are even remotely like ourselves. I myself don’t think this is accidental as so many people…
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Atavistic Ritual
Atavistic ritual all relies on triggering the mirroring nervous system in one way or another, through ceremonial dance, meditation, even costume. The purpose being to create a link with and even a sort of identification with another species. This is the oldest form of ritual on the entire planet. Is the virtual world of Second…
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Story in Subtext IMHO
Since I no longer expect anything from mankind except madness, meanness, and mendacity; egotism, cowardice, and self-delusion, I have stopped being a misanthrope. Irving Layton Why People Are Like That Today: Perhaps context is everything. We decry every human failing and very often in words much less clear and well organized than those that expressed…
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Activation of Dormant Genes
Today, we are talking about atavism. Magickal and spiritual practice often seeks to cultivate altered states of awareness. Some are considered more acceptable than others. In the case of some of the more backwoods practices, one narrow set in particular, we have methods and rituals designed not to supposedly advance the human consciousness, but to…
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Favourite Entertainments Linked to Chronic Events
If anyone would care to offer, tell me about your favourite entertainments and I can tell you about the most chronic events in your life. Repeating or repetitive. Recurrent. I like science shows, business shows, and anything that makes me laugh, and I play 3D online games. You tend to have things stripped of complexity.…
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Philosophical Zombie
There is a concept. It’s called the philosophical zombie. It’s a scenario where you have every process of awareness, and the figurative zombie reports experiencing everything anyone else might, but they lack self-awareness. Some say those with autism fit that description, but I disagree. But my reason for talking about the philosophical zombie is to…
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Suggest Back
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was God. The Word was God not in the literal sense. The internalized self-talk or self-stimulation is this force some call God, and you didn’t start it nor can you stop it. The Word was God as a man who spoke the word. Jesus = the…
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