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Abraxas - a Gnostic Supreme Deity or Demiurge who rules the 365th (highest and final) aeon, or sphere, ascending to the unknowable God. Basilides claimed Abraxas to be both Egyptian god & demon.
Related more recently: 'Solve Et Coagula' like the Baphomet represents the Process of the Alchemical Great Work, the Synthesis of All Opposing Forces - To Analysis & Synthesis, the True Path to All Knowledge.
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The reality of giant corporations and governments shouting climate change and sustainability
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Don't push the river, let it flow. Slow down, easy does it. Go outside, look inside. Be here now.
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Keep it simple: "The ordinary is the extraordinary! " - Qigong Master Wang Xiang-Zhai
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The abandonment of magic made possible the upsurge of technology?
“It was the abandonment of magic which made possible the upsurge of technology, not the other way round. Indeed, as Max Weber stressed, magic was potentially ‘one of the most serious obstructions to the rationalisation of economic life’. The technological primacy of Western civilization, it can be argued, owes a sizeable debt to the fact that in Europe recourse to magic was to prove less ineradicable than in other parts of the world”. - Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic
Max Weber in the Realm of Enchantment - By J.J.Storm
"Weber is not the actual source of the notion of science as anti-magic. He also did not argue for the movement of thought from magic to religion to science often mistakenly attributed to him. Finally, “the disenchantment of the world” does not mean the complete extirpation of belief in magic or spirits."
Art: Kings’ Fairy Tale, 1909, by Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis
Kawaii Lucifer
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Zhan Zhuang training in everyday life
Images from the Book "The Way of Energy: Mastering the Chinese Art of Internal Strength with Chi Kung Exercise" - by Master Lam Kam-Chuen (PDF)
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The bullshitters guide to enlightenment
The bullshitter will spend a lot of time talking about doing something using many fancy words and exotic rituals. He will sell you the illusion of a much "better" reality that seems impossibly hard to attain, except if you follow the ways of the bullshitter. He will promise prosperity, clarity and enlightenment - and yet only deliver confusion and bullshit, to keep the ponzi scheme going.
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