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Temporal power is a term of art in medieval and early modern political philosophy to refer to worldly power, as contrasted with spiritual power. The temporal power (simply), the state (polity) or secular authority, in contrast to the Church or spiritual authority. Temporal power (Papal), the worldly power exercised by the Roman Pontiff.
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Nothing happening, All illusion, confusion. We've got to focus.
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There is tremendous power in the act of practicing something on a regular basis. After a while, the practice becomes like a transparent medium through which the ebbs and flows of "reality" can be observed and studied. Earnest praxis is the basis of true magic. It let's us fully participate in the mysteries of life and adapt to ever changing challenges and opportunities.
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Kotodama (言霊) refers to the Japanese belief that mystical powers dwell in words and names.
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Classic of Mountains and Seas (山海经) - a chinese classic compilation of mythic beasts.
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Chronovisor - allegedly a functional time viewer
In the early 1960s, Ernetti began to study the writings of François Brune, himself a Roman Catholic priest and author. Ernetti allegedly ended up helping Brune construct the machine as members of a team which included twelve world-famous scientists. He identified two of them as Enrico Fermi and Wernher von Braun. The chronovisor was described as a large cabinet with a cathode ray tube for viewing the received events and a series of buttons, levers, and other controls for selecting the time and the location to be viewed. It could also locate and track specific individuals. According to its inventor, it worked by receiving, decoding and reproducing the electromagnetic radiation left behind from past events. It could also pick up the audio component or sound waves emitted by these same events.
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Eternal Change for No Energy: A Time Crystal Finally Made Real
Google's quantum computing team in collaboration with physicists say they have demonstrated a genuine time crystal for the first time. Like a perpetual motion machine, a time crystal forever cycles between states without consuming energy. Physicists claim to have built this new phase of matter inside a quantum computer.
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Rituals create community by translating our love into action - Article on Xunzi by Curie Virág
For Xunzi, the Chinese Confucian philosopher of the third century BCE, emotions such as love and gratitude are not just feelings in response to events – things that happen to us – but possibilities for action. Through ritual, he declares, we ‘give a shape to that which is without physical substance and magnificently accomplish proper form’.
