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To overcome the anxieties and depressions of contemporary life, individuals must become independent of the social environment to the degree that they no longer respond exclusively in terms of its rewards and punishments. To achieve such autonomy, a person has to learn to provide rewards to herself. She has to develop the ability to find enjoyment
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It is the function of nous that allows us to understand nature in an undistorted way and to achieve true insights about reality. While physical reality is constantly changing, and while our perceptions will always be biased due to their being filtered through eros and thumos, the nous ever remains pure and untouched by the tides of matter. Thus
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A particularly powerful form of mandorla can be seen in the customs of South American curanderos, who are a curious mixture of primitive shaman and Catholic priest. Their mesa (table) is an altar where they say Mass for the healing of their patients. They divide this altar into three distinct sections. The right is made up of inspiring elements
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The Daimon, Synchronicity & the Hidden Key To Your Destiny
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Marie-Louise von Franz
Frater Acher , “Holy Daimon”
Myth of ER in Plato’s Republic
James Hillman “Souls’ code” —> acorn theory - it's this idea that just as the acorn holds in it the potential to become the oak tree you have this unique sprawling massive fractal potential in you but it is completely unique to to you and the Daimon knows the full extent of what this potential is
Egyptians vs daimon - It's tricky to talk about ancient Egypt and ancient Egyptian spiritual practices because in a lot of cases are sources for that are Greek and modern scholars don't always think the Greeks got it right.
Daimon characteristics:
- has this ability to express itself in very Mercurial but the ways but the way that it expresses itself is totally dependent upon the way that you interact with it
- it doesn't speak literally it speaks in metaphor it
- speaks in qualities it speaks in a sense of disease it speaks in a sense of
satisfaction
- you can outgrow your daimon and get and new one (?)
The nature of working with the shadow can be incredibly destabilizing in one’s life. Opening the gates to the unconscious is much like peering beyond the veil into the great unknown, it opens a portal of sorts, and what comes out can be as frightening as it can be healing. Many times, the fear comes before the cure. These previously unknown parts... See more
Alyssa Polizzi • The Alchemy of Shadow Work
The word “entheogen” was chosen to define such substances. It is derived from two words from ancient Greek: éntheos, literally “full of the god” or “possessed”; and genésthai, “to come into being”. So an entheogen is a substance that facilitates the finding of the “god within”.