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Closure or need for closure ( NFC ), used interchangeably with need for cognitive closure ( NFCC ), are social psychological terms that describe an individual's desire for a clear, firm answer or peaceful resolution to a question or problem to avert ambiguity.[1]
Arie Kruglanski • Closure (psychology)
Not only a biography can be touched by an archetypal figure. There are archetypal styles of theories as well. Any theory that is affected by the puer will show dashing execution, an appeal to the extraordinary, and a show-off aestheticism. It will claim timelessness and universal validity, but forgo the labors of proof. It will have that puer dance
... See moreJames Hillman • The Soul's Code
puer vs saturn
Kali is black or midnight blue. All colors blend together in the dark. Kali unifies duality; all manifestation disappears in the black. “Just as all colors disappear in black, all names and all forms disappear in her,” says the Mahanirvana Tantra. Kali is the final fusion of appearances in the reality of the Self. She transcends all form.
Daniel Odier • Tantric Kali: Secret Practices and Rituals
One way of looking at the difference would be to say that while the left hemisphere's raison d'être is to narrow things down to a certainty, the right hemisphere's is to open them up into possibility. In life we need both. In fact for practical purposes, narrowing things down to a certainty, so that we can grasp them, is more helpful. But it is
... See moreIain McGilchrist • The Divided Brain and the Search for Meaning
certainty as an useful illusion
Alchemy was never about metals….it was about freedom. The ancients spoke of the stars as chains, weaving fate into every life. Most people still live under that spell, convinced they are puppets of their past, their genetics, their trauma, or the movement of planets overhead. But the true Work dissolves those bindings. When you refine yourself, you... See more
Damien Echolssubstack.com
The Dark Night of the Soul ( La noche oscura del alma ) is a phase of passive purification of the spirit in the mystical development, as described by the 16th-century Spanish mystic and poet St. John of the Cross in his treatise Dark Night ( Noche Oscura ), a commentary on his poem with the same name. It follows after the second phase, the... See more