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Challenging imposed narratives of doom by using anomalous phenomena and awe to reopen our sense of possibility
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That's the same thing these magical moments, these inklings of awe, reconnections to each other, or the divine, or the everything. That's what they do.
They're like the deja vu that helps Neo recognize a glitch in the Matrix, or when Katniss shoots an arrow at the sky in Hunger Games to reveal it's just a dome.
Despite all evidence to the contrary,
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dark night and darkening
Charismatic people are like empty vessels. They receive and pass on sensations without resistance. They are usually the one with the most regulated nervous system in the room, which allows them to encounter other people's ego/attentional structures and dance with them no matter what the exact configuration is, which is why charismatic people are
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The macabre divinity of Gustave Doré (1832-1883)
Reading across a genres, subjects, and perspectives has the power to pop the filter bubbles that many of us increasingly find ourselves in, both online and off. It’s how we develop a healthy intellectual humility, where no single ideology or belief system monopolises truth.
The Reader’s Manifesto
You are born with a character; it is given; a gift, as the old stories say, from the guardians upon your birth.
James Hillman • The Soul's Code
The Earth orbits the Sun not in a perfect circle, but rather in an ellipse. The eccentricity, or the difference between the “long axis” and the “short axis” of our orbit, changes over time, while the Earth-Sun orbital period, which defines our year, changes slowly over the lifetime of our Solar System. If we neglect the other planets and the mass loss of the Sun due to the solar wind and nuclear fusion, we’d find that the total angular momentum of the Earth-Sun(-and-moon, if you like) system remains conserved.
