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The capitalist economy absolutizes survival. It is not concerned with the good life.30 It is sustained by the illusion that more capital produces more life, which means a greater capacity for living. The rigid, rigorous separation between life and death casts a spell of ghostly stiffness over life itself. Concern about living the good life yields t
... See moreByung-Chul Han • The Burnout Society
We’re talking about what psychologists today would describe as the “adaptive unconscious.” Timothy Wilson, a psychologist at the University of Virginia, has described this in his important book Strangers to Ourselves (a very Augustinian title!). Over the past twenty years psychology has come to appreciate the overwhelming influence of “nonconscious
... See moreJames K. A. Smith • You Are What You Love: The Spiritual Power of Habit
adaptive unconscious
In the three-dimensional world of the deep ocean, above and below matter as much as in front and behind.
Ed Yong • An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
There is only one way and that is your way.
C. G. Jung • The Red Book
The Dark Night of the Soul (Losing Who We Thought We Were)
youtube.comIn the alchemical opus, the early operations and procedures are characterized by a destruction of the prima materia. It must be cooked, incinerated, dissolved until it reaches a uniform blackness; this is the first stage of the work — the nigredo . Breaking down the material helps reduce it back to its primal state. Only then can it be truly redeem... See more
Alyssa Polizzi • The Alchemy of Shadow Work
Patrick Harpur | Bernardo Kastrup: Myth, Imagination & Truth
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The 7 points about Hermeticism are called the Kybalion:
The principle of mentalism: the Universe is mental (imagination);
The principle of correspondence: as above, so below” (microcosm);
The principle of vibration: everything in constant motion;
The principle of polarity: all paradoxes may be reconciled;
The principle of rhythm: everything is cyclical;