Pisces
A celebration of imagination, unity, and surrender—where dreams, art, and intuition flow together, dissolving boundaries and revealing the divine in everything.
Pisces
Our intuition is actually our sixth sense. But we don’t have access to it in a profound way—not the way we do, if we’re privileged enough, with our other five senses. Intuition isn’t at that level for most people. But I think, as a species, it could be, if we were nurtured differently.
The five senses can help you access the sixth. When you turn
... See moreThe Greek poet Archilocus’s well-known dichotomy of hedgehogs and foxes—“the fox knows many things but the hedgehog knows one big thing”—is another theme that plays throughout Peter Burke’s book.
Epstein, Joseph. “A Gallery of Know-It-Alls: Those Strange Creatures Called Polymaths.” Commentary 151, no. 4 (April 2021): 33–36.
Through the use of psychotropic plants [pisces - spiritual knowing], and through well-directed contacts [aries - experiential knowing] between the alien system and myself, he succeeded in pointing out to me that my view of the world cannot be final because it is only an interpretation.
[Westerners perceive the world through a veil of reason, as if
... See morethe qualities that go to make the polymath:
high concentration, [taurus]
powerful memory, [aquarius]
speed of perception, [gemini]
imagination, [libra]
energy, [cancer]
a competitive sense, [aries]
and more.
Epstein, Joseph. “A Gallery of Know-It-Alls: Those Strange Creatures Called Polymaths.” Commentary 151, no. 4 (April 2021): 33–36.
Epstein is
... See moreMany polymaths over the years have been interested in the question of the unification of knowledge.
Jacob Bronowski (1908–1974), another of Burke’s polymaths, wrote:
“All that I have written, though it seemed to me so different from year to year, turns to the same center: the uniqueness of man that grows out of his struggle (and his gift) to
... See morePolymaths are at their best, according to Burke, “viewing the big picture and pointing out connections that specialists had missed.”
Epstein, Joseph. “A Gallery of Know-It-Alls: Those Strange Creatures Called Polymaths.” Commentary 151, no. 4 (April 2021): 33–36.
"I used to get yelled at for being a daydreamer. I can't help it. Now I feel like that's a superpower."
-Albert Bramante
I’m not someone who makes a three-year, five-year, or ten-year plan. I don’t pick a goal and then chase it. I just follow the twists and turns that come to me.
And the reason I say I don’t practice the “everything happens for a reason” idea is that it feels a little topographic—like some divine force is placing things in your path for you to pick
... See more“You have to have a conscious within yourself to say,
You know, if I don't like what I'm doing right now. How can I change that within myself?
It has to come from within.
So we shouldn't rail too much at others for asking us to do certain things. They're just trying to fulfill a business need.
We have to look at ourselves and say, how can we change
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