woo
unorthodox, heretical, or hidden spiritual traditions - mysticism, magic, esoterica, the occult, etc.
woo
Woo from people who take phenomenology, cognitive science, machine learning, and epistemology seriously of course will hit different. It's vastly more capable of self-articulation, development, testing, and consistency-checks. It's the good stuff.
Captain Pleasure, Andrés Gómez Emilssonx.comSo, while we don’t have any scientifically valid theory about what such “energy” could be—all traditional explanations of it make no sense to the modern understanding of physiology—we can bring a certain empirical sensibility to our experiences anyway. We can become spiritual pragmatists. We can accept “energy” and its various traditional maps in a... See more
Michael Taft • Energy in Practice
I’m pretty sure the best thing any one of us can do is get a good handle on our own archetypal energies and find ways to train and express them. There are some things out there that you’d probably be world-class at, if you just let yourself follow the natural gifts and inclinations and curiosities that are in you. And stop chasing the ones you’re... See more
River Kenna • A General Theory of Divination and Probably Other Stuff
a) I’m sick of pretending that psychic stuff doesn’t exist, and, b) materialism is bullshit. This office-park-version-of-reality charade has gone on long enough.
Kristin Posehn • Psychic Shit Happens All The Time
The realm of the esoteric, properly understood, is the dimension of depth. It is to analytical, rational consciousness what dreaming is to waking consciousness. The realm of the esoteric is the realm of ideas in all their living intensity, which can only be fully encountered not in concepts, but in living symbols.
To be an esotericist, then, is to... See more
To be an esotericist, then, is to... See more
Raphael • The Dimension of Depth
