May 2011
April 2011
alchemical feedback systems in relation to polarities.
“…all too often spiritual traditions glorify the spirit at the expense of the body and try to show the spiritual path as one in which the body and its needs are discarded as we climb higher and higher. in the alchemical model, as we grow in spirituality (the sublimatio), we need to follow that with a grounding in the body (the mortificatio). a circulatio needs to take place in which we continually alternate an upward movement with a downward movement.”
—robin robertson, indra’s net.
some clarification re: gnosticism.
“it is not the physical world with its earth and trees, but the system (in Greek kosmos) created by unconsciousness that is evil, or at least relatively so. it is not an ethereal heaven, but individuated consciousness that the pneumatic [i.e., filled with spirit, from the Greek pneuma] Gnostic attains to when the limitations of unconsciousness are overcome by Gnosis. it is not sexuality that is evil, but the psyche’s bondage to blind instinctuality with its accompanying unconsciousness. it is not life that is rejected, but a life of brutish unconsciousness, which is the cause of most of humanity’s afflictions. the Demiurge is none other than the human ego, alienated from its deeper psychic background (the Pleroma): arrogant, one-sided, and having rejected the wisdom of the Feminine.”
—Stephan A. Hoeller, “How to Understand Gnosticism,” Gnosis Magazine 2
death is a constant companion, my friends. get to know it well.
Last Exit
Throbbing Gristle
Throbbing Gristle - Last Exit
A little diddy for the Royals on their special day.
(this was meant to be separate from the last post)
if you don’t already follow darksilenceinsuburbia, you should do so now. she’s awesome, and posts consistently great images.
“Every fact of science was once damned. Every invention was considered impossible. Every discovery was a nervous shock to some orthodoxy. Every artistic innovation was denounced as fraud and folly. The entire web of culture and ‘progress,’ everything on earth that is man-made and not given to us by nature, is the concrete manifestation of some man’s refusal to bow to Authority. We would own no more, know no more, and be no more than the first apelike hominids if it were not for the rebellious, the recalcitrant, and the intransigent. As Oscar Wilde truly said, ‘Disobedience was man’s Original Virtue.’”
—Robert Anton Wilson (via kali23yuga)
I am not interested in self-expression. I am interested in self-alteration. -John Cage
