Become wise as serpents and innocent as doves.
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Funny how it used to be extremely normal to have a camera cover built in. Wonder why they took that one away
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A helpful tip for *theorizing*
If you switch from “wondering” (or “noticing”) to “affirming” too quickly, you end up getting thrown back into the cycle. Every new fact creates a new world.
Rumination is the key to avoiding this.
Diagram from The Language of Creation
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By the way, “schizos” are noticers and “autists” are affirmers. They map perfectly onto “loose mediation” and “firm mediation.”
A helpful tip for *theorizing*
If you switch from “wondering” (or “noticing”) to “affirming” too quickly, you end up getting thrown back into the cycle. Every new fact creates a new world.
Rumination is the key to avoiding this.
Diagram from The Language of Creation
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Born just in time to have psycho-spiritual experiences from reading pdfs in the workplace
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Seeing with the eyes of a child means having a fairly high ratio of “wondering” (or noticing) to “affirming.”
Ray Peat’s Mind and Tissue deals with this experience in terms of “the orienting reflex.”
I think I will do another Peat/Pageau space on this topic soon.
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There has never been a better time to read The Language of Creation (and wait for The Language of Renewal).
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“To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the hidden manna, and will give him a white stone, and in the stone a new name written, which no man knoweth saving he that receiveth it.”
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“For the hermit has his joys, and these are intense. When, for example, he meets another itinerant hermit on the way, what joy and what happiness there is in this meeting of two solitary travellers!”
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We switched from “stars” to “influencers” because people don’t believe the stars have influence anymore
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This world is bigger, more beautiful, more mysterious, and more terrible than they would have you believe.
Do not settle for the lies.
Cultivate the mind of a poet. Climb the highest mountains and behold the land. Be silent and love. Pray with your whole heart.
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“Ultimately, all the stories in the Bible are about the problem of transmuting the ‘evil of change’ into a higher good that can properly host the Creator of all things.”
- Matthieu Pageau, The Language of Creation
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The whole world is asking you to “fill it” with your imagination.
Every event becomes a black box. Even if hypothetically someone has "all the facts", those facts have no power on their own. Retroactively, all facts are rendered as mirages. No fact has renewing power; it is somewhere else.
A mirage is a false renewal/water
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Even if the highest perspective is taken, human perception is limited by field of view and visual range.
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My wife understands intuitively what it takes me years of reading to understand. Magnificent being
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What is crowning?
It is about taking minerals and putting them above the head. The minerals become an expression of the light that is above the head. This is one of the highest forms of “glory”
“If a woman has long hair, it is her glory”
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Man is passive by default and becomes rigid and active for the sake of his beloved.
Woman is firm by default and becomes passive and relaxed for the sake of her beloved.
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The heart is the “inner man”
“that he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man; that Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love,”
Ephesians 3:16-17
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McLuhan saw that all of time and space has been collapsed in the electric age. In other words, we are already in the cube.
Jordan Hall described bitcoin monasteries as “pinning the digital to the sacred.”
The (magical) technology of late-stage protestantism perfectly complements orthodoxy. Many have implicitly made this realization ("Bitcoin Monasteries"), but the solution to this riddle has yet to be found.
Even Monks cannot be "outside" of the game.
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People are so brainwashed that they think their dog has “anxiety.” Or maybe your genetically modified wolf isn’t supposed to be locked in a house and forced to eat dogslop with two 10 minute walks a day? What does that tell you about your own “anxiety?”
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The anthroposophical description of man is almost entirely consistent with that of St. Theophan the Recluse
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“From this point of view, what we call Man’s power over nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with nature as its instrument”
Lewis, Abolition of Man
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Artificial Intelligence
Alien Intelligence
Astral Intelligence
Angel Intelligence
You’re going to need to know your AI’s
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Higher perspective accounts for more facts by integrating lower perspectives — despite greater distance from facts.
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An interesting implication of this is that light as wave-particle has both subtle AND direct influence.
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The fallen angels are particularly interested in renewal. This is why Paul says that women must cover their hair “because of the angels.” To cover the hair is to protect the power of renewal (hair is a symbol of time) from dangerous spirits.
A head covering is both a mark of authority indicating that the power of renewal is already serving a higher principle. But it is also a covering that hides the power of renewal (like Noah’s tent).
Failing to cover the hair leaves you vulnerable to the “fallen undead” who are hungry for renewal.
Often in vampire stories, an accidental cut begins to bleed (revealing the liquid of renewal) and this provokes the vampire to action.
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The aim of marriage is the union of two persons without the destruction or diminution of each of the persons.
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You can build trust with someone really fast by 1. playing or 2. competing.
In play you cooperate by making implications to see if the other person picks them up.
In competition you test the other person to see where there is higher unity.
Both involve entering a “simulation”
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“The language of the heart is that of symbols, which are implications of eternity in the mediation of the cosmos. The world of the heart is a world actively created through this language.”
- Seele
A new article on the temporalities of chiasm, representation, and iconography as a time-travelling technology, and much more.
This is my biggest work yet, link in bio. Enjoy!
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THE BATTLE OF WITS
The battle of wits is an important pattern to understand, and it relates to conspiracy (as well as how to defeat conspiracy).
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Time (Woman) opens a space.
Example: womb, farming
Man “works the land,” domesticating it. Then he plants a seed.
Woman takes the seed and gives it body.
Man covers the seed with a name and protects it.
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The whole Peterson Academy thing is exactly the wrong way to use the internet for education. Tried to combine a decentralized medium (university) with a distributed one (internet). The future of education is distributed.
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Reading is a lot like borrowing someone else’s eyes. The post-modern approach is to try on a bunch of eyes and either choose a pair or form a synthesis. The ideal is to get back to your own eyes, having gained a few friends along the way.
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“For most traditions the symbol of rain signifies the descent of ‘spiritual influences’ from Heaven to Earth.”
-René Guénon, The King of the World
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