warmth be my godlessness
moonflower mahāśunya
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HOT OFF THE PRESS🥵!!
This is the very first copy of the limited “Handbook” edition of my book, “A Provisional Manual of West Coast Tantrik Psychedelic Druidry”
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A bright and shining example of the suicidal absurdity of technocapitalist society occurs every year at this time, all across the country.
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did you know crows can acquire their food for the day in about an hour of work and then spend the rest of the day entertaining themselves by doing stuff like standing on anthills and letting the ants crawl up their legs for fun
the year is 2027
everything is different now, since the crows revealed how they were interceding in human affairs
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It is all so astonishingly pointless and debased and wasteful that it would probably be better not to spend too much time contemplating it; let us turn out attention to more pleasant things
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This entire process means that, wherever modern humans congregate, the soil quickly becomes impoverished, as the nutrients required for cyclic leaf production are removed, rather than stored in the ground,
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All across this great land, people proceed to fire up specialized machines literally called "leaf blowers", which burn irreplaceable fossil fuels, pumped out of the ground at great expense, to produce, in addition to carbon monoxide and noise, powerful blasts of forced air.
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producing a kind of grey, dusty soil that when I was a professional gardener we immediately recognized and referred to as "blower disease".
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They blow the leaves into immense piles, and then rake them into huge bags made of polyethylene, a byproduct of fossil fuel refinement which will take longer to decompose than the geologic processes which produced the fuel to begin with; a very, very long time.
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These bags full of leaves are then loaded onto trucks which, burning fossil fuels, move them to giant areas called "landfills" -- where the leaves, trapped in plastic, undergo anaerobic decomposition, and, rather than releasing their nutrients back into the soil,
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Deciduous trees spend all Spring taking nutrients out of the soil to make leaves, which photosynthesize all Summer and Fall
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When the cold comes, those leaves fall (the technical term is "dehisce") and the trees go dormant for the Winter.
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ahahaha you would think hating leaf blowers would be a thing we could all get behind
trojan horsing innit
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people love to speculate about the terror and privation of prehistoric life but think about it: in a group, with access to fire, in a warm place with access to plentiful fruit or shellfish, human life was both safe and easy
our true fear has always been ostracism
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so far in the last couple weeks i have learned:
-that a person (nick c) who doesn't really like music only listens to ai music now
-that people who don't read poetry prefer ai poetry because it's easier to understand
-that people who don't like paintings prefer ai paintings
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“I’m So Smart Why Aren’t I Rich” i’d like you to meet my friend “I’m So Rich I Must Be Smart.” I’m sure you two will have a lot to talk about
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i’ll tell you one thing: historically, atrocities are committed by people who believe in imminent apocalypse, manifest destiny, and final solutions; those who believe history has an end
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Let's talk about chef's knives for a second. I want to think through something.
Most people's kitchens are stocked with a knife block full of stainless steel knives
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so when we feel anxiety about a relationship or work issue — it’s not dumb. It literally is and has always been a matter of life and death. The fight for survival — for human beings — is a fight for acceptance, and its loss means everything
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what if you let go of all the complicated occult machinations and just wholeheartedly practiced staying present and taking care of people, for the few brief years you are alive
as a bit
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i dont know personally i was 16 years old on 250 mics of acid when i first experienced the prelinguistic stratum of thought and nothing i’ve experienced since has caused me to question it
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absolutely love thinking about that one wry, observant classmate who waited 20 some odd years to permanently crush the entire tech right with a single phrase
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do something to offend the group and get cast out and THEN life becomes nasty, brutish, and short
no more hunting parties, no more river bathing, perhaps even driven to the cold highlands — maybe even no more fire
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wait are you all seriously collectively celebrating the fact that a giant mega-corporation has been surveilling you for profit for the last year
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the year is 2027
everything is different now, since the crows revealed how they were interceding in human affairs
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for sure!
but i mean you could also just leave them -- they decompose and disappear surprisingly fast
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everybody’s trying to form communities of monotony; getting all yr friends to buy land together, setting up a gated discord server, etc. This is a fundamental misunderstanding of human sociality
the joy of life is the friends you do not yet know are friends
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this works. It took some effort to get over the hump, but it turned out my attention span was not permanently fucked
Ray Bradbury; this is how you rebuild an attention span
ALT “I’ll give you a program to follow every night. For the next thousand nights, before you go to bed, read one short story. That’ll take you ten minutes, fifteen minutes. Then read one poem a night from the vast history of poetry … Read the great poets, go back and read Shakespeare, read Alexander Pope, read Robert Frost. One poem a night, one short story a night, one essay a night, for the next 1,000 nights. From various fields: archaeology, zoology, biology, all the great philosophers of time … I want you to read essays in every field. Every night, before you go to bed, you’re stuffing your head with one poem, one short story, one essay—at the end of a thousand nights, you’ll be full of stuff, won’t you?”
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thinking about the time when, age 23, with a shaved head and black boots and a motorcycle jacket onto which i had stenciled an image of shiva dancing, i was refused entry to england at dover for having no funds and listing my occupation as “poet” and put on a ferry back to
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on days when theres lots of Takes, you can see the ripples left by psyops and egregores moving like great beasts deep beneath the water
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the historical buddha was of course a trustafarian who squandered his family’s wealth on fad diets, tree-sitting and other dirtbaggery before setting up a kind of permanent rainbow gathering in a deer park
If the Buddha was alive today he would shop at Goodwill and be grateful for the poor meal of a gas station coffee and a small McDonald's fry
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alls i’m saying is: if you think of your body as some kind of “envelope” or “sack” with you “inside” it somehow, you’re in the thrall of an egregore that’s well on the way to destroying your species along with most other life on this planet 🤠
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But, like standing waves in water, the cultural habits are conserved, while knowledge of their physical implications is lost to time; and in the process, we become alienated from physical reality, living in a world of symbols only. Symbols are great! But.
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this is how reality is generated
A standing wave generated at the Numerical Test Tank at the University of São Paulo, Brazil.
It's formed by the combination of two waves with equal frequency and amplitude but moving along two different directions
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omg wait what if the map is actually LARGER and MORE DETAILED than the territory
we’ve been doing this all wrong
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so i have a question why are you all always trying to “coach” and “mentor” each other?
have you ever tried just having friends and acquaintances and listening to their stories and offering your perspective?
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practicing magick drives most people slowly insane because they do not understand the nature of True Will
if you manipulate energetic and memetic flows to impose your self-centered preferences and distastes on your environment you methodically close off possible futures
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the greatest trick the devil ever played was convincing people that every physical activity requires specialized clothing and footwear, rendering every gym and yoga studio merely a fashion show for conspicuous consumption
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while it's easy -- and good! -- to clown on these kind of fragile dudebros for their insecurity, I think that, recognizing how ubiquitous and normalized this kind of possessive insecurity is in conventional heterosexual culture, it might be interesting to tease it apart a bit
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of course, when you replace “life is a dream” with “life is a simulation” you replace something open-ended, playful, and out-of-control with something predetermined, mechanistic and subject to an invincible authority
the dark wedding of Newtonian materialism and Calvinism really
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realizing you're one with the universe is cheap -- a handfull of mushrooms and it's off to the races
the realization that's worth anything is realizing that you need to be nice to people, because everybody's suffering just like you are
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Software is eating the world -- the economy is dematerializing.
What are the physical effects on living human beings?
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this is awesome! finally a technology for the rest of us
aesthetic experiences for people who don't want them
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This is what I mean by a technological dark age. My father-in-law's desperate honing would have been effective, on the high-carbon steel knife *his* father owned -- stainless steel was only invented around 1950 after all.
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the very fact that the word “psychosomatic” is a term of dismissal tells you everything you need to know about this sick society
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thousands of miles from home, broke, my passport confiscated by government employees, i looked back at him and gently began to cry
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At the homes of friends with more class ambition, there will be a whetstone or sharpening kit, which they will use from time to time, accomplishing nothing *physical*; but they are psychically sharpening the focus of the cultural construct that is "knife".
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oostende, where a belgian immigration official asked me for my address and i said “what are you going to do, send me a christmas card?” And, tiring of my arrogant shenanigans, he pointed at me and shouted “you listen to me. You are not so funny, you! Not so funny.” And finally,
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ok so maybe merkle trees aren’t your thing but get this: every new hire at that other site is given a copy of There Is No Antimemetics Division to read
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i have news everybody burning man is OVER, it is a RETIREMENT HOME for aging TECH BROS and INSTAGRAM CHILDREN, there are hardly any tantra sadhakas or scantily clad baddies or drug-addled supervixens out there
also ketamine ruined bass music and Larry was the final philosopher
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An interesting aspect of contemporary culture -- in the Bay Area anyway -- is a shift from identifying as a unitary separate self with mostly permanent characteristics to a self with accompanying psychological afflictions
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remember “desktop printing ?”
did anybody ever desktop print anything besides war game figurines, paperweights and guns?
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I know this sounds anodyne but I don't fucking care. Everything you have, everything you have built, everything you think you are is one tiny step from being annihilated and the friendships you have built are literally the only thing that is real.
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websites that still work:
•wikipedia
•scihub mirrors
•reddit
•internet archive
•psychonautwiki
any others?
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but seriously have you ever considered that “ethical nonmonogamy” is just as ridiculously unrealistic and deluded about human psychology as default monogamy, because erotic desire thrives in darkness and is nurtured by secrecy and lies?
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irregular reminder that tech ghouls are not your friends
their vision of the future is an inhuman asocial sedentary dystopia in which a permanent wirehead underclass, pacified by participatory disinfotainment, exist only to serve masters whose inherent superiority is
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And at the homes of foody friends, there will be one or more santoku style damascus steel knives, which are treated like honored guests and whetted with great ceremony. These are often also as dull as spoons. But their owners are animistic! This is good.
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if you want to be animist about machines that's awesome -- but you have to commune with and see the divine in box fans, chainsaws, and refrigerators
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to diligently hone the completely dull stainless steel knife they have had for 40 years -- with no physical impact, but consummating the ceremony, to the delight of all.
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Stainless is a good material for knives; it can be made pretty sharp, and is hard, so it holds an edge for quite a while.
However, because it is hard, it cannot be sharpened by hand -- neither with a stone nor a hand-sharpener; and most certainly not with a honing rod.
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Anyway, what interests me are the magic solutions to this problem.
At many people's houses, you just encounter a drawerful of dull knives.
Sometimes, there is a knife set in a block.
For these people, knives themselves are magic and their relative sharpness is occult.
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what i want to say to you is: Treasure and nurture your friends. If you don't have friends, go make some. Become interested in the people around you. If you have friends reach out to them; tell them their lives matter. Try to take care of them when they need you.
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Thrift stores are full of old, cheap, high-carbon steel knives, which can be sharpened with a whetstone, but must be sharpened frequently -- because they are soft.
Nobody wants these -- presumably because they are not shiny.
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are you guys aware of the research on alcoholism, that the two highest risk factors for alcoholism in adults are alcoholic parents, and teetotaler parents?
I think there's an interesting parallel with rationalism and horseshit
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i wish i knew how to convey how loving another person is a spiritual discipline
that to love another person is awakening
in the interpenetrating satisfaction of your own desire through satisfying their desire
in the deeply selfish joy in experiencing their joy
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yours
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strong disagree — at this cultural moment the most important spiritual practice is learning to be comfortable conversing in physical space with the widest possible variety of other humans, without retreat into digital distraction
One of the most urgent spiritual tasks you need to undertake is to learn to be happy while completely alone.
This hasn't always been true, but in this time & place, facing structural atomization and a fractured culture, it's a foundational skill. Master it as fast as you can.
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it has been
8 years
since this photo was taken
and i love her more with every day that passes
happy anniversary @embryosophy
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for this reason i would be wary of doomers, whether green or tech; collapseniks; singularitarians; accellerationists, right or left; end of history theorists; revolutionaries; etc
no good ever comes from such faiths and ideologies
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Foodies will often have invested in a "trophy knife," usually of damascus steel. These, being composed of (put simply) alternating layers of high-carbon and stainless steel, can have their edge restored by hand, up to a point. Once dull, though, the edge will need grinding.
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hi everybody i'm hap aka touch moonflower -- usually i use this platform for incomprehensible esoteric hornyposting and some day soon i will resume that
but today i want to say something legible and direct
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it is almost a universal experience for married people to wake up one day, look at their spouse, and sadly realize that this is no longer the person they married
for some miraculous reason my wife is like 100X better than the woman i married
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I have always thought that "ego-death" is terribly over-dramatic -- what we want is just to peak around the edge of the ego at the vast space it normally conceals
but what is the ego anyway?
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having rationalists think youre woo is like having straight guys think youre queer because your clothes fit
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also the first time i observed that thoughts have no thinker but you’re not ready for that jelly
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