Figure of Baboon, possibly 7th Dynasty. First Intermediate Period, ca. 2181-2055 BC. Now in the Louvre.
Month: April 2018
Canopic jar of Heriheb, Egyptian Art
Medium: Travertine (Egyptian alabaster)
Gift of Gorham Bacon, 1921
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Are psychedelics the fastest way to higher consciousness?
Are psychedelics the fastest way to higher consciousness?
“I have to say TED talks and Tim Ferriss’ podcasts really opened my eyes. If a hippie told me about psychedelics, I would not listen. But when it was very successful people and scientists, I would then listen. And I wasn’t disappointed…
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It is definitely one of the fundamental rules of Classical magic and grimoire tradition that things need to be done to the letter, but that doesn’t mean substitions can’t be made or the tech itself can’t be tinkered with. The tradition is, surprisingly, not strictly a reconstructive one, but a living one which will continue to adapt itself and survive, and has historically evolved with change in cultural environment. With that being said, substitions require specific knowledge of Classical paradigms, and knowledge from experience afa how the tech should work and manifest before actually trying to change anything. You cannot just substitute anything for anything else; you cannot re-center the entire tradition around completely unrelated contemporary modalities; and a significant amount of care towards rigorous psychic development as well as skillcraft and theory of mind toward building the tools of the tradition, are minimum requirements. These are essential for objective functionality in Classical magic.
New page for my grimoire about one of my favorite subjects. (And as always, a personal reference to material to make me smile.) A quote is going in the corner when I get new pens because I ran out of ink.
“where we are betwixt and between the familiar and the completely unknown. There alone is our old world left behind, while we are not yet sure of the new existence. …This is the sacred space where the old world is able to fall apart, and a bigger world is revealed. If we don’t encounter liminal space in our lives, we start idealizing normalcy.” – Richard Rohr (author and theologist)
