#experientiality

Idealists all over the world | Essentia Foundation.org

The repeated emergence of metaphysical idealism—the notion that reality is experiential in essence—across cultures, geographies and history should be explained not in terms of its cultural motivations, but its plausibility as a correct account of nature, argues Prof. Tartaglia in this scholarly but very accessible essay. Source: Idealists all over the world Prof. James Tartaglia summarizes the…

The Titans + The Flies

I often wind up having several things come together in my mind. Recently for me, I found myself putting Goethe’s “active seeing” beside the “interiority of matter” and Naydler’s addressing of ancient Egyptian thought and language in his Shamanic Wisdom of the Pyramid Texts. The result is that I have found myself trying to think and speak like ancient Egyptian priests might, or at least to try to…

[NB: Theater, Memory, Glamour, Art, Magic]

[File this along “ritual & theater,” if you like.] So the Renaissance memory palace tradition was an outgrowth of Ciceronian rhetorical techné & also framed as theater in Camillo, Fludd & others’ cases. Memory was already an occult pathway, connected to knowledge—but theater was very much the magic, memory, hermetic, gnostic linkage. And in many ways, the Puritan critics of the theater—the…

What is your key question? – The True Meeting of Science and Spirituality

What is your key question? I like this one; “What is the truth of my experience at this moment?” – A.H. Almaas The True Meeting of Science and Spirituality A Taste of Science and Nonduality Gathering http://www.scienceandnonduality.com “This is the place where big questions ‘Who am I?’, ‘What is life?’ can be explored utilizing all…

The premise of magic is much the same as the premise of art—the allure of magic is much the same as the allure of theater and art. Mages imagine some result, some reality they wish to make actual, and they work magic to do so. Playwrights, meanwhile, imagine realities that they make happen—if only onstage and for a brief time. Painters imagine realities and make them come into being. Now, you’re…

I started writing an article on the Feri Guardians, but I found myself referencing the Wyrms that Are Wise[1] (WtaW), and I realized, well, I should probably talk about the WtaW. All symbols are alive. Or they can be. Or some are more alive than others. Some symbols are more alive for some people than others. Chaos Magic has tantalizingly mentioned “living” or “moving” symbols in a few places,…

Star Seeker and Guardians

[I spoke with Star Seeker about the Guardians.] Where do you come from? SS: We’ve always been here. We’re dragons. We’re the WtaW. I’ve been around since there were tempests and the mind gazing out at itself and eternity. […] We do teach, after all. Shapeshifters, and we know to change ourselves, to look into where we are already inside you. I am Vision Expansive as Vision Expansive is already…