My thoughts? Their thoughts.

The concept of Ego-death eluded me for a while until I realized the Ego is not the same as the Self. Ego-death just means the removal of the facade that hides the Self and prevents the Self from growing in the way that feels natural to it.

“But that sounds really fucking scary. I’ll have to recontextualize everything I thought I knew about myself, dig into why I think the way I think and why I do the things I do, deprogram the idea that the Self is bad, confront the traumas that put me there, go through a potential grieving period, and then move the ‘Self’ from a theoretical idea to an actual lived experience, which may piss people off and will definitely dramatically change my lifestyle.”

it also offers insight into Grimr, Masked One, and Fjolnir, Many: every mask and every face is precisely as un/real as every other; the Self is the core, and each face becomes an instantiation/expression of the Self encountering (taking in, devouring, playing with) existence

I just had the worst realization. My #sea problems, you Odin folks with your knife thing, you Loki folks with your cannibalism…

also roses and flowers for Freyr and Freyja!

Dead in a grassy ditch on the side of a road.