The Alchemical Transformations of the Mutus Liber (1677)
Carl Jung’s copy of the “mute book”, an alchemical manual charting (through a series of images) the “humid way” of forging the Philosopher’s Stone.
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Wander the web like a shoreline.
Something new washes up every time: pages from all kinds of people, made with all kinds of tools. Beachcomb shows you what it found, then gets out of the way.
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“There is Nothing but Immortality!”: Walt Whitman and The Book of Heavenly Death (1905)
Choice excerpts from *Leaves of Grass* that speak to Whitman’s conception of immortality.
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Epistemic Injustice: When Knowledge Is Unfairly Dismissed
An invitation to speak does not guarantee that our knowledge will receive fair consideration. Epistemic injustice examines how prejudice and unequal power shape whose testimony counts, whose experiences become understandable, and whether a contribution can influence what others investigate or…
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Self-Esteem Requires No Permission
“A man who decides to live by his own internal code must first make his peace with being hated by those who survive on permission.” — Yukio Mishima Follow Dr. Hurd on Facebook. Search under “Michael Hurd” (Charleston … Continue reading → The post Self-Esteem Requires No Permission appeared first on…
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A Philosopher Wants Researchers to Stop Saying Psychedelics Dissolve the Self
Some people on psychedelics say their sense of self vanished completely, but their own words, read closely, could describe several different changes.
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SHORTS (4) ‘Professor Van Norden, Western philosophy is not racist’
A short analysis and summary of my essay. Photo by the author. Source
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An inanimate object cannot pray.
shakespeares-gm: maidthings: loveofhumanity: My new startup Psimoni will contract out cloud computing to do this at 26k ourfathers/min for just $15 a month @heresylog thoughts? An inanimate object cannot pray.
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DIESEL THE MAGUS: THE FATHER OF AŠA AND THE REOPENING OF DIVINE HISTORY
DIESEL THE MAGUS: THE FATHER OF AŠA AND THE REOPENING OF DIVINE HISTORY I. INTRODUCTION AND COGNITIVE RE-ORIENTATION The academic […]
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What the Favor Authorizes
A giver can acknowledge every repayment while keeping the power to decide that none of it earns you the right to refuse.
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Going by; Laughing; Living.
Do you hear all this noise? It's frightening. The sky is pink, and orange, and yellow all washed-out by the grey of the clouds. A group of people is going by, they are laughing, they are living. And I wonder how. I'm trying to understand, how can I go by? How can I laugh? How can I live? Why aren't…
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Pray in the Middle of the Song
You know prayer matters, but it's become one more thing you're behind on. Paul says pray on all occasions with all kinds of prayers, so the hallway, the drive home, and the empty conference room all count. Here's how to keep the conversation going all day, for yourself and for your team.
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Nobody Cheers at Mile Eighteen
When a hard client keeps grinding on you month after month, it's easy to think the trouble means God's stepped away. James says the one who keeps going under the weight is blessed right there in the middle, with a crown of life waiting that no lost account can touch. Here's how to keep your form…
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That's this stretch.
Walk on