Losing SLACs (small liberal arts colleges) is absolutely a sign of American academia's decline and the gutting of the humanities in particular.
I'm pretty sure SLACs are a uniquely American phenomenon. Most countries don't have hundreds of small, non-research-oriented colleges dedicated to teaching.
Goddamn Descartes.
Is that a horned serpent on the left?
Maybe that's the percentage who were stoned when polled.
new ronald hutton video
Unless you're a Pentecostal from the American Heartland, of course.
It's okay tho. He's rolling back snap benefits, so we can just eat all the food that the poors can't afford anymore.
This is interesting. Do you have writing somewhere detailing your cosmology?
Summoning @apethiui.bsky.social, if he wishes to be drawn out...
Outside of the Discover feed, Bluesky doesn't use an algorithm - your followers see everything you post. Unless they have elected to use a community-developed feed of their choice.
I would say that I wish the general populace could learn the difference between New Thought's bastards and Western Esotericism. But really I mostly wish America could learn to read. That'd be a start.
Fnord 👍
Speaking of books that maybe adults should just not revisit...
Oh wow, you're reading Mark Dyczkowski? That's fun.
I read The Invisibles a couple years ago and was nonplussed. I think its value was probably more about the original context that received it than about the comic itself. The time and place and young minds ripe for that sort of message and not burdened overmuch by the heavy cruft of experience.
The joy of the drop is oblivion in the river;
Pain that passes all bounds becomes a cure.
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I am neither the flower of music, nor the string of an instrument.
I am the sound of my own breaking.
-Ghalib
(tr. Frances W. Pritchett
& Owen T. A. Cornwall)
That's a major at the college I went to.
You might drop an email to Sean McCloud who's on the faculty at UNC Charlotte and specializes in fringe & new US religions.
Theosophy, especially those elements of it subsumed into Spiritualism, was certainly more popular and widespread in the US heartland than Crowley. At least prior to sometime around the 1970s. A language of 'bodies of light,' astral stuff, angels, etc. all would have been present.
All of this can be found in Theosophy, which was part of the larger context Crowley inhabited. It is not unique to Crowley at all, and any academic who has studied English religion in the Victorian and Edwardian periods could tell you that.
All the diagonal lines in the building on the left from the windows, shutters and down to the curb and street. That with the lone subject and lighting are arresting.
LOVE this one.
I see that your journals read like mine...
Austin Spare saw the true self, Self, as an absence:
"What is there to believe, but in Self? And Self is the negation of completeness as reality." - The Book of Pleasure (Self-Love)
The aim of the magick is to be present in this absence.
"app for silly sentences" 😆
What the hell.... This reads like he half-remembered an overheard conversation.
Thelema journals? Do those still exist?
This. And also every video game or anime character named for some religious or mythological figure can GTFO.
See also: Apollo Lykeios (Λύκειος), especially as covered in Daniel Gershom's 1992 monograph 'Apollo the Wolf-God.'
