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[bluepurpleviolatte]

"I saw an art tip say frustration tolerance is important. Looks like AI reduces frustration tolerance if googling recipes is too uncomfortable."

-@Turglayfopa

[nicholaschmidt]

[bluepurpleviolatte]

"A bigger problem, in my opinion, is that tying psychic abilities to any specific religious tradition has a tendency to make those abilities seem specialized, privileged, and beyond the ordinary person's control —especially if the person is coming from outside of that tradition. How many people still have trouble accepting meditation as a useful skill beyond its traditional context in the Hindu or Buddhist faiths? Not all that long ago, there was an outcry in the Midwest when a public school system dared to teach students meditation as part of one of their classes. Angry Christian parents declared that their children should not be exposed to such a religious practice in a public school. And yet the mechanisms that lay at the heart of meditation — relaxation, controlled breathing, a stilling of the mind, and conscious, inward reflection — are all techniques regularly used on a therapist's couch independent of any religious tradition."

—Michelle A. Bellanger, The Psychic Energy Codex

[jareckiworld]

Aleksandra Żuk — White Thoughts (acrylic paint and pencil, on canvas, 2026)

[jareckiworld]

Aigana Gali — Ürker (oil & acrylic & gold leaf, on canvas, 2025)

[featherstonevintage]

Louis Féraud

Joyce Paris, September/October 1992

Photographed by Karel Fonteyne

[irenelichtensteinblog]

Asano Kiichi, Tokamachi, 1957

[fagoagamx]

Apollinaria Broche (@apobroche) celebra el primer aniversario de @acnestudios en Aoyama con una propuesta encantadora.

Para el primer aniversario de la tienda insignia, la artista franco-rusa ha creado un jardín de esculturas de ensueño en la azotea, con nueve nuevos y adorables personajes.

La colaboración también incluye una colección de cerámica que se exhibe en todo el espacio de tres plantas, y una colección cápsula de camisetas igualmente original.

Crédito: Acne Studios

[maureen2musings]

nicosonnabend photography

[nicholaschmidt]

[hamonikakoshoten]

坂本龍一・全仕事

[bluepurpleviolatte]

"The origin of things is inexplicable in terms of our philosophy. However far we push our inquiries back into origins in the world of manifestation, we find a preceding existence. It is only when we are content to draw the Veil of Negative Existence across the path which leads back to beginnings that we get a background against which a First Cause becomes visible. And this First Cause is not a rootless origin, but a First Appearance on the Plane of Manifestation. Thus far and no farther can the mind go back; but we must always remember that different minds go back different distances, and that for some the Veil is drawn in one place, and for others in another. The ignorant man goes no further than the concept of God as an old man with a long white beard who sat on a golden throne and gave orders for creation. The scientist will go back a little further before he is compelled to draw a veil called the ether; and the philosopher will go back yet further before he draws a veil called the Absolute; but the initiate will go back furthest of all because he has learnt to do his thinking in symbols, and symbols are to the mind what tools are to the hand—an extended application of its powers."

-Dion Fortune, The Mystical Qabalah

[bluepurpleviolatte]

"A man’s soul is like a lagoon connected with the sea by a submerged channel; although to all outward seeming it is land-locked, nevertheless its water level rises and falls with the tides of the sea because of the hidden connection. So it is with human consciousness, there is a subconscious connection between each individual soul and the world-soul deep hidden in the most primitive depths of subconsciousness, and in consequence we share in the rise and fall of the cosmic tides."

-Dion Fortune, The Mystical Qabalah

[jareckiworld]

Michal Mráz — Breakfast in the Dark (oil, acrylic, asphalt, canvas, 2024)

[deidlit]

I recently scanned and uploaded the entire 1994 manga adaptation of The Weathering Continent to my fan site, The Masquerade Ball. Check out a preview or download the entire thing here!

[hamonikakoshoten]

小村雪岱とその時代　粋でモダンで繊細で

[maureen2musings]

Goldfinch in a Golden Field 

johann_holdt photography