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2018!

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Nico & Lou Reed, 1966 by Lisa Law

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Michalina Woźniak

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This is true. At the core all conceptual schemes are intimately personal. My eyes never see the same as yours.

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The Golden Dawn is from this guy’s order or whatever occult cult? I hope my brain unsees what I just read.

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Giving language a new meaning

What is Magic?

Magic is not how to control reality. Magic is not how to define reality. Magic is understanding what defines reality, how reality becomes defined.

Reality is defined by man. Reality becomes through the process of defining.

Magic is not manipulating or bending the absolute reality. Absolute reality is a construct that does not exist outside the conception of the human mind.

Magic is the construction (defining really) of reality through the subjective, in juxtaposition to the objective.

It is like giving language a new meaning.

[thevillaoformen]

This is your time

Think about it. You are the absolut center of your own world. You have the power to define the world around you (Define, not change. There is no reality to change, only the world as you define it). You are the maker of your own world. Make it a good one.

This is your time

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Gabriel Lekegian - View of the pyramids and the Great Sphinx. Eclipse of the sun of August 30, 1905

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[thevillaoformen]

The human mind has a thing for building patterns and see repetitions. Repetitive pattern building is the basis for the construction of reality. Everything you see around you is a result of repetitive pattern building defined through a mutual language agreement. In truth (if there is such a thing) the only thing that separates the couch from the floor is language. Reality, as a concept outside language, is an illusion.

[thevillaoformen]

You believe in miracles?

If a miracle happen enough times we end up calling it a law of nature. But this only applies if we define a miracle as something that corresponds to correlations and probability. One could just as well define a miracle as a major intervention of a deity. There are, of course, many more definitions. I don’t have a personal definition. I still believe in miracles.

I have to.

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aimez-vous l'automne ?

Yes. Very much

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Giving language a new meaning

What is Magic?

Magic is not how to control reality. Magic is not how to define reality. Magic is understanding what defines reality, how reality becomes defined.

Reality is defined by man. Reality becomes through the process of defining.

Magic is not manipulating or bending the absolute reality. Absolute reality is a construct that does not exist outside the conception of the human mind.

Magic is the construction (defining really) of reality through the subjective, in juxtaposition to the objective.

It is like giving language a new meaning.

[thevillaoformen]

Naming is creating

Imagine reality as an enormous sphere of energy (absurd, but indulge me). Nothing exists beyond this sphere. Now, divide this sphere into parts by giving them names. Divide those parts into new parts and give them names to. Now continue to divide these parts into smaller parts and if need be put them into groups or categories. Give these categories names. Make up rules for why some parts are connected to others. Continue this process of dividing, categorizing and naming.

When we first had an enormous sphere of reality we now have smaller parts divided through naming and categorizing. We have a universe, a galaxy, a solar system, a planet, a surface, soil, plants, a tree, wood, a plank, a chair, a floor. We have molecules, atoms, quarks etc. All divided and individually named and categorized. Why?

Why do we name and make up categories and systems? We do not discover a new part of reality, we just made one up because it fits the system we are using, which is also made up. We do so because we need names and systems to be able to differentiate in our communication.

Fact is (there are no facts), that there is no difference between a chair and the floor it stands on other than language. There is no difference between a bumblebee and a Thursday, between cancer and strawberry ice cream, between death and a smart suit. Reality exists only through language. What we perceive as reality is a set of constructed attributes that we use in order to communicate more efficiently.

There is no reality set apart from human experience.

What has been made can be unmade.

Naming is creating.

[thevillaoformen]

You get what you give

If nothing else, then this.

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Allegory of the Eucharist, Alexander Coosemans (1627-1689)