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by a male born 1985 Stranger on the Internet What then shall I do?

[realityhop]

"Be not too hasty to trust or to admire the teachers of morality: they discourse like angels, but they live like men."

— Imlac in Samuel Johnson's The History of Rasselas: Prince of Abyssinia (1759)

[iheartemiliaclarke]

Emilia Clarke at Terminator Genisys Tokyo Premiere - 2015

[pussymagicuniverse]

🌈💠Magic Portals💠🌈 . Repost @thedealerrr . . Tag the artist if you know! . . #pussymagic #pvssymagic #witch #selflove #yoni #yonimagic #collective #coven #wombhealing #healing #selfcare #yonihealth #health #wellness #selfhealing #meow #wombanism #divinefeminine #wildwomban #magic #uplift #inspire #empowerment #girlpower #pussypower #sacred #sisterhood #tribe #growth

[realityhop]

"In my experience, a woman’s reacquaintance with pussy breaks out into five very distinct stages ... Stage 5: Rapture. Pure and simple. The way Gustave Courbet felt when he painted L’Origine du monde. (Don’t know it? Look it up.) Or the way Mickalene Thomas felt when she painted Origin of the Universe. (Google this one for sure.) She sees, feels—experiences—awe. She connects to the power of being the portal to life itself.

… When we are not connected to our innate life force, we are directionless. We use other people’s expectations in place of our own internal compass. When we are not plugged into our divinity, we feel inadequate—and therefore we’re willing to accept inadequacy. Sister, we do not have time to live as less than who we are. We do not have time to allow the [Patriarchal World Culture] to keep the blinders on our eyes. The world requires the voice of radiant, awakened women who are turned on. Our voices are needed to re-create our futures and the futures of our sons and daughters. It’s time for you to reconnect. It’s time to prioritize your radiance. It’s time for you to take a sensual journey of your own.

YOUR SENSUAL JOURNEY So how do we learn to access this radiance that is ours for the taking? We must reclaim our sensuality. And befriending your pussy is the way. You must put her at the controls, which means doing basically the exact opposite of everything you have been taught to do by the PWC. Your path does not have to look anything like mine, but you must forge a path of pussy reclamation for yourself. You must become cliterate through practice, attention, and discovery. You must plug into the spiritual and sensual circuitry that sources your radiance and connects you to your GPS. ...

PUSSY CONSULT One of my students had an interesting and valuable approach to turning up the volume on her pussy. After ignoring her for three decades, it was not easy to hear her pussy speak. So she purchased a puppet of a pussy and placed it on her bed. She would actually consult with it in the morning, before she went about her day. … When she connects to her pussy, she becomes an unstoppable force. Not through violence or domination, but through continually connecting to an ever-expanding sense of meaning and purpose. Meaning and purpose brought to her when she follows the true design of her life, charted by her most deeply held desires. Kind of like the way you just trust a tree to grow. Once planted in her very own pussy, a woman begins to grow."

— Regena Thomashauer, Pussy: A Reclamation

[sakrogoat]

Raffaele Giannetti - Dante e Beatrice nel giardino di Boboli

[realityhop]

"Beatrice, the woman to whom the great Italian poet Dante dedicated most of his poetry and almost all of his life, from his first sight of her at the age of nine (“from that time forward, Love quite governed my soul”) through his glorification of her in La divina commedia (The Divine Comedy), completed 40 years later, to his death in 1321.

Beatrice is usually identified as Beatrice Portinari, the daughter of a noble Florentine family, who married Simone de’ Bardi and died at the age of 24 on June 8, 1290. Dante wrote a chronicle of his relationship with her in La vita nuova (c. 1293; The New Life), a prose work interlaced with lyrics. Dante tells of his meetings with her, praises her beauty and goodness, describes his own intense reactions to her kindness or lack of it, tells of events in both their lives, and explains the nature of his feelings for her. La vita nuova also tells of the day when Dante was informed of her death and contains several anguished poems written after that event. In the final chapter, Dante vows to write nothing further of Beatrice until he writes “concerning her what hath not before been written of any woman.”

The promise is fulfilled in La divina commedia, which he composed many years later, expressing his exalted and spiritual love for Beatrice, who is his intercessor in the Inferno, his goal in traveling through Purgatorio, and his guide through Paradiso. At first sight of her, in Purgatorio, he is as overwhelmed as he was at the age of nine, and he is dazzled by her presence throughout the journey, until she ascends again to her place in heaven. This expression of sublimated and spiritualized love ends with Dante’s total absorption in the divine."

— britannica.com, Beatrice

[botanytoo]

Ghost orchid symbiotic seed germination

Successful orchid germination, embryo development and seedling establishment require the presence of mycorrhizal fungi. However, little is known about the orchid seed germination niche requirements in situ, especially regarding the role and host specificity of mycorrhizal fungi during germination and subsequent seedling development.

[realityhop]

mycorrhizal [mahy-ker-ahyz-uhl] / ˌmaɪ kərˈaɪz əl / adjective: Botany. relating to, having the characteristics of, or involving mycorrhiza.

mycorrhiza [mahy-kuh-rahy-zuh] / ˌmaɪ kəˈraɪ zə / noun: a symbiotic association of the mycelium of a fungus, especially a basidiomycete, with the roots of certain plants, in which the hyphae form a closely woven mass around the rootlets or penetrate the cells of the root.

[rhartdepartment]

Book jacket for Random House  |  Art Director: Paolo Pepe  |  Designer: Rachel Ake  |  Published 2018

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[realityhop]

"Thanks to Wendy Lochner at Columbia University Press. She is a guiding light for theory in a practical world."

— Todd McGowan, Universality and Identity Politics (2020)

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Star Trek (2009) dir. J.J. Abrams

[instrumentalconsumer]

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St. Vincent - Dilettante

dil·et·tante/ˌdiliˈtänt/

Noun:

A person who claims an area of interest, such as the arts, without real commitment or knowledge.

A person with an amateur interest in the arts.

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T. Ketola, cover art for Deathspell Omega “Paracletus”, 2010. Acrylic on board

[cavernedeplaton]

Le Vantablack, couleur d’abord conçue à usage militaire par les Britanniques et capable d’absorber la lumière à 99,965 %. Désormais sous le monopole exclusif de l’artiste Anish Kapoor.

Bernard Stiegler et Annie Le Brun : un monde à refaire – Le Comptoir

[memoriesofachicken]

The planets aligning in both Rocko’s Modern Life (Born to Spawn) and Camp Lazlo (Movie Night). Funny how in both shows, this event happens in an episode where the episode focuses on a character voiced by Mr. Laurence.

[realityhop]

[Verse 2] Drifting through the stars for miles Moon is in Virgo, the sun in the sky Venus in Taurus, the planets aligned Don't forget your love, alright Echoes of voices recalling the time We will be one, we will be divine Time is a river we cannot unwind Don't forget that That it's good for the soul

Jennifer Freed: Astrology is an everyone welcome experience and you don't have to identify as anything to get in.

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Audie Cornish: It's like low bar of entry, but then you can go really deep and then it's like, okay, there's a little bit of ego there. It's sort of perfect for the Internet. And Jennifer, you have talked about this idea of… That we're mirror hungry. What does that mean?

Jennifer Freed: There's two parts I want to say here. One is you're absolutely right. This is pablum for the masses if it's used just as look at your own navel, which it can be. Like, just look at yourself, look at yourself, be reflected to yourself. But I think astrology is inherently one of the biggest empathy, compassion tools that we have on this planet. So it's inherently relational. But the astrologers and the apps have to point to that.

Chani Nicholas: But it's just a tool. So it's all about how you use it. You can use it for really bad means to an end and you can use it for really good. It's literally just something that you can work with. It's really about the intention and the acts within which you perpetuate using the thing. It's like a hammer. A hammer can be really devastatingly violent or wonderfully a wonderful accomplice to building something gorgeous.

[grandhotelabyss]

What do you think is the relationship of the new Conservatism to the new Romanticism?

Pretty much the same as the relationship of the old conservatism to the old Romanticism: a counter-Enlightenment rejection of deadening rationalism and an elevation its place of mystic authority. Carlyle and Catholicism, then and now. With Trump as Napoleon figure, though Napoleon was a hero to the left, too. And on the more occult side, I note that Trump is also a master manifester, believing, with Blake and Blake's disciple Neville Goddard, that "a firm persuasion that a thing is so, make[s] it so":

Speaking of Napoleon, any potential new liberalism should get on board with the new Romanticism sooner rather than later. Part of the woke program was Romantic, but more, too much, was Marxist-Maoist, Enlightenment to the paradoxical point of madness. Purge out that element and start again. Last week, an institution I've been affiliated with sent out one of those post-election guides that recommends coloring books to its stressed-out constituents. But I read through the materials, and I found no mention of politics at all—I even saw a recommendation not to judge others!—and the therapeutic advice, while matronizingly phrased, consisted of harmless (and very de-politicizing) truisms: get enough sleep, get offline, don't catastrophize, and don't dwell too much on matters outside one's own control. Most interesting, however, and not quite a truism, was the end of the document: it recommended that one take up "spirituality," presumably of the gnostic-Buddhist variety. Romanticism resulted from the failure of the French Revolution and the Enlightenment. Right-wing Romanticism staged a counter-revolution, but left-wing Romanticism carried the revolution into the inner life on the theory that one had to change the psyche before changing the world—not unlike taking up "spirituality" after losing an election.

[anamorphosis-and-isolate]

― Dead Poets Society (1989) Mr. Keating: We don’t read and write poetry because it’s cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion.

[kingaragorn31]

Evangelion 3.0 - YOU CAN (NOT) REDO

[new-books-at-spscc]

Boys adrift : the five factors driving the growing epidemic of unmotivated boys and underachieving young men

Leonard Sax