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[raffaellopalandri]

The Alchemical Body as Commonwealth: Desire, Praxis, and Spiritual Power

The alchemical body emerges not as a mystical curiosity nor as an esoteric ornament appended to an otherwise secular understanding of embodiment but as the primary site in which desire, praxis, and spiritual power are woven into a single fabric of liberation that refuses the disciplinary regimes of capitalist biopolitics and their insistence that the body is merely a productive instrument, a…

[ultrakeeperofsecretsthings]

When you relax your attention for a while, do not fancy you will recover it whenever you please; but remember this, that because of your fault today your affairs must necessarily be in a worse condition on future occasions.

Epictetus