the self is KALEIDOSCOPIC

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[thelastgoodcountry]

Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi

[s-n]

[exitwound]

this made me cry

[exitwound]

Cut a chrysalis open, and you will find a rotting caterpillar. What you will never find is that mythical creature, half caterpillar, half butterfly, a fit emblem for the human soul...the process of transformation consists almost entirely of decay.

pat barker

[terrorignitis]

In the course of the eighteenth century, alchemy perished in its own obscurity. Its method of explanation “obscurum per obscurius, ignotum per ignotius” (the obscure by the more obscure, the unknown by the more unknown) was incompatible with the spirit of enlightenment and particularly with the dawning science of chemistry towards the end of the century. But these two new intellectual forces only gave the coup de grace to alchemy. Its inner decay had begun at least a century earlier, at the time of Jakob Böhme, when many alchemists deserted their alembics and melting-pots and devoted themselves entirely to (Hermetic) philosophy. It was then that the chemist and the Hermetic philosopher parted company. Chemistry became natural science, whereas Hermetic philosophy lost the empirical ground from under its feet and aspired to bombastic allegories and inane speculations which were kept alive only by memories of a better time. This was a time when the mind of the alchemist was still grappling with the problems of matter, when the exploring consciousness was confronted by the dark void of the unknown, in which figures and laws were dimly perceived and attributed to matter although they really belonged to the psyche. Everything unknown and empty is filled with psychological projection; it is as if the investigator’s own psychic background were mirrored in the darkness. What he sees in matter, or thinks he can see, is chiefly the data of his own unconscious which he is projecting into it. In other words, he encounters in matter, as apparently belonging to it, certain qualities and potential meanings of whose psychic nature he is entirely unconscious.

Carl Jung, Psychology and Alchemy

[vexheart]

[vexheart]

“Beautiful souls are shaped by ugly experiences"

[twirld]

Serpent and Butterflies in the Woods (detail) Otto Marseus van Schrieck

[vollzeitherz-deactivated2026012]

as you get older, you start realizing that you are not always right and there’s a lot of things you could have handled better and many situations where you could have been kinder and all you can really do is forgive yourself and let your mistakes make you a better person.

[autumnoiir]

[nonefrancesca]

Il mondo è abituato al buio, ma tu sei nata per incendiare l’orizzonte con la tua luce.

[il9vemyputer]

everyone on replies is terrified of this fact but i just think it's so sweet and heartwarming. she's holding our hand and leading us somewhere secret and we're both giggling like kids. i love her

[solowinged]

let’s travel through the vast unknown with mama

[omnybus]

Space chickens

[booksbabybooks]

Posts like this are why I'll never leave Tumblr

[3y3]

[softwaring]

by tucker

[caspercryptid]

The really unfortunate thing about mental health progress is that sometimes you realize you've made it in the form of "wow, I haven't felt this bad in a fucking while"

[caspercryptid]

On the one hand it's a bit of a pick me up in a dark place to know that this will pass because it has passed before on the other hand sometimes it isn't entirely a pleasant thought to go "wow, I used to feel like this all the time. That was pretty fucking bad. It's pretty bad right now too also."

[caspercryptid]

Someday your current baseline will be the sort of thing you consider A Really Bad Day. It does get better.

[saintjosie]

as someone who’s walked this walk and survived, i promise it gets better. you have to want it. to hunger for it. but it gets better.

i won’t lie to you. it’s not easy and it requires not only an immense amount of work but the will to push through.

but if you do, slowly but surely, the unbearable days become fewer and fewer. and you might not notice it at first but eventually you will just have a day. it sure as hell wasn’t a good one, as if you could even remember what a good day looks like, but it wasn’t a bad day.

then it happens. for me it was a quiet and uneventful day. i don’t even remember what day of the week it was, what month it was, or the specifics of what i even did that day, but i remember walking back to my car on my way home with a gentle smile, thinking to myself, “today was a good day.” i remember freezing in my tracks, standing in the middle of the street as i crossed. i couldn’t remember the last time i had said that to myself. i drove home weeping.

sometimes days are still bad but the unbearable days are gone. sometimes days are still hard but even if they’re hard i know that i am enough and i always have been.

[mr-e-gallery]

Maciej Rudzin

[anormalguywithabnormalmind]

“Duro? No. Sono fragile, mi creda. Ed è la certezza della mia fragilità che mi porta a sottrarmi ai legami. Se mi abbandono, se mi lascio catturare, sono perduto.”

— José Saramago (via anormalguywithabnormalmind)

[sandersstudies]

I think a great way to improve communication with kids (and adults) is to make every yes or no question a this or that question.

I started doing it when after brain surgery my husband had trouble forming responses to questions for a while, and realized that the habit was helping my students engage more truthfully with me.

Some examples:

Yes/No: “Did you clean up your room like I told you?”

This/That: “Did you clean up already, or do you still need to do that?”

Yes/No: “Are you going to sit quietly?”

This/That: “Are you ready to sit and do our quiet activity, or do you need some time by yourself first?”

Yes/No: “Are you doing anything fun for your birthday?”

This/That: “Are you having a party on your birthday, or are you going to relax?”

I think many children (and adults!) are averse to telling adults “No,” especially when a command is implied. (“Did you clean your room?” “Are you going to sit quietly?” Hmmm if I say ‘no’ I will be in trouble with the adult.) So they are actually pretty likely to just lie and say what they think you want to hear.

Presenting a this or that question provides an alternative to lying, a ‘no, but’ scenario where they are presented with the reasonable consequences of a No (“if you’re not ready to sit quietly, you cannot do our quiet activity with us yet.”)