#Mysticism

Osnat (Indoor Katz)

astrosnat

Right. It looks like being a functional human being and writing more upgrade are temporarily not happening because I’m overwhelmed. Have a thread about space narratives instead. A lot of

bodhidave

bodhidave3

1/10~Thinking about not thinking so much:The word "mysticism" is fairly recent (18th c.). It often receives unhelpful associations, as in the presumption by some poorly informed folks it has to

John Starke

john_starke

1/ One big lesson I've learned in the past 10-15 years is that I'm most spiritually vibrant when I feel at home in my theological tradition and travel widely in

Bes D. Socialist

besf0rt

i'm an atheist & i value the "scientific method" a lot, but i think rituals, different belief systems, spirituality, and mysticism are highly underrated & should be explored and embraced

Dr Francis Young

DrFrancisYoung

Often, what baffles people about ancient paganism is not its numinous spiritual connection with the natural world, but its unabashed pragmatism. Erecting an altar to the Genius of the latrine

elizabeth bruenig

ebruenig

yes but fidelity is about making a commitment before you fully understand what it entails. because events and people are always unpredictably changing, faith in any context means you take

Heath Mayo

HeathMayo

Unpopular opinion: Support for Trumpism among R voters (beyond the Very Online Right & uber-MAGAs) is MUCH softer than many think & could crater quickly after Trump.Rank-&-file Rs where I’m

Amberite's Eschatological Cabaret 🌈⛥✡⛧they/them

outliersgeorg

I wonder how much Third Reich Nazi mysticism looked and felt like QAnon to onlookers and believers at the time. https://twitter.com/zenosAnalytic/status/1350254502088232962?s=20This, but also: the way that fascism accretes layers of

Skippy PB

SkippyPB40

This is exactly what I was getting at yesterday @malachiobrien. Anti-American Anti-God“A significant segment of the Christian public has fallen for conspiracy theories, has mixed nationalism with the Christian gospel,

Dani

xodanix3

Tbh i wonder how much the "starving artist" is a category created strictly from capitalism. What ppl don't realize when they tell kids to "go to art school" as a

✠ Cathodefish ✠🇻🇦

cathodefish

"The Communism of today, more emphatically than similar movements in the past, conceals in itself a false messianic idea. A pseudo-ideal of justice, of equality and fraternity in labor impregnates

Post-Globalized🌲🎈

PostGlobalized

2020 *should* mark a widespread legitimacy crisis in the public mind, but won't—The memetic energy of "2020" has already been harnessed for use in a sort of mysticism in which

🥂 marquis de posade 🏖

acczibit

Seriously it must rule to be like this, fully immersed in an enchanted world of mystery, intrigue and shadow wars like you're in Vampire the Masquerade or something, but without

Elle M. (they/them)

ellle_em

I meant to sleep last night but then I started plotting an alternate history where Christianity never happened I was like half-awake so my history probably isn't great but part

Thibaut

Kpaxs

Random provocative thoughts, a THREAD: The educational system is a system which reduces the student to a commodity, to be delivered to the hands of the corporation. In capitalist societies,

Philosopher-Prince-Prophet Coinaday 🧐

coinaday1

By overwhelming popular demand, I'm going to do a thread on "Drugs and Mysticism", the best PhD thesis ever!This was a crazy experiment done in the 60s where they gave

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