Notices by Nate Cull (natecull@mastodon.social), page 5

I wish A Wrinkle In Time had been a good movie because this lost excerpt from the book, from 2015, is pretty on point

http://graphics.wsj.com/documents/doc-cloud-embedder/?sidebar=1#1881486-a-wrinkle-in-time-excerpt

https://ew.com/article/2015/04/17/never-seen-passage-madeleine-lengles-wrinkle-time-found/

<< "This sick longing for security is a dangerous thing, Meg, as insidious as the strontium 90 from our nuclear explosions that worried you so..." >>

The Willows of Oz

I have no idea what the context of this quote is but I like it

(presumably from the 5th International Conference on Computational Social Science)

https://twitter.com/g_r_richardson/status/1152197162350067714

<< Duncan Watts - "For 20 years I thought my job was as a basic scientist. Publish papers and throw them over the wall for someone else to apply. I now realise that there's no one on the other side of the wall. Just a huge pile of papers that we've all thrown over." #IC2S2 >>

Like look at any of the big major channellers or even psychic healers. The interesting ones, the ones who have something real going on, they usually did NOT get that interesting thing from a ritual or from being chosen by an organisation. Nope, they were usually just born with an ability, or else it just manifested one day.

There may be some things that can be passed on by direct contact between people. But secret orgs have less and less to do with that as time goes on.

Frankly I think this obsession with initiation leads to hierarchy, secrecy, and top-down controlling cult-like structures. It embeds in itself the belief in divinely appointed, often secret, leaders, and that just is a big wide open door for fascism and other authoritarian systems to walk right in. And they are.

And it also does not match what's actually going on with spooky stuff. You don't actually need an initiation. Paranormal stuff just... happens. The point is to notice it.

This interesting article on the Traditionalism, uh, tradition, brings to the surface something that's been bugging me recently in my reading around Theosophy:

Masonry, Theosophy and Traditionalism (who all variously were at war with each other at one time) all share one obsession which Spiritualism, Pentecostalism and the New Age don't: and that is a belief in 'unbroken chain of initiation'.

https://gangleri.nl/articles/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2013/06/TraditionalismvsTraditionalism_by_Roy_062013.pdf

seriously Hollywood what are you even doing

I mean just think 'Wall Street' meets 'Four Weddings And A Funeral' meets 'Dude Where's My Car', the script practically writes itself

is there a comedy called High Fiance

or has Hollywood just completely lost its way

And there will come a time my love
Oh may it be in mine my love
When men will proudly rise my love
And board to sail the skies
Moonships from all the spheres

The men be bathed in light my love
The women clothed in white my love
All in that wondrous fleet my love
As each the other meets
Will smile and softly sing

And on some distant sand my love
The ships will gently land my love
Fair folk will meet them there my love
With flowing golden hair
And great will be their joy

The obvious connection to Sefer Yetzirah, of course, being that 'the six' represent the faces of a cube and the 'thirteen' are the edges

So.... the front fell off the Cube of Space, but the lattice remained?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3m5qxZm_JqM

The obvious connection to Sefer Yetzirah, of course, being that 'the six' represent the faces of a cube and the 'thirteen' are the edges

So.... the sides fell off the Cube of Space, but the lattice remained?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3m5qxZm_JqM

The obvious connection to Sefer Yetzirah, of course, being that 'the six' represent the faces of a cube and the 'thirteen' are the edges

So.... the sides fell off the Cube of Space, but the lattice remained?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3m5qxZm_JqM

Something about this anlysis of the Sifra Ditseni‘uta tickles at me:

A cosmology that says there were 'six created' that fell and were / will be restored, plus another 'thirteen' through whose compassion the six are raised?

seems to echo the idea elsewhere in Jewish thought that 'one third of the stars/angels fell' and another two thirds did not fall

https://www.academia.edu/29907202/33._An_Unknown_Version_of_Zohar_Sifra_Ditseni_uta_with_an_Unknown_Theology_about_Creation_and_its_Destruction._See_also_33-a_above

I take great delight in the overlapping experiences of my little corner of the fediverse.

Y'all are a fantastic stew of thoughts, feels, knowledge, and creation. It's worth the work it takes to have all of this, as hard as that work can be sometimes. Thanks for your part.

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Boom!

and if you ping too long a server, the server also pings back you

https://twitter.com/41Strange/status/1152241384616689664

Oh! Aimee Mann was vocalist for 'Til Tuesday! 'Voices Carry'! I didn't know that. She very successfully reinvented herself from New Wave to '90s alternative'.

Oh! Aimee Mann was vocalist for 'Til Tuesday! 'Voices Carry'! I didn't know that.