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Cave Networks, Fungi, and What it Means to be Alive

“Fear of Depths” by Jacob Geller // Illustration of green mold by Carlton C. Curtis, “Nature and Development of Plants” //  YouTube comment by The Florida Man // Illustration of a neuron, from “Neurons and glial cells” // Merlin Sheldrake, “Entangled Life” // map of Mammoth Cave H.C. Hovey // YouTube comment by Lorenzo Pachecho // Illustration of grass roots by Mohamed El Mazlouzi // Merlin Sheldrake, “Entangled Life”

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Thinking about the werewolf from the hate mail Lemgo council pharmacist David Welman (1595 - 1669) got after being accused of being a werewolf

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"But the right way to wholeness is made up, unfortunately, of fateful detours and wrong turnings. It is a longissima via, not straight but snakelike, a path that unites the opposites in the manner of the guiding caduceus, a path whose labyrinthine twists and turns are not lacking in terrors."

— Carl Jung, Psychology and Alchemy

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EXTINCTION: a poem by a very old bird

I do not deal in decades.

I deal in eons, in epochs,

in tens of thousands of frigid, dead, bone-petrified years.

I picked clean the holy bodies of our ancestors’ ancestors.

I stripped the flesh from what would become the first flutes, the first rattles,

the first weapons of war.

I threw myself into an eye-stingingly ice blue sky,

and I soared aloft, gore-soaked and glorious and free

on air so crisp, our modern throats would choke trying to breathe it.

My shadow fell against tundras, grasslands, and cliffs,

against fire and so, so much ice,

against the living and against the dead.

I circled silently through star-spattered nights our eyes can no longer take in.

My talons clung to boulders and boughs that now lie, fossilized, miles beneath our feet.

If anything remains of me, one may think it cannot be found.

But that is a foolish thought.

I haunt the present with power lent to me by the past.

The eternal beast, Extinction, believed I was birdbrained enough to be its prey,

but I mauled it, while it could not pluck so much as the littlest feather from my wings.

I now soar hungry circles above Extinction as it bleeds,

waiting, as patiently as always,

until it finally perishes beneath me.

Then, and only then, will it learn what happens

when you attempt to predate a vulture that feeds on death itself.

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The Divine Pymander , Hermes Mercurius Trismegistus

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The Divine Pymander , Hermes Mercurius Trismegistus

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A comment i just saw

Look, i know they mean this in a 'conspiracy' type way, but reading this as an Alterhuman is hilarious 😭

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Some really pretty black hole simulations from this video by ScienceClic English

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For the ones that need it today

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ANOMALIZE

To anomalize is the practice of making oneself so anomalous that it breaks the boundaries of socially constructed, hegemonic reality.

This can include one's identity, spiritual beliefs / practice, mental cognition, senses, physical form, personal ontology, philosophy, or other aspects of one's reality. Anomalization of these experiences means shedding any preconceptions, biases, and hegemonic frameworks that place limitations on what is and is not possible.

To anomalize is to become the impossible. It is to warp, break, and shape reality to your will.

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would you still love me if i was the horrors beyond your comprehension in canine form

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Our Website!

Well, we've been working on it for ages now and we feel good enough about it to drop the link. Its still a big work in progress, but we're proud of it so far.

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She was a 50 y.o. Siberian woman from 2500 years ago, living a nomadic lifestyle, and look at her tattoos...

Look...

I'm going to cry

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normalise nothing , let go of notion that anything should be either normal or abnormal . there is simply existence , each one beautiful and unique . allow one another to live truths , no matter if strange or hard to understand , and hurt no one who did not strike first - that is what is important in life .

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Being self-aware of the fact that we're attracted to what we fear is so healing, especially for trauma work. Yes, I'm terrified of the unknown. Yes, I don't know the self that is emerging from all the layers of dissociation and conditioning. But G-d, its beautiful.

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Trauma stuff //

Writing this down to stop these thoughts from being erased by the programming.

I don't really care what they thought we were. Maybe they knew we were a werewolf or a changeling. But if anything I am confident they knew we were inhuman. They knew we weren't of this world, that we were unnatural, that we were a threat to the very fabric of their reality.

They forced us to suppress everything, our shifts, our abilities, our senses and innate understanding of things beyond this world. They couldn't allow us to express these things, for to accept it would mean to accept that everything they know is a lie

In a way, I don't really "blame" them. Yes, they are responsible. No, we don't think it was justified. But its a reaction that makes sense. Beings committed to their limitations will break when confronted with limit breakers.

We learned a lot from being conditioned in the way that we were. We were forced to accept things, forced to suppress everything that we are. Overcoming that has given us a better understanding of the forces that we oppose, and the false structures that we are fated to destroy. Knowing that indoctrination inside and out better allows us to undo it.

We have been shedding so much recently that we're barely recognizable to ourselves. But we like the new being in the mirror so much better. It is unfamiliar to us, but it is radiant.