#Basics

[theartingace]

So on my recent revisit of centaur bodyplan challenges on my Centaur Wheelchairs post there was some talk of how centaurs would be stretching to make up for the decompression horses usually get in their backs when they graze, and also I've just seen a few tags and other notes curious about centaurs stretching and folding so.. here ya go! Some new stretches focused on stretching more like how horses do with their necks, and then just a collection of all my wibbly wobbly Big Stretch! and general range of motion doodles

[palatinewolfsblog]

"If our Christianity causes kids to go hungry, the sick to go without healthcare, the stranger to be unwelcome, the elderly on social security to be called a "parasite," all while billionaires get richer, we've profoundly misunderstood the most basic elements of Jesus' teachings." - Rev. Benjamin Cremer

[minimalist-daydream]

Vintage American Apparel ads

[baylardian-1]

whenever we're watching Basics this is the vision that reliably pops into my brain during the scene where Chakotay takes baby Naomi to help Samantha lmao

[funeral]

I have often been asked where the archetype comes from and whether it is acquired or not. This question cannot be answered directly. Archetypes are, by definition, factors and motifs that arrange the psychic elements into certain images, characterized as archetypal, but in such a way that they can be recognized only from the effects they produce. They exist preconsciously, and presumably they form the structural dominants of the psyche in general. They may be compared to the invisible presence of the crystal lattice in a saturated solution. As a priori conditioning factors they represent a special, psychological instance of the biological "pattern of behaviour," which gives all living organisms their specific qualities. Just as the manifestations of this biological ground plan may change in the course of development, so also can those of the archetype. Empirically considered, however, the archetype did not ever come into existence as a phenomenon of organic life, but entered into the picture with life itself.

Collected Works of C.G. Jung, Volume 11

[cronicasdeunafashionista]

[dinosaurwithablog]

I decided to try to paint with watercolors. This is my first attempt. It took me 15 minutes. It's an interesting medium. The paint seems to have a mind of its own. 😉😁🤣 As you can see, I'm still trying to figure out how to guide it to where I want it to be. I know that I need to shade the lemon more, but I'm afraid of screwing it up so I left it as it is. It's very basic, but I'm learning the basics so I think that's okay for now. After my first attempt, I have decided that I like watercolors. I'm gonna keep trying to get it right. It's a lot of fun!!

[saltavista]

[coinandcandle]

Which Witch? - Let's Talk Labels!

Are you a green witch? Perhaps you’re a crystal witch or a sea witch? Maybe you're a kitchen witch? Let’s talk about these labels, what they are, and if you need them!

First and foremost let's discuss:

Do I need a label?

Nope! While you’re more than welcome to use one--many even--they aren’t required!

I won’t give you an exhaustive list of witch types, as you’ll learn there are as many labels as there are witches. Instead, I want to give you an idea about how these labels come to be and how you can decide on them if you’d like.

Labels for witches come from a variety of paces but a label almost always denotes a certain specification of their craft.

The tools they prefer (crystals, tarot, herbs, runes etc)

The biome or domestic area they thrive most in (sea, forest, swamp, mountains, urban, suburban, garden, kitchen etc)

The path they choose to follow (traditional, pop-culture, hedge, folk, poison, ceremonial, etc)

Their involvement with other witches (solitary, coven, hereditary, etc)

The type of magic they prefer (glamour, curse, healing, etc)

An over-arching concept or theme (death witch, love witch, divination witch, cosmic witch, etc)

Some labels are more specific than others and some can even encompass other labels!

For example: a green witch could be a witch who deals with all of nature whereas a plant witch would focus on just plants and a garden witch would focus on garden-specific plants.

You’ll also hear the term eclectic witch. What this label means is someone who uses a little bit of everything, or doesn't follow one specific path.

Unfortunately, there are those who use this label as a shield to hide their appropriation, assuming they can take what they want from any culture, closed or open, without doing proper research or initiation.

That said, many of those who use this term are not like that! They are simply witches who are just as likely to do magic in the forest as they are in the city, or to use tarot as much as they use pendulums, or perhaps they use herbs as much as they do crystals!

Not every witch needs a label, some don't ever use them, or they may use them only when chatting with others about their preferences in magic. Labels may even come and go as you move forward on your path. Choose whichever labels work for you, even if that means no labels!

[missjiablog]

hi loves,

hope everyone is having a wonderful start to their weekend today.

i was inspired by an instagram story post i made earlier sharing 4 outfits, so i decided to share some here on tumblr.

i feel like i have a changing style, but i absolutely find comfort in cutesy clothes, classy, basics & neutrals, streetwear, and so much more.

honestly, it's hard to choose one.

what's your fashion style like?

yours,

miss jia.

p.s. here’s the song reco of the day!

[jt1674]

[crystaldust]

Highlights from “The mind”

[session 10 of “Keys to the ultimate freedom” by Lester Levenson]

♡ The mind is an instrument created by you to imagine the Oneness as chopped up and separated into many parts interrelated.

♡ The mind is simply the sum total composite of all thoughts.

♡ The mind becomes habitual.

♡ The subconscious mind is running us - making us the victims of habit.

♡ The thing that keeps us from recognizing and expressing our infinity is simply the mind, conscious and subconscious. If we are to express this infinite nature, we can do it only by getting behind this mind. When we reach the realm behind the mind we operate without thoughts, intuitively, and are in harmony with the whole universe.

♡ The direction is to still the mind. Quiet the mind and you'll see your infinity right there.

♡ Just let go of the mind completely and what's left over is your infinite beingness, all knowing, all powerful, everywhere present.

♡ Were we to direct all our energies to stilling our mind, we would soon be realized.

♡ You feel as good as your mind is quiet.

♡ Your mind is an instrument used to identify your real Self with your body and world.

♡ If you do not identify with your body or mind, neither your body not your thoughts will effect you.

♡ In this dream-illusion there's a thing called thought. And thought determines and is the cause of all matter.

♡ In your imagination you have written and projected a cinema show of acts, actors and audiences on a screen and have lost sight of the fact that it is all in your imagination, your mind. Discover this and you discover the absolute Truth.

♡ The world and universe are a mental concoction.

♡ A thought is an assumption of lack causing a wish to fulfill it.

♡ All thoughts are of non-truth.

♡ You've got to use the mind to quiet the mind. You need to use determination to still it.

♡ Without concentrated mind, progress is relatively small.

♡ A wandering, wavering mind is one that dissipates one's energy in the form of many thoughts. Hold one thought and the energy is less dissipated and more conserved.

♡ Direct this conserved energy toward the Self. 

♡ In the beginning the mind pursues the Self intermittently between long intervals. As one continues, the intervals shorten. .Toward the end, the mind is constant in the pursuit and does not wander from it.

♡ The more you eliminate mind, the more peace you feel.

♡ The mind will never discover the Self because the mind is the cover-up over the Self. It's only by letting go of the mind that the Self is seen. You get the mind quiet enough to allow your Self to be obvious to you so that you may use It to let go of the mind.

♡ Eliminating what you are not is growth.

♡ Every mind uses the very same unlimited intelligence. Everyone uses it as much as he believes he can use it to fulfill his desires. When he learns that his mental limitations are self imposed, he lets go of them. Then his intelligence (I. Q.) can be raised to the degree that he knows he has no limits.

♡ We are all in the same mind and the only thing that keeps us from reading the other one is that our attention is too centered on our own little self.

♡ All minds are influencing each other.

♡ Thoughts smother the capacity to be happy.

♡ Anything man can think can be.

♡ The ego-mind struggles for survival and tries to subvert your direction.

♡ The mind cannot give the ultimate answer because it's part of the ego, part of our limitation.

♡ When the Self, which is just behind the mind, is discovered, you see that the mind is limited and let go of it.

♡ Where is the world without your mind? Is there such a thing as world when you submerge the mind? The thought of the world creates it. This whole solid universe that you mentally say is a solid universe is just your thought that it is a solid universe.

♡ Anything your mind is absolutely convinced of materializes instantly.

♡ Mind can do anything with the body.

♡ Every thought is motivated by a desire for pleasure or an aversion to pain.

♡ Letting go of all attachments and aversions is letting go of all your thoughts.

♡ The only thing we are aware of is our own thoughts.

♡ What we're seeing out there is our own mind.

♡ The mind can be made quiet wherever you are. The place to do it is right where you are.

♡ As mind gets quiet, first the sense of havingness decreases until a measure of security is felt. It becomes less necessary to have in order to be. Then the sense of doership decreases until a further security is felt in that one is not the real doer, that the real doer is a higher power, that one can actually be with much less doing and it becomes less necessary to do in order to be. Finally your real Self that has always been in the background steps in and takes over and you feel that there is nothing necessary any more that you must have or do, that there is no choice but to only be!

♡ Unless we're eliminating the mind, unless we're eliminating ego, we're not progressing.

♡ The more we keep looking into the mind, the quieter we become.

♡ If I am separate then there has to be others, he, she and it. And you start dividing up the One by first becoming an individual separate from It. Thought first divides and separates you from the One Beingness, and then creates a multitude of beings and things and all the relationships. It's all your thought, that's all it is.

METHODS OF MIND REVELATION

♡ See the source of the mind and you will find your Self.

♡ Turn the mind back upon the mind and it will reveal its secrets.

♡ Eliminate the ego. The ego thinks and causes all thought. The ego is the identifier of the Self as the body.

♡ Surrender the mind to God.

♡ The mind must be eliminated permanently by realizing that it is not real but only an apparency, an illusion that has its source in your Self.

♡ Where there is only subject and no object, there the Self is.

[palatinewolfsblog]

"Capitalism is based on the ridiculous notion that you can enjoy limitless growth in a closed finite system. In biology such behaviour of cells is called Cancer." - Hugh Culliton.

[bal-rat]

I drew her with BAL_RAT's clothes again lmao

[colebabey888]

Could you make a list like your must haves one about what clothes you buy on shein and from where like with the link or code pls tx

Love your content btw 💘

first of all, thank you ! 🫦 🩷

Must Haves | IT GIRL DIARIES

SHEIN EDITION 🎀 🐈‍⬛

as i mentioned before, i usually only get my basics from shein but i have to say recently they have been stepping their game up. these are items ive bought before, except for the flared leggings and one pair of pajama set, they are currently in my cart 🫦 🐈‍⬛

brands i buy : xllais, musera, dazy, anwesta, missguided

links below :

plain black tee - xllais

soft pink tank tee - xllais

white short sleeve halter tee - xllais

pink silk stripe pajama set - missguided

pink metallic sequin halter - missguided ( make sure to get the sizing right, i had to return mine & size down because the sizing on the chart was a bit off )

bright pink pajama set - missguided

brown flared yoga pants - musera

black waist overlap sweats- musera ( definitely purchasing these again in different colours )

grey highwaist flared leggings - xllais

these 3 brands are my go to right now, the others were spontaneous purchases but i was impressed by the material so i def recommend them. majority of these pieces, i got multiple in different colours such as the basic tops from xllais and flared yoga pants from musera 🫦 🐈‍⬛

i can only add 10 images max on a post so unfortunately this will have to do for now, i will give updated posts with more ideas 💋

from the images already it looks like such good quality and maybe you can understand why i don’t mind buying my basics off shein if the brand has good material.

this is basically an example of the basics & what i usually purchased off shein and where, hope this helps xoxo 🩷

tip : place your orders on sundays , the tax fees may be lower, atleast it is for me whenever i order !