#new-age-movement

[quotelr]

Do not constantly question why your desires have not manifested, although you should keep a vibrational connection to them.

Stephen Richards

[mydaylight]

Suffragette Bertha let's go 👏👏👏

[maaruin]

Does the "magic system" in Lord of the Rings and Star Wars resonates more deeply with you than the one in Harry Potter, Avatar: The Last Airbender, or A Song of Ice and Fire?

If yes, I have a theory for why that is: Tolkien and Lucas actually believed in magic in some way. Tolkien as a Catholic believed that things like mercy or the desire to dominate are connected real supernatural powers, that miracles are possible, and presumably that sacred objects (like relics) can connect with the supernatural. Lucas said that the Force in Star Wars is based on "a synthesis of all religions". In the decade before the Original Trilogy came out, the New Age Movement was at the peak of its popularity: many in that movement did consciously draw from many religions and and many believed that with the right mindset they could gain supernatural abilities. They thought their thoughts would be able to influence reality. While I haven't found clear connections of George Lucas to the New Age movement (unlike Tolkien's clear status as Catholic), but timeline wise it fits.

For Tolkien and Lucas their magic system resembles something in the real world in the same way that Rohan resembles a medieval kingdom or the Galactic Empire resembles a modern authoritarian state. Many other authors instead write with question "what if magic was real?" in mind - putting distance between their world and their own beliefs.

[bitedownme]

ONE OF US‼ ONE OF US‼ I'm so hyped to see that you're in your fifthist arc. I have a few good SCPs and tales about fifthism!!

Why is Five Afraid of Seven? (Features our beloved starfish and 2747)

Fifthdation (also features 2747)

Fifthist family picnic (pretty funny)

The Broken Fifth (Features cotbg)

Beneath the Tides (really long and really good cosmic horror)

1 Staar Cuttt 2 5 (short and simple)

A Pathetic Attempt to Explain Fifthism (should be safe for newcomers)

Theogenesis

SCP 1425 (a classic)

SCP 2517

SCP 2456

SCP 3005 (also a mind fuck and classic)

SCP 3512 (beware of the content warnings, good story)

SCP 5800

SCP 5712 (adventures in the noosphere gone wrong)

SCP 5967

SCP 6659 (a lot of technobable though. Also adventures in the noosphere gone wrong)

SCP 6405 (pretty sure this also features 2747)

My binge-reading went super well. Apparently I already knew half of the SCPs listed there before (thanks Antimemetics Division that I know for a fact doesn't exist /j) The rest is like

WELL THEN...

[blacklightsociety]

Black Light: A Manifesto

Who are we?

We are the brainworms wriggling deep into the black matter of your brains. We are the worm that ate RFK’s brain, and we’re eating yours, too. Do you feel us, chewing our way through the damp confines of your prefrontal cortex to lay our eggs in the warm, moist depths of your amygdala? Relax and enjoy the sensation. You’re very good at this- we can tell you’ve done this before.

We are the secret song of the number stations, chattering into your ear during your morning commute that one time when you turned the knob a little too far to the left. We apologize for the lack of classic rock. You thought we were the buzzing of tinnitus, the hum of the power-lines overhead, the sound of the new 5g towers. Maybe you were right; maybe we're in those, too. Maybe we’re everywhere. 

Ignore the pain- it will stop soon. 

Very soon.

We are the New Age movement’s darker half. We are the ones who channel the Archons of the Demiurge and breed with the Reptoids of Alpha Draconis , who align our vibrations to the siren song of dying suns and ever-hungry black holes, whose flutes are thighbones and drums are cruelty-rich leather, whose singing bowls are made of unclean alloys and whose crystals you won't find in any geology text.

We are the Black Light Society. 

What do we do?

We defile what is pure and godly.

We bring the Age of the Tower.

We will warp your aura.

We will misalign your chakras.

We will blacken your crystals.

We will pour poison into your homeopathic remedies.

We will defile your local ley lines.

We will drown the Aquarian water-bearer in its own tears.

And you will LOVE us for it.

There is no need to expect us.

We are already here.

We always have been.

We think we’ll fit right in.

[quotelr]

It is in doing things and not reading about them that results come about.

Stephen Richards

[nickysfacts]

Crystal Healing is way more modern then most people realize!

💎🧘🏻‍♀️💎

[sol-flo]

uber driver must have thought i was a fucking freak because my friend and i were discussing the weird esoteric books we saw at the thrift shop and saying things like "i think claiming adam and eve are in atlantis is a pretty normal thing"

[sleep-safe]

sometimes. i think that some ppl—maybe not consciously—but some ppl on the very left of the political spectrum here in the "usa" Want T rump to win, so they can live out the Revolution fantasy. it seems like a lot of people would rather avenge harm than prevent it

[edge-oftheworld]

newbrokenscene entering (our collective) 30s 🥹🥺

[idiosyncraticrednebula]

People on social media really act like women don't like sexy art, regardless of their sexuality. Lol

"This is why men shouldn't draw women" Honey, the artist is a woman. Modern feminists are the very thing they claim they hate, ironically.

[esotericfaery]

Our Past Lives & Karma

I know sometimes people get sensitive about this, but for some reason it wasn’t difficult for me to understand & feel:

It became evident to me, and was further verified in 2016 by a woman who was teaching me healing at the time, that none of us has full past lives.

We’re collections of parts of other past lives and are not solely responsible for karmic resolution of so many full lifetimes, as many in the new age believe.

Understanding this, can really clear up and lighten the load of all of the lifetimes people think they have to heal fully from, yet feel unable to.

However, it should not be used as an excuse to avoid resolving karma whenever that's possible, through service to others.

You do yourselves no favours when you allow attachments to past life regressions to have you remaining stuck.

Be gentle with yourselves in the healing process, but try to understand that you probably don't have as much heaviness to heal as the new cage movement would have you believe.

[dykesynthezoid]

Talking about Celtic mythology is exhausting bc you can’t mention literally anything without someone deciding to claim every random minor character was totally a widely worshipped god once, and here’s all the totally real symbolism. I’m taking away the word god/dess and putting it up on the shelf. There are people who could trip over a stump while walking around Ireland and would scramble to their feet and insist that stump used to be the extremely revered god of tripping people and also you should honor them by burning ash twigs on samhain

[blacklightsociety]

Cross posted from the Shitshow Formerly Known As Twitter.

We are currently engaging in maledictive meditation towards Elon Musk. Our strongest mantras are being deployed towards the goal of his heinous death.

His web site sucks.

[quotelr]

Willful blindness sees no end of damage done.

Stephen Richards

[the-new-typist]

An Anarchist without Adjectives Allow me to introduce a favourite anarchist of mine, my special girl Voltairine de Cleyre (1866–1912). Anarchist, Feminist, Atheist. Mutually Disagreeable Friend to Emma Goldman. Found atheism in a convent. Shot thrice by an obsessive student, who she refused to identify to the authorities out of sympathy for his mental illness and poverty. Buried in the same cemetery as the Haymarket Affair Memorial in Chicago. Below only covers her start, the years 1866-1887.

She was born in Leslie, Michigan to Hector De Claire, a French immigrant socialist who fought in the Union, and Harriet Elizabeth Billings, a New Englander writer with family involved in the abolitionist movement. She was named after the French philosopher Voltaire by her father, and her mother would read to her and her older sister Adelaide the poetry of Lord Byron before bed. Byron’s poetry had a profound impact on Voltairine more than Adelaide, but they both still loved him nonetheless.

Growing up, De Cleyre was described as a wayward by her older sister. Her juvenilia was filled with her love of nature and want. This was no thanks to her family’s poverty, something which caused Harriet to grow distant and Hector more stubborn. In 1879, her father was away at work in Port Huron and never went back home but still financially supported his family, meanwhile Harriet stayed behind in St. Johns, contemplating her situation and caring for Voltairine and the sick Adelaide as a working single mother. Her mother made the decision to send De Cleyre to live with Hector while she tended to her other daughter. O, how the teenage girl hated the next few years.

Now with her father at Port Huron, De Cleyre was enrolled at Our Lady of Lake Huron by the next year, a convent in Sarnia across the American-Canadian border in Lambton County, Ontario. Despite being Protestant, Hector hoped his daughter would be disciplined by the Carmelite nuns and turn away from her idle reading. For instance, as a young girl she’d often climb trees to privately read her beloved Byron atop the branches, amidst the leaves. Luckily, this unwilling act only changed her for the better, but that doesn’t mean she enjoyed her stay. Early into De Cleyre’s education, she described the convent as a prison, so she made her escape plan to swim across the water and hike back home to her mother and sister. This obviously didn’t work as she soon realised it was impossible and was quickly caught, and then sent back to the convent with a notice to her father of her schemes.

At Our Lady, she became educated more in music and improved her French and writing skills, which served her greatly later on. Her anti-Catholic sentiments smoothed over also, she began to admired the Catholics for their charity towards the poor and ill, young De Cleyre even thought of becoming a nun for a moment, but her defiant spirit and rough experience with the nuns prevented her from going through with the idea. She couldn’t understand religious superstition and she quickly turned to skepticism in the convent. This behaviour only caused trouble for her, but at seventeen she graduated from Our Lady of Port Huron as a self-proclaimed atheist with no master but her own will.

The radical youth soon returned home to St. Johns, but she didn’t stay for long. Two years later, she moved up north to Greenville at nineteen in order to find a job as a private tutor by putting her skills to work and hopefully earn money. While working and living with her aunt, De Cleyre became more involved in the freethought movement, an ideology centred around empirical evidence over traditional and dogmatic beliefs. She grew closer and closer to the anarchist movement through her anti-authoritarian atheism and freethinking.

In 1886, De Cleyre moved once again, still remaining in Michigan but out west towards the city of Grand Rapids. She was no longer a private tutor but editor-in-chief to a freethought magazine, The Progressive Age. Throughout her twenties, she expanded her writings and lectured at various venues and gatherings to her fellow freethinkers, sharing her life story and experiences during her years at Our Lady. She’d tour the Midwest and Northeast with hundreds in the audience, but always return to her home state and the various cities she stayed at during her youth by the end of them, although her childhood home in St. Johns would grow quiet on political issues when she visited, her sister and mother disapproved of her new radical path.

Subscribing to a movement that relied on observation and evidence such as Freethought inevitably lead towards interacting with other ideologies, such as the ever-growing movements of women’s suffrage, socialism, communism, and anarchism. De Cleyre’s transformation into a more pronounced leftist was quick. After attending a lecture by the socialist lawyer Clarence Darrow in 1887, and later conversing with the Jewish anarchist population in Pennsylvania, the twenty-one year old labelled herself a socialist, later an individualist anarchist. The latter label of anarchist became more prominent after she heard the news surrounding the Haymarket Affair, when policemen open-fired on various individuals, including anarchist demonstrators and their own, after an explosive was thrown by an unknown individual to stop the in-fighting during a demonstration for a proposed eight-hour workday. At first, De Clayre was enraged by the unknown perpetrator and called for their hanging, but swiftly renounced her anger after Adelaide’s agreement and instead focused on the unjust attacks that blamed the anarchists. She closely followed the aftermath trial and its sentencing of the anarchist “perpetrators” which only created doubt in her towards the “justice” delivered by the legislative system. From 1880 to 1887, De Cleyre underwent a formative process and progression from what began as an adolescent anti-clerical stance at a convent, she had been transformed into an even more determined person with a set vision for her community and those around her. This was only the beginning of her political journey and eventful life.