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It's not impossible that there were diasporic Jewish populations in the Mediterranean that first heard about Christianity through magical texts lmao.

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Made the mistake of wandering into witchtok on my lunch break.

Can...Can we please normalize just liking things again? Can we stop pretending that people's preferences in style or colors or hobbies has some mystical cosmic significance? Can we stop asking whether everything that catches our attention is a sign from the universe or an attempt at communication from a spirit or a deity?

Can we normalize being like, "I like dressing this way and seeing crows makes me happy," instead of, "Omg there are crows EVERYWHERE, this HAS to be a sign there's a deity trying to contact me, or maybe they sense my ultra special witchy powers because I've got a crystal shoved up my ass"?

Can we remind each other that while everything in our lives CAN have magical significance, that doesn't mean that everything IS magically significant and it's important to learn the difference?

I know this is nothing new in witchcraft spaces, I'm just so tired....

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I find I get along a lot better with religious esotericists than with scientist esotericists.

Like…I am fully willing to admit that my practices are not empirically verifiable. And also that other magicians, mystery workers and esoteric people may be working with different ontologies and religious beliefs and that’s fine.

Whereas I find a lot of New Agers who try to ground their beliefs in pseudoscience are more dogmatic and narrow minded, while also giving the rest of us a bad name

#personal #opinion

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Occultists and sex workers are natural allies because we are both ideal background extras whenever a scene calls for an air of disreputable luxury.

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Shavua Tov!

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I love that Appalachian folk magic is very much a “use what you have around you” kind of approach

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i need to stand ankle deep in a creek about this

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Whoa there, pardner! What have you done to make sure that belief or practice actually originates in ancient times and didn't come from the imagination of a repressed Victorian romantic?

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I am getting sick and tired of these manifestation gurus spreading their sanist and ableist bullcrap. I am a manifestation practitioner myself but also believe in science, divine power and God.

Life and existence in all dimensions are all complex notions. We can only guess very little about what it is like in the other dimensions including the afterlife. Simply because we are given a certain capacity to comprehend only so much when it comes to it.

You don’t just come out and claim you figured it all out. Don’t be ridiculous. It’s never only been about one-answers-all. There is impenetrable divine mathematics behind everything.

Yes, there are certain things you can achieve by conditioning your subconscious BUT not everything. Yes, you are responsible from certain occurrences and conditions you are/were in BUT not everything. Yes, we are “one” when it comes to certain aspects and correlations BUT not in all senses. We are same in some senses and very different in others so are the reason(s) of your existence and life purpose(s).

You are not responsible from your own darkness when you’re entrapped in a malfunctioned body and brain since childhood. You don’t create your own reality when you happened to be born into a problematic family and circumstances; when you are exposed to bunch of health and family problems along with variety of traumas since childhood or even during the early adulthood.

Millions of people ought to go through hell because of what’s embedded in their own dna. Among those, there are many that already start getting damaged while in their mother’s womb. For example: Mother drinking alcohol; going through intense stress; going through mental or physical trauma, and accidents during her pregnancy.

You don’t get to make unfortunate people with unfortunate lives that are out of their control feel worse than what they already feel. You don’t get to make them question themselves with all the guilt you inflict upon for the sake of your meep meep propaganda.

Let’s refute your logic simply with general world history. Millions of people died because of wars, terrorism, natural disasters or by act of crime, accidents and luck (such as wrongful police killing). You’re saying a person that died to a bomb on the street created their own reality and own end? Or a kid dying of starvation? Get the f. outta here.

Consciousness and manifestation are great concepts and all when you are sticking to a cause to push your limits within your power. This is not an all fits in one cause nor it’s the resolution of humans. There is no such thing.

Some of these so called manifestation gurus are not only terribly illogical and vulgar but also the preachers of sanism and ableism. They not only promote these notions but also have virulent influence and impact on the people of misfortune and suffering. Stop feeding them. Stop supporting them. Let them know what’s wrong with what they claim and advocate.

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As someone with half a computer science degree, wellness crystal people talking about esoteric knowledge as "the source code of the universe" is just fucking stupid

#shitposts #great content

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Vajrayogini, Nepal by Sujit D Mhrzn

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Yamantaka, probably Nepal

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Cakrasaṃvara and Vajrayoginī, Dharmakya Stupa, Colorado, USA, Photograph by Greg Smith.  

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Garuda by Mahendra Dangol, Nepal

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The 21 Taras by Devendra Sinkhwal, Nepal