Ghostly Vulture
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Interested in psychology, philosophy, cosmology, metaphysics. "What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning." — Werner Heisenberg
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What I'm saying.
October 5, 2025 at 8:45 AM
What I'm saying.
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Every single person is exactly what you would be if you were them. This includes your political opponents. So instead of dismissing them as evil or stupid, seek to understand the circumstances that led them to their conclusions.
September 28, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Every single person is exactly what you would be if you were them. This includes your political opponents. So instead of dismissing them as evil or stupid, seek to understand the circumstances that led them to their conclusions.
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Bureaucracy destroys initiative. There is little that bureaucrats hate more than innovation, especially innovation that produces better results than the old routines. Improvements always make those at the top of the heap look inept. Who enjoys appearing inept?
September 23, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Bureaucracy destroys initiative. There is little that bureaucrats hate more than innovation, especially innovation that produces better results than the old routines. Improvements always make those at the top of the heap look inept. Who enjoys appearing inept?
New Post: The necessity of Destruction – on Refiners and Rebuilders open.substack.com/pub/tesser4c...
The necessity of Destruction – on Refiners and Rebuilders
There is no improvement of a dysfunctional system. The castle must collapse so we can build on the ruins. War is rupture, rupture is change. One empire falls, a new arises. This is the law of nature. ...
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September 15, 2025 at 5:44 PM
New Post: The necessity of Destruction – on Refiners and Rebuilders open.substack.com/pub/tesser4c...
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𝘍𝘳𝘰𝘮.. 𝘥𝘦𝘱𝘵𝘩 𝘱𝘴𝘺𝘤𝘩𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘺, 𝘸𝘦 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘯𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘸𝘦 𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘥𝘰𝘮 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘭𝘺 𝘤𝘩𝘰𝘰𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘤𝘪𝘰𝘶𝘴𝘭𝘺; instead, we are often under influence of historic forces that we have internalized or are responding to environmental pressures we little suspect have such influence over us. ~James Hollis
June 5, 2025 at 12:19 PM
𝘍𝘳𝘰𝘮.. 𝘥𝘦𝘱𝘵𝘩 𝘱𝘴𝘺𝘤𝘩𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘺, 𝘸𝘦 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘯𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘸𝘦 𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘥𝘰𝘮 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘭𝘺 𝘤𝘩𝘰𝘰𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘤𝘪𝘰𝘶𝘴𝘭𝘺; instead, we are often under influence of historic forces that we have internalized or are responding to environmental pressures we little suspect have such influence over us. ~James Hollis
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Mounting proof shows that our universe may contain points where space-time frays so much that it becomes unrecognizable.
Singularities in Space-Time Prove Hard to Kill | Quanta Magazine
Black hole and Big Bang singularities break our best theory of gravity. A trilogy of theorems hints that physicists must go to the ends of space and time to find a fix.
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May 28, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Mounting proof shows that our universe may contain points where space-time frays so much that it becomes unrecognizable.
New post: The center of the maze
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The center of the maze
To what extent does a medium, an idea, a thought, allow one to explore other vantage points that have previously remained hidden? How do we find our own truth? The path to ourselves?
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May 28, 2025 at 5:49 PM
New post: The center of the maze
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We learn knowledge; we cannot learn wisdom. Wisdom arises through the assimilation of suffering. Suffering assimilated enlarges the personality, brings amplitude to the soul.
— James Hollis, Swamplands of the Soul
— James Hollis, Swamplands of the Soul
May 15, 2025 at 3:59 PM
We learn knowledge; we cannot learn wisdom. Wisdom arises through the assimilation of suffering. Suffering assimilated enlarges the personality, brings amplitude to the soul.
— James Hollis, Swamplands of the Soul
— James Hollis, Swamplands of the Soul
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If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us. ~ Hermann Hesse, 𝘋𝘦𝘮𝘪𝘢𝘯
May 9, 2025 at 8:46 PM
If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us. ~ Hermann Hesse, 𝘋𝘦𝘮𝘪𝘢𝘯
On the wrath against the mother [parent], the denial of the self and the destruction of the body. May, one day, the understanding of the psyche and its interconnected systems help you see the whole.
"Who, then, is there to blame?" — Kim Chernin
"Who, then, is there to blame?" — Kim Chernin
May 11, 2025 at 10:23 AM
On the wrath against the mother [parent], the denial of the self and the destruction of the body. May, one day, the understanding of the psyche and its interconnected systems help you see the whole.
"Who, then, is there to blame?" — Kim Chernin
"Who, then, is there to blame?" — Kim Chernin
New Post (Re-upload): What lies ahead, is already past. What lies behind, directs the future. open.substack.com/pub/tesser4c...
What lies ahead, is already past. Was lies behind, directs the future.
How can it be for a dream to line up so mysteriously with reality? To predict what lies ahead, as seen in the past — a collapse of spacetime? Does this type of energy, that permeates the cosmos — this...
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May 8, 2025 at 3:11 PM
New Post (Re-upload): What lies ahead, is already past. What lies behind, directs the future. open.substack.com/pub/tesser4c...
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In mathematics, different dimensions have decidedly different personalities.
Dimension 126 Contains Strangely Twisted Shapes, Mathematicians Prove | Quanta Magazine
A new proof represents the culmination of a 65-year-old story about anomalous shapes in special dimensions.
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May 6, 2025 at 3:46 PM
In mathematics, different dimensions have decidedly different personalities.
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We wholly overlook the essential fact that the achievements which society rewards are won at the cost of a diminution of personality.~CG Jung, 𝘔𝘰𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘯 𝘔𝘢𝘯 𝘪𝘯 𝘚𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘤𝘩 𝘰𝘧 𝘢 𝘚𝘰𝘶𝘭
May 5, 2025 at 2:42 PM
We wholly overlook the essential fact that the achievements which society rewards are won at the cost of a diminution of personality.~CG Jung, 𝘔𝘰𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘯 𝘔𝘢𝘯 𝘪𝘯 𝘚𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘤𝘩 𝘰𝘧 𝘢 𝘚𝘰𝘶𝘭
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In so far as one denies what is, one is possessed by what is not, the compulsions, the fantasies, the terrors that flock to fill the void.
May 3, 2025 at 3:21 AM
In so far as one denies what is, one is possessed by what is not, the compulsions, the fantasies, the terrors that flock to fill the void.
Bologna — the red city
May 2, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Bologna — the red city
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Most people confuse 'self-knowledge' with knowledge of their ego-personalities. Anyone who has any ego-consciousness at all takes it for granted that he knows himself. But the ego knows only its own contents, not the unconscious and its contents.
— Carl G. Jung, CW 10
— Carl G. Jung, CW 10
April 30, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Most people confuse 'self-knowledge' with knowledge of their ego-personalities. Anyone who has any ego-consciousness at all takes it for granted that he knows himself. But the ego knows only its own contents, not the unconscious and its contents.
— Carl G. Jung, CW 10
— Carl G. Jung, CW 10
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NASA’s famous 1990 photograph, ‘Pale Blue Dot’, inspires a range of feelings – wonderment, vulnerability, anxiety – but most dominant is that of cosmic insignificance
Why Pale Blue Dot generates feelings of cosmic insignificance | Aeon Essays
When we see the Earth as ‘a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam’ what do we learn about human significance?
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April 25, 2025 at 10:20 AM
NASA’s famous 1990 photograph, ‘Pale Blue Dot’, inspires a range of feelings – wonderment, vulnerability, anxiety – but most dominant is that of cosmic insignificance
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Chaos is what we've lost touch with. This is why it is given a bad name. It is feared by the dominant archetype of our world, which is Ego, which clenches because its existence is defined in terms of control.~Terence McKenna
April 25, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Chaos is what we've lost touch with. This is why it is given a bad name. It is feared by the dominant archetype of our world, which is Ego, which clenches because its existence is defined in terms of control.~Terence McKenna
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Beckett in his Proust essay:
“Either we speak and act for ourselves—in which case speech and action are distorted and emptied of their meaning by an intelligence that is not ours, or else we speak and act for others—in which case we speak and act a lie.”
“Either we speak and act for ourselves—in which case speech and action are distorted and emptied of their meaning by an intelligence that is not ours, or else we speak and act for others—in which case we speak and act a lie.”
March 29, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Beckett in his Proust essay:
“Either we speak and act for ourselves—in which case speech and action are distorted and emptied of their meaning by an intelligence that is not ours, or else we speak and act for others—in which case we speak and act a lie.”
“Either we speak and act for ourselves—in which case speech and action are distorted and emptied of their meaning by an intelligence that is not ours, or else we speak and act for others—in which case we speak and act a lie.”
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“We always think, when we converse, that it’s our ears and minds that are listening.”
— Proust, In the Shadow of Girls in Blossom (tr. Charlotte Mandell)
— Proust, In the Shadow of Girls in Blossom (tr. Charlotte Mandell)
March 29, 2025 at 6:58 PM
“We always think, when we converse, that it’s our ears and minds that are listening.”
— Proust, In the Shadow of Girls in Blossom (tr. Charlotte Mandell)
— Proust, In the Shadow of Girls in Blossom (tr. Charlotte Mandell)
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Iain McGilchrist on the role of stress in growth.
April 21, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Iain McGilchrist on the role of stress in growth.
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Political language – and with variations this is true of all political parties – is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.”
George Orwell, Politics and the English Language, 1946
George Orwell, Politics and the English Language, 1946
April 14, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Political language – and with variations this is true of all political parties – is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.”
George Orwell, Politics and the English Language, 1946
George Orwell, Politics and the English Language, 1946
"The typical citizen drops down to a lower level of mental performance as soon as he enters the political field. He argues and analyzes in a way which he would readily recognize as infantile within the sphere of his own interests."
Mencken’s Theory of Democracy www.cato.org/regulation/w...
Mencken’s Theory of Democracy www.cato.org/regulation/w...
Mencken’s Theory of Democracy
Do we really want the majority of voters to get their collective choice “good and hard,” let alone those who voted against it?
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April 23, 2025 at 6:50 AM
"The typical citizen drops down to a lower level of mental performance as soon as he enters the political field. He argues and analyzes in a way which he would readily recognize as infantile within the sphere of his own interests."
Mencken’s Theory of Democracy www.cato.org/regulation/w...
Mencken’s Theory of Democracy www.cato.org/regulation/w...