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@innerearth.bsky.social
Advanced psychoanalytic candidate in Jungian training.
Advocates leaving pessimism for better days.
Aspiring to be "decently unconscious".
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Advocates leaving pessimism for better days.
Aspiring to be "decently unconscious".
🌞 innerearth.substack.com
🌚 jungiantoronto.com
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That’s one of the striking differences you notice as soon as you get out of the First World into the Third World. Minds are much more open. We live in a highly indoctrinated society. (1/2)
September 26, 2025 at 1:01 AM
That’s one of the striking differences you notice as soon as you get out of the First World into the Third World. Minds are much more open. We live in a highly indoctrinated society. (1/2)
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⭐NEW SERIES LAUNCH DAY⭐
Gaza is one of the oldest urban centres on Earth, and today we start a series in which we explore its long history...
In Episode 1, @anitaanand.bsky.social and @willdalrymple.bsky.social are joined by Josephine Quinn to discuss Philistines and Pharaohs in Ancient Gaza.
Gaza is one of the oldest urban centres on Earth, and today we start a series in which we explore its long history...
In Episode 1, @anitaanand.bsky.social and @willdalrymple.bsky.social are joined by Josephine Quinn to discuss Philistines and Pharaohs in Ancient Gaza.
September 18, 2025 at 1:45 PM
⭐NEW SERIES LAUNCH DAY⭐
Gaza is one of the oldest urban centres on Earth, and today we start a series in which we explore its long history...
In Episode 1, @anitaanand.bsky.social and @willdalrymple.bsky.social are joined by Josephine Quinn to discuss Philistines and Pharaohs in Ancient Gaza.
Gaza is one of the oldest urban centres on Earth, and today we start a series in which we explore its long history...
In Episode 1, @anitaanand.bsky.social and @willdalrymple.bsky.social are joined by Josephine Quinn to discuss Philistines and Pharaohs in Ancient Gaza.
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Never forget "the countless small actions of unknown people" (Howard Zinn), especially now, when evil seems to have the upper hand; do not overlook the salt-of-the-earth who are trying by way of money, prayer, protest—to name but a few expressions—to tend to the near impossible.
July 24, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Never forget "the countless small actions of unknown people" (Howard Zinn), especially now, when evil seems to have the upper hand; do not overlook the salt-of-the-earth who are trying by way of money, prayer, protest—to name but a few expressions—to tend to the near impossible.
About suffering they were never wrong, / The Old Masters: how well they understood / It's human position; how it takes place ...
The Met now says it arrested 522 people yesterday on terrorism charges for supporting action to stop the genocide in Gaza.
More than a fifth were over the age of 70. Each faces up to 14 years in jail.
More than a fifth were over the age of 70. Each faces up to 14 years in jail.
August 10, 2025 at 6:12 PM
About suffering they were never wrong, / The Old Masters: how well they understood / It's human position; how it takes place ...
"They stood beneath statutes of the great leaders of civil disobedience, Mahatma Gandhi & the suffragette Millicent Fawcett. The symbolism was clear."
August 9, 2025 at 10:12 PM
"They stood beneath statutes of the great leaders of civil disobedience, Mahatma Gandhi & the suffragette Millicent Fawcett. The symbolism was clear."
"Religion is no substitute, but is the ultimate accomplishment to every other activity of the soul." This profound statement, which the Nobel Prize-winning physicist Wolfgang Pauli recorded in a report of a dream, is found in Jung's CW11, ¶ 58. I quoted it here. substack.com/home/post/p-...
August 7, 2025 at 10:33 PM
"Religion is no substitute, but is the ultimate accomplishment to every other activity of the soul." This profound statement, which the Nobel Prize-winning physicist Wolfgang Pauli recorded in a report of a dream, is found in Jung's CW11, ¶ 58. I quoted it here. substack.com/home/post/p-...
How are we to read this canine element and its progressive disappearance over time? What does the dearth of animals in mainstream Christian representations signify? In my latest post, I discuss Saint Christopher the Cynocephalus—an idiosyncratic image that was once a living part of Orthodoxy.
Saint Christopher the Cynocephalus
The religious function
substack.com
August 3, 2025 at 9:08 PM
How are we to read this canine element and its progressive disappearance over time? What does the dearth of animals in mainstream Christian representations signify? In my latest post, I discuss Saint Christopher the Cynocephalus—an idiosyncratic image that was once a living part of Orthodoxy.
Teresa Präauer: "What lies beyond experience but not beyond the imagination marks the edge of the world."
July 29, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Teresa Präauer: "What lies beyond experience but not beyond the imagination marks the edge of the world."
This is what the Interweb is for.
July 28, 2025 at 9:48 PM
This is what the Interweb is for.
Israeli human rights organisations B'Tselem and Physicians for Human Rights: Israel is committing genocide.
July 28, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Israeli human rights organisations B'Tselem and Physicians for Human Rights: Israel is committing genocide.
The siege has to end. There must be an unconditional and unimpeded delivery of humanitarian aid. Anything less is genocide-washing.
July 26, 2025 at 9:38 PM
The siege has to end. There must be an unconditional and unimpeded delivery of humanitarian aid. Anything less is genocide-washing.
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The echoes of the past are not lost on us. The haunting images of desperate and starving Palestinians fleeing gunfire and forced to crowd into metal cages for hours on end as they await aid invoke the suffering to which many of our own families were subjected during the Nazi Holocaust.
July 24, 2025 at 6:12 PM
The echoes of the past are not lost on us. The haunting images of desperate and starving Palestinians fleeing gunfire and forced to crowd into metal cages for hours on end as they await aid invoke the suffering to which many of our own families were subjected during the Nazi Holocaust.
Never forget "the countless small actions of unknown people" (Howard Zinn), especially now, when evil seems to have the upper hand; do not overlook the salt-of-the-earth who are trying by way of money, prayer, protest—to name but a few expressions—to tend to the near impossible.
July 24, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Never forget "the countless small actions of unknown people" (Howard Zinn), especially now, when evil seems to have the upper hand; do not overlook the salt-of-the-earth who are trying by way of money, prayer, protest—to name but a few expressions—to tend to the near impossible.
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It’s worse than “Gaza is being starved and destroyed and no one cares.” It’s that hundreds of millions *do* care and are powerless to stop it. We need a world where that can never happen, where the masses actually have political power.
July 22, 2025 at 2:41 PM
It’s worse than “Gaza is being starved and destroyed and no one cares.” It’s that hundreds of millions *do* care and are powerless to stop it. We need a world where that can never happen, where the masses actually have political power.
"Someone conceived it, there were discussions of pros and cons, alternatives were suggested, options of total cleansing vs. stages, and all done in air-conditioned conference rooms with minutes taken and decisions made," [Gideon] Levy wrote in an opinion piece in the Israeli newspaper Haaretz.
July 20, 2025 at 11:52 AM
"Someone conceived it, there were discussions of pros and cons, alternatives were suggested, options of total cleansing vs. stages, and all done in air-conditioned conference rooms with minutes taken and decisions made," [Gideon] Levy wrote in an opinion piece in the Israeli newspaper Haaretz.
"To engage the written word means to follow a line of thought, which requires considerable powers of classifying, inference-making, and reasoning. It means to uncover lies, confusions, and overgeneralisations, to detect abuses of logic and common sense."
This from Neil Postman's Building a Bridge to the 18th Century:
July 18, 2025 at 4:15 PM
"To engage the written word means to follow a line of thought, which requires considerable powers of classifying, inference-making, and reasoning. It means to uncover lies, confusions, and overgeneralisations, to detect abuses of logic and common sense."
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The adult gift of laughter refers to the relatively mature capacity to acknowledge urges and frustrations, hopes and disappointments, with a humor in which bitterness is tamed but not denied.
- Warren Poland
- Warren Poland
July 18, 2025 at 3:27 PM
The adult gift of laughter refers to the relatively mature capacity to acknowledge urges and frustrations, hopes and disappointments, with a humor in which bitterness is tamed but not denied.
- Warren Poland
- Warren Poland
To wit, if the 5% defence spending pledge was a 5% climate adaptation surety, we might—might—avoid the worst end of the new charts of the ensuing decades.
"We can look at Texas and be smug, but maybe you don’t want to breathe in too much if you’re in Sasaktoon or Toronto today, where air quality is so bad that it’s on the extreme bad end of the Good to Bad chart."
noraloreto.substack.com/p/dont-breat...
noraloreto.substack.com/p/dont-breat...
Don't breathe the air
Necrocapitalism's hold on Canada's elites
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July 16, 2025 at 2:19 AM
To wit, if the 5% defence spending pledge was a 5% climate adaptation surety, we might—might—avoid the worst end of the new charts of the ensuing decades.
Spolit by post-fascist trolling.
Chelsea 💫.
July 13, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Spolit by post-fascist trolling.
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If we cannot find a way to make our wounds into sacred wounds, we invariably become cynical, negative, or bitter. This is the storyline of many of the greatest novels, myths, and stories of every culture. If we do not transform our pain, we will most assuredly transmit it.~Richard Rohr
July 7, 2025 at 3:16 PM
If we cannot find a way to make our wounds into sacred wounds, we invariably become cynical, negative, or bitter. This is the storyline of many of the greatest novels, myths, and stories of every culture. If we do not transform our pain, we will most assuredly transmit it.~Richard Rohr
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As the UK government officially proscribes the anti-arms industry direct-action group, Palestine Action, as a terrorist organization, worth remembering how ridiculous and politicized and emptied of meaning the whole ‘you’re a terrorist’ western government game has become.
July 4, 2025 at 6:53 PM
As the UK government officially proscribes the anti-arms industry direct-action group, Palestine Action, as a terrorist organization, worth remembering how ridiculous and politicized and emptied of meaning the whole ‘you’re a terrorist’ western government game has become.
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William Blake’s “dark Satanic mills” refers only indirectly to the machinery of the industrial revolution. For he realised that mills are first minds turning without comprehension, datacenters replacing souls: brilliantly coded but struggling to be wise. youtu.be/A5pwwIZVqYE
Iain McGilchrist & Mark Vernon on William Blake. Imagination and inspiration, science and soul.
YouTube video by Mark Vernon
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June 29, 2025 at 7:11 AM
William Blake’s “dark Satanic mills” refers only indirectly to the machinery of the industrial revolution. For he realised that mills are first minds turning without comprehension, datacenters replacing souls: brilliantly coded but struggling to be wise. youtu.be/A5pwwIZVqYE