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Altered Nomad
@alterednomad.bsky.social
Psychedelic journeyer, recently awakened mystically, exploring all the realms. Poly(thiestic 😉) Self care is an act of resistance. Blocked keywords: Trump, RFK, maga.
"Magickal work requires a certain amount of comfort with vulnerability. Vulnerability and intimacy are often linked, and magickal work, whether undertaken alone or in a group, is self-revelatory and intimate."
December 25, 2025 at 4:23 PM
As my spiritual awakening deepens and broadens, who I am is changing. My identity is changing. It feels so very intimate, and so very scary.
December 23, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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Some days your energy needs a nap, not a pep talk.

Honour it – recharge quietly, without apologies. 💚

#WitchSky
December 22, 2025 at 8:44 AM
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December 22, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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Magick is not the rejection of the mundane; it is the expansion of our understanding of the mundane.
December 20, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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“The more horrifying this world becomes (as it is in these days) the more art becomes abstract.” (from his WWI diary)
Born today in 1879 artist Paul Klee
Runner at the Goal (Läufer am Ziel) 1921
Watercolor and graphite on paper, mounted on cardboard with gouache border
December 18, 2025 at 1:43 PM
I'm on the wrong BSKY account to be fixating on this post.
when I was doing teacher training at extremely-conservative-BYU I was explicitly taught how to do all these tricks w/posture, breath, energy etc to control my classroom & this week reels has been showing me dominatrix lessons & anyway that’s how I learned I’ve been running my class like a dominatrix
December 17, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Love to Rob and MIchele Reiner, and to all who loved them.
December 15, 2025 at 3:25 PM
One of the best horror writers ever. Haunting of Hill House and We have Always Lived in the Castle are so subtle, so quiet, and so damned horrifying.
Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life by Ruth Franklin
In her biography, Franklin envisions Jackson as “belonging to the great tradition of Hawthorne, Poe and James” & her invigorating portrait stands as the definitive biography of a generational avatar and an American literary genius
#Booksky
December 14, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Munch was so much more than "Scream." Terrified of the insanity that ran through his family, "sexually depressed," and traumatized by an early affair, his life was derailed but his art thrived. This, "Love and Pain (Vampire)" and "Ashes" show that art is often found between talent and constraint.
'Madonna', 1895
Edvard Munch
December 12, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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sometimes chaos will happen and I’ll look back through the history to see who started the chaos and I’m sad to report it’s usually me, I am usually the source of chaos in the chat 🙁
December 12, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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Hey y’all! Are you, like me, super annoyed at Apple’s iOS 26.1 update and its awful Liquid Glass crap? Are you wishing your phone could just go back to looking like it did 48 hours ago instead of being forced to adopt the phone aesthetic equivalent of a Donald Trump bathroom? Then check this thread!
December 11, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Today a very close friend told her sister about a small ritual I had done. The sister, who practices witchcraft, was very surprised that an older man would be taking up witchcraft. When I was told how surprised she was, my first thought was, "Not half as surprised as me."
December 11, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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LEOPARD REFLECTION ~
Photographer Chad Cocking: "I took this photo of a young female leopard at a waterhole in Timbavati Private Game Reserve. Only after reviewing the image did I notice her staring at me in the reflection, so I rotated it and had this result."
December 11, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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The return of UK’s ancient stones as a place of worship www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
The return of UK’s ancient stones as a place of worship
Across the UK, some have turned to history, folklore and nature as sources of spiritual nourishment
www.independent.co.uk
December 11, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Some days the faith just isn't there.
November 24, 2025 at 2:31 PM
I love how "we" domesticated "them." 🤨
November 22, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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“It may be that the subconscious is really a committee. They may have meetings and say: What do you think we should tell him? Should we tell him that? No, he’s not ready for that.”
~ Cormac McCarthy to Oprah Winfrey, June, 2008
#Booksky
November 15, 2025 at 1:19 PM
I would love to see more docs on psychedelics. I just ask -- please -- resist showing people "cured in one journey." That sets up potential journeyers to feel like they've failed ... and almost every doc has something like that.
DEADLINE EXTENDED! Apply for The Mycoskie–UC Berkeley Psychedelic Documentary Fellowship by November 6th at 11:59pm PT.

The Mycoskie-UC Berkeley Psychedelic Documentary Fellowship is empowering the next generation of filmmakers to tell groundbreaking stories about psychedelics Grants up to $20,000
October 30, 2025 at 8:54 PM