Do you know things about the races? Because I don't.

I would also like to watch a postapocalyptic sci-fi thing where the majority of it is about stuff like people trying to figure out how to make cheese without using the internet, so possibly related.

This is the most disturbing one I’ve seen today…maybe more of an “interactive infographic”

mkorostoff.github.io/1-pixel-weal...

13. Hi Bluesky! Sharing this old thread because it's a pretty good summary of what I think about. Looking forward to new conversations about metaphor, analogical and visual thinking, history, tarot, #Hellenism, #Sufism, #intuition, brains,
#neurodivergence, and what magic actually is.

12. Addendum: these chains of transmission matter not just for historical reasons, but because of how analogical thinking works. It's the opposite of what you can fully describe in words, but you can encounter and absorb it in context, and these are some good places to look, IMO.

11. Additional highly recommended reading: Ensouling Language by Stephen Harrod Buhner, Nietzsche's essay On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense, Owen Barfield, Tom Cheetham, #Philosophy in the Flesh by Lakoff and Johnson, Reality by Peter Kingsley, and Plato's Seventh Letter

10. And! Curiously, a lot of these #imaginal threads seem to have rejoined somewhat in contemporary psychology, from Freud's possibly background in Jewish mysticism to Jung's alchemical influences. There is certainly more talk about the power of #metaphor than almost anywhere else

9. Since the renaissance, analogical thinking has fallen out of favor in a lot of academic contexts, but it persists powerfully in a variety of occult traditions. Also, of course, while there's not as much meta-thinking about it, all the arts are excellent practice.

Tarot tangent: Robert Place's introduction to this idea is good, as it Meditations on the Tarot. MOT was written in the mid-1900s by an anonymous Christian Esotericist, and places a huge emphasis on the magical power of analogical thinking and tarot as a tool to practice it.

8. By the renaissance, there's greater evidence of a #Platonic emphasis on visual thinking in European culture. Memory palaces are a great example (Bruno was a hermeticist, in a roughly alchemical tradition) as is the #tarot, which has tons of directly Platonist symbolism.

7. Moorish Spain, where Christian alchemists, qabalists and Sufis rubbed shoulders was a hotbed of analogical thinking. Some related cultural trends also made their way back into Europe via the crusades/troubadors/etc. during the later middle ages.

6. Simultaneously, #Sufi thinkers and others in the Muslim world were studying Aristotle and other #Platonists (I'm with Gerson, as well as the Neoplatonists, on this), to a degree that was unheard of in Europe. You can clearly see the emphasis on visual thinking in Sufi literature.

5. Augustine was an important figure in bringing #Platonic thought and imagery into a Christian context, where it stayed for many years. I need to read more about this, there is a big gap in my knowledge here...but, basically, much of it evolved into #alchemy.