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strega / streghe (IT) : witch / witches

“the more civilized we become, the more horrendous our entertainments”

- on slaughtering a Cow… not to be confused with a cow

“…For the first time she saw him as feckless… constantly pawing at the edge of events, reacting instead of acting,!!!!!! mourning the past and praying for the future instead of stirring up the present.!!!!!!”

test a radically new look one day, and you may encounter a dormant part of yourself, which may feel like a new self. set a challenge - on Friday, I will be reborn. then, every Friday, I will dress up for my new birthday.
We often return to the safety of habit too quickly, d/t fear of what partner/friends/neighbors will think.

it is easy to confuse seduction with a sense of completeness. Not every arising desire must be satisfied.

addiction is an attempt to distract from inner feelings.
but we can develop more useful practices to alleviate our loneliness sadness. we can show the emotional mind that the rejections that felt so intolerable in childhood - thus vital to avoid - can now be tolerated.

Recovery from substance use should actually suggest growth and cultivation, not return to the life we were running from to begin with.

Courage is not about denying or overcoming fear, but understanding and acting wisely with fear.

Change is made attractive.
… we should perhaps be asking WHERE our desires to continually remodel the self come from.
what it is we strive to leave behind: to understand our minds Wanderlust.

addictive cycles are not ab the objects (shoes, food, cigs), but a desire to conceal negative feelings from our awareness.

must learn how to tolerate negative affect, not conceal it. mindfulness creates a safe place for these feelings

in the SSC, one sees shamanically, aka visualizing, imaging, or “using the strong eye.” 🧿🧿🧿

science and shamanism are both aimed at understanding the universe !!!

Shamanism is a part-time activity.

You are still an active member of the community!!!

The shaman is forever trying to articulate his personal revelatory experiences ((Downloads)) as though they were pieces of a great cosmos jigsaw puzzle.
- the master shaman has the ability to fit other people’s experiences into this cosmic puzzle & make sense of them.

The guardian spirit is a power animal - utilized as a power source for the shaman’s functioning.
The main difference between an ordinary person is that the shaman uses his guardian spirit actively when in an altered SSC.

Clairvoyance - seeing what is going on elsewhere at the present moment.

Shamans are especially healers, but also engage in divination seeing into the past, present, and future for other members of the community.

Balanced ascetism if often misunderstood, seen as a type of self-punishment or denial. It’s actually a search for true joy and happiness by putting aside, where possible, what we don’t need especially when we’ve become addicted or dependent.

our culture celebrates youth, beauty, success, and a type of homogenized happiness based on accumulation of greed. we hide the elderly in assisted-living facilities and nursing homes, the sick in hospitals. The dead are whisked away and dressed up to look like they’re sleeping and the poor are ghettoized.

two types of suffering
1. those we can not control (dying, aging, sickness)
2. self centered thought, why me?? escapist ideation. addiction to distractions.

“Cherries hang on the dark green trees like earrings”

“The sky was extremely blue that day, delirious, like flavored ice” 164

“Suddenly he can spend an afternoon in Vienna looking at Vermeer’s The Art of Painting… It’s like something he assumed was just a painted background all his life has revealed itself to be real: foreign cities are real, and famous artworks…”