Magic & woo

Magic, occult and esoteric practice: tarot, astrology, ritual, sigils, synchronicity, whether woo is literally true

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  1. the_wilderless — trusted by 125 posters here
  2. QiaochuYuan — trusted by 116 posters here
  3. TylerAlterman — trusted by 117 posters here
  4. s0ulDirect0r — trusted by 82 posters here
  5. visakanv — trusted by 98 posters here
  6. exgenesis — trusted by 74 posters here
  7. eigenrobot — trusted by 63 posters here
  8. tasshinfogleman — trusted by 66 posters here
  9. myceliummage — trusted by 66 posters here
  10. vividvoid — trusted by 73 posters here
  11. nosilverv — trusted by 78 posters here
  12. PrinceVogel — trusted by 59 posters here

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  1. there’s a take i think of internally as the “minimal but respectful take” on astrology, tarot, magic, etc. which is that nothing is happening that violates known physics, but that the human mind is… (QiaochuYuan) — 42 likes
  2. A lot of woo is actually true. We just lack the mental capacity, the frameworks, the language, the ease of articulation, and the consistency of evidence to make it philosophically coherent and… (algekalipso) — 40 likes
  3. one of my most woo beliefs about the bay area is that it's filled with like spiritual radioactive waste from the 60s that seeped into the spiritual groundwater. cults grow there specifically like… (QiaochuYuan) — 39 likes
  4. ok I’m begging you intellectuals to go one step beyond “magic is real” it’s been 3 years of tpot (exgenesis) — 37 likes
  5. Modern mainstream science: There is no plausible physical basis for “auras” emanating from bodies, and certainly not for their perception by others. Human-computer interface engineers: As everyone… (davidad) — 37 likes
  6. How to Avoid Magic: Mantras for Muggles 1. "it's just a coincidence" - this spell will ward off any magic that might be happening around you if you don't see it, it isn't there (yoltartar) — 33 likes
  7. can't believe i'm being led towards the most frustrating mix of woo beliefs i can imagine, "magic is definitely real and definitely works but god mostly doesn't want you to do it" (QiaochuYuan) — 32 likes
  8. There are two tweets that together have unlocked something for me that I wasn’t really able to do before. It’s essentially how I now interpret the woo expression “raise your vibration”, which… (danallison) — 31 likes
  9. Here's an example of a reasonable path into woo https://t.co/jsG8MkuSHO (nosilverv) — 29 likes
  10. thread to keep track of my somewhat magical thinking about interpersonal vibes/subtle energies (RichDecibels) — 28 likes
  11. mystic arc: not even once https://t.co/zsQvvhobnv (aleksil79) — 28 likes
  12. mystery and dopeness. my vow. my way of being, crystallized in this sigil. what does it evoke in you? do y’all think it fits my vibe? https://t.co/Z6QL75moC8 (s0ulDirect0r) — 28 likes
  13. God: Agapic lovePagan gods: distributed archetypesSoul: UnconsciousConsciousness: self-attentionChakras: embodied emotionsSpirits: semi-autonomous thought processesDemons: distributed processes that… (exgenesis) — 27 likes
  14. My favorite poem is actually a spell written by the ancient Egyptians: "Becoming a Light in the Darkness" (trans. Normandi Ellis)---Out of nothing I return to the white sea foam. I have made an end… (TylerAlterman) — 27 likes
  15. diane duane's "so you want to be a wizard" is one of my favorite YA novels and i wish more people knew about it so i could reference it more easily. there are some beautiful ideas about magic in… (QiaochuYuan) — 27 likes
  16. did a handfasting ceremony with @innerpathing today, so we're married for a year and a day, and we both blogged about it (links in bios) https://t.co/e9hl89qo2s (yoltartar) — 27 likes
  17. we are dreaming together, you and i - and we must master the tools of the dreaming (myceliummage) — 26 likes
  18. move to Lisbon -> organise dinners -> people start bonding -> tend to the emerging superorganism -> roll my own tech and methods-> research magic to bring back -> get gradually… (exgenesis) — 26 likes
  19. New AI dating app idea: it monitors everyone’s entire lifestream and arranges synchronistic meetcutes which mysteriously always work out either in stable marriage or a 3-6 month adventure that… (eshear) — 26 likes
  20. I wrote a manifesto! it's about the way I live my lifeit's also about refactoring multiscale human coordination by making woo compatible with modern ontologies and injecting it into society in ~5… (exgenesis) — 26 likes
  21. This is probably one of the best Hermetic "As above, so Below" jokes I've ever seen https://t.co/UvMz6a6WU6 (forthrighter) — 26 likes
  22. hippies & woo people or whoever talk about “high frequency vibrations” being good and “low vibrations” being bad, & as far as i can tell it’s 100% semantic association with high=virtuous… (gnostrils) — 23 likes
  23. casting little spells to bind us together - when someone's working: kolay gelsin (may it come easy to you) - when someone's feeding you: eline sağlık (health to your hand) - when someone's eating:… (yoltartar) — 23 likes
  24. hello weird woo people feels like im going insane. basically every moment i don’t try to keep my head together, the world feels excruciatingly good, like i want to yell at the top of my lungs normal… (AskYatharth) — 23 likes
  25. i just got accepted into a private facebook group that's like uh... "magick memes" and i know some of yall are gonna absolutely enjoy the shit out of these https://t.co/Y45oIRJUuy (visakanv) — 23 likes
  26. 1/ In the mid-2010s my metaphysics nearly broke. A Bay Area VC friend introduced me & other nerds to an “energy healer.” Reaction: yeah, ok. “Energy” did not have a place in our scientific… (TylerAlterman) — 22 likes
  27. what makes it real is that we decided it's real together. the new year is a collective spell we all cast. you are participating in a real flow of collective energy, that acquires power from how we… (QiaochuYuan) — 22 likes
  28. I'm starting to think that "psychics" were hypersensitive children with unpredictable parents who had to become Michelangelos of people pleasing, so now they have superhuman abilities to read and… (vividvoid) — 22 likes
  29. Wake me up when there’s a Jungian Art Hoe Council (the_wilderless) — 22 likes
  30. Met a lady who knew the secret to manifesting: Don't get attached to one vision – too specific/limitingInstead, visions evoke a powerful feeling. Orient toward that feelingThe thread below is a… (TylerAlterman) — 22 likes
  31. shamans had dayjobs shamans had dayjobs shamans had dayjobs shamans had dayjobs shamans had dayjobs shamans had dayjobsshamans had dayjobs shamans had dayjobs shamans had dayjobsme reminding myself… (exgenesis) — 21 likes
  32. Why are women so much more represented in astrology than in other areas of physics? (michaelcurzi) — 21 likes
  33. most of the scientific materialist confusion around "uhhh if magic is real why is it so hard to demonstrate under laboratory conditions" dissolves once you think of magic as being alive,… (QiaochuYuan) — 21 likes
  34. @RichDecibels the spirits love being seen by you dawg https://t.co/19bW3fRt3P (s0ulDirect0r) — 20 likes
  35. many of you are wizards and are actively harming yourselves and those around you by not honing your power, submitting to the discipline of a practice and tradition, and taking responsibility for… (myceliummage) — 20 likes
  36. I think it's wrong to conflate people who got into woo reluctantly, kicking and screaming, but because they were ultimately being honest and following the scientific method with people who are into… (nosilverv) — 20 likes
  37. 90% of the time when someone says "divine feminine" or "divine masculine" they're referring to narcissism. Like textbook narcissism. It's literally idealization as a defense against anxiety. The… (vividvoid) — 20 likes
  38. i don't explicitly use this phrase but I have a huge body of work about developing psychic defenses! (part of how it works is that you don't label it 'developing psychic defenses', because that… (visakanv) — 20 likes
  39. respectfully, this is true of all powerful magic in the hands of untrained/unskilled wielders. and we see a lot of discourse about the relative costs and benefits of all the magical devices and… (visakanv) — 20 likes
  40. i know many of you are asking whether aliens are real im with @liminal_warmth here to help resolve this issue using a tarot deck she built out of magic cards lets check out the spread (eigenrobot) — 19 likes
  41. How to Avoid Magic: Mantras for Muggles 3. "they just did it for no reason" - a little meaning is a slippery slope to magic and best quashed before it gets out of hand if you don't understand it, it… (yoltartar) — 19 likes
  42. i have to use very magical language to describe this kind of thing, it's just the only terms in which any of this stuff makes any sense to me. there was like an ambient field of black magic and… (QiaochuYuan) — 19 likes
  43. my beliefs about this have become increasingly magical. first of all we simply do not get to know the real scale of the effects our actions have, it’s god’s job not ours. but also second there are… (QiaochuYuan) — 19 likes
  44. Sensation magic led to great cooperation, and also adversarial sensation magic which fooled and controlled. Dark magicians (wordcels) arose and culled the literal and the boundaryless If you’ve seen… (johnsonmxe) — 19 likes
  45. this is exactly the same type of guy who decided that the only way astrology could possibly work is if the planets exerted a direct causal effect on human affairs (which is not true, there only has… (QiaochuYuan) — 19 likes
  46. the etymologies suggest different conceptions of magic in a way that really tickles me. magic is: wisdom, power, betraying god, divination, holy song, consorting with demons, storytelling, knowing… (QiaochuYuan) — 18 likes
  47. Woo stack in 2040 be like "Oculus 6 loading a custom generated childhood trauma memory with my simulated parents running GPT7-trained on Ideal Parent Figure protocol while taking non neurotoxic… (nopranablem) — 18 likes
  48. i have decided NOT to start an esoteric mystery cult (myceliummage) — 18 likes
  49. seriously if you're an "empath" or "highly sensitive person" or any other related moniker you would probably benefit from literally imagining how to protect yourself from energy I cannot stress… (loopholekid) — 18 likes
  50. life can be a disorienting blurry collage of disconnected experiences until /click/ the right ritual at the right moment snaps everything into focus, meaning is made plain, those ancient inarguable… (RichDecibels) — 18 likes

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