Don't Call It a Comeback!

Mama said knock you out, Resistance! As Sgt Horvitz says in Saving Private Ryan, "We're in business!" On Friday, November 27th, I was able to successfully navigate a full phonomantic rite for the first time since early June. Having sustained a serious spiritual injury this summer, I'm still on the mend, but I am so, so grateful to be able to put in some work. Here's my after-action report:

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A New Way to Use Psychedelics

I want to tell you about my approach to working with psychedelics, because I think I'm breaking new ground. If you or someone you know is working along similar lines, get in touch. I want to talk with you. For now, at least, I'm calling this approach "phonomancy," meaning "divination via sound." If you're a recreational user, it likely won't appeal to you. If you're someone who's dipping your toe in the psychedelic water via microdosing, or someone who is primarily interested in using psychedelics to treat trauma, depression, or addiction issues, you might find the practice I'm going to describe off-putting or even alarming. That's because phonomancy is not therapeutic--it's augmentative. It's a program for developing supra-normative emotional and spiritual capacities via psychological hormesis. Some risk, pain, and fear are part of the process. But that's the price of transformation. THE ORIGINAL TWO &qu

The Devil Horns: A Formula for Success

Nietzsche wrote, " My formula for happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." He also wrote, " My formula for greatness in a human being is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be different, not forward, not backward, not in all eternity. Not merely bear what is necessary, still less conceal it—all idealism is mendaciousness in the face of what is necessary—but love it.” And this: “What, if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you: 'This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more' ... Would you not throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse the demon who spoke thus? Or have you once experienced a tremendous moment when you would have answered him: 'You are a god and never have I heard anything more divine.” And "...all in all and on the whole: some day I wish to be only a Yes - sayer ." That's some good

The First Church of David Bowie, Phonomancer

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