The following series will gradually explore an idea which has been steadily emerging of late namely that experience, aka ‘reality’, is never really just one thing, rather many things at once. This is not an especially original or earth-shaking notion, but it keeps coming up because so often people express opinions or make plans as if it were not the case, that reality all happens on one level, that there is one single, definable, perceivable, understandable reality without different layers and levels.
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Article 81: Confessions of a Cultist
The cult dynamic happens when the energy mutually experienced in the group becomes the dominant referent in the personal lives of those members. At that point, conventional reality recedes into the background, possibly feeling surreal. Not only religions, but families and political groups can manifest as cults in this way.
Article 62: Meeting the Devil
Let not any one pacify his conscience by the delusion that he can do no harm if he takes no part, and forms no opinion. Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.
John Stuart Mill
Shapeshifters Almanac: July 19
July 19:
A virgin forest blossoming.
Eight Haiku – Van Gogh
Such sparkling unity of sky and earth
breaks
the pattern of our hearts!
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