“We often forget that WE ARE NATURE. Nature is not something separate from us. So when we say that we have lost our connection to nature. We’ve lost our connection to ourselves.”
— Andy Goldsworthy
I was NOT psychologically prepared to read Eisenstein’s screenplay for Ivan the Terrible. There’s a “deleted scene” where Fyodor Basmanov chases a Zemshchina girl who (understandably) thinks he’s trying to sexually assault her until he says “no, I just want your earrings,” then he takes her earrings and and holds them up (I’m going to say probably to his own ears), then his father comes in and takes them away. This emotionally destroyed me for reasons I can’t fully articulate.
knowing thyself is the way to know the universe and viceversa: symmetry it's the constant
Someone get him out of there.
In alchemy and philosophy, prima materia, materia prima or first matter (for a philosophical exposition refer to: Prime Matter), is the ubiquitous starting material required for the alchemical magnum opus and the creation of the philosopher's stone. It is the primitive formless base of all matter similar to chaos, the quintessence or aether. Esoteric alchemists describe the prima materia using simile, and compare it to concepts like the anima mundi.
overgrown bat, occultist, alchemist, aspiring potion maker, least but not last, poet.
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