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If you have access to BBC iPlayer then they're running a series on mindfulness atm. It's essentially just a few introductory guided meditation exercises and some neat nature video/audio. Think of it more as supplementary material for a beginner than a comprehensive meditation course. When you first start out with meditating it can be hard to maintain focus, having a guide can help nudge you back to your meditation.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m000mf8j/mindful-escapes-breathe-release-restore-series-1-episode-1

Yeah. Ironically enough the secret in itself, despite being a method of magic, is an enchantment on the reader. They get brought into prosperity fantasies that don't make sense so they don't have to recognize the limits of their bodies or the systems they live in. In this sense, the manipulation of mind and desire.

This book describes magic as being an early innovation in psychology, advertising, and psychological warfare. I do think that is real. The far right definitely has a strong relationship with the occult, fantasy, and the manipulation of desire.

I was reading this book about magic, and when the guy attempted to explain why magic doesn't work sometimes, he relied on the idea of consensual reality. Basically, everyone else passively believes in "Reals over Feels" which is why magic is interfered with pretty often. This explanation is pretty common.

In his mind, the goal of magic is to incept ideas into the collective unconscious, the astral plane, so that consensual reality will be shifted in the correct direction.

There are definitely left-wing occultists who are into this stuff. I think it can work as a metaphor, but they reify it and I think it corrupts their praxis.

Sorry man. Youtube sucks for uploading mixes. Many artists today, even underground ones, will outsource their content publishing to third party companies to upload to all the online outlets. This is great for them, but unfortunately it means that these companies will use super restrictive licensing and prevents people from using their work for art. It's extremely frustrating, especially since a lot of the music I listen to has this unspoken ethos of sampling, remixing and sharing of music freely yet these online platforms stifle that culture.

There are some online alternatives out there that I'm curious about, but haven't had the time to delve deep into. One such platform is called PeerTube. It's a federated, decentralized, p2p video sharing platform. Think youtube + bittorrent. Long story short, you self-host your own peertube site and can upload whatever you want to the server. There is no over-arching entity that controls the content.

Anyway, I look forward to checking out your latest creation. The previews I've seen look dope!

I've said this elsewhere, but what worked really well for me is replacing the use of the actual Twitter website with an RSS reader and feeds generated using nitter.net from accounts I follow.

I don't exactly know why but using Twitter in this way is a lot less "addictive", for lack of a better term, than through the app or website. I think because you can't interact and because it's just text and images in chronological order it's less stimulating, and therefore you get naturally bored easier.

In any event I recommend trying this out if you still want to follow certain people without inadvertently spending too much time on the platform.

(imagine we started doing NoFap-style flairs for time spent away from the internet on here lol)

No place better than the source material: https://www.amazon.com/Nag-Hammadi-Scriptures-Translation-Complete/dp/0061626007/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1&keywords=the+gnostic+gospels&qid=1609357857&sr=8-2

I haven't read it, but I believe that the book What This Cruel War Was Over by Chandra Manning is along the lines of what you're looking for.

https://www.amazon.com/What-This-Cruel-War-Over/dp/0307277321

I'm in a creativity slump so I picked up a couple of books on it. Keith Haring's Journals and Thinkertoys. Both are pretty interesting reads as far as the first hundred pages go. Though Thinkertoys has a bit of a human resources vibe to it.

The preface has this self-agrandising story about how they categorise people as kittens and monkeycubs, where the kittens just mew for help when they're in trouble, where as the monkeycub has the self agency to look for it's mother for security that comes hanging from her back. I patted myself on the back for being a clearly superior self-actuating monkeycub that paid them money for this advice. It seems to have some okay advice though if you can cope your way through any corporate nauseum sick bag in hand.

PKD spent the later part of his life explicating on a religious experience he had, and wrote the VALIS trilogy as an elaboration of that. This book is good for the highlights: https://www.amazon.com/High-Weirdness-Esoterica-Visionary-Experience/dp/1907222766

The same author helped edit a collection of PKD's 'Exegesis' which was his exploration of this religious phenomena. There's a lot of gnostic stuff in it (even though this all happened largely before the discovey/translation of the Nag Hamadi library) and it all blends with his reality-bending sci-fi writings. Interesting stuff. Highly recommend High Weirdness (above) if you're into that kinda thing

https://www.amazon.com/Exegesis-Philip-K-Dick/dp/0547549253/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=exegesis+philip+k+dick&qid=1601033418&s=books&sr=1-1

I think there's an inherited idea of the teleology of our species, if not Americans specifically. To be confronted by the true, beyond Sartre, exestential dread, that your choices don't matter, have already been made, and further you as a person do not matter (to the universe) is an alienating and lonely idea. Some people find comfort staring into the void of empty space always above us, some people find it frightening. You have to meet people where they are.

Maybe try the Bhagavad Gita, the Eknath Easwaran translation (sorry for the Amazon link but...https://www.amazon.com/Bhagavad-Gita-2nd-Eknath-Easwaran/dp/1586380192/ref=sr_1_4?dchild=1&keywords=bhagavad+gita&qid=1599571000&s=books&sr=1-4). I think he does a good job bringing Hindu'ism into a general Perennial Philosophy framework and reaching an understandable, self-help mindset that I think he intends to soften the blow for Western cultures.