Fr. Viktor once told us, in a queer invitation to visit not long before death, that he practiced Jesus Prayer when he was younger but had to stop due to growing too sensitive. The love was painful to him.

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Love is.. a negentropic loyalty of a group (cf. destruction_and_creation p1). It is tied to Death (of outdated habits and identities, et cetera), in order for members to iteratively realign to a dynamically changing set of goals.
(In that sense, Love is Death, for to love is to change. Love is Power, as it allows the group to scale and evolve. Love ( Read more... )

How to find heaven?

А деревья заболели чумой
Заболели ещё весной

We start, by default, with cultural viruses and “*junk values*” inherited and interiorized, which define our experience. Eventually we are disillusioned. A crisis or death might stress the futility. “*Empty spaces, what are we living for?*” Ouch.

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So a frequent conundrum is when someone asks to help with a computer task (say, log in into Steam) and then just keeps sitting in front of said device. A dialogue could then commence of a sort “- I can not help you. - Why not? - For lack of physical access.”

Nick Fury: Until such time as the world ends, we will act as though it intends to spin on

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It's curious how the understanding of certain “primitives” is only accessible after a lot of digging and facilitation. Take “freedom”, for example. Takes time and striving, research and experiment, for certain properties of it to sink in. We use the words to remember the insights, but will these words have any meaning outside of the context of the ( Read more... )

The light shines in the darkness (John 1:5), but in that darkness it is patently blind.

Jean Becchio have shown us how working with a color of a feeling is effective.

“David Snyder Silence the Imposter Monster-YAbdW3WR5us” describes a similar color “spinning” technique @32. Demonstrated in kZt4LiXxQ9o @36-42.

With Mateus we've tried to promote the idea that conjuring a particular color (like, on a piece of paper) is a great way to ( Read more... )

It's customary to think of angels and demons as cohesive opposing camps, even though etymologically the demons are gods and spirits, and the angels are messengers. Any demon (whether it's Lucifer or Michael) can be a messenger (ἄγγελοί), it's not a question of a camp, but of whether and how much a given situation is aligned with divine attention. ( Read more... )

In the second theophany the God of Dick's Exegesis defines itself as the infinite, and “proves” its godhood by demonstrating a perceptual illusion of infinite bliss. Apart from the “mean infinity” of Chesterton's Orthodoxy (where a cheap infinite bliss can be pictured as a single bit, archived and compressed in a perfect and meaningless homeostasis ( Read more... )

Example unpacking a thought with AI: https://hackmd.io/CuajnOMcTYSJvUjgOCJLBg.

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A dog or a cat might come to us when we call it, hoping for a trick or a treat, but as we fail to produce some, it would loose interest, preferring to go about their business, sniffing, strolling ( Read more... )