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Me: ‘How do we meditate, in the western mysteries?’

Teacher: ‘Just lie down’

Me: ‘That’s it?’

Teacher: ‘Just lie down and die’

‘An alchemist could still pray: “Purge the horrible darknesses of our mind”, but modern man is already so darkened that nothing beyond his own intellect illuminates his world…That is surely why such strange things are happening to our much lauded civilisation’

CARL JUNG

The High Priestess Tarot card by Lacey Bryant

Happy #satyrday

‘Let’s make sure the divine takes good care of us. But as for what…the divine might possibly need: let it look after itself’…it never occurs to us that the divine might be suffering, aching from our neglect; that the sacred desperately longs for our attention

PETER KINGSLEY

'Satan and his legions hurling Defiance toward the Vault of Heaven' by James Barry, c.1792-5

“Faerie is a perilous land. In it are pitfalls for the unwary and dungeons for the overbold.”

JRR TOLKIEN
Art: Brian Froud

@EllenLloydAP @bthomasa Arachne from a Victorian painted bookcase

PAN is a lusty, wild nature god, famed for chasing nymphs. However, there are plenty of representations of him, in both ancient and modern art, where he is just sat there chillin’ with his pipes. Gotta have some downtime.

ARACHNE !
Arachne challenged Athena, the goddess of wisdom and crafts, to a weaving contest. Athena punished Arachne for her hubris by transforming her into a spider. From a bookcase designed by William Burges, 1859-1862