"Animal magnetism, sympathetic healing, magic, second sight, perceptive dreaming, spectral vision and visions of all kinds are related phenomena, branches of the same trunk, and offer sure and irrefutable evidence of a connection between beings based on a totally different order of things to that of nature, which is based on the laws of space, time and causality; while that other order is more profound, original and immediate, which is why, in the face of this order, the first and most universal laws of nature, being purely formal, have no validity, and as a consequence time and space no longer separate individuals, nor does the segregation and isolation of them due to those forms still set insurmountable limits to the communication of thoughts and the immediate flow of the will; so that exchanges originate by a totally different route from physical causality and the connected chain of its members, namely:
simply by virtue of an act of the will manifested in a special way and thus potentiated beyond the individual. Consequently, the peculiar character of all the animal phenomena we are talking about here is visio in distans et actio in distans, both in time and space."

- Arthur Schopenhauer; On the Will in Nature.

Happy midsummer frens

As we celebrate Summer Solstice, may you know joy, warmth, brightness, vitality, longevity, virility, strength, love, and meaningfulness ☀️

image: Dorje Yudronma, https://www.vajraweb.org

"Instead of asking "what is philosophy?", one should perhaps ask what kind of contents, i.e., what kind of mental activities, spiritual dimensions, methods, attitudes, practices, or even behavioral and ritual patterns may be subscribed under the name of "philosophy" when understood in the ancient sense of the way leading to wisdom... the main task of this philosophy remains essentially the same: to change perverted human nature, to transform it, eventually leading it to happiness and to a restored divine identity. This task is in fact directly inherited from the ancient "philosophies," that is, from the mysteries of death, transformation, and spiritual rebirth, and the related cosmogonical theories, systems of archetypal symbolism, and ritualized exercises of the "normative divine life."

~ Algis Uzdavinys, Philosophy as a Rite of Rebirth: From Ancient Egypt to Neoplatonism, 2008

A System of Caucasian Yoga
Count Stefan Walewski

In the early fifties of the last century, a strange book ennoscriptd A System of Caucasian Yoga appeared in the United States. The book was written by Count Stefan Colonna Walewski, a Polish diplomat who claimed to have received its contents from a mysterious neo-Zoroastrian brotherhood located in the remote Caucasus.

Soon after the manunoscript was published in 1955, the members of an esoteric association – those who met them recalled their name as “Mazdaznan” – considering the disclosure of its secret practices dangerous, had the book withdrawn from the market by court order. Of the original printing only three hundred copies survived.


https://tradition.st/a-system-of-caucasian-yoga/

"You must remember that there is nothing dead or inanimate in nature. Everything in its own way is alive, everything in its own way is intelligent and conscious. Only this consciousness and intelligence is expressed in a different way on different levels of being—that is, on different scales. But you must understand once and for all that nothing is dead or inanimate in nature, there are simply different degrees of animation and different scales."

~ G.I. Gurdjieff

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