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The Wild Mind – Part XIII
Occultism continued Scientology 1.0.0 – part 20 “Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.” — Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven I mentioned the art movement Romanticism at the end of the previous article, The Wild Mind, Part XI. As it is…
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The Wild Mind – Part XII
Occultism continued Scientology 1.0.0 – part 19 “And did the Countenance Divine, Shine forth upon our clouded hills? And was Jerusalem builded here, Among these dark Satanic Mills?”— William Blake, Jerusalem Before continuing, I should mention there is an article about existence magic that is connected to these articles about the occult. If you are…
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The Wild Mind – Part XI
Occultism Scientology 1.0.0 – part 18 “Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.” — Albert Einstein The third eye Man has always been aware that there is something additional to this existence, something greater than what seems to be available to the five senses. This as different from an…
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The Wild Mind – Part X
Alchemy Scientology 1.0.0 – part 17 “A marveilous newtrality have these things mathematicall, and also a strange participation between things supernaturall and things naturall.” — John Dee As interesting and constructive as are all the subjects previously covered in the Wild Mind articles, things get especially fascinating with alchemy, particularly if one sees the universe…
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The Wild Mind – Part IX
Philosophy continued & concluded Scientology 1.0.0 – part 16 “History is Philosophy teaching by example.” —Thucydides Man has been very good at a great many things, especially at figuring out how reality actually works (at least so far). This is philosophy. When things haven’t worked well, philosophy has been abandoned and replaced by other sorts…
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The Wild Mind – Part VIII
Philosophy continued Scientology 1.0.0 – part 15 With all the mysteries and unknowns about the physical world prior to the 20th century, there simply weren’t the tools available by which a person or group could successfully enslave all of mankind. If your little part of the world went to war or suffered an oppressive leader,…
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The Wild Mind – Part VII
Philosophy Scientology 1.0.0 – part 14 “Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.” — Sir Francis Bacon Okay, so to continue with the ladder of untamed thinking, there are so far: awe, art, early religion, magic, myth, mysticism, psychology, and religion. Next rung: philosophy. Again, the disclaimer: I’m no academic and this will not be…
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The Wild Mind – Part VI
Religion continued & concluded Scientology 1.0.0 – part 13 Organised Religion and nature In the millennia before the Enlightenment, the world was mostly thought of the way it seemed to the senses: the world was flat, the sky was a dome, mountains “rose” (as one walked towards them), the sun “moved” by rising and setting,…
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The Wild Mind – Part V
Religion continued Scientology 1.0.0 – part 12 As mentioned previously, I became aware of an anti-religious narrative in the late 1960s and 70s. What was also happening was another narrative, a kind of leitmotif if you will, that had us all living in pretty terrible times. I mean, there were problems on the planet, as…
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The Wild Mind – Part IV
Psychology and Religion Scientology 1.0.0 – part 11 Psychology – Who’s who Actually, I just sort of shoehorned this into the list of the kinds of mentation that I think had to be a part of man’s development as he moved on into his civilisation phase. The study proper of human behaviour starts, sort of,…
Arthur Ronald Conway Hubbard 