On the Ouroboros (part esoteric)
Why is the Tail-Devourer on my back?
I spent too much of my youth enraptured by alchemical texts and hermetic literature. The snake which eats itself is Totality: the unconscious and conscious joined. It is the unity of the cosmos before it was born, and the unity to which it will someday (some-eon?) return. It is purity and liberation from the world. No cruel Jrmungandr or self-destroyer, nor the snake of Kekul's reverie, but what remains when the Demiurge has fallen.
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
Why is the Tail-Devourer on my back?
I spent too much of my youth enraptured by alchemical texts and hermetic literature. The snake which eats itself is Totality: the unconscious and conscious joined. It is the unity of the cosmos before it was born, and the unity to which it will someday (some-eon?) return. It is purity and liberation from the world. No cruel Jrmungandr or self-destroyer, nor the snake of Kekul's reverie, but what remains when the Demiurge has fallen.
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
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Eventually, you'll find kindred souls at Your Current Institution, even if they wind up being staff and faculty rather than your supposed peers. I myself would give my eye teeth to be back in the ol' Ivory Tower, where I studied and worked until age 28, and have never quite gotten over it
Where's the "reality" quote from?