Hello, this is against everyone with Connor Habib.

Friends, we are always in a time of chaos and violence,

and we certainly are right now the day this episode is airing.

But when we notice that we are in a time of chaos and violence,

when we see it, when it bubbles over into ethnic cleansing

or wars or murders, massacres, when it seems to us

that our governments and institutions are only supporting

that chaos and violence, our interstate can shift

to the sense that we have no directive power, that it's all just

a spectacle of death. At the same time, these schisms between human beings and their structures

can stir up the opportunities that only near schizoid agitation can reveal. We see that there have always

been many pathways available to us, but that we're stuck in our thinking, stuck in the direction

that the institutions in power were taking us in. And we see that we can be there for each other and dissolve obstruction. We can even redeem

evil and turn it into the willing service of the good. It is with this sense of possibility

that I turn to esotericism and occultism.

And that sense of possibility is also why so many people turn to occultism and esotericism in a sort of resurgence of it in these schism times.

Because the occult is a repository of the schizoid ideas that are beyond possibility.

Since the possible and what is possible is sit by power, we need the impossible, even the seemingly

psychotic sometimes, not the romanticized version of psychosis where the person who has schizophrenia has access to special mystical knowledge.

That romanticization of someone suffering is not what I'm aiming for here, but rather the notion that we don't have to have some kind of reverence for reality the way

it is and instead can see it not compulsively, like someone who's dealing directly with mental

illness, but rather intentionally in the terms which we set, not ones that are just set for us.

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