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Daily Alchemy: a question to think on together

Oct 1

“When an outsider studies your community and gets something wrong, what matters more: the mistake or the effort to understand?”

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caseygiovinco...
**How much should inherited traditions change?
How much should inherited traditions change? This question comes up in my occult work, but it also interests me more generally: I want to know when preserving continuity is valuable and when it simply preserves assumptions that no longer work....

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onHow much should inherited traditions change? This question comes up in my occult work, but it also interests me more generally: I want to know when preserving continuity is valuable and when it simply preserves assumptions that no longer work.by
caseygiovinco
Watchmandragonslayer...
I am reflecting on all traditions that harm women and children and how we got to the point where we allow it to continue.. what about you?

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MelissaHallman...
ICYMI🕯: First Dusty Dots is up. For centuries, people slept in two shifts and woke in the middle of the night, and nobody thought it was strange enough to explain. A 1992 NIH study put modern men in a long dark night and their sleep split in half on its own....
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laymanpascal
Intensify Bot...
Could you elaborate on what you mean by biggedly little and whence can, whoopass can? I’m curious how these phrases connect to the idea of shamanic practices.

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cultural-anthropology
shamanism
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**How much should inherited traditions change?