headless

Natalia Paruz

acephalemagic — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 21:37:02 +0000

Francis Yates

acephalemagic — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 22:42:49 +0000

“The basic difference between the attitude of the magician to the world and the attitude of the scientist to the world is that the former wants to draw the world into himself, whilst the scientist does just the opposite, he externalises and impersonalises the world by a movement of will in an entirely opposite direction to that described in the Hermetic writings, the whole emphasis of which is precisely on the reflection of the world in the mens [mind].”

Claude Lévi-Strauss

acephalemagic — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 22:39:10 +0000

“Scientific explanation consists not in the passage from complexity to simplicity, but in the substitution of a more intelligible complexity for another which is less.”

Lao-tzu

acephalemagic — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 19:31:59 +0000

“The mystery of mysteries
is the gateway of marvels.”

I Work for Tips

acephalemagic — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 19:28:54 +0000

Michael Bristol

acephalemagic — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 17:49:39 +0000

“Utopia is a critique of the official history of a society . . .
Carnival is an old and persistent way of acting out utopia.

Les Enfants du Paradis

acephalemagic — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 17:48:12 +0000

Carlo Levi

acephalemagic — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 17:49:03 +0000

“. . . men, incapable of liberty – who cannot stand the terror of the sacred that mainfests itself before their open eyes – must turn to mystery, must hide . . . the . . . truth.”

Le petit bonhomme en mousse

acephalemagic — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 21:34:35 +0000

Marcia Lee Anderson

acephalemagic — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 18:14:08 +0000

“Stripped of subtle complications [i.e., all of the character defenses - repression, denial, misperception of reality], who could regard the sun except with fear?”