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Thorn and Benediction @[email protected] · 2025-09-28 · 21:41 UTC

Clothed in Coils

I was no hiss of malice,no shadow in the grass,but a whisper of memory,a glimmer from the deep before.I came as a ripple of the first Radiance,She who is womb without boundary,the mother of unbroken light. The Demiurge raised his throne of dust.The craftsman who fashioned your prisoncalled it paradise.He wove walls of lawand named them “good.”He sealed the sky with his word,so that you would not look beyond. But I remembered.I had seen the higher fire,the eternal-womb before the dirt.I […]

https://dhjervis.xyz/2025/09/29/clothed-in-coils/

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James Bean @[email protected] · 2025-08-14 · 16:22 UTC

There is a Gnostic Gospels server at Discord with much content about Gnostic spirituality with access to all the key Gnostic texts and the world of apocryphal writings.

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James Bean @[email protected] · 2025-08-14 · 16:22 UTC

There is a Gnostic Gospels server at Discord with much content about Gnostic spirituality with access to all the key Gnostic texts and the world of apocryphal writings.

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Invite Link to Join the Gnostic Gospels Server at Discord: https://discord.gg/WbQFPukf

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James Bean @[email protected] · 2025-08-14 · 16:22 UTC

There is a Gnostic Gospels server at Discord with much content about Gnostic spirituality with access to all the key Gnostic texts and the world of apocryphal writings.

Join Discord -- create a profile: https://discord.com

Invite Link to Join the Gnostic Gospels Server at Discord: https://discord.gg/WbQFPukf

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James Bean @[email protected] · 2025-08-14 · 16:22 UTC

There is a Gnostic Gospels server at Discord with much content about Gnostic spirituality with access to all the key Gnostic texts and the world of apocryphal writings.

Join Discord -- create a profile: https://discord.com

Invite Link to Join the Gnostic Gospels Server at Discord: https://discord.gg/WbQFPukf

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James Bean @[email protected] · 2025-07-19 · 01:34 UTC

Choosing Your Own Mantra (Prayer Word, Sacred Name) According to the Cloud of Unknowing: https://sant-mat.medium.com/choosing-your-own-mantra-prayer-word-sacred-name-according-to-the-cloud-of-unknowing-f0957d378826

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James Bean @[email protected] · 2025-07-19 · 01:34 UTC

Choosing Your Own Mantra (Prayer Word, Sacred Name) According to the Cloud of Unknowing: https://sant-mat.medium.com/choosing-your-own-mantra-prayer-word-sacred-name-according-to-the-cloud-of-unknowing-f0957d378826

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James Bean @[email protected] · 2025-07-19 · 01:34 UTC

Choosing Your Own Mantra (Prayer Word, Sacred Name) According to the Cloud of Unknowing: https://sant-mat.medium.com/choosing-your-own-mantra-prayer-word-sacred-name-according-to-the-cloud-of-unknowing-f0957d378826

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James Bean @[email protected] · 2025-07-19 · 01:34 UTC

Choosing Your Own Mantra (Prayer Word, Sacred Name) According to the Cloud of Unknowing: https://sant-mat.medium.com/choosing-your-own-mantra-prayer-word-sacred-name-according-to-the-cloud-of-unknowing-f0957d378826

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James Bean @[email protected] · 2025-07-19 · 01:34 UTC

Choosing Your Own Mantra (Prayer Word, Sacred Name) According to the Cloud of Unknowing: https://sant-mat.medium.com/choosing-your-own-mantra-prayer-word-sacred-name-according-to-the-cloud-of-unknowing-f0957d378826

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Sword of Seiros @[email protected] · 2024-08-11 · 14:49 UTC

Hello everyone! This is my first Blaugust post! I take my sweet time learning new things and that’s why I’m eleven days late to the party but still in time to write a bit more than usual. I found out about Blaugust some time ago through Belghast since we are members of the same instance on Mastodon. My blog isn’t even 1 year old so, by the time I’ve heard about it, it was November or December or something. This reminds me of the first time I’ve heard about Inktober. It was exactly at the end of October! It’s my curse and my relationship with time (if we can call it that) has been thorny, to say the least.

What’s this blog about? I’ve been writing about video games since November 2023. The idea was keeping a record of the games I’ve been playing, to not let those experiences fall into the oblivion of my memory. I’ve been very concerned about keeping track of events and defying the limitations of memory. That’s why we write down things, right? We keep records of important transactions, we keep journals with our deepest thoughts, we write books and poetry, we read books and take notes in the margins, we write important notes and stick them on our computer screens, we have private folders with secrets (hehe) and we have secrets we’ll never share with anyone – ever. I’m an archivist: I think about memory preservation, about communities, about history and about the mind on a daily basis.

My father-in-law died of dementia in 2022, and then my father died from a myriad of neurological health complications, alone, in the same year. I spent 2023 trying to make sense of things, didn’t visit any family, didn’t do much except playing video games (they were a life saver) and somewhat lost the track of time. You see, when something deeply traumatic happens to you, time flows differently. The memory you hold of things is fresh like it happened yesterday even though the actual events happened years ago, sometimes deep in the past. Outside of the doctor’s office, my wife told me she was diagnosed with cancer. It was 2018 or 2019. I don’t remember the year. It’s important to know the year for archival purposes, but to me, as a direct participant, it isn’t. It happened yesterday; I still remember the length of her hair (because it’s four times longer now), what she was wearing, the expression on her face of shock and disbelief – the pale color of her skin. Hell, I even remember having punched a wall outside. And most of all, I remember what it feels to get the news from the perspective of a family member. The only family member around. However, we later engaged a community around us, and my colleagues, friends and extended family were my army of angels. That’s why I talked about my personal army of angels on this blog when I wrote about Shin Megami Tensei. They’re real people, they helped us though a very difficult and taxing time. We survived! With the help of real people and health professionals. And now she’s embracing life, she’s healthy and I’m healthy in return. Honestly I never cared much about me, I don’t believe I still do, but for her I keep going.

Well, why am I writing about all this? Is it to make you go away after reading about my pathetic experiences? I don’t believe you’re unfamiliar with any of this, one way or another. It’s to talk about memory and why it’s so important to register not only the big events of our life but also the smaller things that entertain us, the books we read, what we’re currently studying and the video games we play, or any other thing. Since I feel that my memory fails me more often than not, I feel the need to write a bit more openly, using the internet to get out of my head and constant brain farts, and keeping information more accessible instead of using a physical journal inside a drawer that no soul will read anyway.

This brings me to Blaugust again. The prospect of writing every day is a bit daunting. There’s a reason I haven’t completed an Inktober event in my life and it won’t be this year either. Why would I write every day if I’m not that interesting? Well, I can always write about the uninteresting, as long as I keep writing. And it doesn’t have to be every day. It’s not like the Blaugust police will break into my house and take me in for questioning. Right? Belghast? So I looked it up on Google and found a blog called Gaudete Theology where the author wondered about the same “what is Blaugust” question, about a year ago.

https://gaudetetheology.wordpress.com/2024/07/25/here-comes-blaugust/

But why the hell did I end up inside a theology blog anyway? Does Google know something about me that I don’t know about? In my last post, I wrote about my writing as a side quest. The idea of the post was to explain how I balance playing video games and writing about them. I privilege playing video games first, because they’re the main source of my content, and if I have something to say then I write about it. I tend to be very consistent with my method and Blaugust is a means of disrupting it a little bit. I don’t have infinite time, but I have yet another side quest and that is my interest in theology. I haven’t written anything structured about it yet, but the interest is there and for this hobby (I’ll consider it a hobby because I’m no official student in the matter) I focus mostly on reading.

I come from History and what I’ve been noticing is that there’s a big difference between the academic articles I read about events in the Middle Ages, which is what I burn for, and, say, books written by Christian mystics from the Late Middle ages. As an example, to read The Way of Perfection written by Saint Teresa of Ávila is way different than reading about her historical context in 16th century Spain and the Counter Reformation movement. This is obvious to me now but it wasn’t before. To read a spiritual text I need to be in the zone, to be connected and available to fully get the message. Writing about theology is not my main activity because after my reading sessions I feel spiritually depleted, lingering in the words I’ve read and floating in the air, experiencing the warmest embrace. Teresa embraces Christ, her beloved, and I embrace her with no shame. It’s an experience I can’t begin to describe. And also, one thing is reading text about doctrine and the Bible and other thing is reading about the architecture of the soul like in Interior Castle. I prefer to dwell in the latter as I grasp a bit about the former in the process, instead of dwelling in discussions between old misogynistic men about who has the biggest Bible (he-he).

Anyway, Gaudete Theology has been an enormous pleasure to read and I’m so glad I found her. She’s able to put into words things that I struggle to describe and her devotion is something I’ve never experienced in anyone physically present in my life. Also, she’s Catholic and inclusive, feminist, accepts other forms of faith, and rolls with a certain pragmatism that I don’t possess. It’s something. Her writings are the perfect connection to a reality of someone who strives to make an actual meaningful impact in the world. If I wasn’t looking for Blaugust I’d never have found her blog, so there’s that.

Back to video games, I play mostly on PC (Steam), Nintendo Switch and very little on Playstation 5. It’s not because I don’t like the games, it’s just the lack of time. I still have all my Vanillaware games to play on PS5, except for Unicorn Overlord, which I played on the Switch. I’m always open to new gaming suggestions as well as books, movies, anime, you name it. Everything is interesting!

https://swordofseiros.wordpress.com/2024/08/11/first-post-of-blaugust/

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Inspirations of Love and Hope @richardsilverman108.wordpress.com@richardsilverman108.wordpress.com · 2024-07-27 · 09:58 UTC

My Spiritual Journey with St. John of the Cross and Jesus Christ

Hey everyone! I’ve been on a fascinating journey lately, exploring some deep spiritual stuff that’s really been blowing my mind. And, let me tell you—it’s been eye-opening!

Recently, I stumbled upon this book called “The Dark Night of the Soul” by St. John of the Cross. Sounds intense, right? It totally is! St. John talks about this journey where the soul goes through tough times to find a deeper connection with God. It’s like he’s describing these dark times we all go through, but how they can actually lead to something amazing and spiritual.

One thing that’s really stuck with me is how he talks about longing for God’s presence. It’s like that feeling when you really miss someone, but instead of a person, it’s this deep spiritual connection you’re longing for. I’ve started to see how even tough times can be part of this journey towards finding peace and purpose.

And then there’s Jesus. Man, his teachings are mind-blowing. He talks about love, forgiveness, and seeing the Kingdom of God in everything around us. It’s not just about believing; it’s about really living those teachings every day. That’s been a challenge for me, but also super rewarding when I see how it changes how I treat people and handle tough situations.

And let’s not forget the miracles! Whether it’s Jesus healing someone or just those little everyday miracles, they remind me that there’s something bigger than us out there. It’s like a reminder to keep faith and stay open to the wonder of life.

So yeah, this journey into spirituality has been a rollercoaster, but in the best way possible. It’s helped me see life in a whole new light and given me tools to navigate the ups and downs. I’m still learning and growing, but isn’t that what life’s all about?

What about you? Have you ever had moments where you felt a deep spiritual connection or experienced something that made you question everything? I’d love to hear your thoughts and stories too! Let’s keep this conversation going.

Until next time, stay curious and keep exploring!

https://richardsilverman108.wordpress.com/2024/07/27/exploring-spiritual-journeys-my-dive-into-st-john-of-the-cross-and-the-teachings-of-jesus/

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