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  1. Printing off a bunch of these this morning that I've sold. Very impressed with how the prints are coming out, and how it looks after I've added the gold :D

    You can buy them here: ko-fi.com/s/d5809cc4bd

    #MastoArt #Calligraphy #Illumination #FediGiftShop #CreativeToots #FediArt #ArtForSale #ArtPrints

  2. Printing off a bunch of these this morning that I've sold. Very impressed with how the prints are coming out, and how it looks after I've added the gold :D

    You can buy them here: ko-fi.com/s/d5809cc4bd

    #MastoArt #Calligraphy #Illumination #FediGiftShop #CreativeToots #FediArt #ArtForSale #ArtPrints

  3. Illumination in dark times
    A genealogy of modern Western selfhood and a post-Western world

    "Smith ... outlines a genealogy of modern Western selfhood: a radically individual, hypermasculine character that was formed during the rapid nineteenth-century expansion of the white man’s world. “Bold, conquering, and altogether assertive,” it was “dedicated to action,” hostile to reflection, indifferent to community and the environment, and guilty of possessing, Smith writes, an “undeveloped heart,” a term borrowed from E. M. Forster’s assessment of the British elite." "

    " “We must alter our very relations with the world around us.” This means giving up the exalted and exaggerated idea of the West that boosts a masculinist self-image but severely constricts thought and feeling. “We should welcome our era’s uncertainties,...the not-knowing of how the post-Western story will come out.” Smith’s final warning—that “we will not survive the Western notion of the individual much longer”—should resonate today, as nineteenth-century individualism reasserts itself in the degraded Nietzscheanism of Peter Thiel and Stephen Miller." >>

    * Mishra, P. (2026, April). "The Authority of Thought". Harper's Magazine.
    harpers.org/archive/2026/04/th

    * Somebody Else's Century: East and West in a Post-Western World by Patrick Smith. 2010 >>
    penguinrandomhouse.com/books/1
    #TheWest #WhiteSupremacy #masculinity #ImpulseControl #EthnoNationalism #WesternCivilization #AngloAmerican #parochialism #individualism #subjectivity #SettlerSociety #Culture #RacialInequality #war #EastWest #PostWesternWorld #DarkTimes #illumination #narrative #environment

    Image: Double Bay War Memorial, Steyne Park, Sydney

  4. A quotation from Thomas Carlyle

    Can the man say, Fiat lux, Let there be light; and out of chaos make a world? Precisely as there is light in himself, will he accomplish this.

    Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish essayist and historian
    Lecture (1840-05-12), “The Hero as Poet,” Home House, Portman Square, London

    More about this quote: wist.info/carlyle-thomas/82017…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #carlyle #thomascarlyle #illumination #creation #creativity #innerself #inspiration #light #writing

  5. A quotation from Thoreau

    Only that day dawns to which we are awake.

    Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) American philosopher and writer
    Walden; or, Life in the Woods, ch. 18 “Conclusion” (1854)

    More info about this quote: wist.info/thoreau-henry-david/…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #thoreau #henrydavidthoreau #walden #waldenpond #awakened #awakening #awareness #beingawake #day #illumination #payingattention

  6. Vous découvrirez d’abord comment Rajneesh, un jeune intellectuel indien ayant connu l’illumination, a entrepris de s’opposer aux religions et aux partis politiques en fondant son propre mouvement de libération de l’être humain. Au menu : sexualité débridée, collection de Rolls-Royce et démêlés avec la justice.

    #méditation #dérives #illumination #spiritualité #éveil #NewAge
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  7. Happy #Lammastide, to all who celebrate!

    [Image from the Oscott Psalter, c. 1265-1270, in the British Library, Add MS 50000, f.4v]

    #mediaeval #illumination #13thcentury #harvest #middleages #history #seasons