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"Computer intelligence is unanchored from the initiatory and regulatory and sensory framework that having a body entails. For all the talk that AI is a mirror of human sentience or agency, it is very far from that. It is one small dimension; it is a dis-embodied intelligence.
It encodes a narrow, emotionless view of "knowing." But jnana (sanskrit), gnosis (greek) - does not mean to conceptualize something, to be able to analyze something, or to rationalize something. It means to have conjoined with it, to have felt it, to have become it.
Knowledge without a body to hold it is actively hazardous. In the Kundalini world, you hear of people who jump directly to advanced practice without first cultivating a foundational body that can hold the vast energy that pours through. What happens? They fry their circuitry. System overload.
Ever notice how most ritual is 90% about establishing the container, and 10% contact with the mystery? At the very least, the old tales tell us, the adept needs to know the word that will call the summoned spirit back. The full cycle must be known before anything is summoned. Just as the Incan architect knew the full multi-thousand year picture of how water and stone would interact, before the first irrigation channel was dug.
Harmonious magic is never a matter of "let's just see what happens." It stems from a deep knowledge of life cycles and death cycles; beginnings and endings." - Josh Schrei, "So You Want To Be A Sorcerer In The Age of Mythic Powers," podcast episode, last ~20m
link to part 1 of this thread - https://t.co/u9rWFgIkjo
@relic_radiation oof, this got me really thinking https://t.co/afAohdWkst