Sigilheart

Bruce Lyon, Occult Cosmology

“Distribution for 18 fingerprint pattern types + relative effect size (arrows) in the Big Five personality dimensions Neuroticism & Extraversion, plus derived tendencies for the four classic temperaments: Choleric, Melancholic, Phlegmatic & Sanguine; displayed percentages represent the lowest- and highest value observed among the 4 personality groups (N+, N-, E+ & E-).“

The very notion of culture is an artifact created by bracketing Nature off. Cultures — different or universal — do not exist, any more than Nature does. There are only natures-cultures, and these offer the only possible basis for comparison. As soon as we take practices of mediation as well as practices of purification into account, we discover that the moderns do not separate humans from nonhumans any more than the totally superimpose signs and things.

[…] Absolute relativism presupposes cultures that are separate and incommensurable and cannot be ordered in any hierarchy; there is no use talking about it, since it brackets off Nature. As for cultural relativism, which is more subtle, Nature comes into play, but in order to exist it does not presuppose any scientific work, any society, any construction, any mobilization, any network.

—Bruno Latour, We Have Never Been Modern

The returning nature of Hegel’s Dialectic

Roberto Assagioli’s Psychosynthesis Star Diagram

In classical empiricist approaches, we could say that our ways of talking depend upon the world; to the extent that our talk is rooted, or grounded in what the facts of the world will permit or allow us to say, our talk is about what we ‘find’ to be there. 

On the other hand, in line with hermeneutical or interpretive views, it is equally true to say that what we take to be the nature of the world depends upon our ways of talking about it; thus, to the extent that it is they that ‘give’ or ‘lend’ it intelligible (and legitimate) structure and significance, it is as we ‘make’ it to be.

—John Shotter, Social Individuality Versus Possessive Individualism

Gloves worn by sightless deaf people that allow them to communicate. Talking gloves for the deaf and blind; their value to men injured in the present war. 1917.