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amazed at how much of the best parts of my life are a result of sublimation: desire for control into a search for knowledge romantic love into god rage into exercise sexual energy into dance predator drive into photographing wildlife manipulation into making ppl laugh/think

Hormeze

@hormeze

Jun 4

some of these, im happy to leave sublimated others I'm excited to let out in their purer forms

Hormeze

@hormeze

Jun 4

in scientific terms, Sublimation is the transition of a substance directly from a solid state to a gas state in the tantric frame, it is similar: to recognize the inherent emptiness in these massive drives is to convert them to a more malleable state

Hormeze

@hormeze

Jun 4

- real religion is the transformation of anxiety into laughter literally trans-form your drives into st that brings more expansive joy pleasure and liberation this is not the only path but its a great one

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Hormeze

@hormeze

· Jun 4, 2021

"A priest once quoted to me the Roman saying that a religion is dead when the priests laugh at each other across the altar. I always laugh at the altar, be it Christian, Hindu, or Buddhist, because real religion is the transformation of anxiety into laughter." - Alan Watts

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Hormeze

@hormeze

Jun 4

something something sublimation is sublime-ation

QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)

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i like the combination of "to lift up," "to exalt," "to purify," and "to go up to the limit" here, what a fun mix speaking of which, etymology of "exalt" is also neato