Weird Studies/Knocking on the Abyssal Door

24 Feb 2023 10:36 - 17 Jun 2023 08:29
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    • This was a recording of a public presentation given at the DISI conference, which was mostly STEM people.
    • Azande, fifth cause. Things happen for reasons. I don't believe this because I am a modern, oh well,
    • Agonizing Aristotelianism ugh
    • Meaning is not in here or out there because the boundary is illusory – yes that's good. Somehow it implies magic is a thing – not sure how that works
    • Inventing dichotomies – the contintentals do this all the time (Bergson, Deleuze)
    • Aleister Crowley – all concepts below the abyss are to be opposed.
      • Mentions Laws of Form
    • Magic pings the ? like sonar
    • Plato's hidden mysticism
    • Wound up with a plea for the reality of weird phenomena against the crushing modernist materialism. As usual. Sigh. I do not understand what these guys think that "the reality of supernatural phenomena" buys them.