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Martim Lou's avatar

Negative will is one of the clearest ways to harness desire, starting with "you must not die". It's laws and regulations all around the donut.

I keep coming back to this piece when resistance strikes hard. Your yummy yarn is becoming my loaf of bread :)

Yassine khayati's avatar

Also where are your illustrations from if I might ask?

Octopusyarn's avatar

generated with Midjourney

Yassine khayati's avatar

This essay is beautiful you are one of the people carving a piece of the infinite fractal mystery. What you are writing about is also elusive because there are probably infinite words to describe it. Wonderful essay!

Trey Roque's avatar

This is pretty well-timed. But that could me my solipsism talking.

Your lines of will idea, the cup and pentacles, is great. It hits my weekly tarot I use for focus, rather than superstition. Gives me something to chew on.

I’ve found that retreating from and refusing all egregores a giant step forward in clarity.

Sarah Foulc's avatar

Your essays consistently enter the large web of synchronicities in my life. (Ive been thinking about the epistemology of desire, what it brings up, and most of all attempting to quit my weed addiction too despite managing many times, I feel like there’s something flawed in my Will to examine that indeed has very much to do with my comfort levels with uncertainty and anxiety and emotional turbulence etc etc … though it’s coming at a crucial point now!)

Rare to find an integrated mind writing on here. Thank you!

James Beattie's avatar

Very good, thank you!

Cristobal Ramirez's avatar

This made me think: I would love to meet this person