An intro and a bit of taste of Thomas Ligotti. While reading the review, I was thinking about Ernest Becker (The Denial of Death). Not for everyone, but for me such ideas are liberating (mostly due to confirmation bias).

“Every spell is a shared hallucination.”

Belief makes things real, not true.

A little late today, sorry. Still haven't figured out how to get the bot working. This week’s skill is Check the Facts, which helps you figure out whether your emotions are pointing to something useful or just overwhelming you. Before diving into distraction or emotion-numbing tools, pause and ask: is this emotion Relevant, Important, and Actionable?

The other interesting question who and why wanted to erase her?

Audio quality is not the best, but the talk is great!

Belief makes things real, not true.

I just found out that there's a local mod abuse community. Cool!

This isn’t a prayer—it’s a bootloader.

They do this on every post in that community, even if the question was answered correctly by someone else. And it prevents any further discussion.

https://bsky.app/profile/luciasatalina.bsky.social/post/3lx4376lt3k2m

https://bsky.app/profile/herheim731.bsky.social/post/3lwnexl3ulk2n

I have been banned from the lemmy.ca instance for what I suspect is posting this post: https://lemmybefree.net/post/1255852

I just finished this episode with Metzger & Rushkoff and flagged what I think are the load-bearing beams for those still pretending the occult is optional.