We live looking for diversion/distraction/entertainment-- anything to pass the time with nothing worth our time to do. The same old same old gets boring fast. There is nothing in any of it that interests us, enthuses us, captures our attention and our presence so that we lose track of time and can't believe it is next month already, shocked at how time flies when you are intent on what you're doing. How long has it been? Intent on what we are doing? When did we lose interest? What would it take to ignite it again? What piques our creativity, imagination, enthusiasm for life/living/being alive? What keeps us in place, not caring, not looking, not wondering? What makes anything beyond the same old same old too much trouble? Internet searches are no trouble at all. Ferret out the similarities and differences between Gnosticism and Alchemy, and what the Holy Catholic Church and heresy trials/persecution had to do with the demise of both-- and see where that leads. The idea here is to just start walking/looking. The Alchemists had a saying: "One book opens another." One door does the same thing. Open a door, anywhere, to see what is there, and, more importantly, to see what other doors that door opens. Live in the service of your interest in being alive, and let it take you where it will.
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