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How to increase intelligence:
• Playful meditation
• Creative expressions of practical compassion
• Rigorous listening
• Learning the language and rhythms of the dreams that visit us as we sleep
• Negotiating with the shadowy aspects of our personalities
• Reverently communing with the natural world; conversing with creatures and plants
• Unruly, affectionate magick that disrupts the numbing status quo
• Playdates with ancestors, angels, deities, spirits, elementals, and fairies
• Laughter while fucking
• Acting with no ulterior motives
• Sharpening our perceptions
• Disciplined ecstasy and ecstatic discipline
• Gazing at the image in the mirror for extended periods
• Experiments to expand our self-definition
• Liberating ourselves from our suffering
• Helping to liberate others from their suffering
• Periodically reviewing the history of our lives
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1. The Prime Codex is hidden in the wall between the Hall of Mists and the Soul Kitchen. When you find it, decorate it with your most rebellious graffiti.
2. The Beasts of the Wheels of Time are ticklish. That’s a key to reducing their power over you. Another key: Confuse them with your most sophisticated gibberish.
3. It’s permissible to permanently borrow the celestial trumpet from the stingy angel if you use it to heal broken souls.
4. At least once every eclipse, dive into the sleep mirror and cleanse the water you find there.
5. Use play money to buy two Peaches of Immortality from the Queen of Shapeshifters. One peach will be for you and one for an adversary you care for.
6. During a full moon, sing your sexy way into the Magic Dumping Ground. Befriend the Holy Squirmer. Ask her to give you the elegant dreamsquawk signs that enable you to find treasures in nightmares.
7. The Frost Worm will let you pass unscathed through the Forgotten Realm if you prove you have learned to use your third eye to watch TV.
8. You are the Chosen One, and so is everyone else.
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Meme words by Anna Goldstein. Art by Lily Seika Jones
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I periodically ask my teammates and beloved champions whether they have discovered any of the 3,333 Useful and Soulful Secrets about the Real Reality—as opposed to the 3,333 Obvious and Sentimental Secrets about the Fake Reality. Below are among my favorites. I’d love to hear yours.
• Every conscious act is an act of magick.
• You will find beauty in everything when you look for it. Conversely, you have the power and the right to ignore beauty if you want to. But who wants to?
• In the long run, it’s healthiest to side with those who tell the most truth.
• Confucius said, “All wisdom is rooted in learning to call things by their right names.”
• Don’t stop learning just because you know it all.
• Truth is sometimes sneaky and mischievous, hiding in unexpected places. But that doesn’t mean that ALL truth is sneaky and mischievous, hiding in unexpected places.
• Ssshhhh! Communication doesn’t solve everything. Do your best to communicate, anyway.
• William James said, “I will act as if what I do makes a difference.”
• Don’t let yourself be trapped into being who you used to be if that’s not who you are anymore.
• Question yourself about your own motivations and possible self-deceptions. In so doing, you will develop an acute knack about when and how to question others about their motivations and possible self-deceptions.
• No one is ever able to tell the whole truth. That is a package of a trillion trillion trillion facts known only to the Eternal Intelligence formerly known as “God.”
• Be kind to yourself. That is not the same as indulging yourself or spoiling yourself. It means conducting your inner monologue as though you were counseling a friend whom you dearly love.
• Look for an oracle who asks you the right questions.
• Whatever your problems are, someone has it far worse and someone has it far better.
• Applaud creativity, even when its results bother you.
• Pretending you don’t feel how you feel doesn’t make you feel different.
• As Richard P. Feynman advised us, the first principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool.
• Thoughts are inevitable but believing them is optional.
Question the paradigm (personal, professional, your own assumptions about yourself, including your history and what it means for your future, everything all the time)