{"id":705,"date":"2025-11-01T21:12:22","date_gmt":"2025-11-01T21:12:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csnorris.com\/magus\/?p=705"},"modified":"2025-11-01T21:43:57","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T21:43:57","slug":"im-back-bitches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csnorris.com\/magus\/?p=705","title":{"rendered":"I’m Back, Bitches"},"content":{"rendered":"

Many of the SRPGs I\u2019ve reviewed over the past few weeks use Tarot cards as a random oracle, so I have perforce found myself handling the ol’ pasteboards again.\u00a0 <\/span>Doing so has unlocked, or at least stirred, some very pleasant and poignant memories.\u00a0 Perhaps the approaching Hallows put me in a receptive frame of mind.<\/span><\/p>\n

It only took a few moments of reflection to realize that, in focusing on my career and Shadow Work since 2014-15, I have unintentionally drifted away from contact and involvement with the Otherworlds and their denizens.<\/span><\/p>\n

A so-called career path is a nearly universal distraction from the internal life, and more than enough has been said about that by others.\u00a0 Nonetheless, I found a great deal of satisfaction and validation in finally getting a “big boy” coding job, so it was “positive distraction”, perhaps?<\/span><\/p>\n

For its part, Shadow Work is a wonderful modality, and I am eternally grateful for what I have learned from and through it.\u00a0 <\/span>But in the end, it is based in archetypal psychology, and thus is not inherently mystical or spiritual, although the experience of Shadow Work can be both.\u00a0 I believe the majority of Shadow Worker would rejoice if it were suddenly to be declared “hard science”.<\/span><\/p>\n

Zen also eschews the \u201cwoo-woo\u201d, in favor of concentrating on taming the mind, and I\u2019ve been easing deeper into Zen in the last 2 or 3 years.<\/span><\/p>\n

All unknowing, in pursuit of one set of paths, I came to neglect another, which is at least as rich and valuable.<\/span><\/p>\n

I\u2019ve kept up my reading on the Norse, but again it\u2019s been tending toward the academic and historical.\u00a0 <\/span>I wave at the mythologies as they float past in context.<\/span><\/p>\n

Perhaps, after a number of years immersed in the more phenomenological frameworks, I shifted base paradigms for a time, and just drifted.<\/span><\/p>\n

But I\u2019m back now, bitches.\u00a0 <\/span>So hitch up yer drawers and hang onto yer broomsticks\u2026 <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many of the SRPGs I\u2019ve reviewed over the past few weeks use Tarot cards as a random oracle, so I have perforce found myself handling the ol’ pasteboards again.\u00a0 Doing so has unlocked, or at least stirred, some very pleasant and poignant memories.\u00a0 Perhaps the approaching Hallows put me in a receptive frame of mind. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rambleon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csnorris.com\/magus\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csnorris.com\/magus\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csnorris.com\/magus\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csnorris.com\/magus\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csnorris.com\/magus\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=705"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/csnorris.com\/magus\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":708,"href":"http:\/\/csnorris.com\/magus\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705\/revisions\/708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csnorris.com\/magus\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csnorris.com\/magus\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csnorris.com\/magus\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}