Weekly Interests: 15th to the 21st

Ideas

On the 15th, I thought about a concept I had come to call “Futurity”, the first words said to one who would become a lover or a great friend, or the purchase of a book that would hold a secret you’d not even known you were curious about, the little things that hold fate in them.

I thought about hypnosis, how it forms the root of psychoanalysis and the occult, namely the ability to alter ones state without a drug.

On the 16th, I dreamed of a beautiful mountain range covered in rainbows. I did yoga in the morning with my friend, she used a video from someone she respected, at one point, the yoga involved the rubbing together of ones hands, to make heat.

This totally struck me. I had thought before quite a bit on hand gestures and mudras as “physical memes”, (as can be seen here) but this set me thinking on corresponding common gestures to the sacred, Mundane Mudras. Here are a few:

Shh

This is a very common gesture, but one with a directly occult origin, the sign of Harpocrates, which funny enough began as the child God sucking his thumb or licking his fingers, and became a sign of silence in the Esoteric traditions.