#HerbertSpencer Early "woke": https://www.econlib.org/library/LFBooks/Spencer/spnMvS.html?chapter_num=7#book-reader

From the man who expounded the "golden rule" of how to deal with others: "every man may claim the fullest liberty to exercise his faculties compatible with the possession of like liberty by every other man".

@Fischblog Läuse.

Also, bei harmlosen Kopfläusen müssen die Kinder zuhause bleiben. Wie man mir gestern sagte: 'Weil Läuse ansteckend sind!'

Tuberkolose geht i.O. 'Das Immunsystem muss doch trainiert werden!'

#sozialdarwinismus #HerbertSpencer #survival

Now that my following has surged into double digits, a moment of sharing and peeps-seeking. I've put up here:

https://sites.google.com/uw.edu/crisesofthewhitebody/home

some notes and mini-working-papers from a project on body, nation, race, and economy in the 19th and 20th centuries. Most interested in hearing from others working in these areas.

#CharlesBabbage
#HerbertSpencer
#AlfredMarshall
#eugenics
#Neurasthenia
#IrvingFisher
#Keynes
#JamesMeade
#HistoryofEconomicThought
#HistoryoftheBody

Hi!
Perhaps a Re-#Introduction is in order since there's so many more people in this space to share stories and insights with.

I'm an #Alchemist. I manipulate symbols and materials to effect #transformations and thus transform myself.
My practice was revealed to me in a series of trances by an ancient #goddess who has many historical forms. Some of these are the #Kemetic goddesses known as the Eyes of Ra. She recently revealed to me that she would like me to refer to her as #Hathor. I'm not second guessing that advice.

I'm a cis het old guy (58) happy married for 25 years. I adore women. Mostly from afar.

Race- white, blue eyed ethnic jew.

My technique is centered on an apparatus I built based on a design the goddess revealed. I later connected the components and operation symbolically to equipment and processes described in classic #Alchemy sources.
I'm a non-traditional Alchemist. I don't use a forge or do metallurgy. My device is electrical and uses a type of #crystal to focus energy. It can roughly be described as a type of lamp. The picture shows the output of my process. It's called a #Violograph.

It is commonly asserted, and I agree, that the coveted philosopher's stone refers to the practitioners themselves. As the goal of the process it is in reality the transformed person.
This is done by separating the spirit and soul from the #body, changing them and then re-uniting them in the body again. Carl #Jung has some interesting ideas on this.

Politically- #anarchosyndicalist and card carrying #Wobbly. I’ve been working at the same factory for 28 years.

Other areas of interest besides the #occult are listed below.

Music-
I write songs, play electric #bass and #ukulele. Not famous at all.
A few faves-
#Motorhead
#HankWilliams
#CarolinaChocolateDrops
#Budgie
#JudasPriest
#JohnnyWinter
#BuddyGuy
#HotTuna
#WilliamElliotWhitmore
#JackBruce

Art-
#GustavKlimt
#JackKirby
#FrankFrazetta
#ErnstFuchs
#GilbertShelton
 
Philosophy:
#Plotinus
#HerbertSpencer (I know- cringe)
#MaxStirner
#Hegel
#Heraclitus
#Iamblichus
 
Food: #glutenfree, I'll take what I can get. Non-celiac.

Drink- #pinotgrigio wine spritzers mostly.
A pinch of #weed goes a looooonnnng way. After 45 years of smoking I'm a total lightweight now that it's legal here. That's #Chicago (officially a suburb 10 miles outside city limits), btw.

Everyone I’ve met here is awesome!
Peace and Solidarity!

#findfriends

After 2 weeks here I‘ll try a better introduction.
I’m working on nation, race, and body in the #HistoryofEconomicThought. Been stuck in the 19th century for a while with #Coleridge, #HerbertSpencer, and #AlfredMarshall et al. Hoping to move soon to the 20th century including the relation between #Neurasthenia and “feeble mindedness” and the rise of #eugenics. #IrvingFisher is on the horizon as is #JamesMeade. Most interested in hearing from anyone working in these areas. 1/2