Art by JackieFearz!
It's Ignatius! He looks cute now, but he's probably got tricks under his wing. Don't trust him as far as you can throw him, but that might pretty far since he's a lightweight bat...

#bat #red #headshot #dakinu #ignatius #iggy #face #jackie #fearz #jackiefearz

#CognitiveMusic #HighWeirdness

thinking this morning about links/differences between deity-visualization in #tantra and the spiritual exercises of St #Ignatius; the latter is explicitly couched in terms of empathy, relationship w/literally anthropomorphized god (i.e. jesus), while the former calls for imaginative projection/assumption into what we might call deity-consciousness

both are 'archaic techniques of #ecstasy' (#eliade's description of #shamanism)

I am quite perplexed about the many positive reflections on the Birdsite on a David #Ignatius article in the #WashingtonPost, describing the use of #Palantir technology on the #Ukraine battlefield
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/12/19/palantir-algorithm-data-ukraine-war/

Five points of reflection:

Dein Vertrauen auf Gott sei so tätig, als wenn Gott nichts, du alles tun müsstest; deine Tätigkeit sei so voll Gottvertrauen, als wenn du nichts, Gott alles tun müsste.

Ignatius von Loyola

#ignatius #gott #vertrauen