On intuition and different ways of knowing

We live in an overly materialistic world that is currently obsessed with the illusion that reality could be reduced to that which can be proven.

After decades of scientific stagnation, nobody really wants to admit that scientism has turned into a religion and not into a particularly appealing one. The average person literally understands science as an authoritarian system where truth trickles down a hierarchical system and where lack of evidence for something is equal to disproving something. “Trust the experts” and “Do you have a source for that?” are nothing more than an expression of the fact that the current order is ruled by anti-spiritual midwits.

Reality, however, is something that is deeply obscure, and most of what is real will simply never be proven in a materialistic way. It’s simply not possible, and it’s a foolish assumption.

In order to delve into topics like the nature of reality and the origin of consciousness, we MUST accept that there are different ways of knowing than simply looking at evidence and deductive reasoning. Evidence and deductive reasoning will never conflict with the truth, but neither will they bring to light any new aspects of reality. Materialistic reasoning has reached its limits with what it can accomplish, and anyone who is not satisfied with what it has delivered in the last couple of decades must either turn back to knowledge that was lost in the past or develop new forms of knowing altogether.

Intuition is one of these forms of knowing. 

When you know something but you don’t know how you know it. It’s a form of knowing that is more powerful than evidence-based knowing, because when you know something as a function of data, there’s always a chance that your data was wrong and you therefore drew the wrong conclusion. When you know something intuitively, there can be no doubt about it. 

However, intuition works very differently than evidence-based knowing. In order to increase the amount of evidential knowledge, you simply increase the amount of evidence you look at. Intuition cannot be invoked in a similarly mechanistic fashion. In order to increase the amount of intuitive knowledge you have, you must train yourself to trust your intuition. You don’t increase the amount of intuitive inspiration, but you decrease the number of times when you fail to recognize your intuition.

Becoming a more intuitive person is a deeply spiritual journey that will necessarily lead you on a path of synchronicities and mysticism. You will not see things that you didn’t see before, but you will see what they mean, when before you thought they wouldn’t mean anything.

It’s not like seeing a tree for the first time, but it’s like looking at a forest and, for the first time, realizing it’s made up of trees.

If you’re trying to find the divine in your life, it’s not like invoking something new that wasn’t there before. It’s understanding how it was always there, but you missed it.

To learn to experience and to trust your own intuition is to strengthen your spirit both in perception and in manifestation. It’s a deeply alchemical and transformative process that will lead you to understanding the true meaning of the word gnosis.

Gnosis will never conflict with more simple forms of knowing, but it’s a form of superset of knowing. It is not a form of learning something new but a form of integrating what you already knew the whole time.

If that’s what you’re looking for, then you are who I built this place for, but I am not here to tell you what I know. I am here so you can discover what this place can do for you and attain that goal on your own.

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🜏 XXI – THE WORLD

🜏 XXI – THE WORLD

Within the eternal loop of the ouroboros, the central figure stands serene, poised between heaven and earth. In their right hand, they raise the ankh, the breath of life. In their left, a blue lotus—symbol of resurrection and the awakening of consciousness. Upon their brow rests the golden solar disc, the seal of Ra, bestowing radiance and eternal sovereignty.

Around them swirl the four elemental guardians:

  • 🦁 Lion (South) – Fire, Sekhmet, willpower and courage

  • 🐂 Bull (North) – Earth, Apis, endurance and stability

  • 🦅 Hawk (East) – Air, Horus, vision and spirit

  • 🐊 Crocodile (West) – Water, Sobek, memory and transformation

Behind them rise the pyramids, repositories of ancient science. The Eye of Ra blinks open above, representing divine vigilance and the inner gnosis that pierces illusion.

Alternate Title: The Divine Spiral
Element: Aether
Symbol: Ouroboros, Ankh, Lotus
Figure: The Soul-Crowned

You have reached the completion of a cycle, not as an end—but as a return to origin, with consciousness transformed.

The World card is the alchemical coronation: the Philosopher’s Stone achieved, the sacred marriage complete, the soul awakened. You are no longer bound by the elemental planes—you stand above them, in harmony with all.

It reflects the Hermetic axiom:

"Man is a star bound to a body, but through discipline may regain the divine fire."

This card marks:

  • The final integration of opposites (matter and spirit, masculine and feminine, above and below)

  • Mastery over the self and the material plane

  • Reunion with the divine field of intelligence (Nous)

The Fool’s journey ends in gnosis—having walked the labyrinth, they now know it is made of light.

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So they do admit that "Elohim" is plural for gods not one God

YHWH is just one of that Elohim, not God with a capital G. I thought they would deny it, but apparently they don't.

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