Alex Head10h ago

📣 Book Release Announcement 📣

As our one living planet teeters upon its very axis, heavy munitions pound the Earth stomping out lives like falling forest trees. Up among the branches 🫀love🫀conquers all when we pursue its infinite variations actively and with intention. In this spirit my old pal the photographer Fabrizio Dal Vera and I share our studio shoot of How To Survive Secular Mysticism - a spiritual manifesto, by moi and now available on https://www.plural-studio.net/how-to-survive-secular-mysticism

there is nothing in this book
that you do not already know
though you may have
forgotten
therefore soften your perspective as you engage
these realities
softness allows the future to be remembered into
the present
like brush lines in an act of creativity

How To Survive Secular Mysticism is a fierce meditation on the cultural hijacking of mystical language and imagery. Alex Head’s swirling aesthetic sensibility and kaleidoscopic commentaries pull us through the subtle yet profound distinctions between lived spirituality and its secular simulacrum, demanding conscious intention and devotional presence amid ever-intensifying chaos.



- Ferdiansyah Thajib, author of Enduring Otherwise



Dense and earnest, this is someone thinking seriously about finding transcendence through art, community, and presence rather than doctrine. ‘Secular mysticism’ numbs you, disorients you, and opens you to external control. Genuinely strange and original writing, somewhere between cultural criticism, spiritual autobiography, and conspiracy theory, held together by artistic intelligence.



- Erin Honeycutt, pamphleteer

Secular Mysticism includes but is not limited to:

• Uninitiated or uneducated audiences exposed to

religious ideas and icons such as the ‘all seeing eye’

• Drugs and alcohol consumed without intention

• Social-media generated content consumed without

consent

• Trigger responses to environmental stimuli that confuse

thoughts and feelings, opening a way in for fear and anger

• Hypnotic sexual imagery such as the ‘Super-Hero’

Launch event in Berlin coming soon.

Colophon:
How to Survive Secular Mysticism
Alex Head
Plural Studio
2026, Berlin
First edition
All rights reserved
Fonts: Suisse Neue, Suisse International, Suisse
Works, Work Sans, Fergus McDonald
Layout: Lizard in the Spring
Editing: Anna Kostreva
Cover image, after a collaboration with artist
Gabriel Birch, circa 1994
ISBN: 978-3-9828617-0-8

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WIST Quotations17h ago

A quotation from Eleanor Roosevelt

How do you think our boys who have gone to war and risked their lives should treat conscientious objectors after the war?
 
I should think that the boys who go through the war, and who believe in what they are doing, would have a respect for a conscientious objector who had an equally strong belief that he should not kill other people.
   We have put these conscientious objectors to work in this war. They are clamoring for more dangerous work. Some of them are already doing work which requires great courage, but not the taking of another man’s life. It would certainly seem a curious thing to me if a boy were not able to understand, having had deep convictions himself, that other people have a right to equally deep convictions and that they should be respected.

Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) First Lady of the US (1933–1945), politician, diplomat, activist
Column (1942-08), “If You Ask Me,” Ladies’ Home Journal, Vol. 59

More about this quote: wist.info/roosevelt-eleanor/83…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #eleanorroosevelt #belief #combat #conscientiousobjector #conviction #killing #respect #soldier #war #conscience #killing

Roosevelt, Eleanor - Column (1942-08), "If You Ask Me," Ladies' Home Journal, Vol. 59 | WIST Quotations

How do you think our boys who have gone to war and risked their lives should treat conscientious objectors after the war? I should think that the boys who go through the war, and who believe in what they are doing, would have a respect for a conscientious objector who…

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Create the Ripple1d ago
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do.” H. Jackson Brown Jr. So much of life is created in the moments where we choose courage over comfort and possibility over standing still. 🧡 #belief #courage Picture by Katie Abey
Coleman Laing2d ago

The one before Warhammer 40K, when the Emperor of Mankind was alive.
That is my Bible, that is my Quran.
What would the Earth be, without religions?
A singular ruler over all the humans of Earth?
Regardless of gender or race.

Although I'm Atheist, it makes me think.

#Belief #Religion #Warhammer40K

WordofTheHour2d ago

#belief : an acceptance that something is true

- French: croyance

- German: der Glaube

- Italian: credenza

- Portuguese: crença

- Spanish: creencia

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Lifestyle Travel Now3d ago
At Lifestyle Travel Now, we believe travel is more than a journey—it’s a way to live your best life. #belief
RDN5d ago

A study of approximately 100 individuals tested whether repeated exposure to false but fluent statements leads people to believe they are true, and whether knowledge of their falsity protects against such a tendency. Results were ambiguous, but evidence weighed in favor of knowledge protecting against truth illusions.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0010027726001393

#Science #Cognition #Belief #DecisionMaking

WIST Quotations5d ago

A quotation from Terry Pratchett

People who would not believe a High Priest if he said the sky was blue, and was able to produce signed affidavits to this effect from his white-haired old mother and three Vestal virgins, would trust just about anything whispered darkly behind their hand by a complete stranger in a pub.

Terry Pratchett (1948-2015) English author
Discworld, Book 18, Maskerade (1995)

More about this quote: wist.info/pratchett-terry/8413…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #terrypratchett #discworld #authority #belief #credulity #credulousness #gossip #gullibility #naivete #sources #trust #whispers #maskerade

Pratchett, Terry - Discworld, Book 18, Maskerade (1995) | WIST Quotations

People who would not believe a High Priest if he said the sky was blue, and was able to produce signed affidavits to this effect from his white-haired old mother and three Vestal virgins, would trust just about anything whispered darkly behind their hand by a complete stranger in a…

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The OW FactorMay 19

Who knew?

#Belief
#PhysicalHealth
#Quotes
#Walks

https://theowfactor.org/2026/05/19/who-knew/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=jetpack_social

Who knew?

Who knew how important it is to wear the right shoes for a walk? I didn’t. But I think my wife is right that the aches and pains, unusually strong, that I’ve had since my Sunday afternoon walk are …

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Zarion ZoryMay 16

If your most deeply held beliefs were inherited from ancestors who lived in a world that no longer exists, at what point did you actually choose your own mind?

#ZarionZoryStory

#Belief #Mind #Thoughts #Neurons