Filters, Philtres and Cynocephalics

If you have any knowledge of filters, how do you use that knowledge?

If you have any knowledge of philtres, how do you use that knowledge?

What do you know about cynocephaly?

When have you experienced a phantasmagoria?

Perhaps you have read a historiola.

Perhaps you recite Mandaic incantations.

What do you know about the Aramaic Uruk incantation?

The cultural acquisitions you have collected, consciously and unconsciously, over your lifetime act as a filter through which new experiences are interpreted in your mind.

Perhaps you believe your mind organises your memories quite well, but how do you know?

Perhaps you believe your mind retrieves your memories quite well, but how do you know?

How do you assess the quality of your mental resources?

What do you already know about the Earth's orbit of the Sun?

What do you know about the folklore associated with legendary creatures, hybrid beasts, human-animal hybrids, mythic humanoids, and beliefs in supernatural beings, shapeshifting and human superpowers?

What do you know about hybridisation more scientifically?

What do you know about the temporary or permanent powers claimed by some people over the current and future lives of other people, and over other species, in various locations on Earth, and even elsewhere in the solar system?

What do you know about the planet Venus? 

What do you know about mules?

What do you know about artistic interpretations of politics?

What do you know about claims relating to 'beauty' products?

What do you know about claims relating to 'health' foods?

What do you know about claims relating to 'democratic' government?

When have you been regarded as a humanoid?

Perhaps you would rather lounge around drinking out of a rhyton instead of answering the questions presented to you through this grimoire.

What do you know about carbonisation?

What do you know about terrestrial planets?

How do you prefer to spend your time whilst situated on a planetary surface?

What do you know about atoms?

What do you know about molecules and ions?

What do you know about the Moon and its comparative size and varying distance from the Earth?

Perhaps you believe you have more immediate needs and concerns, entirely unrelated to the questions here.

Perhaps you believe humanity has no need for this grimoire at all.

Perhaps you would rather enjoy stories containing anthropomorphism. 

Perhaps you would rather explore the history and geography of hybrid creatures in folklore.

Perhaps you would rather explore the history of Herculaneum. 

But what do you know about heterosis?

What do you know about the historical, and ongoing, inbreeding in humans and other species? 

What do you know about Neanderthals?

What do you know about Outgoing Long-wave Radiation? 

What do you know about hydrodynamic escape?

What do you know about a runaway greenhouse effect?

What do you know about modernity?

How have you been assessing human history recently?

What do you know about molecular geometry, organic chemistry, supramolecular chemistry and molecular biology?

Who is capable of governing societies reasonably well, and who is not?

What do you really and truly know about love potions and hate potions and greed potions and fear potions and other potions? 

How do you distinguish between persuasion and efficacy?

What do you know about the past and present alcohol content of extracts, gripe water and cough mixtures?

What do you know about aroma compounds and essential oils?

What do you know about sexual, economic and political seduction? 

What do you know about arrogance?

What do you know about limerence?

What do you know about liminality?

What do you know about servility?

When are political agendas, and personal agendas, much like the Tower of Babel?

If you are already investing in fruitful editing, that practice will probably be helping you to make the world a much better place than it would be without you.

Indeed, the moral purpose of all philosophy, science and editing is to help you improve your leadership.

All good investments are associated with necessary improvements of various sorts.

How do you protect yourself from the human equivalents of jackals, foxes and coyotes?

Who does not want to listen to you or otherwise acknowledge your desire to communicate, and why?

Who has been preventing your authentic voice from being heard, and why?

What is your authentic voice, and how do you prefer to express it?

What do you know about the physical separation process known as filtration?

What do you know about the political separation process known as corruption? 

What do you know about the Villa of the Papyri in Herculaneum?

What do you know about Antiquities of Herculaneum Exposed, and similar documentation processes?

What do you know about optical filters, spectral imaging and multispectral imaging?

Editing is a form of filtering, as is censorship. 

Where do you usually prefer to be involved in editing?

What do you know about editing as a form of protection?

And what do you prefer to edit, and why?

A good editor is trustworthy.

Good editing is based on trust.

What do you believe it means to be a good editor in practice?

Social gatekeeping is a form of filtering, too.

Perhaps you have sometimes been required to be a watchdog or guard dog or scavenger.

Perhaps you have even been trained to be an attack dog.

What do you know about wolves, dingoes, Asian dholes, African wild dogs, and the bush dogs of Central and South America?

What do you know about Etemenanki? 

What do you know about the Babylonian Chronicles?

What do you know about the Babylonian astronomical diaries? 

You may or may not be acquainted with the Enuma Anu Enlil, including the Venus tablet of Ammisaduqa.

How scientifically do you assess omens?

From which cultures do you collect data?

From which scientific perspectives do you collect data? 

When, if ever do you consult Anubis and ancient Egyptian literature?

When have you consulted a griffin?

What do you know about The Tiger, the Brahmin and the Jackal? 

What do you know about the Wolf of Zhongshan?

How do you know when the Big, Bad Wolf is disguised as a politician, or government?

When have you consulted Marduk? 

What do you know about Lamma and Lamassu?

What is your acquaintance with Sumerian literature?

What do you know about Bel and Baal?

What do you know about Belial?

What do you know about free-ranging dogs and feral cats?

What do you know about medieval images of animals and the recording of natural history?

What do you know about symbiosis, commensalism, biological mutualism, interspecies communication and interspecies friendship?

Perhaps you believe you love animals and/or that you love plants.

Perhaps you even love animals and/or plants more than you love any people, possibly even including yourself.

What do you know about animal communication, person-animal communication and quorum sensing by bacteria?

You may be aware that disguises and camouflage are forms of filtering.

What do you know about the uses of garlands and chaplets by humans?

You may be aware that electrical engineers improve signal processing through the use of filters.

What do you know about the Ishtar Gate and other gateways and portals as filters?

What do you know about genetic engineering as a form of filtering?

And what do you know about genetic pollution?

What do you know about inbreeding depression?

What do you know about inbreeding within royal dynasties?

What do you know about poisoned chalices? 

What do you know about The Love Potion, and how?

What do you know about Etruscan bucchero?

What do you know about Roman frescoes?

What do you know about the Palace of Tau in Reims, France?

What do you know about Paracelsus?

What do you know about bioethics?

What do you know about the jackal who pronounced himself king?

What do you know about hubris?

What do you know about biological hybrids?

What do you know about the Etruscan civilisation?

What do you know about the Palazzo Te in Mantua, Italy?

What do you know about Taoism/Daoism?

What do you know about globalisation as cultural hybridisation?

What do you know about the hybridisation of political power?

What do you know about hybrid vehicles?

What do you know about the Dead Sea Scrolls?

What do you know about the Tablet of Destinies in Mesopotamian mythology?

And how do you compare COP26 with Belshazzar's Feast?

How do you compare life on the plains of the world and the hills?

What do you know about Inanna?

What do you know about Pan?

What do you know about the love potion most necessary in the world today?

It is certainly not an aphrodisiac.

What do you know about platonic love?

How do you filter your discernment of people and other animals?

What do you know about the Fortress of Sargon?

How have you gained knowledge of societal, and natural, dangers?

What do you know about the products of popular culture as love potions and hate potions and greed potions and fear potions and other potions?

What do you know about the history of animal domestication, animal husbandry, selective breeding, the training of working animals, the keeping of pets, the feeding of pet dogs and other pets, the human consumption of dog meat, the development of sports designed for dogs, the use of dogs in blood sports, the use and abuse of dogs and other animals in spectator sports and other entertainments, the feeding of livestock, the international livestock trade, the international wildlife trade, the extent of research testing on animals, the legal and illegal international trade in animal products, the poaching of various animals, the development of animal-like stuffed toys, and the development of menageries and zoos?