Amazing and Ancient

Are you amazed by the power of nature, of wind and water making lightning and eroding rocks?

Life clings to crevices and thrives in the depths of oceans.

Death works to perpetuate balanced ecosystems.

Are you amazed by luminescence?

Are you amazed by incandescence?

Are you amazed by life itself?

Are you frightened of death? 

What amazes you about microorganisms and electromagnetic radiation?

What amazes you about chemical reactions and the perceptual abilities of various species?

Which sounds amaze you the most, and why?

What tastes amazing to you, and why?

What feels amazing to you, and why?

How do you define the amazing?

Are you a storyteller?

Do you have amazing tales to tell about treasures and secrets and possibilities?

Have you ever sung enlightening ballads?

Are you a writer of magnificent epic poetry or remarkably beautiful prose, or possibly even both?

Do you prefer stories about the possible or impossible or merely the slightly implausible? 

Do you regard yourself as a respectable and responsible historian?

You may be seeking amazing insights into ancient wisdom.

You may be seeking an amusing and/or an amazing insight into the lack of wisdom in the world today.

You may be seeking an amazingly wise insight into amusement.

What is your acquaintance with internal monologues, especially your own?

Where and how have you already sought to enhance your leadership sufficiently?

How do you ascertain whether an admirer of someone or something is deluded or not?

What, if anything, do you admire about the amazing and ancient?

There are, of course, also many silly individuals who believe they know the future, and the past, without adequate evidence.  They follow misguided interpretations of ancient prophecies and works of fiction.  They therefore tend to be dismissive of the self-fulfilling aspects of their own stupidity.  

All purportedly dark ages in history, and prehistoric ones, are merely times relating to our own ignorance of the past. 

What have you been learning in and about the physical world, and how?

What have you been learning about yourself, and how?

What have you been learning about other people, and how?

What have you been learning about interactions between people and the physical world, and where?

 

How consistently do your own values, practices and policies acknowledge the existence of both simplicity and complexity? 

 

What is your current approach to considering the future?

 

Perhaps you are unaware of the influence of ancient philosophies and mythologies in the Adelaidezone.

Perhaps you do not know much about Apollo and the Muses of Ancient Greece and their association with the Muse of the World.

Perhaps you are too worried about the present to give the future or the past much thought. 

What do you know about dangerous applications of applied science?

 

What do you know about dangerous replications of historical events?

What do you know about dangerous obligations imposed upon the vulnerable by bureaucratic bullies?

Perhaps you are unaware of why you have been provided with temporary access to this amazing grimoire.

Perhaps you are amazingly ignorant, even about the origins of the word amazing.

Are you seeking to read an amusing and/or amazing story in this grimoire?

 

• This is a Grimoire
• Communitas
• Culture and Kindness
• Fascination

 

What do you know about the amazingly good?

Perhaps you wish to be amazed, bedazzled and astonished though not necessarily befuddled or admonished.

Do you have much acquaintance with the history of solar deities and enlightened beings.

Have you thought much about the reasoning behind polytheism? 

Perhaps you are already part of an intelligently frugal community of compatible people, whether online or in a quaint physical neighbourhood or coven.  

Have you thought much about the popularity in America of Amazing Grace?

Have you thought much about how your belongings and waste will influence the future of life on Earth for centuries and millennia to come?

Have you thought much about how humans have been changing nature since ancient times?

Have you thought much about why real philanthropy is necessary?

Wonderful witches are also wonderful philanthropists, particularly anonymously.

Do you usually regard philanthropy as enchanting?

Are you familiar with the story of Baucis and Philemon?

Are you familiar with Bellerophon and the Chimera?  

Are you familiar with the ancient Greek concepts of xenos and xenia?

Do you act wisely to address xenophobia?

All enlightened beings are aware that cruelty is NOT normal. 

Wonderful witches are enlightened beings even though they are rarely regarded as normal.  They are certainly never cruel.

 

• Picturing Witches
• Which Witch?
• Good Witches
• Nature and Hubris
• The Primordial EverTime

 

The cruel perpetrate torture with impunity, including psychological torture.

The mindless escape into the banality of cuteness and fantasy.

How do you distinguish between geographical zones and climate zones?    

What is your comfort zone and how do you identify the boundaries of it? 

How do you try to maintain thermal comfort and other forms of comfort in your life, both physically and psychologically?

What do you know about the great music of the ancient world?

What is your acquaintance is Orpheus?

You may be aware that Zone was the name of an ancient Greek colonial city in the east European territory of Thrace.  

 

The colonists apparently arrived there from the nearby island of Samothrace, home to one of the major pan-Hellenic religious sanctuaries.

 

Perhaps you have a considerable interest in ancient history rather than the immediate future.  

What is your acquaintance with Helios and other mythological characters?

Do you know much about Utu/Shamash and Ishtar/Inanna?

 

What do you know about the great libraries of the ancient world?  

 

You may be aware that the word 'zone', as derived from Ancient Greek, relates to a particular an item worn around the waist, namely a belt.

A belt encircles.  It may have the purpose of preventing a garment from falling down or from being so long that it hinders movement.

 

Perhaps you have experienced a magic circle or a magic belt or a magic corset. 

Perhaps you often wear a power belt or a power corset, or even both.

 

Perhaps you often sing bel canto rather than excessively.

Does the word Adagia mean anything to you?

If not, please do not concern yourself too much.  It is merely a compilation of brief sayings. 

The Adagia is noted as being both relatively amusing and adequately reflective of ancient wisdom.

What do you know about centaurs and Pegasus and historical accuracy?

What, if anything, did the early modern period have in common with classical antiquity for most people?

 

Perhaps you are unable to answer that question.

How do you prefer to show your appreciation of the amazing and ancient? 

 

Are you amazed by the Warka Vase?

Are you amazed by the Trundholm sun chariot?

Are you amazed by the Nebra sky disk?

Are you amazed by the Chimera of Arezzo?

Does the word grimoire mean anything to you?

 

• The Wonderful Witches of Australia
• Witchery and Trickery
• Never Forget Hecate
• Learning the Truth about Witches

 

What do you know about the Enlightened Society for Future Global History? 

What is amazing and ancient about well-informed kindness?

What is amazing and ancient about the public interest?

 

What do you know about the ethereal practice of digital hospitium?  

 

A problematic situation often arises when someone involved in the situation is untrustworthy.

How have you been investing in trustworthy collaborations?

 

• The Ghost of Queen Adelaide
• The Civility Journalism Circle
• Floating Like a Real Witch

• Matter and Imaginings
• The Enlightened Re-enchantment of the World - Part One

 

Why, in your view, is it important to have an accurate understanding of the past?

When is it most important to appreciate historical accuracy?

Perhaps you appreciate storytime in the library of Frugality Cottage.

How do you try to gain an accurate understanding about how and why beliefs, attitudes and values change over time?

How do you usually assess historical records?

How do you attempt to avoid controversy, and for what reasons?

Every hierarchical human society highlights false versions of history.  

Most people do not learn from history.

Most minds are not free to learn the truth of history.

Only free minds can become good minds. 

How have you been investing in historical accuracy?

How do you help people to understand history better?

Do you know much about the history of societal collapse?

Are you familiar with the term Après moi, le déluge?

All real world leaders are adequately attentive.

How well have you been investing in evidence?

What do you know about the history of texts, the history of art, the history of artifacts, the history of human settlements, the history of human wandering, and the history of human wonderings?

Do you regard history itself as amazing?