Nick Routledge@nick_routledge
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@sentantiq Paracelsus also understood the role of the ‘pharmakon’, the composite of remedy, poison, and scapegoat. "Sola dosis facit venenum," he said. What distinguishes remedy from poison is dose. And so, in our doctoring, we proceed with caution. m.facebook.com/100002219988748/posts/2313818732035437/

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Quoted byRT @nick_routledge: @Plough The prophet, bodhisattva, shaman, wounded healer, katabatic hero, malamatī, Nīlakaṇṭha, all enter the poisoned center and return, if they return rightly, bearing medicine. The Word becomes pharmakon and pharmakos: medicine and scapegoat, exposing the lie by rising as truth.Quoted by@Plough The prophet, bodhisattva, shaman, wounded healer, katabatic hero, malamatī, Nīlakaṇṭha, all enter the poisoned center and return, if they return rightly, bearing medicine. The Word becomes pharmakon and pharmakos: medicine and scapegoat, exposing the lie by rising as truth.Quoted byRT @nick_routledge: @SherPoint Heresy, of course, to confront forms of psychological and cultural 'stability' characterized by “a pattern of desire unaware of its own hostility" (Allison). No wonder the liberatory threat the peacemaker represents requires sublimating a hornet's nest of vested shadow interests.Quoted by@SherPoint Heresy, of course, to confront forms of psychological and cultural 'stability' characterized by “a pattern of desire unaware of its own hostility" (Allison). No wonder the liberatory threat the peacemaker represents requires sublimating a hornet's nest of vested shadow interests.Quoted byRT @nick_routledge: @islam_texts So, Doctors of Old. "My teaching is like the beating of a poison-smeared drum,” noted the 13th Century Chinese Zen master, Shiqi Zinyue. “That all who hear it, near and far, shall surely perish. But what about the deaf?” And Shiva, of course, "the master of poison and medicine."Quoted by@islam_texts So, Doctors of Old. "My teaching is like the beating of a poison-smeared drum,” noted the 13th Century Chinese Zen master, Shiqi Zinyue. “That all who hear it, near and far, shall surely perish. But what about the deaf?” And Shiva, of course, "the master of poison and medicine."Quoted by@pmarca 1/ Meanwhile, over in #ClassicsTwitter