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The Stinging Nettle Mystery School

@midnightmuse72.bsky.social
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The Stinging Nettle Mystery School is the combination of all things which bring me joy in life. Studying mysticism, writing, creating, nature, philosophy, psychology, Jyotish and Druidism. I'm the teacher and the student.

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Béa Gonzalez @sophiacycles.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
“Accepting new consciousness requires devotion, courage of the heart in the spirit of life, the willingness to accept suffering and despair, and our enduring the cycle of transformation.”~Bud Harris
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Béa Gonzalez @sophiacycles.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
What the creative person and the mad person have in common is that they are not confined to a single self located in the ego, but their subjectivity extends across a spectrum of possibilities.~David Tacey, 𝘏𝘰𝘸 𝘵𝘰 𝘙𝘦𝘢𝘥 𝘑𝘶𝘯𝘨
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Béa Gonzalez @sophiacycles.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
We rarely hear the inward music, but we're all dancing to it nevertheless.~Rumi, Selected Poems [Translated by Coleman Barks]
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Béa Gonzalez @sophiacycles.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
“Whenever men have looked for something solid on which to found their lives, they have chosen not the facts in which the world abounds, but the myths of an immemorial imagination.” ~Joseph Campbell, Primitive Mythology: The Masks of God
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Béa Gonzalez @sophiacycles.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
“For the hero, fear is a challenge and a task, because only boldness can deliver from fear. And if the risk is not taken, the meaning of life is somehow violated, and the whole future is condemned to hopeless staleness, to a drab grey lit only by will-o’-the-wisps.~CG Jung, Symbols of Transformation
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The Stinging Nettle Mystery School @midnightmuse72.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Béa Gonzalez @sophiacycles.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
"The central demand is to surrender our exclusivity: everything that defines us as against each other.”~Joseph Campbell, Reflections on the Art of Living
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Béa Gonzalez @sophiacycles.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Plato described the two different ways of approaching truth as mythos and logos. Mythos is a more silent, intuitive way of looking at reality and logos is more of a scientific, discursive, logical way, and we need both. ~Karen Armstrong
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The Stinging Nettle Mystery School @midnightmuse72.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
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The Stinging Nettle Mystery School @midnightmuse72.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
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Thea Euryphaessa @theaeuryphaessa.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
On spirituality as the art of transfiguration.
Spirituality is the art of transfiguration. We should not force ourselves to change by hammering our lives into any predetermined shape. We do not need to operate according to the idea of a predetermined programme or plan for our lives. Rather, we need to practise a new art of attention to the inner rhythm of our days and lives. This attention brings a new awareness of our own human and divine presence.

— Richard Rohr, Immortal Diamond: The Search for Our True Self
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Béa Gonzalez @sophiacycles.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Synchronicity is Jung’s coinage for what we can call ‘meaningful coincidence’, when the inner & outer worlds reflect each other with such accuracy and obvious meaning that to resort to mere coincidence as an explanation is useless.~Gary Lachman, Lost Knowledge of the Imagination
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Béa Gonzalez @sophiacycles.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Alan Watts says that the loss of paradoxical thinking is the great blindness of our civilization, which is what many of us believe happened when we repressed the feminine side of our lives as the inferior side.~Richard Rohr
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The Stinging Nettle Mystery School @midnightmuse72.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
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Béa Gonzalez @sophiacycles.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
My aim is to bring about a psychic state in which my patient begins to experiment with his own nature—a state of fluidity, change and growth, in which there is no longer anything eternally fixed and hopelessly petrified.~CG Jung, Modern Man in Search of a Soul
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Thea Euryphaessa @theaeuryphaessa.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Soul is resonance. . . . We often use the language of soul phenomena without realising we are doing so. We speak of 'being in tune' with someone, or 'being on the same wavelength'. Something about a connection with another person just feels right. It clicks. — Robert Sardello, The Power of Soul
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Béa Gonzalez @sophiacycles.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
All mystical traditions view the enlightened person as someone who has seen beyond the illusion of opposites.~Howard Sasportas
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Béa Gonzalez @sophiacycles.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
There is a great deal of pain in life and perhaps the only pain that can be avoided is the pain that comes from trying to avoid pain.~R.D. Laing, 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘋𝘪𝘷𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘥 𝘚𝘦𝘭f
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Béa Gonzalez @sophiacycles.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
"Emotions need your direct involvement. They don’t need to be felt forever, or obsessively, but just long enough to have their say. When they know that you’ve really got the message, they disappear. If you don’t get the message, however, they stick around and wreak havoc." ~Raphael Cushnir
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Béa Gonzalez @sophiacycles.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Anyone who undergoes a development of consciousness is immediately assailed by a sense of abandonment and excommunication from most of the values that formerly sustained him. The old kingdom dissolves beneath and he is left to feel exiled and without any container for life.~RA Johnson
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Béa Gonzalez @sophiacycles.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
The weaker the consciousness of a person is, the more he or she is likely to get fixated in projection, even when the reality has long departed from it, and he or she will remain captive to the power of history, the agenda of longing, and the wheel of repetition.~James Hollis
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Thea Euryphaessa @theaeuryphaessa.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Your soul is both of you and of the world. The world cannot be full until you become fully yourself. The soul corresponds to a niche, a distinctive place in nature, like a vibrant space of shimmering potential waiting to be discovered, claimed, . . . occupied. — Bill Plotkin, Soulcraft
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Center for Action and Contemplation @cac-org.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
“God is the infinity of love; therefore our love for each other is an incarnate manifestation of that infinite love, which is incarnate in our love for each other. The Song of Songs expresses this love song of the heart.” —James Finley Read along as we explore the Song of Songs. buff.ly/M3VMkPG
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Béa Gonzalez @sophiacycles.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Contradiction is static, while paradox makes room for grace and mystery.~Robert A. Johnson, Living Your Unlived Life
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