Spiros Antonopoulos @souljerky.bsky.social · 30/12/2025"Well good luck, sonny. Hate to tell you but the only time 'real' comes into it is when they're shooting at you. In practice, 'real' means dead— anything else, there's always room for some conversation." —Lew Basnight in Shadow Ticket, Thomas Pynchon 030
Spiros Antonopoulos @souljerky.bsky.social · 29/12/2025A troop of 30 monkeys visited me on Christmas. Not sure why they came, what they wanted, or what it meant. Our brief encounter was delightful and frightening, until the kid next door lit a cackle of firecrackers to shoo them away—apparently the proper way to get drunken monkeys to leave. 030
Reposted by Spiros AntonopoulosVisio Smaragdina @visiosmaragdina.bsky.social · 29/12/2025‘The vertuous student’…‘ Satan tempteth him from his Study to evil company’. Student days, good times 0204
Reposted by Spiros AntonopoulosGwyllm Llwydd @gwyllm.bsky.social · 17/12/2025"The true measure of a man is not his intelligence or how high he rises in this freak establishment. No, the true measure of a man is this: how quickly can he respond to the needs of others and how much of himself he can give." - Philip K. Dick 1161
Spiros Antonopoulos @souljerky.bsky.social · 17/12/2025"As an organic, interpersonal, I-thou interaction, there is also something about teaching and learning that is arguably incompatible with capitalism and consumption." read.tarkajournal.com/p/tarka-volu...read.tarkajournal.comTarka Volume 8: On TeachingA letter from the Editor, Stephanie Corigliano 030
Spiros Antonopoulos @souljerky.bsky.social · 17/12/2025More on —“The mushroom’s scientific name is Lanmaoa asiatica, and it provokes “lilliputian hallucinations,” named after the mischievous Lilliputians in the novel Gulliver’s Travels, who are tiny people around 6-inches tall.” themicrodose.substack.com/p/little-peo...themicrodose.substack.comLittle people hallucinations: 5 Questions with mushroom researcher Colin DomnauerDomnauer discusses a mushroom that reliably produces fairy-tale-like visions. 091
Spiros Antonopoulos @souljerky.bsky.social · 09/12/2025A Susuma Yokota listening party at For The Record —the vinyl-only pub in Panjim, Goa #rememberingsusumu #susumuyokota #skintone #yokota #ambient #listeningparty #worldwidelisteningparty #lorecordings #daylightmusic #susumuyokotatribute #cloudhidden #mixmagasia #sakura #yokotaworldlisteningtour 030
Reposted by Spiros AntonopoulosJim Rohan @jimrohanjr.bsky.social · 12/10/2025Seattle. #Holga #filmphotography 31109
Reposted by Spiros AntonopoulosJay Babcock @jaywbabcock.bsky.social · 07/10/2025variety.com/2025/film/ne...variety.comJack Black Signs On as Executive Producer of ’40 Watts From Nowhere,’ Documentary on 1990s L.A. Pirate Radio Station KBLTJack Black has signed on as an executive producer of '40 Watts From Nowhere,' a documentary about the 1990s-era Los Angeles pirate radio station KBLT. 011
Reposted by Spiros AntonopoulosKosmische Chambeaux @cosmicchambo.bsky.social · 30/07/2025gratitude to @souljerky.bsky.social for introducing me to this organic/silicate fusion of jingle-jangly desert ambience and modular synth bliss, hosted by Dallas Acid and featuring Bill Callahan (!) Laraaji (?!) Ariel Kalma (!?!) and Paz Lechantin (!!!) dallasacid.bandcamp.com/album/a-pray...dallasacid.bandcamp.comA Prayer For Peace, by Dallas Acid's Bubble Club5 track album 042
Spiros Antonopoulos @souljerky.bsky.social · 13/06/2025Wrathful Benevolence (A Joyful Noises Jyestha Conjure) www.mixcloud.com/souljerky/jo... A sonicspell of noisy peace through the oppressive forces of Jyestha's powertrip into the darkness of Mula nakshatra, the source of the Cosmos. 050
Spiros Antonopoulos @souljerky.bsky.social · 22/05/2025🌀 Joyful Noises :: NEW MOON :: Mountain time Monday, May 26 before sunrise from4:30–6:30am. #NEXTEPISODE 110
Spiros Antonopoulos @souljerky.bsky.social · 22/05/2025May I rehabituate my social media use patterns towards this place and direction. 000
Spiros Antonopoulos @souljerky.bsky.social · 06/05/2025I was just in Baltimore, but sadly missed this! "Well, who won Saturday’s race? Every team took home some hardware. But the top honor, Grand Mediocre Champion, went to Wheel Horse, a red tractor-like contraption with fins, for finishing in the middle of the pack."nytimes.comA Fantastical Parade of Mobile Sculptures Races Through BaltimoreThe Baltimore Kinetic Sculpture Race attracts thousands of onlookers to its triathlon of wacky human-powered contraptions 020
Reposted by Spiros AntonopoulosJay Babcock @jaywbabcock.bsky.social · 02/03/2025"I would set you free, if I knew how. But it isn't free out here. All the animals, the plants, the minerals, even other kinds of men, are being broken and reassembled every day, to preserve an elite few, who are the loudest to theorize on freedom, but the least free of all." (Gravity's Rainbow) 0143
Spiros Antonopoulos @souljerky.bsky.social · 24/02/2025*Kubjikā, The Erotic Goddess* Sexual Potency,Transformation and Reversal in the Heterodox Theophanies of the Kubjika Tantras by Mark Dyczkowski www.anuttaratrikakula.org/wp-content/u...anuttaratrikakula.org 030
Reposted by Spiros Antonopoulosmolly kiely @mollykiely.bsky.social · 23/02/202512/20 secksiest book cover ever #booksky #20bookchallenge #gravitysrainbow #pynchon 1122
Reposted by Spiros AntonopoulosVisio Smaragdina @visiosmaragdina.bsky.social · 21/02/2025‘Prayer is not a request for something: it is an expression of a mode of being, a means of existing and causing to exist…Prayer is the highest form, the supreme act, of the Creative Imagination.’ HENRY CORBIN Art: Paul (Pavel Ivanov) Mak, An imam in prayer 1302
Spiros Antonopoulos @souljerky.bsky.social · 21/02/2025May ten thousand contemplative gun-toting peace-nicks rise up and convert the bullies to dharmaprotectors or die trying 030
Reposted by Spiros AntonopoulosAriana M @arianam.bsky.social · 18/02/2025Sickness stinks, but Buddhists in the #Himalaya can call on several deities to help heal. This #ThangkaTuesday highlights Ta Chak Khyung Sum (རྟ་ཕྱག་ཁྱུང་གསུམ།), a single deity who packs the power of three: blue Chana Dorje, the green horse head of Tandin, and white Khyung. #tibetanart #buddhism 32510
Spiros Antonopoulos @souljerky.bsky.social · 17/02/2025For a long time I only had a xerox of Nightside of Eden.. Yet it’s imaginings and clarity opened up new ways of perceiving 020
Reposted by Spiros AntonopoulosJeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 16/02/2025"That if they could not have a fierce joy in their struggle, then they were not truly free but governed by fear and doubt." 0897
Reposted by Spiros AntonopoulosMelissa Good & Feral 😾🇺🇦🇨🇦 @meltart.bsky.social · 08/02/2025A street artist in DC is putting up these posters all over the city. I’d love to get one. 18084432186
Reposted by Spiros AntonopoulosPhil Hine @philh.bsky.social · 03/02/2025Here's Mark Dyczkowski in action, expounding the core teachings of nondual Saivism. www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdWG...youtube.comThe Discovery of Shakti: Mark DyczkowskiYouTube video by Science and Nonduality 0215
Spiros Antonopoulos @souljerky.bsky.social · 03/02/2025We were planning to visit him yesterday… Heart broken. ♥️ Such a loss. 110
Reposted by Spiros AntonopoulosJay Babcock @jaywbabcock.bsky.social · 02/02/2025Any attempt to talk about Trump, like Ezra Klein in NYT this morning, that does not mention intimidation, violence and harassment against politicians and officials by his side (call them 'monarchists,' please) is awfully incomplete. For instance-- archive.is/W9WYuarchive.is 161
Reposted by Spiros AntonopoulosPhil Hine @philh.bsky.social · 01/02/2025New blog post. A selection of Yoginī tales (from Kathāsaritsāraga, Yaśatilaka, and Skanda Purāṇa). enfolding.org/tales-of-yog... 0256
Spiros Antonopoulos @souljerky.bsky.social · 02/02/2025“Hear me and make all spirits subject unto me…” Gleeful creative joy beatings of shirts, coins and rudraksha for Saraswati puja consecrations today during Basant Panchami muhurta on Panchkote ghat in Varanasi. Camera rushes from @erikrdavis.bsky.social for @gentlydown.bsky.social 011
Spiros Antonopoulos @souljerky.bsky.social · 01/02/2025Magickal Ganga bathed-beaten-blessed operations. Mauni Amavasya bathings. #Varanasi #Benares #Kashi #KumbhaMela2025 #Prayangraj #Mahakumbhamela #Venus #Jupiter #talisman #amulet #consecration #sigil #bhavan #baptism #spiritualmaterialism #gentlydown @gentlydown.bsky.social 000
Spiros Antonopoulos @souljerky.bsky.social · 22/01/2025“Ram Ram Ram Ram Ram Ram” …above Tulsi Ghat, Varanasi 020
Spiros Antonopoulos @souljerky.bsky.social · 21/01/2025Between temples, sadhana and madness on the Ganges, Assi Ghat, Benares. 000
Reposted by Spiros AntonopoulosPhil Hine @philh.bsky.social · 21/01/2025Bluesky esoteric book challenge. A book per day (it's okay to skip days if you're really busy), in no particular order, until you've shared ALL of the best occult books in your personal library. No explanations, no reviews, just covers! #Books #Esoteric #Occult #esotericbookchallenge 0343
Spiros Antonopoulos @souljerky.bsky.social · 07/01/2025Arriving in Mumbai we embarked on a spiritual quest—our first stop, Siddhi Vinayaka Temple. Seeking blessings, chaotic peace kicked our hearts, we made offerings. Deep resonance vibrated at Bubulnath Temple, charging us & the work. Can u feel it? Join our quest @ Gently Down Project. 030
Reposted by Spiros AntonopoulosPhil Hine @philh.bsky.social · 19/12/2024Mantra thread #4 On Puraścaraṇa, the preliminary ritual for perfecting a mantra. Puraścaraṇa is not so much a single ritual, but an extended period of ritual activity performed until the mantra is “perfected” as evidenced by particular signs. #1 (image: Śricakra by @mariastrutz.bsky.social) 1225
Spiros Antonopoulos @souljerky.bsky.social · 07/12/2024“consciousness transcends space and time” twinkles the recent social media / comedy reemergence of the eye-popping study, 'Analysis and Assessment of The Gateway Process,' drafted in 1983, conducted by US Army Intelligence, made public by the CIA #MonroeInstitute 010
Spiros Antonopoulos @souljerky.bsky.social · 30/11/2024tho i lean more to 'everything is alive and significant' side of this particular fence, i still dig the sentiment (snagged from a beautifulmonsters substack post) 030
Spiros Antonopoulos @souljerky.bsky.social · 29/11/2024"I didn't plan it that way, which is very much like life itself." —Joan Didion 151
Spiros Antonopoulos @souljerky.bsky.social · 22/11/2024Early vid of Sharathji leading the Mangala Mantra, Ashtanga Yoga’s closing prayer. Old shots of Sharath warm my heart in his wake. This was filmed at the Broome Street Ganesha Temple in the early 2000s, when I was chai wallah. #SriGaneshaTeaStall #SharathJois #AshtangaYoga #MangalaMantra 051
Spiros Antonopoulos @souljerky.bsky.social · 19/10/2023Yesterday I was so hungry and I paid so much that I ate a sandwhich which had the unfortunate smell of a cold. 100
Spiros Antonopoulos @souljerky.bsky.social · 18/10/2023Walking down the Rogue River last week talking to my brother about making offerings to the ancestors & then this popped-up. #ChickenOfTheWoods yum 030
Spiros Antonopoulos @souljerky.bsky.social · 19/09/2023This is a very big deal.bit.lyJustin Trudeau Accuses India of a Killing on Canadian SoilIn a rare and explosive allegation, the Canadian leader said the Indian government was behind the death of a Canadian citizen who advocated turning part of India into an independent Sikh nation. 000