Nine

solve et coagula 𓂀

[♰ 𝙽𝚊𝚎𝚝𝚘 @fw_naetoblaq]

If you don’t actively shape the life you desire each day, you’ll eventually wake up to find that years have slipped by unnoticed.

[Nine @eye9five]

even through the chaos all is divine

[Samrah @_Chemist1]

If you can spot PATTERNS in people you’re already playing a different game.

[Nicholas Fabiano, MD @NTFabiano]

Emotional suppression is associated with an earlier death.

[Ṣọlá @Incredible_Sola]

Yoruba ancestors knew of this concept centuries ago called "agedegbe meji aiye ati ọrun".

I'm asking again, how much of our ancestral knowledge was destroyed and bastardized by colonialism?

[Aristo @aristomarinetti]

Scaring the hoes with esoteric wisdom and knowledge

[Nine @eye9five]

we gatekeep the mysteries

[Carnivore Aurelius ©🥩 ☀️🦙 @AlpacaAurelius]

wow, blocking mobile phone internet for just 2 weeks:

- reversed 10 years of brain cognitive aging
- reduced depression MORE than antidepressants

before taking any drug, go amish for a week

[soli @solisolsoli]

Everyone is going through something by Luca Ponsato

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

You’re 35. Someone raises their voice and suddenly you’re 7 years old again, sitting at the kitchen table, trying to disappear. Your brain is literally reverting to the age you were when the original wound happened.

Neuroscientist Joseph LeDoux at NYU found that your brain has a fear shortcut. Sensory information hits your amygdala (the brain’s alarm system) before it ever reaches the part that thinks logically. The alarm fires in about 12 milliseconds. Rational thought takes over 250. In someone carrying old trauma, the alarm wins every time. Your body reacts before your mind even knows what happened.

Bessel van der Kolk’s team put trauma survivors in brain scanners and watched what happens during a flashback. Three things go wrong at once. The amygdala floods the body with stress hormones, preparing you to fight or run. The prefrontal cortex, the part of your brain that says “calm down, you’re safe, this is 2026,” goes quiet. And Broca’s area, the region that lets you put thoughts into words, shuts off entirely. Van der Kolk compared it to having a stroke. Trauma survivors sitting frozen and silent in emergency rooms aren’t choosing not to speak. The brain region for language has gone offline.

The missing piece is the hippocampus. It’s the part of your brain that tags memories with a time and place, filing them as “this happened years ago.” Chronic stress hormones physically shrink it. MRI scans of PTSD patients consistently show this. When your hippocampus can’t do its job, your brain stops distinguishing a 20-year-old memory from something happening right now. That’s why a slamming door in 2026 can put you right back in a room from 1998. Your brain genuinely cannot tell the difference.

The CDC ran the largest study on childhood trauma ever done. 64% of American adults report at least one adverse childhood experience. Those who had four or more were 12 times more likely to attempt suicide, develop depression, or struggle with addiction. The annual cost: $14.1 trillion.

The good news: this isn’t always permanent. A study of PTSD patients found that after treatment, the hippocampus grew back by 4.6%. The part of the brain that files memories as “the past” can be rebuilt.

[Jay Anderson @TheProjectUnity]

Filmmaker David Lynch's Diagram for Transcendental Consciousness is one of the greatest, easiest to understand explanations for how our reality is made of MIND first, MATTER second.

I promise this is genuinely worth your time.

It's fantastic.

[Giokielicious @jokieliu]

Translation of the Chinese comment:

Revolution begins with yourself. An egg broken from the outside is food; broken from the inside, it's new life.

[gabrielle @legitimatetiger]

people really don’t understand how big of a deal quantum entanglement is. literal proof that focused observation affects outcomes bc everything that exists is interwoven by an infinite cosmic web and folks still say manifestation is bs… baby thats just how the universe works lol

[Georgina Rose 🌌 @daatdarling]

“Science is always discovering odd scraps of magical wisdom and making a tremendous fuss about its cleverness.” -Aleister Crowley

[claudia ☆ @4ui12i124u]

checking twitter really feels like u are microdosing mass psychosis wow

[Georgina Rose 🌌 @daatdarling]

During this liminal time before new years, take time to reflect, contemplate, and do deep shadow work. It is seasonally appropriate and the Saturnian pull of Capricorn season makes it especially potent.

[ༀ Koriuma @Koriumaa]

The true alchemy is the mastery of your nervous system.

[B… @branmattic]

Not having multiple perspectives.

[🎀 planet clarke 🎀 @planetclarke]

Being racist