nobu '

talk to me about spiritual and physical health '

[nobu ' @nobuviii]

i'm interested in the "professionalization" of "energetic healing" '

it has been conspicuous to me for a while that there r all of these "workshops" and "name brand lineages" of new age varieties on the one hand — and on the other hand ancient healing traditions where lineage is formed from a trail of teachers who taught students who became teachers and who now teach and practice out of those lineages '

it's also been conspicuous to me that many of these /lineages/ end up being studied by people who have studied psychology or medicine or psychiatry and been licensed to practice in those fields — and then end up being /absorbed/ by those fields — and to me ? especially when it comes to shamanic lineages ? in the process they r distorted with regard to —

1/ the self healing requirements of practitioners who r ordained to give the gift of the work / medicine '

2/ how energy or money is exchanged for the work '

3/ the barrier of entry for traditional lineage holders (e.g. learning psychology or medicine) is often financially far too high and or time-consuming and or /doesn't actually improve that person's ability to do the work/ '

i'm interested in what professionalization of /energy healing/ looks like — and i've been talking to a lot of people about it for a long time — and i know it's important bc i've been thwarted many times by what i will call /interference/ from /thought forms/ aka "demons" '

i would like to hear from others on this — both fellow practitioners of "energetic healing" and those who r interested and or skeptical about the field '

topics i would like to hold space for include —

1/ what a code of ethics / principles of practice look like '

2/ what is the common theoretical / possibly-empirically-verifiable basis of this work ? ' how do we know it's working ? ' how do we know if it's not working ? '

3/ what does accountability aka "trust & safety" look like ? (if u've been following @thebroomradio's work on #safety or #thestick then u may have some idea how /i/ feel about it '

4/ what does a path to legitimization or even insurance-coverage look like ? '

if u r interested in discussing these topics with me, plz dm me (@nobuhojimichaan) or @intrepidbodies or @AnnaFalby or @thebroomradio ' or ? reply in the comments with questions or remarks ' we would love to hear from u '

#shoptok '

[nobu ' @nobuviii]

@inkolore_ i don't know if it's considered autistic, either clinically or in the popular conception of autism : what's operative to me is that it can b worked on, ime, so that it doesn't cause upset or causes less upset over time '

[nobu ' @nobuviii]

i can relate to this '

it's tricky also bc there r a lot of things that white people won't say to me bc i'm not white, so there r limits to my exposure to racism : i have white friends who say that white people often "test them" by saying racist things about other people to them '

also, there clearly /r/ racist people, and the people who r against mass migration tend not to b concerned about british and european migration, and so on '

anyway, i see people in australia repeating the mistakes of left(ish) usa in the lead-up to the 2016 and 2024 federal elections (writing off people as racist or backward or deplorable) and it concerns me '

[nobu ' @nobuviii]

ideas can b universalizing but the social intelligence necessary to organize and actualize them is underdeveloped '

[nobu ' @nobuviii]

this is fatal lmao '

[Ashok Kumar @comrade_kumar_]

“I was quoting [Italian Marxist and co-founder the Italian Communist Party] Antonio Gramsci”

[nobu ' @nobuviii]

@maximumwelfare typeof lady who knows nothing about biology or the banana famine b like

https://t.co/pIW9n8expK '

[Alfred ‘The Great’ II @d_black_messiah]

Let me educate you slowly, so nothing is lost in translation.

You said Europe was rich before colonisation. Rich by what standard? The same Europe that was crawling through the Dark Ages? Illiterate, plague-ridden, eating off dirt floors, while Timbuktu was running a university that enrolled 25,000 students?

Let’s talk about what “rich” means.

While Europe was in intellectual darkness, the Moors (Africans and Arabs from North Africa), crossed into Iberia in 711 AD and civilised them. They brought algebra, astronomy, medicine, architecture, philosophy. The University of Al-Qarawiyyin in Morocco, founded in 859 AD, is the oldest continuously operating university on earth. Not Oxford, not Cambridge, but Africa!

When European scholars wanted to learn, they went to Cordoba, a city the Moors built, where the library held 400,000 volumes at a time when the largest library in Christian Europe had maybe 400 books.

Four hundred books!

The Greeks you love to quote, Pythagoras, Thales, Solon, Plato, all travelled to Egypt to study. Herodotus documented it, Diodorus Siculus documented it, even Aristotle acknowledged it. The mystery schools of Egypt were the intellectual foundation of what Europe later called “Western civilisation.” Greece didn’t invent wisdom, they imported it from us.

And before any of that,

Mali Empire, Songhai Empire, Great Zimbabwe, Kush, Axum, Carthage, the Kingdom of Benin, whose bronze casting in the 13th century was so precise that when Europeans first saw the Benin Bronzes, they refused to believe Africans made them. They invented a mythical lost civilisation to explain it. Because the alternative, that we were brilliant, broke their entire narrative.

Now here is what your argument conveniently omits.

When Europe arrived, they didn’t meet savages. They met civilisations. So they did what colonisers do, they destroyed the evidence.

The Great Library of Mali in Timbuktu, Sankore University, housed between 700,000 and 1 million manuscripts covering mathematics, astronomy, medicine, law, and theology. French colonial forces and subsequent chaos burned, looted, and scattered what centuries had built. Scholars are still recovering manuscripts from the sand.

The Benin Bronzes (3,000 to 5,000 masterworks) were seized by British forces in the Punitive Expedition of 1897. Stolen, carted to London, sold to museums across Europe. Some are only now being returned, 130 years later, after the world shamed them enough.

The Alexandria Library? Burned.

Carthage? Rome didn’t just defeat it. They salted the earth, they wanted no memory of it.

The Museum of Cairo, Nubian sites, burial monuments… looted systematically, catalogued in European museums, repackaged as their discovery of our heritage.

And Timbuktu’s Ahmad Baba Institute, one of the greatest repositories of African intellectual heritage, the jihadists who attacked it in 2012 were themselves downstream of the chaos that colonial border-drawing and resource extraction created.

This is not clout chasing , this is accounting.

A man burns your house down, takes your furniture, and then mocks you for being homeless. That is not a victimhood mindset.

You want us to “fix our shithole countries”? We are. But let’s be honest about who broke them. The Berlin Conference of 1884, where Europeans sat in a room and divided a continent they did not own, splitting ethnic groups, merging enemies, designing dysfunction… that was not ancient history. The grandparents of people alive today were born into that world.

[nobu ' @nobuviii]

https://t.co/fELqTsRwdH needs a notify-me feature '

[nobu ' @nobuviii]

@omgsidewalks mmm i agree '

what would u call the attributes that it /does/ reward ? '

i was thinking of a few things : like audacity, or mendacity '

[nobu ' @nobuviii]

@sarabollman if we're doin integrative work i feel like it's all the fukin time tbh '

[nobu ' @nobuviii]

@AlexKrusz 💀💀💀 '

[nobu ' @nobuviii]

i don't even have a brother '

[nobu ' @nobuviii]

i feel like 90% of the utility of wearing jewellery as a man is to signal that ur not gonna fight '

i put v little weight in this feeling '

[nobu ' @nobuviii]

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[nobu ' @nobuviii]

@LUFCMOTcom yeh it's certainly a v interesting style of play ' sorta lulls mid blocks into drifting out of spaces that he passes into ' pretty cool to watch '

[nobu ' @nobuviii]

may capitalism eat itself '

[nobu ' @nobuviii]

a new, environmentally friendly ai just dropped and it keeps ur data private ! '

[isaacs @izs]

New ai psychosis just dropped: return of the pre Bronze Age bicameral mind

[nobu ' @nobuviii]

@OmarArtand1 @grok do u think this is a real account ? '

[nobu ' @nobuviii]

@AMAZlNGNATURE i think this is more nuanced '

[Himanshu Tyagi, IFS @Himanshutyg_ifs]

In primates, gestures like placing a hand on the face or resting the chin on the hands tend to increase following aggressive disputes or social conflicts.

Gorillas have highly complex neural networks & can process past social interactions & disputes.

Unlike chimpanzees, who often resort to physical touch to reconcile after conflicts, gorillas frequently sit quietly near their partners to diffuse tension.

We share over 98% of our DNA with gorillas.

Our limbic system, the part of the brain responsible for processing emotions like fear, anger, stress, & frustration, is remarkably similar to a gorilla's.

And just as it happens with us, when a gorilla sits in a stressed posture for long, others often come to console, mediate, & ease the tension.

These are ancient gestures, ones we still share with them.

[nobu ' @nobuviii]

@KlawzOut @AMAZlNGNATURE they did say /appearing/ deep in thought '

but yeh the first line is misleading '