Esoteric Iceberg of Religious Syncretism

Mindfulness Transcendental Meditation Enneagram Psychologization of the Bible "Astrology" Epic of Gilgamesh exegesis "Yoga" Mushroom stuff (?) Flood myth Collective unconscious Neo-Vedanta Solstice celebration Western Vipassana Deus sive natura Blavatsky Christian Tarot Chaoskampf Christ as Helios Siberian shamanism Eternal return Mount Meru Göttingen Religionsgeschichtliche Schule Yeats' vision Pomméi Misteri frescoes Chaldean oracles Rhineland mysticism Russia and Scandinavia never Christianized Andalusian syncretism Mysterium Cosmographicum Agartha Avramescu Cambridge Ritualists Christ as Mithra Attis-Adonis-Osiris Bacchus Judaeus Manu's sacrifice Three magi were brahmins Convent of San Marco The universal monastery Birds' head haggadah Maryamiyya Slavic dual faith Tibetan rosary Androgyne cosmogony Surrealist monarchism Atash Behram Christ as "true vine" Enoch Barlaam and Josaphat Abulafian papacy The bear and the boar Platonic hypostasis Bön hats Christofer-Anubis Aurora consurgens Orphism in Gaul Orthodox Sabbatianism Rex Nemonensis Saint Sara-la-Kâli Akhenatan phenotype Christ as moth "Zoharic Trinity" Agnostos Theos Nestorian swastika crosses found in Mongolia Vajrayana Neoplatonism Yoga (real) Astrology (real) ਦੇ ਝੂਠੇ ਚੇਲੇ ਮਤਿ ਛੱਡਣ ਦੀ ਗੱਲ Luria at the banks of the Nile Christ as whale "Adonis is dying" The Fourfold Bacchus of the Ganges The beauty of fruit trees Byzantine bird-cults Aristotle deathbed conversion to Judaism Va-Avo "Pan is dead" Vedic horse sacrifice Mihi videtur ut palea...

An elaborate iceberg chart descends from mainstream spiritual ideas such as mindfulness and astrology into increasingly obscure religious, mythological, occult, and syncretic theories. The joke is that the deepest layers become absurdly specific and intellectually esoteric, while the portraits on the right suggest progressively darker or more eccentric levels of knowledge. It is used as a reaction to someone presenting an impossibly deep rabbit hole of comparative religion and occult history.

• @eternalclassic / 32272 2023-05-08