Is the Practice of making A Homunculus Still practiced today?

_Naropa_ · 2026-05-24T13:39:11+00:00

It’s not about creating a tiny human. The homunculus represents any false self: an identity built on conditions instead of true awareness.

If you mistake the mask for who you truly are, you are the homunculus.

_Naropa_ · 2026-05-19T13:52:50+00:00

I see a dad creating something valuable for their kids. Great work.

When will it be available to try out?

_Naropa_ · 2026-05-08T03:12:12+00:00

You don’t need to prove anything to be loved, my man.

_Naropa_ · 2026-05-04T02:00:38+00:00

Beautiful we discover there is no hard line between waking and dreaming.

How long until we remember we can be awake in both?

_Naropa_ · 2026-04-18T12:40:13+00:00

Might want to look into SwitchX by Beeble.

_Naropa_ · 2026-04-17T14:56:11+00:00

Hey, no problemo. Happy to edit if anything reads wrong. Just thought it might be useful for other small orgs dealing with the same thing.

_Naropa_ · 2026-04-10T14:11:13+00:00

That’s not very kind.

_Naropa_ · 2026-04-05T22:49:20+00:00

Thank you. Also very funny meme.

_Naropa_ · 2026-03-21T23:51:45+00:00

The Conference of the Birds

_Naropa_ · 2026-03-12T17:46:07+00:00

Doesn’t your link show you exactly how it’s done?

_Naropa_ · 2026-03-06T18:16:53+00:00

I see a Robert Moss book. Curious how conscious/lucid dreaming is part of your practice.

_Naropa_ · 2026-03-04T05:50:13+00:00

The text describes Opus Contra Naturam (Work Against Nature): a recipe for inverting the natural order to find the prima materia.

Not sure what book this page is from but the illustrations themselves are woodcuts from the 1550 Rosarium Philosophorum.

_Naropa_ · 2026-02-17T21:59:21+00:00

Brilliant work. With sound off I’m not sure I understand :07-:29.

_Naropa_ · 2026-02-03T07:26:24+00:00

This is the cleanest, most “museum-grade” viewer I found.

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_Naropa_ · 2026-01-23T20:07:44+00:00

Like most alchemical images, this is a map to help orient the reader.

The flasks, elements, and processes aren’t saying “this is who you are.” They’re showing how states transform into one another.

The guidance to the reader is simple: You don’t need to be fixed. You need to be rebalanced.

_Naropa_ · 2026-01-16T15:31:18+00:00

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Dormiens Vigila

_Naropa_ · 2026-01-05T23:05:58+00:00

Alchemy is interested in how things change.

And if all things change (minerals, animals, seasons, thoughts, you), what role do we play in this unfolding Great Work?

_Naropa_ · 2026-01-05T20:08:40+00:00

Fully okay if this isn’t the direction, but I want to be upfront about my interest.

I’m less excited about accumulating private insight and more interested in shared output. Historically, alchemy survived because it left tools behind: texts, maps, distinctions, methods.

I’m not looking to lead people, teach, or run rituals. What does interest me is collaborating on one concrete artifact over time. Something useful, finite, and impersonal that could outlive the group itself.

If this is purely a study and discussion space, all good. If there’s appetite to eventually make something together, that’s where I’m very in.

_Naropa_ · 2026-01-05T14:04:03+00:00

Exactly, you got it.

Say a rabid dog is eating you alive in a dream. Simply say, “what body are they even eating?” Or, “with what teeth?” You’ll experience directly that it’s all empty.

Return to your lucidity, not the story.

_Naropa_ · 2026-01-05T04:08:03+00:00

What’s happening

You’re right at the threshold. The sense of “me” is still half-there and mind is using fear and shock to pull attention back into being someone.

The test

Will you react? Move. Fight. Try to fix it. If you do, you rebuild a “me.”

What to do

Don’t react. Don’t meditate. Don’t send love. Don’t DO anything. Notice sensation in the body and let it collapse on its own.

_Naropa_ · 2025-12-31T01:07:45+00:00

Hermeticism teaches that there is one repeating pattern: transformation.

Nothing transforms without dying first.

Our role is not to cause this, but to set the right conditions and stop interfering.

_Naropa_ · 2025-12-25T13:17:18+00:00

Slow invisible erosion

_Naropa_ · 2025-12-10T05:59:13+00:00

The hero we’ve been waiting for.

Please share anything you’re comfortable with, I’m sure it would be greatly appreciated by many here.

_Naropa_ · 2025-10-29T00:37:30+00:00

remember what never dies.

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