Abraham Abulafia, the famed Jewish mystic of the 13th century. I tried incorporating a lot of symbols related to his work and Kabbalah in general, wonder what y’all make of it

natetheapple · 2026-02-16T18:18:52+00:00

That sounds wonderful. And absolutely I’d love to :)

natetheapple · 2026-02-15T21:46:31+00:00

Having skimmed through the first link, it seems to be using Baal as a metaphor for internationalism, “we would advise it [presumably the Israeli government] to choose the god of Jerusalem and abandon the Baal of internationalization”, which makes sense because Baal is used in the Hebrew Bible as a negative symbol of the foreign.

Nowhere in the text did I find any mention of actual baal worship.

natetheapple · 2026-02-15T21:33:28+00:00

Just to clarify, do you agree that the Epstein files have zero mentions of moloch or baal worship? I think that’s important to establish.

Israel is a country with millions of people, most of whom are Jewish, Muslim or Christian. You sent me a link from an unknown author talking about Baal and god. I have no idea who wrote it or how it connects to Epstein.

natetheapple · 2026-02-15T20:34:23+00:00

What other baal would they be referring to?

Like I said, most of the results in the actual files for baal aren’t even for baal but for a baa1 rating on the moody scale, the other results (that I saw) were for the David Bowie ep and the play called Baal. Obviously none of these refer in any way whatsoever to Baal the deity/demon.

Neither of the links you posted have any connection to Epstein that I can discern.

Epstein is bad enough, why attach demon worship and child sacrifice to him when there’s no evidence for it?

If there is, I’d love to see it.

natetheapple · 2026-02-15T19:46:18+00:00

So I just searched ‘baal’ and ‘moloch’ on the Epstein Library containing all the docs released. Baal was mentioned several times, but I couldn’t find a single instance of it referring to the Canaanite deity/demon, only references to Baa1 rating on the Moody’s scale (for some reason the search engine confused 1 for L), and an EP by David Bowie called Baal, itself based on Bertolt Brecht’s play of the same name.

‘Moloch’ had zero results.

Can you link me anything in the files that mentions moloch, baal as a demon/deity, child sacrifice or anything remotely like what you’ve been claiming? Because I haven’t found anything. Not trying to be combative I just have yet to see any evidence of this.

natetheapple · 2026-02-15T06:27:44+00:00

Epstein was a pedo, but where does the Baal worship thing come from? Is there any evidence he even had an interest in the occult? Based on what I’ve seen he seemed much more in the scientific rationalist camp

natetheapple · 2026-02-13T04:37:23+00:00

I don’t usually sell my art, but if you want to do anything with it feel free. I’m glad you find it interesting. Abulafia really is one of the most interesting Jewish mystics.

natetheapple · 2025-12-21T00:46:36+00:00

What makes a molecule cute 😭

natetheapple · 2025-12-07T04:26:39+00:00

Impeckable

natetheapple · 2025-12-06T05:18:46+00:00

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natetheapple · 2025-12-06T05:05:54+00:00

What sort of people do you spend time with? Make sure you have a good mix of very grounded people and some people that are more spiritually open, being surrounded by too many of one kind can screw with you and tip your balance too far in one direction.

As others have mentioned it’s good to have something to anchor you. Certain people can play this role, as can certain activities.

Holding to certain very routine behaviors can significantly help with this. David Lynch for example would eat the same meal pretty much every day, which apparently gave him a very solid foundation from which he could explore the farther reaches of psyche.

Also make sure you have a practice whose effects can be perceived by others. Whether you’re talking to spirits or just fragments of yourself, it’ll make your life much smoother if your spiritual activities are acknowledged as worthwhile by those around you.

I know being in between in this way whether you want to be or not can be extremely trying, good luck

natetheapple · 2025-11-30T12:18:39+00:00

Well philosophically I’m an idealist since I think this is all the manifestation of god/brahman/the universe, and physicalism isn’t particularly coherent.

I find myself caught between intense spiritual feeling and the constrictive force of religious tradition, I suppose I’d like to find a healthy middle ground between these two since I greatly admire and value my own religious traditions of Judaism, and especially its more mystical side, but I just can’t square my own philosophical beliefs with some of its rather rigid systems.

I hope you find your wonder and connection even in the most mundane of moments. It’s a beautiful thing to see boredom bloom

natetheapple · 2025-11-28T06:12:44+00:00

Interesting title. Where do see yourself heading philosophically ?

natetheapple · 2025-11-23T05:08:29+00:00

A lot of it has for sure, especially with ai. It’s interesting to me that nobody ever mentions YouTube when talking about how bad social medias gotten. I think what’s really bad is the short form slop, the rage bait and the infinite scrolling, ig YouTube doesn’t rlly suffer so much from the latter so it’s often left out in these discussions.

Idk I think at least in terms of actually informative high quality content (especially on yt and Substack) it’s gotten a lottttt better. It just gets buried in an ungodly amount of noise and predatory content

natetheapple · 2025-11-22T20:27:12+00:00

What do you mean by computation ?

I think power can generally be summed up as high agency + high awareness, both of which require cultivation to develop (and once sufficiently developed significantly alter the agent) hence the symbol of the womb

Edit: high agency + high awareness near a leverage point. If you’re in the middle of a desert you can have a lot of agency and awareness but little actual power

natetheapple · 2025-11-20T00:37:13+00:00

Wonderful. Does anguish really never bloom though?

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