The Transgressive Spirit

EARLY SCIENCE & ALCHEMY Paracelsus, the Alchemist Who Wed Medicine to Magic sciencehistory.org/stories/magazi…

Happy Birthday to #Paracelsus! *Alchemist *1493-1541 "Thoughts create a new heaven, a new firmament, a new source of energy, from which new arts flow." "Man is... an extract from all the stars and planets of the whole firmament." Date and artist unknown (Wikimedia).

Happy Birthday to #AnneSexton!! *Poet * 1920-1974 "Need is not quite belief." Elsa Dorfman, Fair Use, c. 1970, Wikimedia

Happy Birthday to Julian of Norwich! *Mystic *1342-1416 “But for I am a woman should I therefore live that I should not tell you the goodness of God?” "All shall be well and all shall be well and all manner of thing shall be well." Photo: Poliphilo, 2012, Public Domain

@ChristnNitemare This guy would make a great sub.

Jesus Christ…

@gundrymd_ Why use a spoon?

Heart Surgeon Begs Americans: "Stop Putting This in Your Coffee"

Happy Birthday #BillyGraham! *Evangelist *1918-2018 "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." Oslo, 1955, Artist Unknown (Wikimedia Commons)

@tdug93 @elonmusk I don't want to agree with this post, but it's obviously true .

The real battle is between the extinctionists and the humanists. Once you see it, you can’t unsee it.

Happy Birthday #PabloPicasso! *Artist *1881-1973 "Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life." 1908: Anonymous, Public Domain (Wikimedia Commons)

Happy Birthday to #TheBab! *Religious Leader *1819-1850 "The path to guidance is one of love and compassion, not of force and coercion. This hath been God's method in the past, and shall continue to be in the future!" "The Bab," date unknown, Public Domain #Babism #Bahai

Happy Birthday to #HaileSelassie!! *Emperor *1892-1975 "We must become bigger than we have been: more courageous, greater in spirit, larger in outlook..." Unknown/Unknown

Happy Birthday to #TomRobbins!! *Writer *Born 1932 “A sense of humor... is superior to any religion so far devised.” Selfie, 2005

@nathaliejacoby1 Running on her own nasty fumes.

Roky Erickson, founding member of The 13th Floor Elevators and a pioneer of the psychedelic rock genre, has died: cos.lv/Ht4n30oRDX9 #RokyErickson

#OnThisDay #Remembering American #singersongwriter Roger Kynard #RokyErickson (July 15, 1947 – May 31, 2019). He was the founder of #13thFloorElevators & a pioneer of the #psychedelicrock In 1968 he was diagnosed w/paranoid schizophrenia & sent to a Houston psychiatric hospital.

Happy Birthday to the late, great Roky Erickson, psychedelic rock pioneer, cofounder of The 13th Floor Elevators, singer-songwriter and all around long-haired genius. Roky was a true artist. Born 7/15/1947. #RokyErickson #RockHonorRoll

Happy Birthday to #RokyErickson! *Rocker *1947-2019 "I've gone through three changes- I thought I was a Christian, then I was the devil, then the third one, where I know who I am you know I feel like I'm an alien." Zatecky, 2022/Ron Baker, 2008

Wait a minute…*no* Jesus and John Wayne and just…*less* Twilight?

@nathaliejacoby1 Ick.