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TIL Paschal Beverly Randolph, considered the first to introduce erotic
alchemy to North America, promoted sex magic to improve health, love,
women’s empowerment, and intelligent offspring. He referred God as both
male and female and also believed bodies ran on electric currents, moved
by magnetism.
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|u/Shiplord13 - 9 hours
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|The first American Sex Wizard.
|u/actuarally - 8 hours
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|Paschal: I'm a WHAAT??
|u/entrepenurious - 10 hours
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|>Like many Spiritualists of his era, he lectured in favor of the
|abolition of slavery; after emancipation, he taught literacy to freed
|slaves in New Orleans. >... was an avid promoter of birth control
|during a time when it was largely against the law to mention this topic.
|>In his more underground publications, he wrote that church and marriage
|were oppressive forces that could be overthrown with the power of love
|in a world-wide revolution. not bad.
|u/klone_free - 8 hours
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|They say you can't judge a person outside of their time, then you get
|these folk
|u/bigbangbilly - 8 hours
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|Like even without evidence to act on, accidentally right
|u/thatdamnedfly - 8 hours
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|I want a movie about him, and he's played by Matt Berry.
|u/wakethenight - 8 hours
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|Needs more upvotes.
|u/Thin_K - 1 hour
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|Goddamn these magic sex pants!
|u/wizoztn - 8 hours
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|Or Leo, since they look similar. However, I’ll watch Matt Berry play
|in literally anything
|u/amigos_amigos_amigos - 10 hours
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|He also shares initials with a certain beverage that promotes love, sex
|and magnetism (especially in college)
|u/FloppyObelisk - 10 hours
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|Around my area we call it Trailerpark Tea
|u/69Centhalfandhalf - 10 hours
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| Best comment this week
|u/on_spikes - 5 hours
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|please explain
|u/Fertile_Arachnid_163 - 4 hours
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|“PBR”
|u/HorriblePooetry - 9 hours
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|Blood sugar baby, he's magic, sex magic!
|u/illbanmyself - 9 hours
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|He was kind of not wrong on the electrical current thing. Resting
|potential. It's a bit of a stretch but I'll allow it.
|u/FocalorLucifuge - 9 hours
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|For the electrical part, it's not a stretch at all. It's not just
|resting potential (equilibrium state), human nerves work on action
|potentials which is a disturbance from the equilibrium state. The
|action potential (which is a literal voltage) travels down neuronal
|axons. Transmission between nerves occurs via neurotransmitters, which
|are chemical, but the release of these chemicals is voltage dependent
|and the receiving end of the synapse gets triggered in an electrical
|fashion when the chemicals bind to the membrane there. Voluntary
|skeletal muscles also get triggered in a similar way, and the actual
|contraction involves calcium currents. The heart muscle involves lots
|of ion currents, especially calcium flows. There are conductive fibers
|throughout the heart. The whole point of an ECG is to get a
|macroscopic view of the electrical activity of the heart, in order to
|deduce abnormalities of rhythm, conduction or vitality of various
|parts of the heart. Electricity does a lot of heavy lifting in our
|bodies. Electric currents don't just have to involve electrons as
|charge carriers. In our bodies, electrolytes (ions) serve as the
|principal charge carriers. We are electromechanical machines with
|biochemical assists. As far as magnetism goes, that's a bridge too
|far. The evidence for human magnetoception is very scanty. I did see a
|paper in a 2022 scientific article published in *Nature* that purports
|to show some evidence of this, but I think it's pretty much fringe at
|this point. But biomagnetism is pretty well-established in other
|organisms.
|u/GeneReddit123 - 7 hours
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|Going even deeper, every object, force, and interaction we ever
|experience, with the exception of gravity and nuclear
|weapons/power/decay, is caused by electromagnetism. All forms of
|life, all mechanical systems, all materials, all molecular
|structures, all chemical reactions, all light, heat, and sound, etc.
|u/earthcitizen7 - 5 hours
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|I believe that gravity is not a separate force, but part of the em
|spectrum. I think that this would solve a lot of the problems in
|science, if they stopped thinking that gravity was a unique
|force... Use your Free Will to LOVE!...it will help more than you
|know
|u/More-Talk-2660 - 9 hours
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|I'm just here for the sex magic, where my witches at?
|u/xikissmjudb - 7 hours
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|>his first wife was named Mary Jane Nice.
|u/69edgy420 - 9 hours
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|He was a Rosicrucian. Nice.
|u/sodangshedonger - 5 hours
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|Im gonna name my next pet after this guy. What an awesome legacy.
|u/AdamWest1966 - 6 hours
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|Sounds like a good lay
|u/flyart - 10 hours
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|Sounds like a failed cult leader.
|u/sanguinesvirus - 10 hours
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|pretty standard occultism tbh
|u/EllisDee3 - 10 hours
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|Jungian active imagination promoting femanist and humanist ideals.
|u/gearstars - 8 hours
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|>Slaanesh has entered the chat
|u/Dom_Shady - 3 hours
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|He looks like the child of Orson Welles and Steven Seagal.
|u/Recent_Page8229 - 1 hour
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|I want to party with that dude.
|u/Exiledbrazillian - 6 hours
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|Look like something that Terrence Howard used to said.
|u/EphemeralCroissant - 7 hours
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|Jeez, the things people will say to get laid
|u/Fertile_Arachnid_163 - 4 hours
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|See also, Crowley
|u/Fertile_Arachnid_163 - 4 hours
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|Was he one of those that promoted “Orgone” energy?
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