esotericism

This is great and - something about programming has always felt adjacent to esotericism and the occult to me.

He explains Thiel's attraction to esotericism: > Girard’s ideas are another flyby between tech and the academy.

One of the grand secrets of various flavors of esotericism is that 'not everyone has a soul'.

This is more or less the basis of a lot of western esotericism and ceremonial magick.

LLMs are a massive threat to their whole model which relies on increasing levels of esotericism.

Memes are similar in principle, but tend towards esotericism and ephemerality in a balkanized internet.

Documentation was non-existent for a long time (unfortunate given the esotericism of the app).

I'm a bit surprised that anyone would deny the existence of esotericism for various reasons including defensive.

Sometimes white people just like stuff, and their interests overlap (as in this case with esotericism and music.) Culture works that way for everyone.

But as you slide even father towards esotericism, there is no hope.

Dismissing the work of Western esotericism on the history of the West would be similar to dismissing Sufism on the history of the Middle East.

Thank you for not dragging us into the weeds of esotericism.

These results are reinforced by some popular "science" news (sometimes with a remarkable resemblance to pure esotericism).

But I'd question whether esotericism is "of the greatest importance for our understanding of the whole course of Western philosophy".

This idea was discussed in "On the Practice of Esotericism," 1992.

Bagley, "On the Practice of Esotericism," 1992.