I´m sure the fact that the new COVID variant is named "Eris", after the Greek goddess of strife and discord, doesn´t have any occultic, archetypal or synchronous significance whatsoever. Nor does it mean that Discordianism (or the KLF) are back in fashion.
Right? I mean, it´s not like alternative people have ever been right about anything...
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So I recently visited a bookstore centrally placed in a rather large Swedish city. By Swedish standards, of course.
This particular bookstore had a wide assortement of books on everything ranging from history to pet animals. So I checked its section on religion and spirituality...
WTF???!!
The absolute majority of volumes on sales were about - wait for it - crystals, "positive thinking" (including one Rhonda Byrne), astrology, and even more crystals!
New Age crystals in the year 2023??? Hopefully, these are the books the store has failed to sell...since, I don´t know, 1990 or thereabouts?
I also noticed a surprisingly large amount of copies of Kahlil Gibran´s "The Prophet". I never read it, but at least that´s a bit different from all that crystalline confusion...
In completely unrelated news, the guy at the local pizza place looked at me, laughed and said: "You know, COVID is coming back".
Maybe I should buy one of those crystals, after all...
