Giving Up Our TrickinessImage credit — ‘Midjourney Prompt: Anansi the Spider steals wisdom’. Taken from medium.com/@gioparks808/53d ago3d ago
The Inviolate TemplateIt’s impossible to be in Rational / Purposeful Mode and yet at the same time ‘be in reality’. That just can’t be done. When we think about…6d ago6d ago
Unauthorized MovementThere is something inherently problematic (or ‘futile’) about purposeful behaviour — we just can’t see it, that’s all. As far as we’re…Jul 9Jul 9
Worshiping NonsenseIt’s not so much a matter of ‘being versus non-being’ (although it is that as well) but ‘being versus pseudo-being’, which is infinitely…Jul 5Jul 5
The Real Replacement TheoryAny artificial situation is always going to be balanced by the equal and opposite counterpart to this situation. This is how it always is…Jun 22Jun 22
Oneness Is Our Greatest FearThe nature of all phenomena is inherently tranquil, so the Buddhist sutras tell us, and yet this is a tranquillity that we very rarely…Jun 14Jun 14
Psychological BootstrappingWherever there is purposeful activity there is a self, there is an ego. Were it not for the purposeful activity, there could not be a self…Jun 9Jun 9
Loyalty To The ImageThe rational identity assumes a framework (a context) and then it makes tautologically true statements within this framework. It conceives…Jun 4Jun 4
Freedom Is Taken, Never Given‘Freedom is taken, never given’, says Gurdjieff (or something to that effect). If there is one who controls us, rules us, regulates us…May 30May 30
When Winning Means LosingWe can go along with what happens, but we can’t predict what will happen. We can’t know what is going to happen before it happens. This…May 26May 26
