5 days agoThe World In FlightSuchness is the perception of the world as it is in itself, which is not something we ordinarily have much if any interest in. Ordinarily, we’re not interested in the world as it is in itself but only in what we can make of it (or only in what we…Heraclitus7 min read
Aug 7When Consciousness Is The EnemyThe ego’s Number One Concern is that it should not see itself for what it is. If we could understand this then we would understand everything! If we could understand this then we would be freed from the web of illusion that the ego is forever spinning… The ego’s game…Society6 min read
Aug 4The Self Is A Finite GameEverything that is done with a view to the self being the beneficiary is a finite game and finite games never get us anywhere. Finite play is all about ‘holding onto our position no matter what’ and so of course this isn’t going to get us anywhere. The whole point…The Self7 min read
Jul 31The Arrogance of ThoughtLife takes place between two states: the state of locality and the state of non-locality. The local is what we believe in whilst a non-local is what we don’t believe in, but just because we don’t know or don’t believe that there is such a thing as a ‘non-local state…Rationality10 min read
Jul 25Celebrating The Avoidance Of LifeThe key thing about life is that there’s no method for it. No matter how much we search or sit and scratch our heads the one thing that’s certain is that we will never find a method for life! The one thing that we can be absolutely certain of —…Thought8 min read
Jul 24Overvaluing Trivial UncertaintyArt: Mixed-media painting by Ross Hendrick | Artfinder In everyday life we substitute trivial uncertainty for the real thing (i.e., ‘uncertainty of the radical variety’). This substitution is complete, which is to say once it has taken place then we have no relationship with the real thing at all. Trivial…Psychology7 min read
Jul 17The Gnashing Jaws Of PolarityThe force that is unleashed by the gnashing jaws of the polarity is a sublimely meaningless one. In terms of sheer coercive power we could say that what is being sought after in the polar struggle is the most important thing ever — if coercive force were to be equated…Polarity6 min read
Jul 12The Prison Of LiteralismThe collapsed form of consciousness is the Literal World, is literalism. Everything consciousness is, literalism isn’t, and everything literalism is, consciousness isn’t. They couldn’t be two more different things, two more incompatible things. …Literalism6 min read
Jul 9Psychedelic TherapyWe live a conceptually-mediated world without knowing that we do. Or to put this another way, we live in a world that is made up of our thoughts whilst imagining the whole time that it is the real world, (which is to say, a world that we ourselves haven’t made…Psychedelics8 min read
Jul 9Methods Are Always ViolentBeing still is an art, not a science. Being still isn’t something anyone else can tell us how to do, and it isn’t something we can tell ourselves how to do either. Being still (or peaceful) in the face of life’s adversities is the greatest art there is and it…Meditation5 min read
