Reality isn’t a Rubik’s Cube — it can never be solved or ‘made right’! We can project what we imagine to be ‘right’ upon it, and then try to achieve it, but to do this (or to attempt to do this) is always to get involved in a tangled hierarchy…

The Small Picture is created by our fear of the Big Picture. Only, there isn’t any such thing as a small picture really; there is no SP in reality but we nevertheless create it (in a subjective kind of way) by running away from the BP. Through running we create…

‘Conditioned space’ is space that has been organised around a framework; it is space that has innate directionality, such that there is an ‘up’ and a ‘down’ to it, a ‘left’ and a ‘right’ to it, a ‘nearer’ and a ‘further’ to it. Conditioned space is linear — it is…

When we give up pretending that we are the Defined Self we also give up all our purposes. We might still have nominal purposes (i.e. ‘things that we aim at’) but the difference is that we no longer invest in them. We are no longer attached to them. The reason…

In consciousness there is no location, and in location there is no consciousness. When there is no consciousness then there is ‘here’ and ‘there’, ‘this’ and ‘that’, ‘me’ and ‘not me’. The difference between the one and the other is a self-evident fact, the primary feature of our existence. When…

A game is where the true ‘value’ is reflected (or displaced) somewhere else, onto some sort of screen or baffle, where it can function as a very potent (a hypnotically potent) lure. There is nothing actually there however which is, in one way, the ‘weakness’ of the scheme — it’s…

When we ‘turn our backs on the new’ then things inevitably start to get stale. The old and the familiar will always get stale. First things get stale, then they get unpleasantly and malodorously sour, and then finally they become downright toxic. ‘Expect poison from standing water’, says Blake. The…

If there is no rule saying that there has to be a rule (as James Carse says), then what this means is that the rule isn’t really ‘a rule’ at all! It’s only pretending to be a rule; it’s only apparently a rule. We are only playing the game that…

Just as a house has to have a foundation, if it is to be built on soft ground, so too do our mental constructs have to be formulated with reference to ‘a baseline that can never be questioned’. Saying that the baseline can’t be questioned is another way of saying…