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)...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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Logical systems aren't very spontaneous in nature, obviously. They are in fact the very antithesis of spontaneous. For this reason, existing within a system, without being able to see what lies outside of that system, carries with it an immense...
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What we call ‘volition’ exists only in relation to the everyday mechanical self, and even then it is only pseudo-volition. It's not the real thing – it can’t be the real thing because the real thing doesn't exist. One way of...
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Once we understand that all our regular, everyday mental activity is about ‘striving to obtain an impossible goal’ (or ‘striving to maintain a picture of reality that isn't true’, which comes down to the same thing) then everything becomes a...
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The Group Mind is always absolutely certain of itself. This is the apparent 'advantage' of identifying with the Group Mind - the advantage of being free from doubt, the advantage of being free from all uncertainty. The Group Mind is...
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Our understanding of what constitutes ‘mental well-being’ is skewed because of the way in which we automatically assume that most of us are – in an essential way - ‘orientated towards the truth’. This might sounds like a reasonable enough...
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We can either be driven by the need to turn a profit (which is to say, by ‘the need to obtain the advantageous outcome’) or we can be conscious. We can't be both - it's always got to be either...
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The thinking mind is ‘a machine for turning a profit’. It is there for solving problems, in other words. This is very useful at the same time as being (potentially) highly dangerous; it's dangerous because unless there's oversight with regard...
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Everything has been sneakily inverted on us and because this inversion is too massive a thing for us to get our heads around we are well and truly trapped by it. We are trapped by our incapacity to see that...
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Whenever we elect a goal to be important - which is to say, whenever we decide that something shall be a goal - then we automatically create a private (or ‘self-centred’) world. This is such an utterly ubiquitous thing, and...
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When we're playing a finite game then we are being controlled by our need to control. We are absolutely controlled by our need to control - we couldn't be controlled more! Yet despite this we don't see this as being...
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The thinking mind is a machine for turning a profit under whatever circumstances it might find itself in, and this means that it has to be operating in the context of a situation in which there exists better and worse....
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In our everyday lives we are in flight from space - space being something that we really don't want to know anything about. The thing about fleeing from space however is that we are at the same time fleeing from...
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What does it mean to say that ‘everything is information’? The short answer is nobody can ever know what that means. No one can ever know what that means for the simple reason that there is no convenient external platform...
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