There are only these two things in life - copying and creativity. There are only these two things and there is nothing in between them. ‘Copying’ is where we build upon what we have already been provided with, whilst ‘creativity’...
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Anything we do that is purposeful is part of this simulation. Our purposeful activity both perpetuates the simulation and is the simulation and this is a very peculiar thing to consider. For a start, we probably won't acknowledge that there...
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The myth of the institution is that it exists to serve the needs of the individual person - the unpleasant truth behind the myth is that it exists to serve the needs of the 'institutionalized person', which is to say,...
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Entropy means that information has been lost from the system. Information in turn refers to what we might call the ‘surprise content’ of what's going on such that when there is zero element of surprise then this means that the...
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Who we are really doesn't need to be fixed and so what this means is that if we are trying to fix ourselves then what we're trying to fix isn't us. It's some kind of idea, some kind of a...
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Our everyday type of ‘consciousness’ (so-called consciousness) is a prison. This sounds like hyperbole, but it isn't - this is a very straightforward statement and it's not some kind of loose poetic metaphor. Our everyday consciousness functions exactly as a...
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If we are to live in the Known World - the world that is made up of known things - then we have to do something first, something we all know how to do instinctively but which we can’t allow...
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Where we can see the construct to be ‘only a construct’ then this automatically makes it real to us. When we can't see the construct to be ‘the construct’ (or ‘the thought’ to be ‘the thought’) then this is what...
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A rough and ready way of summarising the ‘message’ of Daoism might be to say that ‘interfering never does anyone any good’. There's no great poetry in putting it like this it's true, but it is nevertheless accurate enough. If...
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The essential difference between ‘consciousness’ and ‘thought’ is that the former doesn't work on the basis of comparison-making, whilst the latter does. It may not seem to tell us very much about consciousness to say that the key thing about...
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All rational-type psychological therapies, without exception, involve making something happen because we want it to happen (or as we should really say, trying to make something happen that we want to happen). That's the whole idea, obviously. If we didn't...
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Honesty is something that goes far beyond mere conventional morality - what genuine honesty actually entails is a revolutionary shift in how we understand reality and so when we talk about being honest (in the way that we generally do)...
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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...
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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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