In the Superficial World nothing means anything; people simply don't mean what they say - it's all just for effect, it's all just for show. That's what the SW is - a show. We infer that there's something more behind...
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Wherever we go and whatever we do, we create ‘closed systems’ for ourselves to live within, for us to operate within. This is a bit of a redundant thing to say of course since closed systems are the only kind...
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The Abuser Mind gives you yourself, your identity, your ‘world’ — it gives you your everything. The Abuser Mind gives you the game that you have to play; it controls you, not because of what it tells you, but because of...
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We'd have to be utterly deranged to let someone else tell us what reality is, and yet we do that as a matter of course. We do it every day - we wouldn't think of not doing it. There practically...
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Heteronomy is the perfect antithesis of mental health and yet it is also ‘the order of the day’. It is also ‘absolutely obligatory’. If we're not in the Heteronomous State then by definition there must be something wrong with us,...
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We all get drawn into the Grey World, one way or another. We can't help it - there is a current that inexorably pulls us in, in such a way that we don't ever notice. We're caught in this massive,...
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Our ‘job’ (in everyday, routine life) is to both observe the description of things that we have been provided with and defend / enforce them. This - it is implicitly understood - is our sacred task. It has to be...
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Psychology in the West addresses itself to the identity, to the ‘formalised notion of who (or what) we are’. We can’t think what else it could possibly be about. It addresses itself to the purposeful ‘doer’ or ‘actor’ – the...
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When we are ‘orientated towards a centre’ then we are blind to the world that really is all around us (which is the world that doesn't have a centre, the world that doesn't have any rules) and – instead –...
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The point isn't to fight the monkey mind and beat it or subdue it by a mixture of willpower and expedient means, which is how we automatically understand it. What we are pleased to call ‘willpower’ is merely our automatic...
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Life isn't to be found within the drab and dreary confines of our crappy mental categories. It does not comply with our regulations; it can't be prevailed upon to even recognise them. Thought builds a pen or enclosure for life...
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Instead of life, we're given a package, a game, and this package / game is made up of two aspects: [1] the aspect that we are supposed to see and believe in, and [2] The aspect which we are not...
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Society is a ‘crazy-making’ machine. A set of values are solemnly held up as being true when they absolutely aren't. If we dare to say anything however then this is immediately bounced back on us (so as to say, ‘this...
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If the negative psychologist pays attention to stillness, then positive psychology concerns itself exclusively with action, with noise, with measurable parameters, with ‘blank rules’ rather than unspecifiable nuances. Stillness doesn't figure, and it certainly isn't seen as the ‘cure’ for...
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When symmetry is broken then the nature of reality gets represented to us in terms of clashing opposites. This is actually the only world we know - the World of Conflict. The conflict goes on and on and it will...
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There is no formula for chaos, but there is for everything else. Chaos can't be collapsed, can't be summarised, can't be compressed, whilst everything else - anything that isn't chaotic - can be. This is the power of chaos, we...
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We stretch everything we can stretch, hoping thereby to get the maximum amount of ‘good’ from it. We keep on stretching it (or ‘milking it’) until we can't stretch it anymore, and that's when things start to go pear-shaped on...
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In the Formal World there is no such thing as free will - obviously there can't be or else there be nothing ‘formal’ about it. Formal means that everything is decided in advance - it means [1] That certain conditions...
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