When we turn our backs on the new then things start to get stale. The old is always stale. It might be safe, but it has no longer got any goodness in it… First things get stale, then they get sour,...
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‘The wages of sin are death,’ as Christian street preachers the world over are so very fond of telling us, but this is a deeply distorted message. It’s not a message to help us (which is what it implicitly claims...
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Any one of us can turn into a machine at the drop of a hat, and this can happen at any time. It can happen quite without warning – one moment you're human being, the next you're a mechanoid, a...
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No one likes Zero Bias. Zero Bias equals Maximum Perspective, and it also equals Being - which is to say ‘Realness’ or ‘Wholeness’. Bias, by the same token, equals Zero Perspective, Zero Being, Zero Wholeness. When we live on the...
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What does the everyday mind (the thinking mind, the rational mind) do all day long? What is its job? Well, what it does and what its ‘job’ is are two different things. We might say that the thinking mind’s job...
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The twist (or ‘nuance’) in the Gnostic myth of how the universe was created (and the account of the dynamics of how the Cosmos is run to this day) is that there is an appearance which is different from the...
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There are two ways of living life, the linear way and the nonlinear. The first way seems real to us, but it isn't, whilst the second simply doesn't make any sense at all (and is contrary to everything we believe...
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When we find that we can no longer conceal things, lie about things, sneakily make things ‘be what we want them to be’ then this is surprisingly disabling! What we discover in this moment is that we can't function at...
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The difference between a young child and an adult is that as adults our consciousness has been modified. Our consciousness has been modified in order to allow us to adapt to the Designed World that we find ourselves in. What...
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We're totally familiar with the world that is made up of comparisons - we know it very well indeed but - as regards the other world, the world that isn't made up of comparisons, the world that isn't a ratio...
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‘Very few of us know the taste of authentic things’, says Ouspensky. We're given substitutes and so - therefore - we never suspect that we have been short-changed. This isn't to say that we're doing well on these substitutes of...
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When we’re adapted to the Machine World then everything is about productivity. Productivity, productivity, productivity - that's all we ever care about! Productivity is our god and we are all obliged to worship it accordingly; we ‘justify our existence’ in...
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There is a type of existential pain that comes with ‘not knowing who we are (and yet thinking we should know)’ and this is a type of pain that is manufactured in vast quantities by present day mass society (since...
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The ego exists within a false world which it itself creates via an act of ongoing selective attention; we pay attention only to those aspects of the world that match our unacknowledged prejudices, in other words. Anything that doesn't fit...
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Linear time is an entropic dimension - nothing ever happens in it, in other words (despite all appearances to the contrary). Linearity is always like this - it wouldn't be linearity otherwise. Linearity means that the proportionalities originally inherent in...
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We can never obsess about the real, only the unreal. We obsess about the unreal all the time, in fact - that's how we try to make it real! ‘Obsessing about the unreal’ is just about all we ever do....
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From a psychological point of view, the Number One Danger in life is the danger of falling into a consistent pattern of thinking, a consistent way of perceiving the world. When we do so we very quickly become the victims...
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Within the prolific but monotone hyperreality that we have inadvertently and unknowingly created for ourselves, all that exists are ‘strategic manoeuvres. It is simply not possible to engage in any activity that is not a strategic manoeuvre - which is...
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