The reason for us to be in Copying/Heteronomous Mode (as opposed to Creative/Autonomous Mode) is always the same - fear. Fear is what is behind this kind of business. Fear causes us to 'live the script'. Fear causes us to...
Continue readingThe reason for us to be in Copying/Heteronomous Mode (as opposed to Creative/Autonomous Mode) is always the same - fear. Fear is what is behind this kind of business. Fear causes us to 'live the script'. Fear causes us to...
Continue readingThe Holographic or Anaxagorean Paradigm (if we want to experiment with looking at things in this way) shows us that nothing exists apart from the Whole. If ‘every little part contains the Whole’ then of course nothing can exist apart...
Continue reading‘Choices’ and ‘doing’ are the same thing - making choices is ‘a doing’ - it is, in other words, the unfolding of a plan, the acting out or copying of a mental picture. This may not sound like a particularly controversial...
Continue readingIn order to understand finite games all we need to do is imagine ‘a Mover who moves but is not in turn moved, ‘an Influencer who is never influenced’. To be the ‘Unmoved Mover’ is the goal of all finite...
Continue readingIf we are to have any insight at all into what mental health really is then we have to learn to see everything backwards. Only this isn't quite true because it's not that we have to ‘learn’ to see things...
Continue readingWe can either carry on copying (i.e., carry on reading from the script that has been conveniently provided for us) or we can ‘become aware of what is actually going on’, but - crucially - we can't do both. We...
Continue readingWe are all – it could be said - taking part in a Great Experiment - the crucial point about this experiment being that we don’t realize that it’s going on. This might be called ‘an experiment unconsciousness’, therefore. The...
Continue readingIf we want to live in a world that is made up of things, a world that is made up of ‘nameable bits’, then we have to live within the remit of Polarity. When we do this we get to...
Continue readingEverything the ego does it does unwillingly. Even when the ego (or ‘Mind-Created Sense of Self’) enthusiastically pursues its goals (and makes a big song and dance about how great this is) it is doing so unwillingly - it's ‘unwilling’...
Continue readingWe could say that there are ‘two types of people in the world’ - those who see that the game is empty, and those who do not see this. This isn’t to say that we can’t transition from one group...
Continue readingWhat kind of possibilities are there for the Extrinsic Self as it goes about its business in the world of Definite Appearances - which is the only world it can ever know, the only world it can have ever have...
Continue readingReality isn't Buddhist, or Christian, or Muslim, or anything like that - reality is simply reality and it has nothing to do with whatever ideas we might have about it (and we always do have lots of ideas about it)....
Continue readingAs I normally am, I can only ever see the world in terms of myself and this - of course - is something of an obstacle. Or rather it's not just ‘a bit of an obstacle’, it's an absolute one....
Continue readingThe everyday self is a bias that cannot see itself as such, a bias that ‘takes itself for granted’, so to speak, and the prognosis for this peculiar situation - this situation where we identify with ‘the bias that can’t...
Continue readingConservative Mode isn't just about overtly trying to preserve stuff (or ‘hang onto the old’), it also comes into play – although not so obviously - every time we make a plan or conceive of a goal - plans and...
Continue readingIf we are to survive suffering then we have to find meaning in it, says Viktor Frankl. It’s not happiness that's going to get through life (or the search for happiness) but a sense of meaning, says Jordan Peterson. The...
Continue readingThe Illusion Game maintains itself by giving us lots and lots of red herrings to follow; the rule for this game is very simple - we have to keep on chasing the red herrings! The other rule of the game...
Continue readingWhen someone (or some agency) 'says what you are’ then this means that they control you absolutely. There is no more perfect form of control - 'Once you label me, you negate me' says Kierkegaard. Needless to say, we don’t...
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