A very basic - the most basic - form of psychological bootstrapping is where we do a thing and then say that we didn't do it, that it was ‘already there’, and then proceed to orientate ourselves round it, take...
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How does one go about ‘leading the purposeful life’? What is the best and most effective way to do this? Although it is pretty much standard (in motivational-speaker type circles, at least!) to boldly declare that ‘a purposeless life is...
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Thought operates via ‘positive pressure’ - it operates by issuing instructions, in other words. Everything thought does is an instruction, everything thought does is a rule or assertion (or as we could also say, everything thought does is aggressive in...
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Virtual space is always positive, it is inevitably positive. It can't be otherwise - anything that is planned, anything that is specified, anything that is mapped out in advance is by definition going to be taking place in ‘positive space’....
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There are two ways to be ‘orientated’ in this world - we can be orientated towards <self> or we can be orientated towards <other>. ‘Other’ doesn't just mean other people, it means whatever isn't the self, whatever it is that...
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A closed world is a world that has a tight lid on it - the qualification here being that we don't know that there is a lid. We never see the lid, we never see the limits that are holding...
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Anything that comes out of a system based on logic is tautological, or hollow. Because logic is hollow, because logic is tautological, so too are we when we organise ourselves into systems, into logically coherent collectives. So too do our...
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We can't change ourselves, no matter how dogged we might be in our attempts to do so. The ego or self can't change itself any more than a leopard can it spots - it can never cover them up, it...
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The mind creates a hollow simulation of reality and then proceeds to rule it with an iron rod. Thought is Lord and Master of a hollow Kingdom therefore - the hollow Kingdom of its own imagination. It is because thought’s...
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The self is obliged to close down space. The self absolutely has to shut down space, and it's not too hard to see why it has to do this. All we have to consider is what would happen if it...
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Communication requires that there be no hierarchy - it requires that everyone involved be on the very same level (or rather, we could say that it requires that everyone involved to be aware of being on the very same level,...
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If the self is extended too much, then there is trouble; if we stretch the self too far then we create a killer jinx that we don’t know how to un-jinx again. “But how far is too far,” we might...
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When we have zero perspective then we're trapped in the mind’s narrative, just as flies are trapped when they walk on flypaper. As soon as the unfortunate fly touches down on what looks like entirely harmless piece of paper this...
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A 'game' is a state of conflict - an ongoing state of conflict. The point of the game is therefore to bring this state of conflict to a satisfactory conclusion (and we could add here that there are two ways...
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Just as ‘all art aspires to the condition of muzak’ (as Alvin Toffler says), so too can we say that all logic-based therapy – which is just about the only therapy we ever come across in the world of modern...
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When we live in ‘the Box’ - the box of our thoughts, the box of what we have automatically assumed to be true - then we’ll never come across anything that is genuinely new. When we live in the box...
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There are only two possibilities that are open to us - either we can become ‘machines’, or we can become ‘philosophers’. It's as simple as that! It's as simple as that - there is no middle ground, we’re either one...
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The Equilibrium World is the world that comes into being when everything that happens has to happen in a way that agrees with the guidelines, agrees with the standards, agrees with the ideal values that have been specified by that...
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