The 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 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...
Continue readingWe are orientated - by default, as it were - to the purely formal world that is created by our own mental descriptions. More than just being ‘orientated’ to this extrinsic reality, it’s the only world that we know, it’s...
Continue readingWhat does it mean to live in a ‘Predefined World’? What would be the implications of such a thing? Would a predefined life (which is to say, a life where everything has been scripted in advance) be any fun? There...
Continue readingThe Extrinsic Self - which is to say, ‘the self which is based entirely on rules’ - and the State of Openness are completely incompatible with each other. Or rather, the Extrinsic Self is incompatible with Openness, since Openness doesn't...
Continue readingWe insulate ourselves from the world by labelling everything, by judging everything and then not looking any further than our judgments. This is the key to everything - to say what things are and then not look beyond whatever it...
Continue readingWestern ‘popular’ spirituality - it seems - is all about attachment - we know there's something good out there (or in there) and we imagine that we can attract it to us by doing the right kind of stuff, by...
Continue readingThe Extrinsic Self is always ‘on the outside’ - it’s always ‘on the outside, looking in’. It can’t ever partake in life, even though it longs to do so; it’s always on the wrong side of an impenetrable glass wall...
Continue readingThere's no sense of wonder in a game - the moment we plug into a game is also the moment we turn our backs on the wonder and mystery (cliched though this might sound) that there is in the world....
Continue readingThis is the characteristic human activity - to be constantly and untiringly striving to prove our own nonsensical assertions. We can never prove them (because they are nonsensical) but that doesn't stop us trying! We can't actually stop trying, when...
Continue readingThe generic is that for which there is precedence - no more needs to be said on the subject than this! What follows on from 'that which was already there' is the generic, and the generic is all most of...
Continue readingA 'game' can be neatly defined as ‘that set of prescribed actions which comes into being as a result of following a particular set of arbitrary rules’. The activity that takes place in a game is unfree therefore - it’s...
Continue readingFrom a psychological point of views - as odd as it might sound - ‘trying’ or ‘striving’ is the same thing as pretending. ‘Trying’ is the same thing as pretending because we're pretending that we actually stand a chance of...
Continue readingAll structures - without exception – are ‘made up things’; there isn't a structure anywhere that can claim otherwise. Or rather there is no structure anywhere that can honestly claim otherwise, that can honestly claim to be ‘true in its...
Continue readingWhen 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,...
Continue reading‘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...
Continue readingAny 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...
Continue readingNo 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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