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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 readingWhen 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...
Continue readingThe 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...
Continue readingThere 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...
Continue readingThe 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...
Continue readingFrom 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...
Continue readingThe thing about the mechanical life is that we always have to be in the service of some goal or other; the goal has to be there the whole time and it has to be unquestionably important to us -...
Continue readingThere is no end point to meditation, there is no goal. There is no point to it, no logic to it. Everything thought does is about ‘the projected end-point’; its activity is always about ‘striving to obtain the goal’, or...
Continue reading‘Empty doing’, as the name implies, is ‘doing for the sake of doing’, or ‘doing that is carried out just to pass the time,' or 'activity that is prescribed just for the sake of filling the space’. An example of...
Continue readingWho we really are doesn't need therapy - it's only the case that when we’re not ourselves that we need all sorts of tricks and gimmicks to help us on our way! When we’re pretending to be who we’re not,...
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