There's no point in trying to fix the Extrinsic Self when it gets broken. It is meant to get broken, we could say - it has no future but to be broken. The whole point is that it should be...
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Psychological therapies of the rational kind are inevitably based on control and what this means is that we're guaranteed to get caught up in a sterile, self-conflicting (i.e., tautological) struggle. The attempted perpetuation of the self always traps us in...
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We can't solve neurotic self-contradiction on the level at which the results of this self-contradiction are being experienced. That is a hierarchy of events no one can untangle! Furthermore, we experience the pain of neurotic self-contradiction without being aware that...
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Creativity is the key to everything - without it we ‘just aren't ourselves,’ so to speak. Without it we are simply machines, doing whatever our habits or reflexes are telling us to do. In the mechanical mode of existence all...
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Our awareness is perpetually stuck - it is stuck to our thoughts, stuck to our ideas and opinions, stuck to our beliefs. The point here however is that there is no space in the world of our ideas, no space...
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Society makes us depressed and then it comes to our aid with all sorts of remedies, all sorts of so-called ‘cures’ or ‘therapies’. They're not really cures at all however – they are only manoeuvres designed to offset the suffering...
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Whenever a bunch of people get together and agree between themselves what life is or ought to be then this is where life ends, this is where life ceases. Instead, there's only conformity to the established order, there is only...
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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...
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If 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...
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We 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...
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As 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....
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If 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...
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When 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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Western ‘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...
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There'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....
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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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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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