We 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 readingThe twist (or ‘nuance’) in the Gnostic myth of how the universe was created (and the account of the dynamics of how the Cosmos is run to this day) is that there is an appearance which is different from the...
Continue readingWhen we’re adapted to the Machine World then everything is about productivity. Productivity, productivity, productivity - that's all we ever care about! Productivity is our god and we are all obliged to worship it accordingly; we ‘justify our existence’ in...
Continue readingWe aren’t – as a rule – in the least bit interested in venturing forth into a Greater or More Expansive Reality, although we can never admit this to ourselves. We aren’t interested in any ‘Deeper or More Expansive Reality’...
Continue readingSymmetry - in a psychological sense - means that ‘Everything is allowed to be true, but that nothing actually is’. Everything is permitted and nothing is true. Symmetry - in both the psychological and the cosmological sense of the term...
Continue readingOur consciousness is owned by the Matrix - it gets caught up in the Matrix, absorbed by the Matrix, subsumed and exploited by the Matrix on a full-time basis. This is ‘the established order of things’ - it's so established...
Continue readingIf we are to see anything truly then we have to drop all our biases, all our prejudices. If we don't then we will never see anything that is true; we will only ever see our own biases reflected back...
Continue readingThe universe’s ‘job’ – according to the mystics - is to continuously provide us with a situation that is optimum with regard to us ‘waking up’. It hands us this situation on a plate every time. Our ‘job’ – on...
Continue readingMy 'knowing' - which I'm so proud of, which I place so much stock in - is nothing more than me. It's an extension of me, an indefinite (and thoroughly pointless) perpetuation of me. It's a self-defeating overabundance of me… My...
Continue readingThere are only two things in the world, ‘the truth’ and ‘the lie’ and we human beings spend all our time, and all of our energy, insisting that ‘our favourite lie’ is in fact the one and only truth. Historically...
Continue readingWe always almost always seek to further ourselves, or develop ourselves, in the human world, which is to say the consensus reality that we ourselves have unwittingly created. It's pretty much unnecessary to say this - where else would we...
Continue readingThere is only one ‘meaning’ in life and that is the meaning of ‘moving beyond who we think we are’ and this just happens to be the one type of meaning we don't want anything to do with! We like...
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