We live our lives - whether we know it or not, and we rarely do - in accordance with what might be called the ‘Thing-Based Paradigm’. If we have any rational / logical theory of the world at all (which...
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What is ‘the Rubbish World’? What exactly do we mean when we talk about ‘the Trash-O-Sphere’? What are the most important points to take note of when we are considering - as we are here – ‘the Degenerate (or ‘Lower’)...
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To repeat is to mock - every child knows this. To repeat is to mock and Thought is the great repeater. Thought is the Great Repeater and the world that it creates for us is nothing but blank repetition. The...
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In the Equilibrium Realm reality is always what the Authorities say it is. The ER is the will (or intention) of the Authorities. If there isn't an authoritative (or ‘magisterial’, as Carse says) voice defining the rules - which we...
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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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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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The nature of all phenomena is inherently tranquil, so the Buddhist sutras tell us, and yet this is a tranquillity that we very rarely perceive in everyday life. Instead, the world as we know it is full of strife and...
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‘Freedom is taken, never given’, says Gurdjieff. If there is one who controls us, rules us, regulates us, then no matter how long we wait, no matter how well we behave, no matter how compliant we are, we are never...
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How do we avoid becoming the habit of ourselves? This is the unseen danger, the danger no one ever talks about, the danger no one ever warns us about. We get lots of warnings when we start off in life...
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We can't be authentic on purpose – that is a profound impossibility. The harder we try to be real the more fake we become! We could also put this the other way around too and say that we can't stop...
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When we have an idea of what's going on then what this means is that we're disconnected from the reality of what's going on. When we know who we are then we're alienated from who we really are. The conceptual...
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A Complex Reality is one which cannot be accounted for by only one level of description. In fact, no matter how many levels of description we have we can't account for a complex reality. We could just cut to the...
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Just as Kierkegaard says, ‘If you judge me you negate me’, so too we could say ‘If you have an image of me you negate me’, and the funny thing about this is that no one in this world interacts...
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When everything is all about ‘fidelity to the image’ then the one thing we can be sure of here is that there is no humour. There's either ‘getting it right’, which is rewarded, or there is ‘getting it wrong’, which...
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No matter how much rational bullshit we throw up into the air, we can't alter the bald truth of our situation, which is that life comes down to one thing and one thing only, which is risk. We do anything rather...
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Control is our God. When we see something that we like then we exercise control so as to enable us to obtain it. When we come across something that we don't like, something that we don't value, then we exercise...
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