Systems are always perfectly 'null', always perfectly 'hollow', but this is the one thing we will never see (or never suspect) from the inside of the system, as it were. We can’t see things 'as they are' from inside the...
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Reality doesn't work by rules (there are no rules for reality). Logic works by rules, machines work by rules, thinking works by rules’ - all sorts of things work by rules, but not reality. Sewing machines, toasters and clocks work...
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‘Positive’ means that ‘it's a construct’, it means that ‘we made it’, it means that we didn't have to make it but that we made it anyway. ‘Positive’ means that it comes about by force, as ‘an effort of will’… There's...
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In a Finite Game everything is always strictly ‘black and white’ - you're either with us or against us, you’re either part of the solution, or you’re part of the problem, etc., etc. This is its limitation, of course -...
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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...
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What 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...
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Conservative 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...
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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...
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We 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...
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All 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...
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‘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...
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The 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...
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When 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...
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We 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’...
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Symmetry - 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...
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Our 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...
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If 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...
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The 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...
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