When we act out of the External Authority (rather than acting out of our own unprovable, unverifiable but also quite irreplaceable sense of interiority) not only does this make us instantly expendable, instantly replaceable, and instantly generic in nature, it...
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Reality is nuanced, whilst our mental constructs never can be. The thinking mind works by ignoring all nuance - that's how it gets to make its generalisations. Thought blankets the world with its bland generalisations, which means that the world...
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There is one, very good reason why our prized psychological therapies can't ever work and - what's more – it’s a reason that's perfectly easy to understand. The problem isn't that we're not able to grasp it, the problem is...
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Before we can engage in any sort of purposeful (or deliberate) activity we first have to assume a ‘context of meaning’ to act out of. We can't impose any sort of order on the world unless we make some sort...
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If we are quiet enough (or still enough) in ourselves then what we find is that an uncanny sense of otherness creeps into our lives – ‘otherness’ being a way of talking about the vast reality which is out there...
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Any action that proceeds on the basis of a fixed centre (any action that happens out of a definite position) is always going to come back to where it started. What this means therefore is that if we start off...
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We can live life in one of two ways – either on the basis of thought, or directly, spontaneously, without any conceptual mediation whatsoever, without any precedence (or preference) at all. In the first case we never depart from our...
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Our firm beliefs about the world are compensatory in nature - they are a compensatory device whose function is to make up for the irreducible uncertainty of reality as it actually is. We make up for not being able to...
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The one thing technology can never help us with is in being original - technology is all about ‘efficient duplication’, it’s all about the ‘realisation’ (or ‘reification’) of generic ideas, and this is another type of thing entirely. When we become...
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We all know what the word ‘spontaneity’ means, but at the same time we don't really know. No one really knows, not even the most learned professor in the land! It's simply not possible to know this - if we...
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When we are inhabiting the Nominal Realm - which is the world of formal descriptions - then the one thing that is absolutely impossible here is for us to have any connection with reality. Such a thing is totally out...
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Heteronomy is that state in which the context for everything we do (and everything we think) is provided for us by some ‘arbitrary external authority’. It doesn't matter to us what this EA is, all that matters is that we...
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There is something downright misleading about the term ‘artificial intelligence’ – the term is misleading because whilst what we’re talking about here might be artificial, it has absolutely nothing to do with intelligence. No one is really trying to argue...
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There are only the two things in life, we could say - there is the ‘unobserved reality’ (which is pure randomness, pure spontaneity), and there is the observed reality, the known reality, which is the reality that has been established...
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It is in the nature of reality to ‘pretend to be what it isn't’ (or to 'hide its true nature from us’) says Heraclitus. Stuff isn't straightforward in the way we always think it is, in other words. Things -...
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‘Choices’ and ‘doing’ are the same thing - making choices is ‘a doing’ - it is, in other words, the unfolding of a plan, the acting out or copying of a mental picture. This may not sound like a particularly controversial...
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We are all – it could be said - taking part in a Great Experiment - the crucial point about this experiment being that we don’t realize that it’s going on. This might be called ‘an experiment unconsciousness’, therefore. The...
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Everything the ego does it does unwillingly. Even when the ego (or ‘Mind-Created Sense of Self’) enthusiastically pursues its goals (and makes a big song and dance about how great this is) it is doing so unwillingly - it's ‘unwilling’...
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