If the self is extended too much, then there is trouble; if we stretch the self too far then we create a killer jinx that we don’t know how to un-jinx again. “But how far is too far,” we might...
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There are only two possibilities that are open to us - either we can become ‘machines’, or we can become ‘philosophers’. It's as simple as that! It's as simple as that - there is no middle ground, we’re either one...
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The Equilibrium World is the world that comes into being when everything that happens has to happen in a way that agrees with the guidelines, agrees with the standards, agrees with the ideal values that have been specified by that...
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The thing about living in a one-sided way is that we can have no awareness of the absurdity of the so-called ‘life’ that we are leading as a result. We have zero awareness regarding the absurd nature of our existence...
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It's not so much a matter of 'being versus non-being' (although it is that as well) but ‘being versus pseudo-being’, which is infinitely more nuanced, infinitely more subtle. Pseudo-being is all we know! 'Margarine is all we know', Russian mystic...
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The rational identity assumes a framework (a context) and then it makes tautologically true statements within this framework. It conceives, and then enacts, tautological actions. Any action that the rational identity takes within this defined context is always going to...
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Technical knowledge is the ‘lower analogue’ of wisdom. In this high-tech world of ours (which we adulate so much) it's all about technical knowledge, of course and technical knowledge is – for us – simply a ‘means to an end’....
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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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