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...
Continue readingThe 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...
Continue readingWe all have this sure and certain idea regarding ‘who we are’, and ‘what life is all about’, and this notion that we have - no matter how ridiculously unsupported it might be - is so sure and certain that...
Continue readingTo be conscious of thought is to see through it, but whoever sees through thought? When does this ever happen? Far from ‘seeing through thought’ we’re ‘enclosed within it’ - we only go where thought says we should go, we...
Continue readingWhat does it mean to live in a ‘Predefined World’? What would be the implications of such a thing? Would a predefined life (which is to say, a life where everything has been scripted in advance) be any fun? There...
Continue readingThe essential difference between ‘consciousness’ and ‘thought’ is that the former doesn't work on the basis of comparison-making, whilst the latter does. It may not seem to tell us very much about consciousness to say that the key thing about...
Continue readingThe reality our thought shows us is a very two-dimensional one, it is 'tinny' like cheap cutlery and completely lacking in depth, and yet - astonishingly, amazingly - it passes itself off as being perfectly above-board, perfectly legitimate. The reality...
Continue readingConsciousness isn't a limited kind of thing. It isn't actually any kind of thing at all because all things are limited. That's what it means to be a thing – it means that you are limited! We can say that...
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