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,...
Continue reading
It's impossible to be in Rational / Purposeful Mode and yet at the same time be 'in reality'. That just can't be done. When we think about things then we're not in the real world, and when we deliberately act...
Continue reading
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...
Continue reading
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...
Continue reading
There is a type of existential pain that comes with ‘not knowing who we are (and yet thinking we should know)’ and this is a type of pain that is manufactured in vast quantities by present day mass society (since...
Continue reading
The Small Picture is created by our fear of the Big Picture. Only, there isn't any such thing as a small picture really; there is no SP in reality but we nevertheless create it (in a subjective kind of way)...
Continue reading
We degrade life by thinking about it - it's a 'bigger event' than we perceive it to be, in other words. It somehow becomes commonplace, unremarkable, only-to-be-expected, and so on. We might try to tell ourselves that life a big...
Continue reading
Everything that is done with a view to the self being the beneficiary is a finite game and finite games never get us anywhere. Finite play is all about ‘holding onto our position no matter what’ and so of course...
Continue reading
When we build a wall against ‘the other’ in order to keep it separate, in order to keep it at bay, in order to totally exclude it, we bring a jinx down upon our heads. We bring into existence a...
Continue reading
We are always under pressure to push ahead to a conclusion, and yet all conclusions are hollow! Every single conclusion there ever was or ever could be is hollow and so - we might ask - what is the big...
Continue reading
Whatever we force is unreal; our forcing is the creation of the unreal and forcing is all we know. As we engage in forcing we automatically narrow down our awareness so that the situation that we are trying to bring...
Continue reading
Humanity is divided into ‘the dreamers' and ‘the doers', or – at least – that's what we love to say in the West. We’re nailing our colours to the mast when we say this; we’re making our position very clear....
Continue reading
The self's nature is to play finite games, so we have said. Dogs bark, chickens cluck, ducks quack, and the self plays finite games. We might also add that the self is unable to do anything else, that it is...
Continue reading
