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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Whenever we elect a goal to be important - which is to say, whenever we decide that something shall be a goal - then we automatically create a private (or ‘self-centred’) world. This is such an utterly ubiquitous thing, and...
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What we call ‘physicality’ is brought about by attraction and repulsion, and attraction/repulsion is brought about by polarisation (or symmetry-breaking). Symmetry is therefore where there is no polarisation – it is that state of affairs where everything hasn't been divided...
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The force that is unleashed by the gnashing jaws of the polarity is a sublimely meaningless one. In terms of sheer coercive power we could say that what is being sought after in the polar struggle is the most important...
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When we interact with the world it is almost always via our internal map, almost always via our ‘neat and tidy logical understanding of the way things are’. Every time we interact with the world in a purposeful way (which...
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Limits excite us. Limits excite us whilst freedom - on the other hand - frightens the hell out of us. We might say that we love being free (or that we greatly value freedom as an ideal) but really its...
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Only in stillness can we know ourselves. If someone were to ask, what’s the big deal with stillness, why would we bother with it (particularly when it can be so very unsettling if we do come across it) this would...
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Pain or discomfort puts us under pressure to create the self – it sorely tempts us to create the self. As soon as we create a self this provides with what looks like a ‘way out’ – or at least...
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We are hypnotised by patterns of non-change that appear to be change and the result of this hypnosis is that our consciousness is completely controlled by these patterns. The patterns in question have an absolute hold on us and they...
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