If controlling is how we create the perception of the self (as it undoubtedly is) then we can go on from this to say that there are two complementary aspects...
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When we chose to look at the world in a particular way and then forget that we have so chosen, then – in a sense – we have 'moved outside...
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Controlling creates the false self. This isn't how we usually think about things but it is nevertheless the most essential way of understanding what's going on. Controlling how we create...
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When we represent reality to ourselves in an oversimplified (or reductive) way then everything we do becomes compulsive or driven. There is absolutely no way that this won't happen! We...
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When reality is replaced by the 'antithetical' or 'upside-down' version of itself then instead of happiness we have to make do with something else. Happiness is no longer on the...
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The movement into disequilibrium is movement away from the defined operating parameters of the system into whatever it is that exists outside of these parameters. When we phrase things like...
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The ‘Designed World’ is without any doubt the most incredibly phenomenally astoundingly effective 'trick' there ever was or ever could be, and yet – notwithstanding its unsurpassed effectiveness – there...
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In order for us to 'tune into the world', and thus successfully interact with it, it is first necessary for us to adopt a narrow or limited understanding of reality...
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Suppose you are an engineer and you make a machine and in this machine there are a number of sub-units, a number of separate components which are designed to act...
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Unconscious life, if we were to strip it down to its bare essentials, is entirely a matter of ‘asserting the thing’. We don’t know what it is that we are...
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The most intriguing question of all is, ‘What is self-conscious awareness like when it is no longer self-conscious?’ This is an intriguing question for sure – if it happens to...
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The function of the machine is to eradicate consciousness, to annihilate consciousness, to drive out consciousness, to get rid of every last little trace of consciousness. We are told that...
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