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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What is the everyday mind and why does it sometimes seem like our enemy? Why does it so often turn against us? The mind is what you use to create yourself!...
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Our goals, plans, purposes, theories and strategies are how we avoid the intrinsic uncertainty of life, which – as a general statement – is obvious enough! The whole point about...
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When we say that we can’t be in the world without thinking about being in the world at the same time then this is just another way of saying that...
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Just about every minute of every day we are enthusiastically ‘opting for an inferior self’. This sounds suspiciously like a moral kind of statement but it isn’t. This isn’t the...
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In the world which is created by our thoughts nothing else exists apart from pressure. Pressure is all there is in this two-dimensional mind-created world. There’s nothing but pressure in...
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There is another, subtler world hidden within the everyday world that we know and are so very familiar with and we deny, obscure and repudiate this ‘subtle world’ at every...
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There is one idea that is more difficult to put across than any other, without any exception at all, and this is the idea that the world we see and...
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The primary illusion, the illusion behind all other illusions, is that we see everything from the point of view of the self. This might not seem like such a big...
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Reality – from a pragmatic point of view – may be said to be divided into two distinct domains – the domain of structure and the domain of essence. ‘Structure’...
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