The movement towards equilibrium is not movement at all – it is ‘movement towards non-movement’. The movement towards the equilibrium state is a ‘hastening towards the state of staying still’. ...
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All sorts of possibilities are dangled in front of our noses the whole time, but none of them will lead us out of the equilibrium state. The only possibilities that...
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All of the neurotic conditions, without any exception, can be understood by studying the properties of formal systems and applying what we learn to the everyday rational mind. This sounds...
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Every time we create a formal system, however limited or simplistic it may be, that formal system – strange as may sound – becomes a ‘version’ of reality, an ‘analogue’...
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We all want to make sense of the world, in whatever way we can. We all do make sense of the world one way or another – this is evidently...
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According to Jung, rules are a substitute for consciousness. The everyday mind that we use to understand the world is made up of rules and so too – as a...
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Information is all there is! Everything is information… We live in an ‘information universe’ – a universe that is made up of pure information and absolutely nothing else. This is...
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The perception of the self, the ‘me’, is essentially the perception of something that isn’t there, but which nevertheless seems to be there. There definitely seems to be a self...
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The greatest, and at the same time the most ubiquitous, disaster that can befall a human being is that he or she will turn into a machine, into a mere...
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The highest flight of thinking is of the metaphorical variety. Metaphorical thinking is thinking that is free from itself, and free therefore from its own inbuilt (or inherent) limitations. Everything that...
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We can speak of all kinds of ‘certainty’ – whether mathematical or mental or physical – as being due to the production of a ‘decompression wave’ in an n-dimensional hypervolume....
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A mechanical pattern works by excluding everything that isn’t it. This is called linearity and linearity means that you don’t deviate. Linearity is how the mechanically-repeated pattern gets to be...
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