Consciousness is like monotonic fluorine, or monatomic oxygen, in that we never come across it in day-to-day life! We never do and we never will. Saying that consciousness is like...
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To live in the world, and fundamentally not to know what that world is (or not to know what it means to live in it) is existential pain, is existential...
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There are only two things in the world, determinism and freedom, and only freedom is real. Of the two of these things however, determinism is the only one we know...
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Goal-orientated behaviour (which is to say, ‘doing mode’) is how we stay unconscious. We always say of course that doing is good, that doing is great. We make a religion...
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In the absence of being the runaway thinking mind projects what is missing in symbolic terms. There is a ‘sting in the tail' to this trick however and that 'sting'...
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What's the point of ‘trying to make things be what they aren’t'? This might seem like a stupid question but there's a lot in it. There's actually a whole world...
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The known things, the familiar things, the expected things - they are the enemy! We don't think they are the enemy but they are. The known things and the expected...
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Aggression is how we create negative freedom for ourselves! Admittedly this statement probably isn't going to make a hell of a lot of sense to anyone who happens across it,...
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When Macbeth says that life is ‘a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing' he could be talking about the thinking mind’s account of life...
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Suppose you were in the Purely Conceptual Reality and you couldn't tell the difference. Suppose you were in the Purely Conceptual Reality and it was substituting itself for the real...
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What happens when we allow ourselves to be totally controlled by a positively-defined reality? What happens when we let ourselves be totally determined by the Virtual Compulsive Environment? This –...
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So if we can't ‘wake up on purpose' (or ‘separate ourselves from our conceptualisations on purpose') then does this mean that we just have to keep on dreaming? Are we...
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