The everyday self is a task that we continually have to work on. We don't usually think of it as a task, but it is – it's like a heavily-laden...
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The ‘great task’ in life is not, as we might assume, a positive one. As a rule, we feel that if we are not doing something positive in life (which...
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The movement toward security (or rather, the movement towards perceived security) is always a movement away from meaning. Eventually, when we travel far enough down the path that (supposedly) heads...
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Whenever we ‘assert a definite value’ (or whenever we ‘make a positive statement’) we inevitably create the Virtual Compulsive Environment. Alternatively, it could be said that whenever we act purposefully...
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When we are in the identified state then we have a very clear awareness of whatever the particularities are that we happen to be dealing with at the time, along...
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We are on very dubious grounds straightaway when we ask the question “What is consciousness?” We are on dubious grounds because we've closed the door without ever knowing that we...
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There is a type of movement that we don't know about, and yet which is happening all the time. This isn't movement as we usually understand it, which is movement...
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Another way of saying that our ‘error' is to be ‘always looking for freedom in the wrong place’ (which is to say, in the world of the known) is to...
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The whole thing about the Designed World (which we may also call ‘the Machine World' or simply ‘the Simulation') is that as soon as we adapt to it – so...
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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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