Philosophy - The Negative Psychologist

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...

Philosophy

The Invisible Substitution

Jul 23. 2018

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...

Philosophy

Sweating The Dream Stuff

Jun 27. 2018

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...

Philosophy

The Hollow Kingdom

Jun 22. 2018

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’...

Philosophy

The Great Process

Jun 10. 2018

Life falsifies our illusions. If we had to say what the ‘meaning’ of life was, this would be as good an answer as anything. This doesn’t mean that reality has...

Philosophy

Regulated Consciousness Is Not Consciousness

May 05. 2018

It is possible to get subsumed within an extraordinarily thin film of consciousness and yet not even to know that this has happened. It’s more than just possible - it...

Philosophy

Freedom’s A Funny Thing

Mar 16. 2018

Freedom’s a funny thing because as soon as we get it we fall asleep. We fall asleep and start dreaming, and there’s no freedom in dreaming. We might think that...

Philosophy

No One Owns The Self

Feb 11. 2018

We can’t really take ownership of what we refer to as 'our' lives, and when we try to (when we think that we can take ownership) then we create suffering....

Philosophy

The Dance Of Dead Mechanical Energy

Feb 02. 2018

What we don’t generally know about this world is that the things that we do have their own strange type of momentum, and that this momentum rules our lives, no...

Philosophy

Two Types Of Story-Telling

Dec 17. 2017

There are two sorts of world that we can live in, two sorts of world that are based on very different principles. The type of world that we are generally...

Philosophy

When We Play At Being The Self

Dec 13. 2017

When we play at being the self (when I run the experiment of being the self) then we are taking a position that is inherently insecure. That is our basis....