Life in the Box
Life in the box isn’t life at all but a game. ‘So what’s the difference’, we might ask, ‘Don’t people talk about ‘the game of life’, after all?’ We can talk about game of life if we want to of course, but that’s merely a…
Giving Up Our Trickiness
The state of meditation is, we could say, where we are ‘Present in the moment, for no reason, without intending to be’. This is a delightfully simple and uncontrived (necessarily uncontrived) situation, therefore – it’s not complicated (or sophisticated) at all. There couldn’t actually be…
Protecting The False Self
Everyday life puts us in a very peculiar position – it puts us in the peculiar position of having to support, maintain and promote a proposition that is astonishingly dumb, astonishingly lame, astonishingly ‘not worth the effort’. We are obliged to continually ‘talk the situation…
Not Claiming Authorship
Nothing that is done deliberately can be authentic. We are all about deliberation, we are all about control, but nothing that is done deliberately can ever be authentic. We don’t see things like this of course, but that’s how it is. We’ve actually got things…
The Individual Carries No Weight In Society
Reflect Mode is where we take a break from what we’re doing and ask ourselves what exactly we are doing and why. It’s not that we have to literally ask ourselves the question; that would be too formulaic, too mechanical to do us any good….
Nonsensical Psychological Messages
We have – as a culture – a huge fondness for nonsensical psychological messages – we can’t seem to get enough of them, and this is odd because they don’t do us any good at all. We’re banjaxing ourselves with fine-sounding pseudo-psychological memes… A typical…
Maximum Incoherence
Identity is a prison, and yet it is – absurdly – a prison that we’re very proud of, a prison that we will defend to the bitter end. Identity means that ‘I am this but not that,’ and the thing about this is that ‘what…
Control Equals Fear
It’s not that we should ‘do something about fear’ so as to show that we’re not afraid of it (or – if we can – vanquish it entirely) but rather that the helpful thing to do is to do nothing about it, nothing at all….
Anxiety Comes Out Of Denial
There can’t ever be such a thing as ‘a method to stop worrying’ and there’s a very simple reason for this – the universe, in essence, is composed of nothing but pure electric uncertainty with no solid, ‘reliable’ basis whatsoever. This is physics, not metaphysics…
Forcing Is Fear
In the psychological sphere of things, forcing always comes from fear. In the psychological sphere of things, forcing is fear and this is why we can’t ‘force ourselves to face the fear’! Deliberately (or purposefully) facing fear is an impossibility, therefore; it’s a ‘contradiction in…