In the Rational-Mechanical Paradigm certainty is the only thing that matters – we have no time for anything else. We are interested in hard facts (rather than being interested in subtle nuances of meaning that hint at a reality that goes beyond mere facts and figures, that goes beyond mere ‘positive assertions’). Facts and figures […]
Being an adapted member of society is an entirely mechanical kind of thing, which is to say, it is a sublimely non-nuanced. There’s no nuance in mechanical existence whatsoever – not even the subtlest hint of it. The way it works is that we take as much as one can take (we use as much […]
The conditioned life is the life in which we are constantly trying to run away from something that doesn’t exist. The ‘conditions’ of this life are exactly this – that we should be constantly trying to run away from an outcome that is only hypothetical, that only exists in our imaginations. This artificial task (or […]
There is a very big problem with adapting ourselves to fit the conventional world, with adjusting ourselves to what we might call ‘the conventional life’, and the ‘problem’ – to continue using this totally inadequate word – is that we are being spoofed. We have fallen victim to a trick, to a hoax and we […]
The world that thought creates for us is attractive half the time, and repellent for the other half. This is the best that the machinery of thought can do for us and it would be entirely unreasonable of us to expect otherwise. To expect to exist in a euphoric state 100% of the time would […]
When we lock onto a goal then that goal becomes the whole world. That might sound ridiculous to us, but that’s what happens – the goal becomes our whole world and – furthermore – that world is split into two halves (one half being made up of stuff that is advantageous to us, and the […]
This is a far trickier notion than it might at first appear, and it already appears to be tricky enough. I might take this notion on board, perhaps – but what would I do with it then? How would I act on this information? What possible use would it be to me? What advantages might […]
If a positive datum is to be an actual ‘positive datum’ (which is to say, if a stone-cold fact is to function as a ‘stone-cold fact’, with all that this entails) then it can’t partake in Universal Flux. It absolutely can’t do that – facts simply can’t exist in a reality that is ‘flux-like’ in […]
In the Equilibrium Realm reality is always exactly what the External Authority says it is. That’s the very definition of reality when we’re living in the contaminated backwater which is the Equilibrium Realm. The ER is the will (or intention) of the authority in question. If there isn’t an authoritative (or ‘magisterial’, as James Carse […]
Flow can’t be simulated. There’s a fundamental reason why this is so and that is because flow isn’t a thing and only things can be simulated. A thing can only be a thing if it is completely ‘bounded’ (or circumscribed’); if it’s not a thing then we can’t define it, and if we can’t define […]