SS, I think you are my longest-lasting internet friend.The everyday world stuff is not complicated. In 2024, a "revolution of one" = suicide by cop. Refusing to participate in Capitalism =…Sep 211Sep 211
a guy who claims to not want to be famous and who allegedly hates capitalism yet posts…Maybe not literal clockwork, but close enough. There's an app for that... :0)Sep 211Sep 211
the, surprisingly quite reviled, scientific method which involves hypothesis, some predictions, an…The problem today is that science, like every reliable esoteric method of self-investigation over the centuries, for most people has become…Jun 261Jun 261
naturalism/materialism/physicalismI agree 100% with the concept of naturalistic idealism. The model that there is Nature over here and something else (the supernatural) over…May 221May 221
Simply speaking, it gives complete satisfaction to what we yearn the most, and, conversely…Perhaps I am already enlightened, then, because I love my life and can't remember the last time I felt a "desperate yearning." Certainly…May 71May 71
Here's a good questions, SS:You will see that you are but also are not. You will recognize that there’s no actual substance to anything, yet the world’s causality…May 61May 61
There's a conversation in Castaneda's A Separate reality about shields.Don Juan says a man must always maintain a full array of shields so as not to be destroyed by the very power he is seeking. Ordinary folk…May 21May 21
one seeks escape, eventually, not quite knowing from what, but then while on the way out you can’t…That's a perfect description of what I call "Stage Two Awakening." When our experience of ourselves and the world has shocked us into…Mar 311Mar 311
maybe I’m not even real and only one of you truly exists,, or I am the real one as I cannot refute…I think the way to avoid solipsism in all of this is to realize that waking experience is a dream just like nighttime dreams, and that you…Mar 301Mar 301
