James Carse

Reality isn’t a Rubik’s Cube — it can never be solved or ‘made right’! …

The Small Picture is created by our fear of the Big Picture. Only, there isn’t any such thing as a small picture really; there is no SP in reality but we nevertheless create it (in a subjective kind of way) by running away from the BP. …

If there is no rule saying that there has to be a rule (as James Carse says), then what this means is that the rule isn’t really ‘a rule’ at all! It’s only pretending to be a rule; it’s only apparently a rule. …

When we’re playing a finite game then we are being controlled by our need to control. We are absolutely controlled by our need to control — we couldn’t be controlled more! Yet despite this we don’t see this as being the case, we would never see a game as being…

The thinking mind is ‘a machine for turning a profit’. It is there for solving problems, in other words. This is very useful at the same time as being (potentially) highly dangerous; it’s dangerous because unless there’s oversight with regard to the operation of this machine then everything straight away…

If there is any continuity at all then that means there’s nothing happening — if there’s a logical continuity then this means that reality itself has collapsed into its inverse. ‘Space’ has collapsed into ‘rules’, the ‘meal’ has turned into the ‘menu’, the ‘real thing’ has turned into ‘the token’…

Space neither rejects anything nor accepts it. Space does not reject or censor anything that is contained within it, it does not regulate or control what happens within it. To regulate something is to be a slave to the need to regulate, and space is not a slave! Space does…

We degrade life by thinking about it — it’s a ‘bigger event’ than we perceive it to be, in other words. It somehow becomes commonplace, unremarkable, only-to-be-expected, and so on. We might try to tell ourselves that life a big event, and sometimes we will believe this, but that is…

Everything that is done with a view to the self being the beneficiary is a finite game and finite games never get us anywhere. Finite play is all about ‘holding onto our position no matter what’ and so of course this isn’t going to get us anywhere. The whole point…