Recent Writings
What It Means To Be
Within our minds is contained the power to transport ourselves through space and time. We often find ourselves lost in thought, the world in front of our eyes fading away till it’s no more. All that now exists is the interplay of thoughts dancing in your mind of past times or future moments. During which … Continue reading What It Means To Be
Narcissus and The Repairman
“the narcissist: he treats objects as props for his fragile ego and has an uncertain grasp of them as having a reality of their own. The clearest contrast to the narcissist that I can think of is the repairman, who must subordinate himself to the broken washing machine, listen to it with patience, notice its … Continue reading Narcissus and The Repairman
The Life in Everything
I had an insight into consciousness recently. I was sitting down thinking about an experience I had on LSD where I lost my sense of self. In that state, my awareness expanded to envelop everything. Since then sometimes when I stare into a mirror I can expand my awareness achieving a feeling of detachment from … Continue reading The Life in Everything
Why You Fight With Your Boyfriend/Girlfriend: An Exploration Of Imago Relationship Therapy
I recently came across the idea of Imago Therapy. It’s a relational counseling process for couples to use their conflicts for healing and development. Harville Hendrix and Helen Hunt created the technique. Harville stumbled upon it as a therapist and professor when contemplating the question “why do men and women have so much trouble being … Continue reading Why You Fight With Your Boyfriend/Girlfriend: An Exploration Of Imago Relationship Therapy
See Reality Clearly & Change Your Life
Humans are born a clean slate, but as we age our minds are programmed by our environment and experiences. The mind collects experiences to form concepts that shape reality. We see an object (which includes people) and within milliseconds associations arise. Associations are labels, judgments, and concepts that change reality. When I look outside on … Continue reading See Reality Clearly & Change Your Life
Are Tarot Cards Real?
I was walking on the beach with my girlfriend recently and we serendipitously came across a guy doing tarot card readings. We decided to sit down to peer into our future and the results were quite spooky (Hatchum’s definition of spooky: a combination of weird and surreal). My girlfriend went first. She asked him “what … Continue reading Are Tarot Cards Real?
Outsider
I am the black sheep in my family. Surprisingly. My dad has 13 siblings, my mom has 7. A quite massive family. My grandparents aren’t related to bunnies, but they sure do fuck like them. From the entirety of the family, not many diverge from the norm, well minus me that is. The majority live … Continue reading Outsider
The Holy Couch
“Tao gives birth to one. One gives birth to two. Two gives birth to three. Three gives birth to all things and all beings.” – Tao Te Ching I want you to think about a couch. Really think about a couch. Now you may be wondering why I want you to think about a couch. … Continue reading The Holy Couch
Stories: The Reality Distortion Devices
“The trick and the beauty of language is that it seems to order the whole universe, misleading us into believing that we live in sight of a rational space, a possible harmony. But if words distance us from the present, so we never quite seize the reality of things, they make an absolute fiction of … Continue reading Stories: The Reality Distortion Devices
10 Books I Learned from in 2020
Thanks to my kindle, this year I can actually remember the books I read. Here are a few summed up into one or two things that I took away from them. As a Man Thinketh Every action can be traced back to a thought Siddhartha Life is a series of loops Games People Play We … Continue reading 10 Books I Learned from in 2020
Points of Imaginary Tension
Beliefs are similar to a virus. When your mind is malleable they’re most likely to infect you. Young people all have malleable minds. From ages 0 to your teen years you’re very susceptible to these belief viruses. Although, strong viruses can infect you at any age. These viruses express themselves through our behavior. We act … Continue reading Points of Imaginary Tension
Dimensional Depth
Practice is the prerequisite to excelling at a skill. But what’s happening as one deepens their knowledge through practice? What are the differences we notice in experiencing someone who is an expert in their art? Well, what we are experiencing is the difference in dimensional depth. An expert has greater dimensional depth to their skills … Continue reading Dimensional Depth
We Are All The Same?
Outwardly humans look quite different from each other. We have different interests, clothing, cultures, ethnicities, and physical features. Yet, peel back the layers and it doesn’t seem to be true. I mean literally peel back the layers of skin on every human. Expose the muscle and tissue that lays underneath us all. We are just … Continue reading We Are All The Same?
Disconnected: The Paradox in our Adaptive Emotional Ability
Welcome to 2020. Where humans are more connected than ever. We have smartphones that fit in the palm of our hands. Their power surpassing supercomputers from just decades ago. They allow us the opportunity to connect with billions of others daily. Video call technology facilitates connections to relatives living abroad. Social media connecting us to … Continue reading Disconnected: The Paradox in our Adaptive Emotional Ability
The Lack of Diversity in Mental Frameworks
For the past few decades, we have moved away from being in extended families towards the less natural nuclear family structure. In doing so we lost the most important benefit of being surrounded by a variety of different adults. The lack of diverse mental frameworks. Every human has a unique outlook on the world. Which … Continue reading The Lack of Diversity in Mental Frameworks
Newest Notes
Tao of Seneca
On saving time The most disgraceful kind of loss, however, is that due to carelessness. Furthermore, if you will pay close heed to the problem, you will find that the largest portion of our life passes while we are doing ill, a goodly share while we are doing nothing, and the whole while we are … Continue reading Tao of Seneca
Siddhartha
It had to be found, the pristine source in one’s own self, it had to be possessed! Everything else was searching, was a detour, was getting lost. Thus were Siddhartha’s thoughts, this was his thirst, this was his suffering. “What is meditation? What is leaving one’s body? What is fasting? What is holding one’s breath? … Continue reading Siddhartha
As A Man Thinketh
Mind is the Master power that moulds and makes, And Man is Mind, and evermore he takes The tool of Thought, and, shaping what he wills, Brings forth a thousand joys, a thousand ills:– He thinks in secret, and it comes to pass: Environment is but his looking-glass A man is literally what he thinks, … Continue reading As A Man Thinketh
