I was reminded recently of this post from years ago.  It's the biggest, baddest attempt I've made at defining what I got to calling "3D thinking", and did a bunch of blathering about (clearly) while I tried to iron out what I'd discovered.

I didn't need the post to remind me that I still think 3D thinking is the most important discovery of ( Read more... )

(no no, not distrust of blankets. we like blankets. they’re like towels, but they mean business. the fully-automatic not-effing-around of douglasadamsian towels.)

(but I digress, before I’ve begun. BECAUSE THAT’S HOW I ROLL, obviously.)

It’s hard to know what thoughts to trust when your brain lies all the time. Even more so when you’re obsessed ( Read more... )

Rule One of kungfu is Relax.

I'm starting to think it's rule one of everything.  Well, it's not my personal Rule One, but maybe *a* rule one.  Which rule comes first depends on your starting-point, of course.

Sitting in my "do a video about this at some point" pile is a note to expound on the precise details of all the ways that physically ( Read more... )

Life is crazy.

But Life is always crazy.

Deprivation in some things becomes a rain of frogs and bedknobs and broomsticks and cheeseburgers and tap-dancing…while things that you may have forgotten were lush and warm suddenly dry up and freeze.

The trick - she says from that wise place a bit outside of things - is to remember that those ups ( Read more... )

Hey everyone - Going ahead and actually posting this one, because though I'm still weird about my face on-screen, I am really happy with the content of Derridian Work-In-Progress Video Series #10.

Enjoy, and thanks for indulging me in these!  They're being super helpful as motivation to both keep working on something that nearly intimidates me ( Read more... )

I've been challenging myself (with others' help ;) to explicate more clearly what the hell I mean by "3D thinking", which I've referred to here and in the videos repeatedly, and tried to explain but been unsurprisingly unsuccessful at.

It is, to say the first thing, the quintessential Thing Which Must Be Experienced.  Explaining will never get ( Read more... )

Not Enlightened Yet Episode 9 delivers content and promises more content about the nature of content.

Awww yeah.

;)

Originally published at *Transcendental *Logic. You can comment here or there.

For those extreme weirdos following the Not Enlightened Yet videos, Episode 7 exists!*

In this one, I give some much-needed (I thought) explicative** background on Presentism, and also a bit more detail on some of the helpful physical exercises I've been exploring.  It also becomes clear here that I need to do a bit of recap - which I sort of ( Read more... )

This ties in closely with Presentism, which I've been referring to constantly as the subject of a future Not Enlightened Yet video, but haven't actually gotten around to yet.  Ummm can we pretend that I'm approaching this backwards to be clever?  Yeah?  Awesome!

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When you're a kid - or even just "young" in any contextually-relevant way - ( Read more... )

I spent a lot of time today pondering what belief in the primacy of the present moment really obligates one to, and what kinds of actions 3D thinking is likely to lead to, especially as one applies it more and more consistently.

In lieu of my actually getting around to the next youtube video, though, I give you this:  David Foster Wallace on ( Read more... )