Marshall McLuhan observed that "All words, in every language, are metaphors." Husserl observed that "all perceptions are gambles". Korzybski observed that "The map is not the territory", which Alan Watt's playfully restated as "The menu is not the meal." Lao Tzu observed that the "way" you can speak about is not the "way" itself. This insight ( Read more... )

The ideas generated by Science Fiction have so permeated my "spiritual" and political philosophies as to be one and the same, on certain levels. Vogt's "Null-A" books, Heinlein's SISL, TMISHM, and TEFL, Asimov's Foundation series, Herbert's Dune Series, Russell's "The Great Explosion"....I could go on. There is so much more.

One of the concepts from Heinlein's SISL that I always loved is the Fair Witness. I found this cute little teaching story expressing the concept on a Heinlein Forum ( Read more... )

This kind of story is becoming an almost daily occurrence. Police are militarizing, people are noticing, heinous acts are being committed against unarmed citizens...dystopia has arrived. Well, actually, it arrived some time ago. Follow both links ( Read more... )

'Adepticus Sir, that bunch of Ornithoids on Artoc 4 that you asked me to observe, well they've just trashed their planet ( Read more... )

You spend enough time turning on the Neurogenetic circuit and you start getting very suspicious that Our Lady of the Stars is definitely calling us home to Galactic Center. The "coiled splendor" so often used in kundalini metaphors may even suggest the DNA helix within us is the secret of immortality. Think of the strange images that accompany the ( Read more... )

It disturbs my harmony when I meet someone who defines a person's importance and worth by how grandiose their wants and ambitions are. Wanting a Yacht is not a benchmark of worthiness in life.

An interesting summation of power elite strategies.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8ERfxWouXs&feature=youtu.be

I try not to judge since it is possible that someone is, like the two birds in the Upanishads, both watching and playing. Doubtful, but you never know. Many are the ways God plays hide and seek with God. As an example, I (and you) occasionally get playful and chatter about what's wrong in the world....but we all know that there is nothing wrong. ( Read more... )

4th circuit social scripts have gone from being ludicrous to me to simply being meaningless and irrelevant. This is particularly true of the "success script" most Americans are running. I've noticed some people judge others by how grandiose their wants and ambitions are, as if wanting a yacht and a house in the Hamptons is somehow indicative of ( Read more... )