The Assembly of Mind
Your mind is a collective but you don’t see it as a collective. You can’t see the parts because the parts are doing the seeing. We are fascinated to look at ourselves because it helps us imagine what we are.
Your mind is a collective but you don’t see it as a collective. You can’t see the parts because the parts are doing the seeing. We are fascinated to look at ourselves because it helps us imagine what we are.
The creative process is something unto itself and, like love or excitement, it does not aim for resolution... Real creation is, at some level, self-creation and the tragedy of an idea’s failure is a personal one.
If your actions are motivated by gratitude, honesty, and a desire to be of service then you probably won’t perpetrate aggression on others.
I’m feeling the panic, I have a situation, I have a resolution, but I don’t have a conclusion, and I’ve run out of time. Here is what I do in my hypnopompic state: I begin by sitting with it and then I go beyond that.
Human beings are pathological in the literal sense: personal logic is always distorted. But peoples’ logic is more distorted when they act in groups.
This post is about our essential ability to change state and perception. At its root, this is what hypnosis is: the phototaxis of consciousness.
How do you get what you don’t have? The question of how you become more aware from a less aware state requires something that you do not yet have. This is a healthy spiritual exercise.
Horizontal thinking generates inventions, but studying its success does not tell you how to do it. Creativity can be taught, we just don’t do it.
If we can embrace all our flaws and inabilities, and take these into account when we design our environment, we can create a much better world.
I draw a parallel between education and health. I believe teaching oneself and healing oneself are skills that enable one another.
With caution against excessive immersion, action video games can help us learn, focus, and multitask.
Health is not what you have in life, it's what you do with life.