We first used the carrot and stick on donkeys— indeed, the life of an ass is nothing more than being motivated by reward or punishment. However, humans have made themselves to be more asinine than their four-legged counterparts. The donkey is at least free from the carrot and the stick while its master is away. …
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The Polypsychic Being Part I — Origins of the Idea of Many Selves In the early twentieth century, Russian philosopher P. D. Ouspensky and his teacher George Ivanovich Gurdjieff introduced a psychology that still feels ahead of its time. They began from a simple observation: a human being does not think, feel, or act as …
Everydayness and Polypsychism everydayness, the dull hypnosis of everyday life polypsychism, the condition of multiple competing selves or egoes within the mind We find ourselves entranced by mechanical loops of living. Our sense of time is a major accomplice. The days of the week, the hours of the day, even the months of the year …
It has been my hope in writing this simplest and briefest of sketches to present the reader with the most essential starting point for any spiritual pursuit. I will be skimming over vast amounts of information – entire religions’ worth of intricacies, but, sometimes simplicity is more conducive to understanding than lengthy expositions. This is …
You came here to unmake the world they sold you. We are midwives to a birth that has never happened. Our ancestors hinted at it, mystics wept for it, poets dreamed it. But no civilization has ever embodied it A being no longer divided against itself. Thought that bows to silence. A body radiant with …