Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

Incarnation here in the Babylon Matrix does not always feel good. Many times there are going to be dark, ominous, anxious, foreboding feelings. Allow for that. don’t feel that you are a failure for having such feelings, which so many others experience. Don’t feel bad about feeling bad or fall for the unrelenting emphasis on…

The Babylon Matrix suppresses your empowered awakening by convincing you that you are nothing but a particular identity, at a particular age, with such and such amount in your checking account, and the laundry list of worries and so forth. Actually, your real identity is that you are an interdimensional traveler who has arrived from…

The Babylon Matrix is set up to undervalue one of the greatest treasures you could possibly give or receive — compassionate, healing empathy. Empathy is a treasure that often enriches the giver even more than the one who receives it. The opposite of empathy is an exclusive focus on “internal considering”: — what you are…

Someone once said, “Don’t read a book unless it is like a ball of light glowing in your hands.” I think that’s a reasonable standard. If you allow them, serendipity and your intuition are likely to lead you to such glowing balls of light. J.R.R. Tolkien called fantasy writing “subcreation.” Reading fiction is also a…

“And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother’s eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?” Matthew 7:3 Blind spots are the greatest generator of tragedies in human experience. Violence to self and others almost always occurs in a state of eclipse by one or more blind spots.…

M. Scott Peck has an interesting definition of love: “I define love thus: The will to extend one’s self for the purpose of nurturing one’s own or another’s spiritual growth.” Someone once said that, “Love is cool, it is not hot.” It is crucial to distinguish love from passion, infatuation, codependence and sentimentality. It is…

When the moment for action has come it is important to act and to project your will into the world. A conscious, self-reflective person is likely to be horrified at the unconscious, harmful actions occurring in the world and will sometimes hold back from acting, fearing ineffectuality or the presumption of altering the equilibrium of…

Shock (which can be a surprisingly good thing) relates to the I Ching hexagram #51 entitled “Shock.” Shock was recognized by the ancient Chinese as such a fundamental agent that it is also one of the eight trigrams out of which all hexagrams are created. Shock is what often stirs up transformation, evolution, metamorphosis, both…