Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

“Yesterday is ashes. Tomorrow wood; Only today the fire burns brightly.” — Native American saying What you have to work with in the present may seem weird, unexpected, incomplete, but those are just ego judgments. Your job is always to work with what is present in the moment, whatever it is. Engage what the moment…

One of the great pleasures of corporeal incarnation is movement of the body. The movement can be play, sport, dance, or it can be practical — the movements obligatory to our survival and to many forms of work. Unless we are paralyzed, our bodies are always moving. Even if you are seated in a chair…

Access your emotionally neutral, higher thinking, cosmic vision. Ironically, what farseeing vision often reveals are the obvious truths that are right in front of our faces, but which are nevertheless hard to recognize. The personal view can trap us in the forever chaos of he said/she said. An impersonal or cosmic view requires fiercely looking…

You may be somewhat unaware of an approaching transition. Your vision of it may be veiled, but that may be necessary. The future is the great unknown. The future may have formed and unformed elements. The cycling of the seasons, for example, has a lot of temporal momentum behind it and is very likely to…

Nourishment is a core theme for anyone incarnating as a mammal. Part of the definition of being a mammal is that we begin life being nourished by the body of another mammal. We are part of a vast food chain, many parts of it invisible to our ordinary perception, and nourishment, in many senses, is…

The potential for magical manifestation is inherent in the universe. In the New Age this has inflated into the mantra, “You create your own reality.” But if this were the case, wouldn’t some sufficiently positive-thinking New Ager have created a world without pollution? To a great extent you do create your own inner reality, and…

Your ego may judge the light and dark threads of the tapestry as good or bad, but a non-dualistic view sees them as interrelated. John Toland’s biography of Hitler begins with a quote from a Graham Greene character: “The greatest saints have been men with a more than a normal capacity for evil, and the…

There is an old Venetian saying,”Where are you rushing to, young man? You are already there.” We live in a world where hectic speediness going nowhere often takes the place of the gradual development of the soul and soulmate relations. If you are suffering from the modern time sickness, life in a time ghetto where…

“Chimpanzees are natural politicians driven by a desire for power.” — National Geographic documentary on primate behavior “What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god! the beauty…

In advanced computer games like World of Warcraft you create your own avatar, a character through whom you will experience the virtual realm. But how is this different than our waking life situation? At great expense we create a public character, a face or series of faces, an avatar of flesh and blood through whom…