Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

We tend to think of ourselves as a single coherent personality, and expect the other to be a single coherent personality as well. But a single human being can support many personalities. The dramatic example is multiple personality disorder, which is extremely rare. The familiar example, which is anything but rare, is how different we…

When we are not working on fulfilling our dreams, our life mission, then we are likely to feel anxiety. The young man in the photo is a talented tennis player who was taking time off and reevaluating his dream of a being tennis champion. He stopped to look wistfully at a tennis court as we…

A car is a time machine carrying you into the future. Behind you is the past, a traversed trajectory, and up ahead is the future, but the vehicle itself is always in the present. Usually you have a degree of choice about what future you approach. The steering wheel, brakes and accelerator allow you to…

A car is a time machine carrying you into the future. Behind you is the past, a traversed trajectory, and up ahead is the future, but the vehicle itself is always in the present. Usually you have a degree of choice about what future you approach .The steering wheel, brakes and accelerator allow you to…

“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…

“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…

“Our ideas about death define how we live our lives.” — Dag Hammarskjold The fear of death (in you or others) is a sometimes hidden, potent force affecting personality and behavior in strange and varied ways. To compensate for this fear, some will seek to control others, objects, money, the appearance of youth, etc., in…

How do others see you? One answer is that they often see you through a glass darkly. Sometimes what they see in the dark glass is a distorted reflection of themselves which is projected onto you. Some people will project their shadow onto you, the parts of themselves they don’t accept and may consider inferior…

The heart has two phases, contraction and expansion, systole and diastole. Mammal incarnation has two phases it cycles through on a daily basis — waking and dreaming. We are interdimensional travelers, arriving from another dimension at birth, departing to other dimensions at death. The cycle of the day recapitulates the cycle of a life. At…