Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

In a lifetime, and in the course of a day, we often find ourselves at a binary nexus, a choice between zero and one, between yes and no. This card indicates such a nexus and reminds us that sometimes no is the more powerful decision, the decision that saves our power from premature or otherwise…

In a lifetime, and in the course of a day, we often find ourselves at a binary nexus, a choice between zero and one, between yes and no. This card indicates such a nexus and reminds us that sometimes no is the more powerful decision, the decision that saves our power from premature or otherwise…

Don’t nourish yourself with that which is unnourishing. We live in a matrix that constantly tempts us toward toxic choices of all kinds (not just junk food.) We need to be eternally vigilant to keep ourselves from being successfully conditioned by forces that wish to manipulate us. Be wary of absorbing toxins of any kind.…

This is a propitious time to consider the direction you are going and to make course corrections. To make a course correction you need to first establish your present trajectory. Stop and consider what you have spent time, energy, and money (a form of energy) on in the last day or week or other unit…

The future is the great unknown. As we gaze into it we see that there some elements that are vaguely formed, but much that is unformed. 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…

“Look, I bear a wound that is not yet healed, my ambition to make an impression.” — C.G. Jung, Black Book 2 Most of us have a need for attention or acknowledgment. We want to be seen and welcomed into the perceptual fields of others. We may want to light up the back rows with…

“I Stood Upon a High Place” I stood upon a high place, And saw, below, many devils Running, leaping, and carousing in sin. One looked up, grinning, And said, “Comrade! Brother!” — Stephen Crane (1871-1900) There is no such thing in nature as an H-Bomb, that is all man’s doing. We are the great danger.…

Self-acceptance cannot be postponed till you feel you are good enough, till you have reached your ideal weight, idealized romantic relationship or other images of success. Even if you achieved such things you would need to keep the cyanide capsules close at hand because any of these things can be taken away. When will you…

“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…

Liminality is the state that exists between and betwixt, at the edges of boundaries, at dawn and dusk, in the moments before falling asleep and the moments of resurfacing from the dreamtime into waking. It is a time that is often more vulnerable, but also more alchemically charged. The liminal state is not as fully…