Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

Human incarnation has many difficult passages. Birth may be traumatic, and other phases of life have their difficulties. Don’t fall for the cultural programming that tells you the path should always be warm and carpeted. Feeling bad for finding yourself on a winter pathway, that is like drinking ice water when you are already chilled.…

Many selves, many moods. A human being is typically a composite of subpersonalites all of which call themselves “I” when they take over. Different personalities bring with them different moods. Moods are as real and ever-shifting as weather patterns. It is all too easy to allow yourself to be ruled by moods, to go with…

One of the most potent of spells or enchantments that can bind you into the Babylon Matrix is to live under the compulsion of always having to imagine getting more in the future. Under this spell you become a donkey forever hypnotized by an imaginary carrot just up ahead. The carrot, the “more”, that ever…

Sometimes we are in a zone where our inner contents are exposed. Perhaps the exposure zone is a dream and our memory of the dream. Perhaps it is a relationship that brings our issues and complexes to the surface where they will also be exposed to the other. There are many things that can open…

So many things can wound our spirits. We live in a troubled realm, the Babylon Matrix, and we incarnated into fragile corporeal bodies. Our spirits can be wounded by oppression — creative, social, political, environmental, circumstantial, interpersonal. They can be wounded by overwhelming shocks from which it is hard to fully recover — the death…

The path of individuation can feel isolating, or even iceolating. It is true that the more you work on yourself the fewer will be the people you can relate to as full equals. Don’t fall into self-pity or victimhood about this. No person is an island; we are all floating in the same ocean of…

It’s a beautiful, but also a hazardous world. The warrior is always humble and alert. Don’t be paranoid, but stay alert to possible hazards.

So many things — animate and inanimate — are toxic to us and the only intelligent stance is to keep your distance. Many dangers are not to be overcome but wisely avoided. There is a Native American story about a woman who befriends a wounded snake. She loves it and nurses it back to health.…

Love, especially romantic love, can take us into dark places and even shatter our world. But “apocalypse” means “unveiling.” Love often wants to take us into the dark night of the soul, where truth can be unveiled. Don’t fall for the delusion that love is supposed to be warm and fuzzy. The mythologies about romantic…

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…