Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

It is an illusion to believe that you are abandoned in the universe without help and must do everything yourself. There are helpers, spiritual allies. Turn the problem over to the cosmos to heal. Don’t forget that there are good and evil spirits. There are unseen forces at work — some of them hinder us,…

Change is our only constant. Something in you and/or the outer situation has to change. Go with the flow of transformation, don’t resist it by clinging to the obsolescent structures of the past. Life is change, you must keep moving, changing, adapting, transforming. Woody Allen, in his classic film, Annie Hall, said: “A relationship, I…

“All things must change to something new, to something strange.” — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Human incarnation is usually a fluctuation between metamorphosis and stagnation. As the Dylan lyric puts it: “he not busy being born is busy dying.” Norie Huddle, in her book Butterfly, describes in poetic language the metamorphosis of caterpillar into butterfly: “The…

This card warns about the human tendency to give power away to a guru, political leader, celebrity, or a person who is the object of romantic idealization. Power may also be given away to an idea, an ideology, a fundamentalism (religious or secular), a movement, an addiction, an exciting, dangerous activity and so forth. There…

We all waste potential at times. This is a propitious time to see where there is wasted potential you can reclaim. It is much more important to reclaim your own wasted potential than to help other people reclaim theirs. You can only help others reclaim wasted potential when they meet you halfway, when it is…

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…

Becoming aware that you are dreaming in the dream time, and also becoming aware in the waking time that this is another type of dream, a collective dream. A classic lucid dreaming technique is to ask yourself throughout the day Am I dreaming? In some ways the answer is always: Yes. The heart has two…

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…

Essence — Radiating with the energy of who you really are. Your core essence — that which created your DNA and incarnation circumstances. According to the Taoist I Ching, evolution occurs on the path of “reverse alchemy,” the path of “returning to the Tao.” Evolution does not necessarily occur by perpetual attunement to the Tao.…