Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

Diving into the unconscious and dealing with whatever hair-raising events, visions, entities, life-changing realizations you find there. Nothing could be more crucial than Socrates’ great commandment: “Know thyself.” Those who don’t know themselves act out their unknown contents in the world, and often with disastrous results. Explore the unconscious with the courage to see the…

What is blocking your connection to the light? Usually there is some sort of negative inner script that frames life and/or yourself negatively. Negative frames are often just below the surface of consciousness and act as filters through which perceptions pass and are distorted. For example, “Life sucks and then you die. I never get…

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…

For there to be novelty in our lives, for there to be metamorphosis, there needs to be open space. It is hard to grow something new in a space that is already overcrowded. What we often don’t realize about a loss, about the dark night of the soul, about a dry period in some area,…

Keep reaching for your dreams and ignore the inner or outer advice of “sensible, reasonable, realistic” subpersonalities and interpersonal advisers. As George Bernard Shaw said, “The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.” On the practical level,…

Woe to the shepherd who abandons his flock. Tend to what is in your care — your body and psyche, those to whom you are connected by inner ties, your life mission. Consider this a propitious time to protect and nurture what is under your care.

This is a propitious time to detoxify yourself and break free from societal/social conditioning and enslavement to the Babylon Matrix. What are the foreign toxins you have allowed yourself to be injected with? Every time you eat junk food, or allow a known toxin into your body or mind you are submitting to Matrix Injection.…

Be true to your essence — that which created your DNA and incarnation circumstances – and allow others to be true to theirs. 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.…

We are easily enslaved by addictions that are ruled by the reptilian part of our brain. Almost everyone has to do battle with this aspect of human nature. No matter how many setbacks and reversals you experience, keep struggling to free yourself from that which would enslave you and drain your life energy. Be wary…

Grounding yourself by finding your center. According to the I Ching, you have only one obligation in life — to get your relationship to yourself right. Do that and your relations to sex, time, money, power, food, body, career, society, the cosmos, etc. will all be as good as outer conditions allow. Omit, distort or…