Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

Race car drivers are trained that if they are heading toward the wall, they should look at where they want to go, not at the wall. Look toward the open avenues of possibility, not the walls. There are always open avenues of possibility. Look toward where you need to go.

Our desires, addictions, obsessions and various neurotic sufferings are predicated on our enslavement to linear time. Against the backdrop of the dread ticking of the clock we anxiously seek to enforce our will on the Tao. But against the backdrop of the infinite and eternal, the phantoms we pursue appear quite differently. Our reptilian drives…

The vicissitudes of fate can separate us from those we love. But there is also the primal human emotion of abandonment fear. If you have experienced a loss, take comfort from the reality that our separation exists on only one plane of existence in a multidimensional multiverse. If abandonment fear is a dominant force in…

The hero’s journey always begins with answering the call to adventure. The journey will always involve a descent into darkness, but it must be undertaken if we are to fulfill our destiny. As Shakespeare wrote in Julius Caesar, “There is a tide in the affairs of men, which taken at the flood, leads on to…

You have everything you need in the present situation to work with impeccability. This doesn’t mean that you shouldn’t work toward manifesting additional resources and opportunities. It does mean that the present situation supplies you with everything you need to take the next step. Think out of the box, people have changed the world with…

This card relates to oracles and the principle of synchronicity and indicates a propitious time to consult oracles. Since you are consulting an oracle, this shows you to be presently in tune with the Tao. An oracle consultation is a conscious synchronicity, a microcosmic mirror of your macrocosmic orientation toward the Tao. Depending on the…

You are a transformer. A human being is an entity incarnating in a corporeal primate body that is undergoing a state of continuous transformation, from conception through birth, growth, aging and death. We live in a state of continuous metamorphosis and that is great! Not so great for an ego that would like to hold…

Dreaming, out-of-body experience, near-death experience, visionary experience, and death may all involve crossing an event horizon where one travels interdimensionally into unexpected timelines and states where space/time and individuality are experienced altogether differently than they are in the waking terrestrial life. To the ego, which is trying to stabilize and reinforce identity and the accustomed…

Time to join with those to whom you are connected by inner ties. Finding your community of spiritual allies, your hermetic circle. If you are reading this card, then it is overwhelmingly likely that you are incarnating as a social mammal. As a social mammal, so much of the pain and pleasure, so much of…

The Devouring Mother is an archetype that refers to the devouring aspect of nature/the feminine. An addict is an example of someone caught in the jaws of this all too real archetypal force. Parasites, which outnumber all other species four or five to one are embodiments of this energy. People (individually or in collectives such…