Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

This is a propitious time to work toward greater mastery of your personal unconscious. 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 horror and beauty…

Working with focus. There are times to relax and allow your awareness to become diffused, but this is not one of them. This is a propitious time to work with focus and determination, completely engaged with what you are doing. Strike now, because the iron is very hot. To strike while the iron is hot…

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…

Corrupted by adolescent narcissism and the celebrity culture. Depending on the position, this card may refer to you and/or someone you are close to. The positive aspect is that this may be a propitious time to work on transforming these qualities. We live in an adolescent, narcissistic culture. People magazine, for example, is intended for…

Sufficient awareness of the spiritual dimension profoundly shifts the relationship to suffering deriving from corporeal incarnation and all “The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune.”

“Man must make peace with his seasons or the gods will laugh at him.” — Mary Renault The adolescent social matrix is an inevitable phase of development that has its place. If it continues to dominate your life long past adolescence that may be a problem. As much as we might work on ourselves, the…

Be wary of absorbing toxins of any kind. The positive aspect is that this is a propitious time to work on detoxification. “I can resist anything except temptation.” — Oscar Wilde Temptations are very, very tempting and that is probably why they are called temptations. It is foolish to underestimate their power. Before you reach…

TThe future is the great unknown. The future may have formed and unformed elements. The cycling of the seasons, for example, has a lot of temporal momentum behind it and is very likely to continue unless derailed by an enormous shock, such as a giant asteroid impact that creates a version of nuclear winter. The…

Slowing down may allow you to appreciate the beauty of the moment. There is an old Venetian saying: “Where are you rushing to young man? You are already there.” The replenishing feminine element in our lives is often so lacking that we seek to race through time till we can get to some future oasis…

The individualized mutant will tend to view collective energy and what Jung called “mass man” with disdain and irritation. I have certainly been guilty of this. It is so easy to be annoyed or even horrified by the bustling, buzzing, acting-out energy of mass humanity. Mass man is composed of people who don’t really know…