Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

Romantic relationships and blind spots so often go together. This is easy to see with others, difficult and painful to see about ourselves. Don’t lose your power and magic to infatuation and other forms of relationship obsession, or to the longing for glittering objects. The positive aspect is that this is a propitious time to…

“Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.” — Tolstoy Accessing the water of life while in the Babylon Matrix. From one vantage, it can seem like we live in an arid, toxic world of asphalt and metal with nothing to nourish our weary spirits. But look beneath the…

We live in the age of the narcissistic personality type. Even if we are not narcissists ourselves, we are all affected by the narcissism of others. Although I’d been influenced by Ken Wilber and others to think of the Baby Boomers as the most narcissistic generation of all time, recent research indicates that narcissism has…

We live in a matrix that constantly tempts us toward toxic choices of all kinds (not just junk food.) We need to be eternally vigilant to keep ourselves from being successfully conditioned by forces that wish to manipulate us. Be wary of absorbing toxins of any kind. The positive aspect is that this is a…

“My Avatar betrays me. It is a mortal corporeal version 1.0 requiring constant, expensive upkeep. It carries me, like an arrow through linear time. It includes a brain that builds a simulacrum of this sensual world. I want to perfect my Avatar with mouse clicks, but it stubbornly adheres to source codes I cannot access.…

“Man’s greatest passion isn’t sex, money or power. It is laziness.” — Carl Jung (quoted from memory) You don’t have to be a workaholic or grimly committed to constant doing, but you do want to avoid lethargic passivity. Getting to work with intensity is usually much more fulfilling than a life of postponement and negative…

Your inner child is peering through all the surface distractions of your life. How does he or she feel about what you have wrought in your adult life? The occurrence of this card indicates a need to locate your inner child. It’s become a bit of a New Age cliché to talk about your “inner…

An offer of friendship. Sometimes we overlook the significance of these offers. We are too busy or distracted by other things and don’t notice a helpful email from someone, a gesture or small favor. Often we are so preoccupied with trying to attract certain types of people that we don’t notice other types reaching out.…

Cutting off Medusa’s head — direct intervention with inner reptile drives of appetites and aggression. This is a moment of empowerment when you can use your will and intent to transform yourself. We are all too easily taken over by our appetites and fight-or-flight reflexes. ;According to some evolutionary biologists, marsupials, like kangaroos, are limited…

Esoteric studies, Jungian studies, deep investigation. Someone once said, “Don’t read a book unless it is like a ball of light glowing in your hands.” Find the right books (or other worthy objects of contemplation) and you will have that experience. Since you are consulting an oracle of this sort, it is highly likely that…