Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

“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.…

Keep secret work secret. We live in a cult of confession society where people go on national television to spill out their personal lives. But consciousness work, esoteric work, is depotentiated, loses power, when you share it with those who haven’t earned access. As Aleister Crowley said, “If I tell a man something he isn’t…

This card indicates a propitious time for positive trickster energy. The Babylon Matrix is designed so that if you seek to make progress, or even to maintain your position, you keep coming up to walls blocking your path. Use positive trickster energy — imagination, creativity, cleverness, adaptability, serendipity, guile, humor, and inspired improvisation to see…

This is a time for the stance of a stalker — to be warily and intensely focused on your goals. The overly busy, hectic nature of modern life tends to fragment attention. It is so easy for the day to get spent on mundane tasks and shallow entertainments. The stalker is focused on those few…

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…

This may indicate a time of trial and divine misfortune. Shocks are crucial to development. It is crucial to allow the shock to create transformation and not to view it from a place of self-pity and victimhood.

The spiritual realm is available right now. The Babylon Matrix is designed to keep our attention focused on surfaces and appearances, but the spiritual dimension is always present. Take a pause in the busyness, take a few deep breaths and tune into the spiritual dimension. How do various elements in your life appear from the…

Accessing green grasshopper life energy. Vitality arises from various sources. The most primary source is meaningfulness, the core enthusiasm we have for doing something meaningful with our lives. While we are in corporeal incarnation, our vitality largely depends on how we treat our bodies. Grasshoppers are herbivores that can jump the human equivalent of twenty-five…

Journeying is an archetypal human experience. I often feel the call to adventure as Winter turns to Spring, the urge to get out of the house and experience home on the road. Staying in one place for too long so easily and inevitably becomes a stagnant routine. Emerson said: “The problem with traveling is you…

Make time for meditation and inner contemplation. Find the inner light. It is easy to get so caught up in the bustle of life that we don’t take time to reflect on what’s really going on. Oracles are meant to be archetypal mirrors of where we are in our lives. Keeping a journal is another…