Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

So much in our world influences us to remain focused on surfaces and appearances. But a full life requires us to explore the depths as well. This is a propitious time for such exploration and it is particularly important that we focus on our nightly excursions into the dreamtime, the other side of our incarnation.…

This is a time to go forward into new possibilities. Shakespeare wrote: “There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we…

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.…

“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.…

This card may indicate a massive ego communication collapse that could be intrapsychic, interpersonal and/or collective. Ego and mind often try to communicate without being guided by the global intuition of the Self, and that leads to ungrounded, unstable structures of thought bound to collapse. If one or more parties involved in interpersonal communication have…

This is a propitious time to work on addictions and compulsive obsessions. 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…

“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.…

Ego attempting to schedule, organize, and otherwise control the Tao. Man proposes, but the Tao disposes. Scheduling and planning should be undertaken as strategic activities we engage in within the present, but with an awareness that future developments may overwrite our plans. It is not our job to prestructure the future. Soil with a lot…

Your Sacred Quest is what you incarnated here to accomplish, the path of your True Will, that which you will remember well on your deathbed. If you do not know your Sacred Quest, then be alert to what stirs your depths and ask yourself what you will remember well on your deathbed. Your Sacred Quest…

Few of us access the array of powers that exist, at least as potential, within us. Probably the single factor that most limits our access to power is the central spell or enchantment of the Babylon Matrix, which causes us to pursue outside objects, persons or entities to find our wholeness and fulfillment. Once you…