Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

The difference between a powerful mutant and a disempowered one has much to do with their hierarchy of psychic functions. The mind and the ego are crucial allies, but they need to be, in many cases, in a subordinate relationship to global intuition. The re-empowerment of intuition is directly connected to greater access to psychic…

If we’re not wary we can get burned by unworthy temptations, reptilian drives and appetites. 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…

This card indicates the presence of parasitism, and morbid, ravenous appetites. This could involve aspects of yourself, or of others (persons, entities). A life that is not driven by meaning, by a core of self development and the will to help others, quickly devolves into the hungry ghost lifestyle where one is forever looking for…

We are culturally conditioned to contemplate people, opportunities and states of being from the point of view of immature masculinity: How much money will it make? What’s hot? What’s not? Is it loaded with enough bells and whistles to spike my blood sugar? t is easy to get so caught up in the bustle of…

Bring your masculine and feminine sides together to find your vision. From a neurological point of view, the highest creativity occurs when the right and left hemispheres are working together. Some people confuse androgyny (an intrapsychic orientation) with bisexuality (an interpersonal orientation) or hermaphrodism (an anatomical/genital anomaly). Hermaphrodism, as June Singer uses the term, means…

When you attempt to reach a new level of knowledge, self-awareness, empowerment, creativity and freedom from past enslavements, addictions and entanglements, you are very likely to encounter threshold guardians, which may take the form of sabotaging characters (within or without) or other adversaries and adversities that test your will, perseverance, and worthiness to advance to…

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…

Like a fractal, like a hologram, the small part, the microcosm, recapitulates the whole, the macrocosm. You are a microcosm of the multiverse, an organism made by the multiverse that actually works. As you are reading this about sixty trillion cells are working with infinite precision just to sheath your awareness in a corporeal body.…

Open avenues of possibility. The ego has a number of thankless jobs. Principle among them is mediating between the inner and outer world. Since it is responsible for logistics, it is forever troubleshooting, and for this and other reasons it will tend to focus on disaster scenarios and the perceived obstacles to what it considers…

This is a propitious time for conscious discourse with a spiritual ally. The ally could be a person, an oracle, an entity or your higher self. Most conversation is chatter, small talk, there to keep lines of social connection open with the least substance and thinking possible. If you have a commitment towards consciousness, this…