Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

Despondent angel: Look Up! So often the small abrasions of every day life cause our gaze to gravitate downward, but there are so many things in our lives that are helping to raise up our spirits, but that we do not acknowledge. Look up, and see all the amazing possibilities that being alive is presenting…

Eagles have the best eyesight in nature. They have two foveae or centers of focus that allow them to see both forward and to the side at the same time giving them an angle of vision of about 300 degrees. Also eagles see with a sharpness that is at least four times that of a…

There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy. — Hamlet, Shakespeare Forces unseen by our waking eyes pull and push us. Some unseen forces may be malevolent or parasitic, while others may be loving, symbiotic and encouraging our development. Other people influence us in ordinary ways, but…

“Man must make his peace with his seasons or the gods will laugh at him.” — Mary Renault “The fates guide him who will; him who won’t, they drag.” — Ancient Greeks Each of the seasons of aging — youth, middle age, old age — has its hardships, trials, and rewards. Dorothy Canfield Fisher said,”One…

Shield yourself from the Medusa Head — a reptile-brain-dominated psyche. 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 in their possible evolution because they lack the corpus callosum, the dense bundle of neurons connecting the two hemispheres vital to superior…

“The fates guide him who will; him who won’t, they drag.” — Ancient Greeks Wu Wei means “The Watercourse Way,” another way of saying “the path of least resistance,” or “following the Tao.” While your inner refraction of the Tao may cause you to have to overcome great resistance in the outer world, at other…

This card suggests that you, or someone closely affecting you, is giving in to negative emotions and the half-blinded view. An eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind. The positive aspect is that this is a propitious time to recognize the problem and take corrective action. If you are the source of the…

“Our ideas about death define how we live our lives.” — Dag Hammarskjold The fear of death (in you or others) is a sometimes hidden, potent force affecting personality and behavior in strange and varied ways. To compensate for this fear, some will seek to control others, objects, money, the appearance of youth, etc., in…

The world is in a constant state of change. The change could be geologic, environmental, political, economic, or evolutionary. Perhaps the change could be to your world in particular, your outer circumstances, or the configuration of elements within you. While nothing visible is changing dramatically in the outer world it is possible to have recognitions,…

The inner phantom of jealousy. When we don’t own the inner wholeness we already have, we tend to envy others who have the image, or precious, that we falsely associate with wholeness. Jealousy means that we are caught in the malign enchantment of the external object, the glittering bodies, money and worldly goods that the…