Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

See the potential of youth, but also its shadow. As George Bernard Shaw said, “The problem with youth is that it is wasted on the young.” Youth has its own natural glamour and charisma and sparkly glow. In our culture, many biological, chronological adults are ungracefully aging adolescents forever fighting a losing battle to appear…

This card indicates toxic dissipation, dysfunctional relationship and/or general meltdown. It is so easy to fall into one of those downward spirals, and we can easily perpetuate the depression,inner chaos and entropy by regret, and feeling bad about feeling bad. Consider for a moment how many other human beings must be in similar straits right…

There are some people that we are connected to by inner ties and this is something we will sense deep inside. But be careful, infatuation can create a false positive. In the case of infatuation we feel a deep inner stirring, but it us falling in love with the image of a split-off part of…

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…

The dark night of the soul, the descent into destruction, suffering, and chaos may contain within it the hidden possibility of rebirth. The dark night of the soul can be a zone of intense anguish where the will to live is challenged. It is also a zone where great transformation is possible. Carl Jung, in…

You do have a choice. Don’t let the Babylon Matrix castrate you. Many forces seek your disempowerment. One of the most basic forms of castration (for males or females) is to keep your attention focused on the pursuit of a glittering external object — the hottie, money, social status, worldly power, consumer goods, etc. In…

This collage, Storming the Empire, made in 1986, seems uncannily prophetic of 9/11. The destructive energy of the collective is not merely active when something dramatic and newsworthy is happening. It is there all the time as a major theme in the zeitgeist, refractted as a moment of road rage here, a destructive impulse there,…

Peace means that heaven and earth come together, our vision and the realm of manifestation are aligned. It is a propitious time.

“I Stood Upon a High Place” I stood upon a high place, And saw, below, many devils Running, leaping, and carousing in sin. One looked up, grinning, And said, “Comrade! Brother!” — Stephen Crane (1871-1900) There is no such thing in nature as an H-Bomb, that is all man’s doing. We are the great danger.…

Journeying mindfully, gracefully, through the warp — the dreamtimes of waking and sleeping. Your primary identity is not reducible to your present age, gender, or social position. At your core you are an interdimensional traveler. You entered this dimension at birth, will exit it at death, and you travel away from it most evenings when…