Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

Mindfulness is an empowered stance from which to meet the world. Mindfulness means to be as present as possible with what you are experiencing. A classic mindfulness exercise is to eat one raisin, first looking at it carefully, noticing every convolution and variation in surface texture, feeling it with your fingers, smelling it, feeling its…

“There will be time, there will be time To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet;” — T.S. Eliot You are not your persona or social self. We all put on social masks and in some circumstances they are quite necessary. But they are not who you are. If some old masks…

Listen to the calm, clear, compassionate voices. Don’t follow any inner or interpersonal voices that are bitter, hysterical, nagging, overbearing, belittling or compulsively insistent — any voices that aren’t calm and compassionate. Be aware of what they are saying, but take it with many grains of salt. There is a saying that, “Love is cool,…

Be wary of those who approach with hollow intentions. Choose your companions with infinite care. Know the difference between an acquaintance and a friend or spiritual ally. Are you hanging out with people with whom you would trust your life? Life is too short to spend in hollow company when it could be lived with…

Time to open the box and access your inner wizard. 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…

Shed archaic layers. Take off the gloves and other body armor and feel the textures of the world around you. The blade is more important than the sheath. “There will be time, there will be time To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet;” — T.S. Eliot You are not your persona…

“There will be time, there will be time To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet;” — T.S. Eliot What is going on beneath the social masks presented to the interpersonal world? Let worthy others see your inner light. Sometimes we put on masks to meet the outer world — we act…

People are not always what they seem. Respect the otherness of the other and don’t be sure you know who they are. It is hard enough to know who you are. And remember that other people are the ultimate drug — as social mammals we are incredibly influenced by the people we are around and…

Recognize the conditioned, chaotic patterns of the adolescent, socialized side of your personality. The positive aspect is that this is a propitious time to work on that. Who are you when away from the maddening world of the he said/ she said soap opera? In my experience, few people ever recover from high school. What…

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…