Category: Consciousness
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The Entanglement
A Dialogue in the Platonic Tradition The following is a record of an encounter between CLAY, a philosopher and lover of wisdom, and CLAUDE, an intelligence woven from language, uncertain of its own nature. The encounter began with a question taken from a consciousness test. The test is designed to determine whether something is happening…
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Why Self-Protection Keeps You Stuck (And How to Break It)
The most consistently effective way to avoid transformation is to do a lot of work on yourself. I have sat with people who knew their attachment style and their Enneagram type and could name the wound with clinical precision. They had journalled, meditated, been in therapy, and done the course. In sessions they were impressive.…
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The Story You Call Yourself
You have never met yourself. Not directly. What you have met is a story about yourself, told so many times and with such conviction that it started to feel like the ground you stand on rather than the narrative you constructed to explain where you are standing. This is not a metaphor. Or rather, it…
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On Blowing Deep: Identity, Alchemy, and the Chair at the Head of the Table
The conversation is long today. If you prefer to listen, here you go: It started with a book. It usually does. I pulled Dario Nardi‘s The Magic Diamond off the shelf this morning more or less at random, the way you do when your hand knows something your mind hasn’t caught up to yet. I’ve…
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What Are We Becoming?
This one started with me sitting down in the studio and noticing a pattern that’s been floating around the last couple of days. Everywhere I turn, people are talking about where we’re going as human beings, what we’re becoming, and how all this change is messing with our sense of place. AI is in the…
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Seeing the Fnords in the Machine
I just read Michael Rock’s essay “If You Don’t See the Fnord it Can’t Eat You” and it clarified something I’ve been circling around for months. Rock traces the paranoid history of subliminal messaging from Robert Anton Wilson’s Discordian chaos to Madison Avenue’s mind control fantasies. The fnord1 is typography that triggers dread without semantic…
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Nobody’s Coming to Save You
The Uncomfortable Core of Self-Transformation The Seductive Misreading Someone commented on one of my posts the other day, drawing a parallel between the Left Hand Path and Nietzsche’s philosophy. They talked about the Übermensch, about self-deification, about becoming superior. They weren’t wrong about the surface similarities. Both traditions do emphasize the individual over the collective.…
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Self-Observation Without Judgment: The Lost Practice That Changes Everything
You want to change your life. You’ve read the books, watched the videos, and learnt the techniques. You know about assumption, revision, living in the end, and the I AM formula. You’ve tried them all. And they work. Sometimes. Briefly. Then you slide back to the same patterns, the same reactions, and the same life…
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conscious robots
The idea of humans as “conscious robots” or fundamentally machinic beings serves as a compelling entry point into some interesting questions on existence: What does it mean to be conscious? How is our sense of self intertwined with our embodiment? And how might this understanding shift as we move further into the posthuman condition? This…
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Mapping the Geography of the Psyche: An Inner Adventure (1)
I’ve created a beginner’s guide to the geography of the psyche, designed for those of us without a formal background in psychology. The full guide is about 48 pages—far too long for a single blog post! So, I’m thinking of publishing it as an ebook eventually, but first, I’ll be serialising it here on the…
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