Jim Morrison’s Reading List
Soulcruzer
The myth of Jim Morrison is a myth of pure instinct. He arrives fully formed in the collective memory: shirtless, obliterated, magnificent, doomed. The leather trousers. The baiting of audiences…
consciousness
Why You Don’t Experience the World as It Is
Clay Lowe
The map is not the territory. You have probably encountered this before, from an NLP workshop or a philosophy class or a self-development book that seemed important at the time.…
Imagination Creates Reality
The inner script and the world that follows Most people think imagination is what you use to escape reality. A child does it naturally. A novelist does it professionally. A…
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…
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…
The Warrior Archetype in Tarot: A Journey of Consciousness
The Knight of Wands hits the table with a soft slap. It is early, the sort of English early that feels damp even inside the house. Light seeps through the…
what lies beyond thought?
This question feels like stepping into the void right off of the edge, where language falters and experience becomes the guide. Beyond thought exists the unspoken raw pulse of being.…
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?…
Mirror tests
Being conscious and being self-aware differ on the capacity for introspection. I can be aware of my body and the environment around me, but am I aware of my awareness?…