The Round Year

Mirage

February 12, 2023

What burden of proof will dismantle reason’s faith in the wrong answer?

Reality Talks Back

February 9, 2023

We call them omens, signs, kismet, synchronicities, and they simultaneously hearten and distress us, because they dismantle our illusion reality is random. We call it God’s will and surrender to it, or fate, and fight it at every turn, proud ...

Living Ritual

February 9, 2023

What is a ritual? Any activity which carries or can carry symbolic meaning. Rituals appeal to our desire for recognizable patterns, our need to place ourselves into a familiar frame of reference that connects past, present and future and inside ...

Will

February 8, 2023

Will is a wave that batters doubt against the rocks to use it for fuel.

Paying Attention

February 8, 2023

Sit quietly with your eyes closed, pick a room in your house you are not in but know very well, and try to picture it in your mind in painstaking detail. Locate and identify all the objects in it, decorations, ...

Here Be Dragons

January 30, 2023

Remember the old maps with here be dragons warnings in the middle of the ocean? When we try to think past the limits of our understanding, we always assume we would envision a blank space, a vast emptiness, but that’s ...

Objectivity

January 29, 2023

The sun is shining in the middle of the night when we can’t see it.

Yes, No, Maybe

January 21, 2023

Life works in probabilities. Everything is a gradient of maybe between yes and no. Since nothing is impossible, and nothing is absolute, life plans only make sense in broad strokes, and obsessing over their specific details is frequently doomed to failure. ...

Sensing North

January 20, 2023

Whenever you find yourself in an unfamiliar setting, it doesn’t matter if it is indoors or outdoors, take a moment and try and sense the Northern direction. Don’t deduce it rationally, just guess, and after that check it with the ...

Immortality

December 16, 2022

You are immortal when you truly understand time does not exist.

Overcoming Resistance

December 8, 2022

Think of a non-critical task and plan to accomplish it within a certain time frame. The more irrelevant the task, the better. Removing intrinsic and powerful subconscious drives, like fear and desire, will ensure this endeavor is a pure act of will.

Ineffable Experiences

The inability to share ineffable experiences is a limitation of our human condition, which makes us feel helpless and sublime at the same time. These moments are by definition impossible to put into words, but their characteristics and circumstances are ...