Had I wanted so desperately to be special, to have a purpose, to recover from the shame of not being able to keep pace with the corporate world that I had somehow fabricated the entire thing? And how would I ever be able to tell for sure? If we are all just hallucinating this reality around us, how could we ever really know what is true and real

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I suppose the underlying issue here has to do with grasping complexity , especially when it came to contradicting aspects of my personality . It appeared to me that there must be one overarching predominant aspect to myself , one “ default setting ” to resort to when reacting to daily life. It was impossible for me to imagine such a “ setting ”... See more

The challenge arises from the fact that, upon inspection, there is no single and static self but a multitude of selves constellating at any given moment into a transient totality, only to reconfigure again in the next situation, the next set of expectations, the next undulation of biochemistry. This troubles us, for without the sense of a solid... See more