Possible huge problem with psychospiritual journeys: Yes, there are deep structures in the labyrinth of my mind, and yes, I will have profound insights and fundamental shifts when I bring them into full awareness...
And yet...after years of self-work, I'm starting to suspect a large amount of the labyrinth is actually... See more
To gain more control over your desires, figure out what your particular version of the Michelin Guide looks like. It might not involve stars at all, but the approval of specific people or the expectations of your friends or family; or the awkwardness of sharing with others that you have always wanted to do something that not many people would... See more
my theory is that AI-generated information will be weirdly unexpectedly bad for minds at scale in the same way that processed food is weirdly unexpectedly bad for bodies at scale
so "human-made information" will be the new "whole foods"
it'll still be important
“What is stopping me from surrendering fully and open-heartedly to my entire existence, in this moment?”
It is my experience that The Other Thing isn’t some special construction produced with effort, like a cabin you build. Instead, it’s what happens when you are fully at peace with the facts of life and death, yourself and your place in the... See more
When I say ‘the future within us’ is our entelechy I mean a mixture of things, some quite metaphysical. But I’m thinking more generally of the untapped potential of the world’s people as a source of beauty that might yet enchant us.
If the old systems have failed to allocate authority effectively, what new tools can we come up with to sift true misinformation from information the monarchy doesn't like? The solution isn't to give up and say we can't be trusted with unfettered access to information. It's to figure out how to help people make better sense of all that information... See more