Spirituality for Living

Any student of logic knows that logic is just a form of cognitive reality checking.  It is a function of the monkey mind taken to a cerebral level, and logic can be satisfied by any consistency. This is why even now psychology says that any belief that is commonly held by your culture cannot be [...]

Authoritarianism. Men are brought up that they are to be the authority. They are supposedly the ones to discipline the kids. I will be totally honest. I don’t like telling anyone to do anything. We claim to be a democracy. Well, biological fact is there are more women than men. So why are the presidents [...]

Let’s take a routine activity. One we often don’t worry about. Someone want to offer one?
Cleaning house? Ok, yes. For some people house cleaning is very simple, and not seemingly stressful.  Some find it stress relieving. It is, but for one reason, and we can tap this reason in every stressful situation. When you are cleaning [...]

Sit your body wherever you like. What I would ask you, is where are you sitting in your mind, and how long have you been sitting there?
Oh, 44 years.  Long time to sit isn’t it? There is a basis for moving minds. It’s the will, and does the will sit still?
I think so primarily, but [...]

Where does our ego come in? Ego comes in because we attach to the supposed virtue of rest, of a narrowly defined peace, and feel we can claim spiritual success if we can say “I am this” even if it’s a very broad term produced by very vague thinking. We turn to traditions and give [...]

I wish I could stop and reflect more often. What stops you? Not sure, partly personality. I ask a lot of questions. Questions can be patterned in a concerning way. Questions are always coherent with patterns of thinking, either perhaps corresponding to therapeutic method, or religious prejudice, or emotive bias/temperament. Sometimes they don’t maintain coherence.
In [...]

The literal meaning of cult is a body of practices. Cult culture. The culture cult is a huge cult, and they fear cultists. Cultists are doing culture a huge favour. They need the cultists to believe their cult is sane, because culture and our educated thinking only seems stable in the contrast, not by itself. [...]

The topic is indulgence. At first, I want to start by distinguishing between indulgence and compulsion. Compulsory behaviour is actually very common. A lot is even considered normal thus “common sense”, but it reflects a degeneration of human awareness on all fronts to my view. An abdication of personal responsibility, and an excuse to not reflect [...]

We are going to talk about futility. It has been on my mind a lot. I would start by asking, what isn’t futile?

Breathing? Is if you’re submersed in water.
The soul? Hmm, good response, and will go into that later.
I’m thinking of dishes and laundry, and how you get them clean and then dirty them again.
Hmmm, [...]

Most people see conflict as drama and feel it there moral duty to avoid it, but you can’t avoid conflict. You are very likely involved in more conflicts than you currently perceive. It’s only your perceptions that bother you.
I’ve often had people comment on an interaction after the fact that they saw as a conflict, [...]

You can see the functions of your mind better than you can “think” them. Thinking being just brain flexing. Example: Shall we identify our cognitive gender identity?
Think of which gender you find yourself working the most easily with, understanding easier in communication, and share if you choose.
Male. You are cognitively male.
Female. You are cognitively female.
What [...]