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A Shadow Play
How do I get rid of the scorpions in my life? What do you feel about the scorpions? And is that the only way you can feel about them? They frighten me or I feel frightened. The apparent world around us is a shadow play. Guess what is making the shadow puppets? Us. Not your…
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Life is Your Body
Have you ever been genuinely happy? Yes. Was it because of yourself? No. Have you ever been self made happy? Home made happy is great stuff. Know how to make it? Emotions like memory are mutable. They are the very energies of reality. We make an idol of any fixed state of being and ignore…
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Alien Limbic Syndrome
Has everyone heard of alien limb syndrome? Due to some sort of brain abnormality, a person can come to feel one of their body parts does not belong to them. They experience it as an invasive presence, even going so far as having no emotional or even physical quality of life until it’s physically removed…
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Pleasure Denied
If I just followed my pleasure drive, I would play games all day and get nothing done. Nope. You would get hungry, and you would get tired, and you would get bored. You would get curious and your mind would wander, but you do have a very valid point. Why does any single pleasure have…
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Adult Confusion
Those threads I mentioned? Well, every painting is at first defined by lines, and we all have lines in our perception. Our brains perceive everything around us first as patterns of contrast, as lines, before it fills in any finer detail. We bear at the core of our being a thumbnail sketch of self. This…
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Concern Over Circumstance
When painting you require both a subject and a medium. Where do we draw our subject for our creative work? Are there creative subjects in the world around us? Based on our perceptions isn’t everything creative? Is anything of it’s own nature a creative subject. Does anything suggest it’s own creative essence? There is a…
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Interpretation of Experience
I may suggest some things that seem strange or confusing to begin with, please bear with me and hopefully my ramblings will begin to make sense. So the self, the mystery that it is to be an individual being in a diverse world. As strange and paradoxical as much of human nature may seem, we…
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Realign the Neocortex
Our conscious mind gets stuck in computational loops, and keeps handing this information back to our default mode network as if it were an actual evaluation of what it was told. The default mode network gets confused and frightened if it ignores the so called product of experience. It can’t ignore the layer of context…
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This also seems descriptive for a type 3 indigo. I do have many of these traits that alternate but know…