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Mystery In Life
The big mystery in life is that there is no mystery. People move their mind against the objects of experience, and when they poke and make them uncomfortable, they think they see clearly what it is. Poke someone in the eye, and then note how clearly they see. Why is it they acknowledge not seeing…
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Oldest Mystery
A female tradition that changes our values and priorities in amazing ways is menopause? Well, it can be. It used to be connected to one of humanities oldest mysteries. In many traditions the crone was the most powerful goddess, and crone does not equal ugly. Some people mistake that, but in fact the original meaning…
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Mystery of Comfort
I heard a talk by someone who has become hated in the medical industry. Through freedom of information act he uncovered that anti-depressants are as useful as placebos, and they have the tests to show it. Is there such a thing as a poison placebo, like if somebody thinks a vile of water would kill…
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In The Mystery
When it becomes habit to throw off the “Who I thought I was” then ego just becomes a cramp that you shrug off without effort. Just a sensation, and no longer any limitation. For me, I have a neural quirk there. I can’t form the patterns that congeal into “habits” very well. So to have…
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Mystery Of Entitlement
The big mystery of entitlement is that no one “deserves” anything, not any more or any less than any other person. In the natural way, we would all enjoy both privileges and responsibilities more or less equally. So our society as a whole is running counter to our biological instinct? Yes, and this is why…
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Mystery Societies
Behind the outward forms of society are the principles that originally gave rise to those organizations that brought people together to live in villages and then cities, and later metropolitan complexes, and these forces have been explored through what have been called the “mysteries” for a long time. The ritual dramas enacted by societies like…
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Mystery Reveals
Why do we fear strangers? Those who feared the “different” survived to reproduce. I’m not sure that does not have to be taught. We’re taught to fear the unknown? Hence fear the mystery? Mystery is not taught, it’s experienced. We are taught to fear states of mind that fall outside of the consensus. Mystery has…