The difference between seeing and knowing

I agree with everything you say and yes it is greed due to the delussional "I" and not money that causes great many evils but what about revenge. There is a saying in the old Indian epic Mahabaratha that the state of revenge is the most sublime of human condition.for instance if someone hits you and have a laugh and runs away at you don't you run and chase around them desparate to have a go at them.what about feeling of vengence. Among...

An Evolutionary Glitch?

A discussion about the "I" function from a forum incursion today (26/4/11) Acc to evolution, development of speech, Language made us human. Yep As one saiad, we are homo grammaricus, we communicate as some mammals but we communicate with a language that has its own set of rules. The illusion of "I",(owing to fault in perception of brain) is important in wide pattern recognition and matching.We are living in an illusion and...

Mr Whippy's cannibal adventure

I will have to rewrite this post eventually as the ideas are under developed. The piece is pertaining to the philosophical problem of other minds and divisions in reality. I needed to make a distinction between the following types of reality. Meta reality - that which is beyond our sphere experience and would include Kant's conception of noumena. Mesa reality - taken from the Greek word for middle and a unique piece of word smithery...

Another set of tips for looking

Another set of tips for looking

Exactly what it says on the tin - Ghost 2014 I actually decided to write more tips for looking because this is what everyone gets hung up on. Even though I have some new realisations to share, I thought I would spend more time stating the obvious... To be fair that is what I am doing but I spent a few days...

The power of NOWT

This post is more aimed at the post self crowd rather than any noobs, however, it has an important idea about how we conceptualise time and construct our fictional self. This is worth exploring in real depth post self and is also useful for anyone who is looking. Ghost 2014  Read Eckhart Tolle's Power of Now and it will tell you about what he calls presence. This is just basically being in the present moment. There are many names...

“Resistance is futile”

This post tries to strictly delineate between thinking and looking. If you can excuse the informal style and the RT rhetoric it does outline this aspect well. However, the cries to look at reality will bore you and there are a couple of nonsensical bits in there lol! Whilst looking at resistance to looking yesterday, it became clearer to me what we are really dealing with. Well I already knew, I just didn't know how to state it clearly,...