Category Archives: Existential

11-NOV

Infinity

Chivalry by Neil Baiman & Colleen Doran

Man must part company with the inferior & superficial. The important thing is to remain firm.

Ben Klinefelter (American, b. 1955)

Accomplish one’s task, no matter what happens.

The I Ching or Book of Changes

02-NOV

Doxology

Eat and Be Eaten
Shermans Lagoon

Guard yourself against mistakes when you see evil people.

The I Ching or Book of Changes

I am creating a life in which everything that needs to get done will get done, and I will still have the time to say yes to the things that I love. –A Year of Self-Care by Dr. Zoe Shaw

26-OCT

Hyperventilation

Matteo Bassini – Quanta

With a neurophysical/biological computer embedded inside our skulls, we are fields of consciousness transcending time & space. Consciousness is an expression of a cosmic intelligence that permeates the entire universe and all of existence.

The Holotropic Mind by Stanislav Grof

20-OCT

Seduction

Who but an atheist could think of leaving the world without having first made up his account?

It is then he will find in what mighty stead that heathen goddess, that virtue, which you and all other deists of the age adore, will stand him.

Tom Jones (1749) by Henry Fielding

Avoid at all cost the priorities in your life that aren’t in your top five, because they’re the ambitions insufficiently important to form the core of your life, yet seductive enough to distract you from the priorities that matter most.

Oliver Burkeman

29-SEP

Revelation

I glanced round the bus.

Though the windows were closed, and soon muffed, the bus was full of light. It was cruel light.

I shrank from the faces and forms by which I was surrounded. They were all fixed faces, full not of possibilities but of impossibilities, some gaunt, some bloated, some glaring with idiotic ferocity, some drowned beyond recovery in dreams; but all, in one way or another, distorted and faded.

One had a feeling that they might fall to pieces at any moment if the light grew much stronger. Then-there was a mirror on the end wall of the bus – I caught sight of my own.

And still the light grew.

The Great Divorce by C. S. Lewis

22-SEP

Archaeology

You and I have memories
Longer than the road
That stretches out ahead”

Two of Us by The Beatles, Let It Be (1970)

385 million years from now the world will be vastly different again as well, while the universe, during the same time period, will have changed insignificantly (in comparison to its totality, of course).

The point is: you don’t have to move all that far from where you are now to experience expanded consciousness. Merely step outside. Go to the beach if possible.