tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3719024566754743654.post5207225500998316589..comments2023-10-24T09:51:27.658-04:00Comments on The Peaceful Self.com: Awakening to Fictional Realities...mikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10978313265796058909noreply@blogger.comBlogger50125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3719024566754743654.post-23870256249723394932014-03-07T17:56:55.001-05:002014-03-07T17:56:55.001-05:00Why act as if you had free-will upon concluding un...Why act as if you had free-will upon concluding undeniably that you don't? Why take responsibility for a will power that is not of you?<br /><br />That would be like me taking responsibility for the fact that you robbed a bank.<br /><br />It appears you believe you make choices autonomously, free of any other causal factor. <br /><br />Simply surrender to the fact that you are in charge of nothing, not even the thoughts that arise in your head. They just arise, influenced by external circumstance or internal programming. You do not pick and choose what thought to have, otherwise, you'd have to choose to think it before you thought it. There would need to be a 'thought chooser' in your head choosing to have thoughts before they arose and that is patently absurd.<br /><br />To act as if you have free-will, even though you know you don't is to live a lie.<br /><br />Mikemikehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10978313265796058909noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3719024566754743654.post-66445084731073315452014-03-07T14:28:21.187-05:002014-03-07T14:28:21.187-05:00But in the end eveything boils down to:
Is the r...But in the end eveything boils down to: <br /><br />Is the ride worth riding? Is it joyfull to be alive? Would one want to do it again under these circumstances? <br /><br />Who cares if consciousness is locaded in the brain or not? And if we are all fictional selfs, isn't it a good point to at least enjoy that particular kind of fiction as best as we can? (Of course without harming the joy other riders in their particular ride.)<br /><br />What is so bad about being egocentric if it is unavoidable anyway?<br /><br />For me it's like this: <br /><br />As much joy as possible for all living forms! No form is allowed to make another form suffer just because it's fun for it to superimpose it's own suffering onto others. If one likes suffering...please do so but do it in seclusion...alone...and for your own. ELSE!<br /><br />And let me add this: Poverty and polluting the environment is harming the joy of a lot of beings. And because of that absolutely nobody can be realy completely happy because if one being suffers the other beings will suffer too. <br /><br />THAT is the meaning of a-dvaita...not-two.<br /><br />It's all very easy if we are willing to be honest and earnest regarding the reasons for the suffering of our fellow beings. No big secret anywhere. Only the willing to see, to hear, and to take responsibility for our doings. (Even if that is what one is supposed to do anyway.)<br /><br />Choices are been made. That is not the question. The question is will one take responsibily for it althought one might not have "free will". It's like saying: "I may not have "free will" but I just don't care. I act as if I have. My no-free-will is to take responibility for my mental condition and my actions! Ha!"<br /><br />AnjaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3719024566754743654.post-9642345499935032002013-12-06T13:32:17.962-05:002013-12-06T13:32:17.962-05:00"Perhaps 'nothing to do' should read ..."Perhaps 'nothing to do' should read 'whatever you think you can do is pointless as it all happens as it does'."<br /><br />Works for me....<br /><br />Thanks!<br />Mike<br />mikehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10978313265796058909noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3719024566754743654.post-25262402189552276232013-12-06T09:33:30.894-05:002013-12-06T09:33:30.894-05:00Actually I am more a 'neuro-advaitist.' Ha...<i><br />Actually I am more a 'neuro-advaitist.' Ha! Humor, no matter how deluded, is most welcome here (I certainly don't take this sheit seriously)<br /></i><br /><br />Mike,<br />"neuro-advaitist"... cute term. The not-two aspect would be that the gray matter is indistinguishable from any other chunk of matter in the universe, it only imagines it is.<br /><br />"my premise is not a 'nothing to do' but a 'you will do exactly what you're supposed to do'". I suppose I see those as somewhat interchangeable. Agreed, your actions are all predetermined* based on the genetic basis coupled with subtle brain programming by the environment. Perhaps 'nothing to do' should read 'whatever you think you can do is pointless as it all happens as it does'.<br /><br />It reminds me of a Wayne Liquorman story that I read when I used to read that stuff:<br /><i><br />"... likens the belief in egoic autonomy to being on a boat ride at Disneyland. You're floating along, the fake animals on either shore or doing their own automated thing, and you turn the wheel to the left -- and the boat turns left. Amazing! You turn the wheel right -- and the boat turns right with you. You think, "I can turn this boat wherever I want." So you turn the wheel to the left again, but this time the boat turns right. The robotic monkeys laugh at you, you think, and you're forced to start to question the belief that you're actually controlling this boat."<br /></i><br /><br />I bet you are as much fun as parties as I am: "Hi, my name is Chris, did you know that everything you think you are is completely imaginary and untrue?". A real conversation starter.<br /><br />* I posit that given a computer powerful enough, and a sensing system able to observe everything in the universe, all outcomes would be completely deterministic. Given identical input conditions, two items will behave in exactly the same way. As this kind of analysis is impossible, everything that happens appears random and for all practical purposes, may as well be treated that way.Chrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00149040373924811807noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3719024566754743654.post-22766027192964369312013-12-04T18:22:20.420-05:002013-12-04T18:22:20.420-05:00Chris,
Actually I am more a 'neuro-advaitist....Chris,<br /><br />Actually I am more a 'neuro-advaitist.' Ha! Humor, no matter how deluded, is most welcome here (I certainly don't take this sheit seriously)<br /><br />And my premise is not a 'nothing to do' but a 'you will do exactly what you're supposed to do,' based on what a predetermined causal order has neurally wired you up to do. There is no exit from the neuro-circuitry and "you" are it's captive, because it has nullified your free-will (but allows a delusion of such and even that is hard-wired in). All techniques and practices are unnecessary, especially in recognizing there is no free-will. Hence, any technique or practice engaged with had to be engaged with exactly as it is engaged with.<br /><br />Thanks!<br />Mike<br />mikehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10978313265796058909noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3719024566754743654.post-55793515709110956122013-12-04T09:26:06.355-05:002013-12-04T09:26:06.355-05:00Hi Mike, thanks for the notes.
You'll have to ...Hi Mike, thanks for the notes.<br />You'll have to excuse my sense of humor - it doesn't always convey well in person, let alone in a forum like this.<br />As far as sparring, there won't be any of that, got the T-shirt already. Though it is good to hear that you are invulnerable.<br /><br />As far as "techniques and practices that are simply unnecessary", that is true and most appear to provide a comfortable source of income for the suppliers. Contrast that cynical notion with the neo-advaitist "nothing to do" premise you refer to. While fundamentally true, in the meantime the mind conjures up all sorts of fantasies, including a good dose of self-inflicted psychological pain. As far as I can tell, the real purpose of life at this point (past the procreation stage) is to minimize pain. So to that end, I could resort to many available psychological parlor tricks in order to destroy these fantasies. But of course that is yet another fantasy. Uh-oh. It's bootstraps all the way down.<br /><br />ChrisChrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00149040373924811807noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3719024566754743654.post-53735416302952936302013-12-01T16:58:25.798-05:002013-12-01T16:58:25.798-05:00Chris,
"Now that you're sort of ok with ...Chris,<br /><br />"Now that you're sort of ok with Jed, I guess it's safe for me to enter the fray."<br /><br />I was never NOT "ok with Jed," just as I'm never NOT "ok" with any other egos that only do what they are programmed to do (including me). Lotsa turd blossoms in his writings, but then, good things grow from the most rancid sheit.<br /><br />"So, all Jed was saying was that you can (pretend to) go along with it, or (pretend to) fight it - don't matter much, the outcome is the same."<br /><br />Exactly. Yet, the Jedi Master continues to advocate techniques and practices that are simply unnecessary (although, it does sell books). Whether or not someone engages "witnessing," or not, is not up to them anyway, so why bother with recommending practices or things to do when there is no free-will as to what one "chooses" to do?<br /><br />"It's a pretty freaking amazing process actually."<br /><br />Hmmm...I wonder if the predetermined causal order that has shaped the natural world from the primordial soup of the universe, and continues to do so, ad infinitum, considers the process "amazing."<br /><br />Although it is accurate that egocentrica mammalia requires it all be..."amazing" and sometimes even 'awesome.'<br /><br />Your tone and diction reminds me of another Jedi Master I once enjoyed sparring with. But her light saber could left not a scratch and so, she banished me from her illusory kingdom. Ha!<br /><br />Here...all are welcome.<br />Mikemikehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10978313265796058909noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3719024566754743654.post-14599778560187301892013-11-30T16:25:11.643-05:002013-11-30T16:25:11.643-05:00Hello Mike...
Now that you're sort of ok with ...Hello Mike...<br />Now that you're sort of ok with Jed, I guess it's safe for me to enter the fray. Just kidding, a long T-day weekend allows me to finally quit procrastinating and set up my internet identity so that I can play too. I'm pretty much in agreement with all your premises - it doesn't take a lot of poking to see what we are actually made of, a motley collection of accrued programs (or more likely viruses) which in combination generate one particular flavor of personality.<br /><br />The difficult part is of course resisting the urge to think that this personality is anything other than a mirage. Maya is very compelling. So that's really my area of interest: even though I know what is true, I just can't seem to believe it. Or perhaps better put into Jed-speak, unbelive what is untrue. Why is that? I guess what I'm saying is we've deconstructed the nature of the universe/being as much as humanly possible, now we have to deconstruct Maya.<br /><br />Jonathan: Of course the latest book is utter nonsense, what else could it be? However since we are in the amusement park for a while, let's play along. I think his trilogy addendum has a lot of girth. One particular aspect I like is his use of terminology which finally satisfies me, mainly his explanation of the difference between "Truth" and "Reality". In our current area of interest, terms get bandied about a lot, invariably misinterpreted, misconstrued, or just plain missed - I am satisfied with his set.<br /><br />As far as free will is concerned, there is absolutely no logical argument that can prove the existence of that primal thought that decides to think another thought that decides to exercise free will. They all arise spontaneously and our personality-virus carefully crafts into a shape that it then labels "choice", or perhaps "god". It's a pretty freaking amazing process actually. But again, the problem is that the personality that knows a little bit too much, recognizes at some level the utter falseness of it all, then fabricates a new story involving nihilism, despair, solipsism, etc - pick your poison. Brilliant. So, all Jed was saying was that you can (pretend to) go along with it, or (pretend to) fight it - don't matter much, the outcome is the same.<br /><br />So can I play? I promise not to get all Jed-y all the time.Chrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00149040373924811807noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3719024566754743654.post-65768063708011690022013-11-28T10:48:32.807-05:002013-11-28T10:48:32.807-05:00He provides a few blossoms amongst the turds.
Hav...He provides a few blossoms amongst the turds.<br /><br />Have a great holiday! <br />(fictional as it is)<br />Mike<br />mikehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10978313265796058909noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3719024566754743654.post-41139313275894303432013-11-28T10:35:42.136-05:002013-11-28T10:35:42.136-05:00Happy Thanksgiving, y'all.
Again, in that quo...Happy Thanksgiving, y'all.<br /><br />Again, in that quote, Jed is not saying that there's no free will and in the trimmed part of the quote below, he's saying that you have control over not allowing yourself to see which could imply that you also have control in allowing yourself to see.<br /><br />"You're seeing something that you don't normally allow yourself to see."<br /><br />So what made you change your tune on Jed? I believe you wrote an article about he had the biggest ego of them all. Have you read his most recent book? It's utter nonsense.<br />Jonathanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06327352871927224135noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3719024566754743654.post-29048113847109246932013-11-28T08:51:59.581-05:002013-11-28T08:51:59.581-05:00BTW, that quote above is Mckenna and he's just...BTW, that quote above is Mckenna and he's just saying what dozens of others have said in the past.<br /><br />Fictional realities will insure that most will never have to face this...<br />Mikemikehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10978313265796058909noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3719024566754743654.post-48977001584339369182013-11-28T08:49:34.282-05:002013-11-28T08:49:34.282-05:00"Ever been depressed? Really depressed? Like ..."Ever been depressed? Really depressed? Like nothing means anything? Like there's no point to anything? And what's the worst thing about those dark moments? Where do they get their power? <br />From their undeniability. From the fact that there's no argument. When you're in that state you know perfectly well that it's true. You're seeing something that you don't normally allow yourself to see. That's when you're seeing without your protective glasses. That's when you pull back the curtain and see things as they are. You know the feeling of utter futility. At the heart of that black despair is the knowledge that that's real- everything is futile."<br /><br />S'okay Jonathan. It's all meaningless anyhow....<br /><br />Thanks!<br />Mike<br />mikehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10978313265796058909noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3719024566754743654.post-64464259375233328552013-11-27T23:43:29.418-05:002013-11-27T23:43:29.418-05:00I dont know bro, I think the simplest test would b...I dont know bro, I think the simplest test would be to just try and not come and read this site. If you can then that will be that, and if you cant then maybe....sunnyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12351640393849802386noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3719024566754743654.post-27948290682489667582013-11-27T21:32:33.897-05:002013-11-27T21:32:33.897-05:00This has nothing to do with free will or it not ex...This has nothing to do with free will or it not existing. It's Jed saying that he lives by intuition and that his intuition is so well-developed that he doesn't have to debate with himself. If anything he is implying that a choice to follow the patterns or fight them exists.<br /><br />This is a perfect example of someone trying to adopt a truth professed by someone else and not finding it by revelation. It's just not the same.Jonathanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06327352871927224135noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3719024566754743654.post-46860254922899943902013-11-27T21:04:33.319-05:002013-11-27T21:04:33.319-05:00"Simply put, I don't think. I don't m..."Simply put, I don't think. I don't make choices or decisions. I don't weigh possibilities and select one over others. Instead I observe patterns and move with them. I have a refined sense of rightness and not-rightness that guide me in all things. I wait for unfolding. I sense currents and I flow with them. <br />You don't have to be enlightened to operate this way. YOU JUST HAVE TO RELEASE THE TILLER. Once you do an entirely new way of flowing through life opens to you. Look for the pattern, the unifying theme, the sum of the parts that explains your existence."<br /><br />-Mckenna<br /><br />Release the tiller Jonathan. End the resistance and flow with whatever the universe has in store for you.<br /><br />Wait for the "unfolding".....and flow with it. <br /><br />Move with the patterns...<br /><br />Actually, you're doing it now....<br /><br />Thanks!<br />Mikemikehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10978313265796058909noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3719024566754743654.post-49542183314794705042013-11-27T20:46:35.990-05:002013-11-27T20:46:35.990-05:00Have brighter minds never said otherwise?
Where d...Have brighter minds never said otherwise?<br /><br />Where does Jed McKenna say that there is no free will? If you've read his latest book, he says that consciousness is all. He directly states that there is no objective world, which is a requirement for your theory. If you've read his first book, he says that nothing can be known outside of one's own existence, which would include knowledge of causality or free will. I haven't read every page of Jed's four books, but I have them all so I could easily look it up if you can point me in the right direction.<br /><br />I didn't say that death was fictional. I said that suicide would be fictional, which would imply that you cared about your (fictional) life to actively want to escape it.Jonathanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06327352871927224135noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3719024566754743654.post-81103418010355079222013-11-27T18:52:56.740-05:002013-11-27T18:52:56.740-05:00"There's a clear contradiction here or at..."There's a clear contradiction here or at least a massive divide in your psyche."<br /><br />Much brighter minds than mine have said the same. You might want to read Balkesar or Maharshi, or even Jed Mckenna (pseudonym). I only weave it with neuroscience. <br /><br />But I recognize your resistance and it's certainly expected, because you have no free-will to do anything differently, you can only go where the conditioned circuits take you. Just like me.<br /><br />Au contraire, death is the most factual element of any fictional existence. Numerous fictional realities have been constructed only to hide from that fact alone.<br /><br />Good luck on your meaning search!<br />Mikemikehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10978313265796058909noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3719024566754743654.post-34969623289416850252013-11-27T15:58:42.941-05:002013-11-27T15:58:42.941-05:00Yeah, it sounds like fun thinking that your life i...Yeah, it sounds like fun thinking that your life is meaningless and fictional except for survival needs. I still don't understand how the part of you that thinks life is fictional allows you to do anything to prolong that life. There's a clear contradiction here or at least a massive divide in your psyche. I think this is an elaborate defense mechanism that you have woven for yourself.<br /><br />I'm not suggesting that you commit suicide - that would be just as fictional.<br /><br />Don't get me wrong, I can see the possibility that life might be meaningless and I would never purposefully lie to myself, even if it meant accepting it was meaningless, but I'd rather take a shot at finding some meaning. You might want to think about what you're saying versus what you're doing.Jonathanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06327352871927224135noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3719024566754743654.post-27534833878467913872013-11-27T07:11:55.353-05:002013-11-27T07:11:55.353-05:00My life is both factual and fictional as is yours....My life is both factual and fictional as is yours. Hunger and eating is factual, the ways we eat are fictional.<br /><br />If a day comes when fictional realities drive me to suicide, then so be it. It's outside my control since there is no free-will. However, I hit that stage many years ago and now simply have fun playing with fictional realities, as in here.<br /><br />Thanks!<br />Mikemikehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10978313265796058909noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3719024566754743654.post-59959587886371697942013-11-26T22:44:18.058-05:002013-11-26T22:44:18.058-05:00"It's called "dead" Jonathan. W..."It's called "dead" Jonathan. When the functioning of the brain shuts off, you are no longer conscious because you are quite simply dead. "Total locked in syndrome" is not dead, because neurons are still firing."<br /><br />As I explained with the automatic door example, movement or responsiveness to an environment is not evidence of consciousness.<br /><br />Since you requested that I limited my questions to one or two at a time, here are the two:<br />-Is your life fictional?<br />-If your life is fictional, why do you eat, knowing that you are just prolonging the fiction?Jonathanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06327352871927224135noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3719024566754743654.post-3264492149323200132013-11-26T22:10:25.890-05:002013-11-26T22:10:25.890-05:00Feel free to challenge my circuits at anytime...
...Feel free to challenge my circuits at anytime...<br /><br />: )<br />Mikemikehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10978313265796058909noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3719024566754743654.post-47493320437515093472013-11-26T22:06:07.884-05:002013-11-26T22:06:07.884-05:00In the case of death, which is the great Unknown i...In the case of death, which is the great Unknown in a field of the Unknowable (Life), yes it is arrogance to assert we know what it means or is. It is outside the realm of science (plausible modes of description which are not the actual) and religion (largely metaphorical modes of description) both, yes.<br /><br />"When I claim abandonment I mean to the circuitry and the possibility that tomorrow my circuits may claim that we are all slaves of the extraterrestrial Annunaki race. "<br /><br />Haha! This cheered me up.<br /><br />"I just roll with it, because it really doesn't matter in the grand scheme of things because it is a part of the grand scheme of things."<br /><br /> I agree, good attitude in this case.<br /><br />All the best brudda. Your last comment makes sense to me anyway. Just don't imply I'm happy clappy please! Whatever, doesn't matter either way...<br /><br />Cheers, <br />GabrielAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3719024566754743654.post-85540976251739378052013-11-26T21:48:49.525-05:002013-11-26T21:48:49.525-05:00"You simply do not know what happens, it'..."You simply do not know what happens, it's arrogance to assert that you do, pure and simple."<br /><br />So all of science and religion, which asserts "what happens," is arrogant? Isn't the thesis, antithesis, synthesis, part of the search? As the cliche goes, you do not know how electricity works, but you live by it working.<br /><br />When I claim abandonment I mean to the circuitry and the possibility that tomorrow my circuits may claim that we are all slaves of the extraterrestrial Annunaki race. <br /><br />The point is, with no free-will, it is simply not up to an "I-me" as to what will be the next belief.<br /><br />I just roll with it, because it really doesn't matter in the grand scheme of things because it is a part of the grand scheme of things.<br /><br />Thanks,<br />Mikemikehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10978313265796058909noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3719024566754743654.post-52307276258088964332013-11-26T21:29:50.049-05:002013-11-26T21:29:50.049-05:00"Hence, I live in the surrender and total aba..."Hence, I live in the surrender and total abandonment to any perspective "<br /><br />Haha! Ok, whatever you say. Really sounds like it...<br /><br />Look, I respect your position, even if you don't respect my lack of fixed position or open-mindedness on the matter. Death may very well be the complete cessation of experience... Maybe. You simply do not know what happens, it's arrogance to assert that you do, pure and simple. I am not defending a position other than that of being open to possibilities that have been presented as real in my own experience (and you are only going by your own experience too, of course). <br /><br />I don't believe we are 'people' fundamentally per se (permit me to sound 'far out' on that point), so no, I do not wish to extend 'my' consciousness into some supernatural realm and find the thought quite horrifying, frankly. What we are as individuals is merely a pattern. I wouldn't want that pattern to go on 'forever', that would be unspeakably dull (much as I don't want to engage in this conversation forever, and I'm sure you feel the same).<br /><br />I have actually have also known the place you are speaking from (as best I can tell, or, as much as you have any idea where I am coming from), so you're not the only one who can wearily say 'been there, done that, bought the prayer beads/gothic clothing'. I resigned myself to living a short, pointless existence, having occasional momentary pleasures, with a fair smattering of mild suffering and dissatisfaction. Not having any more expectations than this actually brought some degree of peace, but I realised after a time that this was no more than another, 'palliative' and ameliorating belief system. It is better than waiting for some 'far out mystical experience' or whatever you think I am 'seeking' but it was a belief system none the less. I even recognise the somewhat sardonic sense of humour you seem to display from my days of inhabiting that particular belief structure. I thought I was the only person who had 'got real'. Ha! Instead I was engaged in more mind-based 'telling things what they are' rather than experiencing their richness and fullness, which I do enjoy to a much greater degree now. I am under no illusions of being apart from the causal order as a human individual, I have stated on numerous occasions that we are in agreement on the issue of free will.<br /><br />Happy surrendering into the meaningless goo of... etc. (I hope you are actually happy btw, and hope you wish others the same. I'm sure you do, no hard feelings)<br /><br />Cheers,<br />Gabriel<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3719024566754743654.post-69640324942015141772013-11-26T20:43:53.795-05:002013-11-26T20:43:53.795-05:00I do sense it Gabriel. Read "Recreational swi...I do sense it Gabriel. Read "Recreational swimming the the Primordial Soup" (recent post). What you want is human "consciousness" to be some glorious separate entity from the rest of the predetermined causal order that the natural world is confined to. Does a three-toed tree sloth give a rats patoot about summoning some esoteric "intuition"? Why should it when it is already intuitively connected with a predetermined natural order that requires no intellectual blah, blah blah of 'oneness' and 'universal unity' or "being the all." Just watch it. I eats, sheits, sleeps, fooks and then...dies. What more to concern itself with?<br /><br />"You say you have been through many 'perspective changes', hasn't that taught you that the belief is never the actual? "<br /><br />Of course it has. Which is why I don't take any of this sheit seriously. I really have absolutely no investment in what anyone thinks about anything I write. I just do not care and eventually, I would imagine, that detachment will end the writing completely. I feel I am getting close to that every day, but it simply does not matter.<br /><br />"Your 'circuits' are obviously pretty closed down, despite your pretending to be open."<br /><br />Unfortunately, this makes no sense. What you wish to say is that I am closed to what you suggest and that may be true, since I can only go where the circuits take me and that is the same for you. Your circuits engage a discomfort with what mine present and that makes total sense.<br /><br />But here's the thing...I look forward to whatever surprising understanding my circuits take me to next, since I have no free-will in what that might be. Hence, I live in the surrender and total abandonment to any perspective and the evolution of the blog demonstrates that. I used to get all jiggy with Deepak Chopra. Thanks god that was many years ago.<br /><br />Enjoy your seeking! <br />Miikemikehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10978313265796058909noreply@blogger.com