I had a strange and frightening dream experience today. Then I had a theory of the operation of the mind that I thought of when I lay in bed for a while afterward thinking about the experience. I shall first describe to you the dream, and then the theory. The dream was that I am …
Category: Philosophy
A moment with the Universe.
A sad grey twilight watches me from outside the window. Faint traces of the sun's orange being given up to the quiet waiting blue some way up from the horizon. How long has it been since I opened these little attics of my mind? How long since I last deemed they were of value? How …
Thoughts from a drunken party
Are there any utilitarian side-effects to a conscious attempt towards the dissolution of the self? It might seem an odd question to ask, for the very task of this self-learned dissolution is only taken up by those who have reached a state of mind that has conclusively disengaged from any utilitarian goals. I suppose I …
End of the Road
Time and darkness, the greatest equalizers. One takes everything to the same form, while the other makes form irrelevant. Lost are we the children of electricity. We go to sleep in our impure darknesses clothed in flickering electronic lights, our silent digital sentinels watching through the fake night. For this is not the pure night …
I am here.
The spirit of the universe was nowhere to be found and we had charted light years of starways through quiet dust-strewn blankets of forever dark to find ourselves run out of road, staring but into ancient void There is nothing, we relayed as we made to pull the plug for there was nothing to stay …