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Ten Day Vipassana Course: An Intensive Confrontation With Myself
My whole life has been a more or less successful quest for wisdom and happiness. By what would later turn out to be a stroke of luck, this quest brought me to a 10-day Vipassana retreat in Northampton. Before the retreat, however, I doubted the decision: what if I had […]
Why Open-Mindedness Should Go Hand In Hand With Skepticism
De omnibus dubitandum est Doubt everything The World Our stream of consciousness is constantly bombarded by harmful information. Propaganda, advertisement, manifestos, popular cultural values and questionable theories of what life is really about. Information that wants to do everything but inform. Because it’s not about whether they are true or […]
Top 5 Videos Of Alan Watts
Psychedelic experience is only a glimpse of genuine mystical insight, but a glimpse which can be matured and deepened by the various ways of meditation in which drugs are no longer necessary or useful. If you get the message, hang up the phone. For psychedelic drugs are simply instruments, like microscopes, […]
GÖD, Emergence, Life
Can an omnipotent God create a task he is unable to complete? Is perception limited, if only temporarily, with a growing infinite? Does my creator pose the same questions to his creator as I pose to him? Does my creator’s creator pose the same questions to his creator?... break; The Incompleteness Theorems […]
Repetition, Bubbles and Immune Systems
All living organisms, including the human race, are creatures of habit. That is to say, we train ourselves, again and again, in order to better ourselves. If not, the skills we have come to rely on will whither away. We keep reading to increase our knowledge, we keep exercising to […]
Thinking Within Paradoxes
I read a few years ago somewhere that a hallmark of a genius is being able to hold opposites together and transcend them. This stuck with me and over time I tried to make sense of it, because at first it was a very confusing concept. With some luck this […]
Got Eudaimonia?
Daniel Kahneman found out that most researchers fucked up happiness research because people respond to the 'Are you happy?' question in two different ways. The question could either mean 'Are you happy right now in this moment?' or 'Are you happy about your life?' In other words, which self answers […]
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