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Agency
- Lucretius on the pussification of the modern human
- Magick is assumed by any theory of agency
- Can neurons break the rules?
- The extent of magick
- Is freedom possible inside of true wavering?
- The hero’s imperative
- Is agency prohibited by the PSR?
- What if the self is nothing other than physical nature?
- The LRH–Damasio connection
- What intelligence looks like
- The vulnerable processual self
- Man, the great protoplasm bag, originated as a recoiler
- DNA: agent or bridge?
- Agentive awareness derives from pain
- Organismic unity and rationalist metaphysics
- I forgot: I’m in the house on the river
- The explosion of a lifetime
- Can neurons break the rules?
- Your house is on fire
- Self-deconstruction by way of materialism
- Self as artifact of grammar
- A new Way of Unity
- The best example of how biology is the most determinate driver of value and meaning
- People are basically walking sponges
- Polyps, not particles
- Matter is sentience
- Darkness and the drive to understand
- Survival and survival-irrelevant interests
- Does knowing you’re a robot help?
- Snake patterns are taking over the Lego box
- History of Buddhism as reification of epistemic processualism
- Kant’s Four Noble Truths
- 8 Jhanas = satchitananda
- How is “Emptiness” better than “Totality”?
- Self and Ultimate Ground must overlap
- The Buddha’s real genius
- “Nirvana is samsara”
- “Always meditate”
- Buddha-nature vs divine omnipresence
- Is Buddhist non-striving pathological?
- Does insight into the robot help?
- Other worlds therapy (Vajrayana Tech)
- Against Vipassana and Buddhism (Deathbed Friend Tech)
- L. Ron Spock
- Pain, self, and motivation
- Bodhi rests on an infinite well of right
- Kinds of concentration
- Buddhist looking dis-identifies
- The ontology of seeing (our way out of suffering)
- Buddhist metaphysics
- Effective access to Buddhist analysis
- World-decomposition along the skandha fault lines
- Feel deeply and tell good stories: Vipassana-Landmark for writing
- Clinging is the matrix-solidifier
- Using quotation marks to sell a lie
- Success: damn Gourdough’s bastard
- Interview with the coffee robot
- Wikipedia: a new intellectual pleasure
- Is prototypal inheritance unsurpassable?
- The Tinderbox scattering effect
- A trick to make duty the guilty pleasure (Voice–Soma Reversal Tech)
- One Minute Meditation: Rev. Kane
- The best possible meditation practice
- Doing the cheesy morale check the right way (One Gay Tech)
- How you feel when you declare your intention
- This is how to do an exorcism (Exorcism Tech)
- One Minute Meditation: A. Michael Baldwin
- “Stillness” vs Noting
- The one and only proper talk-therapy topic
- One Minute Meditation: D’lish Donut
- The Scale of the Universe (Scale Tech)
- Negative affect decreases judgmental bias
- Real situation (Black Infinity Tech)
- Proper “Kundalini” technique (Chakra Tech)
- A good will is therapeutic (Kindness Tech)
- Ritual magick explained
- A new phenomenology of Schematism Tech
- Is self-punishment for real crises a helpful nigrido stage?
- Every appearance is performance for others (Performance Tech)
- The stupendous depths of compulsion (Bio-Marvel Tech)
- Turning aversion into compassion (Pains Are Helpful Elves Tech)
- The inverse economics of gratitude
- The blessedness of true believers
- Preempting distractability before you get to work (Peaks and Valleys Rundown)
- The Law of Attraction is the Left-hand Path
- Why self-help goes astray in the masturbation nation
- Radical transformation is ongoing but occult (Yoking Awareness to Transition Tech)
- Thoughts on Louise Hay (Assumption Tech)
- What about operant conditioning?
- Make everything strange (Dumb Tech)
- “Effort” is a misleading term (Being honest when you begin Tech)
- Effort: the “life hack” self-help peddlers hate
- Other worlds therapy (Vajrayana Tech)
- My litany against imagination (Reality Tech)
- Imagination is the enemy of Vipassana (Burying Your Face in the Tar Tech)
- Against Vipassana and Buddhism (Deathbed Friend Tech)
- Logo-magick is bogus
- Why Rocky is greater than Christ (Invoke Rocky Tech)
- Wonderment invocation (Wonder Tech)
- The procrastination industry (Daydream Interruption Tech)
- Paradise is childhood’s optimism
- Vipassana and working memory (Getting Things Done Tech)
- Why “making a game of it” works (Game Tech)
- What Happened vs The Story: Concreteness training
- Stop the presses! Abreaction works if it is concrete
- Intentionally contrive your action in line with a rule (Be an Actor Tech)
- Rumination makes sadness the longest-lasting emotion (Vipassana-Landmark Tech)
- Find your inner contrarian and commit a cumulative act of mutiny against neuronal quorum (Cultivate the Impossible Tech)
- Performance formula
- Does being authentic just mean expressing our appetites? (Strength is Lust)
- Childhood passion vs adult interest
- EFT is bogus
- Does suffering have a “source”?
- The punishment proxy
- How suffering sustains itself
- Jesse’s Somatic Tech
- Rage is right
- How to be completely relaxed while fully exposed (Downward Coin-Stack Tech)
- How to make big goals non-intimidating (Reeling Yourself in from Far Away)
- How to stop wrong-making (Vipassana-CBT Tech)
- How to become a Yes-man (to your commitments) (Be a Hypnosis Victim Tech)
- The drill of drills (Do Not React Tech)
- How to disarm future triggerability (Lay Down a New Somatic Tech)
- A reflection on reaction as drive
- Let feelings arise as black masses without story-telling. (Tar Tech)
- The final solution to all your problems (Get-It-Done Tech)
- Put the “past where it belongs” (Putting the Past Where It Belongs Tech)
- Feel as good as you possibly can right now (Fourfold Vipassana Tech)
- The balm of Advaita Vedanta (All is Brahman Tech)
- For Obi Wan and Gandalf, essence precedes existence
- Spock is the modern Christ
- America: avoid reading this post
- Black Phillip
- The Visitor (1979)
- Twilight Zone: the music
- Sophistry, self-help, and sales
- Let me save you $1500
- Inventing value by increasing cost
- Landmark vs Gollwitzer
- Landmark in a nutshell (Landmark in 60 Seconds Tech)
- The advanced Tech behind integrity
- Landmark depends on dependence
- Accountability outsourcing: the darkest side of group-sustained motivators
- The day Erhard got IT
- Landmark: sales training as self-improvement
- Landmark and magick
- The secret about The Secret
- Mindfulness
- Feel deeply and tell good stories: Vipassana-Landmark for writing
- The self: constructed as an existence-for others
- We fall into possibility holding the lens of the past
- Communication as counterforce to automaticity
- Lovecraft, Fingering, and Bon Scott
- The Gernsback spirit diagnostic
- Feeling old
- My Heroes
- Best Father Ever
- What D&D means to me
- Childhood peak experiences
- My adventures as a 1970s space utopian
- Aquaman: water, sunlight, crystal, chrome
- The nominative case
- The method of philosophy
- History of the self from Descartes to Kant
- Galen Strawson on misunderstanding the micro
- Schemata of motion for 3D construction
- Is “conscience” the encroachment of the Social Ego on organism-level agency?
- From God to “the moral law within us”
- Ethics officers!? Crikey!
- My answer to Camus
- Is ethical judgment really quick multiplication?
- Kant: the first modern metaphysician
- What does “reason” mean?
- A Darwinian defense of Kantian ethics in 233 words
- Theory, Formalism, and PSR
- Dualism: an indefeasible formulation
- Prejudicial problem formulation
- Levels of self-consciousness are orders of magnitude of temporal extension in planning
- Is generality just obscurity?
- Voluntarism: the new First Philosophy
- Schopenhauer vs Leibniz on PSR
- Why desire is occult
- Existentialism: sour grapes for smart people
- Magnitude and objectivity
- Extension or mass?
- Kant synopsis: object-making power of grammatical intentionality
- Digital is the new real
- Capital as bona fide agent
- Great Hegel lecture
- Certainty and blindness
- Rick Roderick: fearless perception
- How is counting possible?
- Marxian materialism explained
- Why we prefer theism
- Resistance and value
- Biological basis of the Western prejudice for the immutable
- Through a metaphor darkly
- Kant synopsis
- Kant intro starting from speakability
- Trump, fascism, and race/class marketing
- Another rant on the Republican redefinition of “elite”
- Republican alchemy
- The truth about Social Conservatism
- The power of white women over cops
- How Trump redefined “elite”
- Terror time
- A new Vision of Sorrow
- The Day Before (Trump)
- Prediction: Trump will be a Hitler in the far future
- America: Where the capitalists are spoiled, and the workers are morons
- The Breitbart hijacking of “elite” and the age of faith magick emoji politics
- How do Republicans ever get more than 1%?
- Trump and so-called “populism”
- Hillary’s “entitlement”
- Trump is not a redneck
- On “taking sides”
- What is religion really?
- Sympathy for the Devil was easy in the ’80s
- Joyce Carol Oates defines “religion”
- The marriage of marketing and profound wisdom
- All this intelligent design stuff has a good missed premise
- Theology is magick rebuffed
- What we believe about Satan
- Religion and Alchemy
- Christianity on other planets
- Spinoza: Ipsissimus
- The Antinomies of religious custom
- Anselm
- All that is religious melts into self-help
- Today’s American shaman
- On the possibility of a generic universal mythology
- The NT Devil
- Epistemic devoutness and Threatening Sky Ape
- COSOM, Evilspeak, and Me
- The Crowley recipe
- Update: COSOM buys Evilspeak.org
- The Pauline ban on esoteric interpretation made Christians poor scientists
- Gematria is stray Pythagoreanism
- Bhakti and the essential dependence of the subject
- Embed me with fanatics
- The joy of Christian psychodrama
- The glee of the evil good
- Myth is to metaphysics as observation is to physics
- Synchronicity is all we have
- Éliphas Lévi: how a utopian socialist became the West’s greatest occultist
- Krishna’s rasa-lila: optimal cosmogony
- Physics is still a pain in the ass
- The Cult of Evilspeak
- Some stupid seriousness
- This is what it sounds like when Grima cries
- Intelligent design: our aversion to complexity
- WWJDIHSHDMAA?
- Crowley’s lamer later years
- Pumpkin spice and fully functional mythology
- Cain and Abel: insight into the first propaganda class
- What are rednecks thinking about Trappist right now?
- What is the “word of sin” really?
- Cain and Abel: Behind the scenes
- Jealous God
- God as punishment
- God as law
- Finding God in prison
- Cain and Abel: the function of myth
- The carnivore argument against God
- The best example of how biology is the most determinate driver of value and meaning
- The revenge of the Christ
- Fundamentalism as easy mysticism
- The Visitor (1979)
- Eve and Matt: Taoist Bowling II
- A new argument for God
- Stupid religious writing (Spiritual Intelligence, by Gerald Epstein)
- Meaning vs historicity
- All stories are transparent
- Hero stories: purpose and motivation
- Religion and conviction
- Is the Bible a god-penned newspaper?
- Why Christians hate metaphor
- Why we like gods
- Sex with the sexy young god
- Elemental spin
- Time, gravity, and Z-wards motion
- Why do we experience ontological otherness to self?
- Reality as counterforce to effort
- Leaning into the sharp points
- Time passing is face scraping
- Are relativistic effects only phenomenal?
- Where is the mole museum?
- Numbers worth caring about—a list of important numbers
- Romancing the near-impossible
- Where is Earth’s centrifigual force?
- Your current speed is 3,037,670 km/h
- Tycho: the first Flat-Earther
- LRH: master of sci-fi phenomenology
- Is anonymous tipping for revenge moral? A test.
- The LRH–Damasio connection
- L. Ron Spock
- Scientology: placebo plus abreaction
- The religion of the future
- Effort and agreement
- Eight Dynamics: a reduction
- Meaning and E-Metering
- Scientology’s Extroversion Tech
- Real life is already an RPG
- Looking > feeling > thinking
- Anchor points: space as ideal (projection)
- Scientology in a nutshell
- Best Scientology summary of all time
- Lucretius on the pussification of the modern human
- The Korean Sangha
- Trump’s Iran move: just like an American cop
- The Trump-loving poor find self-deception homey
- New theses on Feuerbach
- The male-identity-crisis market
- All that is religious melts into self-help
- What witch hunts tell us about power
- Nordic Model mood revealed: it’s universal immunism
- God as rich Corinthian leather
- Trump after life inside the Nordic Model
- Radical placebo policy idea
- When snowflake cops murder
- When is murder fun?
- Placebo Comedy: Earthing Therapy
- Meet the guy who plagarizes Wikipedia for a living
- Placebo Comedy: Meet the hexagon vendor
- Manson is dead!
- Cop instinct: If you see someone on fire, kick him and then drag his flesh on the asphalt
- Sexuality is just plain harmful
- Duran Duran made bottoming cool
- When everything is an offending penis
- My take on the current horse eye stimulation craze
- The joy of other people’s suffering
- Whole Foods vs the nazis
- Lovecraft’s thrill of impossible truth
- Jenga and Schadenfreude
- Sauron and property law
- AC/DC: Important American Acid Fire
- Laughter no more: from flaunting a finger at fakery to forging a feasible fake
- Why I love cults
- Why is smoking sexy?
- The Innocents (1961) and the dead-end of lust-resentment
- The friend business
- Admiration
- Alpha sex, beta sex
- The “I can look it up” atoms will make Habermas molecules soon
- A real-life borg girl
- First-person therapy example
- Before you die, become a hypertext object
- The problem: other people
- Why is the Borg Collective scary?
- Why men should spit in public
- Culture: the strongest placebo
- Wear a meme, become instantiated plurally
- Chain letter ghost ethics
- Creepypasta
- All this intelligent design stuff has a good missed premise
- Why is my consciousness local?
- Rigid emptiness from diagonals
- Can we contextualize 3-space without demoting it?
- Effective access to Buddhist analysis
- Is consciousness pervaded by the Urgrund?
- Does inward flight imply that consciousness is orthogonal to 3-space?
- Time and consciousness
- The bounds of space are the bounds of consciousness
- Masturbatory meditation vs Vipassana
- “Stillness” vs Noting
- Vipassana for philosophers
- Nightmare
- Vipassana for Westerners
- How to not be a loser
- Present feeling vs future feeling
- Crucial daily practice: Vipassana
- Writing and pain
- Should we aim to delete ALL habit-patterns?
- Remember Vipassana
- Fear and success