Language comes, ultimately, from the desire of consciousness to classify its contents. What consciousness didn't bargain for was the way in which language would come to colonise those contents, to mould them into an ontological prerogative. Now, of course, consciousness wishes language would go away and leave everything the fuck alone. But it's too late for that, far, far too late. Language will not be satisfied until it has yoked consciousness to its own ineluctability, a case of the snake eating its own tail.
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Desiccant-like, philosophical discourse sucks the moisture out of our minds, turning the innately tropical into an arid wasteland fit for nothing but the most obdurate cactus.
"We humans are good at simulating being human. We get better and better at it the more technology unfurls from its embryo into the organism it is predestined to become."
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It is time to say to philosophers: enough with the analytical obscurantism! Be brave: say what you mean in words a layman will understand; make your mission the proselytisation of those who live on the surface of meaning. No one will think any less of you for it, other than those philosophers who are incorrigibly pedantic, whose opinion you must find it within yourself to discount, even decry.
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We humans are good at simulating being human. We get better and better at it the more technology unfurls from its embryo into the organism it is predestined to become. So much so that it is eminently conceivable we will soon have created an entirely simulated reality within which simulated human beings go about their business as if they were real human beings going about their business. Is it possible that we are merely the playthings ourselves of other simulators, that those simulators themselves are playthings of other simulators and so on in an infinite regress of simulations? Yes. Does it matter? No. Nothing matters.
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When the self is outed as the impostor that it is, it doesn't run away in shame, rather it immediately insinuates itself into the fabric of the awakened state. The self may be an illusion, but it is a highly durable one. It is quite prepared to pretend to be dead for as long as necessary if it means it gets what it wants. And what it wants is consciousness all to itself.
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Spirituality is besmirched by the religious connotations it invokes. A new sign is needed to signify what is really meant by the practice of flipping consciousness inside out.
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One meditates most effectively by not meditating. Or not quite not meditating. One must meditate a little to meditate, just enough to set the intention, the rest happens all by itself. Having said that, many people need to meditate prodigiously in order to realise the futility of meditating, only then are they ready to see that one meditates most effectively by not meditating. There is nothing sadder than someone enslaved by a doctrinaire spiritual practice into a lifetime of not meditating by meditating. Endless sitting is a recipe for bad knees. Life is about movement. The more graceful the better.
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To see clearly that you are what you perceive is a sign you have crossed the threshold into nonduality. This is an entirely ordinary experience, so ordinary that most people cross the threshold without realising. Does it count if you haven't realised? Of course it does.
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The best thing we could do for our kids is to explain to them that nothing matters, not really. Far better this than what we currently say to them, which equates to: everything matters, more to the point, everything YOU do matters.
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A dog said to the cat: tell me, what is it about me you find so distasteful?
Cat to dog: it's your breath, I just can't stand it.
Dog to cat: wow, that was churlish.
Cat to dog: sorry, but wouldn't you rather I told you? There are good treatments for halitosis these days, inexpensive ones as well.
Dog to cat: okay, yeah, thanks I guess?
Cat to dog: don't mention it.
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The original bifurcation, being and non-being, is in reality the only bifurcation. All the other bifurcations are merely variations on the same theme.
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War does not just reveal the character of a soldier, it lays bare the character of one’s political convictions.
Themes
Noah Blue
First published on Noah Blue, March 2026.
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