Ego bashing has been in fashion ever since humans woke up to the embarrassment of owning a consciousness. Here, instead of heaping more abuse on that part of our mind that we live our days in, let’s pay homage to Monkey Mind, that magnificent magician. Monkey Mind is always on. Like a hyperactive meth addict …
There are times when the “me”-ness of our everyday experience weakens. Life feels a bit like it is being lived in third person. Our selves feel a bit unreal, and reality itself feels a bit unreal. The former condition is referred to as depersonalization, and the latter as derealization. Both of these phenomena involve a …
It is a curious phenomenon that the bodies of nearly all higher animals manifest a shape best described as an asymmetrical hourglass. A head, a relatively larger torso, and separating them, a narrow constriction called the neck. Exceptions, such as the bizarrely intelligent octopus, are few. In the head lies the brain, the organ that …
The über task of every human is to play a game called Individuation. The game lasts for the entirety of his or her lifetime. Participation is not optional. As life begins, each player is dealt a unique set of cards, all face down. Everyone is born whole, but wholly unconscious. In childhood one sits in …
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