The last rays of the sun caressed a soft paint of a sad gold on the brave steel towers of the young city. The dark ink of the quiet night hung watchful on the opposite horizon, stealthily creeping into the space given up by the receding light. The glass and steel vertices of the craggy …
Category: Philosophy
Jumping to an Outer Self
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 …
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 …