A categorical thinker is someone who uses broad generalizations and categories to understand the world. In a simple sense, we put things into boxes with labels. We categorize them. What is 'good' what is 'bad' what 'is' and what 'isn't'. It's a short assumption we internalize or generalization into a cookie cutter label of 'true'... Continue Reading →
Caution for Archetype usage
Archetypes, in their purest form, aren’t supposed to be you—they’re supposed to act as frameworks for introspection and growth. They are in essence a landmark, something that you are to navigate around or with. They are a piece on the map of reality that helps guide you through reality. If it helps, you can think... Continue Reading →
Language as the Lens or Looking-Glass to Reality
The way you look at the world is based on all the things you accepted and integrated into your being, shaping a unique perspective of the universe that is inherently your own. What you think is true and how you act, is a mixture of your nature and your nurture. The exact argument is for... Continue Reading →
Some tips on Grounding before Shadow Work
Before diving into your subconscious to deal with emotions or thoughts or traumas or limiting beliefs or repressed feelings or any of the other parts and facets that make up the shadow. It's important to ground and set the set and setting for the space before doing so. Set and setting is a popular phrase... Continue Reading →
The Mind-Ship of Consciousness
This is a metaphor for describing the mind in a practical way to engage with reality. This may help for those that want to venture into shadow work or for people looking to have a basic simplification of consciousness. If you already have a conception of the mind and consciousness, then consider this an analogy... Continue Reading →
Framing and Reframing, Structuring our reality with words
The Following is an excerpt from my previous writing about The Death of an Author x Poe’s Law. I wanted to roll into this excerpt and expand on it, to discuss the idea of framing and reframes, with how we can shape our perspectives and change the 'lens' or 'looking glass' that we perceive things in/through.... Continue Reading →
AI is filtering Human Speech and controlling it
There has been a rising use of AI and large language learning models to produce, generate, and examine text. With the rise of such a technology, we've seen dubious use for both the production of words and as well as the judgement of vetting of words to spot AI generated works. AI to fight AI... Continue Reading →
Mind, Body, and Soul Reformation
So, recently in the last few years (I consider recent, since relativity is subjective), I have been enthralled and enchanted by Chinese Fantasy, specifically the modern rendition of Cultivation type settings. The type where one goes into a group or sect and cultivates in a cave and consumes pills, medicines, drugs, and elixirs to refine... Continue Reading →
The story of the Dream Wrestler
There was One soul, split into many pieces. Each piece lived in one day of this particular boy's life. At the age of 17, The boy had two dreams every night. The first dream, he had to wrestle with who he was yesterday. The second dream, he had to wrestle with who he would be... Continue Reading →
A Serious Thought
This is but a Serious Eclectic Thought, If the Worlds a Stage; "All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts." - Shakespeare And if the World is full of actors wearing masks as personas for their... Continue Reading →