Everything in the simulation is a control system and this means that there is no way to avoid being controlled. If we conceive the idea of escaping from the simulation - as well we might - then this too is a control system. This is what it means to be…| radicaluncertaintydotcom
Mark H Burton| Liberation Psychology
This short article from David Gibbs is presented as a challenge to the liberation (and liberation psychology) movement. Do respond with constructive comments. Victor Frankl from his experiences in the Jewish Holocaust developed a theory of “logotherapy.” As described in … Continue reading →| Liberation Psychology
by David Gibbs There is an incredible need today for re-imagination, new epistemologies and creative systems to tackle the ongoing issues that humanity is facing. Ecological disasters, health challenges, racism and poverty are getting worse. Whether on a personal and … Continue reading →| Liberation Psychology
A life that travels towards a goal is a narrow life – there is nothing but ‘the goal’ (and ‘how to get there’) in such a life and the goal is a very narrow thing. A goal isn’t actually anything – it belongs to the world of abstractions and abstractions are – as we might […]| radicaluncertaintydotcom
There is something inherently problematic about purposeful behaviour - we just can't see it, that's all. As far as we're concerned, it's the other way around - as far as we're concerned purposeful behaviour is how we solve problems. If purposeful behaviour is the solution, then how can it also…| radicaluncertaintydotcom
The state of meditation is, we could say, where we are 'Present in the moment, for no reason, without intending to be'. This is a delightfully simple and uncontrived (necessarily uncontrived) situation, therefore - it's not complicated (or sophisticated) at all. There couldn't actually be a simpler (or ‘less contrived’)…| Intrinsicspace.me
Everyday life puts us in a very peculiar position - it puts us in the peculiar position of having to support, maintain and promote a proposition that is astonishingly dumb, astonishingly lame, astonishingly ‘not worth the effort’. We are obliged to continually ‘talk the situation up’, even though we’re on…| Intrinsicspace.me
Nothing that is done deliberately can be authentic. We are all about deliberation, we are all about control, but nothing that is done deliberately can ever be authentic. We don't see things like this of course, but that’s how it is. We've actually got things the other way around -…| Intrinsicspace.me
Reflect Mode is where we take a break from what we're doing and ask ourselves what exactly we are doing and why. It's not that we have to literally ask ourselves the question; that would be too formulaic, too mechanical to do us any good. Mechanically repeating some sort of…| Intrinsicspace.me
Chaos goes deeper than order - the two are NOT a straightforward pair of complementary opposites, as we always tend to think. Instead of chaos we could talk about randomness - a random number is one that doesn't fit into any regular pattern, one that can't in any way be…| radicaluncertaintydotcom
We always think we have perspective on our situation but - as a rule - we don't! When we think we have perspective (which is most of the time) we don't; when - on the other hand - we see that we are lacking in perspective, then this perception is…| radicaluncertaintydotcom
The basic unit of polarity is akin to a sort of chemical polymer that can be cheaply manufactured in order to produce artificial worlds in industrial quantities. The process of polymerisation is where we start off with a single generic unit that can be readily conjoined in order to make products on an industrial scale; […]| radicaluncertaintydotcom
We can’t control without assuming a context and the context we assume is never going to be true – it’s only ever going to be propositional in nature, it’s only ever going to be ‘a convention that we adopt purely for practical purposes’. In order to be able to control we have to simplify reality […]| radicaluncertaintydotcom
We have – as a culture – a huge fondness for nonsensical psychological messages – we can’t seem to get enough of them, and this is odd because they don’t do us any good at all. We’re banjaxing ourselves with fine-sounding pseudo-psychological memes… A typical example of what we’re talking about here would be the […]| Intrinsicspace.me
Rational therapy equals the ‘avoidance of risk’, the ‘avoidance of uncertainty’. RT involves the creation of a positive reality, in other words. We never hear anyone actually say this, but that's because the positive (or 'stated') reality is all we know, all we are able to acknowledge. If we ever…| radicaluncertaintydotcom
Purposeful doing is the repetition of a bias, the reiteration of ingrained prejudice. We get a good feeling from engaging in goal-orientated behaviour because it’s purposeful, because it’s progressive and constructive in nature, because it’s ‘meaningful’ rather than being ‘aimless’ or ‘merely random’, and yet all we’re really doing with our purposeful doing is that […]| radicaluncertaintydotcom
When we are not equal to the image of us, the description of us, the idea of us, then we are free. This is our true nature – our true nature is to not fit in the category that has been allocated for us to fit in. Our true nature – our only nature – […]| radicaluncertaintydotcom
Identity is a prison, and yet it is - absurdly - a prison that we’re very proud of, a prison that we will defend to the bitter end. Identity means that ‘I am this but not that,’ and the thing about this is that ‘what we say we are’ has…| Intrinsicspace.me
It's not that we should ‘do something about fear’ so as to show that we're not afraid of it (or – if we can - vanquish it entirely) but rather that the helpful thing to do is to do nothing about it, nothing at all. Anything we were to do…| Intrinsicspace.me
That can't ever be such a thing as ‘a method to stop worrying’ and there's a very simple reason for this - the universe, in essence, is composed of nothing but pure electric uncertainty with no solid, ‘reliable’ basis whatsoever. This is physics, not metaphysics - this is just the…| Intrinsicspace.me
In the psychological sphere of things, forcing always comes from fear. In the psychological sphere of things, forcing is fear and this is why we can't ‘force ourselves to face the fear’! Deliberately (or purposefully) facing fear is an impossibility, therefore; it’s a ‘contradiction in terms’, although we very rarely…| Intrinsicspace.me
To acknowledge (or become aware of) a mental limitation is to go beyond it - to not acknowledge it is to live an illusion. If this sounds too easy, too simple, it isn't - it isn't easy at all because - unconsciously - we have the greatest possible resistance to…| Intrinsicspace.me