If you live in a system that repeatedly chooses to punish or sanction a particular type of behaviour. Over time you have almost no choice but to hold...
Systems try and build a sense of urgency. A speed that is often not your own. They seem in a rush. Constantly imperilled by the sense of being extingu...
Be wary of society and culture’s imposition of meaning. By consumerising spirituality, seeking and personal reflection the marketplace tries to own th...
The power and allure of external systems is they promise reward. But only if you follow a certain path. It’s a guarantee. A promise. A 100% money back...
Whose myths will you believe? Yours or the world outside? It’s easy to fall into the slipstream of mythologies and beliefs that aren’t your own. All...
Contemporary market driven society compresses space. It constrains space and time by demanding your attention, either to consume or to make you produc...
In contemporary society there is the relentless promise of more. Do this, get more. Don’t do this get less. A constraining force that drives capitalis...
Society hurries you along. Your school, your work, your death. Hurried. Moved along. A queue, waiting to be served a final gesture that never really c...
Society will always sell you the vision that you are deficient, insufficient in some fundamental way. Contemporary market and competition driven socie...
Ridicule serves a powerful function in modulating behaviour. As is well established, in any social environment ridicule, humiliation and shame can all...
Both are a deep part of existence. The profound deception is that society repeatedly claims that loss can be averted and suffering can be avoided if o...
Adventure implies an open road. Freedom. A path without a destination. It’s how life starts and potentially how life ends. Why then does contemporary...
What does the market provide? A lens from which to view the world. A collective mass of desires and opinions. Rewarded and provided for. Undesired and...
External voices provide security. Cover. They provide the feeling that ultimately it's someone else that bears the risk. That appears the bargain. But...
External voices drown out conviction.
Society provides a promise of the trenched desire. And the problem with that is soon as that desire is completed, another one is served up. That endl...
Nothing about personal rebellion is a dismissal of the reality of societal pressure and tension. Instead it's a question of alignment. Alignment behin...
We talk about unconditional love and reserve it for either the spiritual and the religious or alternaively for the young or infrim.