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Stephen Pickering

Category: Philosophy

  • Notations of Transcendence

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    The first and only exercise then is to erase the sense of “I.” (pg. 121 Myths of Light) You have to disengage yourself with your ego life and identify yourself with pure consciousness; You have no sense of “I,” and therefore you have no sense of “they.” There is no one here. There is no…

  • The Solution to Health Care

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    Stephen Pickering
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    In 1989 after the Berlin Wall came down, Boris Yeltsin, then Russia’s President, immediately handed over his countries largest industries to a handful of oligarchs. We all know what happened after that. One part of the Russian economy blossomed and was a raging bull market in the late 90s. Anybody who owned a Russian or…

  • Why Privacy is So Important to Social Harmony

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    Stephen Pickering
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    All of us, even the best, have what is known as a “shadow” part of our personality. The Shadow is our “dark” side, the one that wants to cuss and do what society deems as “bad things” and which in some manifestations really are bad things. Normally we are not even conscious of it, our…

  • Want to Travel Through Space and Time? Don’t Collapse Your Wave Function!

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    Stephen Pickering
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    Technology is like stealing fire from the Gods, that’s one interpretation of the fire theft metaphor you see in mythology, most notably the Prometheus story, but it never satisfies because it is piecemeal, and the second we observe it, it freezes, its wave function collapses. So the more we get, the more we want, and…

  • Fear = Holding to Your Ego

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    Stephen Pickering
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    Above   are the figures of Angyou and Ungyou, which stand as gate guardians outside Japanese Buddhist temples. They look pretty scary don’t they? What they are, are symbols of one’s own fear, which if held onto keeps one’s psychologically out of the “Temple” which is the symbol of peace, joy, exuberance, beauty where the Buddha…

  • No Possum, No Sop, No Taters

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    The trouble with authentic artists is that they’re in a silo both psychologically and culturally, so its not feeding the culture, and we have a Wasteland situation. Science, Art, Philosophy, Psychology, Media, Business, Politics, Technology, Religion are all walled off into separate silos. There’s no integration because they are controlled by protocols and systems, institutions.…