Category: philosophical counseling
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Lying About Lying About Lying To Yourself
You can see why Stephen Wolinsky didn’t become a famous spiritual teacher. He’s kinda prickly. Demanding. Brass knuckles. * He tells the story in one of his talks about having led a workshop some years ago. Over lunch, a woman in charge of the organization asked him a political question. He said, “I don’t play…
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Agitations Precede Most Thoughts
It can be very hard to catch this but it is so: most thoughts arise from agitation beneath, and preceding, thoughts. That agitation or stirring could be called feeling. Since most thoughts arise from agitation beneath, and preceding, thoughts, we are already in a quandary. For this thought goes off in hopes of resolving the…
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Facing Up To Suffering And To Not Knowing Thyself
Two Basic Statements Consider the following deduction based on observation: many statements we make are reducible to these two forms: One: “I am suffering.” (Basically what I’m saying is that I’m suffering.) Two: “I know or must know.” (Basically what I’m saying is that (a) I don’t know and need to know or (b) I…
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The Philosopher Is Not Present #5: Investigating The Green Meme At Kaospilot In Denmark
“The Philosopher Is Not Present #5” was a live performance held at Kaospilot in Aarhus, Denmark, on December 5, 2019. Aims 1. The first, general aim: to help interlocutors confront the great unthought. 2. The second, specific aim: to investigate what Ken Wilber calls “the green meme” with a view to seeing its limitations. Program Notes…
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My IHMC Talk: Psychotechnologies of Self-Transformation
Here’s a copy of the talk I delivered last night at IHMC in Ocala, Florida. The YouTube video should be available in 1-2 months. When it is, I’ll post it here. * Introduction “Man is immersed in dreams… He lives in sleep… He is a machine.” –G.I. Gurdjieff I. Living in a Dream Until the…
Andrew Taggart, Ph.D. 