What is Oxford Syndrome

In a city where education is everything, one gets to see the elevated snobbery, the pinnacle of the educated mind, and the imaginary status it lends to the crowd-mind on a daily basis. Oxford syndrome is therefore the obsessive inflation of the self-image based on a narrowed field of specialised education. "These stories reflect two …

Beyond Good and Evil – F.W. Nietzsche

Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs it is the rule.

What Does it Take and What Happens

Buddha shows that his way took eight years of isolation, to come to the conclusion...that it wasn't the way. It may well be different for all of us, but Christ also showed "A way". His was forty days and forty nights of abstinence. From everything. Reducing uncooked vegetarian food intake gradually, by one third each …

Heaven and Hell – Aldous Huxley

“Milrepa, in his Himalayan cavern, and the anchorites of the Thebaid followed essentially the same procedure and got essentially the same results. A thousand pictures of the Temptation's of St. Anthony bear witness to the effectiveness of restricted diet and restricted environment. Asceticism, it is evident, has a double motivation. If men and women torment …

Non-dual Thought

Heaven and Hell exist as mechanisms to propel the aspirant

Man

Currently, men do everything considered manly

Passengers

We are passengers, who accidentally think we are in control.

The Nine Gates

The personality has integrated interfaces. If I follow the paradigm, I have a wife/partner/sex-life, house, 2 cars, good job, 2.2 kids, money, holidays and so on. As a result, similar aspirations arise within the personality. A better version of all of the above is usually the next step. This need is perpetual. Growth is perpetual …