Altar vs Analyst - Experiencing vs Observing Life
Are you the altar or the analyst? Are you here to be rearranged or are you here to watch others fall apart and call it art? This is not a question for the civilized, for the soft-skinned tourists of the soul.
Ritual as Transformation vs Modern Spectacle Consumption
For many eons, ritual was the space where life was entered through dance, drumming, and often fasting. Participants entered altered states, possessed in the sense of being taken over by something older and more real than the ego.
Experiential Self as Creature vs Observing Self as Algorithm
In the natural world, survival demands constant tension between engagement and observation. Predators are immersed in the immediacy of experience—they chase, pounce, kill, and feed. Their nervous systems are wired for acute focus and limbic arousal.
Krishnamurti's Observer - Illusion of Separateness Itself
When we read Krishnamurti and he talks about the observer, we think we know what he means. We assume it is that self in us that is watching our actions.
Modern Dissociation Loop - Information Over Embodiment
At this moment in human history, most of us live in a dissociation loop where bodily truth is suppressed by conceptual mastery.
Direct Experience as Collapse of Observer-Observed Binary
In non-dual philosophy (Advaita, Zen, even quantum-informed mysticism), the division between observer and observed is an illusion. The moment you observe something, you have already split the world.