Month: February 2014

  • Local “Reality”

    Socially constructed reality has a physical existence in the world, but it is self-referential, and does not necessarily reflect any deeper reality. That is to say, it can be internally consistent (coherent) without making reference to the observed larger world in which it resides (correspondence). Yet it also creates the conditions which agents must navigate…

  • The Cat and Carnegie Hall

    It started with the cat. I was sitting on my couch, petting the cat (who had gracelessly and possessively slid down the back of the couch into my lap). I was enjoying it so much, and I somehow realized that, in this moment, petting this cat, the fact that many other people also enjoy petting…

  • My Most Radical Claim

    Magic is real. It is not a matter of bending reality to your will; it is a process of aligning your will with reality. The first step in making magic is to find your way down into awareness, the still point at the centre that knows exactly “where you are”. In the same way that…