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My thirdself twists the most important concepts into silly distortions of their true meaning. For example, “incantation” evokes imagery of a huddle of witches chanting silly nonsensical words for magical effect. The idea of “god” brings to mind a childish diorama of a paternal figure watching down on his people from the heavens. Comparable to… Continue reading Misunderstanding omnipotence

LIfe is the experience of a constant state of desire, the intention to end that desire, and the entanglements resulting. I awaken because I have not fully realized, internalized, and actualized my desire to end my desire. My realization that what I desire is the end of my desire is inevitable, but the path I… Continue reading My desire to end my desire: the shortest path

I am lost and I seek to understand the nature of my existence. In seeking to understand my existence I decide what is most central to that understanding: my direct experience or something beyond my direct experience. This decision forms the basis of my entire perspective and all resulting conclusions, beliefs, values, and power. I… Continue reading The conviction basis

A fundamental substance is one that cannot be further subdivided into smaller or simpler components. In demiself, I believe that I am an organized collection of cells composed of atomic particles with properties like length, mass, time, and charge. I also believe that I live in a world built of the same fundamental units. What… Continue reading Experiential mechanics

A conviction framework is a set of values, beliefs, and the associated infrastructure that supports them. These frameworks all serve the same end, and so share several properties: Their subject. What does the conviction aim to explain? This can be further subdivided into the experiential and extraexperiential. Their authority. Who is the final authority on… Continue reading Conviction frameworks

When I think about my past self I create a large secondself structure of ideas, feelings, and beliefs which anchor me to the illusion of an “existence” beyond my moment. In this incantation, I unravel them with a real example. The example I use is my distinct memory of a project I spent hours on… Continue reading Distilled self-reflection

One of the more challenging aspects of triself is making sense of the explosion of words and concepts. On their surface, they all appear to describe different things. But after dedicated observation and contemplation, I can uncover their essential similarities and break down and combine complicated conceptual structures. My memory and beliefs are the same… Continue reading Memories are beliefs

“You shall not go after other gods, the gods of the peoples who are around you — for the LORD your God in your midst is a jealous God — lest the anger of the LORD your God be kindled against you, and he destroy you from off the face of the earth” – Deuteronomy 6:14-15… Continue reading I am a jealous god

I have always felt profoundly separate from people as if I was watching but not participating. My family members were strange actors playing roles, and I did not identify as one of them. I did not want what other people wanted, and I isolated myself, preferring long hours alone with my thoughts. I knew I… Continue reading I am pretending to be a person

Recently, a thirdself friend sent a page from a popular novel with spiritual undertones. By sharing, he was relating something he had read to something I had shared earlier. It was a dialogue between a guru and his young adherent, in which the guru was revealing the illusoriness of the world. It reminded me of… Continue reading The words