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A Negative Reality Inversion is a term originating from the series “The Young Ones’ and is actually technobabble.

 

A Reality Inversion would be the symmetrical inversion of reality. Making it negative would actually cancel it out, leaving you with reality.

 

– Urban Dictionary

 

 

 

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When The Wealth Is Spent

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Can there be devotion in words and more words? Can there be devotion unless the body is spent, unless the heart is spent, unless the wealth is spent? The Lord of the Meeting Rivers plays tricks with you until your bones stick out. Can there be devotion unless you stand his play?

 

– Reading 1, The Chord of Love, Ram Dass

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Solution-Focussed

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The fundamental error persists in the public that there are definite answers, “solutions,” or views which need only be uttered in order to spread the necessary light. But the most beautiful truth — as history has shown a thousand times over— is of no use at all unless it has become the innermost experience and possession of the individual. Every unequivocal, so-called “clear” answer always remains stuck in the head and seldom penetrates to the heart.

 

 

The needful thing is not to know the truth but to experience it.

 

 

Not to have an intellectual conception of things, but to find our way to the inner, and perhaps wordless, irrational experience — that is the great problem.

 
 

Nothing is more fruitless than talking about how things must or should be, and nothing is more important than finding the way to these far-off goals. Most people know very well how things should be, but who can point the way to get there?

 
 

– C. G. Jung, The Symbolic Life

 

 
 
 
 
 
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Society Is A Double-Bind

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And that is just the paradox of the situation: society gives us the idea that the mind, or ego, is inside the skin and that it acts on its own apart from society.

 


Here, then, is a major contradiction in the rules of then social game. The members of the game are to play as if they were independent agents, but they are not to know that they are just playing as if! It is explicit in the rules that the individual is self-determining, but implicit that he is so only by virtue of the rules. Furthermore, while he is defined as an independent agent, he must not be so independent as not to submit to the rules which define him. Thus he is defined as an agent in order to be held responsible to the group for “his” actions. The rules of the game confer independence and take it away at the same time, without revealing the contradiction.

 

This is exactly the predicament which Gregory Bateson calls the “double-bind,” in which the individual is called upon to take two mutually exclusive courses of action and at the same time is prevented from being able to comment on the paradox. You are damned if you do and damned if you don’t, and you mustn’t realize it. Bateson has suggested that the individual who finds himself in a family situation which imposes the double-bind upon him in an acute form is liable to schizophrenia. For if he cannot comment on the contradiction, what can he do but withdraw from the field? Yet society does not allow withdrawal; the individual must play the game.

 

– Alan Watts, quote taken from themouseftrap.com

 

 

 

 

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Convenient Myths

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Modern industrial civilization has developed within a certain system of convenient myths. The driving force of modern industrial civilization has been individual material gain… Now it’s long been understood – very well – that a society that is based on this principle will destroy itself in time.

 

– Noam Chomsky

 

 

 

 

 

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