Our Mind Is the Limit

Category: Musings

  • Foundational Questions about Life and Reality

    This post is a preview of what’s to come on the site over the next few months, and as I cover each topic I’ll link each post to the questions I ask below. I’m going to question some of the most basic, foundational ideas we all think we know. Ideas we’ve been convinced are the…

  • Short, Short Story

    Ordinarily I would have felt mild disdain for the woman with a valley where her waistband pinched into her enormous stomach because how could anyone neglect her body to that degree, but instead my eyes filled with tears as I watched her whimper her way out of the vet’s office holding a carrier which contained only a worn blankie. I wanted to give her…

  • A Leaf’s Final Dance

    In the middle of the end of autumn, I lay on my back in the soft blanket of fallen leaves coating the forest floor and looked up at the oaks and the maples, who were mostly undressed. Each time the air whispered its secrets to them and to the birds and to me, dozens of light yellow…

  • Resistance and Connecting the Dots

    Usually we’re unable to connect the dots of our lives until certain events have been over for a while, especially bad events. But I’m sure there are instances in your life that were unpleasant or downright terrible at the time, but in retrospect, you can see that some of the things you love most about your…

  • Your Bubble of Solitude

    Your Bubble of Solitude

    As I lay in bed the other night, after going through my pre-sleep ritual, I started to think of the people I love. It was almost midnight and most of them were presumably asleep. It occurred to me that there was almost a 100% chance that they were not thinking of me. No one in…

  • Painting a Life

    Painting a Life

    Everyone starts with a blank slate. One person may have the richest, highest-quality canvas with the best paints while another has just a piece of scrap paper with some old watercolors. But with the right skills, the scrap paper and watercolors can come to life and inspire awe while the rich canvas with the expensive oil paints…

  • Probable Selves and Alternate Realities

    Probable Selves and Alternate Realities

    In The Unknown Reality, Volume I, the third book in the six book series of the main Seth material, Seth discusses alternate realities and probable selves. I’ve only just begun the book but have recently been thinking about my own life in terms of probable selves and considering the idea that there are other Chakis out there…

  • Giving Advice

    Giving Advice

    One of my flaws was (is 🙁 ) that I was (am 🙁 ) always trying to give advice. I think it’s a male trait, that we always want to fix things. Giving advice without being expressly asked for it is always terrible idea. And it’s still usually a terrible idea even when asked. People don’t…

  • 20,000+ Little Lives

    20,000+ Little Lives

    If you think about it, each day in your life is a little life in itself. You wake up to your alarm, which is…alarming…just like birth, you’re groggy and can’t think too well for a few minutes, like early childhood, then you go to work and do what you’re told for around half the day,…

  • We Don’t Know Anything

    We Don’t Know Anything

    We think we know, but we don’t, and no matter how hard we try, we’ll never know. How many times in your life have you known something, only to later find out that you actually didn’t know it? That you were wrong? This has happened to me thousands of times, and I admit it will…