Thoughtful images of perception and what they illuminate — A Dialogue with David Bohm, Bernardo Kastrup and the Framework of Holistic Perspective A Pilot, a Stream, and a Question Worth Holding The philosopher Bernardo Kastrup offers a striking image. Imagine a pilot flying through dense cloud cover. The windshield shows nothing. All she has are her
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The Present Paradox Picture yourself standing at the edge of a diving board. In this moment — this precise instant — you exist. Your muscles tense, your heart beats, the rough texture presses against your feet. Eckhart Tolle would remind you that this present moment is all you truly have. And he’s right. You cannot
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When Perspectives Collide Have you ever wondered why some questions seem impossible to answer, no matter how hard we try? Why does dividing by zero break mathematics? Why do philosophical debates run for centuries without resolution? The answer might surprise you: many of these “unsolvable” paradoxes are not paradoxes at all. They are what happens
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Exploring the Nature of Liberation Have you ever felt trapped by circumstances, believing that your past actions have created an inescapable future? Or wondered why certain “laws” seem so absolute that no choice remains? The philosopher Alan Watts spent much of his life exploring these questions, and some of his insights run parallel to the
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The Developmental Path, the Two Principles that drive it, and the light of Wuwei In our development we often seek a map from where we are to where we want to be. The Framework of Holistic Perspective offers one — a single continuous Developmental Path: Information ↔ Knowledge ↔ Insight ↔ Understanding ↔ Conviction ↔
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When insight arrives and motivation disappears — one way to understand what’s happening Have you ever had a moment of genuine insight, about yourself, about life, about how things fit together, and then found yourself strangely unmotivated afterward? The kind of clarity that should bring energy but instead leaves you wondering why your old goals
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Around the year 670, a monastery in southern China held a poetry contest. The aging master wanted a successor, and asked his monks to write a verse showing their understanding. The head monk, Shenxiu, wrote that the mind is like a bright mirror on a stand: polish it diligently, and let no dust settle. An
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The Search That Ends Back Home Picture this: You search every bookstore for the answer to a burning question. You visit temples, churches, mountains. You read the smartest philosophers. Yet the answer slips away like smoke between your fingers. Then one day, you stop searching outward. You look within. And there you find something unexpected
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A Hotel That Is Full — and Has Room Imagine a hotel with infinitely many rooms: room 1, room 2, room 3, and so on without end. Tonight, every single room is occupied. A traveler arrives. “Sorry,” you’d expect the manager to say. Instead, she picks up the intercom: “Would every guest please move to
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The Consciousness Pioneer You May Not Know Most people who know the name Federico Faggin know it for silicon. At Fairchild in 1968 he developed silicon gate technology — the manufacturing method that made modern chips possible. At Intel he led the design of the 4004, the first commercial microprocessor. He went on to found
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