Two strokes left me stranded at the edge of the social world, trying to rebuild an adaptive, communicative interface that most others take for granted.
my neurological double-tap
Two strokes left me stranded at the edge of the social world, trying to rebuild an adaptive, communicative interface that most others take for granted.
Life does not belong to things. Things belong to life. Consciousness, relation, memory, recurrence, and form are not exceptions within reality. They are what reality does.
Reality is not made of things. Things are what appear when deeper patterns of relation become temporarily stable.
Science has not stopped discovering reality. We have become less capable of surviving what those discoveries imply about ourselves.
Life is not astonishing simply because it exists. It is astonishing because, against every available opportunity to fall apart, it keeps holding together and this resilience is the kernel core of its persistence.
There are evenings where the sky itself appears aware of some immense and unspoken sadness, as though the atmosphere has briefly become conscious of time and cannot quite contain the weight of it. Not despair exactly. Not tragedy in the theatrical sense. Something older, quieter, and more pervasive than that. A diffuse melancholy without stable […]
Fear of others is not finally fear of difference, but fear of the gap through which the self discovers it was never solid, never alone, and never entirely its own.
Most of us live inside small coordinate systems. That does not mean small minds or small lives. It means we only ever meet the world from where we are. Family, work, language, class, nation, memory, injury, hope, fear, money, obligation, and belonging all shape what the world appears to be. They give life direction. They […]
The afterlife, if the phrase is to be used at all, is not best imagined as a sentimental annex bolted onto death. Nor, however, is it something about which confidence is easily justified. What we call a life may be only a local and temporary stabilisation within conditions the person cannot comprehend or contain. The […]
Borobudur is a temple built around an unusual absence, one that quietly reshapes how meaning, worship, psychological insight, and spiritual experience function. Borobudur, in Central Java, Indonesia, is a ninth-century Mahāyāna Buddhist monument constructed as a terraced hill rather than a hollow sanctuary. Its mass is largely earth and stone; there is no interior chamber […]
The self never settles because the world never settles. Your body changes. Neural chemistry fluctuates. Memory edits itself. Relationships move. Context rearranges. Words drift. Culture turns. New facts arrive, old certainties decay, and the feedback never stops. So the self is not rewritten because it is faulty, but because it is embedded in conditions that […]
What is truth. The moment we ask the question, we are already inside language, and everything that follows unfolds from that fact. Truth is not something we approach from outside, as a detached observer might inspect an object. It arises within sequences of tokens, within the games we play with them, within the structures we […]