Zerebria

“What the world needs is…” A common sentence, with probably 6,500,000,000 different endings, one for each of the inhabitants of this troubled world of us. I recently had a ‘gestalt’ of my personal answer, one of those moments in which you see the whole picture as a whole (snap!). Here it goes for what is worth. (more…)

“I am through with it. I wonder which sick minds could conceive that I am in charge of this world, and how such a nonsensical idea can have become so popular. I cannot stand the pressure anymore, (more…)

Life is amazing when you think of it. Take what you’re really seeing right now, for instance. Try to abandon frontal vision for a minute and embrace the whole picture. You’ll have noticed that, above what you’re seeing, starts a black area, the place where (more…)

Behaviorism (brief reminder-please skip the whole paragraph if you know about the term): the Russian Ivan Pavlov made a famous experiment. First he showed a piece of meat to a group of dogs while (more…)

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I learned the fact that our planet is doomed in  2006. (It’s alright if you don’t trust Al Gore, a politician after all. But think about James Lovelock, who has devoted his whole life to Mother Earth, only to discover that we have taken it to an irreversible coma. Or Stephen Hawkins, who, (more…)

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Here is a trick mind plays very often on us, and on which I comment for the sake of those who, like me, are engaged with their own internal development and rise of consciousness. If I talk about it, abandoning all kind of embarrassment, is not because (more…)

I feel terrible. My throat is spiked with thorns, I have this intermittent pain in my articulations, I’m cold, I’m hot. A few minutes ago, I went into the shower before removing my soaked sheets, after a night of what only very generously could be named as “sleep”. I remember a moment after the shower, when I (more…)

I try to be optimistic, I really do, but obviously, being interdependent as humans are, one cannot pretend to be almighty and fully detach oneself from (more…)

When I see a person carrying a suitcase, I try to (more…)

The issue rose in a recent conversation with a close relative of mine: “philosophy is not necessary for life”, said the relative, in a somewhat disdainful tone.

It is important to notice that, in the context of this conversation, the word “philosophy” was indeed used (more…)