- ConsciousnessWhat it is like to be you: the fact of experience, and why science still has no settled account of it.
- PhilosophyThe habit of asking what we are actually doing and why: ethics, freedom, obligation and the examined life.
- NondualityTraditions that question the line between the one who experiences and what is experienced.
- IdentityThe memories, habits, roles and languages that make a person, and what keeps them the same over time.
- PerceptionHow a brain turns signals into a world, and why attention and expectation change what we see.
World 1 of 7 · Consciousness and existence
Origin
Where the universe is met at all. Origin holds the oldest questions, about what experience is, who is having it and what is worth choosing, alongside the philosophy, psychology and contemplative traditions that have tried to answer them.
- consciousness
- philosophy
- spirituality
- psychology
- identity
- human nature
- meaning
Question → Observe → Understand → Experience
- ConsciousnessWhat it is like to be you: the fact of experience, and why science still has no settled account of it.
- PhilosophyThe habit of asking what we are actually doing and why: ethics, freedom, obligation and the examined life.
- NondualityTraditions that question the line between the one who experiences and what is experienced.
- IdentityThe memories, habits, roles and languages that make a person, and what keeps them the same over time.
- PerceptionHow a brain turns signals into a world, and why attention and expectation change what we see.
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This site: a personal universe and knowledge platform built on one validated content model.
Writing here
- Freedom without a new prison
Every route to freedom comes with its own obligations. How do you choose the ones worth having?
- Questions beneath the surface
Why I read across philosophy, consciousness and religious traditions, and the rules I hold myself to when writing about them.
How Origin connects
- Freedom without a new prisonEssay · Origin
Every route to freedom comes with its own obligations. How do you choose the ones worth having?
- Questions beneath the surfaceEssay · Origin
Why I read across philosophy, consciousness and religious traditions, and the rules I hold myself to when writing about them.
Symbolic correspondences
Interpretation Older traditions mapped the cosmos through planets, metals, chakras and the Tree of Life. These pairings are this site’s own map; what each one means comes from its tradition, not from science.
Hermetic principle
Mentalism
“The All is Mind; the Universe is Mental.”
The first of the seven Hermetic principles in The Kybalion (1908): whatever else the world is, we only ever meet it as experience.
Planet · metal
The Moon · Silver
In astrology the Moon rules reflection, memory and the inner life. Alchemists gave it silver, the metal that mirrors.
Chakra · top of the head
Crown Sahasrara
The thousand-petalled lotus of yoga, associated with pure awareness rather than any single thought.
Tarot · Tree of Life
The High Priestess · Yesod
In the Golden Dawn system the Moon belongs to the High Priestess and to Yesod, “Foundation”, the sphere of images and dreams.
Sacred geometry
Vesica piscis
Two circles overlapping through each other’s centres. The almond between them was read as the place where two become one.
Science 1890
William James, The Principles of Psychology
James described consciousness as a stream: experience as a flow, not a row of separate pictures.