The Ontological War

Quite a few people think sex is “just biological,” or “just physical,” or even “just chemical.” But as men and women increase their degrees of realself, they see that sex is actually linked inextricably to the realself.
Why is this? The main reason is probably that even though we can become alienated ontologically—we can fool ourselves [...]

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I started this blog mostly to explain the battle between those who think we should become more our realselves and those who think we should reject that self, but I’ve come to realize that I also need to spend more time explaining what the basic ontological terms mean.
To digress for a moment, I live in [...]

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Recently I saw Steven Soderbergh’s 1989 film Sex, Lies, and Videotape for the first time. I’ve never paid much attention to movies in the past, but as much as I can recall now Sex, Lies is the most ontologically sensitive and insightful movie I have ever seen.
I’m going to use it as the framework to [...]

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On first reading this blog, some people will see the tags “Good Alienation” and “Bad Alienation” and wonder how alienation can ever be both good and bad. Common sense tells us that alienation is always wrong, simply because of what it is: We should not be alienated from life, from reality, or from ourselves and [...]

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I’ve always been interested in biology, and I thought I knew almost all the kinds of trees that grow in the area where I live, the Sierra Nevada foothills in Northern California. Some people here use madrone for firewood, and I think in the past I might have told neighbors that madrone doesn’t grow anywhere [...]

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On one of the groups I’m on someone asked about Colin Wilson and his book The Outsider.
To understand Colin Wilson a person first has to understand the two kinds of alienation, which are worlds apart. In “World A” all of us normal, healthy, well-adjusted people look at those who are maladjusted, neurotic, and worse and [...]

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I post to various discussion groups, and I’m going to include a few of those posts here, with possibly minor changes to them. For copyright reasons, I will not include the full post of the other poster.
In this post I reply to a poster who had written that people who have schizophrenia do not have [...]

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The following excerpt from an autobiographical sketch by DH Lawrence is probably my favorite passage of any I have ever read. Lawrence was sometimes described as “maladjusted,” but what this passage actually shows, at least to the ontologically insightful, is that he was sensitive enough to know that human existence is unacceptably wrong and needs [...]

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As one goes through life, listening to what others say and reading what they have written, one sees that most people fall into one of four groups when they are judged by their ontological sensitivity and insight.
The first group, which is probably the largest, is made up of people who are not sensitive ontologically. It [...]

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Someone asked me what “degrees of being” are, and the best way to describe them is to show them in action—to show them as a person actually experiences them.
(A short definition of “degrees of being” is in the Glossary above, and much more on degrees of being is in Being and Life . Also, in [...]

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